Any problems/defects with Queen products?

Anyone with the missing vocals on Hollywood's In The Lap Of The Gods might want to try out a new copy. Adam Unger has told me that his copy doesn't have this problem, and the 'It's Late' problem was fixed long ago.. it's a shame to have to buy a new copy if you want it corrected, but it's been nearly 13 years since those originally came out.

As for the tracks not starting in the right place, while it may be a bit annoying, you're not really losing anything. Even if they were in exactly the right place, with continuous music like that, it's never going to sound perfectly smooth when you separate the tracks. Just listen to the entire medleys and your problem is solved :)

Yes, The Fat Bottomed glitch is on the 1994 remastered version of Jazz and on Queen Rocks. It's not on the Greatest Hits.

Thanks for that info Neil :)

That would seem to indicate that it was there on the master when 'Rocks' was created... which means it should have been caught by someone before the thing went out!

If a glitch that obvious can go unnoticed by someone doing the mastering, it makes me wonder if they're really paying attention to what they're doing. Granted, for the '94 remaster maybe it occured after the mastering.. but for 'Rocks', one would assume that the selected tracks were listened to at some point during mastering.. hell, it's within 10 seconds of the intro. WTF?

And you know what it sounds like? It sounds like the typical 'extraction' glitch you get sometimes when taking a track from a CD. You don't suppose these 'remasters' originated from existing CDs?

And now we're hearing some opinions that the 2001 remasters aren't all so great either.........

The one that first comes to mind which has anoyed me for years: on the first (it must be the first because I bought all the original cd's when they first came out) and second UK cd issues of A Day At The Races the intro of You and I starts with a very short fade-in. You miss out on the first notes of the piano because of that.

That's interesting! I used to have a U.K. version of ADATR and I didn't notice that, but speaking of track markers being in the wrong place, they had the ending of 'You Take My Breath Away' as the beginning of 'Long Away'. In that case I was disappointed since those tracks are not crossfaded, they should have been properly separated.

Trackmarks in the wrong place, there are lots of them: on Queen II, on SHA and on ADATR. You're right about the Breath-outro being the intro to Long Away. It's on my version too. Does yours have the fade in on You and I too??
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I only had it for a brief time in about 1992 and I don't remember a problem with 'You And I'.

I was buying all of the Hollywood versions and picked that up just to see if there was a major difference and my only thought was "So I guess Queen CDs are a little screwed up everywhere". hehe

Live At Wembley DVD - the whole thing pauses for a few seconds in between Brighton Rock and Now I'm Here. Very annoying. Nothing to do with layering either! (I think! :-)

Well, a problem I have, not so much a glitch, is the 4.0 DTS sound instead of 5.1 on most of GVH1 and GVH2.

And another problem I have is the widescreen cropping on the GVH1&2 and Freddie Tribute DVDs!!!

Actually David, that does seem to be the layer change :) There is a very minor defect on that release though. Some teeny-tiny glitches in the audio for the Highlander version of AKOM in the photo gallery. Most people wouldn't notice them but they're there, and aren't there on the end credits of the Highlander disc.

The cropping and sound mixes probably go down better as poor choices rather than defects ;)

Yep, i second the widescreen problem plus overall poor pic qualiy on Hits 1 and 2 DVDs. couldn't care less about the FM Tribute DVD.

Hi All

I noticed the glitch on FBG on queen rocks when I first got it (really annoying), after checking on the original Japanese card remaster ...no squeak..............UK Got it wrong again... when I got the platinum collection, I wondered if the squeak had been corrected, It had..cool, no squeak on USA Jazz vinyl either, I noticed the fade in during You and I too, seems to miss 1 note of piano ON UK remaster, again, it was correct on the original Japanese card remaster, why can't the UK remaster process get it right?, after that i never bothered with The UK remasters, just got japanese card remasters instead..Hope that helped the topic

On the HR-Races Drowse: at 0:14mins there's a glitch or something like that. A beep....

... at least my CD has it....

I hear it Joma... but it's also on the 1998 'Crown Jewels' remaster. I never would have heard that myself :) Does sound like an electronic beep.. weird.