The_CrY wrote: Interesting matter, yet I think no EP can be forged from Hot Space since we know it as an album. It would feel incomplete if I would have to select only four tracks from the album. Of course, if it would have been a 4-track EP from the beginning I would feel different about this, and my suggestion would be to include either Action This Day, Calling All Girls, Put Out the Fire and Las Palabras de Amor (Pressure not since it was a single already), but as said by someone else perhaps it is a better idea to put the disco/funk tracks on the EP instead of my personal favorites. That would make:
1. Staying Power (with guitar solo!)
2. Dancer
3. Back Chat
4. Body Language

No Cool Cat for me, I really don't like that one. But in the end, I'm happy they released it as a full-length LP instead, with both the disco/funk tracks and my Hot Space favorites. In the end it makes a pretty funny album after all, don't you all think?

I'm with you on this. Always thought it was the quality of the more traditional Queen material that let this album down. And an EP would have fiited the principle much better - the whole idea of the title 'Hot Space' was that it was a style and a moment you get in and out of very quickly (to quote Brian May) so I'd go for;

Staying Power
Dancer
Back Chat
Body Language

By the way - recently heard Body Language live from the 82 tour somewhere in the US - absolutely awsome Guitar tone and sounds really great as a guitar song - though Fred could have laid off the vocador synthy thing.

Actually there's an argument to make all Queen's 80's albums e.p.'s but I'm not gonna go there. (AKOM could have just been a double A sided single!)