| carboengine 09.11.2005 13:38 |
I had not paid any attention to it until the discussion of "yeah" came up. It runs well over 20 minutes. On my MIH cd sleeve "yeah" and "track 13" are not listed as separate entities. I think 13 is creepy. It feels like aliens have invaded my house. Or is it supposed to be the sound of oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm that some new and old religions believe is the harmonious sound of the universe/all creation? The few bits of talking I hear sound like Freddie saying, "Are you running, are you running, are you running?" My cd has a copyright date of 1995, four years after Freddie's death. I would assume the order of songs on MIH was not Freddie's decision. As a lot of Queen's lyrics started and stopped rather suddenly such as BoRhap, I wish MIH's last sound was "yeah". Does track 13 have an official name? |
| John S Stuart 09.11.2005 13:46 |
What is track 13 on Made In Heaven cd? The one after track 12. |
| Penetration_Guru 09.11.2005 13:49 |
It's correct title is "aliens have invaded my house. Or is it supposed to be the sound of oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm that some new and old religions believe is the harmonious sound of the universe/all creation?" |
| kagezan1313 09.11.2005 17:53 |
Parts of my grand theory are reposted from another thread on the same subject: I thought after the first time I heard this song, that if the span of Freddie's life and energy had been recorded in sound, that would be it. Also, thinking about it now and considering that Brian is an astrophysicist, and thus knows that all matter is energy vibrating at different frequencies - I think he may have been thinking along the same lines. Consider the running time: 22 minutes, 36 seconds. Freddie lived exactly 45.222 years (81 days past his 45th birthday). The song's length is 1356 seconds or 22.6 minutes. Double that, and you get 45.2. In effect, it's exactly 30 seconds of song for each year or Freddie's life. If you look at the points where things happen, musically, they will probably correspond to events in his life. Yes, I am a genius. You may pray to me. |
| A_night_@_the_opera 10.11.2005 07:55 |
I'm not sure myself, but its LONG and i hear the "Are you running, are you running" part too, i suppose they did'nt want to name it for reasons. Theres no singing just instrumental music. |
| That guy who digs energy domes 10.11.2005 09:08 |
Yeah, I just got Made In Heaven a few weeks ago and I at first thought the CD was broken. On track 12, it says "Yeah" and then abruptly ends. Then track 13 was playing and I was waiting for words. I let it go for 14 minutes before I checked the CD sleeve to see what that was. There is nothing written so I thought it was a loop. Then when I put Born To Love You on my MP3 player, I saw that the song lasted about 22 minutes. I heard it was supposed to be "Freddie's Soul" but I've been wrong before. |
| gem27 10.11.2005 10:20 |
well im not saying its definate but in 1995 when Made In Heaven was out i was a member of the official Queen Fanclub and im sure i read in one of the magazines it is supposed to represent the travelling of Freddies soul from death up to heaven. Anyway thats what i heard. |
| john bodega 10.11.2005 10:54 |
It's his ghost. They left the studio one night and accidentally left the machines recording. When they came back in the morning, Mr. Mercury had been hard at work. To put aside my ghosty jokes for a moment - the general consensus is that it's a musical ascension to heaven, or an interpretation of the afterlife. Basically, they were just farting around with the D chord from A Beautiful Day, and each member put his own bit to it as the idea grew on them. My favourite bit is the piano part around 75% way through it. Very pretty, not quite mournful... just pretty. The end is kinda magical too, a bit like Braveheart actually. And "Fab!"... brilliant. |
| Wilki Amieva 10.11.2005 11:24 |
According to Brian May, it is some sort of Requiem. And David Richards had a big input in it. |
| beautifulsoup 11.11.2005 00:23 |
Zebonka12 wrote: And "Fab!"... brilliant.I love that. So, what is the "Are you running?" thing about? |
| john bodega 11.11.2005 02:49 |
"are you running?" I really wonder how they got him saying that sometimes. What context could it possibly have been in? We'll probably never know, but it was probably something like: BRIAN: Shit the phone! I'd better get it! FREDDIE: Quick, go! BRIAN: (in the corridor) I'll never make it! FREDDIE: Are you running? You'll get there quicker if you run! |
| luthorn 11.11.2005 03:04 |
Are we (recording) aka running. And by the way, time flies. I bought the album the very first day it came out in Poland. I was a freshman in high school then. Whatever the last recording is, we'll never know. But I enjoy putting my headphones on and playing the album continously in a full circle. Once the last song ends the first begins. The night ends, a new day starts. Maybe that's what Queen wanted to convey: Move on with your life people, Freddie is gone but we have another day to live. The last song is what you want it to be. Play with your imagination. |
| john bodega 11.11.2005 10:36 |
Sure we know what the last recording is. It's either A Winter's Tale or Mother Love. Mother Love is the last one he recorded with Brian (in Montreaux) but I've heard it said that the last thing he ever recorded with anyone (never mind Brian May) was the end of A Winter's Tale, at Metropolis studios. |
| *3*Playful as a pussycat 11.11.2005 11:00 |
i meditated to it and it got rather interesting... i find it to be a rather peaceful track |
| That guy who digs energy domes 11.11.2005 21:02 |
Peaceful it is. Maybe too peaceful. Damn, is this some conspiracy theory? |
| Suigi 11.11.2005 22:05 |
It is what you make of it. I personally think of it as what Freddie's last message to his band and his fans would've been. (keep in mind the following bits are my interpretation) "Are you running?" Are you moving on? Are you still recording? Are you finishing what I started? The laughter is sort of the idea that somehow, everything will work out in the end. That Freddie enjoyed his life to the fullest, and is now spending eternity in happiness for what he's done and his influence on people. Or it could just be that Freddie's gotten the last laugh on us again. The "fab" at the end, I can imagine, would be Freddie putting down the headphones, and slowly nodding his head, giving his approval of the band's work. |
| Bobby_brown 12.11.2005 09:58 |
This is one of those meaningless mysterys. David was looping the tape with some kind of new toy in the studio, the the band heard that and liked it. It suited the mood from the album so they did a 22 minute version of the album to fill the CD. About the length of the music i think it's casual and wasn't meant to mean a thing (in my opinion), because i heard in the past that each minute was to represent a year in the life of Queen and so forth! For me the meaning is to meditate about Freddie and Queen, and it's well donne because for a fan you can't help to thing about Freddie throghout the music. By the end of the song you will wake up because of a big noise. The first time i heard it i just jumped out of my bed... Take care |
| Teo Torriatte... 12.11.2005 12:05 |
i find it very hard to read everyone writing if someone can please tell me a little what is this all about in japanise thank you |
| rhyeking 12.11.2005 15:58 |
You're being too literal. The last SONG is "It's A Beautiful Day (Reprise)" That song is mastered into 3 tracks on the cd ONLY. The whole song, all three tracks, is "It's A Beautiful Day (Reprise)", with a complete running time of 25 minutes and 37 seconds. The cassette and LP releases of the album edit the song down to 3 minutes and 9 seconds (give or take a second), cutting it off after the second "Yeah". Put another way, imagine that when "A Night At The Opera" was first issued on CD and Queen decided to mess with people's heads, they mastered "Rhapsody" into three tracks (for whatever reason). It would still be just ONE COMPLETE SONG, not three. It's the same idea here. "Beautiful Day (Reprise)" (tracks 11, 12 & 13 on the CD) are ONE COMPLETE SONG. We were never meant to consider them seperate songs. The confusion comes about be cause Queen were notorious on their early albums for seguing from one song to the next (Ogre Battle into Fairy Feller into Nevermore), but those were each their own songs, except they overlapped start and end points. "Beautiful Day (Reprise)" was never meant to be taken this way (three songs) and for ten years its significance has been blown out of proportion. As to why it ends with a long instrumental section...it means whatever you want it to mean. There are no wrong answers when it comes to such a subjective art form as instrumental music. Patrick Lemieux |
| john bodega 13.11.2005 08:13 |
Or not. You could be wrong! I totally scared my nephew the other day (ok, he's only 7) but I said to him "Freddie Mercury's ghost is coming to haunt you" and I made a knocking sound like someone was trying to get in the house. When that didn't freak him out enough, I played (in quick succession): "HaHAAA!" (from the end of Headlong) "Fab!" (from Track 13) So you think it's the easy way out (from Don't Try Suicide). He SHAT HIS PANTS! It was really loud on the stereo, he was crying his nuts off. |
| deleted user 13.11.2005 15:56 |
aww ur evil =o |
| john bodega 14.11.2005 00:40 |
HAH you think that's evil? Once I set up a cardboard cut out of Freddie Mercury (in his spooky Going Slightly Mad getup) outside my bedroom window. My nephew was playing some games and I subtly put on Another one Bites the Dust on the stereo. He told me to turn it off... ME: but I didn't touch the stereo! See? KID: (whimpers) ME: It must be... THA GHOST!!!! (I shout as loud as I can, then flip the blinds on the window - my partner in crime is outside making the cardboard cutout dance). ME: TAKE IT KID! IS THIS SPOOKY ENOUGH FOR YOU! KID: (runs for his mother) |
| inthelapofthegods 14.11.2005 18:59 |
Zebonka12 wrote: HAH you think that's evil? Once I set up a cardboard cut out of Freddie Mercury (in his spooky Going Slightly Mad getup) outside my bedroom window. My nephew was playing some games and I subtly put on Another one Bites the Dust on the stereo. He told me to turn it off... ME: but I didn't touch the stereo! See? KID: (whimpers) ME: It must be... THA GHOST!!!! (I shout as loud as I can, then flip the blinds on the window - my partner in crime is outside making the cardboard cutout dance). ME: TAKE IT KID! IS THIS SPOOKY ENOUGH FOR YOU! KID: (runs for his mother)Haahahahahah, that's really kind of you...he'll probably have nightmares for the rest of his life...ahahahaha :-P ;-) |
| Shvili 14.11.2005 23:03 |
Track 1 is a continuation of trek 13. Put you WM player in repeat mode and see how 13 flows into 1. You get the impression, as if there is no ending to track 13 and thus to this cd. |
| john bodega 15.11.2005 09:32 |
HAH you think that's mean... the mother did far worse! She told him we'd lock him in a coffin overnight for a sleepover at Freddie's grave. And uh... Track 13 does end. It ends with the ghost going "Fab!". Then silence. I mean, you can loop the Made in Heaven album quite easily because it begins with silence and ends with silence. But, I think it plainly ends. |
| Suigi 15.11.2005 21:25 |
Someone's been listening to too much Pink Floyd, as both Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are loopable. |
| carboengine 16.11.2005 13:19 |
I looked on the brianmay.com website to see if this was ever discussed, but I couldn't find anything useful. Can any of you Brian fans find anything he might have said about it? Thanks! |
| written_in_the_stars 20.11.2005 13:40 |
carboengine wrote: As a lot of Queen's lyrics started and stopped rather suddenly such as BoRhap, I wish MIH's last sound was "yeah".MIH's last sound is Freddie's voice saying "Fab'", and I personally think this is genius. I love this Track 13. Personally, I see it as a symbol of Freddie's transition in somewhere else, but whatever the real meaning of this is, I just love it, it's simply beautiful and soft. The first time I heard it was a year ago... on November 24th, 2004, and I was overwhelmed when I did. At the last second, when Freddie says "Fab", I almost cried. This track was genius. |
| bonapartist 23.11.2005 20:38 |
Well when i first heard it I was listening to it on my walkman and I was drifting off to sleep (often listen to Queen before I go to bed to cheer me up if in need) then it came on and I thought i had strayed into a dream. I didn't know where the sound was coming from, then I realised but couldn't remember seeing a track listing for it. Anyway I think it is Freddie's assent to hell (because that's where all the interesting people are) and then his rebirth at the end with the 'boom boom boom boom' of the drums like on space odecy or maybe i'm mistaken about that. |
| goinback 24.11.2005 06:54 |
Track 13 also syncs nicely to the last 24 minutes of the movie 2001 (as does Pink Floyd's "Echoes" :) |