Ok, here is the sixth chapter in my guide to the song versions of Queen, and this time it's News Of The World. As usual you'll find a comprehensive guide to all song versions on this album, but this time I've also made a few updates.
For the remasters section I've now included the early (pre-1991) CD releases of the album. As well as that I've also listed more Japanese reissues of the remasters. These include the 2005,2007,2008,2011/2 SACD, 2012 and 2013 issues. I've also filled in a few gaps in terms of missing catalogue numbers.
I am currently working on updated all previous chapters with this information, and I will share those next week with the Jazz chapter.
Happy collecting!
Also there is a Dutch promo version of We Are The Champions. It looks and sounds VERY similar to the TOTP version, but there is a slightly different guitar bit at the end.
I haven't watched Days Of Our Lives in awhile, but isn't there footage of the band recording My Melancholy Blues? I can't recall if the performance is different or not, though.
Lord Gaga wrote:
I haven't watched Days Of Our Lives in awhile, but isn't there footage of the band recording My Melancholy Blues? I can't recall if the performance is different or not, though.
It's from The Great Pretender, but it's just the BBC version.
The Nine Inch Nails version of GDML combines both original instrumental and vocal parts and those played and sung then added by Trent Reznor. He himself has called it a remix, but like all things NIN his version of a remix involves mush more than sliding faders up and down. As has been pointed out, it has been readily available in the past and is well know to NIN fans. They have also played it live in the past.
Vocal harmony wrote:
The Nine Inch Nails version of GDML combines both original instrumental and vocal parts and those played and sung then added by Trent Reznor. He himself has called it a remix, but like all things NIN his version of a remix involves mush more than sliding faders up and down. As has been pointed out, it has been readily available in the past and is well know to NIN fans. They have also played it live in the past.
The NIN version of Get Down, Make Love is not a remix, but a cover version. It only features a couple of Queen samples (specially in the coda), but that's it. It is sung solely by Trent Reznor, and the instrumentation is 99.9% NIN.
Lord Gaga wrote:
I haven't watched Days Of Our Lives in awhile, but isn't there footage of the band recording My Melancholy Blues? I can't recall if the performance is different or not, though.
It's a re-creation performance of the BBC recording.
Vocal harmony wrote:
The Nine Inch Nails version of GDML combines both original instrumental and vocal parts and those played and sung then added by Trent Reznor. He himself has called it a remix, but like all things NIN his version of a remix involves mush more than sliding faders up and down. As has been pointed out, it has been readily available in the past and is well know to NIN fans. They have also played it live in the past.
Well, if you listen to the actual song it's very difficult to make out any Queen material: link
I think there might be a couple of seconds at the end, plus a brief sample of We Will Rock You. In my opinion this is a cover, not a remix, but it might explain where these rumours come from.
pittrek wrote:
What about the Evian remixes of WWRY? Did you forget them or intentionally skipped them?
Do these have anything to do with Queen? Unless I am mistaken there is no Queen material in the main mix, and the three remixes are all based on that main version (used in the TV ad).
I'd say these were covers, not remixes.