Nobodys favoriteQueenalbum is their1973 self-titled debut.
And Queen has agreed until now.
A track off the reissue,The Night Comes Down,will premiere on Friday.
Queen, 1973.RB/Redferns
The result isQueenas it would have sounded with todays knowledge and technology a first.
He added,Queen Iis the debut album we always dreamed of bringing to you.
Drummer Roger Taylor explained how he felt the album always sounded mediocre.
They had this very dead drum sound, and it was never the sound we wanted, he wrote.
They had a drum booth, and it was a well-known sound.
It was kind of American.
Very dry, quite fat, dead sound, which is not what I wanted.
I wanted to hear the drums resonate, to hear the sound of the drum.
I didnt even have my proper kit in there.
It was a bit rough really.
So the album never sounded as we wanted it to.
So they decided to fix the mix, as May puts it.
The recordings have been restored and remixed.
There are also discs of session mixes and backing tracks.
A 7 vinyl of The Night Comes Down will come out Oct. 4.
And in fairness,Rolling Stonesoriginal review of the album described it as a monster.
Now its alive again.
Queen I Collectors Editiontrack list:
Disc One: Queen I 2024 Mix
1.
The Night Comes Down8.
Modern Times Rock n Roll9.
Seven Seas of Rhye…
Disc Two: De Lane Lea Demos 2024 Mix
1.
The Night Comes Down3.
Keep Yourself Alive (Trident Take 13 Unused Master)2.
Doing All Right (Trident Take 1 with Guide Vocal)3.
Great King Rat (De Lane Lea Take 1 with Guide Vocal)4.
Mad the Swine (Trident Take 3 with Guide Vocal)5.
My Fairy King (Trident Backing Track In Development)6.
Liar (Trident Take 1 Unused Master)7.
The Night Comes Down (De Lane Lea Takes 1 & 2 with Guide Vocal)8.
Modern Times Rock n Roll (Trident Takes 8 & 9)9.
Son and Daughter (Trident Takes 1 & 2 with Guide Vocal)10.
Jesus (De Lane Lea Take 2 with Guide Vocal)11.
Seven Seas of Rhye… (Trident Take 3)12.
My Fairy King (BBC Session 1, February 1973)2.
Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Session 1, February 1973)3.
Doing All Right (BBC Session 1, February 1973)4.
Liar (BBC Session 1, February 1973)5.
Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Session 2, July 1973)6.
Liar (BBC Session 2, July 1973)7.
Son and Daughter (BBC Session 2, July 1973)8.
Modern Times Rock n Roll (BBC Session 3, December 1973)9.
Great King Rat (BBC Session 3, December 197310.
Son and Daughter (BBC Session 3, December 197311.
Son and Daughter (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)2.
Guitar Solo (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)3.
Son and Daughter (Reprise) (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)4.
Great King Rat (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)5.
Keep Yourself Alive (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)6.
Drum Solo (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)7.
Keep Yourself Alive (Reprise) (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)8.
Modern Times Rock n Roll (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)9.
Liar (Live at the Rainbow March 1974)10.
Hangman (Live in San Diego March 1976)11.
Doing All Right (Live in San Diego March 1976)12.
Jesus (Live at Imperial College August 1970)13.
Im a Man (Live at Imperial College August 1970)
An included LP includes theQueen I2024 mix.
