Both albums are great in my opinion. Don't listen to anyone tell you that Hot Space sucks, it definitely does not. It has great shining moments such as Under Pressure, Life Is Real, Put Out The Fire, Las Palabras De Amor, and Cool Cat. The only not so good songs on HS are Dancer and Body Language. Other than that is a good album. Plus I recommend getting Queen Live At The Bowl and listen to Staying Power and Back Chat live....awesome!
As for Sheer Heart Attack, I agree with earlier posts that the songs all flow well together. Most of the songs are great...Flick Of The Wrist/Lilly Of The Valley, Bring Back That Leroy Brown, In The Lap Of The Gods (both versions), and Stone Cold Crazy. Personally I don't Like Now I'm Here all that much but you may like it. I agree that the only not so good song is She Makes Me which is sung by Brian. But I would recommend buying both albums and listening to them all the way through then you can make your own opinion. Good luck.
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These are two wildly contrasting albums. Hot Space is weak record, no douvts about it and Under Pressure is overrated. However there are some good moments here, such as the very muscular anti-gun rant Put Out The Fire, all crunching rifs and meaty drums. Life Is Real, is a dreamy piano ballad for John lennon with tasteful synthesisers that are very lennon sounding. Las Parablas De Amor covers much the same ground as Teo Torriate but is much more coherent and less flowery. The swirling synths are lovely and Brian's piano work is spot on.
Of the disco material, Back Chat is about the best, particularly live, when it bristles. Dancer has some gutsy guitar and Staying power is bearable, again better live. In terms of production the sound is very dry and synthetic with a lot keyboard bass and ofdd synth effects.
Sheer Heart Attack is a truly great album, heavier than A Night At The Opera yet more accessible than the brilliant but nonsensical Queen II. Everything is covered, hard rock (the Stonesy Now I'm Here and Tenemnet Funster), metal ( he furious Stone Cold Crazy and the scalding riff- lines of brighton Rock where freddie sings as both a male and female character.), vaudeville jazz (Killer Queen and Leroy brown) and lovely ballads like Lily Of The Valley, which has beautiful guitar orchestration.
To cap it off there is Lap Of The Gods Revisited.. a mighty power anthem that could be even better than We Are The Champions.
Of the disco material, Back Chat is about the best, particularly live, when it bristles. Dancer has some gutsy guitar and Staying power is bearable, again better live. In terms of production the sound is very dry and synthetic with a lot keyboard bass and ofdd synth effects.
Sheer Heart Attack is a truly great album, heavier than A Night At The Opera yet more accessible than the brilliant but nonsensical Queen II. Everything is covered, hard rock (the Stonesy Now I'm Here and Tenemnet Funster), metal ( he furious Stone Cold Crazy and the scalding riff- lines of brighton Rock where freddie sings as both a male and female character.), vaudeville jazz (Killer Queen and Leroy brown) and lovely ballads like Lily Of The Valley, which has beautiful guitar orchestration.
To cap it off there is Lap Of The Gods Revisited.. a mighty power anthem that could be even better than We Are The Champions.
Does no one like Action This Day?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Lord Blackadder wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Does no one like Action This Day?[/QUOTE]
I'm no fan of it I'm afraid. Live it's ok but the studio version is awful. Terrible synthesisers, odd sounding vocals,and a horrid flat drum sound.
I'm no fan of it I'm afraid. Live it's ok but the studio version is awful. Terrible synthesisers, odd sounding vocals,and a horrid flat drum sound.
Just a thing, is Dear Friends on Sheer Heart Attack?
Sure!!Acton This Day, Las Palabras De Amor, Life Is Real, Under Pressure, Back Chat in Hot Space and all the song (except She Makes Me) in Sheer Heart Attack album!!!
I can't believe you all have the same album that I have.
1. BACK CHAT has been identified in this thread as the worst cut and the best cut. That alone should be worth a listen. Plus, this is one of Brian's best guitar solos (albiet a short one) in Queen history.
2. COOL CAT was also pointed out as a potential stinker. Freddie could falsetto. If you bought the Barcelona album, then you must have been curious. Cool Cat shows him at absolute top form in this department. Yeah, he's not singing like he normally does, but I take this over Aaron Neville any day! Plus any of you R&B fans appreciate the rhythm section as I do?
3. BODY LANGUAGE was Freddie at play. I'm no brokeback, but this is always enjoyable to listen to, especially when his subject matter grew much more grim in years to come.
4. DANCER is another one where all four get to shine in their own right. John is all over the place, while perfectly holding it together.
5. STAYING POWER is quite memorable to me, because I hadn't heard any singles prior to buying the album. I clearly received "The Shocker", and was very impressed for these Rock & Rollers to be doing this.
And yes, I do live in the U.S.
1. BACK CHAT has been identified in this thread as the worst cut and the best cut. That alone should be worth a listen. Plus, this is one of Brian's best guitar solos (albiet a short one) in Queen history.
2. COOL CAT was also pointed out as a potential stinker. Freddie could falsetto. If you bought the Barcelona album, then you must have been curious. Cool Cat shows him at absolute top form in this department. Yeah, he's not singing like he normally does, but I take this over Aaron Neville any day! Plus any of you R&B fans appreciate the rhythm section as I do?
3. BODY LANGUAGE was Freddie at play. I'm no brokeback, but this is always enjoyable to listen to, especially when his subject matter grew much more grim in years to come.
4. DANCER is another one where all four get to shine in their own right. John is all over the place, while perfectly holding it together.
5. STAYING POWER is quite memorable to me, because I hadn't heard any singles prior to buying the album. I clearly received "The Shocker", and was very impressed for these Rock & Rollers to be doing this.
And yes, I do live in the U.S.
Hot space: Calling all girls, Life is real (song for Lennon),Body language, Las palabras de amor, Back chat, cool cat, Put out the fire...it's a very good album, to me but i don't like under pressue (horoble), dancer is not bad but i don't like it very mutch and action this day is little bit boring, but ok...
Sheer heart attack: The best is Lily of the valley and dear friends...but killer queen, now i'm here, stone cold crazy, in the lap of the gods, Misfire, Brighton rock, She makes me, Flick of the wrist...tenement funster and bring back that lerroy brown are good but little boring songs...i don't like them very mutch...
kiss ti all, Freddie I love you..
Sheer heart attack: The best is Lily of the valley and dear friends...but killer queen, now i'm here, stone cold crazy, in the lap of the gods, Misfire, Brighton rock, She makes me, Flick of the wrist...tenement funster and bring back that lerroy brown are good but little boring songs...i don't like them very mutch...
kiss ti all, Freddie I love you..
To Mircrowave:
"4. DANCER is another one where all four get to shine in their own right. John is all over the place, while perfectly holding it together."
It's funny you mentioning John all over the place in Dancer. In terms of instruments, I believe that John played nothing at all. I know for sure that the bass is synth and programmed by Brian. Perhaps John played a synth or even a rhythm guitar, since he was AWESOME in rhythm guitar, even the other member stated that he also the best rhythm guitarrist of the band.
One thing is for sure. John had very input in the production, that I admit.
Hot Space is the album where the concept of band got lost. You had every member playing different instruments in their own songs in a more regular basis:
Roger played synths and guitar in ATD and CAG;
John played guitars, synths, drum programming;
Brian played synth bass in Dancer, synths, piano in LPDA;
Freddie played synth bass in BL...
etc etc..
"4. DANCER is another one where all four get to shine in their own right. John is all over the place, while perfectly holding it together."
It's funny you mentioning John all over the place in Dancer. In terms of instruments, I believe that John played nothing at all. I know for sure that the bass is synth and programmed by Brian. Perhaps John played a synth or even a rhythm guitar, since he was AWESOME in rhythm guitar, even the other member stated that he also the best rhythm guitarrist of the band.
One thing is for sure. John had very input in the production, that I admit.
Hot Space is the album where the concept of band got lost. You had every member playing different instruments in their own songs in a more regular basis:
Roger played synths and guitar in ATD and CAG;
John played guitars, synths, drum programming;
Brian played synth bass in Dancer, synths, piano in LPDA;
Freddie played synth bass in BL...
etc etc..
All of Sheer Heart Attack,and Under Pressure from Hot Space.
i love these albums, i will buy you them for ur birthday!!:P! the best songs on them have to be, Action This Day(HS), Under Pressure(HS), Staying Power(HS),Put Out the Fire(HS), and i love all the songs on Sheer Heart Attack, they are brilliant!"!
thanks you guys
Some good songs on Hot Space and SHA??
Alright
Hot Space: Under Pressure, the others SUCK.
Sheer Heart Attack: they're all great!!!
Alright
Hot Space: Under Pressure, the others SUCK.
Sheer Heart Attack: they're all great!!!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Lord Blackadder wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Does no one like Action This Day?[/QUOTE]
My brother and I were just talking about how much we both love this song. Hot Space gets such a bad rap, and with no real just cause.
My brother and I were just talking about how much we both love this song. Hot Space gets such a bad rap, and with no real just cause.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Dan Corson wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Lord Blackadder wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Does no one like Action This Day?[/QUOTE]
My brother and I were just talking about how much we both love this song. Hot Space gets such a bad rap, and with no real just cause.[/QUOTE]
There is a cause, Dan. It was a failed attmept at jumping on the disco bandwagon as it was dying out; the song writing is vacuous and the production is very "of its time"! Now I agree there are some good songs on it but overall, it pales in comparison to NOTW, Innuendo and Sheer heart Attack. Under Pressure would look mediocre on most other Queen albums- that says it all for me.
My brother and I were just talking about how much we both love this song. Hot Space gets such a bad rap, and with no real just cause.[/QUOTE]
There is a cause, Dan. It was a failed attmept at jumping on the disco bandwagon as it was dying out; the song writing is vacuous and the production is very "of its time"! Now I agree there are some good songs on it but overall, it pales in comparison to NOTW, Innuendo and Sheer heart Attack. Under Pressure would look mediocre on most other Queen albums- that says it all for me.