To those who complain about ''Queen Forever''...

...Queen released ''Live at the Rainbow'' this year, an outstanding release.

Even more important, Queen released ''Killer Queen'' the vodka.

Mix them and: YEEEEAH!

Queen Forever is soooo overshadowed by Rainbow!

For thoste who want to complain......we salute you......

of course we fans are really excited about live at rainbow release but i'm sure queen forever will sell better cos it's more aimed toward general public.

I usually don't like live albums. Is it any good?

The Rainbow album is brilliant. The Forever pseudocompilation sucks.

I gotta say rainbow brilliant ( especially as I was at the Manchester show ), forever....cack. concentrate on the live shows and release the demos for the fans to finish off ! Job done !!

Oh dear, I really don't know what did you guys expect from QF. They said from the start it was gonna be a compilation and Roger made it painfully clear there was simply not enough material and they didn't want to force anything. At least, Let Me In is a damn nice song, with some powerhouse vocals from Frederick. Rainbow is pure joy and the only regret I have is that its promotion is suffering due to the upcoming QF release. Rainbow deserved better, imo.

[QUOTE] [b]k-m wrote:[/b]

Oh dear, I really don't know what did you guys expect from QF. They said from the start it was gonna be a compilation and Roger made it painfully clear there was simply not enough material and they didn't want to force anything. .[/QUOTE]

Brian May made several comments that lead us to believe QF was going to be a bigger project than this. He used the "Made In Heaven" anthology and hinted there might be up to five tracks with at least THREE never before heard. He stated that it would have “new material on it which nobody in the world has ever heard.” (only Let Me In was unheard)

Again though as always overspeculation and wishful thinking does at least half the damage. QPL doesn't help themselves, I will admit with some poorly worded phrasing but all in all if you read all the quotes from BM & RT all along this release is pretty much what they said it would be.

- "He used the "Made In Heaven" anthology"
This is the one article (and maybe one followup comment) that people completely hang their hat on...To them though it was a bit like MIH 2 in that it was a similar process. It is like MIH in that they used older Freddie vocals and patched on new recordings to make a new track. Poor choice of words on that one occasion? Yes But that one occasion vs every other interview where he states a compilation of unusual album tracks not usually compiled.

I mean you contradict yourself in the next part of your statement.

- " hinted there might be up to five tracks with at least THREE never before heard" Where is that even close to MIH?
And we know they were working with 3 MJ tracks plus obviously now Let Me In and Love Kills. Things with the MJ estate didn't go very well and they were left with the one MJ track and the two others. MIGHT be up to 5 tracks. At the time there was. THREE never before heard? Well there was at least TWO Let Me In and Victory. The third? Well that would be questionable but given that State of Shock is only a demo on YT that may qualify in Brian's mind.

" He stated that it would have “new material on it which nobody in the world has ever heard.” (only Let Me In was unheard) "
- He didn't state that it would be all new - he said it would have new material. It does. Let Me In is unheard.

How on earth can ANYONE complain about 'Queen Forever'? We got a track we'd never heard before, and it's a terrific sounding song too. We got a version of Love Kills with new instrumentation, the type of 'Queen treatment' of an old track that so many people here have yearned for. We can also hear Freddie's vocal with much more clarity, and without the overlap from 'won't leave you alone' straight into the next verse. Two incredible songs. Yes, TMBMTLTT was disappointing, but that doesn't negate the fact that we got two gems out of this release.

As always too many presumptions. Yes I think Dr May did elude to something a little better but some people expect far too much.

I hope people aren't blaming Brian and Roger for Queen Forever. All blame should be placed on Universal. They're the ones that want to capitalise on the Queen catalog as much as they can. Brian and Roger are almost like bystanders.

Also, I think if it were up to Brian and Roger, they probably wouldn't have released Let Me in Your Heart Again, Love Kills, or There Must Be More To Life Than This. Because they probably feel that they are sub-par songs that shouldn't be released. But that is just my opinion.

I'm happy for the material in QF, even if it packaged with a bunch of stuff we've all heard before. I'll cling to anything I can get. It's been a great year overall. I saw them twice on the North American tour, we have Rainbow which is just incredibly brilliant, and now QF. Overall 2014 has been a wonderful year for Queen fans. Brian has said for years that there really wasn't much left in the vault so I wasn't expecting much out of QF anyway.

[QUOTE] [b]DragonflyTrumpeter83 wrote:[/b]
Also, I think if it were up to Brian and Roger, they probably wouldn't have released Let Me in Your Heart Again, Love Kills, or There Must Be More To Life Than This. Because they probably feel that they are sub-par songs that shouldn't be released. But that is just my opinion.[/QUOTE]

They sounded pretty enthusiastic about them on the Chris Evans show - Brian was particularly affectionate for Love Kills, which they'd worked on for a long time to get it sounding right as a ballad, and they both agreed that Let Me In had been an unfinished track, but they were satisfied that they had 'finished' it by assembling certain takes. If they really didn't want them released, they wouldn't let them be released.