Well Queenies,
It seems that the demo of Freddie Mercury & Michael Jackson dueting to in my humble opinion finished version of "State Of Shock" has had the spin several times this morning, an MP3 downloaded overnight and it's too bad "State Of Shock" isn't (to date) getting an official release, it's better than the Mick Jagger version with Freddie & Michael singing in tandem throughout most of the dancy mid tempo track.
As for "There Must Be More To Life Than This" the original recording, I must say it's vastly superior to the inferior new version, the William Orbit Mix soon to be released on Queen "Forever" and available for listen on radio stations almost everywhere by now. If you don't have the original, I urge you to find it, it's better than the current version by a country mile.
Seriously.
WK
I think you are "proud" getting tracks for free... is that right?! All the tracks are discussed here for ages and nobody likes to talk about that old storys over and over again. Yes, the Freddie Mercury / Michael Jackson songs are all not the very best... from both of them. As the original demos and as the actual remixes and releases. Hope that works for you!
Most of us on this forum have paid a fortune for Queen-items over the years, so I don't feel bad getting some tracks for free.
I've never heard "State of Shock," will check it out when I'm home from work. Thanks for the info, WK.
I didn't get that from what he wrote, but I understand what you mean.
Btw, if Queen released "State of Shock" etc., we would give them (more of) our money.
ITSM wrote:
I've never heard "State of Shock," will check it out when I'm home from work. Thanks for the info, WK.
Wow. It's weird to know that you've never heard a song that was leaked over a decade ago now.
I kinda envy you because tonight you're going to hear some vocals from Freddie that you've never heard before.
Hope you enjoy it :)
Yes. The leaks are old. And
2) yes I've SPENT money on unofficial product (bootleggers) before.
It's not necessarily something to be proud of but I (having grown up during the tail end of cassettes [*side note. My SWYPE doesn't recognize the word cassettes automatically] and the mid term of cds)
That form of piracy actually kept up the interest in the band. I'm not keen on saying that people don't exploit the fark out of free media. But I've bought multiple editions of the same album and singles from the band for years.
Had I been able to locate a copy of ELECTRIC FIRE from TOWER RECORDS that wasn't $59.99 I WOULD HAVE bought it legally.
But instead Roger will have to benefit from the money Ispenton strange frontier and happiness?
anyways
The original tracks are OBVIOUSLY superior. Even if they aren't even soundboard/tape quality.
Who knows if they in fact do have multi tracks of the stuff. It could be simply that they improvised (as Freddie suggests to Michael in one of the TMBMTLTT) the recordings as a basis to record and produce a track with more ideas. People do it all the time.
The demos of TMBMTLTT sound like one offs.
STATE OF SHOCK doesn't.
Of course we'd all be cheated by never hearing the vastly superior Freddie Mercury version.
Who knows. It could have been a commercial decisionas HOT SPACE had pretty much talktanked commercially
What better gimmick than to bring in the Rolling Stones fandom and RESELL copies of the last successful album?
There's spontaneity on the FM version and it's more harmonious. More vital. It's a shame QP hadn't found a means of releasing this stuff when they had said they would.
Boxed sets don't sell well anymore. Even if the stuff was in poor quality and unfinished we'd still be lining up to listen to a compiled collection.
HELL. ... Even if they were recorded off a boom box on cassette like nirvana stuff.
Just transfer it.
Anyways. Ramble ramble ramble.
I hope the VICTORY and Queen versions of SOS and TMBMTLTT get LEAKED so people can actually hear it in THIS LIFETIME.
The alternative is waiting for people to determine which is the most viable commercial avenue in which to market it. THEN begins the dialogue between estates and lawyers. THEN it becomes a remix version by PITBULL featuring j lo. And like the first MJ album after his death. ..there will be AMPLE samples of FM from the AKOM days.
Yeah! Yeeeeaaaaah! and several "wooooooooooo's" put in to fill space.
Goddamn Queen Box set.... It never happened and I doubt it ever will.
I don't "feel their pain" on losing a few bucks from me. I STILL pay to play their tunes at any pub/bar I go to.
I feel it's been horribly mismanaged.
Maybe some day we'll have State Of Shock and Victory officialy released. But not with the Queen label, I hope.
The new version of There Must Be More To Life is a load of crap! Horrible mix! Fire William Orbit now! Maybe the single with Bri and Rog's version will get a release. Besides the guitar ending, the track is terrible! Poor MJ vocals. And its's not really a duet! Lowering Fred's voice near the end was an awful choice! The guitar solo is weak and the overall sound is bad! What a shame!