I still have some questions/doubts regarding the sessions for "Mother Love" and a "Winters tale", but i´ll use the other thread where that information was given.
Great work Sebastian.
Jazz 78 · Member since
To me it sounds very close as to which "yeah" was used but I'm going with Action This Day. It's spot on!
Sebastian · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]
btw...David Richards mentioned in a Rolling Stone(1995) interview that "Too much love will kill you" is the only analouge recording on "MIH"[/QUOTE]
To be precise: the only COMPLETELY analogue recording. Obviously the vocals and piano on IABD, MIH, IWBTLY and LML were analogue recordings, but they all received 1993-1995 digital overdubs (drums, guitars, bass, keyboards and backing vocals), while TMLWKY was left intact. The 1995 version is exactly the same as the 1988-1989 one that was supposed to go on 'The Miracle': not a single voice or instrument was overdubbed.
cmsdrums · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]
btw...David Richards mentioned in a Rolling Stone(1995) interview that "Too much love will kill you" is the only analouge recording on "MIH"[/QUOTE]
To be precise: the only COMPLETELY analogue recording. Obviously the vocals and piano on IABD, MIH, IWBTLY and LML were analogue recordings, but they all received 1993-1995 digital overdubs (drums, guitars, bass, keyboards and backing vocals), while TMLWKY was left intact. The 1995 version is exactly the same as the 1988-1989 one that was supposed to go on 'The Miracle': not a single voice or instrument was overdubbed.[/QUOTE]
That's interesting Sebastian - I'd never downloaded the original 'The Miracle' version from any source, and wondered what the differences would be. I don't know if this is subliminal after-the-event thinking, but the drums and bass always seemed to me to carry that analogue 'warmth' and 'depth' which was missing from the other tracks. I'm surprised they didn't redo it, but glad they didn't.
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]
I'd never downloaded the original 'The Miracle' version from any source, and wondered what the differences would be.
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As far as I know it's the exact same version.
Sebastian · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]
I'm surprised they didn't redo it, but glad they didn't.
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They didn't need to, as it was perfect as it was. Great choice, IMO.
Saint Jiub · Member since
I thought I heard it officially confirmed at least ten years ago that "Yeah" was sampled from Action This Day.
However, time plays tricks on a doddering old man, and I could be wrong.
Perhaps I have mp3 ears (and hear what I want to hear), but it seems to me the sample is from Action This Day.
To me, the "yeah" from Don't Try Suicide seems to have a slight vocal vibrato, whereas the "yeah" from Action This Day is smooth and "breathie" but has no vibrato.
Can anyone with better ears confirm from where "yeah" was sampled?
Bohardy · Member since
I've always understood that Yeah came from ATD. Whether that was officially confirmed or not, I can't remember. But I always thought that it had been conclusively confirmed, one way or another.
I'm intrigued to hear Seb say that TMLWKY survives intact from the The Miracle sessions. Clearly it's not the same as the 2 minute demo that we have from then (I know that this doesn't negate the fact that it might be identical to the finished version). Certainly the arrangement is different and Fred's vocals are from a different take in places, or at least have been very heavily cleaned up and edited. I would always have assumed that it was worked on post-Fred.
Seb - do you have any quotes or anything that confirm what you're saying?
andyb1968 · Member since
Great read Sebastian, let's hope you're doing a timeline for MIH 2 soon.
madmetaltom · Member since
Very good read dude!
DLCVinnuendo · Member since
great post!!
agrasso · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]
13th May 1991: Work begins on Mother Love: various vocal bits from Freddie and Brian[/QUOTE]
I've always thought that Brian vocals in the final version were added later: the final verse because of course Freddie didn't have the chance to complete it, and the "I've had enough" bit because Freddie was not in tune and Brian sort of "corrected" it by adding his voice.
But if you say for sure that Brian recorded vocal bits along with Freddie, I wonder what they are and if they are in the finished version.
Sebastian · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]andyb1968 wrote:[/b]
Great read Sebastian, let's hope you're doing a timeline for MIH 2 soon.[/QUOTE]
I highly doubt that'll happen any time soon. I prefer to focus on what they did up to and including 'Innuendo.'
Wilki Amieva · Member since
Good work, Sebastian. We should add some more on the Track 13, hehe.
About the Too Much Love Will Kill You "demo": That excerpt comes from a 13-track preview cassette sent in late 1988 to executives at Capitol Records, which were quite inquisitive about Queen's next project. At that point, The Miracle didn't have a defined title nor a defined tracklist. This sampler tape contained just excerpts (between 1:00 and 2:00 in lenght) of work-in-progress versions, five of which are circulating amongst fans and collectors at least since 1994 (The Miracle, I Want It All, The Invisible Man, Scandal and Too Much Love Will Kill You).
Then in early 1989, Queen sent to Capitol Records a new 11-track cassette with full-lenght rough mixes of the proposed The Miracle tracklisting. It contained a full version of Too Much Love Will Kill You, between I Want It All and The Invisible Man (see picture). That version, bar a minor remastering, is the same as the one presented in Made In Heaven.
But hear it yourself:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ahe4jcellyqddqo/05.%20Too%20Much%20Love%20Will%20Kill%20You%20%28rough%20mix%29.zip
Happy Xmas!
jondickens1 · Member since
OMG,by that timescale,Made in Heaven 2 will be released in the year 2028.
