MIH bonus tracks: The Taylor & Deacon versions?

Interesting stuff in this topic...

I can understand why Brian and Roger would not want to talk in-depth about the recording of MiH. However, if there's one album that deserves a "Classic Albums"-kind of documentary, it's this one IMO. I don't think there's any other album like it. Sure, there are some Hendrix-albums which were edited together, the 'new' Beatle-tracks on Anthology etc. But a whole album, compiled by the rest of the band after the leadsinger passed away?

In my opinion YDFL is one of the worst songs in Queen's catalogues imo. As for the MIH album, I'd also be interested in rog and johns efforts before Bri got on board and over produced nearly every song. I love the album, but songs like IWBTLY, MLHBS, MIH and ML could/should have been far simpler and maybe more accesible to non Queen fans... maybe that's how Rog and John wanted them? Brian had these songs sounding like Good Company on steroids.

Again though.... YOU DON'T FOOL ME IS AWFUL.

Good topic.

a whole album, compiled by the rest of the band after the leadsinger passed away?
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It's been done to death, from memory:

Eva Cassidy died before she became famous, with 11 of her 12 albums coming out after death, all with new material.
Hendrix had 6 or 7 Posthumous albums of new stuff, the most recent being last year.
TUPAC has had a few, and Michael Jackson had one out last year.

Queen probably did it best, with everything sounding finished and all the tracks having a theme, the others are like a jumble of songs with clashing styles.

emrabt wrote: It's been done to death:

He he, that intentional?

It doesn't cross anyone's mind that what Roger and John did without Brian was a mess in the first place.  Judging by their solo output up to that time, I'd trust Brian's instinct on music more than I'd trust Roger's.  

Or it could be that the work was alright, but Brian simply didn't want to be left out.  Maybe he was busy being a solo guy, or maybe it was a bit upsetting a project to be working on - there are a lot of ifs and maybes here.  I can tell you that working on music that relates to the sort-of-recently-deceased can be very grueling, and I wouldn't blame him for not being in a rush to do it.

Brian's gone on record as saying that finishing "Back To The Light" and touring it was his self-prescribed therapy after Freddie died, his marriage broke up and his dad died. He's also said that going back to Queen and leaving his new-found identity as a solo artist was difficult, but he did it because he'd promised Freddie. After Made In Heaven, he pretty much started on Heroes, doing collaborations and whatever projects came to him. The mid-to-late '90s (really the entire '90s) were prolific for Brian in terms of solo recordings and guest appearances.

emrabt wrote:

Eva Cassidy died before she became famous, with 11 of her 12 albums coming out after death, all with new material.
Hendrix had 6 or 7 Posthumous albums of new stuff, the most recent being last year.
TUPAC has had a few, and Michael Jackson had one out last year

yes, but these were made by producers, not by remaining bandmembers.

4 x Vision wrote: In my opinion YDFL is one of the worst songs in Queen's catalogues imo. As for the MIH album, I'd also be interested in rog and johns efforts before Bri got on board and over produced nearly every song. I love the album, but songs like IWBTLY, MLHBS, MIH and ML could/should have been far simpler and maybe more accesible to non Queen fans... maybe that's how Rog and John wanted them? Brian had these songs sounding like Good Company on steroids.

Again though.... YOU DON'T FOOL ME IS AWFUL.

Good topic.
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The song is definitely not their best, though Brian's guitar solo, which is incredible, compensates it a bit, doesn't it?

> yes, but these were made by producers, not by remaining bandmembers.

Because those were solo artists to begin with.

And BTW, MIH was LARGELY made by producers too.

yes, but these were made by producers, not by remaining bandmembers.
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Some of the Jimi hendrix stuff was, by members of "the experiance" and his session band, also the traveling wilburys.

For me, there's not much I DON'T like on Made In Heaven, though I can certainly see how some would consider it 'over-produced'.

I prefer the original version of My Life Has Been Saved (with Freddie's extra line, Brian's guitar intro and especially Freddie's spoken words at the end) and thought, while touching, the whole 'tribute' pasted in at the end of Mother Love was a bit much (and I'm being nice --- A baby crying?  Really???)

I would really love to hear the original versionof "Let Me Live" with Rod Stewart vocals.

We know Rod and Queen worked together somewhere around 1983.
But was it really confirmed they did an early version of Let me Live?

As far as I know, it's mostly rumours..

One of the more annoying things about MIH is, well, the references to Heaven. It's possible to do a tribute without being so cloyingly sentimental and without resorting to such obvious cheesy symbolism. AC/DC's Back in Black is a good example of a tribute done well. MIH is just too sickly sweet. It doesn't help that one of the more annoying Hallmark Queen songs is on it -- Too Much Love Will Kill You. Ugh.