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Post by saintjiub on Sept 9, 2021 0:28:47 GMT
You are correct. 
In a poll of 30 QZers almost 20 years ago, Party ranked 161 out 188 songs. So there were 27 Queen songs ranked worse than Party, but none of these 27 songs were normal album tracks.
15 Flash Gordon songs ranked lower.
9 non-album songs ranked lower (B sides and bonus tracks).
3 one minute album instrumental songs ranked lower.
Do you have the archive link to this poll? I can't seem to find it. I only have printouts of 10 graphs for poll. Tomorrow, I will scan and upload the graphs as photos. I no longer have the raw data.
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Post by highlander on Sept 9, 2021 0:43:36 GMT
I like Mustapha as an opener. It really is a good opening track, but I could understand if it's a bit much for some people. It's the lyrics I can't stand.  The instrumental is not bad imo. |
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Post by highlander on Sept 9, 2021 0:51:18 GMT
Always liked them songs a lot because they give the albums a nice contrast to other songs like Bohemian Rhapsody and Brighton Rock on each album. |
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Post by highlander on Sept 9, 2021 1:00:55 GMT
Wasn't Party in a bit of a 'medley' with Khashoggi's Ship? Either way, I agree, not the best opener. I Want It All would've been a much stronger opener.. Yep, that's correct but they count as songs each on their own too. Reminds me of the Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon medley case where you have no labeled medley but an audiable medley for sure. Just listened to Party and Kashoggi's Ship again (after a longer time) and I'm cheerful because even though I said Party is one of the worst openers (more like a weak opener ) I still would not want to lose any single track of Queen on any album.
I really hope that the new box set of "The Miracle" will be a good one and that we will have unreleased recordings with Freddie too. 9 bloody discs... wow!!!
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Post by saintjiub on Sept 9, 2021 1:09:12 GMT
Do you have the archive link to this poll? I can't seem to find it. i'm wondering why a poll of "30 QZers" counts for anything. any poll of 30 is little more than a casual chat. hardly worth anything statistically, is it?  although, i will add this: if those 3 "one-minute album tracks" include Nevermore or Lily, it'll only serve to underline my point - the utter pointlessness of that and any other poll.
The three low ranked instrumentals were The Seven Seas of Rhye ... (#163) from the debut album, Procession (#169), and God Save the Queen (#164). Incidentally, of the 188 songs, Nevermore ranked #37 and Lily ranked #62.
In my opinion, the poll was a decent statistical snapshot of 30 QZers from about 20 years ago that had some statistical significance. As far as being statistically valid, one of the ten statistical graphs was a 90% confidence interval plot of all 188 songs. For example, Bo Rhap was ranked #1 in the poll with an average rating of about 9.5, but was only statistically different from songs #7 (Killer Queen at 8.3 avg) up to #188 (Yeah at 0.8 avg).
The following was a QZ topic on the poll:
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Post by Sammy B. Willickers on Sept 9, 2021 1:46:51 GMT
Wasn't Party in a bit of a 'medley' with Khashoggi's Ship? Either way, I agree, not the best opener. I Want It All would've been a much stronger opener.. Yep, that's correct but they count as songs each on their own too. Reminds me of the Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon medley case where you have no labeled medley but an audiable medley for sure. Just listened to Party and Kashoggi's Ship again (after a longer time) and I'm cheerful because even though I said Party is one of the worst openers (more like a weak opener ) I still would not want to lose any single track of Queen on any album.
I really hope that the new box set of "The Miracle" will be a good one and that we will have unreleased recordings with Freddie too. 9 bloody discs... wow!!!
Yeah, I get what ya saying! I'm glad you like them. Not every person is the same, which makes these type of conversations interesting to have And I hope so too! (If it'll even come out at this point lol) |
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Post by saintjiub on Sept 9, 2021 16:57:00 GMT
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Post by n39 on Sept 9, 2021 17:16:14 GMT
Thanks for this. Definitely counts for something, it's worth a lot statistically and is a very useful poll, just like that and any other |
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Post by rylan2020 on Sept 10, 2021 5:01:49 GMT
The band has said that there was something like 30 songs thrown out. Itβs not the worst idea for a boxset. Hell many of the innuendo songs had there start during the miracle session Innuendo would make a great box set because of it's cover artwork alone.
Iβm surprised Queen didnβt realease a innuendo art book. |
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Post by highlander on Sept 10, 2021 12:14:40 GMT
Innuendo would make a great box set because of it's cover artwork alone.
Iβm surprised Queen didnβt realease a innuendo art book. They kinda did with the "Off The Record" book that includes every illustration used for the sleeves in 1991 plus it has all the notes and chords in it too. |
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Post by pg on Sept 10, 2021 17:36:38 GMT
Iβm surprised Queen didnβt realease a innuendo art book. Well, it was all someone else's art... |
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Post by Steve on Sept 10, 2021 17:51:57 GMT
I love it, Procession/Father To Son, a great way to start an album. FTS yes, that's a great song. Procession is a bit bland though. |
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Post by Steve on Sept 10, 2021 17:52:20 GMT
Iβm surprised Queen didnβt realease a innuendo art book. Well, it was all someone else's art... Good old Grandville! |
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Post by BrΖΠsκi on Sept 10, 2021 18:02:10 GMT
Well, it was all someone else's art... Good old Grandville! and wasn't JJ Grandville's artwork from his book Another World, which coincidentally (or not) became the title of Brian's second solo album? |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Sept 10, 2021 19:21:53 GMT
Well, it was all someone else's art... Good old Grandville! Did he ever fe...fe...fetch a cloth? π |
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Post by Steve on Sept 11, 2021 6:32:30 GMT
Did he ever fe...fe...fetch a cloth? π Hahaha! Good old Ronnie Barker! That's Granville. Close though. π€£π€£π€£ |
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Post by khizzy on Sept 11, 2021 9:20:44 GMT
Did he ever fe...fe...fetch a cloth? π Hahaha! Good old Ronnie Barker! That's Granville. Close though. π€£π€£π€£ Exactly why I've never taken that artwork seriously! |
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Post by dane on Sept 11, 2021 20:34:15 GMT
Hope something like this.  |
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Post by highlander on Sept 11, 2021 22:15:01 GMT
Hope something like this. This looks amazing! Where did you find this or did you made that yourself? |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Sept 11, 2021 23:24:41 GMT
Hope something like this. We can but dream... |
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Post by antonio on Sept 12, 2021 2:32:37 GMT
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Post by dane on Sept 12, 2021 13:53:48 GMT
Hope something like this. This looks amazing! Where did you find this or did you made that yourself? Something I threw together this week... If you guys like this kind of stuff.. Im working on some variations as well. |
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Post by greatermc on Sept 13, 2021 13:33:08 GMT
Yeah this is great! Would love to see more variations!
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Post by cmsdrums on Sept 13, 2021 20:44:12 GMT
Hope something like this. They wonβt be as creative!β¦.and clearly not realistic as Freddie is not shown solo on all the covers!!! |
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Post by highlander on Sept 13, 2021 21:35:30 GMT
This looks amazing! Where did you find this or did you made that yourself? Something I threw together this week... If you guys like this kind of stuff.. Im working on some variations as well. I would really like to see some more or your work!
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I was spending time on a restored version of the album cover as all the copies on websites have the same picture with a lot of red cast. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it here. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Sept 14, 2021 9:19:48 GMT
Something I threw together this week...Β If you guys like this kind of stuff.. Im working on some variations as well. I would really like to see some more or your work!
@admins or moderators@admin
I was spending time on a restored version of the album cover as all the copies on websites have the same picture with a lot of red cast. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it here. You had the tags right before, so not sure why you changed them, but in my opinion, if it's official artwork, and you've just restored it to it's original state, then it's still official artwork, so it shouldn't be posted on here. Sorry. |
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Post by donovan on Sept 14, 2021 13:29:39 GMT
Make an instagram account! The algorithms will put your work in front of the Bri-Army. They will tag him on a platform he uses and will see demand from those he apparently only cares about (Not MY belief, but it's a common theme in these parts  ) |
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Post by dave76 on Sept 14, 2021 14:38:24 GMT
Hope something like this. That looks stunning. I would buy it. Did you have any tracklisting in mind when you made these? |
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Post by dane on Sept 16, 2021 11:15:57 GMT
Actually did put some thought into the tracklisting when I made these.. but still not final.
This is the jist of what it would include.. I know, I've renamed a couple of them
CD1 The Miracle (2011 remaster or new)
CD2 The Album Sessions (Outtakes of album an B-side songs)
CD3 The Other Sessions (Outtakes of unreleased songs)
CD4 The Rough Mixes (1988 Capital demo cassettes)
CD5 The Remixes (7" and 12" Versions plus a couple of 2021 new remixes)
BluRay The Music Videos (All videos scanned from negatives in full HD/4K +Making Off's)
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Post by Steve on Sept 16, 2021 21:42:05 GMT
We can live in hope!
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