Poll: Best The Cross album?

Haha, it's a tie right now: 47 votes for both MBDTK and BR.

I did vote for BR for the reasons stated already. It is a decent album, and funny enough one of their best tracks didn't make it to the tracklist. MBDTK is not as nicely produced but there are some solid aspects to it, if you go looking. I love "Final Destination" among others.

"Shove It" is kind of weird because it's mostly a solo album with guest musicians (including Freddie in the UK version), and it's nowhere as inspired.

I think that's why I've kept going back to Shove It - it's a complete 'experiment' that had no real aim when he started it and what we have is what he issued from that material. It feels very intimate. The fact it is soooo 1987/88 sounding make it a nostalgic treat on top of that. Jive Bunny / The Fat Boys / TOTP 1987 flashbacks everywhere. Much like Bowie's Low - a personal little project that became a proper album. It freed him up and I find it more satisfying that pretty much anything else 'solo' he did. The other later Cross stuff to me is just pretty bland 80s / early 90s FM soft rock. Perhaps due to giving the other guys more say. That said, at the same time Bowie (sorry to refer back again) was doing Tin Machine which was probably more the style RT was aiming for in the band format. A dangerous 'flushing out' of the system. I wonder if the two projects informed each other? They even share studio. Plans for TM were well underway by the time Shove It came out. The same fate befell them on their second album - it went more mainstream with larger input from the other chaps and probably half an eye on diminishing commercial returns.

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

I think that's why I've kept going back to Shove It - it's a complete 'experiment' that had no real aim when he started it and what we have is what he issued from that material. It feels very intimate. The fact it is soooo 1987/88 sounding make it a nostalgic treat on top of that. Jive Bunny / The Fat Boys / TOTP 1987 flashbacks everywhere. Much like Bowie's Low - a personal little project that became a proper album. It freed him up and I find it more satisfying that pretty much anything else 'solo' he did. The other later Cross stuff to me is just pretty bland 80s / early 90s FM soft rock. Perhaps due to giving the other guys more say. That said, at the same time Bowie (sorry to refer back again) was doing Tin Machine which was probably more the style RT was aiming for in the band format. A dangerous 'flushing out' of the system. I wonder if the two projects informed each other? They even share studio. Plans for TM were well underway by the time Shove It came out. The same fate befell them on their second album - it went more mainstream with larger input from the other chaps and probably half an eye on diminishing commercial returns.[/QUOTE]

Dysan you have very bad taste ... LOL

You like The Miracle, and you like Shove It. You believe that the later Cross stuff is bland possibly because the other band members had more say.

I wholeheartedly agree ... I have very bad taste too.

Didn't expect the poll to end up being so riveting

I really like all three albums, and each has a special place for me due to the times and memories of events and people in the days of release.

I remember being so thrilled when I first put Mad: Bad... on, to hear the complete change of style into a 'rock' band from the poppier Shove It, but equally as a standalone album from it's time, Shove It is a lot more innovative production-wise than a lot of its contemporaries....some good songs and grooves and a really fantastic and 'different' mix and production - an album that moved me from my 'hard rock' roots to an interest in loops, samples etc..

Blue Rock is the final piece of the jigsaw and a far more 'mature' and collective sounding album, benefitting from more input from each band member due to Roger being otherwise engaged with Queen at the time. My least favourite solely from an audio (how it sounds) point of view - I'm not a fan of Mark Wallis'' production/engineering work on it.

Three VERY different albums, but each absolutely with its merits and high points.

There not one good Cross album, let alone a best one. Roger should ve focused on Queen only

Piss off, troll

Why? Because you don’t like my opinion?
It’s a forum, so get used to opinions that aren’t a 100% yours.
Piss of yourself

Well have you heard their albums? If so, I guess they're really shit to you. If you haven't though, you've got no business making such a blanket statement

I have listened to all of them multiple times but they’re not my cup of tea.
So what?!? Go fuck yourself nastqueenie74 bitch

Well someone's a bit temperamental. Also, how have I never heard of this nastqueenie74 fellow? I'm curious as to who came first

I like The Cross a lot. Despite the Shove It album which for me it´s crap except a few songs (Love Lies Bleeding -Single Version-, Feel The Force and the live versions of Contact)
But MBADTK and Blue Rock are excellent albums. (I´d say that i prefer them before other Queen albums like Sheer Heart Attack, Jazz or A Kind of Magic) ( !!!)