Made in Heaven. You Don't Fool me.

"You don't fool me"- one of the amazing songs, one of the modern-sounding songs. This song is the index of the band's sound in the 90-s. I may say so? What makes this song so modern?

I guess it sounds so modern because not only could Queen move with the times, they were mostly ahead of it!  The guys are real innovators, plain and simple.

Many thanks!  What innovations have this song?

It's totally gash! Sound like those bad 80's Sparks songs. Totally spent.

O, this completely oppositive views!

I love "You Don't Fool Me".

Even more amazing to know the backstory behind it (about how it was basically just bit pieces of Freddie singing a verse that was then 'turned into' a complete track - great stuff!)

Many thanks.This is interesting observation. Where this information can be found in more detail?

I think that's why I don't like it - it's like the leftovers, the very dregs of Freddies life there scraped up off the harddrive and served up as art.

I personally have no problem with how Made In Heaven was put together.

Actually, I'm kinda amazed at how great it is, considering what very little 'new' material they had to even work with.

I only recently found out Let Me Live was an older, unfinished Freddie vocal from the early 80s - to me that ended up making the song even better because I love the fact that Freddie, Roger and Brian each ended up singing a full verse.

But You Don't Fool Me... to me, great - catchy, etc.  And I'm also a big fan of what they did with turning the 2 Freddie solo songs into 'Queen' tracks.  Of couse I still love the originals, but to have the option of hearing the Queen production on those as well... awesome.

Great track. Love the solo.

I think fans don't give David Richards enough credit for this song. Didn't he put it together from scraps and then got the band involved in it?

Yes, I read about it. "The dregs"- this is strong word. We see the respect for these "pieces". I think isn't dissonance between the singing and sound. The result is very good.

Thistleboy 1980 sums it up perfectly.
YDFM is an absolute joy, always loved it!

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One of my all time favourites, although I do have a lot of problems with MIH. But this track is great, atmospheric, mesmerizing, melodic. And the solo - wow! To me it doesn't sound like cobbled together from bits and pieces, DR did a fantastic job here.
Does anybody know what the basic demo actually was like?

Plus didn't "You Don't Fool Me" set the record for having the most (ridiculous) amount alternate mixes available out there?  I think I own 4 or 5 of them and I'm probably missing another 6 or 7 - lol.

I read a list of YDFM remixes about 10 years ago and it included SIXTEEN different versions (some being edits of another mix). I don't know what the exact amount of versions is.