Queen I Box Set Announced - Pre-Release Discussion Only

Whee has been said that next single will be MTORNR?

I don't remember it. I've read it somewhere.

    It is Italian and translates as Nut, 

Exactly - and that's why it's best classified as a pirate and not a bootleg, because a bootleg is where you sell something that hasn't been officially released.

Yeah.. cause eventually I looked it up and the origin came from an author who basically coined the phrase "in a nut(shell)" to be "as defining, etc"

Still a wonderful collection

I’ve called it “Noose” for decades. And if anyone has a problem with that, they can pry that incorrect pronunciation from my cold, dead hands.

Yep, It comes from Latin, it means "in a nutshell" or "In The Beginning"

Absolutely. The crescendo at the end of TNCD is perfectly resolved by MTRNR crashing in. I've said it before, but that sequencing is one of the highlights for me on the whole album. A beautiful moment, almost like the 2 songs are part of one whole like so many later Queen segues.


One other note from me - I'd have loved it if the 2024 cassette followed the original rejigged UK cassette track order, but with the addition of MTS on side one both side are now of equal length. This is the version I grew up with and for me really works well. Front-loaded perhaps, starting in the familiar way, then SSOR as the intermission, GKR sparking into life to start side 2. Building up to the thrash of MTRNR in the 'Suffragette City' position. Then S&D as the grinding finale, taking the album to a mystical conclusion with its harmonised guitar fade out.



A1 Keep Yourself Alive

A2 Doing All Right

A3 Liar

A4 Jesus

A5 Seven Seas Of Rhye

B1 Great King Rat

B2 My Fairy King

B3 The Night Comes Down

B4 Modern Times Rock'N'Roll

B5 Son And Daughter

Here are the credits for a new product:

The box set contains songs known to everyone since 1973, sadly there is not a single unreleased song. And I am not talking about the studio version of Hangman. I think there is no point in hoping for anything in this regard. Unless Sony does release it in 2034 ;-)

There aren’t unreleased songs but there are unreleased versions, which for me is the most exciting thing. And the De Lane Lea test session of See What a Fool will absolutely be interesting.

Yes it’s missing Polar Bear, but do we even know FOR CERTAIN that any further songs were recorded? Remember, they were recording in downtime, so they were probably making the best use of their time and, apart from Polar Bear and Mad the Swine, the 10 songs on the album may have been all that was recorded. We don’t even know if Polar Bear is DEFINITIVELY from the debut album sessions. For years it was assumed that the Keep Yourself Alive retake was from the debut sessions; same with Silver Salmon.

I’m inclined to think there were only 11 (maybe 12) songs recorded during those sessions. Remember, QPL gave us six unreleased songs on the Miracle box set (some of which were were familiar with, yes), so it’s not like they’re THAT reluctant to put out unreleased stuff.

I'm with you on that matter. The best part of the mix. But mechanical sound of drums is the weakest point.

And "Going Back" and  "I Can Hear Music"  are original, untouched versions, without that terrible "pitch correction" (as on "Solo box"). The same case as new "Night comes Down".

I like the instrumentals but... not the vocal. And I realy hate "pitch corrected" versions of "Goin back" and "ICHM"