Works, The - Queen

While Queen showed an uncanny ability to stay abreast of changing musical fads and fashions most of the time without falling flat on their faces, by the early 1980s it was starting to look if they had had their day. Blondie and the Boomtown Rats both made mediocre bandwagon-jumping albums in 1982, the same year that Queen came up with the similarly ersatz funk-influenced 'Hot Space', their weakest ever. Thankfully they redeemed themselves with 'The ...
...best. Though it has its faults, it certainly remains their best album of the later years. Several tracks were potential singles - and in fact, within a year of the album's release, all nine cuts had also appeared on the A- or B-side of new singles (albeit with differences, for which read on). 'Radio Ga Ga' was the first and most successful (No. 2), and though one of their perennial favourites, I admit to finding this one of my less preferred Queen ...

JOHNV 30.09.2001 · Read full review
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This CD is really one of the better CDs in available to buy. It sort of stinks as a whole that everybody doesn't know it. Everybody should try and obtain this CD. I hope everybody who listens to music, will please go out and spend their good money at the CD store, while obtaining and adding this one to their collection. This review used to be better. But I cannot write reviews for free. Come and see my wonderful reviews at Epinions. the web ...
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This album sums up the eclectic time that was the early 80's. Every time I hear this album, I always play the associated videos in my head. This was the time of 1984, with the link in to Big Brother with Radio Ga-Ga, but then at the hit of the skip button, you are whisked away into mundane domesticity, with Freddie and the guys all dragged up in I want to break free. The fear of new technology being introduced into the workplaces at the time, gives ...
...live in today. Crank up the volume, wind down the window, and let hammer to fall leave Sunday drivers in your wake. The first 8 tracks get the adrenaline fired up. Only to be reined in mercilessly with the final haunting solo, with Freddie accompanied with only a guitar. It seems out of place and yet this to was the time of Band Aid and the global recognition that people can make a difference, and governments had to follow. It could be said that ...

shauny2005 27.04.2005 · Read full review
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Although this album only has nine tracks nearly every one became a well-loved part of the Queen repertoire. "Radio Ga Ga" which is an age-old complaint about the songs we grew up with being better than those of the current generation (and in fact radio programmes being better in the good old days) has a catchy chorus which makes you want to sing along. Likewise "I Want To Break Free" an anthem to escaping housework has a punchy beat just right for ...
...so powerful was the effect of the accompanying video that I can never hear this song without seeing a vision of mini skirts, stockings and moustaches! Queen really rocks with the other songs such as "Hammer to Fall" and "Man on the Prowl" but I'm afraid that "Machines Back to Humans" is a weak link and one song that would have been better left unrecorded. Finally a gentle soliloquy in the form of "Is This The World We Created…?" sung by Freddy Mercury ...

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