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Excellent as always!
Bravo! Improved a bit on an already great song! I like the "new" beginning...

I like the quasi-instrumental second verse as well.

Here comes the end.....lets see.........

Vocal effect wwas pretty cool there. Not overdone. Ooooh, It's Bliss!!!
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Another hit from the Fickle Factory. Very good indeed Lord F!!
"Normally i can't dance to save my life. But as soon as I step in dog shit, I can moonwalk better than Michael Jackson."
There's an instrumental of this too?? Goddamn, I'm so far out of the loop it isn't funny anymore.

Nice work Fickle - sounds nice!
thanks , great as always
word goes around
best mix u've done so far my lord-ship lol
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Zebonka12 wrote:
There's an instrumental of this too?? Goddamn, I'm so far out of the loop it isn't funny anymore.

Nice work Fickle - sounds nice!


It's one of the bonus tracks on the DVD only version of 'Greatest Karaoke Hits'.

http://members.cox.net/queenspace/kardvd.htm
Thats better than the Original
Soul Brother
Thanks for all your kind comments!
Remember to deliver with the speed of light A little bit of love and joy
Karaoke DVD eh?
I wonder why Innuendo has never been Karaoked???
It's a very nice listen Mr. Lord :) Technically superb. My only criticism would be that the instrumental section seemed to come a bit early and was a bit long.. I was thinking during the final verse that it might have been cool to use the bit after the solo which contains some nice dreamy guitar bits instead, but technically it might be a challenge to come out of it. Still very nice though :)

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About 'Innuendo': Some answer with "It wouldn't be right" or "Can you imagine trying to sing that?" as if it was out of the question to include it. But 'Headlong' was also excluded and that would have made a very fun karaoke track with its silly lyrics :) It later appeared on 'The Eye' but the mix was so much different.

'Killer Queen' was also excluded. In fact I think that's why "Keep Yourself Alive" was added originally (the original idea was a mirror of Greatest Flix & Greatest Flix II which is why the songs are in that order).

Justin Shirley Smith said that they were under major time constraints and remixed these in "about one mix per hour" (http://www.brianmay.com/queen/thegame/technical.html) so perhaps technical problems got in the way of including these tracks originally. I can understand a song like Innuendo being so complex that it couldn't be put together as a karaoke in the alloted time. Though the credits in the 2004 karaoke sets indicate that most Miracle, Innuendo and MIH 'karaoke' tracks were ready-made during those sessions, perhaps the very ones Freddie put his final vocal to (edit: except MIH, before someone points out that he did his final vocals early) so maybe they had these already and just didn't want to let all of the 'hits' songs out in this form.

All speculation and I apologize for hijacking your thread Lord Fickle :)
It's easy to finagle around your own de-vocalized version using a program like DART Karaoke Studio.
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Suigi wrote:
It's easy to finagle around your own de-vocalized version using a program like DART Karaoke Studio.


Does that work any better than Audition's vocal removal tools, which I have to say, I have never had very good results with? Without access to the original multi tracks, I have doubts that this could be done very effectively on a home PC.
Remember to deliver with the speed of light A little bit of love and joy
great mix mate, i just adore this song
oo la la

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