Queen

Ugh. I’ve been not looking forward to this one since I started this project. When I had a copy of Night on 8-track (lord…) this song was split up between track 2 and 3 which meant listening to the album was always a chore.TPS starts off as some 70s hippy Continue Reading

Freddie and Roger imitating horns and woodwinds? Count me in. If you forget that the last three tracks exist and just go straight to this one an image begins to emerge of this album. It’s the Freddie Mercury show and everyone else is just along for the ride.Now, not a Continue Reading

The first song I ever heard by Queen that made me think, “eh, standard 70s fare”. This May tune is the kind of mediocre blues breaker that you expect to hear on the soundtrack to Almost Famous.It’s poor latter day Stones.Unremarkable in almost every way. Grade: C- – Posted using Continue Reading

For a long time this was my favorite song on the record. It’s written y and sung by Brian and is a loopy little skiffle ditty about interstellar travelers who leave “in the year of ’39” to look for planets to populate and when they come back, everyone they know Continue Reading

John Deacon rears his songwriting head and comes up with the band’s second, sure fire, radio friendly, super massive hit.Starting off with a cheesy wurlitzer organ, the song comes across like the sound of the day. Meaning, it’s dangerously close to the Captain and Tenille.Rogers giant drums, the multi harmonies, Continue Reading

A truly ridiculous song. Truly. A love song to a car. Four albums in and Roger continues to prove that as a songwriter he’s an awesome drummer.Yet, it’s catchy as hell. Why? Well beyond rhyming “forget her” with “carburetor”, it’s also earnest while at the same time knowing just how Continue Reading

A hard left turn after the opener, Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon is the closest the band comes to sounding like Sparks.A trifle at barely a minute, it features multi layered vocals by Fred as well as some sweet almost honkey tonk piano playing. Even more effete than he’s ever Continue Reading

By time queen went in to the studio to record what would be, at that time, the most expensive album ever recorded, they had broken up with their manager, Norman Sheffield. A man so evil by all accounts that, despite having a number one hit, Freddie had to beg to Continue Reading

The first real “anthem” in the bands catalog, Lap has little to do with the Side Two opener save the name. Instead, it’s a stadium ready beast that seems to say (well, Freddie is the one saying it, really) “we are meant to pay for thousands, nay, HUNDREDS of thousands Continue Reading

Utilizing a wall of sound, heavy breathing and some elegiac harmonies reminiscent of The Monkees’ The Porpoise Song, Brian May comes up with the only…ballad? It’s a fitting coda to this hodgepodge of a record if the least inventive or interesting. I enjoy the nightmare city sounds that overwhelm the Continue Reading