What would be your "ideal" tracklist on Queen Forever?

It's Friday afternoon and I'm bored after a few boring office meetings, so I wanna do a little "what if" game...

Imagine, that you are responsible for "Queen Forever", you have full unlimited access to the archives and you have even the power to force Brian and Roger to go back to the studio and do some re-takes.

There would be just one condition - the album should be a combination of old songs, new versions of released songs and new songs (aka "previously unreleased" songs). Also, the tracklist should "motivate" your fans to buy the album. What would be your ideal tracklist?
Mine would look something like this ...

CD 1
01. Procession [standalone version]
02. Father To Son [standalone version]
03. Son And Daughter [BBC version with "shovel shit" restored]
04. Ogre Battle [Deep Cuts version with shorter intro]
05. Keep Yourself Alive [De Lane Lea demo]
06. Doing All Right [Earls Court 77]
07. Seven Seas of Rhye [version with full ending like in the 2011 instrumental remix]
08. My Fairy King [BBC version]
09. White Queen [BBC version]
10. The March of the Black Queen [a proper standalone version]
11. Killer Queen
12. Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
13. Silver Salmon [finished version]
14. Jesus [De Lane Lea demo or a new heavy re-take]
15. Mad The Swine [with restored "I've" intro]
16. Now I'm Here/Dragon Attack/Now I'm Here (reprise) [Milton Keynes 82]
17. Liar [Rainbow 31.3.1974]
18. In The Lap Of The Gods revisited [version with full ending]

CD 2
01. Brighton Rock
02. Death On Two Legs
03. Tie Your Mother Down [Knebworth Park 1986]
04. I'm In Love With My Car [Rocks remix or Hollywood Records remix]
05. '39
06. You're My Best Friend
07. Stone Cold Crazy [Trent Reznor remix]
08. Tenement Funster [standalone version or retake]
09. The Prophet's Song ["finished" extended version - if Brian remembers what he had planned with the song]
10. Flick of the Wrist [standalone version]
11. Love of My Life [mix between album version and Rio 85]
12. Lily of the Valley [standalone version]
13. You Take My Breath Away [Hyde Park 1976]
14. The Millionaire Waltz
15. Somebody To Love [album version with the new "rock" ending]
16. Bohemian Rhapsody
17. Teo Torriatte [2005 HD mix]

CD 3
01. We Will Rock You
02. We Will Rock You [fast / Hammersmith Odeon 1979]
03. Mustapha
04. Let Me Entertain You [mix 2 with "We Are The Champions" sung at the end]
05. Play The Game [Milton Keynes 82]
06. Another One Bites The Dust
07. Spread Your Wings [BBC version]
08. Fat Bottomed Girls [Brian Malouf Remix]
09. Bicycle Race
10. Crazy Little Thing Called Love [Japan 82]
11. Dead on Time
12. Save Me
13. Flash [single remix]
14. Football Fight
15. It's Late
16. Don't Stop Me Now [Hammersmith Odeon 79 with Freddie's intro from album version]
17. Sheer Heart Attack [Hammersmith Odeon 79]
18. We Are The Champions / God Save The Queen [Knebworth Park 86]

CD 4
01. Princess of the Universe [film version with Sean Connery intro]
02. Gimme The Prize
03. A Kind of Magic [original film version]
04. Radio Ga Ga [Roger original version]
05. Hammer To Fall [Headbanger's remix]
06. Under Pressure [Mike Spencer remix]
07. Back Chat [extended version]
08. A Hard Life [extended version]
09. I Want To Break Free [ Knebworth Park 86]
10. State of Shock [feat MJ]
11. There Must Be More To Life Than This [feat MJ, Brian May mix, not Orbit mix]
12. Victory [feat MJ]
13. Stop All The Fighting [Freddie / Brian version]
14. Love is The Hero
15. Love Kills [a new rock version]
16. I Go Crazy
17. Who Wants To Live Forever?
18. One Vision

CD 5
01. Innuendo [new mix, less synths, more prominent drums]
02. I Want It All [Queen Rocks remix]
03. Let Me In Your Heart Again
04. Khashoggi's Ship [demo version]
05. The Invisible Man [demo]
06. Stealin' [12 minutes long demo]
07. Headlong [new mix, less synths, more prominent drums]
08. I Was Born To Love You
09. Heaven For Everyone
10. Ride the Wild Wind [new mix, less synths, more prominent drums]
11. Breakthru
12.The Hitman [new mix, less synths, more prominent drums]
13. Bijou
14. Too Much Love WIll Kill You
15. You Don't Fool Me
16. The Show Must Go On
17. No-one But You

It gonna take some time.

[b] CD 1:[/b]   

Self Made Man*
Silver Salmon*
White Queen (reworked á la Rainbow 1974)
The Hitman (Remastered)
Man Made Paradise (Queen Version)
Play The Demo [with Andy Gibb]
Feel Like Under Pressure (including unreleased vocals à la 'You say New York. NY is dangerous.') [with David Bowie]
Unknown track*
Superunknown track* [bonus track for super deluxe version]
Hangman
There Must Be More To Life Than This (Queen mix) 
Let Me In (Your Heart Again)* (bonus track for deluxe edition)
White Queen [BBC Version] (bonus track for deluxe edition)
Mother Love [Different vocal take] (bonus track for deluxe edition) 
The Prophet's Song ["finished" extended version - if Brian remembers what he had planned with the song] (bonus track for deluxe edition)

[b] CD 2 (Deluxe Version):
[/b]
Feel Like (demo)
Bohemian Rhapsody (demo)
White Queen (Brian 1969 demo)  [bonus track for super deluxe version]
Polar Bear (demo)
Unknown track (demo)
Superunknown track (demo) [bonus track for super deluxe version]    
Rock 'n' Roll Medley (rehearsal)
Face It Alone (bonus track only for Latin America)
Face It Alone* (bonus track for the rest of the world)
There Must Be More To Life Than This (John Deacon mix without Michael)
Love Kills* (Rock version by 'Queen')
Stealin' (12 min. demo)
Never leaked demo 1  [bonus track for super deluxe version]
Never leaked demo 2 [bonus track for super deluxe version]
The Prophet's Song (demo played in radio) [bonus track for super deluxe version]
Sandbox* [bonus track for super deluxe limited edition]

[b]Bonus DVD (Super Deluxe Version, collector's edition):[/b]

Smile live footage (overdubbed if not available audio footage)
Bob Harris documentary [Blu-Ray Bonus]
Leiden '86 footage
Knebworth '86 footage 
Making Of Innuendo (documentary including old demos of known songs) [Blu-Ray Bonus]
Making Of Made In Heaven (documentary including old demos of known songs) [Blu-Ray Bonus]
Making of this album (documentary including old demos of reworked songs)
Rainbow March '74 full 16mm tape  
A Picnic By The Serpentine (Trailer/Snippet) [Easter Egg]

[b]Book including (Super Deluxe Version, limited version of 2583,84 units):[/b]

A lot of pics from every decade of Queen
Info. about tracks as provided by JSS (?) in a Mother Love thread
Interviews to the remains of Queen, his friends, etc.
Similar to 40 Years Of Queen, but better and with better material (mine is so impaired)
Hidden CD with interviews of the remains of Queen, talking about not so famous songs (Queen, Queen II. Sheer Heart Attack, Made In Heaven, Innuendo, demos) and old cassette made by Freddie including Brian's solos. 

* Finished tracks as MIH tracks.

All tracks remastered and mixed by C_Matt, including the old demos
All videos enhanced by Chief Mouse, except the serpentine. 

Single will be Man Made Paradise [Remixed for AIDS campaign].
CD 'B-Sides' will be Feel Like Under Pressure, Hangman (studio demo version), remix of Stealin' (12 min. demo) and Bohemian Rhapsody full from Knebworth 86'.

[b]You will buy this? And the single?[/b]

Fun thread. I would buy your version. Hernan Snow made his own interpretation titled Really Forever:
1. State Of Shock 4:43
(Freddie Mercury & Michel Jackson) (2014 Remaster)
2. There Must Be More To Life Than This 3:15
(Freddie Mercury & Michel Jackson) (2014 Remaster)
3. My Secret Fantasy 2:36
(Unreleased Demo)
4. One Year Of Love 4:59
(Early Mix) (2014 Remaster)
5. Ogre Battle 5:21
(BBC Long-lost intro) (2014 Remaster)
6. Long Away 3:34
(Instrumental)
7. Silver Salmon 3:45
(Unreleased Demo) (2014 Remaster)
8. Feel Like 4:57
(Unreleased Demo) (2014 Remaster)
9. Back To Storm 1:35
(Live Take) (2014 Remaster)
10. Death On Two Legs 3:45
(Backing Track)
11. Robbery 2:03
(Unreleased Demo) (2014 Remaster)
12. Keep Passing The Open Windows 4:53
(Live Take) (2014 Remaster)
13. I Guess We're Falling Out 2:44
(Unreleased)
14. You Are The Only One 2:03
(Unreleased Demo) (2014 Remaster)


DISC TWO
1. Keep Yourself Alive 3:55
(Unreleased Demo) (2014 Remaster)
2. Cool Cat 3:51
(W/ David Bowie)
3. Dog With A Bone 5:03
(Unreleased)
4. Polar Bear 4:02
(Unreleased Demo) (2014 Remaster)
5. Stone Cold Crazy 2:16
(Instrumental)
6. Battle Scene 3:38
(Unreleased) (2014 Remaster)
7. Staying Power 5:51
(Extended Mix)
8. A New Life Is Born 1:25
(Unreleased)
9. Coming Soon 2:53
(Early Mix)
10. Affairs 3:30
(Unreleased Demo)
11. Princes Of The Universe 3:16
(Early Mix) (2014 Remaster)
12. Self Made Man 4:49
(Unreleased Demo) (2014 Remaster)
13. Who Wants To Live Forever 5:41
(Freddie On Vocals) (2014 Remaster)
14. The Show Must Go On 4:03
(Backing Track)
BONUS

15. Let Me In Your Heart Again 6:43
(William Orbit Mix)
16. There Must Be More To Life Than This 2:29
(Michel Jackson) (2014 Remaster)
17. Send In The Clowns 3:51
(Freddie Mercury Piano Cover)


WEBSITE BONUS

State Of Shock (YouTube Edit Version) 3:35
(Freddie Mercury & Michel Jackson) (2014 Remaster)

I've made my own personal archives set which took me a year to compile, 27 volumes spanning 400 tracks and i'm very pleased with it. Got some help from good friends.
Keep the ideas coming

Dave 76 add these to your list. Who Wants to Live Forever with Freddie's vocals only - Brian's too weak.
Rock It with - Freddie vocals. Roger's voice too husky for all round Queen quality.

I've added those 2 early this year. They're better indeed

What about :
Sail away sweet sister ( Freddie vocal ), she blows hot & cold ( 2014 remake ), I dream of Xmas, freedom train, I go crazy (2014 remake ),
New York at last, my love is dangerous ( Queen remake ), the great pretender ( Queen remake ), the golden boy ( Queen remake taken from Freddie's demos ), love is the hero ( Queen remake ), money can't buy happiness, how can I go on ( Queen remake taken from Freddie's demos ) and that's just for starters !

Great versions! Had no idea Freddie did a version of send in the clowns. Is that for real?

A piano except from garden lodge?


1. It's late
2. Princes of the Universe
3. Under Pressure
4. fun it
5. More of that jazz
6. $ candal
7. Money can't buy happiness
8. Was it all worth it?
9. Made In China (Made in Heaven/Chinese torture remix)
10. I'm going slightly mad
11. Jesus
12. We believe
13. There's no turning back
14. Laugh or cry
15. Still burning

So far I've only got this ^

.... on second thought. .. Made In China should be the opener. It's thematic.


I can't figure out where Shove It fits in.

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]

I can't figure out where Shove It fits in.[/QUOTE]

...the bottom.... ;-)

This is something my wife and I created two months ago, (of course we did, Moog), so thanks for starting the thread.

It would be a 2CD maximum, $19.99 USA dollars release.

Well, you've got the 'new tracks' Add on a few touched up Freddie demos (including 'Man Made Paradise'), listing them in the credits as 'original version from the Freddie Mercury 'Solo Collection' or 'Mr. Bad Guy, the 2000 Dave Clark remixes, and a couple of Queen Universal bonus cuts,

Along with.......... some properly remixed BBC versions, listed as...and this is important,

'from the upcoming complete box set 'Queen BBC Sessions', due to hit the stores in the Spring/Summer/Fall of 2015.

I have to spend some time reading the above listed ideas, most good, while some of the last posts were 'wtw' ...or were they designed to pull our legs?

1) Let Me In Your Heart Again (Rock version)
2) Staying Power (backing rerecorded/updated)
3) State of Shock
4) There Must Be More To Life Than This (Unheard Queen version with MJ)
3) Man Made Paradise (Queen version)
4) Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow (Queen version)
5) Back Chat (backing rerecorded/updated)
6) One Year Of Love (backing rerecorded/updated)
7) Your Kind of Lover (Queen version)
8) Time (Queen version)
9) Mr Bad Guy (Queen version)

I guess some people didn't get the tracklist narrative. I thought it was obvious.

Maybe I should change "fun it" to "fuck it."


and indicate that STILL BURNIN is intended to mean that I'm still going to burn a copy.

"What would be your "ideal" tracklist on Queen Forever?"

1. Let me in your heart again

We could/should've had a full Queen studio album rather than forever. My track list for that would've been:
1. Let me in your heart again.
2. Love Kills.
3.There must be more to life than this.
4.Victory.
5.Man made paradise (Queen version)
6.State of shock.
7.Sail away sweet sister.(Freddie vocals)
8 It's so you (Queen version)
9 Face it alone.
10 She blows hot and cold (Queen version)

Other than Face it alone, where it's unclear if there are enough vocals from Freddie, I feel this could've been a realistic expectation without even having to scrape the barrel so to speak. And these are tracks we all know about off the top of my head. Instead we get 3 tracks on a compilation album which I've ordered but yet to receive.