Freddie's lack of Queen hits in the Eighties

What @pittrek said. ^^^ Freddie wrote amazingly creative songs in the 70s. Masterpieces. He was hungry for success. It's a sad realization that his lifestyle in the early 80s most likely killed him. :(

[QUOTE] [b]HelloDelilah wrote:[/b]

What @pittrek said. ^^^ Freddie wrote amazingly creative songs in the 70s. Masterpieces. He was hungry for success. It's a sad realization that his lifestyle in the early 80s most likely killed him. :([/QUOTE]

Freddie was doing everything what every other rockstar did back then, the biggest difference was that his partners were men and he just got unlucky.

Freddie wrote just as good music from 80-85 as he did from 75-80, but his style had changed over these time periods to reflect what was happening in music generally.

Whilst he may have had less hits (in the UK anyway, in the US none of them had many hits as the US lost interest), his songs were still of a high quality. If he had been writing the same kind of songs as he did in the 70s, Queen would have disappeared or slowly faded through the 80s.

Hi Mark, you’ve got a good point. They did need to change their style to keep up with the times. And you’re right about the US losing interest in the 80s, which was unfortunate for us. I don’t remember Queen being as popular with the younger folks during that time. So many new and up and coming bands were formed. Queen went to other parts of Europe and the world like South America, South Africa and Japan, and never came back. :(

“Freddie's 80's lyrics were garbage, he cared about the melody and instrumental, words were secondary too him.”

I disagree. I think Freddie’s 80’s songs were more realistic, and far personal to him.

realistic, but simplistic. As for songs were "personal to him"....it doesn't matter

What makes a better song.. a bunch of noise or real emotion?

Coke is a very uncreative drug. The more Freddie did, the more lacklustre his songwrting became. He essentially stopped playing piano for leisure and by his own admission, he struggled with writers block im the 80's. Imagine if Freddie had done acid instead, we would probably have had some freaking amazing Queen records in the 80's.

I think on the whole, coke music is more commercial than acid music. Even their drug choice was made from an accountant's viewpoint :D

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What makes a better song.. a bunch of noise or real emotion?[/QUOTE]
A bunch of good quality "noise", which in turn stirs up emotions.
thats for a musical ear, which is not a given for everyone, so the more tone deaf, the more you turn to the whishy washy lyrics for emotions.

While I can understand your obsession of the earlier stuff, I’ll disagree that Freddie’s 80’s music lacked thought.

The 70’s songs were aimed at being sophisticated. A deliberate attempt to be sophisticated, to be original. It worked well, and it sounded great, but that doesn’t mean they are better songs than Queen’s 80’s output.

Being original is precisely what makes for great art.

Following trends does not.

This is why ANATO will be seen as a great album a century from now and The Works will not.

In terms of writing Freddie did some genius work in the 80s but not as innovative as was in 70s. If it wasn't the Greatest Hits II the works album could have outsold News of the world. I am watching Queen sales and the Works had great numbers up to 1991-92 after those years lower sales, however 2018-2019 it did very well. Also if it had more songs like I go crazy, beautiful dreams, love kills and There must be more to life than this it could have been one the best Queen albums. So in 80s Queen did some odd choices and decisions, their music spirit was very good.

Sales don't necessarily reflect quality, otherwise Britney Spears outsings Anna Netrebko.

The works is a good album, Brian and Roger seems to appreciate it, during last year's they used machines intro before one vision, they played Tear it up, also in 2009 it's a hard life. Now more songs.
What I said it is a good album to n terms of music, if it had few more songs, it would have different atmosphere. and it could be a classic. Nevertheless it's songs attract more audience than many 70s albums, which leads many buyers to dig deeper into QUEEN catalog.