can anyone explain the reason to the lyric............i aint gonna go see the rolling stones no more ????.
i beleive,rightly or wrongly,there was a wee bit friction between the two bands.
No friction between the bands - just an in-joke about music press stories circulating at the time. (Michael Jackson recorded "State of Shock" with Freddie, but released the version with Mick Jagger on vocal).
Mick and Keith both appeared in the Queen documentary "The Magic Years" a few years later and Mick is seen in backstage footage at Wembley, so no, I don't think there was ever any bad blood.
It's just a funny name drop, and to keep it light Brian also has the line "Ain't gonna go see Queen...no more..."
I do remember reading a 1984 Brian interview saying that after the band recorded it, the others didn't like it for whatever reason, which is why it never went on The Works. Brian came to a compromise, since he liked it, and they released it as a non-album B-side. If that's accurate, I'll never get what there is in the song they didn't like. It's a straight-up rocker and easily could have fit on the album. There's nothing weird or embarrassing in the lyrics and it sounds like everyone was on their game performance-wise.
Including it certainly would've lifted the album above the synth-dominant sound many fans (excluding me, I love this album) dislike. I do consider it part of the album (though I'm aware that strictly it's not) since the 1991 HR cassette had it as a bonus track and that how I first got to know the album.
I think I read somewhere that the reason why boys didn't like it was that it was less produced than the other songs on the album. Dunno. Great song by the way. A solid rocker!
Great song without a doubt, but I think it wouldn't have fit with the theme of the album @ the time, which was very much machines vs. humans. I love that song, but I can't see where it would have fit anywhere on The Works...IMHO
I would have placed it after "Man On The Prowl" or "Is This The World We Created...?" (the latter being where it appears on the 1991 HR re-issue).
As to the theme, yes, the main theme is humanity challenged by technology and our own creations ("Radio Ga Ga," "Machines," "Hammer To Fall," "Is This The World We Created...") but secondary themes involve the survival of the human spirit ("It's A Hard Life," "Keep Passing The Open Windows," "I Want To Break Free") and that is where I feel "I Go Crazy" would aptly fit.
The remaining two songs fit, in my mind, thusly:
"Tear It Up," not so much lyrically, but musically it evokes great, pounding machinery, like in a factory.
"Man On The Prowl," a Jerry Lee Lewis pastiche harking back to the very 'lost era' lamented in "Radio Ga Ga;" the simpler time of the character's youth.
Just my opinion.
That's a pretty silly reason to hate the Stones in their entirety. Besides, it wasn't Jagger's call - it was MJ's, since it was his song. And Jagger was the better fit.
So maybe you should hate Queen instead because Freddie didn't have the goods to get onto the Jacksons' big comeback record.
Tongue in cheek of course, but still putting it out there ..