Cold and sterile is right. I said that further up.
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matt z wrote:
k-m wrote:
"Innuendo" deserved a 25th-anniversary special edition. Dr Bri and Rog missed a chance to boost its appeal a little bit. It does get some recognition though, occasionally from unlikely sources: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/queens-innuendo-remembering-freddie-mercurys-last-masterpiece-20160205 or http://ultimateclassicrock.com/queen-innuendo/
I think it's a very good album, Queen's best since NOTW, even though "The Game", "The Works" and "The Miracle" were also good in their own ways. But as you said, uneven. "Innuendo" was a long album too, which we mustn't forget considering the circumstances.
FUCKIN AYE!/NO SHIT!!
a 25th anniversary AND DVD/AUDIO+ VIDEO SUPPLEMENTAL *( CAUSE WE STILL DON'T DUCKING HAVE THEM ON DIGITAL U FUCKING RETARDS AT QPL!!!)
It would be amazing. Especially if you threw in a hybrid blu-ray with alternate mixes/the queen art films and isolated channels. (Easily done in blu-ray mastering)
Promote it this way with an advance remix project (*isolated vocals/alternate mixes) FAN PROMOTION and they'd have been cutting edge (*or APPEARED TO BE: as PUBLIC ENEMY did something similar in 2003) for once in their releases
It'd also be GREAT PROMOTION for the Tours.
I don't know what kind of thinking is behind such neglect
Wait until you get a 10th anniversary edition of The Cosmos Rocks ;-) Then complain.
I just think it sounds very 90s dated. Sterile production. I always thought it was a real missed opportunity for them to go to their proper 70s sound - no synths, piano. Many of the tracks would've sounded awesome done in their 70s style - mainly TSMGO, Innuendo, Hitman, ICLWY etc.
The truth is, the 70s stuff was literally a recording of them playing. No synths to date it. Very little actual production gloss. The 70s stuff sounds so fresh still.
The song Innuendo is one of the best songs they ever did, on the same level as the 70's stuff. Perfect lryics and music. Middle section is perfection, almost as good as The Prophet Song.
But overall Opera And Races are still on another level. Bands have a prime, and Queens was the first 8 albums, especially the first 5 or 6.
dysan wrote:
The truth is, the 70s stuff was literally a recording of them playing. No synths to date it. Very little actual production gloss. The 70s stuff sounds so fresh still.
dysan wrote:
The truth is, the 70s stuff was literally a recording of them playing. No synths to date it. Very little actual production gloss. The 70s stuff sounds so fresh still.
Time to give up, or hit my iPad with a lump hammer!!
mike hunt wrote:
The song Innuendo is one of the best songs they ever did, on the same level as the 70's stuff. Perfect lryics and music. Middle section is perfection, almost as good as The Prophet Song.
The middle section of "Innuendo" is phenomenal, some of the best minutes of music Queen ever put on tape, but what they did in the middle of "The Prophet's Song" actually ruins it for me. Too long, too complicated, not exciting, very annoying. I'm afraid they got completely carried away there.
k-m wrote:
mike hunt wrote:
The song Innuendo is one of the best songs they ever did, on the same level as the 70's stuff. Perfect lryics and music. Middle section is perfection, almost as good as The Prophet Song.
The middle section of "Innuendo" is phenomenal, some of the best minutes of music Queen ever put on tape, .
Sounds too much like Will Ferrell should be ice skating to it.
@vocal harmony: haha time to get the hammer out :)
Holly2003 wrote:
I hardly ever listen to it as apart from Innuendo, Days of Our Lives and TSMGO it feels to me like a sterile and cold album.
I can't blame you for feeling that way - most of the album is done to a click track, with that synthesized shaker in the mix on a lot of the songs. That aspect of it hasn't dated well. The tempos just don't breathe like they did in the 70s.
No doubt it's the best Queen album after The Game, but ultimately nothing tops Queen's 74-76 output.