Brian May Or Roger Taylor Solo, Who's Better?

Greetings Queenies,

I spent the wee hours of this cool Monday morning listening to Roger Taylors entire catalog in shuffle play and now Brian Mays catalog in shuffle play too, the question is, who do you prefer as a solo artist, Brian May or Roger Taylor?

WK

I prefer Brian.

Well, Brian is certainly slicker but I've always had a fondness fro Roger's solo outings. Back in the early 90's 'Barcelona', 'Back To The Light' and 'Happiness' we're each on heavy rotation on my stereo. I actually think that BTTL has some wonderful stuff... and a bit of poo, whereas Happiness is more consistently good, rather than mind blowing moments of genius followed by some crap.

I prefer Back To The Light (exclusive version including Another World and Since You've Been Gone) vs. Roger solo career.

You guessed? Right.

They seem more or less equal to me, on average.

Brian has some great songs and some real turds, while Roger is more consistent without the peaks and valleys.

I suppose Roger has the edge because I don't have to skip any of his tracks.

I don't know much of Roger's, but generally I enjoy a lot of Brian's stuff. The best of his work feels like a quasi-continuation of Queen's music, which is probably why I like it so much.

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[b]tomchristie22 wrote: [/b] I don't know much of Roger's, but generally I enjoy a lot of Brian's stuff. The best of his work feels like a quasi-continuation of Queen's music, which is probably why I like it so much.[/QUOTE]

That is my exact thought! Roger is different of Queen, and I like some 90's songs from him. I can't say "I prefer Happiness to Fun In Space". But I like his last album.

With Brian, I prefer his first album, his EPs, and two songs from Another World.

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I love everything Brian did. Roger's solo work - well, I like about 5% of it

I think most of their solo stuff is quite boring, but there are some good tracks here and there. My two favourites are from Rogers last solo album: "Be With You" and "Up." Also, the lyrics in "The Unblinking Eye" is great.

I would prefer Brian overall, but 'Fun In Space' is easily the best album out of them all. It's a lot more fun to listen and Roger clearly didn't take himself so seriously back then!

I also think Brian, mainly because of his heavy guitar tracks like Love Token, Resurrection and Cyborg. Problem with Brian's stuff is there is not enough of it! I admire Roger forhis long term commitment to his work and the way he has developed his consistency. I like his last album and can't find too many dud tracks. He has also had some absolute jaffas over the years. I think Dear Friends and Dear Mr Murdoch off Happiness and Strange Frontier off that album are awesome!

To me, Roger's is far more consistent and has dated far less; Electric Fire still sounds great today, and has one of his truly great compositions, 'Pressure On'. I love some of Brian's tracks, but the albums don't tend to hang together as coherent pieces, and some tracks siuch as China Belle and Ressurrection have dated badly. Roger is also a far superior vocalist.

For me it´s Roger Taylors solo stuff. I´d like Brian May´s style a lot more... but Roger Taylors songs has a lot more depth and variety. Otherwise I really hope, that there will be a box simular "The Lot" with Brian Mays complete solo work and some nice unheard bonus tracks.

Roger, every day of the week. Even though his last album wasn't very good - pretty much everything he did in the 90s between Blue Rock and Electric Fire, including the tours were very well executed, having heard the earlier bootlegs and been lucky enough to attend six gigs on the Electric Fire tour. Strange Frontier is probably his most consistent album (the title track and Beautiful Dreams especially), more so if you take away the two covers (which aren't bad). I took inspiration from Roger with my own work - my last album was called Love, Hope and Confusion!

Brian's stuff is decent but it's certainly dated pretty badly - like the programmed drums on both albums, they sound pretty horrible now. Having said that, Wilderness is an absolutely cracking song.

Brian.

Even though there's more output from Roger, I don't think any any of his albums are as good as Back To The Light. That does it for me alone. Plus, Rogers lyrics are often cringe-worthy.