Side B: This album would be so much better if you listened to my half baked idea for the tracklist more than 30 years after it was released.[/QUOTE]
Lol. Gotta agree.
But you've gotta realize this is just a fantasy exercise.
People omitting even Radio Ga Ga ... wow.
It's hardly a great album. But at least the PRODUCTION is incredible. (On all but MOTP)... as much as I love Brian's guitar on KPTOW you know it's not their greatest song, But it HAS beautiful elements.
Something totally missing on TCR
(*which ought to be revisited in this same type of topic)
THE COSMOS ROCKS (cd single)
side a
1. *the song formerly known as Surf's Up School 's out (*even if you make it an instrumental you increase the songs relevance)
2. We Believe
Side B
1.C-lebrity
2. Say it Ain't so
Holly2003 · Member since
Radio Ga Ga saved Queen's career. Without it being a success, which meant The Works was also a success, they would probably have called it a day. So any alternative track listing that doesn't feature Radio Ga Ga makes no sense except maybe in the lala land of some people's minds.
MercurialFreddie · Member since
Pittrek, you really made me think about this one, and here's the set-list and changes which I've come up with. What do you guys think ?
SIDE A:
1. Tear it Up (acoustic drums, mixed in the way I Can't Live With You was for Queen Rocks compil.)
2. There Must Be More To Life Than This (closer to the FM solo version but again with acoustic drums, remaining piano as a key element and making room for Brian's solo spot in which guitar intertwines with piano, optionally adding some choir.
3. I Go Crazy (played little slower).
4. Love Kills (rock mix but again, little slower tempo and more John on this track!)
5. Man On Fire (Freddie/Roger duet, D&W drums sound [MiH].
SIDE B:
1. Radio Ga-Ga (guitar more prominent in the mix)
2. It's a Hard Life (no changes)
3. Hammer To Fall (drums sounding more the way they sound on Made in Heaven [reworked Queen version].
4. I Want to Break Free (no changes)
5. Let Me In Your Heart Again
6. Is this the world we created (Intro played by piano, the rest just Freddie, Brian and acoustic guitar).
tomchristie22 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]
HTF yes; it's a very good song, but the recording's quite awful in some ways.[/QUOTE]
In what ways would you say it's awful? I haven't listened to the album version in a good while, but I guess the main thing that springs to my mind is the recurring fake drum sound making the smashing sort of effect - could've been done with a bit more subtlety. Also, the recording would probably have been enhanced by vocal harmonies by all three, not just Brian and then Brian and Roger for the bridge stuff (Unless my facts are wrong on this - it sounds like Roger could maybe be in there on the chorus harmonies too).
k-m · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
Boy, those are some sweeping erasures. Would you have had them still perform tracks like Magic and Hammer to Fall live? [/QUOTE]
HTF yes; it's a very good song, but the recording's quite awful in some ways. AKOM no... there are at least 40 songs they could've played instead, which are way better.[/QUOTE]
Lol, your edits are verging on "radical", to be honest ;-) Agree 100% on HTF though, the song just sounds noisy.
Sebastian · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
In what ways would you say it's awful?[/QUOTE]
Drums, pitch and tempo, all of which are quite major in my book, especially for a song which is so well written. They completely ruined it.
brENsKi · Member since
[b]"The Works"[/b] - [i]Brenski's alternate track listing: [/i] [b]SIDE 1[/b] 1 - Seven Seas of Rhye (instrumental) 2 - Liar 3 - Great King Rat 4 - My Fairy King 5 - Good Old Fashioned Loverboy 6 - Somebody To Love 7 - In the Lap of the Gods ...revisited
[b]SIDE 2[/b] 1 - Ogre Battle 2 - The Fair Feller's Masterstroke 3 - Nevermore 4 - The March of The Black Queen 5 - Funny How Love Is 6 - Seven Seas of Rhye
now that ^^^ has improved "The Works" by 1,000,000%
*goodco* · Member since
Tear It Up / Man On Fire / It's A Hard Life [ext] / I Go Crazy / Man On The Prowl
Love Kills [wolf euro mix] / I Want To Break Free [45] / Keep Passing The Open Windows / Hammer To Fall [ext] / Is This The World We Created?
My version for eons. I can see the new Love Kills and Let Me In as the side B opener. If Radio, like Staying Power, had been given some balls in the studio as the live renditions, opening side two would be fine.
'I am better than Queen'. Sure, just like my cousin was better than The Beatles over 45 years ago. He replaced 'Revolution 1' and 'Revolution 9' on The White Album, with 'Revolution' and 'Hey Jude'. Worked for him. Works for me.
