Made in Heaven - released 20 years ago today

My favorite Queen record. Perfect!
The most beautiful record ever made by a rock group. As Brian said at the time : "A labour of love."

Why is it easy to trash Made In Heaven? Solid record IMO, with good songs throughout. Not their most exciting album of course, but quality music I'd say.

20 years ago, I'm feeling so old

Why trash it? Creatively bare, mawkish, middle of the road, best of Celine Dion and Michael Bolton style of music, no rock and roll, manipulative and dishonest. For my money, worst Queen album by a mile and an embarrassment to the catalogue. And some love it and that's the beauty of opinion!

Emotive record, the last good bye. Is not the best record, but have some very founded songs like Mother Love, You Don't Fool Me or A Winter's Tale. Even the songs from back catalogue, like the jam of It's a beautiful day or the hidden track were emotive. Not a perfect album, but emotive.

Yeah. The concept could be called saccharine and manipulative, But it was daring enough to release positive vibes with the grim and gloom.


I listened to the album first out of sequence (Freddie died in 91 I heard it in 2000)

It was deeply saddening. Never mind the hubub of final songs. I didn't WORSHIP Freddie. .. I just knew hewas a fantastically gifted artist.

I think it's a clever compassionate compilation.

Releasing just the remaining 4 songs would be a disservice to the VENUE (*potential public spotlight on dead artist and musician)


It was a late turn of events and did seem to be a labor of love. I think the album is great.

As unusual and stoic as the words are from MLHBS it's a very unsung and bold song.

I tend to register the album high on my "lists"

2nd or third because the depth of it IS emotive it's purely emotive


Now if the surviving members ever sat down for an HONEST discussion of how the album was made you'dfindinteresting and disparate colors of influence for it all.

It's beautiful beyond comparison for the two songs AWT and ML at the very least. Those two are damn near transcendent.

Though I'd love to find out just exactly how much Freddie left them with the idea, I believe they pulled a gem m.. nay a diamond out of the carbon


It's great. Fantastically so (literally - the album is a fantasy that DIDN'T happen

yes, I remember..... I bought it on the first day here in Italy in a store that is now gone (as most record stores here in Italy). I bought the white vinyl.
I consider this album (although many will disagree) the last true Queen albums as I consider them real Queen

[QUOTE] [b]Marknow wrote:[/b]

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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.[/QUOTE]

I'd much rather have heard the tracks in the context of a box set as unfinished demos and skecthes. I also find their version of Heaven for everyone terrible. That's the third version of the song, talk about scraping the barrel.

@Maths15, yep the album version of Heaven for Everyone is terrible, it goes on and on, on the other hand the Single version is much better.


Tom

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@Maths15, yep the album version of Heaven for Everyone is terrible, it goes on and on, on the other hand the Single version is much better.


Tom[/QUOTE]

I like the spoken intro in the original. A bit of its time but I have found memories of buying lip when it came out. Not as his as strange frontier but a good solid solo record. Roger was strongest solo imho.

On HFE I really DO like the MIH version, but I consider the Cross one (with Freddie) significantly better.

MIH has highs and lows. Some songs I really like - especifally YDFM (which is NOT to everyone's taste).

If it lacks anything as an album it's Freddie's finesse.

But I'm really glad they took the trouble, painful as it will have been. And maybe the pain is ultimately what led John to walk away (and Roger and Brian for a while, too).

I love Made In heaven. It makes me feel things no other album can. Its not the most creatve Queen album, but its very solid. I love the "cold winterish" atmosphere the entire album has. It also reminds me of some the best times ever as a Queen fan.

Wow 20 years.....
Fantastic album. A true labour of love.
The internet wasn't what it is today, so it had mostly an old fashioned release and promotion. I didn't know anything about the record being in the works, so you can imagine my surprise when all of a sudden I caught HFO on the radio one day. I went like "what??? When??? Why???? How????"

I remember getting MIH for xmas in 1995 as a kid. I still like it quite a bit. Of course at the time I had no idea that it featured solo songs plus other stuff released previously. I think they did great job with MIH and IWBTLY. Those songs always had great vocals, only the instrumentation lacked.

I remember going to a fan club premiere in Detroit before it was released. I recall that Track 13 played in the background while everyone yacked, before they played they played the first 12 tracks.