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Post by queenfan23 on Sept 20, 2024 23:13:12 GMT
Are the Miracle and Made in Heaven versions of my life has been saved from the same take ?
I may be wrong but the two versions of the song sound to me like they are from slightly different takes.
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Post by georg on Sept 20, 2024 23:58:51 GMT
The instrumentation on the Made In Heaven version is from 1993/1994, but the vocal might be from a different take from 1988. It’s been a while since I’ve listened to either so I can’t recall the differences.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Sept 21, 2024 0:02:08 GMT
It's definitely the same vocal take on both versions. The only difference on the MIH version is that a couple parts were muted.
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Post by alexlizzy on Sept 22, 2024 6:52:17 GMT
I agree that its the same vocal take, sounds exactly the same to me.
I was always disappointed with the inclusion of the track on MIH. It's not even better than the first version, I prefer 1989 version, so its pointless and just take away place from some other unreleased gem they might have out on MIH instead.
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Post by pg on Sept 22, 2024 18:10:00 GMT
... take away place from some other unreleased gem they might have out on MIH instead. It's seems obvious to me that for whatever reasons, the MIH tracks were ALL that they had, or knew they had, at the time. You don't recycle IWBTLY, MIH, upcycle YDFM, scrape together Let Me Live, and pad out IABD unless you think that's all there is to work with. |
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Post by disco_mart on Sept 22, 2024 18:17:07 GMT
... take away place from some other unreleased gem they might have out on MIH instead. It's seems obvious to me that for whatever reasons, the MIH tracks were ALL that they had, or knew they had, at the time. You don't recycle IWBTLY, MIH, upcycle YDFM, scrape together Let Me Live, and pad out IABD unless you think that's all there is to work with. I actually think that songs released more recently were known about and looked at but either due to a missing Freddie vocal, different takes being in different keys, low quality composition, or not fitting the vibe they were after, passed them over in favour of MBG tracks and MLHBS. Lets not forget that in 1995, very few people had actually heard the original version of MLHBS and MBG was long out of print in most places. |
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Post by Maxi Dries on Sept 23, 2024 14:22:22 GMT
... take away place from some other unreleased gem they might have out on MIH instead. It's seems obvious to me that for whatever reasons, the MIH tracks were ALL that they had, or knew they had, at the time. You don't recycle IWBTLY, MIH, upcycle YDFM, scrape together Let Me Live, and pad out IABD unless you think that's all there is to work with. Dunno. Let Me in Your Heart Again would fit perfectly on MIH. It was indeed a track that they "had" at the time. |
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Post by georg on Sept 23, 2024 15:06:17 GMT
It's seems obvious to me that for whatever reasons, the MIH tracks were ALL that they had, or knew they had, at the time. You don't recycle IWBTLY, MIH, upcycle YDFM, scrape together Let Me Live, and pad out IABD unless you think that's all there is to work with. Dunno. Let Me in Your Heart Again would fit perfectly on MIH. It was indeed a track that they "had" at the time. Not really. There was a lot of work needed to be done on that track – the final version was constructed from a bunch of different takes, and remember that their archive wasn’t in order at this point. As much grief as he gets (more deserved than not), Greg Brooks did get their archive sorted out over several years, but not until he was hired as a contractor sometime in the late 90s, well after Made In Heaven was released. In the years between Freddie’s death and the album’s release the party line was that there wasn’t much in the archives, and that was true as far as they knew; years, even decades later, Brian and Roger have both expressed surprise at how much more unreleased stuff there is than they thought existed. My theory is that My Life was worked on by John and Roger before Brian got involved, so John probably wanted some kind of representation on the eventual album and got his way in that regard. |
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Post by lewisakkas on Sept 23, 2024 15:26:29 GMT
I always got the impression listening to the original that the vocal tracks was overdubbed on top of each other to make that sound effect you hear on the vocals. The MIH version seems like they only used 1 vocal track and it's a lot clear.
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Post by Maxi Dries on Sept 23, 2024 17:42:01 GMT
Dunno. Let Me in Your Heart Again would fit perfectly on MIH. It was indeed a track that they "had" at the time. Not really. There was a lot of work needed to be done on that track – the final version was constructed from a bunch of different takes, and remember that their archive wasn’t in order at this point. As much grief as he gets (more deserved than not), Greg Brooks did get their archive sorted out over several years, but not until he was hired as a contractor sometime in the late 90s, well after Made In Heaven was released. In the years between Freddie’s death and the album’s release the party line was that there wasn’t much in the archives, and that was true as far as they knew; years, even decades later, Brian and Roger have both expressed surprise at how much more unreleased stuff there is than they thought existed. My theory is that My Life was worked on by John and Roger before Brian got involved, so John probably wanted some kind of representation on the eventual album and got his way in that regard. Maybe. Maybe not. If they did go and dig onto It's a Beautiful Day, from earlier sessions...there's no excuses (for them to research). Also, You Don't Fool Me is an studio experiment, so working on LMIYHA will be much the same thing. The messed archive is true, for sure. But I don't buy the "we didn't remember recording that song" thing. |
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Post by mattzarella on Sept 23, 2024 17:48:10 GMT
I always got the impression listening to the original that the vocal tracks was overdubbed on top of each other to make that sound effect you hear on the vocals. The MIH version seems like they only used 1 vocal track and it's a lot clear. Just adding... these days with scenes from the encampment, scenes from protests... corruption and evasion, a.i. and staggering job opportunities, ... I think of this song more and more often EACH day. Hah. John was prescient |
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Post by inuliger on Oct 5, 2024 6:24:49 GMT
I'll assume you've never played in a band, or several bands, over a span of several years. It can happen to forget things like that, I've had moments going over older live/studio recordings I've played on and realizing I'd forgotten about a lot of moments, or even songs being played for that matter. Matter of fact, one of the bands I still currently play in, I was going through some live recordings not too long ago and had completely forgotten that a song we have been playing regularly since 2022 had in fact been played live in a bit of a less developed form three times back in 2018, and believe me I was very surprised! I legitimately forgot we had played it back then. These things do happen! |
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Post by Maxi Dries on Oct 7, 2024 14:11:46 GMT
I'll assume you've never played in a band, or several bands, over a span of several years. It can happen to forget things like that, I've had moments going over older live/studio recordings I've played on and realizing I'd forgotten about a lot of moments, or even songs being played for that matter. Matter of fact, one of the bands I still currently play in, I was going through some live recordings not too long ago and had completely forgotten that a song we have been playing regularly since 2022 had in fact been played live in a bit of a less developed form three times back in 2018, and believe me I was very surprised! I legitimately forgot we had played it back then. These things do happen! My current band is 12 years old, in fact (please take a look in spotify: volcan sonico hehehe).
But, of course, we don't have an archivist, who only job is, well...research the vaults, make notes and lists... So, maybe them COULD forgot something like that. But back then, when you are looking for songs to finish an album like MIH..I guess if you could get "It's a Beautiful Day", the other song isn't far away in the vaults. Just my opinion, of course. Would you, as musician, revisit a recent song of your catalogue (like 'My Life Has Been saved'), or instead release something really unheard? Just thoughts.
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Post by saintjiub on Oct 7, 2024 17:06:19 GMT
... Would you, as musician, revisit a recent song of your catalogue (like 'My Life Has Been saved'), or instead release something really unheard? Just thoughts. John Deacon is "woke", and he insisted that he be "represented" on Made in Heaven.  |
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Post by Maxi Dries on Oct 7, 2024 19:12:32 GMT
John Deacon is "woke", and he insisted that he be "represented" on Made in Heaven. A strong point. |
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Post by queenfan23 on Oct 7, 2024 19:54:24 GMT
John Deacon is "woke", and he insisted that he be "represented" on Made in Heaven.
You Don't Fool Me sounds more like a Deacon song than My Life Has Been Saved.
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