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The ONLY other song on this record that sounds remotely like a QUEEN song (Aside from “One Vision”) is the sole Mercury offering. Weird that, isn’t it? Freddie used to account for most of the songs or the lion’s share and here he is, down to one solo track. And Continue Reading

Roger Taylor, fresh from two, count em, TWO big hits for the band (“Radio Gaga” & “A Kind of Magic”) has another offering, one that references, tongue in cheek (sort of) the fact from the movie that the only way to kill an immortal is to behead them.It’s “Don’t Lose Continue Reading

Deacon, Mercury and Highlander director Russell Mulcahy all hate this song. Replete with snippets of dialogue and echoing the chords of “Princes of the Universe”, Gimme the Prize is the sludge metal cousin of “Tear it Up”. Which, in and of itself, renders it redundant. Revolving around the title, it’s Continue Reading

“Impetuous boy! Ah, well… who wants to live forever? DIVE!” Prince Vultan. Flash Gordon. 1980 I’ve always wondered why no one seems to make the allusion that this song’s title and chorus comes directly from the script of the previous movie Queen scored.Sure, it can be applied to Highlander but, still. Continue Reading

It’s been a long while since Queen came up with a bona fide Anthem!. In fact, for years their shows ended with “We WIll Rock You” and “We are the Champions” and by 1986, they had been around for about 8 years.So, I guess it was time for a big Continue Reading

Ah, so now we’re back in “Body Language” territory. Only this time it sounds more like an MOR, easy listening R&B jam. In other words, it’s about as generic as generic can be. Any teeth that the band have had once upon a time are long gone. This is as Continue Reading

Right where it belongs, historically speaking, is the requisite treacly John Deacon I-love-you ditty. John doesn’t seem to have anything else going on in his life save his exclamations of affection for his “best friend”, cuz it’s just “you & I”, etc, etc. This time it’s almost as bad as Continue Reading

One this. One that. Roger has stated that he was the genesis for “One Vision”. And this is his track, the real opening to the album. A plodding, driving, catchy, sound-a-like for “Radio Gaga”, this song is a perfect example of what Queen was. Roger came up with the spine, Continue Reading

I really think of this as the 3rd wave of Queen. At this point they’re just a group of guys who know how to push through and craft pop hits. Maybe they were always that way. Like “Under Pressure”, “One Vision” came out a group jam. And it sounds like it. Continue Reading

A slight ballad with just Freddie and Brian closes The Works and it’s the saddest and most socially conscious song the band has come up with so far.The world was awakening to the hunger problems in Africa and elsewhere so Freddie wrote some heartfelt lyrics that asked the title’s question. Continue Reading