WWRY Spanish Cast album

"are you intelligent enough to find some more words to explain to us why you hate it?"

Why the cheap shot, Rien? I've never levelled a insult in your direction.

Well, for your benefit, since apparently attacking the musical in any way, shape, or form is not allowed, here's why I think the song was utter crap and waste of my time: This sounds like any other Queen cover done by a foreign act. It is uninspired and routine, albeit translated so as to convey an "exotic" feel. Is that enough to warrant my hatred? No. What makes this so particular bad is that QP decide to waste their time (and fans' money) on the a rather pedestrian version of a rather pedestrian song. NOBY is far from Queen's best to begin with (unless you want to be blinded by the sentiment of the song); this new "song" is an insult. How is this any different than any other Queen cover I've heard from no-name artists in the last 10 years? It has the QP seal of approval on it.

I can only hope, Rien, that that response was "intelligent" enough for you. But basically, you can shorten that paragraph into two words: Hate It.

ok... I just read the word "intelligence" in your post, so I used that.
I find it just too easy to say only "hate it" when one gives ones opinion. Of course you don't have to like this song. You sure can make up your own mind. And I agree that (in almost all cases) there is nothing better than the original.

I did not want to offend you. I should have put my remark in some other way, because perhaps my reply was too easy also.

For some people I have made the track Solo Por Ti available. There's a short and a long version. I believe they did put some extra work in it, because of the orchestral arrangements. Again, I prefer the original version.
The Spanish cast cd is overall really good I think. The songs do sound okay to me in most cases.
Here you have the link. http://members.lycos.nl/rvnispen/

No offense taken, just seemed out of character and I was taken aback a bit.

Well, about this new Solo Por Ti (No One But You) version, it´s really great, believe me, I am from Mexico, so my native language is Spanish, and I can tell you that the translation of the song is the same, it has the same meaning and pratically the same words but in different languages, just a little bit different ones to fit the metric of the song....

The version sounds incredible, the orchestration arrangment is great, I think they wouldn´t do something similar to the WWRY London cast, but just something different; the voice of Eva Maria Cortes is very sweet, I am sorry that most of you don´t understant all the words in Spanish, but the song touched me in a very special way, for being a Queen song, and for being in Spanish, so, Rein, I hope you can upload some versions of this WWRY Madrid cast for us, it would be really nice to have those versions of Queen songs in Spanish, at least for me.

Adios Amigos !!!

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Thanks a million, Rien! :D

I couldn't wait untill I could buy the album. BTW, of course I'll buy it in the coming months, there is a "Queen" official song in it.

Cheers,

Ogre-

PS: I couldn't find the 4th song at first, but... It finally happened! Oh, yes! :)

Thanks for sharing Rien. It's a bit too classical for my taste though - and I'm not really fond of the singing. Sounds way better to me than the UK soundtrack of the musical though :)

Thank you for sharing the tracks Rien, But, i too will have to pass on liking this one...

No problem. But I really did not want to share this song actually, being just released. People should buy these things if they want them (see that "newbies" post...) I did buy the album, because it's an official Queen release and I really wanted to hear these songs in Spanish. Brian seems very pleased with Solo Por Ti and I really believe they did put a lot of work in it.
I think it was Pim who made a remark about the original track and indeed that original one is very very powerful and has the right feeling in it.
But I do want to let people hear these tracks, that's why I included two songs from the musical. It perhaps invites people to buy the album (??).

Hi Rein !!!

Thanks for sharing those songs from the Spanish WWRY Cast, of course I wanto to get the original CD, but I can´t wait until then to hear those Queen songs in Spanish, they have an excellent translation, almost the same as what the original lyrics are.

I hope there can be some other songs while I can get that item.

Well, thanks again, see you!!!

It should be noted that on Solo Por Ti, the brushes are done by Keith Prior, and sticks by Roger Taylor, so only 1/3 of the song actually involves Queen (although some would still disagree that 2 members of Queen are not Queen - shame on you people!), which disappoints me.

And I feel this lacks a lot of guitars as well IMO

btw I've added 3 more tracks from the album.