Music Reviews

So, it’s pretty obvious that this is two different songs pasted together. But, I really don’t mind, because I dig this song a lot. It’s my favorite on the album and has been since the day I ripped into that oversized CD package and listened in the car in the Continue Reading

One of the strangest tracks on the record for me. It’s so obviously recorded in a studio. It’s cold and it’s electronic and produced and well, it’s written by Roger.But then it’s got the call outs.“Freddie Mercury!” Roger shouts before the vocals.“John Deacon!” to highlight the bassline.“Brian May Brian May!” Continue Reading

Who doesn’t? One of the biggest metal tracks in the canon, “I Want it All” is a post-apocalyptic dust bowl, get in the ring, shred-tastic track. In many ways it’s the anthem they hadn’t really written in years. Certainly not, “Friends will be Friends”. Sadly, while this song should have Continue Reading

I’m on the fence about this one. Queen has always had a penchant for schmaltz but with Freddie in the throes of full blown AIDS they really seemed to step up the maudlin. I think the nadir of this song (Besides lyrics like “the one thing we’re all waiting for Continue Reading

Queen is rarely topical, but in the late 80s, Adnan Khashoggi and his ship were all over the news. It’s a big blues number that serves as an “I’m Still Here” anthem for Freddie. It’s all sleaze and adventure. Perhaps it’s a fever dream but, at some point, for me Continue Reading

“Party” sounds like it fell off the Mr. Bad Guy sessions. Maybe it did. I don’t know. Sure sounds like it. Then again, it probably is what the lyrics say, what much of the lyrics on The Miracle are about: Freddie’s dying. Diagnosed with AIDS, it was thought that The Continue Reading

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