"One year of love" - any love?

First off, I'm not a big fan. just never could imagine queen with saxaphones...not a good fit, and thank goodness there wasn't many attempts.

I can not say I disagree! A lowlight of the more of less good AKOM album..............why a sax solo on a Queen song when you got Dr Brian freaking May in the band??........well he wasn't a Dr then, but that's beside the point..............


Kinda going off on a tangent............(but I am like the king of that...........KingTangentofRhye).................

But that bugs me about Action This Day.........why this cheesy sounding keyboard synth solo thing??? In what is really a pretty good Roger Taylor song.............when they could have had Brian lay down a killer multi tracked solo..............ah, oh well, they were trying new things...........

Not one of my favourite tracks, or indeed albums, one year of love fitted the movie, hence the sax I think, and the synths on Action were very 80's, very of their time.

I prefer the extended version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBcOeKTGkD8

The song I feel should be in a slightly lower key. Freddie struggles with the song being to higher pitch I feel. Just my opinion. The sax is fine and in keeping with the mood of the song and film. But should've been in a lower key for Freddie.

I agree. I had no problem with the sax, writing of the song or how it was used in the movie.

I just thought Freddie sounded like he nearly killed himself trying to sing it.

Aside from the dated sounds, and the way Freddie sings it, it's a fairly decent track.

Have a listen to this cover version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN08XAzdNcc

AKOM, a very expensive album and musically weak except for a couple of songs, of course.

Freddie is singing the song in "overdrive" vocal mode with added distortion on the mixed voice belts. I've always thought he was kinda going for a vocal style similar to Michael Bolton.

I'll defend it a bit. I'll start off by saying that it could EASILY fit on any post 70's ETTA JAMES album. There's a Southern blues element to it. You just merely have to change the production and give it a slightly different tempo

To that effect I think it would translate much differently. People would enjoy it more. However, it's not the bread and butter of the album. It's the sprinkle of salt. ..the oddity. MUCH LIKE EVERY OTHER QUEEN ALBUM.

Jesus
Funny how love is
Bring back that Leroy Brown
seaside rendezvous/lazing. ../good company
who needs you
fun it
don't try suicide
man on the prowl
Delilah
etc

As a thematic song it's simple but beautiful in a melancholy hopeful way. You d just have to listen to the words if you ever felt resignation from a romance. Then thought about the good and the bad.

The posters do have a point that it sounds strained at times.

PISCTP is another stretch of a song. But all in all the bass and the melody still won me over.

Of course. ...I was THREE when the album came out so ....wtf do I know?

It WAS the 80's. Picturesque music videos with rising fog and sax solos. Cheesy standard video shoots like that (roger came close with MAN ON FIRE)

I think they were emulating an era. It's position in the film is good. However I don't think the levels are... On the soundtrack it comes off bigger than being merely background bar music.

The belated music video drew far too much focus to the tragedy of Freddie's passing rather than the thematic parts of the song. (Blame DoRo)

All in all I think Kamen's music arrangement score helps it. The cross sticking isn't bad but it's of an era.

It's too bad Etta is gone otherwise it'd be fitting.

That's the only style I can seem to hear it in. Kinda like I hear Stevie Wonder in "rain must fall"

i thought they did it because it was something they hadn't done before. The song isn't bad considering Pain Is So Close to Pleasure and Don't Lose Your Head were on the album.

It's on par, in terms of quality with Friends Will Be Friends & Gimme The Prize. Not bad songs, but not exactly standouts either. Friends Will Be Friends, although on GHII, is an embarrassing Queen song (i'd fit Thank God It's Shitmas, It's a Turd's Life and even Suicide in that category - but that's just my opinion).

FWBF appealed to me as a young kid.

I still feel the moods and seasons of each successive queen album I'd bought. AKOM was winter time in California.

Always been enchanted by Brian's melodic TONE on that song. The solo break is fluid and not full of histrionics but it's truly evocative. Some of his most beautiful tone work. Up there with Bijou and You Don't Fool Me.

Say what you will but the production on that album doors evoke the kind of magic ;)

It's fun, cheeky, serious, heartfelt and well. ... thematically the only one that doesn't fit is one vision.

That's very true matt, I always felt one vision never fitted on that album, later, on the works maybe.

Sorry meant to say " later, or on the works maybe ''. : (

I'm starting to feel like I'm one of very very very very few who likes Pain Is So Close To Pleasure...