I've finally listened to 'The Cosmos Rocks'

Indeed.

Let me guess: you don't think the cosmos rocks?

:P

I don't know if the cosmos rocks, but I think this album does.

Now THAT'S a lag! :)

Any particular reason?

Cheers,

Ogre-

Any particular reason for listening to the album, or any particular reason for liking it?

I'm going to guess it has something to do with it being Queen's sixteenth studio l.p. and being one of their best!!!

I'm proudly one fan who always liked The Cosmos Rocks!

I don't compare it to earlier Queen works, but simply take it for what it is: Three talented musicians who made the album they wanted to make. There are no songs on it I don't like and some I like more, but that's same with pretty much every album by any artist I own.

I've stopped trying to convince those who don't like it why they can enjoy it and why I do enjoy it.

nothing genius for me, nothing intresting for me in this album

Glad to hear it.  What was your favourite track?  Mine was Some Things That Glitter.  It's the closest to vintage Queen they came, I think.  But that's not what they were going after, a point that just about everyone missed.

Sir GH...indeed, "Some Things That Glitter" is great...as is "We Believe" and "Small".

Welcome to the club :-) I used to listen to the album every day when it came out, but now I haven't heard it for a long time.
I must change that :-)

"Mine was Some Things That Glitter"

I agree emphatically!  I'm fond of Say It's Not True and C-Lebrity because they sound very much like a band that cares during those songs.

"But that's not what they were going after, a point that just about everyone missed"

I don't think it's fair to say that someone is guaranteed to be missing the point when they don't like something.  I was very much in favour with the mission statement of the Q+PR project, and I enjoyed the live stuff, but the album didn't work for me.  *shrug*  To each their own.  It's like Hot Space - I'm not very fond of it, but I'm glad they did it because it shows them living up to their ideals and trying new things.

double post.  While I'm here, I just want to say that Paul Rodgers' shits me sometimes.  Only sometimes.  I really did like some moments on the album, I'll hold them up against a lot of stuff.

I hated 90% of what was linked with this album (the only exceptions I can think of being "C-Lebrity", "Say It's Not True" and the cover of "Runaway" if that counts).

It has nothing to do with Paul Rodgers being there, as he works really well with Brian and Roger live. I just don't think the songs had any meat to them -- a lot of them sounded like unfocused fluff to me. It seems like in all of the bickering about Freddie being replaced as a frontman, none of us thought about Freddie's contributions as a songwriter.

I think the album on the whole wasn't bad, but there were some songs like 'Voodoo' I just couldn't get into. 'Still Burnin' and 'Small' are two of my favorites from Cosmos. I will agree and say they did sound slightly unfocused, but at the same time I think they were still trying to find their feet when it came to writing together, you know? Given a little more time and another album, they may have had a winning combo...