So, we haven’t heard from Brian in a while…not since track two…. He’s definitely not down with this whole retro-50’s thing. Sure, the production is in line with the stripped down idiom they are using for the album but that’s the only thing this has in common with the rest Continue Reading

See, this is why people hate Queen. Perhaps inspired by the riffing that resulted in Another One…this Funk Bass/easy rocker has the single dumbest lyrics buttressed up against a real sentiment. And yet, Queen managed to pull it off. The finger snaps, the smoky jazz hall melody, the giant instrumental, Continue Reading

So, Freddie wrote a retro track.Deacon wrote one.What’s left? Well, Brian, definitely, but for sure, Roger “I’ve never had a hit but I don’t wanna be left out” Taylor pulled out his guitar and started arpeggiating.Apeing his song, “Tenement Funster” he pulls out his cheesiest rhymes (“Shoot and Get Your Continue Reading

True story:I was in the back of a car toward the end of high school with some friends and this song came on. They asked me what I thought of it and I said that, “well, I guess I like fifties music”….Then they told me it was Queen. This wasn’t Continue Reading

If you’ve been reading this series (and, really, who hasn’t?) you might have noticed by now that I am not really much of a fan of John Deacon’s work. He write’s trite, uninteresting “love” songs. Crap like “Misfire” (although it was covered by Neko Case a few years ago) and Continue Reading