Why didn't Brian or Roger sing on any album tracks after The Game?

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Hot Space was some kind of a flop and they lost some audience, so I think they wanted to be "safe" after that.[/QUOTE]

Good comment but surely 'being safe' would mean reverting to type, repeating NOTW and The Game, both of which had brian and Roger signing

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]

And yet Drowse is among the best songs Queen have produced ...

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Absolutely!

Brilliant song, just a pity about the production; I think roger played rhythm guitar, and it shows!

Drowse = perfection. Love the sound and 'ambiance' of the song.

I like Roger's output with Queen. He was on a roll with Tenement Funster, IILWMC and Drowse, which I consider to be his better songs (sung by him).

Fight from the inside was interesting, cool riff.
Fun it is crap; More of that Jazz too but it's got a killer riff.

Rock it (Prime Jive) is one of my favorites. They should have kept it on their setlist much longer.

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[QUOTE] [b]ITSM wrote:[/b]

Hot Space was some kind of a flop and they lost some audience, so I think they wanted to be "safe" after that.[/QUOTE]

Good comment but surely 'being safe' would mean reverting to type, repeating NOTW and The Game, both of which had brian and Roger signing [/QUOTE]

Thanks, and I really like your comment too!

They said after Hot Space, that they wanted to make the new album like a mix of A Night of the Opera and The Game, and The Works turned out somehow like that (that's kinda what you said, I know). For me, A Day at the Races is the best album, and "Drowse" really contributes to that.

Drowse has a nice vibe to it but the lyrics in that one too just sound jumbled to me.......If you like the songs he sung on in the 70's then you definitely can't be a hard person to please musically...lol

Mooghead has made the excellent point several times before that your opinion on Drowse can completely change if you take some time to actually read the lyrics. They're beautiful. Even if they are kind of hard to make out on the recording, it doesn't matter if you actually know them because they are ridiculously fun to sing along to as you reminisce about the good ol' days. As for the production, I think it sounds fantastically relaxing. I don't have a problem at all with Roger's acoustic rhythm guitar playing in the background, and Brian's slide guitar is entrancing, as is Roger's voice in that song.

I actually am pretty hard to please musically, but I love all of Roger's songs in the 70s. I actually think Car is my least favorite of the bunch. I just love the guy's voice more than anything; it's so perfect for the kind of hard rock he was writing.

As someone already said: Drowse=perfection.

Just had to listen to it once again. One YouTube comment I found very fitting: "This song is like a dream".
It is, really, there is some clever 'tone painting' in it. The song certainly makes you feel drowsy and think about the old days.

I remember first loving this song when I was 12, in 1993. I had just moved to a different, much bigger city, and I missed my home town, "the old days" (yeap, a 12 year old missed the good 'ol days). Now here I am, 20 years later remembering those days. Drowse transports me to that very same day each and every time I listen to it.

Freddie one of the greatest vocalists of all time, RT and BM missed a trick. Despite what many posters write here RT and BM are not Lead vocalists therefore their vocal lead songs were never going to be a commercial success unless Freddie's footprint was all over it.

I'm aware of that. That doesn't stop the songs Brian and Roger did on the 70s from being really good overall, however.

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[b]Band Forever wrote: [/b] Freddie one of the greatest vocalists of all time, RT and BM missed a trick. Despite what many posters write here RT and BM are not Lead vocalists therefore their vocal lead songs were never going to be a commercial success unless Freddie's footprint was all over it.[/QUOTE]

You seem to be confusing 2 different things -- albums and singles. Having Rog and Brian sing on albums in the 1970s didn't hurt sales. For a single though, Fred was the recognisable voice of Queen. That said, there's no way to know how Good Company might have sold, or 39. However, Brian's solo effort 'Driven by You' was commercially sucessful, which proves his voice was not necessarily a barrier to commercial success. As for Roger, he is a better singer than many vocalists in 1980s rock bands (e.g. Bon Jovi!) and I suspect he would've made a good front man in a band other than Queen (e.g The Cross!lol! --their problem wasn';t Roger's singing but poor songs).

Your all complaining that Brian and oger didnt sing much after the game album. but has anyone released the freddie influence to great singles Stopped after crazy little thing called love. Apart from Its a Hard life. Singles from Roger, John and brian were bigger hits.

they were too busy to sing......busy....cooking up ways to make money after Freddie died

I don't see anybody "COMPLAINING" as you put it....it was only asked why all of a sudden they didn't have a song a piece to themselves on any albums after the Game...

It probably has to do with them starting work on solo projects. Apparently, an early tracklist (found on a tape in someone's closet) for The Works had "Strange Frontier", "There must be more to life than this" and "Let me in your heart again". I would imagine at least SF would have been sung by Roger?
The other way around with the Innuendo album with Brian using "Headlong" and "I Can't Live with You", which were originially concieved as solo songs, IIRC.

[QUOTE] [b]lyricalassasin77 wrote:[/b]

IMO its a good thing they got away from the whole Brian & Roger both having a song to sing on, although I liked all of Brian's songs and think he has a decent voice in his own right. Roger's contributions in the 70's were awful IMO and sound like filler. Queen II is a masterpiece until its derailed by "Loser in the End"....."Tenement Funster" on Sheer Heart Attack leaves me scratching my head. "Fight from the Inside" on NOTW & "Fun It" on Jazz are some of the weakest lyrics ever, and definitely album filler. Only decent song he ever wrote & sang on was "I'm in Love with My Car". Only reason I can tolerate "Rock It" on The Game is because of Freddie's superb opening.....So I guess its a good thing they moved away from it. [/QUOTE]

Speak for yourself - Tenement Funster is fantastic in my opinion, Fight From The Inside is unique but interesting to me, and Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll is very impressive vocally, if only that. Granted, Fun It is shit. As far as Brian's songs go, I think tracks '39, Long Away, Good Company and All Dead are perfectly suited to his voice, which isn't the strongest. Those are still some of my favourite Queen songs.

I'm glad they continued to have little interjections of Brian and Roger singing (WWTLF, I Want It All, The Invisible Man), it gives the songs greater diversity and character. I do kind of wish they'd continued to sing some of their own songs in full, but I can see why they didn't.