Double Studio Album

Through out the 70's Queen were accused of being pompous overblown, indulgent the list goes on, but it occurred to me today that unlike many big 70's bands they never made a double studio album, yet the art work gate fold sleeves etc would often suggest more than a single album.

perhaps queen missed a trick here? glaring omission and all that

but the Doubles i have i consider some of those artists' best works

Physical Graffiti
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Layla & Assorted Other Love Songs
All Things Must Pass (i know it's a triple)
Out Of The Blue
The Wall
The Beatles (white album)

Well, The Game and The Miracle almost were double sided albums.

Some time ago, one person claiming to be close to the band in the 80's stated here on queenzone that two versions of The Game were recorded. So if it's true then you can say that The Game is a double album.

Not two versions of The Game, but that it was truly intended as a double? One pretty much what we got - a new stripped down Queen - and the second with songs much more intricate and in the vein of 'old' Queen.

as to 'The Game'....pretend that the demos for 'Flash' and NOTW and Jazz and a few other tracks are added, and there you are.

'The Hero' certainly would have been a good finale to that album

There was SO much solo material being worked on, as well as leftovers, that it would have made for a superb 'The Works' double LP.

'WE' would have loved it.

But after HS, sales would have been abysmal.

Pity A Day at the Races/Night At Opera wasnt a double.

The Game a double album? It's such a short disc that it's barely a single album!

Queen never really had any extra songs in their recording sessions because their policy was to finish the first 10 or so songs they came up with and then release the album, that's it.

[QUOTE] [b]AlbaNo1 wrote:[/b]

Pity A Day at the Races/Night At Opera wasnt a double.

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yes, woulda been fantastic. but maybe neither would've been the special pieces of work they are had they been combined

[QUOTE] [b]aion wrote:[/b]

The Game a double album? It's such a short disc that it's barely a single album!

Queen never really had any extra songs in their recording sessions because their policy was to finish the first 10 or so songs they came up with and then release the album, that's it.[/QUOTE]

That may have been the case through A Day At The Races, but there are recordings of unreleased tracks from most of the album sessions after that. Sometimes things were just tossed for one reason or another.

Only some very early 'doodla-daa' demos which were abandoned when they decided which 10 song ideas would be developed for the album. There were ever only one or two occasions when they developed further a song that wasn't released at the time; Too Much Love Will Kill You comes to mind, but nothing else. In the AKOM sessions for example, they didn't work on anything else but the 8 tracks which would be put on the album.

For The Miracle Queen made 33 tracks. Those tracks are finished. They are not demos. Brian said that in several interviews. You can also hear it in the Breakthru video interview.

[QUOTE] [b]geoagustín wrote:[/b]

For The Miracle Queen made 33 tracks. Those tracks are finished. They are not demos. Brian said that in several interviews. You can also hear it in the Breakthru video interview.

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I'm sure BM was talking about songs that had been written, rather than recorded and mixed as finished tracks. It's a huge number of songs to invest time in knowing most wouldn't be used.

I'm sure some of those songs appeared later on Inuendo.

It's amazing how everybody (incl. myself) pretends to be Queen Archivist when it comes to discussion just like this thread. Only he knows for sure what was discarded and what live and studio unreleased material is in their archives.
Everything else is pure speculation and rumours.

Claiming that there doesn't exist a single track that wasn't released is as reasonable as claiming that there are tons and tons of unreleased material. We only got officially video list of the recorded gigs, provided by Queen Archivist. And still, that list is today partially reliable as from the moment it was posted here, they (QPL) found more tapes.

@aion: Wasn't You're the Only One released on FM solo box a demo from AKOM sessions ? If so, then maybe there are more demos from that session which - bearing in mind recent invitation for Orbit to work on more unreleased material - may see the light of the day.

Yes but having demos of some songs is vastly different from having 30 plus songs recorded and ready for release which is what some people believe that comment implies.