I was listening to a clear version of Silver Salmon, and this got me thinking 'what full or nearly full songs from each album's sessions are avaliable?' Here's what I have so far in terms of clear studio bootlegs, set chronologically in regards to the album:
Queen - Silver Salmon, Polar Bear
Queen II - Surrender to the City {I'm pretty sure it's Surrender, anyway, considering what's known about it}
NotW - Feelings, Feelings (Take 9)
The Game - Sandbox*
Hot Space - My Boy
Magic - New York New York (Movie Snippet), Back to Storm
Miracle - A New Life is Born, I Guess We're Falling Out, Dog With A Bone
Innuendo - Robbery, Self Made Man, My Secret Fantasy, Face It Alone, Affairs, Grand Dame
* I know the original Beautiful Day demo counts here, but it popped up on the 2011 remaster.
My point on this is the following - we KNOW that there are more songs buried in the vault - have the bootleggers not managed to uncover them or are we all missing a trick here? Only eight albums out of fourteen have unreleased songs available (I'm not counting MiH since it was a jigsaw of sorts), and from said eight albums, only eighteen songs are readily unearthed. We know Queen were prolific as hell in general, but this could be a general lie we've been fed by the looks of my list above.
Polar Bear
Silver Salmon
Feelings
Feelings Feelings
Sandbox
Feel Like
Staying Power
Life Is Real
Las Palabras De Amor
Back Chat
Action This Day
Cool Cat
Cool Cat (Alternate)
Keep Passing The Open Windows (Home Demo)
Keep Passing The Open Windows
Back To Storm
One Year Of Love
Princes Of The Universe
My Baby Loves Me
I Guess We're Falling Out
A New Life Is Born
I Want It All
Too Much Love Will Kill You
Hijack My Heart
Dog With A Bone
Face It Alone
Grand Dame
Affairs
Headlong
Ride The Wild Wind
Delilah
The Hitman
Robbery
Self Made Man
My Secret Fantasy
None of the above are the versions that have appeared on any official CDs. Of course, we have the demos from them too.
My Boy from Hot Space? Doesn't make that much sense to me.
Brian's voice sounds 1998-ish to me.
Also, Jimmy May was born in 1978 so a song about Brian's boy becoming a man makes more sense later than 1981-82.
Of course, Brian could have been looking into the future when he wrote the track or he could have been inspired by someone else, etc...
Is there any evidence that the track is from the Hot Space sessions?
I really don't know tbh. I placed it there as that was the info I had (I know that's not how it should be done lol, but there's no "evidence" either way)
Wiley, 'My Boy' popped up on an unofficial compilation called 'Lullabies with a Difference' in '98 - maybe that's how you got your assumption about Brian's voice? And as an answer to your question, many sources concede that he wrote the song in '82.
Noorie, I see where you're coming from, but I'm sure it was thought 'Surrender to the City' was planned as an instrumental segue into 'March'. I'm sure a lot of fans would be interested in proof that 'Surrender' is in fact the little coda at the end of 'March'.
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Noorie, I see where you're coming from, but I'm sure it was thought 'Surrender to the City' was planned as an instrumental segue into 'March'. I'm sure a lot of fans would be interested in proof that 'Surrender' is in fact the little coda at the end of 'March'.
I do not have any proof.. just remember something like that from one of the documentaries or interviews or something. Sorry!
^ The confusion on that very old list I had stems from me being handed the disc which called Back Chat "Woolly Hat". I have since realised the working title is actually for "Cool Cat".
There are "tons" of material, but most of it will be only in tryout or Demo quality. I didn't know about the working title of "Cool Cat" - thanks WalterW.
There was an alternative version of "The Miracle" in the pipe - they already announced it in the Fan-Club-Magazine - but it was canceld later. So we can sure about some overspill from "The Miracle Sessions". I am assuming a couple of tracks from "The Game Sessions" and "The Works" also.
Something more complete from "A kind of magic " would be a bit of a surprise to me.
I signed into Queenzone about a year I guess, and this is probaply the sixth "What's left in the can" thread. And YES somehow it's still interesting.
Silver Salmon, Polar Bear, Teen Dreams, I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside, Psycho Legs, Woe, Feelings Feelings, Feelings, Batteries Not Included, My Melancholy Baby, Sandbox, The Dark, People On Streets, Feel Like, Wooly Hat, Whipping Boy, My Boy, Man Made Paradise, Love Kills, Let Me In Your Heart Again, Another Little Piece Of My Heart, Man On Fire, Victory, I Dream Of Christmas, New York New York, Friends in Pain, You are the Only One, Love Makin Love, Back To Storm, My baby Loves Me, Dog with a bone, Robbery, Self Made Man, My Secret Fantasy, Grand dame, Affairs, Face it Alone, Assassin, Freedom Train, New Dark Ages.
This is the complete list of songs,,
@ Kuijpy - Teen Dreams? Woe? The Dark? Whipping Boy? never 'eard of 'em squire ;)
There were "Queen" versions of "You Are The Only One", "Love Makin' Love", "Man On Fire"??
Isn't "Assassin" just a rumour?
And this is a complete list? I don't believe it!!
Great thread.
Walter, wasn't Affairs leakead at the same time as Grand Dame, I believe in an Italian FC party, and if I recall correctly by David Richards himself?
Cheers,
Ogre-