What if The Miracle was Queens last Album ?

Depends what you want really. If I had to choose to keep one song off both those records, I'd go for WIAWI. Great song and memories of a hot 1989 summer mucking around on bikes in the woods.

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Similar memories here! I remember perfectly that summer in my holiday place by the mediterranean, just 13 years old, playing the Miracle in my walkman all day. Great memories. That´s why this album, with its highs and lows, has a very special place in my heart. Never get tired of it.

That said, I also believe Innuendo is a much better farewell album. Fuck, I was amazed the first time I heard the lead single on the radio. It was so epic and exotic... yeah, a masterpiece indeed!

Lovely stuff!

Funnily enough I remember not being too bothered by Innuendo (the single). I thought it was slow and trying too hard to be bonkers. Now I can see (and this is only a recent re-evaluation) that it's bloody amazing. I was more into Bowie by then, and discovering stuff like Lodger and Station To Station. Queen seemed passe. Add to that it was a cold January and I have few happy memories of that record! The exact opposite of The Miracle.

I first heard I Want It All while waiting to do my second static-line parachute jump. To say I was 'pumped' would be an understatement. Best rush ever.

Woah

"Similar memories here! I remember perfectly that summer in my holiday place by the mediterranean, just 13 years old, playing the Miracle in my walkman all day. Great memories. That´s why this album, with its highs and lows, has a very special place in my heart. Never get tired of it.

That said, I also believe Innuendo is a much better farewell album. Fuck, I was amazed the first time I heard the lead single on the radio. It was so epic and exotic... yeah, a masterpiece indeed!"

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Same here. I was 12 years old when The Miracle arrived, it had that summer feeling, nice video's with a lot of energy in it (Breakthru!) and some killer songs.
Innuendo was much darker, had this gloomy feeling about it. Released in the winter with a lot of rumours and video's that were a bit off. Queen was sort of invisible by then.

I love them both but for different reasons. The Miracle is the soundtrack of my youth. Happy and cheerful.
Innuendo the soundtrack of a tricky period where I lost some familymembers and was struggling with puberty. Losing Freddie was hard, too.

The Miracle was exciting too because of the single B sides. It wasn't like oh another single - it was like a whole brand new song. It's impossible for me to separate the album from those bonus tracks. It was such a good few months.

But Innuendo had pretty sloppy b-sides that didn't work when added to a tape of the album.

Personally I imagine I’d have discovered Queen much later if they’d ended at The Miracle, since I discovered the band as a child when Made in Heaven was released & I heard the single Heaven for everyone on the radio & fell in love with Freddie’s voice.

Having more perspective of time now, it feels sort of sad I first heard Queen only a few years after Freddie left the world.

Musically I adore Innuendo & the last album before it I loved that much was A Day at the Races. I doubt overall it’d change their legacy, but in my mind (if I discovered the band at all!?!) it would as they wouldn’t have had that return to utter brilliance, so part of me would feel they made their best music in the 70’s & that was that. I’d have felt they were never capable of doing something truly great again. Innuendo is such a poignant and just brilliantly written & made album. Thanks be that it exists.

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The Miracle was exciting too because of the single B sides. It wasn't like oh another single - it was like a whole brand new song. It's impossible for me to separate the album from those bonus tracks. It was such a good few months.
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oh yes! I remember noticing all those non-album B sides every time a single was released and being very frustrated because I didn´t have money to buy them. As you can imagine, I couldn´t listen to all those songs until ... I don´t know, maybe 4 or 5 years later. The first one, in a rarities bootleg CD I bought that included "Stealin´". It was very exciting every time I put my hands on every "new" song....and what a disappointment it was the first time I listened to Chinese Torture (after that many years, I had imagined it would be an epic song with awesome Freddie´s vocals).

When I was first discovering non-album Queen tracks, some of the first I listened to were this album's b-sides. It was really cool thinking: "Wait... so after all the albums, there are still over 10 Queen songs I never knew about? Roughly another album's running time worth of new music? Yay!"

I remember being totally frustrated around '92 because I thought I will never get to hear all the b-sides. I even had a list pinned on my desk with all the titles. Someday I discovered that my dad had the Breakthru' Single on Vinyl...I was a very happy 14 year old boy and played the 12" Version and Stealin a dozen times in a row. Later I bought all the Hollywood records releases as expensive import CDs to get access to more B-Sides.

I have very beautiful memories during the summer of 1989. I want it all was a great rocker, breakthru was uplifting both songs made Queen to be everywhere. I liked the title track, Scandal and my baby does me. The album was very good for its time.

I also remember the time where I was searching for B-sides, 12 remixes, albums . Queen were and still is at The top 5 of more collectable artists & bands. It was very difficult to track them and some were very expensive.

My eyes popped out of my head in Our Price when I saw the b-sides on The Miracle single. I think I passed on it though because I didn't like the track much and already had Rare Live.

I loved both Innuendo and the Miracle. The tone is very different on the two albums. To me, The Miracle feels more like a “I’ll face it with a grin” attitude, trying hard to be positive, while Innuendo is like a solemn flashback on his achievements and his life, showing more of his true emotions and thoughts.