Progarchives.com has always (since 2002) relied on banners ads to cover web hosting fees and all. Please consider supporting us by giving monthly PayPal donations and help keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
Joined: February 10 2010
Location: Barcelona Spain
Status: Offline
Points: 5154
Topic: Brian May announced new Queen album 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."
Joined: April 11 2014
Location: Kyiv In Spirit
Status: Offline
Points: 20609
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.
Joined: June 23 2005
Location: The Tardis
Status: Offline
Points: 8543
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.
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
Joined: February 10 2010
Location: Barcelona Spain
Status: Offline
Points: 5154
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?)
Joined: June 23 2005
Location: The Tardis
Status: Offline
Points: 8543
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?
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?
Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
Status: Offline
Points: 16130
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.
'+couponTitleMore+"";if(couponCodeMore!=""){if(i==0){moreCouponsContent+='< ="snd_couponCode" ="text" title="Use the Code at Checkout" value="'+couponCodeMore+'"/>
Joined: October 12 2011
Location: Melb, Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 7951
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.
Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - August 01 2014 at 03:27
Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 28070
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.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
This page was generated in 0.198 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
Brian May announced new Queen album
Topic Options
lazland wrote:
(dreaming is free isn't it?)
), but does anyone know how his performances with the band have been being recieved?
