Your latest Queen buys Part 2

[Kes]

Stands to reason, I've got one!

[BitterTears]

Got the picture disc version of Billy Squier's Emotions in Motion with Rog and Freddie on BVs. Never heard it before so that was something a bit different.

Few weeks ago now but I picked up something I didn't know existed. Was the Platinum Collection on CD in a boxset with a VHS of Greatest Flix 3. Bit of a curiosity that it would have all 3 CDs but only the one volume on video. Apparently it was cancelled just before release or recalled just after and they ended up giving most of them away for free at a convention. Comes in a nice box anyway.

Hang On... Greatest Flix 3?
What's on that?

On closer inspection, it wasn't Greatest Flix 3 at all! It was 'Greatest Video Hits' aka Greatest Flix 1

I don't know why I thought it was Greatest Flix 3

[Kes]

Maybe because it was in a silver slipcase?

[Kes]

Anyway, in addition to all The Miracle stuff, a Walmart special blue vinyl ANATO from America, and Freddie Went To School bundle from the QOL store.

[Leigh Burne]

Splashed out a whole £2.50 on the "You Don't Fool Me" CD single, to add the B-side remixes to my collection.

[Kes]

If it's the UK lilac sleeved one, that contains The Late mix, by David Richards (ultimately the bloke who created the original version), my favourite remix of the song.

[Leigh Burne]

Yeah, that's basically the reason I bought it because the other two remixes on there are crap

[Kes]

Being the fella that constructed the basics of the original, from a very short demo, he was best placed to expand it, and I think he did just that, with a little extra help from Brian & Roger.

I'm not particularly an expert, but generally, I think the mixes that are done by either the original band members, producers or engineers that worked on the original tracks, are best placed, and best qualified, to make the best results. I know there are people here who think I'm talking shit, but invariably those are the mixes I prefer, even before I find out it was those people who did them.

When a remix is done by "someone else", I think they are too busy trying to bring their ideas to the song, and dilute what the band were trying to achieve. Just my thoughts on the issue. On the odd occasion, someone can achieve better results, but I think that becomes the exception to the rule.

There's many remixes over the years for Living On My Own, but I think the best two, are the Original Extended Mix, and the Original Extended Version, both mixed by Freddie and Mack, and released on either side of the pond, when the original single was issued. The versions by the Belgian No More Brothers team were good, but they trail behind the ones that Fred did with Mack, himself.

[Leigh Burne]

I’d wholeheartedly agree, with the exception of Brian Malouf - I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every Queen-related remix of his I’ve heard, and some of them I even prefer to the originals (his remixes of “Mr. Bad Guy” and “The Great Pretender” are both superb). And as far as I’m aware Malouf never worked with the band directly?

[Kes]

You're quite correct.

His mixes of Hammer To Fall, Fat Bottomed Girls and I Can't Live With You are quite decent too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=brian+m ... gws-wiz-hp

The exception to the rule, I was talking about.

When they were thinking of a tracklist for LOLSOS, I suggested his mix of The Great Pretender, being at least equal to Freddie's. It got included. Maybe his results speak for themselves, he remixed Driven By You for BHM, so I guess the Sir Dr. likes him, as well.