Double Studio Album

i always thought - had they been recorded in the same sessions - News Of The World & Jazz could have been a double album... but when listening to each album, clearly the production is very different, so it may not be apparent... but you can easily fit songs on either album side by side. However, doing so would have diluted News Of The World which, in my opinion, is perfect as it is.

Hate to point this out Gerry, but Live Killers has nothing to do with this thread, it's about studio albums. Had Queen ever produced a double album, like those brENsKi listed I don't think the sales figures would be any different than those achieve.

bingo !!! ^^ this.
thank you - wonder why his Gerryacity couldn't see this in the point i made.

[QUOTE] [b]Jimmy Dean wrote:[/b]

i always thought - had they been recorded in the same sessions - News Of The World & Jazz could have been a double album... but when listening to each album, clearly the production is very different, so it may not be apparent... but you can easily fit songs on either album side by side. However, doing so would have diluted News Of The World which, in my opinion, is perfect as it is.[/QUOTE]

great point. with some minor production tweaks here and there at least 2/3 of Jazz and NOTW are interchangeable.

Brenski: you are a loony, but there again everyone on here knows that!
Still i am sure you will be back on the ward monday morning!
enjoy your weekend feeble one.

Vocal Harmony: Yes i know this discussion is about studio albums but i was just pointing out
that Queen only released double albums when they were "live" ones.
i.e "Live Killers" & "Live Magic" but as usual Brenski complicates the matter and causes rows,
and this makes the topic fly off in a different direction.
I will just ignore the retarded fool in future.

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

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.

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Time and time again people on this board get their hopes up for unreleased songs, but it's all just wishful thinking. We do know Queen's method of working and to put it bluntly, it was to release albums with as little effort as possible (as far as the amount of songs goes - obviously the songs that they did finalize were meticulously produced). They never released non-album singles, they didn't bother to make non-album B-side tracks. In the 80s their albums had only 9 or 10 songs though they could have spent as much time in the studio as they wanted. Greg Brooks surely knows that the archives are very thin.[/QUOTE]

If that would be true, we wouldn't get Let Me In Your Heart Again with FM on vocals and what's more the majority of solo tracks wouldn't have originated during Queen recording sessions. The sole fact that more songs were made during those sessions proves that it wasn't just about getting 10 songs and leaving the studio for party.

Er the last time i looked in the CD case Live Magic was a single Album! You obviously meant Live at Wembley was a double live release. Live Magic i always thought was poor,with the sound quality and horrible edited songs.I hardly ever play LM ,just got it for my collection.

The Miracle - double album.

The Miracle double album was considered for release. I recall reading this as a quote from Brian May, most likely in the fan club magazine from that same era.

The Miracle Extended may have been the title and it was considered as a follow-up to 'The Miracle' with extended versions of songs. Hence it spanned two albums.

They never specified extended versions of every song, so it was never made entirely clear what the final track listing would have been.

Andy

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

You are forgetting i am an ardent Queen fan and i do not buy anything these days, because sadly its about making money not music anymore.
Queen Forever is proof of this, and quite frankly i would not pay £15.99 just because it has i new song and 2 songs re-worked! Again Brian and Roger have told lies to the fans to make them buy this limp collection.
Queen were never a double album band so writing down all your sales figures is a waste of time, all groups are different and so you do not have an argument here.
Live Killers was a double album but flopped as far as the fans were concerned![/QUOTE]

How could we forget you're an 'ardent Queen fan', when you remind everyone of it at every opportunity?

And what exactly is a 'double album band'? A band that has released a double album? Well, I suppose they dont qualify then....unless you mean something like they were more pop-oriented than other bands (ie Zep, Floyd, etc) that did....

But then again the Beatles and Elton John had double albums as well.........

[QUOTE] [b]seagull wrote:[/b]

The Miracle - double album.

The Miracle double album was considered for release. I recall reading this as a quote from Brian May, most likely in the fan club magazine from that same era.

The Miracle Extended may have been the title and it was considered as a follow-up to 'The Miracle' with extended versions of songs. Hence it spanned two albums.

They never specified extended versions of every song, so it was never made entirely clear what the final track listing would have been.

Andy[/QUOTE]

I remember reading that as well...........it was going to be called Another Miracle, I thought....

Well, if from those times, songs like Too Much Love Will Kill You -released in Made In Heaven-, I Guess We're Falling Out, Stealin' (12 min. version of the B-Side), Hijack My Heart (B-Side), My Life Has Been Saved (B-Side) -and 'reworked' in Made In Heaven-, Face It Alone -earlier demo than the Innuendo one-, A New Life Is Born -which was mixed with Breakthru-, Dog With A Bone -which was originated like a Convention gift-, Hang On In There (B-Side), Robbery or Self Made Man were made...
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I think that that could fill a album!

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11 songs. More than The Game.

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And if I add some extras?

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Face It There (Shitty remix by Giorgio Mororder)

'Stealin' (Dubstep remix by George Lucas)

Hijack My Love (Remix and backing vocals by Adam Lambert)

Too Much Love Will Kill You (Freddie's Tribute Live Demo) [2014 Remaster,

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with long-lost guitars] {*cough*over*cough*dubs*cough}

Ha! New release! Better than Forever?

Another Miracle...yes, I think you're right. cheers :)

Or "Another Miracle" could have been misdirection. Since 1991 I always felt there was quite a bit of misdirection 1989 onwards.

Opera and Races are fab on their own, but as a double release it would've been truly glorious and something else entirely. I think if the band had some money in their pockets instead of being broke and thought 'hey, let's go all-out since Killer Queen was such a smash', it could've happened. If you use the single edits of Tie Your Mother Down and Teo Torriatte when compiling Races, and then add that result straight in front of Opera, the length is 84:39. Kind of makes me wish that 90-minute burnable CDs existed.