Wishing AKOM was never made

Well, of course they could not release another album like Jazz in 86. That's not what I meant. I meant an 80's sounding album, but simply more brave and with better songs. Something slightly more sophisticated artistically than Friends or Don't Lose Your Head. Songs like Forever, Princes or Was It All Worth It demonstrate they were still capable of it, even midway through such a plastic decade as the 80's. It's a bit of a shame a band as clever as Queen did not grab this opportunity, settling for a few hit singles and filled stadiums.

I agree, its an album with an identity crisis. It is sort of something to do with Highlander (a film I have still never seen!) but isnt a soundtrack but is a normal Queen album too. The film inspired some of the better songs on the album but at the same time sorts of taints it too. In my humble opinion.

Bla bla bla.

Great LP.

God knows what might became of Queen, if they even decided to continue as a band instead of breaking up, would Highlander not have happened.

Way I see it: Queen were on the verge of breaking up. At least Highlander gave them a reason to work.
Results could have been better, but far worse as well.

IMHO it's still a better LP than most of their 80s work.

wish it was never made. Dumb statements like that make queen fans look stupid. It is towards the bottom or their records, but to say f with it means stupidity. No person/groups puts out a masterpiece to every single person ever and there never will be that scenario. Take it or leave it. As Freddie said, it's only a bloody record. Now last night I listened to random queen songs and FWBF was one of them. When I first heard it, I loved it then got tired of it's cheesy-ness. I Playing the extended version, I remembered how great it was. The guitar sounds of May at it's best. Only wish the production was better, allow the guitar and drums to be powerful like the Works. They should have continued to record in the US in the 80's where rock and metal was more powerful that the poppy European sound.

[QUOTE] [b]k-m wrote:[/b]

Well, of course they could not release another album like Jazz in 86. That's not what I meant. I meant an 80's sounding album, but simply more brave and with better songs. Something slightly more sophisticated artistically than Friends or Don't Lose Your Head. Songs like Forever, Princes or Was It All Worth It demonstrate they were still capable of it, even midway through such a plastic decade as the 80's. It's a bit of a shame a band as clever as Queen did not grab this opportunity, settling for a few hit singles and filled stadiums.[/QUOTE]

"plastic decade!> Ha haa! Love that! :D

I absolutely love the album. It´s fresh, and it sounds very good in 2015. Not to mention that the song AKOM is one of the best pop songs ever written. Great record!

Let me disagree with you, Snackpot. It is my favourite album. I'm not saying that you have to love it since it's my favourite, but let's be realistic: it sounds great, all nine songs. And as Mr.QueenFan put it, it still sounds fresh even now, in 2015. They hadn't put out such bright an album before nor did they do so later - it's only my opinion. You can't change the past but speculation isn't bad, though.

SLACK MAGIC - A Kind Of Magic - Album Review 86`

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

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What was wrong with this Barone guy to dish Queen like this in newspapers. What a jerk. No wonder they hated British press. What a bunch of tossers to insult Queen music and even Freddies voice. This guy Barone is retarded or hates Queen guts back then.

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

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Freddie bless your scans.
Or
Freddie Save The Scans.

Wow.... it WAS a toilet brush moustache!





Geez. Slag the band and hardly even talk about the music. Maybe the guy just heard a few songs or dismissed the rest entirely.


Eh. Still a better review than "Shark Sandwich" got.


He's right about Spielberg though.

Pretty empty films. (Up to that point) his best being the adaptation of DUEL.

That review is just pure bile, from someone basically laying bare his own personal preconceived thoughts on the band as an entity, and as individuals, rather than actually reviewing the music. Yes, it's not there best album by a long chalk, but hell, at least review the music and critique that, rather than just personal attacks...what a tool.

[QUOTE] [b]goose44 wrote:[/b]

allow the guitar and drums to be powerful like the Works. . [/QUOTE]

I must have several dodgy copies of The Works then, because the drums are anything but powerful on the editions I've been listening to for the last 30 years!!

"wish AKOM had never been made" - quite possibly the stupidest post heading ever on QZ.
Very good album, ......and I like "don't lose your head"

My point wasn't difficult to grasp.

I'd rather the album was a proper Queen album rather than being largely songs for a movie specifically reworked. If people are too dense to understand the premise of the point then that's not my problem, it's hardly unclear.

If you paid £100 for a meal made by a 3 Michelin star chef who was restricted to only using ingredients beginning with S, chances are you're still going to enjoy the meal. It doesn't mean to say you wouldn't have rather seen what could have been cooked for you without that restriction.

Whether or not you like AKOM isn't really relevant to the central point that the restriction of the album of needing to be largely made from songs produced originally for the film meant that it is a very different album to what it would have been had the band been allowed free artistic reign and not have to pigeon hole much of what they did to fit the narrative of a film.

But if this is the "stupidest post ever" on QZ, then fair enough. I know that's probably proven because some tit said "I like it".

Case closed then.

The argument clearly is that Queen were incapable of producing their own album in 1986 and nobody would want to hear it if they did.Instead people are pleased that the album was almost rigidly tied to the soundtrack and most other artistic ideas that may have sprung up during that time were rightly rejected as we're all delighted they produced an album jammed with songs for/from the movie and nothing else.