master marathon runner
I've always thought of jazz as, as far as Queen's attitude is concerned, ahh sod all pomp and perfection, lets have a blast and rock it!
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I really hope Brian and Roger don't do an album with Lambert. It wouldn't be Queen, no more than Cosmos Rocks was, and it'd mean having to put up with Glamberts and more Lambert posts all over Queen pages.... which, what with not being a Lambert fan, personally, I'm quite sick of.
Plus, I don't think Lambert is much of a writer going by his own material (did he even write it?), and Roger and Brian don't seem to have written an exceptionally good track for years, let alone an entire albums worth.
Plus, I don't think Lambert is much of a writer going by his own material (did he even write it?), and Roger and Brian don't seem to have written an exceptionally good track for years, let alone an entire albums worth.
Thistle
Cosmos Rocks sounded like a Roger Taylor album....funny that! I only bothered with it because I respected Paul Rodgers as a singer and thought he did a good job with Queen.
I didn't particularly like it as a whole, but there were a handful of tracks I really enjoyed....oddly, the experience I have with most Roger albums.
I don't like Adam Lambert's music, and I only went to see the show in Glasgow as it may have been my last chance to see Brian and Roger. I didn't find Lambert an inspiring singer or showman, although he did a good job on tracks like Save Me and WWTLF. As such, I think I'd need to avoid a new album, as he'd likely have some influence on it.
However, it wouldn't bother me if they tried. They're entitled to.
I didn't particularly like it as a whole, but there were a handful of tracks I really enjoyed....oddly, the experience I have with most Roger albums.
I don't like Adam Lambert's music, and I only went to see the show in Glasgow as it may have been my last chance to see Brian and Roger. I didn't find Lambert an inspiring singer or showman, although he did a good job on tracks like Save Me and WWTLF. As such, I think I'd need to avoid a new album, as he'd likely have some influence on it.
However, it wouldn't bother me if they tried. They're entitled to.
mike hunt
Jazz was a good album for Freddie as a writer, Mustapha is a personal favorite.
AlexRocks
Bullshit! "The Cosmos Rocks" is one Queen's best studio l.p.s!!! The drum sound on it is phenomenal!
Ale Solan
[QUOTE] [b]AlexRocks wrote:[/b]
Bullshit! "The Cosmos Rocks" is one Queen's best studio l.p.s!!! The drum sound on it is phenomenal! [/QUOTE]
miraclesteinway
different strokes for different folks......
certainly it was the best Queen album since 'Made In Heaven'
certainly it was the best Queen album since 'Made In Heaven'
Togg
Cosmos Rocks has some interesting stuff on it, and I agree wholeheartedly that the drum sound is excellent, far better than any album they did with Mack or later. I too thunk of it as very much a Roger album, I think at the time Brian was going through one of his no productive periods and finding teh releationship with Paul difficult. As someone said with Freddie at the helm they recorded ANATO, but also Hot Space... he made the Bad Guy album without any outside influence from the band.... and frankly it's just about the worst album I can think of, the new re-takes from the band are 1000 times better than his versions.
If they do a new ablum I will be very interested in hearing it, I think they still have something to offer in a studio, I love hearing Brian's guitar, so that alone will be wonderful to hear again. I hope they let Adam have some say becuase i think they need to move it a little towards his audience if they want it to sell, he has a big following now and a younger audience so it could be interesting.
I like Queen because the evolve, not despite of it, so change is good in my book.
If they do a new ablum I will be very interested in hearing it, I think they still have something to offer in a studio, I love hearing Brian's guitar, so that alone will be wonderful to hear again. I hope they let Adam have some say becuase i think they need to move it a little towards his audience if they want it to sell, he has a big following now and a younger audience so it could be interesting.
I like Queen because the evolve, not despite of it, so change is good in my book.
miraclesteinway
- actually it's not true that Freddie made the bad guy album without any influence from the band. There are Queen versions of some of the tracks floating around - There Must Be More To Life had the others on it, as did Man Made Paradise, and I'm not sure which others did. Brian has gone as far as to say that the session guitarist on Man Made Paradise actually copied Brian's playing exactly, track by track, and Brian felt hurt at that time that Freddie didn't just use the original track and credit him for it.
Brian and Roger have said that Love Kills (I know, it wasn't on Bad Guy) was actually a fully-fledged Queen record credited to Freddie Mercury, with no acknowledgement that the others actually played on it, and Freddie had suggested to them - or allowed them to form the view that - their parts were scrubbed and replaced, but it didn't happen that way.
The Mr Bad Guy era was a rather messy time within the Queen camp. Freddie was not being the easiest person to deal with at that time. In fact probably none of them were.
Brian and Roger have said that Love Kills (I know, it wasn't on Bad Guy) was actually a fully-fledged Queen record credited to Freddie Mercury, with no acknowledgement that the others actually played on it, and Freddie had suggested to them - or allowed them to form the view that - their parts were scrubbed and replaced, but it didn't happen that way.
The Mr Bad Guy era was a rather messy time within the Queen camp. Freddie was not being the easiest person to deal with at that time. In fact probably none of them were.
Togg
Yes I am aware of those tracks, but I'm refering to the versions that made it on the album, which frankly were awful, Freddie either disregarded what the band had to say or they recorded those versions after his were done. My point was that left alone Freddie was no genius who could magically create masterpeices at the stroke of a pen, he produced some of the weakest tracks Queen have done and his only fully (solo) album was a massive flop. Only when they all worked together did the magic really happen in my view, and then not always, Cosmos Rocks is head and shoulders above and one of the bands solo efforts again in my opinion.
tomchristie22
Freddie was being pretty douchey at the time it seems, probably out of desire to show he could make it on his own, not to hurt the others.
[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]
Brian and Roger have said that Love Kills (I know, it wasn't on Bad Guy) was actually a fully-fledged Queen record credited to Freddie Mercury, with no acknowledgement that the others actually played on it, and Freddie had suggested to them - or allowed them to form the view that - their parts were scrubbed and replaced, but it didn't happen that way.
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Really though, the guitar solo at the end of Love Kills is unmistakably Brian, even with the unusual effect - surely he'd have been able to tell it was his own playing.
[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]
Brian and Roger have said that Love Kills (I know, it wasn't on Bad Guy) was actually a fully-fledged Queen record credited to Freddie Mercury, with no acknowledgement that the others actually played on it, and Freddie had suggested to them - or allowed them to form the view that - their parts were scrubbed and replaced, but it didn't happen that way.
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Really though, the guitar solo at the end of Love Kills is unmistakably Brian, even with the unusual effect - surely he'd have been able to tell it was his own playing.
miraclesteinway
It seems that for whatever reason at the time, they didn't get into it - from what I can glean from the documentaries. I mean it's not as if any of them needed to worry about cash flow. Anyway it seems Brian and Roger have reclaimed that particular one....
AlexRocks
Why were Brian and Paul having difficulties with their relationship?
BETA215
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[b]AlexRocks wrote: [/b] Why were Brian and Paul having difficulties with their relationship?[/QUOTE]
I don't know from where you are, but relationship is something between girlfriend-girlfriend, girlfriend-boyfriend, or boyfriend-boyfriend, you know?
Friendship is something between friend-friend.
[b]AlexRocks wrote: [/b] Why were Brian and Paul having difficulties with their relationship?[/QUOTE]
I don't know from where you are, but relationship is something between girlfriend-girlfriend, girlfriend-boyfriend, or boyfriend-boyfriend, you know?
Friendship is something between friend-friend.
master marathon runner
Freddie's solo album "a massive flop" - not on your Nelly !
No. 6 in the UK charts, ( higher than 'Barcelona'), spawning a hit single and plenty of air play/exposure. Although it was certainly no 'Thriller' , it was half decent hit.
. I hear the negative consensus from time to time in documentaries etc, but those who can cast their minds back and have the power of recall,know it's not quite true, IT WAS NO FLOP.
No. 6 in the UK charts, ( higher than 'Barcelona'), spawning a hit single and plenty of air play/exposure. Although it was certainly no 'Thriller' , it was half decent hit.
. I hear the negative consensus from time to time in documentaries etc, but those who can cast their minds back and have the power of recall,know it's not quite true, IT WAS NO FLOP.