Roger Taylor and Brian May Solo

Fellow Queenzoners,

My collection of Queen consists of all the albums and Freddie Mercury's Mr. Bad Guy and Barcelona. Now I am ready to start my next project; the collection of Brian May and Roger Taylor's solo work.

My question for you is this:

Do you have any suggestions or helpful tips on which of their albums are the best? I'll admit my knowledge upon the matter is limited and this is why I shall resort to this forum. Your help would be much appreciated and I'll trust that you all know what you're talking about.

Thanks in advance, my friends.

Ramirez

Electric fire, Happyness what can I say wonderful albums, very sensitive , more rythm, more rythm, a lot a fantastic songs, and ... my god ... the voice

I would buy them in this order. You will need to get some from ebay.

Electric Fire - RT
Blue Rock - The Cross
Happiness - RT
Strange Frontier - RT
Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Know - The Cross
Back To The Light - BM
Another World - BM
Fun In Space - RT
Shove It - The Cross

I don't really care for any of their solo stuff, although I do own most of Brian's, Roger's & Freddie's CD's. For the most part Freddie's stuff is too disco and light-weight pop crap. Roger has some good moments on his solo CD's, but "The Cross" stuff I find boring. Brian stuff is more in line on what one would expect from him. Straight forward rock n' roll except most of it feels like it's missing something. I prefer his CD's overall. If you like I would gladly burn you copies of everything I have by Roger & Brian. Send them to you via USA Mail.
Free of charge, nothing in return

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]louvox wrote: [/QUOTENAME]If you like I would gladly burn you copies of everything I have by Roger & Brian. Send them to you via USA Mail.
Free of charge, nothing in return[/QUOTE]

Why not just stick them online for everybody to download?

Funny you should ask. I brought STRANGE FRONTIER to work today just to put in the rotation. When it came to, I made it to the Dylan tune and I just had to switch it off.

Man, it's awful.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]louvox wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I don't really care for any of their solo stuff, although I do own most of Brian's, Roger's & Freddie's CD's. For the most part Freddie's stuff is too disco and light-weight pop crap. Roger has some good moments on his solo CD's, but "The Cross" stuff I find boring. Brian stuff is more in line on what one would expect from him. Straight forward rock n' roll except most of it feels like it's missing something. I prefer his CD's overall. If you like I would gladly burn you copies of everything I have by Roger & Brian. Send them to you via USA Mail.
Free of charge, nothing in return[/QUOTE]

I think he wants the original ones... You know, for his collection!

Thanks everybody!


And yes I'm going to want the original ones for my collection. I'm very proud of it by the way. :)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Micrówave wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Funny you should ask. I brought STRANGE FRONTIER to work today just to put in the rotation. When it came to, I made it to the Dylan tune and I just had to switch it off.

Man, it's awful.[/QUOTE]

Yes the Dylan track sucks but the rest of the album is great.

Anyone who hates Bob Dylan should listen to RT's version. You'll love Bob Dylan when you hear the original.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Micrówave wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Anyone who hates Bob Dylan should listen to RT's version. You'll love Bob Dylan when you hear the original.[/QUOTE]

Nah. Dylan still sucks.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]PieterMC wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]louvox wrote: [/QUOTENAME]If you like I would gladly burn you copies of everything I have by Roger & Brian. Send them to you via USA Mail.
Free of charge, nothing in return[/QUOTE]

Why not just stick them online for everybody to download?[/QUOTE]Unfortunately I am unable to that, but my offer still stands to whom ever may be interested.

i have to say that i love Roger´s songs with Queen.... but i don´t know why.... i don´t like him very much in hi solo projects.... even so i like a lot Happiness!! and about Brian..... i can recomend: Back to the Light (beautiful record!)....and Another world!!!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]louvox wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]PieterMC wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]louvox wrote: [/QUOTENAME]If you like I would gladly burn you copies of everything I have by Roger & Brian. Send them to you via USA Mail.
Free of charge, nothing in return[/QUOTE]

Why not just stick them online for everybody to download?[/QUOTE]Unfortunately I am unable to that, but my offer still stands to whom ever may be interested.[/QUOTE]

Why not? What's the difference? There's no scale of copyright infringement - if you're going to do it, at least have the balls to do it FULLY....

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Micrówave wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Funny you should ask. I brought STRANGE FRONTIER to work today just to put in the rotation. When it came to, I made it to the Dylan tune and I just had to switch it off.

Man, it's awful.[/QUOTE]

I'm mostly inclined to agree. I do like the first three trcks quite a bit though. The springsteen cover is okay. The Dylan cover is dated in the extreme. The rest of the album (which was side 2 on the original LP) is pretty close to awful.

Fun in Space is pretty great from start to finish though.