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
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Queen for a Day – Coming Soon
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
Queen for a Day – Sail Away Sweet Sister
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
Queen for a Day – Don’t Try Suicide
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
Queen for a Day – Rock It (Prime Jive)
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
Queen for a Day – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
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
Queen for a Day – Need Your Loving Tonight
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
The Tommy Westphall Unification Theory
I adore this concept that, because of the conceit finale of St. Elsewhere, the accidental fallout is that just about every tv show now exists in the parallel universe inside an autistic child’s mind. I am linking it here with entire credit going to the author. I DID NOT WRITE Continue Reading
Adam Ant’s Listening Post ranking: Kings of the Wild Frontier A+ (100)Prince Charming A- (90)Friend or Foe B+ (89)Vive Le Rock B+ (89)Wonderful – B (85)Dirk Wears White Sox – C+ (78)Persuasion – C (75)Strip – D (65)Manners & Physique D- (60) Mr. Goddard scores a B- (81%) and that Continue Reading
Listening Post – Gary Numan Rankings
What Numan albums should you buy? What’s the aggregate ranking? How bored am I? Pleasure Principle – A+ (100)Replicas – A (97)Telekon – A- (90)Exile – B+ (89)New Anger – B+ (89)Tubeway Army – B+ (89)Dead Son Rising – B (86)Sacrifice – B (86)Pure – B- (81)Dance – B- (81)Strange Continue Reading