Queen

Here we are. At the end of this record at last. I’ve never felt like Under Pressure belonged on this album. It was a single that was released a year before the album’s release. It was featured on their “Greatest Hits” record, before Hot Space was released. It feels like Continue Reading

Oh, when Freddie and John get together they create….. crap. This really isn’t a Queen song, per se. All the instruments, including the drum programming, is played by John. John doesn’t sing. (Except for backing vocals) I have no idea what his singing voice would even sound like. So, after that Continue Reading

I always think of “Teo Torriate” when I think of this song. When Queen wrote the aforementioned they were on a high of success in Japan. As the band got older their success in latin american countries exploded.It was only a matter of time before they pandered, wrote a loving Continue Reading

Why was this a single?Seriously.Why was this a single? Why was a post-apocalyptic, THX-1138 themed video shot for this? Why does this band let Roger do….anything besides drum? Because he’s never had one, obviously. That’s where the big money is. Roger knows that. He lobbied to have “I’m in Love Continue Reading

When Lennon was killed… Talk about the day the music died. Freddie wrote Life is Real as an ode to John and I’m not really gonna pick it apart. I’ve heard people talk about how it works as a tribute: the opening notes echoing “Just like Starting Over”, the title Continue Reading

Did you know that Queen was a very socially conscious band that wrote message songs? Neither did I. This anti-gun track is the first that I can think of (if we are not counting “Don’t Try Suicide”….and I’m not) but it won’t be the last. Keeping with my belief that Continue Reading

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