Mr. Bad Guy reissue 2017 ?

This was posted on the official FM Facebook page 3 days ago. Sounds promising to me. Discuss...

https://www.facebook.com/freddiemercury/photos/a.382443465169522.96054.379937158753486/1364247006989158/?type=3&theater

"Oh no, all this crap again?!"

That's what FM would say :-)

Dear god, I hope not. Unless they had Brian and Roger re-do the rest of the album as well.

I can already see the press-release.

Jim Beach, who is still heavily involved in the day-to-day business of running a business called Queen, says "This is what Freddie had always intended. In his heart he knew the songs would be better with the help of the band, but at that time he felt he had to prove that he could do it himself."

Now, finally these recordings have been further improved upon by Brian and Roger, like they already did on 1995's Made In Heaven and I Was Born To Love You which became much-loved classics for Queen fans all around the world.

A straight (lol) reissue of Mr Bad Guy would be most welcome.

Mr Bad Guy has nothing musically redeemable in its original form. I hope this is just a bad rumor

MIH, IWBTLY, LMLTNT and LOMO are all good tracks (IMO.

If they did an expanded version with proper - not half baked - artwork, notes and accompanying discs (with all available remixes, extended versions etc as well as demos that didn't make the box) I'd be happy. Barcelona got the re-issue, and my OCD completist nature thinks it's annoying to have that without the other albums in similar format.

[QUOTE] [b]Michael Scapp wrote:[/b]

Mr Bad Guy has nothing musically redeemable in its original form. I hope this is just a bad rumor[/QUOTE]

I think it's a bit too cruel to say that about the tracks. The album serves not only as a guide of what kind of humuor Freddie had but also what was popular in the 80's.

Some of the tracks are very musical and with better production and involvement of others (Brian and Roger and maybe just for this one time, John) would really become hits. Compared to today's music, even some of the lyrics on FM's solo album are great.

If you would take away synths, programmed drums and give John room to write some great bass lines then we could be looking at something good.

The "slow' / Brian May's arrangement of Love Kills wasn't a bad re-mix although for someone who heard Love Kills in it's original form for too long it would be difficult to get accustomed to. At first it's hard to get used to the overall change of tempo but there is potential there.

I'm sure there are original unused live instruments on multitracks which were replaced by synths and drum machines in the end as it was with half of Hot Space.

So it will be great to make a proper remix of the album using these original instruments.

I'll be glad if there will be a cleverly done reissue of the album.

A MIH-style approach will only be acceptable if Deaky joins in.
So no, never gonna happen.

There's no way they've redone the album. It's going to be a slightly louder (read: a step closer to brickwalled) "remaster" of the 1985 release.

So let's get this straight:

QPL are all about releasing product to make money, and they think Mercury's mediocre album from the 80s is more marketable than a boxed set of studio outtakes from Queen's prime, or a live album from 1977?

There's no way this is record label obligation. The label is probably scratching their heads too.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

There's no way they've redone the album. It's going to be a slightly louder (read: a step closer to brickwalled) "remaster" of the 1985 release.

So let's get this straight:

QPL are all about releasing product to make money, and they think Mercury's mediocre album from the 80s is more marketable than a boxed set of studio outtakes from Queen's prime, or a live album from 1977?

There's no way this is record label obligation. The label is probably scratching their heads too.
[/QUOTE]I totally agree with all you are saying.

Incredible that a band - with such a wealth of material in their archive (outtakes, live concerts etc.) - just doesn't care enough to release all this wonderful stuff.

Mr. Bad Guy was indeed a mediocre album.

It's interesting though, it's a testimony of everything that was wrong in Freddie's love life/emotional life in the early eighties.

I can't listen to it without feeling sorry for him....

And there's always that voice. There are so many truly incredible vocal moments!

Mr. Bad Guy may be mediocre, but basically because it was absolutely bad produced. Melodically or lyrically, nothing to reproach.

Just take a look at the songs from that album that were taken for a later arrangement: I was born to love you - Living on my own – Made in heaven - Love Kills (Wolf remix). They all improved, largely.

I’m quite sure they could get the same results with Man made paradise, Foolin’ around, etc.

Those songs play so good, fresh, colorful. U are mediocre maybe