Play the Game (but play it without synths edit) /Smeagol

brENsKi wrote:

smeagolheart wrote:
brenski wrote: you might actually produce soemthing worthwhile
Thanks for encouragement, someday you may too. This world is a better place with more Queen music than less.

funny how you only pick out one bit of my reply. try reading all of it. and the world is not a better place with more queen music - not without quality control.
here's what you did with the multitracks but in the real music world...imagine the scene
QUEEN 40TH ANNIVERSARY "deluxe edition" SESSIONS
Bri and Roger sat at the mixing desk, doing the "extras CD" for The Game. "Play the Game" multitracks loaded
Bri: "tell you what, let's just mute the synths on this track"
Rog: "yeah, ok"
Bri: "wow, let's do ths with the whole album, sounds cool"
Rog: "and the c*nts will buy it whatever we put out"
...now if they did that, then YOU'D be the fucking first to moan....to summarise, you have not REMIXED anything, you have MUTED a track.

Well really B, it's not your place to be the quality control now is it? It's up to each individual to decide what they want to keep and listen to. You've admitted that you've only kept around 20 fan mixes that you like. I have a collection of maybe 70 or more. They're not all great and awesome but they all present an alternative to the released versions and sometimes it's nice to hear. So who are you to decide?

2 years ago before I had any idea people were doing this sort of thing, I stumbled upon this whole fan mixing scene (not only Queen mind you) and got quite into it. To hear certain mixes, even with "just" elements removed was sufficiently mind-blowing. If someone comes along and doesn't have the stems or Karaoke or 'the Eye' it's quite revelatory. Not everyone wants to go to the trouble of downloading the stems and loading them up in an editor.

Now, as far as your scenario, that is precisely what Queen actually did for the re-issues! "You're My Best Friend" backing track... "I'm in Love with My Car" guitar and vocal mix... "Bicycle Race" instrumental... et al. Maybe it didn't blow your skirt up but if you haven't heard the songs that way it's pretty interesting.

So let the guy do what he wants. Don't DL it and listen to it if you don't want to. Who cares? For somebody who really doesn't like fan remixes you spend a lot of time trying to moderate the board. Go outside. Happy Easter.

you're being unfair - either that or you choose to twist my words to suit your rather weak argument

i never said i was the quality control (check again - tell me where i said it)

they did it with say one track or so per album - not a whole cd of extras done like it. - again you twist the facts.

what has been done here - anyone with an editor can do - i have done it also - but it's not worthy of calling a remix. if people were honest then some of us wouldnt have to waste our time downloading something we wouldn't be interested in. it claims to be a remix without synths...it's just the original version minus one audio track.

i am not trying to moderate anything - i am passing my opinion on what he has done - as opposed to what he claims to have done. he calls them remixes - they really aren't
and who the f*** are you to tell me that i can't pass whatever opinion i like on the quality or otherwise of someone's "remixes"?

moderator? moderate thyself

Don't you have anything constructive to do with your life brenskie? Take a shower, walk the dog or something... Does this all really mean so much to you that you have to reply to everything even when this really has nothing to do with you personally? You made your point you don't like this Queen song and have very high standards for editing so much so that you are afraid to put anything out that is not perfect and so will probably never put anything out. Nothing wrong with that. I'm calling my songs "edits" to make you happy, because you are right I didn't turn this into a disco track or something totally different. And that's not what I wanted to do here. I'm sorry if you had different expectations. I recommend Kacio, when she does a remix it is usually really different from the original. This isn't Brenskie's thread, feel free to make your own and hang out there it might be interesting to converse with people positively like about which ones you like or don't.

i could say the same about you...you're the one who feels the need to keep defending your non-remixes.
ps - i don't have a dog
pps - i take two showers a day
ppps - please spell my name rightly in future, or i may make some "remixes" of your name

btw - am now disengaging myself from this thread because i DO comment on what i think are good and bad remixes - and i say why i think it. pity is one of this sites most respected mixers said the same thing about your "mix" - but still you disregard the validity of the point made, because you'd rather accept the fawning praise of sychophants who love anything queen, and probably get a thrill out of opening a bag of M&Ms and seeing loads of extra blue ones

Ok cya. Make your own threads and remixes the more the merrier says I.