If you had been in the studio alongside William Orbit, Brian and Roger, how would you have shaped the new release? Personally, I'd have remixed the bootlegged songs like Robbery and such, and then added them, but that's just me. I think Brian was missing something in his anti-bootleg 'clever dick' statement. Less of the existing album tracks and give the fans old and new a good surprise!
First of all I wouldn't do this release at all. It's a stupid concept from the beginning, executed stupidly.
If you wanna do a compilation, do a compilation. If you wanna do an album with new songs, do an album with new songs.
pittrek wrote:
First of all I wouldn't do this release at all. It's a stupid concept from the beginning, executed stupidly.
If you wanna do a compilation, do a compilation. If you wanna do an album with new songs, do an album with new songs.
It's simply the "Ballads" album that was planned for release a couple of years ago, except they've decided to add a few of the songs they've worked on in the Studio recently.
Sadly it's not uncommon for bands to release a compilation album with a new track or two to make the fans buy it.
That kind of practice is almost as bad as an artist re-releasing a "tour edition" of an album with a few extra tracks added. It's fine for non-fans who didn't buy it first time round, but pisses off the fans who did.
BETA215 wrote:
«It's only a bloody record, people get so excited about these things» Freddie Mercury - 5/6/1982
God, I hate when people quote this, or "Oh shit, all that crap again?!"
More to Life is crappily mixed, there's no way anyone can deny that.
God, I hate when people say "More To Life". That sounds like a new demo or something like that, meanwhile is "There Must Be More To Life Than This"
«Oh shit, all that crap again» >Freddie Mercury - 1991. :)
Remember they are in Universal now, and Universal bough the catalogue of Queen at a high prize, so they want to recover the inversion and make more money.
Apocalipsis_Darko wrote:
Remember they are in Universal now, and Universal bough the catalogue of Queen at a high prize, so they want to recover the inversion and make more money.
But they can't recover the inversion and even make more money, from a new album full with NEW songs taken from demos and B-Sides and that kind of rare things?
Instead of releasing a double disc album with only 3 new songs, old takes and retakes?
In the end, why don't Queen have respect for their fans and give us what we want ! That's what would sell shit loads of product !! Some bands like iron maiden, metallica et al do that, without scrimping on the quality. We all know QP read these pages, ffs give us what we want
not this Queen Forever pap !!!
andyb1968 wrote:
In the end, why don't Queen have respect for their fans and give us what we want ! That's what would sell shit loads of product !! Some bands like iron maiden, metallica et al do that, without scrimping on the quality. We all know QP read these pages, ffs give us what we want
not this Queen Forever pap !!!
To be fair, the title itself suggests to me that this may be the last compilation they release (unless they do re-releases). Also, it has been suggested that there will be more to the album than just these 3 'new' songs and standard versions of the others...
Who cares? I don't.
(c) Freddie Mercury.
Seriously, who cares? I'm sure the interesting tracks will come to me in FLAC soon. Can't remember the last time I bought a cd.
If they would release a 3 or 4 track limited edition vinyl E.P. with at least the 3 "new" songs on it, mastered for vinyl, I would 100% buy it though...
Could've been great for Record Store Day as well.
andyb1968 wrote:
In the end, why don't Queen have respect for their fans and give us what we want ! That's what would sell shit loads of product !! Some bands like iron maiden, metallica et al do that, without scrimping on the quality. We all know QP read these pages, ffs give us what we want
not this Queen Forever pap !!!