Let's say you had the authority to sequence their albums. Remove and add tracks from the same sessions, mess with the song order, and so forth. How would you resequence their albums, if you would at all?
For example, here's my alternate tracklist for The Miracle:
Breakthru
Khashoggi's Ship
The Miracle
I Want it All
My Life Has Been Saved
The Invisible Man
All God's People
Scandal
Rain Must Fall
Too Much Love Will Kill You
Hang on In There
Was it All Worth It?
Has anyone else got something similar?
(And for the love of God, don't take this as criticism of them. I love the original albums, and don't think they should be "fixed". It's just a nice thought experiment.)
Blackvy · Member since
I like your alternative tracklist, I would personally find very difficult to separate Party from Kashoggi's ship, But then, any order is fine by me :)
Dr. Robert · Member since
The version of Khashoggi's Ship on Deep Cuts III has a standalone start, and works pretty good on its own! Try it out yourself, ahahahah
*goodco* · Member since
Side One
Chinese Torture (optional)
The Invisible Man
The Miracle
Let Your Heart Rule Your Head (or Brian's TMLWKY)
I Want It All
Hang On In There
Side Two
Breakthru'
Stealin'
Scandal
My Life Has Been Saved
Was It All Worth It
My wife and I listened to this on a trip to DC today. 'I Want It All' was the first CD single I ever purchased. Having listened to it dozens of times by the time the LP was released, 'Hang On In There' had to come next.
This has been my version since I purchased the 'Breakthru' and 'Scandal' 45s in the mid 90s. And it has been 'my' most listened to Queen album since.
I love the guitar solo in 'Rain Must Fall', but it sounds like a Jackson 5 song. The programmed percussion ruins 'My Baby Does Me'. A simple wisk would have been more appropriate.
'Fun It' was the first track I deleted when recording one of their albums. From that point on, none of their releases went 'unscathed' (some more than others). 'Delilah' and 'You Don't Fool Me' were the only ones removed from the following albums....oh, and Track 13 was shortened considerably.
I've done it to a couple of Beatle LPs as well. It's all a matter of personal tastes.
Blackvy · Member since
Good advice Dr. Robert! ;)
and great tracklist, *goodco*!
Nathan H · Member since
1. Include Mad The Swine where it was intended on the first album between Great King Rat and My Fairy King. If you listen to the song you'll realise the first word of the song was cut to make the version a standalone so it would remove the drum roll from Great King Rat.
2. Replace The Loser In The End with See What A Fool I've Been so then you've got Brian songs on one side and Freddie on the other.
3. On The Game album, swap Dragon Attack with Don't Try Suicide and then you've got Freddie and John songs on one side and Roger and Brian songs on the other. But you could do this with most albums but I think it works best on The Game album.
4. The Works should've been a double album as there was enough material. The one disc should've had a "robot" theme and the other "man" as fits within the heavy amount of synthesisers.
5. A Kind Of Magic should've swapped tracklisting around and include Forever at the end.
Example tracklisting:
Side A:
One Vision
Gimme The Prize (Kurgan's Theme)
Princes Of The Universe
Pain Is So Close To Pleasure
Who Wants To Live Forever
Side B:
A Kind Of Magic
Don't Lose Your Head
One Year Of Love
Friends Will Be Friends
Forever
Perhaps it shouldn't have the only three 'rockers' to open the album as it doesn't leave any for the rest of the album. (I've never understood why Princes Of The Universe closed the album instead of Who Wants To Live Forever because a quiet track opening a side doesn't work well in my opinion). Definitely have Who Wants To Live Forever and Forever as album side closers (perhaps the latter hidden).
6. The Miracle should've included Too Much Love Will Kill You on it because just that one song could make me rank that album a lot higher. It should've been a double album given the amount of material the group worked on in the archives.
dysan · Member since
Kind of a bugbear for me. I think the 'quirks' in the tracklistings make the albums what they are. Side A of ANATO is wonderful - Side A of ADATR doesn't please me. But the individual tracks are fine. Likewise, a good single flipside is exactly that. Whose to say if HOIT was on The Miracle it wouldn't be considered a weak track on there? It would change the colour of the record. What makes POTU is that it's hidden at the end of AKOM and not in a more prominent position on the record, likewise WWTLF is the no-brainer last track on the album but for some reason starts side 2.
These days I just shuffle Q1 through AKOM (having removed the tracks that don't help me strut through town) and I'm happy enough. If listen to an album from start to end it's usually for personal nostalgia reasons like if I visit my mums house and sit in the garden on a sunny day.
But that's just me :)
Dim · Member since
Radio gaga
Tear it up
It's a hard life
killing time (has Freddie backing vocals)
Love kills
Man on Prowl
Machines
I want to break free
There must be more to life than this (without Micheal Jackson).
I go crazy
Keep passing the open windows
Hammer to fall
Is this the world are we created?
Let me in your heart again has some similarities with Hammer to fall.
Also I believe that The Miracle needs remixing as well Queen debut and Jazz.
The instrumental version of the Party from the Eye game is very good and interesting. Also I think that Breakthru should have real bass in all the song not in few parts, while the invisible man should have better drum sound and syth bass like the early demo not real bass and samples. Moreover better drum sound on the Miracle song.
dysan · Member since
It was the 80s dude.
Dr. Robert · Member since
About "Too Much Love Will Kill You", on the original sequence of The Miracle, it was supposed to go in between "I Want it All" and "The Invisible Man", but was cut due to some issues with the other songwriters, if I'm not mistaken.
Nathan H · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Dr. Robert wrote:[/b]
About "Too Much Love Will Kill You", on the original sequence of The Miracle, it was supposed to go in between "I Want it All" and "The Invisible Man", but was cut due to some issues with the other songwriters, if I'm not mistaken.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I knew that. I said about the song earlier because I wish the issue was sorted!
Ziggy_SD · Member since
Bit of a pointless exercise since Queen had a stellar understanding of track sequencing and how to tell a story with their albums.
The only two albums that come to mind with haphazard running orders were Queen Rocks and Forever (the compilations).
dysan · Member since
.. kind of like the sound of each album too. They are an artifact of their age and the environment they were recorded. There seems to be a need for all the albums to have a universal sound. It's natural you have the muffled early record, the weird rocky one, and the 4 bad 80s ones in a bands canon.
Dr Magus · Member since
My Sheer Heart Attack
1 Brighton Rock
2 Killer Queen
3 Tenement Funster
4 The Call
5 Flick Of The Wrist
6 Lily Of The Valley
7 Now I'm Here
8 In The Lap Of The Gods
9 Stone Cold Crazy
10 Dear Friends
11 Bring Back That Leroy Brown
12 Flash
13 In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
matt z · Member since
My THE WORKS alternate edit
1. Radio Ga Ga
2. Machines (or back to humans)
3. Love Kills
4. It's a Hard Life
5. I Go Crazy
6. I Want To Break Free
7. Is this the world we created...?
