The Miracle Collector’s Edition - All Discussion

I received my boxset an press kitt yesterday. Still looking to find time to dive into the contents, but the looks of the box make me very happy.

The press kit, with introductory letter, band biography and pictures is nice, but it would have been a better gimmick if the Teaser Tape was actually on tape!

It's nice to hold the heavy weight vinyl with Too Much Love Will Kill You on it, although I cannot play it as I don't have a turntable yet.

The book is looking nice, with some great pictures in it. Hopefully, the text in it will be an interesting read as welll.

Posters are a nice addition, but it's not that I'm going to hang them on my wall. My wife wouldn't let me... especially not one from The Miracle's album cover!

Really looking forward to listening to the CD's as this was the album that got me into Queen in 1989 at age 7.

I’ve already had to clean (my) smudged fingerprints off the book cover, simply from extracting it from the box and reading it. Kind of frustrating, but if anyone else needs a solution, use a paper towel and some hand sanitizer and wipe it carefully on the affected areas.

Arent we missing more demo tracks? I seem to remember the leaked stuff on youtube, rain must fall with freddie singing through brians harmony pedal, with "property of queen productions" overlapping it.
The i guess we re falling out leaked demo had guitar outro, the miracle and scandal had different demos on the teaser tapes.

Wonder if we ll see these on a mega anthology one day?

Hi folks,

my parcel arrived yesterday and of course CD 2 was the first think I took and it was a great evening I have to say. I read the comments here before and so I was some kind of deflowered in a way.
A historian would say: They gave us not some insight in their past but sources to tell a story about the past of each song they put on this record. It's obvious that none of these tracks was just a copy and paste case.
At least in "The Miracle" session you find very familiar background sounds. But I enjoyed the different lyrics and ideas and I'm satisfied that we have a nice addition the the other demo versions that leaked many years ago.
Some people mentioned the missing press kit. Is this the big black 12" envelope full of pictures an posters? My Box set was labelled "Made and Germany" and misses the Teaser-CD as well but maybe it's because it's only content in the UK. Who knows? I label it useless anyway.
For me a Queen weekend will come with relistening to these sessions and the Toronto 1977 concerts that were leaked by Bob a few moons ago. Forget about advent.

Kind regards,
W.

I ordered the limited edition from QOL and this is what I got:

Ah okay, the press kit came as a separate addition with the regular box. Thank you for dissolving the fog.

Has it been a week already? Well, for me on my end at least. Still listening to Disc 2, and I'm still floored! I guess it's time for my highlights:

Party: I feel dumb not realizing the released version used programmed drums, and I could almost never listen to it again after hearing the original take with live drums

The Miracle: Now this is the kind of outtake I wanna hear from Queen. Hearing Freddie come up with different sets of lyrics for part of the song, discovering that "That time will come..." lyric used to be in a different section of the song, and hearing John's ending actually sounds less jarring in comparison to the final version's ending

I Want It All: That riff idea Freddie was pitching at the beginning is an interesting one to start with, but it doesn't sound like it has anything to do IWIA to my ears. Still pretty memorable though, I was humming it at work earlier. The rest of the song, interesting hearing the solo split up with the fast part used as the ending instead of being the solo proper like in the single version.

The Invisible Man: I was gonna skip this the 1st time around, expecting it to be the same kettle of fish as the one we've heard on the 2011 bonus EP, but I liked Roger's guide vocals, and the cut middle eight, so why not? Boy did it surprise me. I was not expecting the closing solo at all! I had to do a double take and listen to the same track from the 2011 deluxe edition and make sure I wasn't losing my mind.

When Love Breaks Up/A New Life Is Born: For some reason, the second half reminds me of Lily Of The Valley a bit.

Breakthru: Hearing the Real Drums & Bass version and the final version back to back felt like a Strawberry Fields moment for me. I can now hear which part was synthesized bass and which one was John's.

My Baby Loves Me: Freudian Slip!

I Guess We're Falling Out: So this is where that part from Hang On In There came from.


I've thought the NOTW box set 5 years ago would be the last time we'd get a glimpse of what lay in the vaults in terms of outtakes, and The Miracle's box set would be a pipe dream, yet here we are. Funny thing about The Miracle is that this was usually in the bottom of my list. Hearing it again with the sessions disc made me appreciate it some more.

Indeed. At 4:16 in WIAWI on orchestral part, the notes are the same, but not sung by FM of course.
For me, all the intro part to IWIA od Disc 2 has much in common with HOIT (a fiddly jam demo). Sure, HOIT is a JAM, but I like to think, that both IWIA and HOIT have common roots. 

The biggest omission (IMHO) is lack of Rivers of Words. I was in 99% convinced that Water and ROW is a same gem...

Maybe for the ending there were 3 or 4 competing ideas, and they tried each of them out -- an ending with the rock jam only (Brian's idea?), an ending with the "that time will come" only (Freddie's idea?), and also one with John's idea only. That might also explain why 3 years later on the Classic Queen CD they included a version that edited out the rock ending, even if it was also to save space. And maybe the original album version is a compromise with all three ideas stitched together, with only a bit of a bass solo, and they wanted to present this Collector's Edition version as "John's ending" because Freddie's and Brian's ideas are already fully developed.

Classic Queen edit:

Normally, they will reply in about a week. I e-mailed them on Tuesday evening about the double charged VAT.

On topic: Anybody else getting the Orinoco Flow when listening to John's ending of The Miracle?

I don’t know if my ears are playing tricks on me, but I’m hearing a lot more of John Deacon bass on the new 2nd disc.

Google Play Store or Apple App Store should have an app to do the job. Just put the track on your phone and use the app to create the ringtone.

A Kind Of Magic boxset? Don't think so.

It would be good to hear AKOM with real drums!