Can't disagree..

Don't remember him apologising in Edinburgh a few days before.

[QUOTE] [b]master marathon runner wrote:[/b]
Don't remember him apologising in Edinburgh a few days before.[/QUOTE]

well with HS dropping out of the top ten - perhaps they felt compelled to say something?

date........position
may 15...4
may 22...8
may 29...10
june 5.....18

not exactly the kind of chart placings big bands expected for their albums - back in those days. 3 weeks in the top 10?

the next LP the Works spent 25 weeks in the top 10.

There are some solid songs on Hot Space, but I don't think I'd give any of them Higher than a 7 or 8 out of 10. Under Pressure being the exception. In my alternate universe the tracks run like this:
Side 1:
I Go Crazy
Action This Day
Put Out The Fire
Back Chat
Life Is Real

Side 2:
Calling All Girls
Las Palabras De Amor
Cool Cat
Soul Brother
Under Pressure

This is how I've set it up on my computer. I like the way it flows.
How could they release Body Language as a single?

^i love that track list because it recognizes which songs are the weakest or boring. I think I'd dare shift up under pressure to the first half but hey it's nit picking

I love the first 20 seconds of TEAR IT UP (powerful stuff!) but it really goes nowhere. For one of Brian's raunchy rockers, it's light on energy.

PUT OUT THE FIRE has a great breakdown. Maybe they could've condensed both into a song ;)

So the album had one good rocker...on the subject of I GO CRAZY...are we yet sure this emerged during these sessions with Bowie or shortly thereafter?
It's one of their best "unsung" tracks

The first 3 tracks are the highlight of the album for me.

I can't get over some of the cringy lyrics on the album, especially Life is Real, which is the weakest the track on the album + Put Out The Fire.

Love the rest.

I agree Matt...I Go Crazy is one of my favorite songs, it should have been it’s own A side or at least on an album. As far as Hot Space goes, Staying Power is about the only song I can tolerate from that album. I force myself to listen to it on occasion out of allegiance and to see if perhaps more age has changed my opinion....hasn’t happened yet.

"Doesn't sound like Queen"? What sounds like Queen?

It was (kinda) of its time. They experimented with something new, and there's a few really good tunes on there. Production ain't the best, but it's still an enjoyable, fun album IMO.

Not that I'm comparing the albums (or their success) but a lot of people didn't like Sgt. Pepper because it strayed from the traditional sound The Beatles were known for. It was sacrilege to some die-hard fans, and too far out and weird for others. For me, the principle is the same, even if the outcome wasn't.

HS may not be to everyone's taste, but it's good to see it get some love on this forum :)

To be fair to Queen the album that is considered their worst was a huge influence on the best selling album in the world Thriller, so I can’t ever say it’s a bad album. I think it’s just not good for Queen standards and Queen audience’s.

Isn't that a late age unsubstantiated Brian May-ism that it influenced THRILLER?

[QUOTE] [b]GreatKingFairyFeller wrote:[/b]To be fair to Queen the album that is considered their worst was a huge influence on the best selling album in the world Thriller, so I can’t ever say it’s a bad album. I think it’s just not good for Queen standards and Queen audience’s.[/QUOTE]

Not so sure about that. Jackson was already well into the "funk" zone by 1979 with Off The Wall. Thriller is a natural sequel to Off The Wall, in the same way Queen's Races followed Opera.

Most of Thriller is a more polished remake of Off the Wall.
Dance tunes feel more complete and "in your face".

The album has the usual ballads; The Lady in My Life/The Girl Is Mine/Human Nature - to change the tempo.
The dancers Baby Be Mine/Billie Jean/PYT/Wanna Be Startin' Something really wouldn't be out of place on Off the Wall.

HS is a part disco pastiche by a middle aged white rock band. Cannot imagine this influenced Jackson given funk, disco etc were old at this point. Brian’s solo on Back Chat and Van Halen on Beat It is a similar disco/rock crossover idea though.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.udiscovermusic.com/behind-the-albums/queen-hot-space/amp/

Keep in mind when Hot Space was released they had only just begun recording sessions for Thriller. Seeing how it has been said Freddie and him were close friends at the time he may have heard some material before Hot Space was released. Songs like Beat It and Baby Be Mine in particular sound a lot like the tracks on Hot Space. Seeing how Queen influenced MJ in many ways it would make sense if this album was a influence.

[QUOTE] [b]GreatKingFairyFeller wrote:[/b]Keep in mind when Hot Space was released they had only just begun recording sessions for Thriller. Seeing how it has been said Freddie and him were close friends at the time he may have heard some material before Hot Space was released. Songs like Beat It and Baby Be Mine in particular sound a lot like the tracks on Hot Space. Seeing how Queen influenced MJ in many ways it would make sense if this album was a influence.[/QUOTE]

>> Beat It was Quincy Jones dance tribute to My Sharona
>> Human Nature was an unfinished song by Toto
>> Billie Jean's bass line came from Hall & Oats' "I Can’t Go for That"
and wasn't Wanna Be Startin' Something borrowed from an African artist.

So all-in-all between Off The Wall and the above, probably not any inspiration from HS at all.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qiekeo72bTk
These are a few songs recorded during the Thriller sessions that I feel show how Hot Space influenced the energy into making Thriller. Though most of the songs on the album don’t sound very similar, Hot Space influenced MJ to make the album be a funk disco album with a bit of rock. Though I think songs like Back Chat are similar to Beat it (even if it was a dance tribute to My Sharona) I feel that Hot Space was more of a basis of what he wanted the album to be genre wise.