What If Mr Bad Guy Got Canned?

We're told Freddie was getting bored of making Mr Bad Guy towards the end.

How would things have gone if he'd canned it and offered the songs to the band?

(And I already know Made In Heaven would've been called something else.) :-)

I sometimes wonder if the Mr Bad Guy album has songs on it that were offered to the band and rejected initially.

It was told over and over again that the album suffers mostly from under-producing. If Brian and Roger would agree to rework it and make it sound more modern and not cheesy in places... I'd like to hear that. Some of the tracks from Mr Bad Guy are mine favourites. It's not that bad album.

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

It was told over and over again that the album suffers mostly from under-producing. If Brian and Roger would agree to rework it and make it sound more modern and not cheesy in places... I'd like to hear that. Some of the tracks from Mr Bad Guy are mine favourites. It's not that bad album.[/QUOTE]

It is that bad. That doesn't mean it couldn't have been better. Definately it could.

The Works could have there must be more to life than this instead of Is this the world...

A Kind of Magic could have I was born to love you and Made in Heaven

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

It was told over and over again that the album suffers mostly from under-producing. If Brian and Roger would agree to rework it and make it sound more modern and not cheesy in places... I'd like to hear that. Some of the tracks from Mr Bad Guy are mine favourites. It's not that bad album.[/QUOTE]

yup, I wish it was a Queen album in the 1970s heavy rock style. The lyrics are strong. it's the music that lacks the punch.

I think a full Queen version of Mr Bad Guy (the song) would have been pretty sweet!

[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]

I sometimes wonder if the Mr Bad Guy album has songs on it that were offered to the band and rejected initially. [/QUOTE]

One or two of Roger's songs were rejected, so it's entirely possible.

Wow. I expected a double entendre here. Nevermind.


(Rimshot)



If the album got canned Freddie would've owed back the advance on the album. Might have hit the studio sooner for financial purposes.



... With Queen, I mean

Always liked the album,it has a great, upbeat, fun feel to it ,tempered with a little heartfelt melancholia. played it to death in the first couple o' years, if Fred got bored, it doesn't come across to my humble ears, he completely delivers.

I like much of the album, too. It just occurred to me that he realised it was missing the other 3's input. Deliberately so, but he might've realised it was Mr Bad Mistake to persist. :-) But pride and ego... :-)

Some of the songs are potentially too personal. Mr Bad Guy itself would be one example. A Queen version of Living On My Own could've been interesting.

^ the songs don't all suck. (*such in German)


It kinda brings to light the issues with the band. Imagine Freddie if he entirely heard the album as "QUEEN" arrangement but refused it in order to not be stylistically repetitive.


Obviously LET'S TURN IT ON has the most QUEEN like elements. .. but they're lessened with cartoon sound effects.

Tripled guitar leads etc.


Doesn't it sound interesting?....


Methods of SPARING the QUEEN arrangement.


Of course if he'd opted for a DIFFERENT PRODUCER who was "hip to the gay shit going on" the album may have sounded differently


Instead some songs sound forcibly restrained.

TMBMTLTT, MIH, MBG, SBHAC, MMP... etc.


Almost the whole album demands others interests in it. It's weak without it.


Maybe he wasn't in as much of a demand for "HIS OWN VOICE" as he was for a paycheck and a pride stroke.... cocaine does that.

John Deacon would've probably had the most interesting solo album at that point.


Just saying. It doesn't venture far and it's hesitant to reaffirm certain QUEENISH bits.

Feels like a forced effort in reduction.

Although he wrote about 45% of the band's songs
... Tell me which MR BAD GUY songs are UNIQUE to THAT ALBUM? ?????

i think there's tracks there and on Strange Frontier that would've helped AKOM a much-improved album

[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]

I sometimes wonder if the Mr Bad Guy album has songs on it that were offered to the band and rejected initially. [/QUOTE]

According to Georg Purvis' "The Complete Works" book, "TMBMTLTT and MMP were written and recorded for both Hot Space and The Works, but rejected both times." About the other songs, Freddie apparently felt that they "weren't suitable for Queen's sound".

To flip it... I think that if Mr Bad Guy sold 10 milllion Freddie would have abandoned Queen.