Liar (US Single Edit)

At a mere three minutes, this is a very severe edit of the 6:28 original and the song suffers a great deal for it. Only promo copies of the original US 7" seem to exist, but again the Spun Gold label has it as the B-side to "Killer Queen". However, unlike the "Keep Yourself Alive" edit very few dealers have spotted it, and it often sells for only a few pounds. Nowhere near as good as the album version though, this has frequently been described as "the worst officially released Queen product ever" (Record Collector, amongst others). But then, that was before the "You Don't Fool Me" remixes. Time 3:00*


Note:
This track created in Audacity in about 10-15 minutes; shows the love and care with which the original edits were made, doesn't it? ;)


Audio Source:
Queen (I) - CDP 7 46204 2; EMI, 1986


Text/Photo Credit:
*Queen Trainspotter's Guide: http://www.pcpki.com/jason/ (descriptive text)
Claus Queen Collection: http://clauss.wordpress.com (label images)

Thanks to DaveRFuller (http://www.youtube.com/user/DaveRFuller) for his video of this edit; it served as a guide for me to recreate it from the CD.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Queen
• Liar
• single
• edit
• USA
• US
• edited
• version
• Freddie
• Mercury
• Brian
• May
• John
• Deacon
• Roger
• Taylor
• Elektra
• EMI
• Records

[PicKPiT]

@vitamincity Back in those days a single that lasted more than 3 minutes, 4 minutes being the limit, was nearly suicide because no radio station would play it...

That's why they took a huge risk releasing a 6 minute single (Bo rhap), but they did it because they were in a very rough position (almost broke)...

Then you say inuendo, okay is a 6.30 minute song but by that time queen were legendary and didnt need the radio publicity to aware the fans

Even nowadays 5 minute singles are not common

[vitamincity]

wow this is really bad compared to the album version. why couldn't they have used the normal length for it