Why is Body Language so reviled?

Dancer is probably the worst song, not just on the album, or the worst song by Queen, but the worst song by any rock band singing in thr English language. If you like this your ears must be painted on.

Wowzer.What about the other worse songs from each album? I don't think anything on Hot Space is close to the HELL that is Bijou, My Baby Does Me, One Year Of Love, Fun It etc

Holly2003: "Dancer" is a great Track on "Hot Space" and it has some great guitar playing from Brian.
i can think of worse Tracks, like : Bijou, My Baby does me, Mother Love, The Hitman, You dont fool me.
Queen excite us all in different ways!

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

Holly2003: "Dancer" is a great Track on "Hot Space" and it has some great guitar playing from Brian.
i can think of worse Tracks, like : Bijou, My Baby does me, Mother Love, The Hitman, You dont fool me.
Queen excite us all in different ways![/QUOTE]

Gerry, I'd agree with most of what you listed - except IMO "Dancer" is pretty dire, and when pitched against the entire queen catalogue then "Mother Love" falls somewhere between the diamonds and the cubic zirconia - I'd think it at least merits a "semi-precious" stone description.

beENski: Horses for courses, don't you think?

Dancer is a piece of rubble in an abandoned slaughterhouse, in a city no one cares about, in a country no one ever visits.

well personally i would say the last weird track on "Made in Heaven" is unwanted in my Queen collection.
Dancer in comparison is a wonderful pop/rock/disco track and i love it!
Queen just prove they are such a versatile group and can put there hands at anything!

It's an unflushed toilet on an abandoned spaceship, orbiting a lifeless planet in a solar system being sucked into a Black Hole.

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

Dancer is a piece of rubble in an abandoned slaughterhouse, in a city no one cares about, in a country no one ever visits.[/QUOTE]
more or less sums up Hot Space perfectly.

The timing of Body Language is very awkward - it'd be a funky sort of thing to listen to, except it sounds off because the different elements just seem to come in slightly out of time. The live versions rectify that significantly, as well as Freddie's vocals being free from weird sounding reverb-less mixing, kicking up the tempo, and adding some guitar fills from Brian.

It's an unflushed toilet on an abandoned spaceship, orbiting a lifeless planet in a solar system being sucked into a Black Hole

Sounds like Queen/adam lambert on Tour!

Dancer is a track that it doesn´t where to stay, i think that brian, and this is really true, that he didn´t want a dance album, so he put something of the past, the style of chorus of white man, put something elese, and like this, dancer was born, it´s a good track, but odd for brian style

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[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

Holly2003: "Dancer" is a great Track on "Hot Space" and it has some great guitar playing from Brian.
i can think of worse Tracks, like : Bijou, My Baby does me, Mother Love, The Hitman, You dont fool me.
Queen excite us all in different ways![/QUOTE]

Gerry, I'd agree with most of what you listed - except IMO "Dancer" is pretty dire, and when pitched against the entire queen catalogue then "Mother Love" falls somewhere between the diamonds and the cubic zirconia - I'd think it at least merits a "semi-precious" stone description.[/QUOTE]

It makes me think of a grown man, breastfeeding.

LucaDiego : Thank you and at last someone who does appreciate "Dancer".
Many fans are narrow minded and dismiss this great track but dont take it seriously its just Queen
keeping Freddie happy lol

When I first got into Queen it was in the early 90s, thanks to some bad ass song that came on Highlander: The series daily. I began biting up the albums like crazy and fell in love with nearly all of them. .... Then there was Hot Space. ...WTH guys? Very poor compared to the rest of their masterpieces.