Wishing AKOM was never made

[QUOTE] [b]master marathon runner wrote:[/b]

"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"
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Yes, I think wishing it was never made is a bit too much.

If in 1986 Queen instead decided to make an album on the concept of he colour blue then whether or not you liked the album doesn't mean it's illigitimate to say you'd wish they instead produced an album without that self-imposed restriction.

Same applies in this instance.

As it happens AKOM isn't my favourite album but even I did like it I'd still would rather have them produce an album that was a true reflection of the creativity at that period of time rather than one shackled to an arbitrary concept: the colour blue in he above example, or the movie in the case of the album that was actually made.

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

SLACK MAGIC - A Kind Of Magic - Album Review 86`[/QUOTE]

I couldn´t read it until the end. Another music critic who is a failled musician at heart. And let´s face it, if this man knew anything about music he would be creating it, not reviewing it!

Personally at the time I thought this album was good, didn't like One Year of Love or Pain Is So Close to Pleasure, how could anyone not like AKOM or POTU?

They have stood the test of time, AKOM has so much going on, yes it's a pop song, but a good Roger song reworked by Freddie which simply made it better. The Highlander version must have been nearer to what Roger envisaged and obviously must have been kicking around since the One Vision sessions given the outtake we now have on the 2011 release.

Disagree with e original sentiment of the post, but we are all entitled to our views.

It's a bit hit and miss, but I like the album. AKOM, POTU, WWTLF, and Prize are amongst my favourites from the 80's. One Vision and Don't Lose Your Head I enjoy very much as well. Its the three tracks at the end of side one that never did it for me. I like the cover, which isn't a popular opinion, and I love the videos they made for this album. Even the one for Friends WBF and that is a song of which I've never been a huge fan.
The problem with wishing they hadn't made it, is that without it, there would have been no tour in 86. I've seen comments (And no I'm not searching the web for the proper attributions) from I think both Brian and Freddie, that they didn't want to tour without a new album. So timing wise it was perfect, and musically it was far from their worst effort.

It was also the very last time that a new Queen album came out and my introduction to it was from a window display in HMV on the day it came out.
First time I saw the cover and the first time I knew the track listing was when I was standing in the store, cash in hand. (probably 4 pounds 99, but I cant be certain). (I remember it very well, it was a sunny day and the trip home on the bus seemed to take forever)

I'm not convinced that without the Highlander soundtrack work there would ever have been another Queen album. Without that focus, they may have just drifted apart.
(Though maybe Live Aid was enough, and Highlander was just the delivery system)

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]


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.

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Shark Sandwich!!! lol.....

And Duel rules....

hey snackpot, buy a fake passport and fuck off

[QUOTE] [b]ggo1 wrote:[/b]
The problem with wishing they hadn't made it, is that without it, there would have been no tour in 86. I've seen comments (And no I'm not searching the web for the proper attributions) from I think both Brian and Freddie, that they didn't want to tour without a new album. So timing wise it was perfect, and musically it was far from their worst effort.

It was also the very last time that a new Queen album came out and my introduction to it was from a window display in HMV on the day it came out.
First time I saw the cover and the first time I knew the track listing was when I was standing in the store, cash in hand. (probably 4 pounds 99, but I cant be certain). (I remember it very well, it was a sunny day and the trip home on the bus seemed to take forever)
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Good point^^

If I wish that AKOM was never made, which I don't, I would also have to wish that Miracle was never made, because I don't like it anymore than AKOM. But WWTLForever, AKOMagic and IWIAall are too good to be wished never was made.

Snackpot, I think you may want to rephrase the title because it wasn't what you really meant in your post. Wishing AKOM hadn't been made that way?

I am one of few people to like this album, i prefer this to the works and hot space, a track that i saw many here hate that i like is don't lose your head!

WWTLF by itself is so good that even if the rest of the album were crap, it alone would justify the album's existence.

Having AKOM, POTU and OV on it as well make it not only justified in its existence, but a good album too. Yes, they were constrained by it having to be shaped in a certain manner because it was a film soundtrack, and yes it wasn't as good as some of their earlier work. But it's certainly left us with some really good songs.

AKOM (the song) has some very nice "twiddly" guitar work on it.

[QUOTE] [b]sexmachine wrote:[/b]

hey snackpot, buy a fake passport and fuck off[/QUOTE]

Yes they don't have the internet abroad, that'll work.


Some real pig-shit thick people here. All my point was is that I'd rather in 1986 they made an album not largely confined to having to relate to scenes in a movie and that I'd rather they made an album that was a true reflection of where they were as a band at that time.

Instead what we got was no proper Queen album for 5 years from the Works to The Miracle because AKOM was really an attempt to salvage a sound-track album into a proper studio album.

And I get "buy a fake passport and fuck off"

It's hilarious how incapable people are at understanding anything beyond "is this song about AIDS?" and "did you like the moustache"

[QUOTE] [b]Snackpot wrote:[/b]

As commercially successful as A Kind of Magic (album) was, I wish it had never been made

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Me too, then I might not be here looking at posts from nutters and trolls (they know who they are)
I might also have shed loads of money as I wouldn't have spent it on collecting Queen stuff!
Of course, on the downside, I may have ended up being a fan of "girl bands" instead and the only person at an S Club Juniors concert above 2 feet in size LOL!

Yeah. I get both points.

But the premise is Nazi like. Completely revisionist... how could Queen have emerged in the 80's without highlander.



They were going to quit and call it a day.

I think they made off well with WWTLF DLYH and POTU (*though I prefer the original soundtrack edit that was leaked a year ago)


FWBF had immaculate guitar work. Cheese or no cheese it's absolutely beautiful work by Brian.


To articulate that bit to a band would probably be taken very deeply and personally. Its basically saying. .. YOU GUYS SUCKED $#!+ ... WTF was that crap you released. ..


And further it states "I could do better" when you (the fan) really couldn't


On the other hand yeah if they'd focused on completely new work you might have had a WHAM style song in the mix and something ala DURAN DURAN/U2

ME? I'm grateful the artistry Brian had had shown in WWTLF and others. They weren't exactly swinging for hits.


Take it out loathe it, I think it was a good turn

The album is definitely a Curate's Egg. It suffers from a lumpy tracklist (I'll say this about nearly every Queen album!) with side one too weighed down with OYOL and PISCTP. It's a truly 'European' album - when I listen to it I think of nice trips abroad in France and hearing OYOL on the radio (!) and like other posters here I have happy memories of it coming out. I was about 9 so loved the cover and had a t shirt of it, it's only now I look at it and cringe. Its VERY 1986 and with that in mind I still enjoy it immensely. The Works has better songs somehow, but for some reason AKOM has more depth and hold the attention more. Considering they both have 9 songs, The Works seems much more 'slight'. It's strange, earlier this week I got DLYH stuck in m head out of no where and thought about listening to the album (on tape of course!) and picked it out of my shelf and had a look at the inlay and really enjoyed being transported back to '86. Tellingly, I didn't actually put it on! But I will. Sooooon.

PS - that review is from Sounds so I wouldn't pay it much heed. They still thought it was 1976 and Queen were the enemy. You can bet the reviewer was actually a fan (as they all were) but the readership expected, and the mag mission was anti-Queen.