What I had hoped for- Man from Manhattan 2018

The swing band like production is fine but almost makes it sound like it should be in an Austin Powers movie.
I would love for a full blown Queen treatment with Freddie's vocals brought higher into the mix, keeping Brian's guitar and Roger adding drums and finally adding Brian and Roger adding their voices to the backing vocals.
Release it as a single b/w Killer Queen (since I always felt like MfM sounded like a spiritual cousin.)

Man from Manhattan always had a feel of Killer Queen mixed with the overblown opera vocals of Somebody to love.
A very underrated but brilliant track that deserves more praise in my opinion.

i think it's quite fresh and not bad at all.
especially i like the additional vocals which seem to be recorded recently by mr. howell.
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what i wasn't aware of is that that very man had an accoustic-performance at some convention in 2012;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w8bzlyEUXE

re:

>I would love for a full blown Queen treatment with Freddie's vocals brought higher into the mix, keeping Brian's guitar and Roger adding drums and finally adding Brian and Roger adding their voices to the backing vocals.

Which would make it Queen+ and not Eddie Howell.

Which was the point from the beginning.

Additional vocals?

For me it's a step back... The original version was perfect – or, should I say, it would have been perfect with Freddie on vocals. I was hoping for that new version to feature Freddie on lead vocals, but I guess he just never recorded it. In this version it looks like Freddie is buried in the mix even more than in the original, which is a shame.

I love the ADATR feel the original had. I always found it to be a pretty neat ADATR outtake (although I know it isn't technically). The big band sound makes nothing to me.

@emrabt:
i listened to the 2018 extended version on youtube. the intro and some of the middle part has some vocals by mr. howell that i wasn't aware of. so i think they have been recorded recently. please correct me if i'm wrong.

Always thought that Eddie sounded a lot like Freddie on Man from Manhattan, at some point i thought it was Freddie!

From what i can here, there's no new lyrics.

then i may be wrong.
anybody in for knowing if the extended intro was recorded recently or being caught in the 70s ?

I would like to spend money on some decent Queen and related products, but I'm afraid this sort of thing doesn't cut it for me. A Freddie version would of course be an entirely different kettle of fish. Besides that, it seems a physical copy of this CD cannot be ordered from within the UK? Another marketing fail from the off as far as I'm concerned, cult indeed!

I don't like this remake... The original one is better!

Yes original is always the better option and many Queen fans are not fussed about what crap is waved under there noses they are bound to say it is great!

[QUOTE] [b]happystar wrote:[/b]

Yes original is always the better option[/QUOTE]
No, it isn't. Countless pieces of music have been later improved upon by themselves or other artists. Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations was infinitely better the second time around. But of course you knew that.

[QUOTE]many Queen fans are not fussed about what crap is waved under there noses they are bound to say it is great![/QUOTE]
* their, not there. And there should have been punctuation after "noses".

Yet another jab at anything Brian and Roger have done after 1997. You are far too predictable. What are you trying to accomplish by repeating the same thing hundreds of times?

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

[QUOTE] [b]happystar wrote:[/b]

Yes original is always the better option[/QUOTE]
No, it isn't. Countless pieces of music have been later improved upon by themselves or other artists. Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations was infinitely better the second time around.[/QUOTE]

True!