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| From | "Rick McCall" <rickmccall@suddenlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: Changing it when they already had it right. Selling out or searching for an audience? |
| Date | Fri, 4 May 2007 16:04:52 -0500 |
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I guess everyone's mileage varies...
I started out with Queen I. Bought it new off the rack same month it came
out. Was intrigued by the sound, but didn't absolutely love the songs. You
could see the massive potential, though...
...which was realized with Queen II. Just a brilliant, groundbreaking album
across the board. In my mind, it broke more new ground by far than A Night
at The Opera, although Bohemian Rhapsody is obviously a singular
masterpiece.
Grew up with Queen, loved some, liked some, hated some that followed.
However, Hot Space is one of my favorite Queen albums. Las Palabras de
Amour gets me every time, as does Action This Day, Life Is Real, Calling All
Girls and Under Pressure. Hot Space also includes the absolute worst song
in the whole Queen canon - Body Language. Backchat is close as well.
But for the five songs mentioned above, I consider this a great Queen album.
Those five tracks are always on every Queen mix disc I make.
Just my two cents.
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Roux
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 3:36 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Changing it when they already had it right. Selling out or
searching for an audience?
>
> 5.) Queen. To me, they were brilliant until "Hot Space". To me, "Hot
Space" was their lone horrible album. But then the albums after "Hot Space"
were only a half-return to form; good but not great. "The Game" was their
last brilliant album.
What's your take on Innuendo? I always loved that album.
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