Too Much Love Will Kill You on The Miracle album

Anything in place of MBDM would do nicely.

Agreed. But considering they were trying to be more democratic with the songwriting by that period, they couldn't bump off a Deacon song in favour of another Brian tune.

Well, it's technically a Deacon/Mercury song... but, also technically, it was a Queen song, credits and royalties included. That was, allegedly, part of the reason why they were all sharing everything: they'd choose the pieces on merit, not on democracy. Unless, of course, it was a party line. Which would make sense.

The vocal on MIH sounds like a demo to me. Freddie sounds like he's struggling throughout. It's a very poor vocal from Freddie and I'm convinced Freddie would not have allowed this out as a final version.

It sounds more than fine. As a fan it's better to have something than nothing. Also, props for David Richards (RIP) for making You Don't Fool Me possible, out of those small bits and pieces that Freddie had left. It's amazing, but to some it may sound like a early pre-demo quality. Wonder if Face It Alone could get the similar treatment. Loved that instrumental cover on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TDrkelm2M

Yeah, I'm not sure about the "made from scraps" thing either, it seems to be Brian May code for "I don't really like this", he said exactly the same thing about the 2015 "There Must Be more to Life than this", and we know for a fact that's a lie.

It's like John Lennon when he said he'd played some song backwards (or, most famously, Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 14 in C-Sharp minor), which was code for 'I based my progression on it', or 'I helped a bit in the middle-eight' as code for 'I may have thrown in a line or two'.

This would've been a better version of The Miracle imo....


Side One

I Want It All

Khashoggi's Ship

Hang On In There

The Miracle

The Invisible Man

Side Two

Breakthru

Hijack My Heart (Taylor vocal)

Scandal

Too Much Love Will Kill You (Brian May vocal)

Was It All Worth It

I would've also named the album something else. I've always found The Miracle to be a weak song, not worthy of being the title track imo).

If another song would've been a title track, I'm not sure which one I'd pick. Maybe "I Want It All" ? I dunno.

Actually, "Too Much Love Will Kill You" might've been a better song to name the album after, considering the name of the next album.

"The Invisible Men" and "The Invisible Man" were kicked about as titles early on.

You've left off 2 key tracks for me that are so summer '89 as to be indispensable. But hey it's all subjective.

I don't associate TMLWKY with TM - it's like putting FBG on a setlist from 1974.

Oh.

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This would've been a better version of The Miracle imo....


Side One

I Want It All

Khashoggi's Ship

Hang On In There

The Miracle

The Invisible Man

Side Two

Breakthru

Hijack My Heart (Taylor vocal)

Scandal

Too Much Love Will Kill You (Brian May vocal)

Was It All Worth It[/QUOTE]

Thank god you wern't Involved in the decision making.....not sure what the fasination with Hang On In There is.....It's not a great song. The Miracle is a good title for that album..good song as well. They made the right choice. I would have cut a few songs like Party and My Baby Does Me, and worked on some stronger material to fill out the album.. It was never meant to be a vintage Queen album. The Works had a better chance at being really good, but they made some poor choices in song selection...example, I Go Crazy was a solid rocker..it should have made the cut and love Kills would have fit perfectly on that album...then a few of those weak songs could have been cut.

^ I Go Crazy was recorded in late 1982. Almost a year before 'Works' sessions in L.A. It sounds different to all album tracks. It doesn't fit for me.
TMLWKY for me is perfect addition to The Miracle album as it was planned.

It's the same arguments really - For me retro fitting Too Much.. to The Miracle doesn't tally with anyone's 1989 so it kind of doesn't fit despite being from those sessions. I Go Crazy was heard by people as a non-album track from the Works so fits that era emotionally. I'm sure it was added to a lot of people's C90 tapes with the Works on for the car.

Like sticking Mad The Swine back on Q1 when, to me at least, it has 1991 written all over it - however correct it would be in the rejigged sequence.

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The version on Made In Heaven is exactly the same as the one which was intended for The Miracle.[/QUOTE]

I don't think it was, Freddies Demo from the promo cassette has a completely different vocal take and chorus placment.[/QUOTE]

But that was, as you say, a demo [url=https://geometrydash.io/]geometry dash[/url].

The one sent to DJ's in America when the album was finished contained the final version (not a demo) and that final (not demo) version was exactly the same recording (though not the same mix or master) as the one which would end up on 'Made in Heaven' in 1995.[/QUOTE]

I have to say It fits really well with the Made in Heaven album's 'synthy sound'.

I wonder if this song is why the album sounds like that, with things like "My Life Has Been Saved" being reworked to match that sound.