"One year of love" - any love?

[QUOTE] [b]malicedoom wrote:[/b]

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

no, you aren't. but the single version is preferable imho.

I thought that was a wise choice to release as a single in the USA.

Of course, it didn't go anywhere, following pretty much the same course of all Queen singles in the USA in the late 80's.

Capitol Records can CHEW me.  The one single they actually DID put some promo behind (I Want It All) did well here and got The Miracle noticed and up the Billboard 200 chart.

Then, after that, they [b]completely[/b] screw the releases of both Breakthru and Scandal - basically they pressed the singles and gave them no promotion whatsoever.  Pathetic.  Both could easily have been hits here.

In A Kind of Magic, Gimme the Prize deserve more love, not One Year of Love

I really like the track, something a little different.

Regarding Freddie's vocals, i think he's trying to get across a sense of desperation and despair one feels when a relationship is ending. It's not controlled and sometimes not pretty, and i think his vocals give a good impression of this.

I don't know why Queen can't explore other instruments like the sax either.

[QUOTE] [b]Doga wrote:[/b]

In A Kind of Magic, Gimme the Prize deserve more love, not One Year of Love[/QUOTE]

Yep! Love Prize! I actually love the heavy ones on this album! Prize, Head and Princes of the Universe. Pain and Pleasure is not a favourite, OYOL has Freddie's worst vocal IMO and Friends Will Be Friends is very kitsch for a Queen song as far as I'm concerned

As I recall they were going to have a break, but went back into the studio to take advantage of the interest that Live Aid engendered. I wonder if that was a mistake!

Friends Will Be Friends is a special case to my view.
There is something beautiful and something terribly wrong going on simultaneously .
The reasault is you hear it once, you may like it, then you are bored to death with the track after 5 listenings.
Quite an achievement...

Yes Stelios. I think it's the kitchness and Freddie is also singing again constantly straining. Nothing as bad as OYOL in that respect though. Yeesh! Thank goodness Miracle was a relative vocal return to form for him! Not like the old days, but still great. And I think the vocals on Innuendo are even better again! And I think the vocal on Mother Love is simply superb!