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Topic: Brian May announced new Queen albumPosted By: Gerinski
Subject: Brian May announced new Queen album
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 15:39
Not sure if this was already discussed, a search did not return any results.
Brian May has revealed plans to release a new Queen album featuring previously unreleased tracks sung by Freddie Mercury.
May said the songs were originally recorded in the 1980s, "when we were in full flight".
The album is expected to be released at the end of the year.
"I think people will enjoy it," May told Wynne Evans at the Hay Festival.
"With Freddie singing and all of us playing... they're quite beautiful. It's kind of the big, big ballad and the big, big epic sound."
May said he was able to recreate the band's old sound - despite the recordings being almost three decades old - thanks to modern sound editing software.
"We only had scraps, but knowing how it would've happened if we'd finished it then, I can sit there and make it happen, with modern technology."
Replies: Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 15:44
These will be tracks that were not good enough to find their way onto a release at the time. Much like Zep's Coda, I anticipate a pile of pants.
Let sleeping dogs lie.......l
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 15:45
^Best thing I've heard all day. I just hope that it's not a bunch of subpar numbers that the band felt weren't good enough to be included on their albums. That happens a lot these days.
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 15:48
Queen has quite an excellent selection of "unreleased" or rare tracks from the 70s and especially the 80s that they could easily fill up a CD and have every track a winner, e.g. Sandbox, Feels Like (an early form of Under Pressure with different lyrics), Stealing, Dog with a Bone, etc. Exciting news.
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 15:55
lazland wrote:
These will be tracks that were not good enough to find their way onto a release at the time. Much like Zep's Coda, I anticipate a pile of pants.
Let sleeping dogs lie.......l
I know, but if the songs are from the 80's we can still hope that they were left out because of being too Proggy or too good (dreaming is free isn't it?)
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 15:59
^Only if you're part of the 1% in the States. The rest of us have to pay.
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 16:05
"I anticipate a pile of pants" - Are we talking Levis here? Dockers? Or like Walmart brand pants?
Seriously, I think it will be quite good. I've heard quite a lot of their rare and unreleased stuff and most of it is quite good.
------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 16:24
^I take your word on that.
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 16:53
Must I remind everyone here that inclusion on an album does not necessarily mean it was the best stuff they had. After all, Delilah made it onto Innuendo (the whole "meow" thing has to be Queen's most embarrassing moment). Who knows what gem wasn't on the album to make room for that atrocity against music.
------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 16:59
Judging by not so clever clogs uniformly wretched solo output, fleecing us from a doggy bag that Freddie didn't think would pass muster has to be an improvement. I know he uses an old english sixpence as a plectrum but Brian can't be that hard up surely?
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 17:17
Gerinski wrote:
"With Freddie singing and all of us playing... they're quite beautiful. It's kind of the big, big money and the big, big money."
Please, put it to rest
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 31 2014 at 20:52
May can't afford all the hair dye he needs.
------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 01 2014 at 00:38
lazland wrote:
These will be tracks that were not good enough to find their way onto a release at the time. Much like Zep's Coda, I anticipate a pile of pants.
Let sleeping dogs lie.......l
You're probably right. I'm still curious to hear it though. May knows that a Queen album with any other singer is not likely to attract much interest, but unreleased Freddie stuff is going to sell.
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Date Posted: August 01 2014 at 02:49
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: August 01 2014 at 03:17
Before I clicked on the link for this thread, I was actually expecting this to be a new album with that younger Adam Lambert guy. My real love affair with Queen has mostly passed long ago (Ha, May was such an inspiration to me as a youngster, I eventually grew my hair like his! ), but does anyone know how his performances with the band have been being recieved?
Anyway, the last time this sort of thing happened, we got the album `Made in Heaven', which was pretty much decent if I recall, for what it was (although I haven't spun it in at least 15 years). More of the same could possibly work out well.
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 01 2014 at 06:55
lazland wrote:
Much like Zep's Coda, I anticipate a pile of pants.
I'm willing to bet there are plenty of bands who wish their best stuff was as good as those pants.
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: August 01 2014 at 07:19
Queen have some real unpolished masterpieces in their vaults, but I bet they won't appear on the new album
------------- This night wounds time.
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: August 06 2014 at 03:27
^ that's a nice one, loved it when Taylor drummed like that, a bit following Bonham or Keith Moon styles
Posted By: Spaceflower
Date Posted: January 14 2015 at 08:35
ole-the-first wrote:
Queen have some real unpolished masterpieces in their vaults, but I bet they won't appear on the new album
Great to hear this raw recording of Freddie
I love Queens work, but my heart goes to the first three albums! <3 <3 <3
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 14 2015 at 14:15
Gerinski wrote:
^ that's a nice one, loved it when Taylor drummed like that, a bit following Bonham or Keith Moon styles
I heard James Maynard Keen's cover version of Bohemian Rhapsody yesterday and it made me realise how underrated Roger Taylor is as a drummer. You tend to take him for granted but actually try replacing him on any Queen song and you run into trouble.
Posted By: progrockmailman
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 00:09
(dreaming is free isn't it?)
lazland wrote:
), but does anyone know how his performances with the band have been being recieved?
