Queen music download : Announce: As It Began The BBC Archives

wow Thanks, do you have the artwork?

ok thanks again though great set to have, if anyone could upload the artwork would be very much apprciated!!

Hardly any of it is official. The only BBC Sessions that were released was Session's One and Three, both of which are not here. You could argue that half of one of the tracks on the last session was released (We Will Rock You fast version) which was given away for free by The Sun newspaper here in the UK.

There was some argument on this site that some of the De Lane Lea Demo's were just different mixes of the album versions, but I cant find the thread.

Thank you very much!

Thanks for the share!

One small note... the '77 session should be Oct 28.

Thanks very very very much.
Finally I can have this in FLAC.
But seed please.

Thanks for the heads up. The boot sleeve says the 10th, not the first time the bootleggers got it wrong.

Eee - shiny new classic Queen hotness!!! Thanks for sharing this!

Hola, amigo, gracias por los archivos , eres grande

Hello, Pal, thank you by the archives, you are great

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much for this, I've been waiting for this for a long time. Great download.

A very big thank to the uploader

A HUGE Thank You !!!!!!!!

Thanks for the info, I thought that YOU removed session 1&3 and March Of The Black Queen

great, thanks a lot for this!
Marknow, could please send me an email to oliver_mueller@manmadeplanet.de

Greetings, Olli

thanks Marknow

My brief review:

A couple of the 7-25-73 songs are upgrades, but the rest is equal or worse than the commonly available versions. Most of the songs have a light distortion to them. White Queen and Nevermore from 4-3-74 are lossy, at least (I didn't check everything).

It's a decent collection for someone wanting all this stuff in one place, but they definitely could have done a bit more homework and found some better sources. So, thumbs down from me.

Thanks for that explanation, Bob, it gives us some more information about these tracks.
So do you think someone could share here the best versions available of all these BBC sessions, to let us know what would have been the "perfect bootleg" ? It could be something really interesting !!

Regards,

Olivier,
France.

Well here is what's lossy or not: (according to Trader's Little Helper)

1 Intro Procession The Rainbow March 1974.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 58%
10 Its Late Maida Vale Studio 1977.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
11 My Melancholy Blues Maida Vale Studio 1977.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
12 We Will Rock You Maida Vale Studio 1977.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
13 Keep Yourself Alive De Lane Lea Demos 1971.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
14 Great King Rat De Lane Lea Demos 1971.wav: track looks like MPEG with probability 95%
15 Jesus De Lane Lea Demos 1971.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
16 Liar De Lane Lea Demos 1971.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
2 Father To Son The Rainbow March 1974.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
3 Ogre Battle The Rainbow March 1974.wav: source of track can not be qualified
4 Son And Daughter The Rainbow March 1974.wav: source of track can not be qualified
5 Keep Yourself Alive The Rainbow March 1974.wav: source of track can not be qualified
6 Seven Seas Of Rhye The Rainbow March 1974.wav: source of track can not be qualified
7 Modern Times Rock And Roll The Rainbow March 1974.wav: source of track can not be qualified
8 Liar The Rainbow March 1974.wav: source of track can not be qualified
9 Spread Your Wings Maida Vale Studio 1977.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
1 Keep Yourself Alive Langham studio 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
10 Tenement Funster Maida Vale Studio 1974.wav: track looks like MPEG with probability 95%
11 Flick Of The Wrist Maida Vale Studio 1974.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 99%
12 Intro Procession Taped Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: source of track can not be qualified
13 Father To Son Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
14 Son And Daughter Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: track looks like MPEG with probability 95%
15 See What A Fool Ive Been Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
16 Ogre Battle Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 99%
17 Band Introduction Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
18 Liar Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
19 Jailhouse Rock-Stupid Cupid-Be Bop A Lula-Jailhouse Rock reprise Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
2 Son And Daughter Langham studio 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
20 Big Spender-Bama Lama Bama Lou Golders Green Hippodrome 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 99%
3 Liar Langham studio 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 99%
4 See What A Fool Ive Been Langham studio 1973.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
5 Modern Times Rock And Roll Langham studio 1974.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
6 White Queen Langham studio 1974.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
7 Nevermore Langham studio 1974.wav: track looks like MPEG with probability 93%
8 Now Im Here Maida Vale Studio 1974.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%
9 Stone Cold Crazy Maida Vale Studio 1974.wav: track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

Thanks for the info josedequeso...

Lossy or just distortion?

Those naughty bootleggers. Its a terrible shame the quality is lossy, this could have been a nice boot.

Thanks for sharing - this is going to be brilliant.

But, can someone PLEASE upload in Mediafire or Rapidshare? I'm relatively new to this downloading stuff & I have tried unsuccessfully to download quite a few torrents in the last month or so & it's the same old story - not enough seeders (& going to take some 3000 hours to download!) or no seeders at all. Whereas MF & RS are no problem at all, the files are there & you just hit the download button & voila!

Can we have all downloads in MF or RS or, dare I say it, ban the torrent format? Okay, I know that's over the top but i'm really annoyed with torrents & have missed out on so many wonderful downloads.

Hi !
I am quite OK with what you say, I can't use torrents and I see a lot of posts saying "please seed" or things like that.
Anyway, we can't go to the point of saying we should ban the torrents from Queenzone. It's absolute non-sense !! In fact, we can consider the torrent as an alternative way of downloading files, an alternative to rapidshare and mediafire, who are themselves an alternative to the "right button / Save As" thing. Or maybe we should also say that Mediafire and Rapidshare are an alternative to the torrents !! It's a never-ending discussion. I for my part consider a mediafire or rapdishare more universal than the torrents, as everybody can go there and click on the button "download", whereas only a part of the Queenzoners have access to the torrent thing, for various reasons (I once heard about some people unable to use rapidshare from some countries, but don't really know about that, it has not been confirmed). I mean, even with a waiting period between downloads, everybody would have the files in the end, so that's why I consider rapidshare and Mediafire.

On the other hand, what I learned here was that torrents was a very appreciated way of downloading, very easy to understand (I can't check all I say here, but I am sure a dozen Queenzoners would say so). And we have here Ginger, the Queen of the torrents, always ready to help and seed. And she's not alone !!

So, what I would say is not that torrents must be banned, but more that files should be offered both ways, as a torrent and as mediafire or rapidshare (or badongo or whatever you want) links. The first offer on torrent should be converted by someone else into MF/RS links, and the same goes for the other way. It could not be the original sharer as it is too much work, and he maybe is not able to use torrents for example. A community is that, the spirit of sharing and helping everyone in getting exactly the same things that everybody else.
But it's beginning to be more common these days, we can't take the torrenters as elitists unwilling to get down to other Queenzoners level, that is not true and dangerous thinking ! The torrent IS in itself something with people interconnecting and relying on the others !! There will always be leechers (I think it is the name we give to people who download but doesn't seed after that).
So, both ways should be used, the most possible (except maybe for DVDs and big video files, a pain in the ass to upload on MF/RS, for those things I could only say that torrent is probably the best thing).
And I can't say you're wrong when you say that some shares are missed by those who can't use torrents... Be patient, I'm sure minds are changing slowly, and there are some good old pals here that are more than happy to help !!
Patience is the best thing, really.

Regards,

Olivier,
France.

For anyone interested, here's my frequency analysis of the first CD.

As you can see they've mixed and matched sources throughout the CD. I've attached the spectrum+frequency for track 7 but the remaining tracks identified as mpeg don't have the expect sharp drop-off around 14 kHz - the high frequencies disappear more gradually - same result in the end.

Will post disc 2 shortly.

Frequency

Right, on to Disc 2. It seems that all the Maida Vale tracks and two of the De Lane Lea tracks are lossless. The De Lane Leas of GKR and Jesus being MPEG. However the quality of the rainbow gig is too low for frequency analysis to get a positive lock - probably lossy too though.

Oh God ! Talk about the "Emperor's New Clothes".
Good quality mp3 (ie 192 or above) from a good source is better than lossless from a poor source. Lossless versions of "Tenement" and "Flick" from the same bad source will NOT sound any better !
I'm convinced most (if not all) people could not tell the difference between "lossless" and 192 mp3. A scientific survey would prove this with "blind" tests. The human power of self-deception is amazing ! ........
Please, Brian, Roger, BBC - release all BBC stuff before I die .........

I wasn't looking to make a case for mp3 - just illustrating that there must be better sources of this material.

Lossless tracks sourced from old tapes. We can trade some if you want to. My mailadress is in my profile.

thanx!

DuckSoup - thanks a lot !!!

Olivier - I'm working on a "best of" compilation, simply putting together the absolutely best sources for all the tracks. The bad thing is that I'm actually doing this for approx. 10 years :-(
When it will be 100% ready, I will maybe share or trade it (IF I'll be allowed to do it), but it will take a couple of month if not years :-(

Marknow - thanks again for this share. I only wish that QueenProductions will release one day something which looks as good as this bootleg, but from their master tapes !

Thank you very much from Italy :-)

Thank you everybody - no more peers connected, quitting at share rate 1.85

Thanks a lot for this! I'll try to seed as long as possible.

V.

Thanks for this. Really

>Thanks for this, but could anybody seed?
+1
Seed Request

Hello, can someone please upload in rapidshare, or mediafire?
Please, and thank you.!

Not worth downloading, most of this stuff is lossy, no-one will upload this to rapidshare so don't bother waiting.

Hi,

I've downloaded the Torrent, but Bit Torrent 6.0.3, keeps giving me an error stating that the system can't find the path selected. Can anyone help me with this?

hi please can some kind queen fans seed for me thank you so much

Is there anyone who could upload this on mediafire? Torrents don't seem to agree with my computer...