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Artist: QueenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-06-17
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
- Keep Yourself Alive
- Doing All Right
- Great King Rat
- My Fairy King
- Liar
- The Night Comes Down
- Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll
- Son & Daughter
- Jesus
- Seven Seas Of Rhye
- Mad the Swine (Previously Unreleased)
- Keep Yourself Alive (Re-Take)
- Liar (Remix)
Music reviews of Queen
Music Review: The Signs of Greatness were all there
Rating: 5 Stars
Looking back at the 1970s, sometimes many forget how big the band Queen was. Even as Queen moved into the 1980s, while their popularity did slightly decline in the United States, it continued to be very high in Europe. Their performance at Live Aid is widely considered one of the greatest of all-time and their subsequent "Magic" tour is considered one of the all-time greatest concert tours. If it weren't for Freddie Mercury's death in 1992, we might still be talking about Queen being as big a band as the Beatles. Going back to the beginning, it is always interesting to see how a legendary band got started. Queen's 1973 self-titled debut - "Queen", shows all of the signs of greatness. It shows the individual talent of all of the members. It also shows how the band embraced a "theatrical" feel to their music (which was something seen by other bands such as the Kinks) as well as embrace a sound which would evolve into what would become Heavy Metal. In a lot of ways, these songs have gotten forgotten about because of the incredible music portfolio the band would build up.
Queen is an example of the sum of the parts actually being greater than the whole. However, if you take each of the four members of Queen, they easily stand on their own as a top musician in their profession. Freddie Mercury is easily known to be the emotional and flamboyant lead vocalist of Queen who indeed has a legendary voice. Brian May is the legendary lead guitarist and probably the second most popular member of the band. Roger Taylor and John Deacon go extremely underrated. Listen to Taylor's thundering drumming in the studio or live and one can easily understand why he was asked to participate in an All Star Drum Jam (The S.O.S. All-Stars) at the Live Earth concert. As for John Deacon, he might be one of music's all-time underrated bass players. Many of his bass lines have proven to be the foundation for Queen's musical sound. In addition to being top musicians, all four members play integral roles in the songwriting. The greatness of each of these members is clearly demonstrated on every track.
Here is a track by track synopsis of the collection:
"Keep Yourself Alive": When you listen to the first track on the first album by a band and it blows you away, it tells you a lot. This is clearly the case with me. All four members shine on this anthemic track, but obviously May (who wrote this track and has some great guitar riffs) and Taylor (who has an incredible drum solo). Great foundation bass work by Deacon as well.
"Doing All Right": This is another stellar track. The one thing overlooked is some of the country-western sounding guitar work that is sprinkled throughout this track. I also like the way the track "switches gears" - first from the piano, then to an acoustic guitar, then to a heavy guitar jam, then back to the piano, then back to the heavy jam, and finally back to the piano. Surprisingly, it's May who plays the piano on this track.
"Great King Rat": "Doing All Right" has a nice segue into this song. This song is the first of the theatrical sounding songs on this collection. The theatrical songs have a "medieval" feel to it. Once again Taylor and May true rise to the occasion on this song.
"My Fairy King": The song opens with a Rockabilly sounding piano that has a nice segue into what would be the next theatrical sounding track on this collection - once again with a "medieval" feel. This song does a great job with making use of changing tempos.
"Liar": This song also has a theatrical feel to it, but it also as an anthemic feel much like "Keep Yourself Alive". It also makes use of changing tempos. On this song we really get to hear some of the heavy guitar work - something that would play a great role in the second half of the album.
"The Night Comes Down": Although Mercury and May may seem like the standouts on this track, it really is John Deacon's opening bass that sets the tone for this track. Some of the acoustic guitars almost have a Spanish feel to it.
"Modern Times Rock and Roll": "The Night Comes Down" has a nice segue into this song. This song begins to showcase the heavy metal influences of the band. This also demonstrates Roger Taylor the vocalist. Taylor would prove to be an effective vocalist throughout the band's history. Many don't realize he can hit the high notes.
"Son and Daughter": This song brings a theatrical element with a heavy metal element. In fact to some extent, this track almost has a feel like an Ozzy Osbourne track. The interesting thing is how the song "mellows" a bit toward the ending.
"Jesus": As the title mentions, this track basically tells the story of Jesus. This is a great track. Mercury's vocals are incredible on this track. Once again, this track has a theatrical feel to it. There is a terrific guitar jam midway through this track as it also "switches gears".
"Seven Seas of Rhye": This is an instrumental that was would evolve into a more full song. That more full song would turn up on the band's follow-up album. Even incomplete - this is just a great instrumental.
These would be the original ten tracks on the album. Re-releases of this album would include alternate versions of "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Liar" as well as the bonus track "Mad the Swine". However, even without these bonus tracks - this is one outstanding album. It shows that this band would have all of the signs of greatness. Plus it might expose you to some Queen music you might not have heard before. Highly recommended.
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