Roger Taylor’s contribution to Queen II is a generic Taylor Tune. Mid-tempo, downbeat, slave to its rhythm (hey, he’s a percussionist!). Roger would get this formula right in a few records and eventually score a number one hit about 13 years later with it. I should make a Roger Taylor only playlist just to see how similar his songs are.
If there is a theme in Queen II, “Loser in the End” fits nowhere in it. It’s a song about how mothers are discarded and unneeded as one gets older. Pity her, she’s a sad case.
Wow, how appropriate that this tune lands on Mother’s Day.
It’s a glorious mess of aimless guitar soloing, schizoid percussion and cowbells (At least I think they’re cowbells..).
And thus ends the Mercury-less side of Queen II.
Tomorrow Queen really gets going.
Grade: B-
Very nice, thanks.