Queen I Box Set - Post-Release Discussion

"Mrs L" wouldn't have rhymed. 😉

It's amazing, I found myself randomly doing a A/B comparison with Jesus yesterday and the amount of warmth lost on the new one is substantial. I thought I was loving the new mix (I still am enjoying it overall), but after comparing back and forth with these two versions, I didn't realize just how little bass presence the new one has. Will be genuinely interesting what everyone thinks in a month or two when the novelty starts to wear off 🤔

An interesting listen that proves they didn't go all the way with the pitch correction on Freddie's vocals. I still hear a few lines that are slightly off, most notably the "They call me" at around 1.50. Also his doubled vocals aren't quite as tight as is often advertised, perhaps on purpose to retain that flowery potpourri vibe as someone on this board described it.  

This can't be true because we've heard the piano vocal mic from multitrack mixes in Rags To Rhapsody and the Bohemian Rhapsody movie.

Do you have the links for the Dolby Atmos versions? I have Googled for ages and cannot find it!

We can't provide links to actual downloads but I believe these are available on Apple Music.

Having said that, I can't find them myself, at least, not in iTunes.

Anyone?  Where are these legitimately available for purchase?  

Well my cd's are fine, so its definitely a spotify issue.  Just not sure who to blame.  

I got my first freshly remastered CD copy of Queen I for Christmas 1994 (yes we used to call it like this among the fans, it's true) and I blasted it to death, never getting enough of it, enjoying very much Queen's Music subtle yet flambuoyant intricacies (the in between acoustic guitar runs in "Great King Rat", the chilling end vocal parts on "All Day Long", the endlessly propulsive coda of "Son and Daughter"... All so Much of its time while retaining it's unique cachet. I wiped that CD until I got the vinyl somewhere around 2000, an early Pathé-Marconi pressing. I went down the (Great King)-rat hole all over again and this time I could observe and over anal-yse the numerous details of the cover in all its mysterious glory. It was shrouded in swag, weirdness and endless mystery (a penguin, what?!). 2009, my life was way different, I sold it all, the collection, the complete works (yes it included the NOTW green vinyl, the Magic Tour program with the Knebworth ticket + the xeroxed map to access the car park, The weird South African Live Killers single LP, the yellow special No One But You single, the 75>85 collection of fan club issues... and on and on an on.

I knew my subject

Today, I went on to listen to the Remixed version. I always understood the limitations of the original recording, and I wish to have remixed it so myself many time using best original analog sources (I'm a tape freak) because there certainly was room for improvement and decluturing. And now, we're facing one of these terrible moments when you've been waiting so long for something, you feel forced to like what's given to you. And you know what? I can't bear it at all. For me it gets clear that who's Queen actual crew has left of hears, it only remembers the BOMBAST BLUDGEON RIFFOLA — when Queen was SO MUCH MORE than this.

The drums have not been JUST remixed, they've been obviously beat-detected and on some parts even replaced (The snares....) the natural Trident reverbs have been swapped for stuffed rooms (The claps on Liar, C'MON!!!!), the guitars now sound like Black Sabbath first album, thus rendering bass and vocal dull and unmoving, it's like Re-Dressing a cubist Picasso portrait. DUUUDE!!

They are George Lucasing their own history.

I'm so sad but I hope it will set up a precedent about the do's and the don't of Recording industries. They have all my sympathy.

They must have added more stock. At the time I posted, both the Deluxe Box and Deluxe Box/Picture Disc Bundle were listed as Sold Out. The bundle with the cassette and the cassette itself remain Sold Out. But, it stands that the box may have been pressed in limited numbers, much like The Miracle Deluxe Box.

Setting aside the debate over the remix, the thing I find most pleasing about this box is the sessions disc. What comes across (in what they've chosen for us to hear) is the fun they seemed to be having making the album. They were at the beginning of their road, (perhaps blissfully) unaware of what was to come, and the camaraderie of what was essentially four young lads let loose in a candy shop, is just a joy to hear. Oh, to be that young again, and perhaps, with hindsight, to do things differently.

I really hope that they get a good reaction to this box set, and have the impetus to give Queen II the same treatment, if only for another sessions disc with this fascinating insight into the recordings and their early relationships. "It was YOU, Bulsara, you were flat, you bastard!" still makes me laugh every time. More of this please!

I'm so happy with this release! I have listened to the whole box several times now, and its pure joy😃

And it's no.3 in the midweek UK album chart, probably going to drop a few places

Overall I like very much this release.

According to Brian nothing was changed, everything is like the original.

But I don't think it is. In My Fairy King at 1:44 a guitar is added, the same as it is on BBC version.

On Jesus in the ending the chorus has not got the echo, which on the original make it sound like a Cathedral.

I am waiting my box to arrive just to see, if there is any info about the remix.

Brian said none of the performances were changed and nothing has been added. The fact that you're hearing things you didn't hear before is down to the remix.