Queen was obviously drinking from the funk fountain in the late 70s. They would score a number one on the disco charts with Another One Bites the Dust. But, that wasn’t the ONLY funk/dance track on The Game.
This Brian May jam was the second song on the album (and the one that had me leaping for the needle to skip to the next track) and it’s fine for what it is.
Led by a bass lick that is second rate disco at best, everyone in the band gets their shot. There’s some drum fills, some guitar noodling, some producer name checking (“It’s gotta be Mack!”) and big funky break down that sounds like it wants so badly to be of the upper harlem streets of the 70s.
The song overstays it’s welcome by an easy minute and is an odd choice for the second track of what would be their poppiest, most accessible record, but, taken as part of the whole, it makes sense for what the next track is.
Grade: B-
