Pre Ordained [Import]

Track Listings

1. Mad the Swine

2. Step On Me

3. Earth

4. April Lady

5. Polar Bear

6. Blag

7. I Can Hear Music

8. Heart Be Still

9. Day the Talkies Came

10. I've Been to Hell and Back

11. Tear Down the Walls

12. Vamp

13. Black Swan

14. Going Back

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
The first recordings! 14 tracks including 'I Can Hear Music', 'Heart Be Still', 'The Day The Talkies Came', 'Vamp', 'Step On Me', 'Polar Bear' and more.

Tracks:

Mad the Swine
Step On Me
Earth
April Lady
Polar Bear
Blag
I Can Hear Music
Heart Be Still
Day the Talkies Came
I've Been to Hell and Back
Tear Down the Walls
Vamp
Black Swan
Going Back

Album Description

Collection of early pre-fame recordings from Freddie, Brian, Roger and John and different variations of that line-up. Features the early Larry Lurex (ie: Freddie Mercury) single 'I Can Hear Music' and other rarities from the early '70s before they became one of the most successful bands of all time. 14 track including 'Heart Be Still', 'The Day The Talkies Came', 'Vamp', 'Step On Me', 'Polar Bear' and more. MP Records. 2007.

Customer Reviews:

Baby you've been had.......2007-05-17

This CD is designed to separate an unsuspecting Queen fan from his or her money. I think that the way it works is as follows: Someone with some mediocre quality recordings of some music somewhere puts it out on a nice CD and then it finds its way to a record store. The dedicated Queen fan who likes to collect everything that has to do with Queen sees it and recognizes many of the songs as being early Queen or Smile (1-7/14). Being a collector, he owns all of these songs on other CD's, but then he sees six more songs in the collection that he or she has never heard of (8-13). He figures that since this is a Queen CD they must have something to do with Queen. Perhaps they're early lost recordings, or maybe they're songs from some group that one of the members was in before Queen. So, the unsuspecting Queen fan pays his money and takes the CD home. He may even finance the purchase over the next 30 years by putting it on his credit card. He doesn't know exactly what those six songs are, but he figures he must get the CD so his Queen collection is complete, and he will find out what they are when he gets home and opens the CD and reads the liner notes. Only after he opens the CD and reads the liner notes does he realize that he has been had. The liner notes give almost no information on these mystery songs (8-13). They say that songs 8-11 were produced by Freddie Mercury and Roy Thomas Baker (a Queen producer), and that 12 and 13, Tear Down the Walls and Black Swan were produced by Tim Green, whoever that is. There is no word on who is singing on these songs, when and why they were recorded and published. A little internet research reveals that these songs were recorded by a guy named Peter Straker on an album produced by Freddie Mercury. That is their only connection with Queen.

The liner notes give almost no information because whoever wrote them probably figured that the less they say about the songs the less likely you are to notice that they have almost nothing to do with Queen, and that you wasted lots of money when you bought the CD.

A final note, many of the reviewers have been commenting that the quality of these recordings is very bad. They are correct. The sound quality is horrible. However, it should also be pointed out that these Peter Straker songs are just really bad songs. They're just terrible. The Smile songs (2-6) are fine. After all, they were mostly written by Brian May. But the Peter Straker ones make Spinal Tap look like Beethoven.

A Joke!.......2006-06-25

I have been a lifelong (25+ years) Queen fan and was excited to see a CD available of the early days of Queen ... Ooops! I was suckered in. This album is a joke in its representation as an album by Queen. Do not buy this album! If you're desperate for non-discography Queen material check-out their website instead.

queen queen.......2006-02-23

It is an excellent item that is not for sale in Mexico... thanks

BETTER READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY THIS RECORD!!!!!!.......2004-12-09

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.

I can't hear music!!!.......2004-09-02

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!

Music Review:

Music Review

Music Review

1. Mad the Swine
2. Step On Me
3. Earth
4. April Lady
5. Polar Bear
6. Blag
7. I Can Hear Music
8. Heart Be Still
9. Day the Talkies Came
10. I've Been to Hell and Back
11. Tear Down the Walls
12. Vamp
13. Black Swan
14. Going Back