Pros:Queen at their hard-rocking best, Brian May's guitar Cons: A touch of electronic music that I don't much care for
Queen released The Works in 1984 as the follow-up album to Hot Space, their enigmatic, experimental indulgence in which they explored disco and Latin themes. The Works is a return to the straight-on style of music that made...
Pros: Great selection of tunes from rockers to tender ballads. Cons: Machine(Back to Humans)
In the Guinness Book of World Records they are listed as spending the most time of any group on the UK charts. More than The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or even Britney Spears! As of 2005 they have spent a total of 1322 weeks on the charts or put ...
Pros: Great songs mostly. Cons: "Tear It Up" and album art is boring and uninteresting.
I remember when Hot Space came out in the Spring of 1982. I was twelve years old, and already a huge Queen fan. Hot Space was funky, not so rock and roll, disco and more things that Queen have become in recent years as of then. I also ...
Pros: After Hot Space, it's a welcome return to form, the album version of Hammer to Fall is far superior to anything on the Greatest Hits packages Cons: At times it seems like they're trying TOO hard to sound like they did on The Game or earlier releases.
It's a trick that's been done often in the music industry; if you go experimental (as Queen did with Hot Space) and fail commercially, just return to what works. This is exactly what Queen did with their 1984 release, The Works. After Hot Space...
I first bought this album, because if Freddy sang, I listened. It didn't matter how bad it really was, how good it really was, or if it was sheer genius (which it often was with these guys) -- I always listened.
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