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BETTER READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY THIS RECORD!!!!!!

Oscar Teijeiro Contreras | Madrid, España | 12/09/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"This record It's not what you think!!!



First of all, the tracklist displayed in the back has no relation with the song order itself, but this ain't really relevant... the worst thing is that only the half of the record from 1 to 7 are the originally recorded by the members of Queen, the rest are heavy metal or folk songs recorded by someone else, not even a colaboration or production it's made by Queen on those songs.



Honestly I think that if you are looking for a good rare compilation try to buy the record "Queen In Nuce" where you'll find the songs by Larry Lurex (Freddie Mercury before joined Queen) Smile (Brian May, Roger Taylor & Tim Staffel) and the first song as Queen "Mad the Swine".



Also there is another record that I strongly recomend that was released by Tim Staffel called "A Ghost of a Smile" in which appears all the Smile songs and also "Doing alright" a demo or first recording of this song under Smile, re-recorded years later for the first Queen album."

Lost tracks from "Trax"?

Bob | Somerset, NJ United States | 03/01/2003

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I agree that the sound quality of this disc is awful. The Smile and Larry Lurex material is available elsewhere in much higher quality. However ... Stephen Rider's Queen bio "These Are The Days Of Our Lives" mentions that during the "Night at the Opera" sessions, Brian May and Freddie Mercury assisted a soul outfit named Trax and that this material has never been discovered. Is it possible that the six tracks on "Pre Ordained" which are not from Smile or Larry Lurex are, in fact, these lost Queen-assisted tracks from "Trax"? The quality is terrible, but the material is at least interesting, and I believe I do hear a certain Brian-ness in the guitar parts, a certain Freddie-ness in the piano parts, and a certain Queen-ness in the arrangements and background vocals. Maybe we do have some provenance, and there is some historic value to this low-quality CD."

I can't hear music!!!

Jason L. Schechter | NJ | 09/01/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I beg Brian and Roger to please release a proper CD of their early/rare recordings in an anthology so we no longer have to subjected to this horrendous trash. I mean heck, put all the money to AIDS research if they don't want to keep the money. I've heard better sounding bootlegs. I was hoping and expecting to be the best versions I've yet heard of I Can't Hear Music and Going Back and they were just plain awful. The liner notes are wrong about the performing musicians. The song list is even wrong. You want to talk about a piece of garbage. I mean the packaging is even messed up!!! I agree with one of early reviewers that said some of these songs might not have had any of Queen members playing on it. I will never buy another thing like this unless I see Hollywood Records put it out. Not even for a true Queen collector!"