Worst album lyrics wise

Responding to the above:

Let's face it - Boh. Rhap. is highly overrated. Good song? Sure. Queen's best? Not by a long run. Lyrics? About average.

Bo Rhap was never special lyrically. Freds random use of world vocabulary won him high marks for originality. It is however very melodic and an awsome sonic achievement at least and is worthy of most of the accolades heaped on it. But as a complete song ?  Even Fred prefered Somebody to Love

I don't know that I'd conflate the concept of "bad" lyrics with simple words and themes.  Sometimes it's the specific job of a lyric to be nothing more than a compelling scramble of palatable and only strategically obtrusive syllables that do little more than propel the music and broad theme forward.  I shudder to imagine how much of my brain storage capacity is devoted to song lyrics - I can sing along to hundreds if not thousands of songs - but the ones I could actually articulate any meaning for are far, far fewer.   In many cases I just haven't really paid attention to the words as anything more than bits of ideas and strong emotional imagery.  "The Game" remains one of my favourite Queen albums.   If I had to comment on it's lyrical content it's not hard to find positive things to say.  AOBTD communicates something powerfully sharp and moody, Dragon Attack is enigmatic and cool, Save Me is overwrought and in that overwroughtness - perfect, SASS is sad and a little mysterious, Rock It is just uncomplicated rock and roll joy.  What the hell is Prime Jive? Who cares, right?  It works beautifully.

Excellent and fair comments and wholly supported by the fact that the Game was a hugely successful album.

I think it's bonkers to say that tunes like Another one bites the dust, I want to break free and other similar well known tracks have bad lyrics when they they fit the tunes perfectly and are lodged deep in people's heads around the world.
I can't see the lyrics to Innuendo or March of the black queen fitting those sort of tunes. o_O

Well said.

WHo gives a flying fuck about lyrical simplicity? Like the thread about drums being dumbed down. I get as much out of My Fairy King as I do from Coming Soon. That said, My Fairy King is a bigger load of nonsense than anything on The Game :o)

Good thread.

[QUOTE]Day dop wrote: I think it's bonkers to say that tunes like Another one bites the dust, I want to break free and other similar well known tracks have bad lyrics when they they fit the tunes perfectly and are lodged deep in people's heads around the world.
I can't see the lyrics to Innuendo or March of the black queen fitting those sort of tunes. o_O [/QUOTE]

Even more "well said".  How can their most sampled hit be considered on of their worst lyrical pieces?  That song single handedly opened (and closed) a lot of doors for Queen and continues to fill their coffers.

Micrówave wrote:

Day dop wrote: I think it's bonkers to say that tunes like Another one bites the dust, I want to break free and other similar well known tracks have bad lyrics when they they fit the tunes perfectly and are lodged deep in people's heads around the world.
I can't see the lyrics to Innuendo or March of the black queen fitting those sort of tunes. o_O

Even more "well said".  How can their most sampled hit be considered on of their worst lyrical pieces?  That song single handedly opened (and closed) a lot of doors for Queen and continues to fill their coffers.

How ? easy. It´s not the lyrics people are sampling. Actually not that fond of any of the lyrics on Queen 2 though I appreciate some people might not like me saying that - very much of their time and way too proggy for me.

Actually, yes, they're sampling both... the bass line and the Chorus. 

I think the first verse is written very well.

Hmm - can you give me a link to an example ?

You need me to provide a link to an example of the most sampled Queen song?

Do you need instructions on how to boot your computer or open your Internet browser as well?

Here's a very rare Wyclef Jean version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9msVekBv8s

Here's a step by step guide to boot  your computer:
1. Sit down
2. Turn monitor on
3. Turn computer on
4. Sit back and enjoy

and to open a browser:
Click the Internet Explorer icon on your desktop.

Glad to help.

This is by far the easiest question....ever.

Obviously it's THE COSMOS ROCKS.

"I've got a criminal urge to ...twist and shout"

"the dragons and mysteries of life will explode" (someone correct me if i've gotten this horrible lyric wrong)

i mean ...seriously... the dragons... what the FUCK? about the dragons?????

this isn't HOLY DIVER... (and please don't take that liberty of ragging on RJD lyrics, if you deconstruct em, his were very great and aware...all except for HOLY DIVER which i've never understood...seems like a cheap deliberate way to get the SURVIVOR kind of rhythmic thing goin from "Eye Of The Tiger")

That said. There WERE some good beliefs on "we believe" and C-lebrity was a funny one.

Astounded by people saying "HOT SPACE" had dreadful lyrics.

certainly not so on Las Palabras De Amor

probably some of Brian's Greatest are on that one:

"One foolish world,
so many songs, senslessly hurled to the never ending cause
And all for fear,
and all for greed,
Speak any tongue, but for God's sake we need..."

Pretty much sums up a lot.