Innuendo: mediocre album?

Sorry - Dancer is a great groove (oops - sorry if that word offends all you rockers out there). Excellent use of slowed up drum track, great solo, dynamic hook. The dogs bollocks really - real shame they never played it live. When I'm Djing I quite often slip it on, always gets a good reaction.

I think Dancer, Put Out The Fire & Calling All Girls are great little tracks, although Under Pressure, Staying Power, Action This Day, Back Chat, Life Is Real & Las Palabras De Amor are the best tracks, although the rest aren't bad either, except Body Language.

I gave the album a listen again last night & apart from Body Language I enjoyed it all.

*shrug*  I don't think it's mediocre.  But then I've always thought Hitman was the weak point of the album as opposed to Delilah which everyone seems to hate.  I can't stand All God's People but one has to acknowledge that as a production, it's pretty much the most elaborate and layered thing on the album, so it at least has that going for it.

Even on the songs I don't like, it can't really be said that they're mediocre.  Queen may have done some dodgy songs in their day, but at least they did it loudly and proudly.

still love the album, imho Innuendo single = thunder wrapped in silk.

the mere idea of Freddie hitting the high notes in TSMGO is heroic, and given the illness and how it was handled at the time of release, easy to understand why critics just don't get it. 

would trade Delilah for Lost Opportunity though.  imho maybe better as a b-side, but it's tough to fault Queen for including it on the album.

artwork on the back cover absolutely brilliant -- Granville's 'Opheidicle'  -- ?  something bursting from too much harmony ?

Bijou.  what a precious love-letter

Glad my Hot Space piece got some good feedback, I read Brian was hampered by the others on his guitar pieces for this album, Roger hated the cover so all in all I think this album was put out without everybody being totally happy with it, probably why the band were really arguing at this point in there career, who really knows? If it was redone with the full Queen rock thing going on and not a dance inspired album then this album would really have hit the mark, I can say I love this album, all the songs in my opinion are better than Jesus, what was going on when this come to the table? Mad the Swine would have been better even though it is another biblical song, I wasn't keen on Get down Make Love, especially at the concerts but this is my opinion, A kind of Magic by the way is one of my favourite Queen albums, this was the Album that got me into Queen way back in 1986. I think that 99.9999% of Queen songs are magical, lyrics arn't that important most of the time, it worked for Robbie Williams spouting none sensical lyrics for Bismillahs sake so Queen did it 20 years before him. All we need now is the Queen box set of unrealesed and demo items, I emailed Brian about this and he says when time allows he will get onto it. This would be a great discussion.

The album is not the best but Innuendo (the song) is the best song since Somebody To Love or The Millionaire Waltz and Freddie was so GREAT that he gave himself the luxury of to include a bad song like Delilah in the album, other good songs: The Show Must Go On, These Are The Days Of Our Lives , Headlong, Dont Try So Hard. All Gods People include great harmonies  and good rhythm changes! even I’m Going Slightly Mad is an interesting song, other bad songs Hitman, I Can’t Live With You

This is an old post I've dug up!
Anyway, I always thought Innuendo is an extremely atmospheric album, probably the most out of all Queens work - that's what hit me about it when I first heard it back in '91. I guess over the years you get kinda used to it, so you don't recognise that quite as much.
Btw, for anyone else here that's from the UK and bought it when it first came out - wasn't it snowing over here? Or it had just stopped snowing or something? That might sound an odd thing to say, but it somehow adds to my memory of first hearing that album.... even the weather fitted the mood of the album perfectly.... especially knowing now what came after...

Innuendo--love it
I'm Going Slightly Mad--really like it
Headlong--love it
I Can't Live With You--like it. The Queen Rocks version is better.
Don't Try So Hard--love it.
Ride the Wild Wind--love it
All God's People--love it. The last part of the song is so epic.
These Are the Days of Our Lives--love it
Delilah--eh...
The Hitman--love it. Really gets me going.
Bijou--love it
The Show Must Go On--love it

Don't listen to what the critics say, and don't let professional reviews that you've read convince you that this is what a significant part of Queen's fan base thinks, because it rarely is. Critics were never real fond of Queen, and Queen never really cared. They only cared what their fans thought.

I like seeing an older post like this dug up sometimes. It's interesting seeing what people on here were talking about long ago, even though this one is only from about a year and a half ago.

It's also got some of my favourite artwork for a Queen album too.

fuck these critics, innuendo, for me, is the best album of the band since jazz, and it is in third place of my list of favorite albuns of the band, he lost only for queen II and ANATO

OK, BS.

The simple fact is, music reviews is entirely worthless.

Led Zeppelin has crap reviews for their albums as well. Then later on every magazine retracted their original reviews (including lolrolling stone)

Innuendo is a masterpiece and Queens best work since The Game.

Agrees with Waunakonor, the only song I feel is so-so is Delilah.

Aw, Delilah is hysterical. I just imagine Freddie cuddling his kitty cat and singing to her whenever I hear the song. ;-)

Nope. Great album. Could do without "Delilah" but it was their best effort since their prime.

I feel AKOM and The Miracle had some great singles but padded with too much filler and I rank those two at the bottom along with "Flash Gordon", which should have never been released as a proper Queen LP.

But, "Innuendo"? Best LP since "NOTW"

There's a certain coldness to Innuendo that means it doesn't rank among Queens top albums. It may be the production or the drum sound or the guitar sound -- I can't quite put my finger on it. The songs vary a lot in quality, but at least they are mostly interesting. I personally can't stand Hitmanand Headlong though -- two truly awful "rawk" songs. Delilah is also dreadful. But I suppose you can't really complain too much about an album that contains Innuendo, These Are the Days of Our Lives, Bijou and The Show Must Go On. However, if you lookat what remains --

I'm Going Slightly Mad
I Can't Live With You*
Don't Try So Hard
Ride the Wild Wind
All God's People*

-- can you really say these songs rate with anything from the first six albums?

(* interesting, and not by any means bad, but not epic)