The Game

Play the Game — 7/10 (very overrated song)
Dragon Attack — 9/10 (great hard rock and funk fusion)
Another One Bites the Dust — 8/10 (another one overrated song)
Need Your Loving Tonight — 9/10 (very joyful and fun track)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love — 7/10 (overrated)
Rock It (Prime Jive) — 10/10 (truely energic and powerful rock'n'roll)
Don't Try Suicide — 4/10 (really boring and uninspired song)
Sail Away Sweet Sister — 8/10 (another one good Brian's power ballad)
Coming Soon — 10/10 (great song, my favourite from this album, alongside with Rock It)
Save Me — 10/10 (another one good Brian's power ballad)

A Human Body — 8/10 (not best Roger's song)

Dragon Attack (1991 Bonus Remix by Jack Benson and R.A.K) — 6/10 (bad remix)
Another One Bites the Dust (Ogilvie Remix) — 8/10 (really good electro/industrial remix, although I hate electronic music, even industrial)
Another One Bites the Dust (Long Dusted B-boy Version) — 7/10 (funny)

As mentioned in the Jazz topic, I take it upon my interests every now and then to blast through all of Queen's stuff. Incidently, today I finished The Game and Hot Space, so I will write about my feelings in regards to both of those albums (and perhaps a couple more of the older ones, while they're fresh in my memory!).

So with The Game, we were introduced to the controversial synthesiser. Some loved it, some hated it. To me, there are some aspects of The Game that sounds like people were using it for the first time, like how you give a child a keyboard and they take great interest in using all the sample tracks and sounds and making a massive globular mess. Case in point, Play The Game, which itself is a great opener to an album, but it doesn't half feel like you're listening to a cheesy sci-fi film of the times (Flash Gordon, anybody?!) when the synth is used. Regardless, the vocals are fantastic and saves the song. I prefer the live version from Montreal that is played in the classic Queen style, but it's a good opener.

Freddie would write two more songs, and they couldn't have been any more different if you tried. Firstly you had Crazy Little Thing Called Love, which is a personal favourite of mine. Short, simple, a great homage to Elvis, it's proof that Queen could dip into any music genre and make it work. Such a simple song ang yet worked so well. His other song is Don't Try Suicide, which is somewhat controversial for both the song and the lyrical content. In a weird way it's a cross between Crazy Little Thing and some of what you would here from Hot Space, but I think it works quite well. The lyrics, while controversial are simply Freddie in his finest, suggesting that you should live life and not waste it.

John and Roger's contributions to the album were very successful. We all know about Another One Bites The Dust, but there''s also Need Your Loving Tonight, reminiscent of his earlier stuff from ADATR and NOTW. This was John back to great form after the dip in Jazz, as was Roger. Rock It is a fantastic, almost nostalgic (I'm talking from Queen Discography point of view, as I was only born in 1989!) feeling, and Coming Soon definitely does not hinder the album.

As for Brian, he was certainly unafraid to attempt new things. Dragon Attack was a sound that is somewhat unusual coming from him, but would help pave the way for Queen's sound in the following album, one that is controversial but will be spoken about later. Musically a solid track, with a cool beat that gets your fingers clicking. Sail Away Sweet Sister - somewhat inaccurate cos if he really had a sister I doubt this song would ever have been written - refers back to his sweet, often poignant styles that we've seen in Some Day One Day and All Dead, All Dead. Finally, we have Save Me, a song that I find is grossly underrated. I love it, I feel it's one of the must beautiful songs Queen have ever done, and a fine way to close the album.

To sum up, there are a few anomalies in this album, but Queen's first attempt at changing their sound is certainly a welcome one coming off Jazz, and a vast improvement. The 70s were done and gone and brilliant to look back on, but with The Game, Queen were showing that they were happy to drive forward in this gear. They had developed new sounds, new styles, and provided a rather refreshing turn to their career. 9/10

This was a bit of a comeback for Queen.  Crazy Little Thing was released before the album and when I first heard it, I couldn't beleive it was Queen, itwas so different.

1 Play The Game - Classic Queen at its best
2 Dragon Attack - a precursor to that garbage that was Hot Space.  American rockers didn't want to hear Michael Jackson sh#t
3 AOBtD - same as Dragon Attack but for some obtuse reason became a big hit among non-Queen fans in America
4 Need Your Loving Tonight - This is one of Johns best songs.  It is nothing more than a well crafted pop song.
5 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - This was another change of direction for Queen with a rockabilly feel to it.  I understand why Queen played an encore of Ameircan 50's rockers of this nature.  It probably wen't over big in Europe.  But in America this stuff was old and tired.  When I saw the band on the Game tour and they opened with Jailhouse Rock, it was a big letdown.
6 Rock It - This song had a great intro but slid into mediocrity.
7 Don't Try Suicide. - I never understood why they wrote that song.
8 Sail Away Sweet Sister - This is a beutiful song.  I love how they blended Brian and Freddie's voices - one of the best on the album
9  Coming Soon - Why did they write a song about premature ejaculation?
10 Save Me - Great way to end the album.  Great song live too.

Still can't understand why people always dis Michael Jackson?

kansas666 wrote: This was a bit of a comeback for Queen.  Crazy Little Thing was released before the album and when I first heard it, I couldn't beleive it was Queen, itwas so different.

1 Play The Game - Classic Queen at its best
2 Dragon Attack - a precursor to that garbage that was Hot Space.  American rockers didn't want to hear Michael Jackson sh#t
3 AOBtD - same as Dragon Attack but for some obtuse reason became a big hit among non-Queen fans in America
4 Need Your Loving Tonight - This is one of Johns best songs.  It is nothing more than a well crafted pop song.
5 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - This was another change of direction for Queen with a rockabilly feel to it.  I understand why Queen played an encore of Ameircan 50's rockers of this nature.  It probably wen't over big in Europe.  But in America this stuff was old and tired.  When I saw the band on the Game tour and they opened with Jailhouse Rock, it was a big letdown.
6 Rock It - This song had a great intro but slid into mediocrity.
7 Don't Try Suicide. - I never understood why they wrote that song.
8 Sail Away Sweet Sister - This is a beutiful song.  I love how they blended Brian and Freddie's voices - one of the best on the album
9  Coming Soon - Why did they write a song about premature ejaculation?
10 Save Me - Great way to end the album.  Great song live too.

The older Fans from America make me laugh.....Dragon Attack is no Michael Jackson. it's a Funk kick ass rocker.  Anthing past ADATR sucks?....what albums Do you like?....So far I read you don't like NOTW, or The Game.  you thought SHA was good but not Great.  Jazz is no good.  i'm curious what Albums do you like?......I do agree with the Michael is Shit Comment though, lol.  Can't stand that guy.

Some great songs, some awful songs.

Sail Away Sweet Sister is amazing.

mike hunt wrote:

what albums Do you like?....So far I read you don't like NOTW, or The Game.  you thought SHA was good but not Great.  Jazz is no good.  i'm curious what Albums do you like?......

Queen's first 5 albums were classics.  SHA is probably the weakest of the 5.  They went down hill with NOTW.  Jazz suffered from poor production and poor songwriting.  Live Killers is one of my favorite.  The Game was a bit of a come back with a few good songs.  Flash Gordon doesn't really count.  Hot Space is garbage.  They had another minor come back with The Works, but by then America was done with them. AKOM was very uneven with a couple of good tracks.  The Miracle is solid.  Innuendo was well crafted but understandably a bit of a downer.  Made in Heaven was too much of a mish mash to be considered a real album.

kansas666 wrote: mike hunt wrote:

what albums Do you like?....So far I read you don't like NOTW, or The Game.  you thought SHA was good but not Great.  Jazz is no good.  i'm curious what Albums do you like?......

Queen's first 5 albums were classics.  SHA is probably the weakest of the 5.  They went down hill with NOTW.  Jazz suffered from poor production and poor songwriting.  Live Killers is one of my favorite.  The Game was a bit of a come back with a few good songs.  Flash Gordon doesn't really count.  Hot Space is garbage.  They had another minor come back with The Works, but by then America was done with them. AKOM was very uneven with a couple of good tracks.  The Miracle is solid.  Innuendo was well crafted but understandably a bit of a downer.  Made in Heaven was too much of a mish mash to be considered a real album.
At least you answered my Question.....for me the first 5 were also the best,  but we differ on the going downhill comment.  NOTW has aged really well, and in some ways has aged better than the first  album (though I still like the first one better)......... .Jazz and The Game were both very good,  not on the level of the first 6, but still great.   Hot space had it's moments, and I don't understand the "it's Crap"  comments it alway's gets, though it was a letdown overall.  The works, a kind of magic, and the miracle were uneven albums.  Some good, and not so good moments.   Innuendo was their best since at least Jazz,  and maybe even NOTW or ADATR,  it was that good for me.  Made In heaven was more consistent than their 80's albums.  not a brilliant album,   but a good one.   That's my take on Queen's career,  and I'm sure plenty of Queenzoner's will disagree with some of my comments.

The Game is a fine album, but I much prefer the first five albums.

Play the Game - Like. 9/10
Dragon Attack - It's fine, but not really Queen. 7/10
Another One Bites the Dust - Not Queen, but still good. Wish it hadn't been so popular though - hearing it a lot on radio and tv gets tiring. 8/10
Need Your Loving Tonight - I'd almost describe this song as cute. It's a bit standard, but there's hardly anything wrong with it. 8,5/10
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen's most overrated song. 6/10
Rock It - Roger, I love you. 9/10
Don't Try Suicide - Don't really like it, but I wouldn't call it a filler. 7/10
Sail Away Sweet Sister - 10/10. That's all I can say.
Coming Soon - Great to hear Rog and Fred singing together. 8/10
Save Me - Epic. 10/10

A Human Body - My least favourite Roger song. 6/10