Queen Forever? Or wishful thinking?

Banned, now that's a bit harsh isn't it?

Let me in your heart again makes me realise why I became a Queen fan ( back in 1979 after hearing Save Me for the first time ) Though I am dissapointed with the other two songs, I still hope that the other songs are demos, outtakes, etc.

I just heard Love Kills - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inGaWCLCPTk - and it sucks too :-(

So from 5(?) planned new songs we have just 3, and 2 of them are much worse than their "original" versions. Another Queen product I'm skipping :-( Well at least we had the Rainbow release this year ...

TomP63 - No it's not harsh, they only had 3 songs to work with, and the two that were already good they made worse. For all I know Let Me In could have been better in demo form. I think they're out of touch to be honest. They were once great, no two ways about it, but they continue to churn out shit. I actually take offence when they do it with material that features Freddie. I loved Made in Heaven, they did a great job, but this really is sub standard. How can they get it so wrong?

This is something we should politely inform Brian about. That things have been made worse.

And that is probably the reason Michael Jacksons people have been reluctant to let Queen release anything, because they heard it.

I mean, say what you like about the posthumous Jackson Albums, at least the people mixing them turned them into competent radio friendly songs, TMBMTLTT has vocals totally mistimed with the music.

I couldn't agree more, it just sounds like two vocal tracks that should never be put together have been put together. I just don't understand how anyone listened to it and said ''Oh yeah, that's a winner right there".

In their (VERY limited) defence, it isn't their preferred mix either.

Quite why it's being released is therefore a bit of a surprise.

Well, I'm most definitely not purchasing this. I'm not going to say they shouldn't release it. It's their band, so they can do as they please.

The actual dissapointment is in seeing that this doesn't seem to work in any level. I mean, this is not good enough to be considered a "new" release, but it's not an anthology-esque edition either.

After seeing the Rainbow Blu-ray, with Brian playing amazing guitar (with great sound too), and great vocals, this comes as quite a dissapointment. It looks like Brian, in the studio, has become not more than a stereotyped character, with no new ideas.

Let's hope we can get some other 70's live releases.

[QUOTE] [b]emrabt wrote:[/b]

This is something we should politely inform Brian about. That things have been made worse.[/QUOTE]

Agreed...Well said



"This message is,this message is,this message is,this message is"..

Brain and Roger are becoming George Lucas's of the music industry.

I Want new songs! pfff

Dog with a bone
Victory
Selfmade Man

or something like that!

The well has run dry, the new version of Love Kills is very poor,still at least we had the Rainbow which was ace.

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[b]emrabt wrote: [/b] And that is probably the reason Michael Jacksons people have been reluctant to let Queen release anything, because they heard it.

I mean, say what you like about the posthumous Jackson Albums, at least the people mixing them turned them into competent radio friendly songs, TMBMTLTT has vocals totally mistimed with the music.[/QUOTE]

It's Mr Orbit's mix. Both BM and RT has stated in the BBC2 studio that the vocals are "under" [in the mix]. So we can assume that Brian's mix doesn't sound that way.

HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE SNIPPET FEATURED IN "THE GREAT PRETENDER" DOCUMENTARY

Partly here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6lBQPyR5GI

Full snippet @ 22:09 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7joaS8poFQ

Disappointment is an understatement. I had hoped for the QUEEN demo versions spruced up of 'More To Life', 'Love Kills', 'Man Made Paradise'.....and perhaps 'She Blows Hot and Cold' and a couple of others. The original 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' slightly reworked, weaving both Freddie and Brian LVs would have been a treat.

Heck, even 'Time' and 'In My Defence' for those unaware of those two wonderful songs.

And do it all on one disk.

It's almost a 'Queen+Freddie Mercury' type of effort.

The good(?)... well, there's 'Let Me In'. Also, 'A Winter's Tale', 'Spread Your Wings', and 'Forever' finally made it onto a 'GH' package.