Sunday's Best: Week 42, 2022

Today's Sunday's Best is a "new" song from Queen!

I was on vacation all last week so I missed this exciting news. The remaining members of Queen rediscovered the lost song "Face It Alone" while working on The Miracle Collector’s Edition. Brian May and Roger Taylor mentioned the lost track a few months ago... and then nothing happened. I forgot about it and then I saw the New York Times roundup of new songs and "Face It Alone" was included!

Jon Pareles of the New York Times writes:

"Freddie Mercury packed drama into every syllable when he sang 'Face It Alone,' a track Queen rediscovered in 1988 session archives while preparing a much-expanded reissue of its 1989 album, The Miracle, and has now rebuilt. It’s a dirge about inevitable, existential loneliness, set to slow, bare-bones arpeggios and funereal drum thuds, and Mercury’s voice expands it to arena scale as he moves between confidential croon and balcony-rattling rasp."