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It opens with a guitar based, quasi japanese theme. It turns into a swirl of sounds that gives way to a massive, Jimmy Page style riff that, according to the liner notes, was labeled “sheer bloody poetry” by The Times.After the hodgepodge of the last album, and the weak blues Continue Reading

As an homage to Hendrix, as an album coda, as a bit of pomp and circumstance, this song is the perfect album closer. Do we need it? No. Is it offensive in any way? No. Useful? Yes. Using this song in concert allowed the band to soar to new heights Continue Reading

I wonder if, really, anything needs to be said here. Has there been a song about which more has been written over the years? We know about Freddie adding more and more “Galileos”. We know about playing it on RTB’s glass piano. We know about…everything.If you aren’t familiar with it, Continue Reading

After the blues breaker, the skiffle and the prog rock, Brian is back, this time with a bit of fluff. His ukelele in tow, Mr. May tosses off a little familial disappointment (sort of a hidden forte, it seems) with Good Company. It’s more than a wee bit loopy, perhaps Continue Reading

Is Love of My Life the most beautiful song Queen ever produced? Arguably. It’s definitely up there. It somehow become a stadium anthem, especially in South America. A pretty piano. An acoustic guitar. A harp. It’s treacly and yet it works. Expanding on the love-abandoned theme of Nevermore, the singer Continue Reading

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