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MADE IN HEAVEN... is a worthy conclusion to the story of Queen!
In truth, the album is criticized by many who see it as a commercial operation: what I set out to do in this review is to debunk this very wrong taboo.
It's a Beautiful Day is a classic life anthem by Freddie, on the piano a bit understated compared to the rest of the album, but wasn't there this song until '95, am I wrong?
Made In Heaven turns into a pompous (which is not derogatory) arrangement from the bland song of MrBadGuy to an epic and resonant track.
Let Me Live is a contagious pop in typical Queen style (are there traces of this song before '95? Some would say there are demos that approach it in earlier periods, but do you have these demos and, above all, do they reach the third track of the album?)
Mother Love is a sweet atypical Queen song that ends with a breathtaking flashback (you can hear important parts of the band's concert life, One Vision and Going Back, one of the first songs sung by Freddie under the pseudonym LARRY LUREX.
Have you heard anything similar before the '95 album?
My Life Has Been Saved in the piano version is track number 5 this time quite penalized compared to the previous version (b-side of Scandal) which additionally had a good guitar.
I Was Born To Love You is something else in the Made in Heaven version: the second part of the song changes mainly, where, in the MrBadGuy version, the use of the synthesizer is really very banal and simplistic compared to the complex and echoing new version. I disagree with those who see it out of place on this album because it is the only song that gives a big boost of optimistic energy.
Regarding Heaven For Everyone and Too Much Love Will Kill You, I like to believe that they are two gift-tributes from Roger and Brian to Freddie. I assure you that both, sung by Freddie, are incomparable compared to those sung by the respective authors.
You Don't Fool Me, perhaps a bit too repetitive, is made fantastic by John Deacon's great bass work and an exciting yet deep solo from Brian.
A Winter's Tale is most likely (not Mother Love) Freddie's last song, although there are other unreleased ones (which should come out in the boxes that sometimes appear). It closely resembles the group's other Christmas song (Thank God It's Christmas), although it is much deeper and more meaningful than that: the accompanying video clip is very beautiful (fantastic and relaxing landscapes of Montreux).
A Winter's Tale is directly linked to It's A Beautiful Day (Reprise), a dragging version of It's A Beautiful Day, certainly better than that (the inclusion of notes from Seven Seas of Rhye and the "Yeah" that "splits" the song twice is nice; the second split is the twelfth track (3 seconds!).
The mysterious track that ends Queen's career, the thirteenth, is Untitled (22 minutes and something!) that many see as a tour of music in Heaven: then a few steps, a few notes, a few laughs in the rain ending with a single word: Fab!
(Wonderful)
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
07 Heaven for Everyone (05:36)
This could be heaven
This could be heaven
This could be heaven for everyone
In these days of cool reflection
You come to me and everything seems alright
In these days of cold affections
You sit by me - and everything's fine
This could be heave for everyone
This world could be fed, this world could be fun
This could be heaven for everyone
This world could be free, this world could be one
In this world of cool deception
Just your smile can smooth my ride
These troubled days of cruel rejection, hmm
You come to me, soothe my troubled mind
Yeah, this could be heave for everyone
This world could be fed, this world could be fun
This should be love for everyone,
This world should be free, this world could be one
We should bring love to our daughters and sons
Love, love, love, this could be heaven for everyone
You know that
This could be heave for everyone
This could be heave for everyone
Listen - what people do to other souls
They take their lives - destroy their goals
Their basic pride and dignity
Is stripped and torn and shown no pity
When this should be heaven for everyone
09 You Don't Fool Me (05:24)
Words and music by Queen
You don't fool me
You don't fool me...
Da, da da da dah
Da da da dah
Da da dah...
You don't fool me - those pretty eyes
That sexy smile - you don't fool me
You don't rule me - you're no surprise
You're telling lies - you don't fool me
Mmm, mama said be careful of that girl
Mama said you know that she's no good
Mama said be cool, don't you be no fool
Yup bup ba ba ba ba da da da dah!
You don't fool me
You don't fool me, you don't fool me
She'll take you
You don't fool me, and break you
You don't rule me, you don't fool me
You don't fool me, she'll take you
You don't fool me, and break you
Sooner or later you'll be playing by her rules
Baby you don't fool me, yeah
You don't fool me, you don't have to say 'don't mind'
You don't have to teach me things I know
Sooner or later you'll be playing by her rules
Oh, (fool you) oh, (rule you) she'll take you (take you)
And break you (break you)
Yeah
Mama said be cool
Mama said she'll take you for a fool
She'll take you, and break you
Ba ba ba ba bap bap ba baah
La la la la la lah
You don't fool me
You don't fool me...
10 A Winter's Tale (03:49)
It's Winter-fall
Red skies are gleaming, oh
Sea-gulls are flyin' over
Swans are floatin' by
Smoking chimney-tops
Am I dreaming
Am I dreaming?
The nights draw in
There's a silky moon up in the sky, yeah
Children are fantasizing
Grown-ups are standin' by
What a super feeling
Am I dreaming
Am I dreaming?
Woh woh woh woh
(Dreaming) So quiet and peaceful
(Dreaming) Tranquil and blissful
(Dreaming) There's a kind of magic in the air
(Dreaming) What a truly magnificient view
(Dreaming) A breathtaking scene
With the dreams of the world in the palm of your hand
(Dreaming) A cosy fireside chat
(Dreaming) A little this, a little that
(Dreaming) Sound of merry laughter skippin' by
(Dreaming) Gentle rain beatin' on my face
(Dreaming) What a extraordinary place
And the dream of the child is the hope of the hope of the man
It's all so beautiful
Like a landscape painting in the sky, yeah
Mountains are zooming higher, mmm
Little doves scream and cry
My world is spinning and spinning and spinning
It's unbelievable
Sends me reeling
Am I dreaming
Am I dreaming
Oooh it's bliss
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