What does it mean to "fo" and "fie"? Well??

I'm currently pondering this, after listening to The March of the Black Queen for about the bagazillionth time. I absolutely love Queen II! Not a rubbish song on it! Of course, Queen's never made a rubbish song, but Queen II is simply utter perfection. I've got the remastered version with the remix of Seven Seas of Rhye and Ogre Battle. Gah! Seven Seas of Rhye is remixed as a dance/club mix, and because Rhye is one of my most fave songs ever, I held high standards for the remix, of course taking into consideration that it was remixed in the early 90s (*shudder* - lots of tacky synths and MIDI-esque melodies proliferate in early 90s remixes, but sometimes they actually sound okay... well, okay enough). Well... the remix is pig doots. First of all, I wouldn't have ever dared to remix the fantasticness that is Rhye, so the remixer is a very silly person to begin with. But with the addition of
1. vocals from *years* down the line (explain to me how the "Ready Freddie" line from Crazy Little Thing Called Love has anything to do with Rhye? - and it's distorted to the point that it sounds like "Get Freddie", which creeped me out when I first listened to it! The "Beautiful" sample is taken from the live performance of Love Of My Life, and is used about 2 or 3 times. The "Eeee-ma-hee" (that's what it sounds like!) might be a bit of one of Freddie's vocals from Rhye played backwards, but just sounds... odd... even thuogh it could have sounded cool with a bit of vocal effects and if it had been the *only* excess vocal used. And I can't say where the "Yeah" comes from, cos it could be from any Queen song! If I listened to that one vocal by itself over and over again, I could figure it out. I'm sure of it. ;) )
2. a doofy MIDI piano melody
3. a way-too-simplistic MIDI bass line
4. a basic "thud-clapthud-thud-clapthud" and cymbally backing beat that *never* changes at all (except when the beat is taken away and just the cymbally bit plays)
5. an even doofier synth melody
6. what sounds a tiny little bit like the cool guitar bit at the beginning of White Man but severely distorted and therefore sounds... not very fantastic at all

and the lack of

1. save for the "doodoodoodoodoodooDOO" guitar right after "mighty titan and his troubadors", none of the original instrumentals
2. none of the other vocals (it just doesn't the same at all without the big crescendo of "forever-ever-ever-ah!"! In the remix, it's just "forever - then I'll get you!".)

the remix is a strange amalgamation of vocal samples and programmed beats and synths. If Rhye were to be remixed again (Heaven forbid!!), I'd call upon someone *good* to do it (Trouser Enthusiasts would do a fine job, I should think.). Rhye deserves an absolutely epic remix, and all we got was... pig doots. But because it has the main vocals from Rhye, it has some merit, because I love Rhye and wouldn't completely pan anything that includes elements from it.

Mmm, Trouser Enthusiasts remixes. Epic stuff.

Oh yes - the Ogre Battle remix isn't a remix in the sense that most people think of when they hear "remix" - it's basically just a polished up version of Ogre Battle. Which, in my opinion, is downright sacriligeous! If you're going to mess with a Queen song, don't try to *improve* it, cos it can't be done. Messing with it in an different format, like creating a dance remix, is a bit different, don't you think? It's not exactly like trying to improve it, it's more like... trying to create a dance remix!

Ogre Battle! *loves*

Cheery bye, Scarlett