Barcelona Re-Release

Adam - in the press release it mentions an extra cd with an instrumental version of the new orchestral album, and that's the one I'm on about

Album cover looks like one of those cheapo discs you find in the dollar bin with "Barcelona interpreted by the Starlight Orchestra".

Also not a fan of making the new music only available as part of an expensive box-set.

Hope it's good though.

It's not. The standard edition isissue IS the Orchestral redo.

The only "new" stuff on the deluxe is the instrumental version of the orchetsral reissue, a 2012 re-edit of the Barcelona video by Rhys Thomas and the EPK release on the QOL page/YouTube.

The main thing IS the standard edition.

I'm not particularly fond on Freddie solo releases to be honest but this one in particular has really got me excited.

Interesting cover, a tribute to Barcelona's own Joan Miró, certainly.
The 'rarities' would be rare for all the people who didn't pay $250 USD for the Freddie box 12 years ago. For us, well, not that impressive but still are a nice touch. It's been like 10 years since I listened to any of these and my Freddie box is collecting dust.
Possibly the BEST part is the album with new orchestration. Hopefully the execution will be good. I am not familiar with the musicians/arrangers selected for this purpose but it would be great to hear Freddie and Montsy over a real orchestra for the whole album.
The price? Well, seems high but hopefully that won't be a case for me if the album is released locally as opposed to having to buy it from the Imports section. I got the 2 CD Deluxe Island releases for about $12 USD around the time they were released. Then they dropped to about $9.99 or something.

[QUOTE] [b]soxtalon wrote:[/b]
It's not. The standard edition isissue IS the Orchestral redo.
The only "new" stuff on the deluxe is the instrumental version of the orchetsral reissue, a 2012 re-edit of the Barcelona video by Rhys Thomas and the EPK release on the QOL page/YouTube.
The main thing IS the standard edition.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't pick up that detail.

[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
It's pretty odd that they changed the artwork in the first place - not something you typically do when reissuing an album.. By that I mean change it completely, as opposed to modify it (e.g. All Things Must Pass monochrome/colour)[/QUOTE]

It's not that odd considering that it was already reworked once for the 1992 re-release... And it's an easy way to have a cover without the moustacheless Freddie.

What is new?

New mix of original album and new orchestral version of album?

I mean - that "orchestral disc" isn't instrumental? It's old vocals + orchestra?

BTW - disc 2 - 8 songs (EIGHT) from Solo box...

I dont know what to think about it:

Morley wasnt involved in the creation of the album.
Rufus wasnt involved in the creation of the album.
Mike Moran, who was one of the composers (together with Freddie) is not involved in the "remake".
They used John Deacon's bass lines.
And still someone dares to write "Barcelona - The Special Edition’ is finally the album it should have been"

Let's wait and see...

Is great release! :D

Can't wait to buy this one!

Yeah.. Similar to the bass drum on Jealousy, reinstating things to make them 'as originally intended'. Nonetheless, it should be interesting. It'd be nice to hear Queen tracks get the orchestral treatment. Was It All Worth It comes to mind. Of course, while it would be nice, it definitely shouldn't replace the original as the 'definitive' version.

Shit art work!!

I don't understand what the difference is in disc one and four of the deluxe set.

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[b]AlexRocks wrote: [/b] I don't understand what the difference is in disc one and four of the deluxe set.[/QUOTE]

Disc four is instrumental, without the vocals

Which, as I said before, will therefore most likely not actually feature Freddie performing at at all, so will essentially be like one of those 'Royal Philharmonic plays Queen' type albums!!