Where's the Love for 'SCANDAL'??

Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote: The "bridge" melody (is that the correct term?) is awesome, in the part where the lyrics go: "today the headlines, tomorrow hard times, but...". Absolutely love it. As for the rest of the song, I can live with it.

Cheers,

Ogre-

You nailed it for me!  I was trying to think of a way of describing the one part of the song I like.

Hated the video too.  Freddie in the Miracle videos seemed like a cartoon of himself... bouncing from pose to pose.

Hmm hard to say. The vocoder thing on the title refrain is cheesy, especially with reedy voice. Agree with Ogre the middle-8 is amazingly eloquent - "Deeper and deeper inside". Brian could get introspective and Fred makes you believe it, without too much "poor me" of some celebs. Just internalize that pain matter of factly.

As for the vid - Hard to watch a man in frail condition crotch thrusting for our amusement. It's almost masochist...But he's sensual and defiant enough to win you over. Perform to live.  Stateside Breakthru/Headlong got more play around this time.

Good song, love the vocals, nice guitar solo,  but could have been much better if it was heavier.  The song lacks energy because it has that 80's pop feel.  most of their 80's stuff is like that.  freddie's voice pretty makes up for it.  songs like Radio Ga Ga, Magic, Break Free, scandal were only good because freddie's voice.  musically they lost their way....     Why do fans get caught up in what Roger thinks and say's?.....roger has no possitive things to say about songs he didn't write.   He didn't write scandal so of course he doesn't like it.

"Why do fans get caught up in what Roger thinks and say's?"

Woah, put the bong down.  No one's getting 'caught up'.  Roger literally says "not one of the best songs", and I agree with him.  It doesn't make it a bad song - I listen to it sometimes, and it gets stuck in my head pretty easily - but when you consider that Queen are one of those bands with nearly 200 songs to choose from ...  it's entirely possible that Scandal isn't 'one of the best'.  

Of course, this is a harder decision for some people to make.  I think some fans like to narrow it down to Queen's Best Songs : The Top 150.

It's got a great solo, but Roger's right about the video being pretty boring.  The band have that same cold, haggard look that the Beatles had during the "Let it Be" film.  Sure, it's not a TERRIBLE video ... but it has absolutely nothing on Breakthru, for instance.  Now THAT'S a video!

Good point, Zeb. Invisible Man was a great vid as well. They really had fun there as well.

Rick wrote: Good point, Zeb. Invisible Man was a great vid as well. They really had fun there as well.

Invisible Man is a great video, but the song isn't all that good....Roger would never admit to that because he wrote it.  I don't think scandal is one of Queen's best or worst.

While not my favorite song, The Invisible Man is probably my favorite video from The Miracle (because it's so obvious how much fun everyone is having), but Breakthru is a VERY close second.  Of all the videos from The Miracle, I've always felt Freddie looked the healthiest and happiest in Breakthru - even the beard worked for him on that one.  He was obviously having a good day, and it shines through.

Back to 'Scandal', Freddie went with the 'pissed off' or 'angry' look, which I also liked (it fit the song), but he obviously wasn't as healthy by then, and quite a bit thinner, etc.

I really like these black and white footage in the video. They enhance the rigidity of the song and mix well with the Freddie's vocal. Very good song.

freddie looks great in the invisible man!! in fact all 4 of them do

Not amongst my absolute favorites, but Scandal is certainly a good song. I especially like the 12" version.