Brian indicates we may get to hear his mix of There Must Be More To Life...

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Martin Packer wrote:[/b]

A Queen version WITHOUT MICHAEL would be the preferred outcome. [/QUOTE]

Totally agree - it's a Queen/Freddie song, and they've just limply handed over all power on it to the MJ Estate. Very odd. [/QUOTE]

I don't think the world needs any more Freddie Mercury solo tracks turned into these Queen-anthems-by-the-numbers.

They already went overboard with the cliches on the MIH album, and there's no need to repeat that effort with a song which already sounds pretty damn spectacular as it was recorded 30 years ago.

I think that Brian and Roger should get up from their arses and write a now song to tinker with!

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

i don't know why you're still blaming William Orbit...sure he worked on it. but the final say-so for release is Brian/Roger & Queen Productions Ltd***.
If you employ a someone to do some work for you and you're not happy with the job...you don't pay him....you get him to do it again until you are happy with the result.
They were happy enough to release it, so
Ultimately, only THEY *** are to blame.
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But, AFAIR when they showed the songs on radio for the first time they were clear about it was the first time they heard the TMBMTLTT mix, so no, they didnt approved it, perhaps they were forced by Universal, who, if Im not mistaken, were the ones pushing for the collaboration to be released.

[QUOTE] [b]tero! 48531 wrote:[/b]
I think that Brian and Roger should get up from their arses and write a now song to tinker with![/QUOTE]

Now, that I would like to see! Heck with it, make it a whole album while they're at it............;)

With or without Adam, either way..........lol

[QUOTE] [b]tero! 48531 wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Martin Packer wrote:[/b]

A Queen version WITHOUT MICHAEL would be the preferred outcome. [/QUOTE]

Totally agree - it's a Queen/Freddie song, and they've just limply handed over all power on it to the MJ Estate. Very odd. [/QUOTE]

I don't think the world needs any more Freddie Mercury solo tracks turned into these Queen-anthems-by-the-numbers.

They already went overboard with the cliches on the MIH album, and there's no need to repeat that effort with a song which already sounds pretty damn spectacular as it was recorded 30 years ago.

I think that Brian and Roger should get up from their arses and write a now song to tinker with![/QUOTE]

I agree to a point, and would rather see unheard tracks from the vaults (a la Let Me In Your Hear Again), but we now know that this track did actually start as a Queen track with all four of them playing on BEFORE they took the decision to shelve it, and so Freddie ploughed forward with it as a solo track. Therefore this actually has as much, if not more, validity than Made In Heaven and I Was Born To Love You.

When you read it like:


'We have a very interesting Queen version of There Must Be More To Life Than This - which you are not gonna hear - for quite a while...'

...then there is no way he said that their mix is gonna be released at some point.

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]
Therefore this actually has as much, if not more, validity than Made In Heaven and I Was Born To Love You.[/QUOTE]

That's not much of a suprise, considering that there was no validity (beyond the commercial gain) for those tracks... :P

I'm not a fan of "finishing" previous tracks, especially ones that were already finished under another name. The archive material should be released as it is, so that Brian and Roger could concentrate full time on new material.

New material would be interesting but as the recent tour proved, their voices aren't what they used to be so either they will record sth with Adam or they will finish unreleased tracks and present them as a "new" material which will be nice and I'm sure that the sales could be high as there's still huge demand for material with Freddie on vocals. Every day, different rock-oriented radio stations in my country play LMIYHA.

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[b]JeroenG wrote: [/b] When you read it like:

'We have a very interesting Queen version of There Must Be More To Life Than This - which you are not gonna hear - for quite a while...'

...then there is no way he said that their mix is gonna be released at some point.[/QUOTE]

I really don't understand what you're saying. Are you suggesting we just ignore the last part of the sentence and decide it wasn't a continuation of the previous part, which it clearly was? There's no other way to read what Brian said here except in the literal - 'You are not gonna hear [the track] for quite a while'. Quite a while is presumably indefinite, and a significant amount of time, but it's still [i]some point[/i]. 

Note that I'm not talking about whether I believe the release will actually happen, I'm just talking about Brian's exact words, where I don't believe there's really room for misinterpretation.

[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
Note that I'm not talking about whether I believe the release will actually happen, I'm just talking about Brian's exact words, where I don't believe there's really room for misinterpretation.[/QUOTE]

You're reading too much into his words, and the room for misinterpretation comes from your hope.

He's saying that there are absolutely NO plans to release the Queen version, which is the same exact situation we have with the other MJ duets.
Do you think that those are going to be released as well?

I'm also generally not a fan of finishing or reworking 30-year-old tracks (of other artists, to boot). The FM & Michael Jackson demos should have been released in the Freddie solo collection in 2000, if at all, and the Queen demo of There Must Be More Life... should have been released as part of the Queen rarities anthology which was never released.

The only reason why Brian and Roger were messing around these tracks is that they hoped they could sell more units with Michael Jackson's name, and neither of the actual artists of these demos had a say in whether they wanted them released or not, since they're both dead. This is pretty pathetic stuff.

I have no interest to hear any of the Michael Jackson songs.

Re I was born to love you and Made In Heaven: Didn't Queen actually originally play on these songs in the studio and then it was taken off and dubbed with session musicians for the Bad Guy LP?

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[b]miraclesteinway wrote: [/b] Re I was born to love you and Made In Heaven: Didn't Queen actually originally play on these songs in the studio and then it was taken off and dubbed with session musicians for the Bad Guy LP?[/QUOTE]

I've never heard of this being the case, but I'll leave it to someone more knowledgeable to answer. I can tell you, though, that the Queen instrumentation on those two tracks as they appear on the 1995 album was all recorded after Freddie's death.

I wasn't aware of any original Queen work on those two tracks - I think also the interim working versions on the Freddie box set bear this out too that they were purely Freddie only works (though you could then use that argument for There a Must Be More To Life Than This!)