Queen I Box Set Announced - Pre-Release Discussion Only

Hi Adam

What you're talking about is the "Basic track" term. The first thing musicians record for the song in the studio. The bulk of the song.

No Amazon US links yet (only Amazon Music Streaming ones)

Anyone watched the video yet? Personally, I really like it, especially the totally psychedelic animation at the end.

In my opinion, the video was terrible. At first, I thought it was ok with Brian and John’s photos moving, but the ones of Freddie and especially Roger look so lifeless and fake, especially Roger’s eyes.

And I know this is nitpicking, but if they’re going to include footage Rainbow, why didn’t they crop it to 16:9 or make the rest of the video into 4:3? It looked so unprofessional.

Then you should visit the Ai section of this very chatboard where you will find links to the instrumentals I did a couple of years ago....

queenchat.boards.net/board/91/queen-instrumentals-isolations-separations-discussion

That video... good god. Reading Rudi's book, originally the I'm Going Slightly Mad video was going to feature a robotic Freddie Mercury singing the song and the management and band went along with it, but Freddie had his doubts. "Isn't it a little cold?" He asked Rudi for his assurance, and Rudi unconvincingly suggested it might be okay, maybe. However, it didn't sit right with Freddie and after a few days, he came up with something so much more memorable, artistic, original and humorous. Despite him being in the late stages of AIDs, it was this care for his craft, which separated him from so many other artists.

So why haven't Queen productions continued with this spirit? There's thousands of artists around the world, who if given £10k and a month, could have come up with something so much better than this shite. If the AI animation was good - I wouldn't have such a problem with it. But it looks crap, is something anyone can do on their phone with the right app and is god damn disrespectful and lazy to the legacy of Freddie Mercury. Oh also, whilst I've got you - stop fucking autotuning Freddie's voice.

I didn't like the video, however every decade has its complaints, in the 80s drum machines, use of synths, much echo in guitars, in 90s digital recordings and photoshop in album covers, now is the A.i.

Everything is tool and everything depends how is used.

I would prefer they had approach some artists like they did in MIH films, at least some videos were really good.

I hope in the future the use of A.i. in their videos will be much better

The beginning was fine, but the moment Freddie's picture came around, I was horrified. It looks completely unhuman and quite unlike Freddie, his mouth even glitches a bit. For someone that was ""specializing"" in AI, this looks horrendous.

Was it worth to wait so long with the premiere of the video if it turned out to be crap? Photos spoiled by AI mixed with video footage of the concert in Rainbow.It would be better to restore the deleted clips of Keep Yourself Alive and Liar than to release such an obvious fake.

That certainly was a video. I didn’t HATE it, but I think I’ve fulfilled my duty as a fan by watching it once, and I have no plans on watching it again.

I think the best of these “new videos for songs that didn’t have a video” was, hands down, All Dead All Dead.

Is TNCD the only Queen song that has a completely different drum sound on three different versions (excl Hollywood remixes?) - original mix, De Lane Lea demo mix and 2024 mix with potentially the 2024 demo mix being different too.

To be fair, that's from the psychedelic portion and there's a lot of weirdness happening at that part.  Altho that screengrab is particularly disturbing.