Queen
Noah’s Barks pages relating to music group Queen.
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Queen – “Queen II”
An often overlooked Queen album (aren’t most of them?). Queen II is loose concept album where the first side of the album is meant to have brighter lyrical imagery with all songs written by guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, while the second side contains darker songs all written by lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. As usual… (read more)
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Queen – “Sheer Heart Attack”
‘Sheer Heart Attack’ is a great album, and one of Queen’s few that to feel like a cohesive whole instead of an arbitrary song collection. (read more)
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Queen – “Hot Space”
Many consider Hot Space to be Queen‘s worst album (personally, I believe that title goes to The Miracle), and it’s fans often abhor it for its shift from rock to pop, featuring many songs driven by synthesizer dance beats. Certainly, a move that could (and would) easily anger the band’s long-time fans and rock purists. But… (read more)
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Queen – “A Day at the Races”
Queen’s albums became a lot less consistent after A Night at the Opera. Fortunately, they didn’t fall too hard yet on A Day at the Races. The biggest problem with this album is that it really is, in many respects, just a lesser version of its predecessor. Many songs here evoke the same feeling. The… (read more)
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Queen – “A Night at the Opera”
The Beatles were the first band to show me how fun and enjoyable music can be. Queen were the band that showed me what music could be, and that’s demonstrated in full force on A Night at the Opera. Queen were powerful. Not only because of the self-evidence of their own name, but because they… (read more)
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Queen – “The Works”
The most “eh” album Queen ever made, maybe. The Works is rarely anything impressive, never anything that repulsive. They’re less reliant on synthesizers than on Hot Space. And thank god for that, because now they’re tactful enough to know when to use them in the songcraft. As a little fun fact, this is the only Queen… (read more)
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Queen – “Jazz”
On Jazz, Freddie Mercury absolutely piles on the pop culture references in his lyrics. Seriously, see how many you can count. Make it a fun game with friends. If you feel in the mood for pointless fun, then Jazz is your ideal soundtrack anyway, as it’s by far Queen‘s silliest album. I certainly don’t need… (read more)
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Queen – “Flash Gordon”
Good for a soundtrack album. As a matter of fact, the soundtrack is pretty much the only thing worth watching the 1980 version of Flash Gordon for. The music suits the film’s themes and art direction perfectly, those being that of a mediocre, humorously camp ’80s sci-fi flick. In that sense, it’s a total triumph… (read more)
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Queen – “A Kind of Magic”
I always forget A Kind of Magic exists. Naturally, I don’t have a whole lot to say about it, and I’m not sure I ever will. This means it may be the only Queen album where there’s not a lot to talk about. This is all to its detriment, of course. No conversation starters implies… (read more)
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Queen – “Innuendo”
Innuendo is often called a return to form for Queen but that’s, quite literally, only half true. Innuendo is split right down the middle between Queen’s progressive touches from the ’70s, and their schmaltzy ballads of the ’80s. Predictably, this leads to an album that’s varied in quality. Regardless, Innuendo is properly hailed as one… (read more)