Queen Demo turned into songs?

emprorzurg 23 September 2011 22:49 · Member since May 2011

Hey guys,

What demo would you have liked to be turned into a real studio song?
I would love:
Back To Storm
Dog With A Bone
Feel Like
Hangman
Robbery

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brENsKi 24 September 2011 02:24 · Member since June 2003

think you'll find that (technically) they already did do this with some demos

see MIH album

It's A Beautiful Day
Let Me LIve

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paulosham 24 September 2011 05:26 · Member since November 2007

The Night Comes Down

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MadTheSwine73 24 September 2011 13:42 · Member since March 2011

paulosham wrote: The Night Comes Down

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lol

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rhyeking 24 September 2011 13:51 · Member since October 2004

"Hangman" was a finished song, played live for years.

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MERQRY 24 September 2011 20:04 · Member since October 2009

rhyeking wrote: "Hangman" was a finished song, played live for years.

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Yes! And Dog With A Bone isn´t propely a demo... is more a convention mesage with music and random (and funny) lyrics...

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bago.vidovic 25 September 2011 09:34 · Member since February 2011

What about Self made man ? :)

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ITSM 27 September 2011 05:11 · Member since January 2006

You Are The Only One (F. Mercury).

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Micrówave 27 September 2011 09:38 · Member since January 2006

None.

I think they (mostly) made the right choices on which songs to pursue and which ones to put on their solo albums.

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pittrek 27 September 2011 11:51 · Member since September 2005

rhyeking wrote:
"Hangman" was a finished song, played live for years.

I can't agree. Musically every version is similar (but not the same), but lyrically - Freddie seems to be improvising on every gig, so at least the lyrics can be considered NOT finished

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pittrek 27 September 2011 11:56 · Member since September 2005

emprorzurg wrote:
Hey guys,

What demo would you have liked to be turned into a real studio song?
I would love:
Back To Storm
Dog With A Bone
Feel Like
Hangman
Robbery

Well Dog With A Bone is great and if you cut the band messages, it would make a perfect B-side to any Miracle single.
Feel Like is a boring improvisation, Under Pressure is MUCH better (and I can tell it even when I don't like the song at all).
Back To Storm - quite interesting, but it would take a LOT of work to create something useful from it.
Hangman would be GREAT.
Robbery - the currently available version gets boring after the first minute or so

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drmurph 27 September 2011 15:45 · Member since January 2011

I think "I guess we're falling out" has a great melody and is far ahead of all the other unreleased tracks I've heard . I'd love to hear a more complete version with proper lyrics. The other demos are pretty average as they are and I'd agree Queen usually made the right call on what to leave, though who knows what might have become of them if they had been revisited.

I really dislike some of the lyrics of some,"Robbery", "self made man", "hang on in there" (yes I know it was released), but I guess again that they would have been overhauled if the band spent any time on them.

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