the Game: overated?

I don't really have an opinion but I feel the need to say that I hate it when the short albums cost as much as longer ones. Aurgh!

Lol to that.

But no, I don't think The Game is overrated.

The Game rocks!!!!

Hey, Rich Tea. That's a VERY good point about Don't Try Suicide ripping off Walking On The Moon.

I have to say I'd never noticed the similarities between the two tracks before, but given that Walking On The Moon came out the year before The Game, and went to number 1, I think it's fair to say that it heavily "influenced" the riff in DTS.

Absolutely not underrated...

And "Sail away" is wonderful, maybe Brian's best song...

Yes the Walking on the Moon riff was so obvious at the time. I don't think Brian has ever been worried about copying a certain style if he thinks it suits the song for example listen to "the Prize" and then listen to Big Country's "Fields of Fire" I wonder how many others people can spot?

Sail Away is my fave song on the Game. BEAUTIFUL in DTS surround!!!

the album is great, one of my faves actually

Cool! I thought I was the only one that thought that The Game was underrated.

Deffoe underated. THe things (or lack therof) I had heard about the Game before I listened to it meant I was very pleasantly surprised upon hearing how good it was.

This is what I think happened in 1980:

Yes, The Game was Queen's best-selling album in the USA. But it wasn't Queen fans who made that happen; it was singles buyers who realized there were a few good singles, so they bought the album! And it was the singles-buyers who made those two songs go to #1 in the singles charts... not Queen fans!

Many hardcores were disappointed with the overly-poppy feel of many of the tracks, especially the singles, and they were already disappointed with Queen, even before Hot Space came out.

The concert halls filled up mostly with pop fans on that tour, not Queen fans.

There were indeed some great tunes on The Game, and although it had their signature harmonies and arrangements in many of the songs, they were really going pop for this record, in order to appeal to the American market.

In that sense, yes, I believe The Game was over-rated, because it had too many pop-oriented songs which seemed to go too far away from Queen's style. Diversifying is always a great thing, but when you diversify towards pop, you will lose some hardcore fans. It later happened with Metallica fans after the Black album.

V. good post- agree 100%

But THAT is what I love about Queen, that they have so many different styles. I love everything they did. Every album, none of them were bad IMO.