QueenZone discussion #1140234

Taken from the readme file: Queen Tokyo, Japan Nippon Budokan May 9, 1985 This is an upgrade of the already fantastic recording from Queen's last ever show at the Budokan, from the good folks at the Wardour label.  This show is one of my personal favourites, as Freddie Mercury's voice is unbelievably powerful on this night.  This is surely the best show of the Works tour in my eyes (two days before the officially-released one, where Freddie's voice isn't quite so strong).  Wardour claims their copy is from the master, and I have no reason to doubt it.  The sound is impeccably clear, with no flaws in sight. Lineage (assumingly): AUD > Master > WAV > CDR (1) > WAV > FLAC frontend (level 8) Disc 1: Machines (tape) Tear It Up Tie Your Mother Down Under Pressure Somebody To Love Killer Queen Seven Seas Of Rhye Keep Yourself Alive Liar Band improv It's A Hard Life Vocal improv Dragon Attack Now I'm Here Is This The World We Created? Love Of My Life Disc 2: Guitar solo / Brighton Rock (finale) Another One Bites The Dust Hammer To Fall Crazy Little Thing Called Love Bohemian Rhapsody Radio Ga Ga I Want To Break Free Jailhouse Rock We Will Rock You We Are The Champions God Save The Queen Distribute these files only if they are left completely unaltered.  As always with my shares, be sure that this recording is not made available at Queenzone or elsewhere in mp3 or any other lossy format.  Keep lossless files lossless. Enjoy! Sir GH

Review taken from link This is the first appearance of an alternate source in superb quality which is, in fact, quite possibly the best-sounding audience recording ever made of any band. It rivals and perhaps even defeats the infamous "Listen To This Eddie" recording of Led Zeppelin from 1977. It appears lossy in a freqency analysis, but it was probably a DAT transfer of some kind. It sounds squeaky clean, like no other. The microphones must have been stereo and placed right in front of the speakers, as the audience is barely heard. About 95 minutes of the show are from this new source. There is a cut in Radio Ga Ga for a tape flip, and the recording ends part way through I Want To Break Free. The folks at Masterport did a fine job of patching in the LP source wherever necessary to complete the show. The cut in God Save The Queen is also filled in with a third audience source. The portions of Ga Ga and Break Free on the alternate source after the tape flip don't sound quite as good as the rest of the show, but this isn't a reflection of the original tape, as these portions of the songs sound pristine on the Wardour version listed below.

pittrek wrote: Tokyo is from the master tape, it's identical to the discs 1 & 2 from the silver[br]

  Review taken from link It rivals and perhaps even defeats the infamous "Listen To This Eddie" recording of Led Zeppelin from 1977. Thanks for the info! Found "Listen to.." on Dime, what a concert!  No bad sound for '77...