Made in Heaven - released 20 years ago today

Made in Heaven - released 20 years ago today.

It was the first Queen album I bought on day 1, remember I sat a world record on my bike home from the record store.

Still hoping for a Made in Heaven 2.

20 years is nothing. All celebrations must be for 40th anniversaries. :-)

Still my favourite album. Love it!!

20 years ago...

[b]Damn.[/b]

I live in the Netherlands near the German border and i remember getting on my bike and driving through the freezing cold to a German store because over there it was available on the 3rd instead of the 6th over here.

And the Beatles' Anthology 1 was released two weeks later, it was quite an exciting time for me : my two favourite bands releasing "new" material after all these years!

Too saccharine for me. AC/DC's Back in Black set the standard for posthumous tribute albums, and Made in Heaven falls far short of that. Good songwriters often discuss real life events by analogy, metaphor and allegory, but instead we have two songs with Heaven in the title, and with the album named after one. And Too Much Love Will Kill You is one of the worst songs in the Queen catalogue. One big yawn from start to finish. While Made in Heaven is clearly a Queen album, I regard Innuendo as their "real" final album.

I remember being at a "i heard it first" party... Buying the cd, went home, got drunk, woke up during track 13, pretty far away... Took me years to really listen to it. Made in heaven and i was born to love i still skip. Too much love will kill you is despite being boring very nicely sung by Him.

It felt like a couple of years ago when I was looking at The album thinking 1995 wasnt too long ago,that was 2005 damn....Great album, good artists, what a ride..

I was working at Hammersmith O for the play back. Too embarrassed to admit I liked Queen it's hardly classic, is it? The songs are in the same league as keep passing the open window and Pain is so close to pleasure.

My video Made In Heaven for 20th anniversary the album Enjoy

Can't believe it's 20 years. I remember buying it on release and taking it to a friends house, his parents were away. I sat down with 12 cans of Heineken and listened to it maybe 3-4 times in a row much to the annoyance of my friends who were not into Queen. They all own Queen albums now :) Remember it as though it was yesterday, it was very emotional for me knowing that Fred was so ill recording it at the time and knowing that it would be the last proper Queen Album. It's not a masterpiece but by god it is a very fine piece of work. I remember being so moved by Mother Love & A Winters Tale, still am to be honest. Brian, John and Roger finished the album beautifully without Fred.

Late on in the night we all got stoned on hash and listened to track 13 repeatedly until the sun came up, happy daze.

I remember this day very clearly. My dad bought it on a cassette (I still have it), brought it home and played it. I was amazed by the tracks, even now it's hard to tell that it was worked on by only three members of the band. The very same day, as I went to bed I listened to it agin on my walkman and I was moved to tears by Mother Love. In 1995, the pain caused by Freddie's passing was still there, in many hearts, not only felt by Queen fans and I always thought that this particular album was a way to say "goodbye" by Freddie to us. It's very emotional album and I think that when we're listening to it we're automatically reflecting on Freddie's illness, pain and whole atmosphere in the Queen family during their studio work in 1991.

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[b]maths15 wrote: [/b] I was working at Hammersmith O for the play back. Too embarrassed to admit I liked Queen it's hardly classic, is it? The songs are in the same league as keep passing the open window and Pain is so close to pleasure.[/QUOTE]

It wasn't classic Queen but at the time of release it did get an awful lot of play, the video for TCBHFE got shed loads of airtime on UK T.V. YDFM was a hit in the the clubs around Europe and got loads of airtime here in Ireland and elsewhere on the radio, still gets played sometimes. ML is a brilliantly poignant song and AWT has a lot of hope and love in it while at the same time painting a beautiful picture lyrically.

I know it's easy to trash MIH and it's not everyone's cup of tea but in context it has some very fine songs and lyrics in it. Just my opinion though.

I [QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]

Too saccharine for me. AC/DC's Back in Black set the standard for posthumous tribute albums, and Made in Heaven falls far short of that. Good songwriters often discuss real life events by analogy, metaphor and allegory, but instead we have two songs with Heaven in the title, and with the album named after one. And Too Much Love Will Kill You is one of the worst songs in the Queen catalogue. One big yawn from start to finish. While Made in Heaven is clearly a Queen album, I regard Innuendo as their "real" final album.[/QUOTE]

Well I don't think I its meant to be a 100pc posthumous album. It touches on being a tribute but it's left over songs to form an album the songs could have been about anything whereas later ones like a winters tale are more true to 1991 than i was born to love you. class album and I don't see anything wrong with the songwriting compared to other queen albums.