Freddie Mercury - Album
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Artist: Freddie MercuryEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 1992
CD Release Date: 1993-12-14
Music Label: EMI/Parlophone
Product features:
- Freddie Mercury - The Freddie Mercury Album
- The Great Pretender
- Foolin' Around
- Time
- Your Kind Of Lover
- In My Defence
- Mr. Bad Guy
- Let's Turn It On
- Living On My Own
- Love Kills
- Barcelona
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Music Review: Sacrilege. Not for true Freddy fans.
Rating: 2 Stars
If you're a Queen fan and you'd like to sample some of Freddy's solo work, then this might be a good buy. But if you're a true Freddy fan, then you'll be appalled at how they butchered his compositions in the re-mixing room.
In a weak attempt to bridge the gap between Queen's heavy rock sound and Freddy's gay style (I say "gay" meaning "happy"), the mixing engineers have slaughtered these pieces. The original versions, as released in Freddy's "Mr. Bad Guy", were just fine the way they were. Sure, some sounded like they could be the background to the Richard Simmons Workout Challenge, but true Freddy fans like it that way. *I* like it that way. If I want to hear something heavy, I'll pop in "Night at the Opera". I don't need some presumptuous mixing engineer adding heavy reverb on the drums, stupid house-techno beats and distorted guitars.
The worst is the absolute murder of the song "Mr. Bad Guy", originally a fully orchestrated piece, now reduced to some stupid "star search" sounding tripe with a whiny guitar soloing overtop everything.
What's next? Will some video engineer edit out all of Freddy's flamboyant concert outfits and digitally superimpose a bunch of tattoos and body piercing?
C'mon Atlantic (or whatever label was responsible for this travesty), give us some credit. Give FREDDY some credit. He liked it the way it was, and WE liked it the way it was.
Now pardon me whilst I throw this rubbish in the can, put on my leotard and listen to "Mr. Bad Guy" the way the artist intended it. Heavy on the gay. Party on.
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