Hollywood Records commissioned remixes for the 1991 remasters

There was also a remix for Flash's Theme, by Mista Lawnge.

Some info on the Cohen-Jiya remix can be found on www.queenvault.com.

Not included on the Hollywood Records re-release, but the 1982 Extended Remix of Staying Power was also created by John Luongo. In 1991 he did the Liar remix for Hollywood Records.

Logic? Queen reissues? Pah! 
At the time I guess they were a rather misguided attempt by the new label Hollywood to give a contemporary spin on the back catalogue for a largely disinterested US audience. In all honesty, they sounded hugely dated at the time. I'd say the reason Innuendo didn't have bonus material is that it was the current release. The 80s albums had extra material (extended version and b-sides etc) that meant remixes were not required. I have a love hate thing with them. Some were interesting as they had unused bits from the masters and others were a bit cringe (Seven Seas Of Rhye feels like it goes out of tune?). My fave has always been the Flash remix. Overlong, yes, but that little fairground organ riff that comes in is sweet AF.

As a purchaser at the time, my main interest was the packaging. The inlays were beautiful and a real step up from the basic cassette inlays the UK releases had. I eventually got the CDs too (they got quite cheap by the late 90s) and they were my main copies. Ditched the lot of the years and really wish I'd kept them. I think the tracks do deserve a place in the current catalogue. I wouldn't have minded if they were added to the 2011 reissues for completeness with a little explainer in the booklet. A compilation of them might be considered the worst Queen release, but I'd welcome it. A curious little blip in the story that deserves retelling.

Basically this indeed I think.
From The Works on official remixes already existed, so there was no 'need' to make new remixes.
That said, both 'Staying Power' and 'Back Chat' had official extended remixes, so why they didn't use them + 'Soul Brother' and instead made a new remix of 'Body Language' for Hot Space is beyond me.
The Works had two already existing remixes + 'I Go Crazy'.
A Kind Of Magic kept the 'Forever' piano version, but replaced 'A Kind Of A Kind Of Magic' and 'Friends Will Be Friends Will Be Friends' with 'One Vision Extended Vision' (which is the only CD-release to date to feature this official remix BTW!)
The Miracle was in fact the same as the previous CD-version (so including the same bonus tracks 'Hang On In There', 'Chinese Torture' and 'The Invisible Man Extended', but added 'Scandal Extended' to it. They could've gone for 'Breakthru Extended' or one of the several other non-album B-sides, but they chose 'Scandal'.
Innuendo was the the current release, so it would make little sense to add bonus tracks to it.
Queen I up to Hot Space had new remixes, and Queen I/II had B-sides 'Mad The Swine' and 'See What A Fool I've Been', however Hot Space didn't feature 'Soul Brother' (don't know why) and The Game didn't feature 'A Humand Body' (possibly because of Roger not liking it at the time?)... and Queen I had the alternate version 'Keep Yourself Alive', which is a bit of a strange duck between the rest, as it's an official alternative version, but never released before. I heard a rumour once that Hollywood Records received 'wrong' tapes for the remastering by accident which contained 'Mad The Swine' and 'Keep Yourself Alive alternative version' and they asked permission to include them, which was OK'd, but Parlophone/EMI on their turn then wanted to put 'Mad The Swine' on an Innuendo-era single.

I bought 5 of Queen's 70's albums (Queen, QII, ANATO, ADATR, Jazz) when they were re-released by Hollywood Records in the early 90's. I agree with the sentiments above that the remixes were hit-and miss; I also felt that the packaging, while generally an improvement, wasn't the best it could be as alterations and omissions were present. Also, although it was nice to include the lyrics in each album, there were a number of inaccuracies in the lyrics in some cases.

I ended up re-selling my Queen and 'Opera' CDs but kept the rest; I subsequently purchased the 2011 re-issue of Queen on CD w/the 'bonus ep' containing the De Lea Lane demos and Mad the Swine.

Ted

The We Will Rock You tracks are

1) We Will Rock You 
2) Ruined Instrumental
3) We Are The Champions
4) Big Beat A Cappella
5) Zulu Scratch A Cappella

Apart from track 3 they are all versions of We Will Rock You.

Thanks for the collection of links! Havent heard most of those that didnt make to HR remasters! 

IMO, except for the tacky effect they added to the drum intro, the Liar Remix by John Luongo is one of the greatest things I've ever heard.
I love the heavy percussion in the 'Mama I'm gonna be your slave" part, it surpasses the original if you ask me. Most of the other remixes, I didn't really get.
I hated the We Will Rock You remix originally, but now it has grown on me

This seems to be some unofficial remix. The IceCube one from "Basic Queen Bootlegs" can be found here

The "Basic Queen Bootlegs" also contained a Mr. Mixx remix of "Under Pressure", but I didnt find it on youtube :/

The Miracle link is dead.

One of the things evident from a lot of these remixes is how integral Roger’s drum sound (especially his snare) is to making tracks sound like Queen - some of the treatments are criminal.

Not really a fan of any of the remixes tbh. The Miracle one was new to me, I gave it a listen to this morning, and that will be the last time!