| Fat Bottomed Queen 10.08.2015 09:47 |
Say if Freddie was alive and they released an album with him recently... 1.What sort of thing do you think they would name it? 2.Do you think they would try something new? 3.How would the songs sound? 4.Do you think the tracks will fit well or will it be messy? 5.Do you think it will have 2 sides or 1 side? 6.Would it be better than Made In Heaven in your opinion? (I love Made In Heaven personally) |
| Chief Mouse 10.08.2015 10:08 |
Oh man. So much speculation. Okay, I'll try my best. 1. Life On Three Legs 2. Perhaps. Dubstep? Not sure they'd go there. Maybe they'd get more guest artists involved. 3. Good but probably not as exciting as I doubt the band would have been the main thing in their lives, I doubt they'd still be hungry for music. But who knows. 4. Anything can happen. I suppose the producer plays a big part there. 5. No sides. 6. Probably not. But MIH wouldn't be there at all if Freddie was still around. |
| The King Of Rhye 10.08.2015 10:17 |
Hmm, interesting thought..... What would it have been called? Who could even guess that one, really....other than like they sometimes did, they might have named it after a song. Or maybe they might have made an album that was a deliberate throwback to their early years and called it "Queen III" :D Would they have tried something new? I'd say no, given that Brian and Roger's post-Queen solo work hasn't been much a departure from the Queen sound....you could imagine a lot of those songs on a Queen album....who's to say what directions Freddie would have taken things, though? |
| Day dop 10.08.2015 10:30 |
It'd probably have the big over-bloated / over produced in your face Queen overkill sound that Brian and Roger went for on Made in Heaven (that's not to say it's a bad album though, but that sound does get a little predictable and even a bit cringe-worthy in places - think of the newer version of I Was Born To Love you). In saying that, Innuendo had hints of them going in the right direction. Maybe they'd have got their shit together, but then again, looking at Brian and Rogers output since, and Freddie mostly abandoning taste in the 80s, it leaves me doubtful. |
| Day dop 10.08.2015 11:00 |
1.What sort of thing do you think they would name it? An Evening at the Nursing Home. |
| musicland munich 10.08.2015 11:19 |
Funny...in the last past days I asked myself wich way they would go lyric wise on a potentially new Album. In my opinion a singer like Adam Lambert blocks some content like "Was it all worth it". I can hardly imagine him deliver songs with a retroperspesctive subject. Are they cursed to do an Hot Space or AKOM Part Two ? It's not a bashing - just my opinion. |
| brENsKi 10.08.2015 11:35 |
OMFG !!! (They Didn't Kill Freddie) or Once More...For Gerry or One Moustache...Fucking Guys or Out May...Freddie's Group or Over Mixed...Falsetto Gangbangs |
| matt z 10.08.2015 11:44 |
The Royal Prostate Exam .... who knows. Far too much speculation unless you're talking about a Lambert collaboration. Now if they did an album with guest singers of a great caliber you'd have something. David Bowie Annie Lennox Billy Joel Paul McCartney the Foos. Aaaand...... maybe Adam Lambert |
| musicland munich 10.08.2015 11:51 |
Name of the Album ? ..."Songs with meanings - Too big for them" |
| Day dop 10.08.2015 12:30 |
musicland munich wrote: Funny...in the last past days I asked myself wich way they would go lyric wise on a potentially new Album. In my opinion a singer like Adam Lambert blocks some content like "Was it all worth it". I can hardly imagine him deliver songs with a retroperspesctive subject. Are they cursed to do an Hot Space or AKOM Part Two ? It's not a bashing - just my opinion.I think the chances of me liking an album by Brian, Roger and him would be very very slim. If they did, there'd be pictures of Lambert in my Facebook newsfeed left, right and center From the Official Queen facebook page. For that reason alone, aside from any other, I'd much prefer it if they didn't. One doesn't like to be inconvenienced. |
| The King Of Rhye 10.08.2015 14:42 |
matt z wrote: Far too much speculation unless you're talking about a Lambert collaboration. Now if they did an album with guest singers of a great caliber you'd have something. David Bowie Annie Lennox Billy Joel Paul McCartney the Foos. Aaaand...... maybe Adam LambertI've said it a few times, something like that could be good....just call it a "Queen+" album.....half of the songs with Brian and/or Roger singing, the other half with other singers....Adam, Kerry, and Paul (singing Take Love?).. Of course, a whole Queen + Adam album would be just fine with me, though :D |
| The King Of Rhye 10.08.2015 14:47 |
Chief Mouse wrote: 3. Good but probably not as exciting as I doubt the band would have been the main thing in their lives, I doubt they'd still be hungry for music. But who knows.I could see them being something like the Stones or the Who at this point....still putting out albums and having huge massive tours, but not at the frequency they did in the 70s/80s, and Freddie, Brian, and/or Roger fitting other projects in between... |
| brENsKi 10.08.2015 16:05 |
amazing how many people actually didn't get the OP's main point.... "if Freddie were still alive" |
| luthorn 10.08.2015 16:51 |
I would say they would be just a touring band, clocking $1,000 a seat, and throwing a great show or even better. I doubt Freddie would bother to get creative. I think he would prefer to clip the coupons and entertain the audience, rather than spend time in the studio. |
| matt z 10.08.2015 18:04 |
I "got" the OP'S criteria but completely dismiss it as extremely far fetched nonsense. ... something a 9 year old would postulate (ignoring the painful death) But if you insist. Queen - they'd have released four albums since 1991's miraculous recovery of Freddie Mercury (I've always postulated this was A REASON for the song/album title back then... I don't know what any of those albums would've been called either. The duets with Michael might have been finished although it seemed the band preferred to stay distant from him. Let's see. .. 2015 QUEEN : LEGACY Features: A dance song duet with Lady Gaga in an attempt to resurrect HER career after that artpop piece of shit (* I won't even acronym it the album sucks. Moreso than her older shit and occasional hits) A song to be featured on the next JAMES BOND FILM (orchestra supplied by exorbitant costs incurred in bond films) 1 acoustic song 1 John Deacon song that can either be interpreted as a break up song/song for independence or as a song of dissent and distrust in the band 2 Brian May rockers with patched synth industrial like stuff 1 Brian May anthem that gets overlooked due to the 007 song 4 songs from Freddie : one almost afro Cuban, one powerful,one breezy lounge "harry connick jr" style and one horribly bad attempt at a dance track Of course the album titles will be credited to QUEEN. .. There may have been an original montage done with an original theme for TED 2. Possibly a joke about Freddie and a lavish suite Getting far fetched enough? |
| Day dop 10.08.2015 18:11 |
luthorn wrote: I would say they would be just a touring band, clocking $1,000 a seat, and throwing a great show or even better. I doubt Freddie would bother to get creative. I think he would prefer to clip the coupons and entertain the audience, rather than spend time in the studio.It's fairly impossible to say what Freddie would've done in the last 24 years if he'd been alive (and that's me reassessing what I said earlier too - although not so much when it comes to Brian and Roger). |
| Fat Bottomed Queen 10.08.2015 19:04 |
matt z wrote: I "got" the OP'S criteria but completely dismiss it as extremely far fetched nonsense. ... something a 9 year old would postulate (ignoring the painful death) But if you insist. Queen - they'd have released four albums since 1991's miraculous recovery of Freddie Mercury (I've always postulated this was A REASON for the song/album title back then... I don't know what any of those albums would've been called either. The duets with Michael might have been finished although it seemed the band preferred to stay distant from him. Let's see. .. 2015 QUEEN : LEGACY Features: A dance song duet with Lady Gaga in an attempt to resurrect HER career after that artpop piece of shit (* I won't even acronym it the album sucks. Moreso than her older shit and occasional hits) A song to be featured on the next JAMES BOND FILM (orchestra supplied by exorbitant costs incurred in bond films) 1 acoustic song 1 John Deacon song that can either be interpreted as a break up song/song for independence or as a song of dissent and distrust in the band 2 Brian May rockers with patched synth industrial like stuff 1 Brian May anthem that gets overlooked due to the 007 song 4 songs from Freddie : one almost afro Cuban, one powerful,one breezy lounge "harry connick jr" style and one horribly bad attempt at a dance track Of course the album titles will be credited to QUEEN. .. There may have been an original montage done with an original theme for TED 2. Possibly a joke about Freddie and a lavish suite Getting far fetched enough?Nice ideas. I dig this. Also i love the part that says a Brian May anthem that will get overlooked due to the 007 song! hahaha! |
| Estranged 11.08.2015 05:53 |
brENsKi wrote: Over Mixed...Falsetto GangbangsTHIS ! |
| Doga 11.08.2015 06:31 |
Not sure if it fits here, but... Anybody remember some detail about a song called "The Red Queen (As It Ends)". I have a vague memory about it, but maybe i read it was intended to be in the album with Paul Rodgers? I am imagine things or it was an hoax after all? |
| ITSM 11.08.2015 06:48 |
Compared to the other albums, I think it would have reminded us most about Hot Space - well produced party tracks (if no AIDS and such were involved). |
| Fat Bottomed Queen 11.08.2015 12:00 |
I would personally imagine the songs being a more modern ballad style. |
| andyb1968 11.08.2015 14:11 |
Ok you are all gonna hate me for this ! I don't think it would have been a million miles away from the Cosmos Rocks, Brian & Rog have lost their mojo ! Brian is no longer an innovator, his playing is very derivative ! Got the feeling John would still write a decent ballad, and Freddie...... who knows ! He always had his finger on the pulse of what was happening, but don't think he ever would have had another Boh Rhap in him ! But......we'll never know sadly. |
| k-m 11.08.2015 16:11 |
Who knows... I think we lost Freddie at one of the band's creative peaks, even though the rise in creativity might have actually stemmed from his disease. I do think they did find some sort of a well-balanced, interesting sound on the 89-91 tracks (e.g. Don't Try So Hard and Mother Love). Very hard to answer the question though, as the thing which makes artists great is being hard to predict. And I do think Queen were one of these great artists. I'm pretty sure they would have surprised us a few more times had Freddie never got ill or even more so - made it through the illness. Pretty sure he would turn it to his advantage eventually. |
| Your Fairy King 11.08.2015 17:00 |
Innuendo showed an amazing maturity in the band they had never quite achieved. "If" Freddie lived and "If" the tracks on Innuendo were in no way influenced by his inevitable demise and "If" Made in Heaven never happened - I think John would continue to come up with an unpredictable worldwide hit every few years. There would probably be a band hiatus for solo projects. Surely they would have reached arena tour burn out at some point and returned to the studio to make something far more subtle with minimal studio wizardry (along the lines of NOTW). Like a lot of their peers, tours and albums would have become fewer and farther between - but as others mentioned, soundtrack - particularly an 007 theme - work would probably continue - as well as musical explorations with (also previously mentioned) calypso, perhaps jazz and - inevitably at some point, rap. Personally I always wanted to hear them return to prog rock epics - a Queen III so to speak. I honestly thought the work with Rodgers would produce some instant rock classics, but no dice. What I wouldn't give to hear Freddie duet with someone like Lourde! |
| BETA215 11.08.2015 17:22 |
Chief Mouse wrote: 6. Probably not. But MIH wouldn't be there at all if Freddie was still around.Neither Made In Heaven, The Miracle, Innuendo and some parts of Barcelona and A Kind Of Magic would exist in the same way as they are (or wouldn't even exist) as some Roger songs. And Headlong would be in Back To The Light, if it gets released. As cruel as it sounds, Freddie's illness and death was a great influence in everyone's musical career. Without it, their music could be more different and maybe boring. |
| BETA215 11.08.2015 17:33 |
And, following the tendency of his past albums, it would be called as the greatest song of that album, or as the main single - A Kind Of Magic, Barcelona, The Miracle, Innuendo, maybe The Game, Made In Heaven, etc. |
| Fat Bottomed Queen 11.08.2015 19:21 |
I would Imagine it being closest to Made In Heaven. lots of very soulful and powerful songs. |
| Fat Bottomed Queen 11.08.2015 19:21 |
I would Imagine it being closest to Made In Heaven. lots of very soulful and powerful songs. |
| matt z 11.08.2015 21:38 |
Hyde Park 1976 wrote: I would Imagine it being closest to Made In Heaven. lots of very soulful and powerful songs.Do you mean they'd be revisiting old music solo songs and demoes to complete an album with only 3 new songs? |
| Fat Bottomed Queen 09.09.2015 13:17 |
Got the cover art: What have this legendary British superband been up to lately? The answer is a gay "album" recorded after a drinking session that sounds like a mix between Flash Gordon,The Miracle and Hot Space. FEATURES SOME SONGS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME OLD DOZEN MILLION COMPILATION ALBUMS BEFORE! GET HYPED! Featuring: Anthony Venus on Vocals,Piano and Vodka. Isaac Newton reincarnated on Guitar Roger Wailer on Drums And that one guy who I swear you see walking down the street all the time... on the Guitar missing 2 strings! Genres: Soundtrack,Hippie,Rap,Country,Cheesy Pop crap,Emo,Gay Porno,Only to be enjoyed when drunk music,Pop Rock,Gothic,Badass Rock,Fake Rock,Christian Metal. "Wow...Queen were full of suprises with this one! Get's an easy 5 from us! Finally sounds like something those 6 year old fangirls might enjoy!" -The Rolling Stone |
| miraclesteinway 09.09.2015 14:57 |
Yeah, to answer the question with any sense of authenticity, we have to go back to the era of Live Aid. We'd still have One Vision, we may still have Who Wants to Live Forever, but I don't know. Much of Innuendo would be very different. Perhaps if we look at the stuff Roger and Brian were doing in the 90s, we could get a clearer picture of what might happen if Freddie were still here, but I don't even know if we can look at it that way honestly. |
| brENsKi 09.09.2015 15:02 |
British Man wrote: I would Imagine it being closest to Made In Heaven. lots of very soulful and powerful songs.not really. as this was put together - from scraps, and also without Freddie's oversight. if you're factoring Freddie into the mix - as per your OP, then the album would definitely NOT have a MIH "cobbled-together and reworked" feel. it'd also have some genuine freddie styling in the production/arrangement - something not really present on MIH |