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Queen for a Day – Leaving Home Ain’t Easy
Brian also wrote a ballad for this album. Truth is, he is the one who comes off best on the record, even though Freddie wrote the biggest hits.Like a cousin to She Makes Me, Leaving is in the trope of ’39 or Long Away. If one put together an album Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Fun It
Queen goes disco!Roger came up with this percussive heavy, electric drum, chic guitar track replete with roller disco whistles. As you can see from this song the band was already playing with the style that would garner them great fame and then great enmity in a short time.My trouble with Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Dreamer’s Ball
Brian May wrote this for the late Elvis Presley. Sure, why not?This is a band that has almost completely run out of ideas. A simple acoustic campfire ditty with a noodley lead accompaniment, the song is trying to evoke a seaside, Leon Redbone sound with Freddie Mercury crooning along.Meh. Grade: Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – In Only Seven Days
John Deacon. I really shouldn’t have to say anything more. This is a crappy list song. I hate list songs. In the list he is on vacation and meets a woman who he then can’t find and then does…It’s like a shitty movie, Summer Lovers or something. It makes Friday Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Dead on Time
Opening like the introduction of a second act of a Rawk Show, Dead on Time is the song you play for people who THINK they Queen but only know the hits.A blues breaker unequaled in the band’s repertoire, I played this track for my lead guitarist to show him…well, to Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – If you Can’t Beat Them/Let Me Entertain You
Just look at those titles. The first thing that comes to mind, for me, is, hmmm, I think these guys have run out of ideas and are just sitting in the studio, tossing out random phrases and writing songs about them.Hey, what about a song about being jealous?You know, if Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Bicycle Race
Dumbest song in the catalog or the most fun?I particularly love the bike bell battle followed by the descending quarter solo guitar battle.And the song lends itself perfectly to mashup with eminem 30 years later.It’s goofy, it’s piffle and it’s a blast.Credit Freddie and the ensuing all female naked bike Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Jealousy
Freddie at his most androgynously treacly. He was always cheeky this qy, hedging his bets and keeping American audiences from running away from him and his co-horts. Jealousy sounds like an old song from Queen II but it quickly turns into a super ballad that has a toe in Day Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Fat Bottomed Girls
Drop D tuning, baby. When I ask my band to learn this song (we never ended up covering it) the guitarists so loved the tuning that they went a wrote the music for a song that would become one our biggest fan favorites, Age of Consent.Probably the last time Brian Continue Reading