Queen Forever

[ruuger]

The Queen Forever collection is available for pre-order (it'll be released November 10th).

Now, the question is, do I really want to pay 12 euros for three new songs (one of which is only semi-new)...?

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[swordznsorcery]

You could pay even more, for a double album with a booklet! I must say, I'm very taken by the cover image. The press release (http://www.queenonline.com/en/news-archive/press-release-queen-forever/) mentions old tracks in a new light, so maybe they've remixed a lot of the songs, and it's not as much of a rehash as it sounds? Either way, you can probably download tracks individually, if you'd rather not buy the whole thing.

I am in two minds, but it'll be nice to hear the new/old stuff, at any rate.

[ruuger]

Could be worse - they could have put the new tracks only on the double album :D

Yeah, unless the old songs are extremely different from the old version, I'll probably buy the new songs as downloads (I assume/hope they'll be sold separately even though it would give people less of an incentive to buy the wole album) and then get the album itself as cheap second hand later (because my inner 12-year-old Queen fan likes tangible things).

I wonder if there's be a single/music video release...? I would think that the Freddie/MJ duet would be a big thing because it's new unreleased music from not one but two music legends.

[egret]

The way I counted it, only "Let Me In Your Heart Again" is really new. The Michael jackson duet has been floating around online for about ten years now at least, though I look forward to a proper mix of it as the demo is . . . very much a demo. And "Love Kills" isn't even new, just another remix from the ones they've already done. I actually don't like Queen versions of Freddie's solo materials because I see them as separate but maybe that is just me.
But I'm an old fan and maybe they are trying to market to new fans who joined up on the basis of Adam Lambert. These materials will all be new to them, as will some of the songs on the compilation album, so they'll be happy with it. It's pretty smart marketing. I'd like to think that's their strategy rather than "Let's milk every cent from the fans by splitting the new remixes over three disks and making them album-only on iTunes." LOL

[ruuger]

maybe they are trying to market to new fans who joined up on the basis of Adam Lambert

Could very well be. My first introduction to Queen back was Greatest Hits II. I do wonder, though, if the Adam Lambert generation still buys (compilation) albums.

(Which got me thinking, they haven't released a live album with AL yet, have they? I wonder if there will be one of the current tour. If they did, it would definitely be a hit)

I'd like to think that's their strategy rather than "Let's milk every cent from the fans by splitting the new remixes over three disks and making them album-only on iTunes." LOL

Well, that's certainly what the fans on Facebook and at official site think :D Then again, people were saying the same thing about Queen Rocks as well - and about pretty much everything that Queen has released since Made in Heaven that isn't a 70's live recording...

(there is a reason why I haven't been involved in the actual Queen fandom since the 90's...)

[egret]

OMG the actual Queen fandom can be so horrid. The entire subtext of this community's profile is "None of that official Queen fandom meanness here!"

You're probably right about AL fans not buying albums. I was showing my age. I've been a fan since News of the World.