Queen

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

See, this is why people hate Queen. Perhaps inspired by the riffing that resulted in Another One…this Funk Bass/easy rocker has the single dumbest lyrics buttressed up against a real sentiment. And yet, Queen managed to pull it off. The finger snaps, the smoky jazz hall melody, the giant instrumental, Continue Reading

So, Freddie wrote a retro track.Deacon wrote one.What’s left? Well, Brian, definitely, but for sure, Roger “I’ve never had a hit but I don’t wanna be left out” Taylor pulled out his guitar and started arpeggiating.Apeing his song, “Tenement Funster” he pulls out his cheesiest rhymes (“Shoot and Get Your Continue Reading

True story:I was in the back of a car toward the end of high school with some friends and this song came on. They asked me what I thought of it and I said that, “well, I guess I like fifties music”….Then they told me it was Queen. This wasn’t Continue Reading

If you’ve been reading this series (and, really, who hasn’t?) you might have noticed by now that I am not really much of a fan of John Deacon’s work. He write’s trite, uninteresting “love” songs. Crap like “Misfire” (although it was covered by Neko Case a few years ago) and Continue Reading