DISCLAIMER: I am aware of the number of tracks that are/were officially available. There will be nothing too recent in this collection that isn't freely and easily available today (through official channels or otherwise, difference being these are downloads rather than streams). Other fans in this site have shared similar status material in their own compilations, but I'll remove anything in order to comply with copyright.
Also, it is worth clarifying what I’m trying to do with my compilations: What this collection actually is:
- A project made for fun (first and foremost).
- A COLLABORATIVE project. You are welcome to discuss, improve and even complain! (Within reason) I'm fully open to remove, revise and rebuild this compilation from the ground up, for the sake of keeping it interesting. Also, please report any mistakes you find regarding dates, typos and whatnot.
- A compilation of unusual (your mileage may vary!) recordings.
- A different, more original kind of compilation than previous ones with some twists, again, for the sake of fun.
- A collection aimed at newish fans to the band, or fans who are familiar with every Queen and solo album but never really delved deep into the sea of alternative Queen versions and rarities. And fans in general, of course.
- A modest effort to restore some tracks. What this collection is NOT:
- A comprehensive, rigorous compilation of rarities.
- An "anything goes" file dump. There are rules and quality standards, however loose they may be. (This is an amateur effort!)
- Something meant to blow expert collectors away. I wish!
- A CD-friendly format. Only one, maybe two of the 1.0 versions may actually fit on a single CD, and there's no artwork provided as of today. Also, some 48 kHz tracks must be downsampled for that purpose.
- A painstaking effort to provide the absolute best of the best quality for all recordings.
First thing I wanted to post was the You Take My Breath Away Instrumental. I love CMI's edit of it, making it a full instrumental, but what bugged me about it was it had one extra note where the edit took place so it didn't sound right. I tried to fix it, I don't know how convincing it is, and I hope it is okay that I edited it, but I think it turned out alright. This folder contains samples so you can compare my edit of CMI's edit against the original CMI edit: link
It is a very small change but I hope it's okay :).
Defining Awesome wrote:
First thing I wanted to post was the You Take My Breath Away Instrumental. I love CMI's edit of it, making it a full instrumental, but what bugged me about it was it had one extra note where the edit took place so it didn't sound right. I tried to fix it, I don't know how convincing it is, and I hope it is okay that I edited it, but I think it turned out alright.
Thanks for this notion and fix of it. I like it!
Actually I noticed this 'extra' note when I made the edit. But when I tried to figure it out I've found three same notes in 2:15-17 time range. It needs to be analysed once again, and there will be a most probable fix of ADATR Edition in the future.
Bump! I updated the tracklist with new additions. The download link is in the new "Unusual Anthology" thread. Thanks to everyone involved!
Everything is really cool, but I was really surprised by track 47. Almost like a new demo!
And thank you "Defining Awesome" for being the sole active contributor to this volume :-)