... From the arabic musings in Mustapha, the frantic Don't Stop me Now, Dead on Time & If You Can't Beat Them, the beautiful Jealousy and In only Seven Days, the raw Fun It and More of that Jazz, the poppy Bicycle Race, the jazzy Dreamers Ball and the stadium filler Fat Bottomed Girls, it's a ... Read review
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Queen: Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano); Brian May (guitar, background vocals); John Deacon
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(bass); Roger Taylor (drums, background vocals).Recorded in Montreux, Switzerland and Nice, France between July and October, 1978.In 1978, all eyes were on Queen...
Advantages: An album full of originality and variety Disadvantages: It finishes!
How can an album that contains both Don't Stop Me Now and Fat Bottomed Girls fail to impress? Quite simply, it cannot.
Out of all the Queen albums I can't think of one that has such variety on it. From the arabic musings in Mustapha, the frantic Don't Stop me Now, Dead on Time & If You Can't Beat Them, the beautiful Jealousy and In only Seven Days, the raw Fun It and More of that Jazz, the poppy Bicycle Race, the jazzy Dreamers Ball and the stadium ... ...to finish and there is no other album that sounds like it. Strangely this album didn't produce a real smash it like its predecessors and successors but presumably the negative publicity around the Bicycle Race didn't really help.
The band really show off their musical skill on here from start to finish, and it's one album I could never get tired of and cannot recommend it highly enough! ...
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Advantages: A fantastic album which has not diminished with time! Disadvantages: None!
This album seems to be one that gets 'left out' when people refer to Queen. It has to be remembered that only a couple of years after this album Queen produced their Greatest Hits album, a feat not acheieved by many bands. So why buy this album? It has the old favourites 'Fat Bottomed Girls' and 'Bicycle Race', but there is so much more to the album, and virtually every type of music is portrayed in the way only Freddie Mercury could do - the culmination ... ...together all the songs on the album in a way only Queen can do. Okay I'm biased; I love Queen, but just try a few songs from this album and then see what you think - and then remember that this album was released in 1978 - only a mere twenty seven years ago! ...
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Album Notes: Queen: Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano); Brian May (guitar, background vocals); John Deacon (bass); Roger Taylor (drums, background vocals).
