So I guess now we all know that all four members of Queen played on Freddie's original version of Love Kills, thanks to the interview from Brian on Roger on Friday.
So does this make it kind of a Queen track? Probably more of a Queen track than the new version, I think, even though I love this new version.
So I guess Love Kills is now added to the list of Queen songs that aren't technically Queen songs, with I Can Hear Music and Goin' Back being the other two.
Can anyone else think of any others?
MadTheSwine73 wrote:
So I guess Love Kills is now added to the list of Queen songs that aren't technically Queen songs, with I Can Hear Music and Goin' Back being the other two.
Can anyone else think of any others?
Man From Manhattan.....that could be almost called a Queen song with a different lead singer! ;)
In the press release it is stated that Love Kills - The Ballad "revives the Queen original with some newly recorded guitars and drums by May and Taylor". Doesn't this mean, that the new version uses the original 1984 backing track played by ALL Queen members?
Fart Sandwiches wrote:
Just Brian (guitar) and Freddie (vocals and keyboards).
Using your logic, One Year Of Love isn't a Queen track? Or some track without any participation of any of the musicians which formed Queen.
Not at all what I said. I was saying that Love Kills is more of a Queen track than the songs I listed because it features four band members on it, while the other songs I listed feature three or fewer band members on them. They're still Queen songs, but the original Love Kills is more of a Queen song than Fight From The Inside, etc.
One Year Of Love is a Queen song, but it doesn't feature Brian (and maybe Roger).
antiden wrote:
In the press release it is stated that Love Kills - The Ballad "revives the Queen original with some newly recorded guitars and drums by May and Taylor". Doesn't this mean, that the new version uses the original 1984 backing track played by ALL Queen members?
Not necessarily. It could merely imply that their newly recorded parts were used.
Fart Sandwiches wrote:
Love Kills is more of a Queen track than Fight From The Inside, A Human Body, Hijack My Heart, Bijou, or most of the Flash Gordon album are...
With this logic, most of the White Album isn't The Beatles, and every instrumental song by a vocal band with a standalone vocalist isn't by them.
Beyond ridiculous.
Fart Sandwiches wrote:
Love Kills is more of a Queen track than Fight From The Inside, A Human Body, Hijack My Heart, Bijou, or most of the Flash Gordon album are...
With this logic, most of the White Album isn't The Beatles, and every instrumental song by a vocal band with a standalone vocalist isn't by them.
Beyond ridiculous.
But that's my logic! Love Kills is a Queen song (recorded during a Queen album session for a Queen album) based on the personnel, though it's credited as a Freddie Mercury single. I'm not disparaging those songs or saying they're inferior due to having fewer Queen members on them; just saying that Love Kills has Freddie, Roger, Brian, and (now, as we know) John on it, so technically it's a Queen song.
Could anyone please point out a single note of ACTUAL guitar (not the synth imitation) on the Original of Love Kills to me? Or a single hit that is not a drum machine?
Fireplace wrote:
Could anyone please point out a single note of ACTUAL guitar (not the synth imitation) on the Original of Love Kills to me? Or a single hit that is not a drum machine?
the guitar solo is clearly the Red Special on the Deaky (maybe dubbed with a synth?)
...while the drum patterns MIGHT be RMT beating on his Simmons-Pad electronic drum set...