I think a new album is very unlikely. "The Cosmos Rocks" (which I like a lot) was already such a big commercial flop that Brian and Roger hardly will test the waters again - and they did have a veritable additional song writer in the boat. When did Brian write something apart from The Cosmos Rocks? It was "Another World" 14 years ago (not counting "The Call" which was not even released on a record). Roger has been announcing a new solo album for at least 5 years now but at least he released one or two songs in the mean time. I am not familiar with the song writing abilities of Adam Lambert but it seems he has lots of hired song writers and it is hard to imagine Brian to hand over creative control over a Queen album to an outsider, anyway.
It is one thing to play a couple of concerts or even a tour with the old safe hits to committed concert ticket buyers and quite another thing to release new material and expose it to the critical public.
Freddie rey · Member since
if they recordad an album will be more Queen than The Cosmos Rocks, becouse that record have a lot of Paul Rodgers, and Lambert will only sing his songs and no write a lot of stuff, so it will be more on the sound of Queen, really
soxtalon · Member since
YV - Brian did write a few songs for Kerry's Anthems album - Dangerland and I Can't Be Your Friend (with lyrical assistance)...but it is true that the two have not been a songrwriting dynamo team.
With that being said, I say why not? Taking apart the controversy of it being labeled "Queen" + AL or whatever, I wouldn't mind seeing what Brian and Roger could come up with. Maybe it would be shit, maybe it would be good..but it'd be new and that's intriguing.
AND I also do agree that without Paul Rodgers' influence the album stands to sound a lot more Queen-ish than TCR.
Amazon · Member since
Holly2003 wrote: "My interpetation of that news item is that Lambert wants to re-record A Night at the Opera with his vocals instead of Fred's, and he wants it re-released under the new title "ADAM LAMBERT & queen's A Night at the Opera."
I hope so. I was recently listening to ANATO, and I was thinking that while it's a pretty good album, one way to improve it would be to replace that annoying Freddy Mercury with someone who is actually talented. Like Adam Lambert.
Missreclusive · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Amazon wrote:[/b]
Holly2003 wrote: "My interpetation of that news item is that Lambert wants to re-record A Night at the Opera with his vocals instead of Fred's, and he wants it re-released under the new title "ADAM LAMBERT & queen's A Night at the Opera."
I hope so. I was recently listening to ANATO, and I was thinking that while it's a pretty good album, one way to improve it would be to replace that annoying Freddy Mercury with someone who is actually talented. Like Adam Lambert.[/QUOTE]
soxtalon wrote: "With that being said, I say why not? Taking apart the controversy of it being labeled "Queen" + AL or whatever, I wouldn't mind seeing what Brian and Roger could come up with. Maybe it would be shit, maybe it would be good..but it'd be new and that's intriguing."
I have to say that I'm not too concerned myself. Yes, taking away the controversy surrounding the Queen name (as far as I'm concerned, Queen's last album was MIH, not TCR or even Innuendo), it's always good to get some new music from Brian and Roger. Will it be good? Who knows, and quite honestly, I don't really care.
The way I look at is this: on my ipod, there are 14 Queen albums (each of the group's 14 studio albums from Queen I to MIH) as well as the two vocal tracks from Flash. That is more than double the number of albums from any other artist, and quite honestly, if I didn't love Queen so much, I wouldn't let them take up so much space as there are quite a few albums in my cd collection which are not in my ipod. Anyway, TCR isn't in my ipod, as I don't love it. So basically it comes down to this. If the new 'Queen' album is great, fantastic! If it's not, then it's an album I don't need to worry about creating ipod space for.
