Queen

Well, here we are. The last song (proper) of the Queen catalog. Yes, they released another album, a patchwork of older stuff, re-edits and demo redux, but this was the last album that the four agreed to. Freddie died the day after it was released, I believe. So, I’m not Continue Reading

I had a friend who had this album on Vinyl. In the early 90s I didn’t know anyone who still listened to, let alone bought, vinyl. And he said that this song was highly truncated on black plastic. He missed out. It’s a pretty nice piece. The whole point of Continue Reading

After the debacle os singing an ode to his CAT, Freddie started and Brian finished a rousing rocker ala “I Want it All”. It’s all riffage and muscle and meat. When he died, I figured the song was some descriptor of the disease, but now, 22 years later, I think Continue Reading

The dying lead singer wrote a song for his cat. The drummer didn’t want to include it on the album because it’s well, a song about a cat. The singer pleaded. It’s on the album. It’s a song about a cat. It’s so much a song about a cat that Continue Reading

Now, he’s something astounding. A Roger Taylor song that I really really like. A song that reminisces about the, well, days of their lives, and does so by harkening back to one of Freddie’s loveliest tracks, “Love of My Life”, with the “I still love you” refrain.The last video Freddie Continue Reading

If I am not mistaken, this is the first Queen song since the first record to have a song with a co-writer credit outside of the band. That first musician was Tim Staffel, the original bassist for Smile, the band that became Queen. This time it’s Freddie’s “Barcelona” collaborator, Mike Continue Reading

Roger likes cars. He likes danger. He likes a steady, driving, pulsating beat.I think we all got that, um…15 years before. Still and all, it’s a lot better than the arpeggiating crap he used to give us. In this case, it’s like “Breakthru” Pt. II. It’s a dumb song, but Continue Reading

Opening with a preset sound on a synthesizer…is that genius or laziness? The Korg that Freddie was using had an opening preset that he used in that way. Fine. Whatever. If your muse is now someone else’s programming startup sound of a machine…whatever. How’s the song? Pretty pedestrian ballad version Continue Reading

Another Brian May rocker, but this time it sounds like a mid-tempo R&B jam that is fused with a metal approach but deep inside it’s really just a middle of the road track.The lyrics are pretty mediocre, the playing just as much so. I used to think it was a Continue Reading

It is a pet peeve of mine when a song starts with the word, “And”. As though there was something that was said before but there wasn’t so it just sounds…off. This is a latter day May rocker. In fact, he was supposed to record it for his Back to Continue Reading