Varied album from 1989

The Miracle was Queens penultimate studio album during his lifetime of Freddie Mercury and is from 1989. It turned out very varied and again shows the wide range of tape, maybe a little over the parting with Innuendo.
Production-wise the band on the album but still stuck pretty much in the 80s and since it was rare taste securely over the entire decade. The show mainly Rain Must Fall and My Baby Does Me who do not really fit on the album. The sunny good mood spreading Rain Must Fall sounds like it was from the 1982 album Hot Space or Freddie Mercury's solo debut Mr. Bad Guy left. I wish the band had something acoustically recorded the song swinging freely from the entire production kitsch with some Latin influences. My Baby Does Me would have been a good Prince song on one of his albums of the late '80s. At a programmed beat Brian May delivers a very decent guitar work. Somehow the whole thing seems a bit unfinished.
Nevertheless, the album offers the rocker I Want It All, the danceable rock song Breakthru and the title track at least 3 outstanding songs. The Scandal dedicated the tabloid press, which even then speculated about Freddies health, is something of an exception in Queens song catalog as the band in their lyrics referring otherwise rather little position on issues. Invisible Man is very funky and danceable. This also very interesting to hear the demo version with Roger Taylor's song on CD 2. Since the song has even less reverb on the drums and bass and is more compact and more rock over.
What I never liked the album, is the beginning of the merging party and Khashoggi's Ship. The latter sounds like from their first albums and do not really come to the point. Party is a fun simple number.
With What It All Worth It The Miracle offers but still a cracking final song. Had Queen stopped here, it would have been a very good final. The song has a board of a guitar riff, a larger than life production with orchestra, choirs etc. Plus, there's a very conciliatory text on the career, a wonderful resumé. Yes it was a worthwhile experience "Freddie sings at the end and then laughs yet. It feels as if the band suspected that it might be the last album perhaps. But was followed by yet Innuendo that with The Show Must Go On and The Days Of Our Lives two moving songs offered.
Very unusual on the album are the songwriter credits that go for every song on the account of the entire band. That should probably show the unity within the band at this time, as well as the album cover with the interlocking fused heads. Nevertheless, partly to hear who was in charge behind the songs.
The Deluxe Edition features with 7 bonus tracks some B-sides, which Hang On In There protrudes, a Maxi of The Invisible Man, the single version of I Want It All and the demo of The Invisible Man. Unfortunately you do not draufgepackt here the original of My Life Has Been Saved, which was the B-side of Scandal. The song can be found on the Deluxe Edition of Made In Heaven.
The Remaster worth in the case of The Miracle, because at the Remaster series of Queen albums in the 90s only the albums have been revised up to and including The Works from 1984.

Conclusion:
As album The Miracle is not to bear as a whole, but it has some outstanding songs. The Game and The Works are from the 80's output and a more rounded thing the successor Innuendo acts compared to The Miracle of a piece. 4 stars, however, are for The Miracle in the vote there.