Music Reviews

Ah, thank you, Roger. For abandoning the entire dance motif in favor or….New Wave? How out of touch has this band become? A mechanical call to arms, “Action this Day” is another case of Freddie singing lead on a Roger song and almost pulling it off. But Roger is a Continue Reading

This was it. The long awaited next single from the Number One band of 1980. I got the single before I’d heard it. And I looked at that cover….of those bodies….with the painted arrows….and I thought…. Wtf is this? And when I put it on I was transfixed… On just Continue Reading

And now let’s hear from the king of Rock Disco, the author of their number one hit, the bass driven “Another One Bites the Dust”. “Back Chat” is the unworthy nephew to that song. There is nothing in it that would catch fire BUT it does smack of everything I Continue Reading

You just get the feeling on Hot Space that Brian May isn’t into it. Freddie (and John) are driving the band into a more dance club sound and that doesn’t really jibe with the hard rockin’ May and his Red Special. But, Brian got to steer the band on the Continue Reading

I bugged the record store guy at the Union Market every weekend for 2 months about when the new Queen album was coming.I couldn’t wait.And it didn’t get it first. My friend, Randy, did. And we blew off lunch to sneak into the choir room and play it on the Continue Reading

Is Ming dead? We’ll never know, cuz their ain’t gonna no sequel. But, at that moment when Flash jumps up and is frozen ala 70s tv detective show, Queen throws the kitchen sink, big ass drums, a verse that sounds like it was left off the BoRhap cutting room floor, Continue Reading

I am 15 years old. Watching tv on my dad’s old black and white in my Greg Brady-converted attic.I see a commercial for Flash Gordon and I think, that soundtrack sounds hilarious! And then I see. “Soundtrack by Queen.” Damn these guys. Easily mocked, queenly epic, “Flash’s Theme”, which I Continue Reading

Save Me is really pretty. The story of a love ended.As a closer to the album it makes no sense. It’s epic in the way that Queen songs are supposed to be. I think it would have been better served if RTB had produced it instead of Mack and his Continue Reading

Oh, Roger. That driving, four on the floor, beat. It sounds like a train, right? Like a train that is…coming soon? Oh, dear me. Inoffensive and dumb. The second offering from Roger Taylor, “Coming Soon” is redeemed by the fact that Freddie takes lead vocals and not Roger and that’s Continue Reading

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