Could Hot Space be redone in a more traditional Queen style?

Its horrendous lets be honest. Queen always wanted to be on trend (but werent always trendy) but gay pop has never been on trend. 'Could Hot Space be redone' is a silly question because it never will be. A change in track order could make it better though, to hear the only original instrument in the first 3 minutes be Freddie's voice is never gonna be good. Start with one of the 'proper' songs and the attitude to the rest of the album will be different. And get rid of Body Language. Replace it with Freddie saying the words 'look at my cock' on a 3 minute cycle and it will get the same message across and sound a million times 'better'.

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

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Haha...yes I mixed up the names there...

Thanks goose44 for correcting me on that one although I should've said that he pressured the band by infuencing Freddie to go in that direction as you've said it. I'm not native English speaker so the "message" wasn't so clear in my post.

Back to the topic: here's my idea of re-doing some tracks off HS.:

Dancer - first verse Bass, Freddie + piano licks here and there mainly to underline tempo and rhythm of the song, rest of the band and guitar entering at chorus. No synths.

Back Chat - the way Matt re-did it, a tad aggressive and normal acoustic drum overkill (a la Dragon Attack) instead of those awful electric drums.

Las Palabras the Amor (Matt version) but more piano instead of synths, especially in verses where the background is being "painted" by synths.

[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]
And get rid of Body Language. Replace it with Freddie saying the words 'look at my cock' on a 3 minute cycle and it will get the same message across and sound a million times 'better'.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, we never had a rock song with thinly or not all veiled sexually-themed lyrics before.....lol

there is nothing wrong with this album other than cool cat. aside from that, it's a better listen than works, akom and in terms of replay value, the miracle.

The only song I don't like from Queen is See What A Fool I've Been (B-Side Version).

[QUOTE] [b]Jimmy Dean wrote:[/b]

there is nothing wrong with this album other than cool cat. aside from that, it's a better listen than works, akom and in terms of replay value, the miracle.[/QUOTE]

I can't agree.
Staying Power - just horrible. The live versions are OK.
Dancer - OK, this one is pretty good.
Back Chat - boredom. Again, live versions are MUCH better.
Body Language - I like this one too.
Action This Day - live versions are pretty good, album version not.
Put Out The Fire - just OK
Life is Real - boredom
Calling All Girls - boredom, live versions are OK
Las Palabras De Amor - again - boredom
Cool Cat - another horrible song
Under Pressure - I know I'm a minority but I never liked this song

Live versions are much better. Even the DEMO versions are much better.
I personally like almost all songs except Man on the Prowl and Open Windows

[QUOTE] [b]Jimmy Dean wrote:[/b]

there is nothing wrong with this album other than cool cat. aside from that, it's a better listen than works, akom and in terms of replay value, the miracle.[/QUOTE]

But COOL CAT, under pressure and ACTION THIS DAY are the only really great songs on the album!


Insanity!




Back chat and dancer suck but are saved by Brian's incredible "argument" with his multi faceted guitar.


(Dancer is good but not great.... very forced)


Shit like Staying Power (*even if ripped off from Zeppelin) still sucks rat shit out the trap. How could anybody. ...???

i still find the album is a fresh listen each time i play it. while each song may not exactly be crowning achievements (other than Under Pressure) - the album as a whole is what i'm commenting on. the horns, the production, the arrangements, etc. it's not Queen but it's still fucking Queen!

/ Cock on cher.

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[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]
And get rid of Body Language. Replace it with Freddie saying the words 'look at my cock' on a 3 minute cycle and it will get the same message across and sound a million times 'better'.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, we never had a rock song with thinly or not all veiled sexually-themed lyrics before.....lol



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Fair point but other than maybe the odd Prince song nothing says 'jump on my cock' more than BL. And to think Freddie never actually came out publicly..

I've always liked "Calling All Girls". It's not got much of a mention in this thread. I might be alone then. :-)

I heard Cool Cat played on SiriusXM's Deep Track and was pleasantly surprised how it sounded and fit in with the rest of the classic rock.

[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]

I always thought Action was a very good song....I just really don't like that synth-horn-thing solo in the middle!! It would have sounded so much better with a proper Brian solo :D......(or indeed any Red Special at all!)

It would have awesome if they had done sort of a 're-take' of that and maybe a few other songs on HS, like the '97 "Rocks re-take" of I Can't Live With You[/QUOTE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJG8w3CkA1g

I like this middle section more.

Dancer is the one song besides Under Pressure that has that Queen punch like they had in the late 70's and 1980. Don't understand why some people can't stand it. I can say almost every other song except for LPDA is bland and missing substance. Electric Drums is the worst thing Queen ever did. Everyone used to get pissed about Synths. They worked for queen if they are not overly used throughout a song and combined it with Guitar like TSMGO for example. HS however as we know is just full of it. Brian is lacking here and Roger is reduced to nothing. Miami Beach should have bitch slapped Freddie and said why the F are you doing here, why the hell is this shit. Plus, Brian and Roger should have had bigger balls and said no. You know they could push little Deacy aside and double team Freddie, which Freddie would probably have enjoyed, lol. Anyway, at least they stayed together for over 20 years straight and lived through the times. Tell me any band who went through their time period, had the success they had and never broke up.