| Bigfish 01.01.2012 12:54 |
It's just got to be The Game. No substance, predictable couplets, too many love songs.. Ironic as it was so popular in the States. |
| The Real Wizard 01.01.2012 13:27 |
Ironic? The American mainstream isn't exactly notorious for their interest in art with depth. |
| Bigfish 01.01.2012 14:06 |
Indeed, I didn't want to give offence by making any kind of socio-cultural comment. |
| mooghead 01.01.2012 14:34 |
No album is better or worse lyrically, the worst song lyrics though (apart from Body Language, which is a given) is In Only Seven Days, which wouldn't even get a GCSE F grade. |
| Bigfish 01.01.2012 14:44 |
I think you're wrong. Certainly Innuendo, Queen 2, SHA, ADATR, Opera and Yes even Jazz are Lyrically better than The Game. In only seven days at least has some kind of narrative..unlike anything on the Game. |
| tcc 01.01.2012 16:54 |
I think AOBTD and In Only Seven Days are written like a screenplay. When you hear the song, you can imagine a movie being played out. |
| tomchristie22 01.01.2012 17:58 |
In Only Seven Days does narrate the story fairly well, but the lyrics did strike me as being fairly unprofessional, not the sort of words you'd use in a song. I don't think there's an entire album that's poor lyrically, but Fun It and Body Language are pretty bad. |
| jpf 01.01.2012 22:32 |
"Hot Space" |
| ANAGRAMER 02.01.2012 03:38 |
Hmmm...never been impressed by The Miracle album with a few notable exceptions |
| Bigfish 02.01.2012 04:03 |
Sorry Hot Space over The Game by a country mile. Life is Real, Under Pressure, Put out the Fire or even Action this Day are all lyrically more inventive or interesting than anything on the game.. |
| tomchristie22 02.01.2012 05:07 |
You Don't Fool Me is fairly straightforward, though that was assembled from vocal leftovers of Freddie's rather than written, so I guess that doesn't count :P |
| Bigfish 02.01.2012 06:29 |
talking about albums.. |
| Vocal harmony 02.01.2012 07:14 |
Freddie always said that his songs were throw away pop, when you've finished with it, move on to the next one. This maybe true of some of the 80's output, but I think that a lot more thought and time was put into writing in the earlier days. I also think that while he's not Neil Peart, Brian would view his own song writing as having some depth and thought to it. I think when you become as big as Queen did, to a lot of people, a song is no more than a catchy chorus or hook. What happens during the rest of the song becomes less important. |
| Gretsch6120 02.01.2012 14:34 |
This is not anti-Paul as I thought live he was great, but, in the cold light of day there's not many redeeming lyrics on TCR! SINT perhaps the main exception? I like C-Lebrity but it's not exactly lyrical genius! |
| TicTax 02.01.2012 15:05 |
Before I state my case, allow me to say that I am a Queen fan. I have been for 30 years. It's pretty much all I listen to. It's all I have, more or less, on my iPod. I love Queen. I saw Freddie Mercury in his one-off appearance in Time although tragically I never saw Queen in concert. No-one sounds like Queen, no-one has ever been able to sing like Freddie and all morons appearing in crap like the X Factor should take note of what real talent is (I'd suggest watching Live at the Bowl). Queen were (are) the greatest rock band to have ever walked the face of the planet and will never be bettered. So now I have got that off my chest, am I allowed to say that, lyrically, Bohemian Rhapsody is just nonsense? I fully expect to be shot down in flames but, to quote the great man himself, there you have it. |
| Sheer Brass Neck 02.01.2012 15:10 |
Bohemian Rhapsody may very well be nonsense. But "Nothing really matters" may be the key to the mystery of what life is all about, and more meaningful and knowledgeable than all of Dylan and Lennon's greatest lyrics combined. |
| MadTheSwine73 02.01.2012 16:22 |
I don't know about that... Dylan has written some f**king phenomenal stuff... |
| Bigfish 02.01.2012 17:15 |
Sheer Brass Neck wrote: Bohemian Rhapsody may very well be nonsense. But "Nothing really matters" may be the key to the mystery of what life is all about, and more meaningful and knowledgeable than all of Dylan and Lennon's greatest lyrics combined. I think it's fair to say that even Fred would have laughed himself almost beyond bladder control at your post. |
| Fireplace 02.01.2012 17:49 |
The Works. Tear It Up, I Want To Break Free, Man On The Prowl & Is This The World We Created (beautiful, but the lyrics make me cringe). Hard to beat that one! |
| Bigfish 02.01.2012 17:52 |
Yup - The Works not great but still miles ahead of The Game. More narrative, more proper nouns. |
| Sheer Brass Neck 02.01.2012 18:12 |
Bigfish wrote: Sheer Brass Neck wrote: Bohemian Rhapsody may very well be nonsense. But "Nothing really matters" may be the key to the mystery of what life is all about, and more meaningful and knowledgeable than all of Dylan and Lennon's greatest lyrics combined. I think it's fair to say that even Fred would have laughed himself almost beyond bladder control at your post. I said (sorry for the caps as my underline doesn't work) MAY BE. I don't think it is, but I do recall the show on Bohemian Rhapsody where scholars and historians tried to contemplate and figure out what it was all about, so it has some depth. Not the opera part. But, is the sentiment of "nothing really matters" or "anyway the wind blows" that different than "the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind?" Not making a case for BR as deep lyrics but it's more than toss away fluff. |
| Bigfish 02.01.2012 18:16 |
Even with maybe he would have pissed himself. Having said that the pathos of "Mama - life had just begun but now I've gone and thrown it all away" is not lost on me. The one thing Bo Rap has loads of is Pathos.. |
| Sheer Brass Neck 02.01.2012 18:25 |
Well I can't be the judge of what his urinary tract would or wouldn't have done, and I don't think it's among my favourite lyrics, but obviously there is a lot of deep meaning in the non-opera bits. Is it a person who is at a crossroads in life questioning everything or someone who had bet the band $100 he would get the names Scaramouche and Bismillah into a song by the fourth album? Nobody knows his thoughts and trying to interpret them would be folly. I just think that in reply to the previous poster that the lyrics aren't nonsense or awful. |
| Bo Rhap 03.01.2012 03:53 |
jpf wrote: "Hot Space" Totally agree.A waste of an album. |
| Bigfish 03.01.2012 03:54 |
still lyrically better than The Game though.. |
| tomchristie22 03.01.2012 04:36 |
I was only thinking out loud, as I hadn't worked out which album had the biggest number of poorly written songs, which is how I would decide it. I think The Game is pretty good lyrically. Sail Away Sweet Sister and Don't Try Suicide come to mind for being inferior lyrically, but are both pretty good songs regardless, SASS especially still shines. I do see what you mean however by too many love songs, I'd never really noticed before but 5/10 songs on there have love as a fairly blatant subject matter. I'll have to agree that The Works is the least impressive lyrically. |
| Bigfish 03.01.2012 04:50 |
The Works.. hmm dunno. You've got strident anti-war Hammer to Fall, Indictment of the video age Radio Ga Ga, Poverty and injustice commentary with Is this the world.. Sorry still more interesting than anything on The Game even with the odd cringeworthy moment.. |
| A Word In Your Ear 03.01.2012 05:49 |
worst = "Flash Gordon" No lyrics at all & the 2 songs that do have lyrics!!!! well!!! "Flash-ahh... saviour of the universe" isn't Brian at his best, is it. And Talking of "The Game" to be honest that album has one of my favoite lyrics in a Queen song of all time. Coming Soon:- "Like some Mother-in-law, in her Nylon tights" & "The Neighbours screaming when the noise annoys, somebody nagging you when you're out with the boys" Roger penning a song, at his absolute, tong-in-cheek best. |
| Bigfish 03.01.2012 06:01 |
Kind of not really counting flash gordon as it was a predominantly music only soundtrack but no I didn't like "Flash - ah ah" much either. Coming soon is probably one of the better lyrics on the Game though not a great song at all. |
| ralle 03.01.2012 08:46 |
Don't lose your head or Party... |
| thomasquinn 32989 03.01.2012 09:37 |
Responding to the above: Let's face it - Boh. Rhap. is highly overrated. Good song? Sure. Queen's best? Not by a long run. Lyrics? About average. |
| Bigfish 03.01.2012 10:39 |
Bo Rhap was never special lyrically. Freds random use of world vocabulary won him high marks for originality. It is however very melodic and an awsome sonic achievement at least and is worthy of most of the accolades heaped on it. But as a complete song ? Even Fred prefered Somebody to Love |
| GratefulFan 03.01.2012 12:41 |
I don't know that I'd conflate the concept of "bad" lyrics with simple words and themes. Sometimes it's the specific job of a lyric to be nothing more than a compelling scramble of palatable and only strategically obtrusive syllables that do little more than propel the music and broad theme forward. I shudder to imagine how much of my brain storage capacity is devoted to song lyrics - I can sing along to hundreds if not thousands of songs - but the ones I could actually articulate any meaning for are far, far fewer. In many cases I just haven't really paid attention to the words as anything more than bits of ideas and strong emotional imagery. "The Game" remains one of my favourite Queen albums. If I had to comment on it's lyrical content it's not hard to find positive things to say. AOBTD communicates something powerfully sharp and moody, Dragon Attack is enigmatic and cool, Save Me is overwrought and in that overwroughtness - perfect, SASS is sad and a little mysterious, Rock It is just uncomplicated rock and roll joy. What the hell is Prime Jive? Who cares, right? It works beautifully. |
| Bigfish 03.01.2012 12:51 |
Excellent and fair comments and wholly supported by the fact that the Game was a hugely successful album. |
| Rubbersuit 04.01.2012 09:41 |
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| Day dop 04.01.2012 09:46 |
I think it's bonkers to say that tunes like Another one bites the dust, I want to break free and other similar well known tracks have bad lyrics when they they fit the tunes perfectly and are lodged deep in people's heads around the world. I can't see the lyrics to Innuendo or March of the black queen fitting those sort of tunes. o_O |
| Day dop 04.01.2012 09:55 |
Well said. |
| dysan 04.01.2012 10:33 |
WHo gives a flying fuck about lyrical simplicity? Like the thread about drums being dumbed down. I get as much out of My Fairy King as I do from Coming Soon. That said, My Fairy King is a bigger load of nonsense than anything on The Game :o) Good thread. |
| Micrówave 04.01.2012 11:00 |
Day dop wrote: I think it's bonkers to say that tunes like Another one bites the dust, I want to break free and other similar well known tracks have bad lyrics when they they fit the tunes perfectly and are lodged deep in people's heads around the world. I can't see the lyrics to Innuendo or March of the black queen fitting those sort of tunes. o_OEven more "well said". How can their most sampled hit be considered on of their worst lyrical pieces? That song single handedly opened (and closed) a lot of doors for Queen and continues to fill their coffers. |
| Bigfish 04.01.2012 11:17 |
Micrówave wrote: Day dop wrote: I think it's bonkers to say that tunes like Another one bites the dust, I want to break free and other similar well known tracks have bad lyrics when they they fit the tunes perfectly and are lodged deep in people's heads around the world. I can't see the lyrics to Innuendo or March of the black queen fitting those sort of tunes. o_O Even more "well said". How can their most sampled hit be considered on of their worst lyrical pieces? That song single handedly opened (and closed) a lot of doors for Queen and continues to fill their coffers. How ? easy. It's not the lyrics people are sampling. Actually not that fond of any of the lyrics on Queen 2 though I appreciate some people might not like me saying that - very much of their time and way too proggy for me. |
| Micrówave 04.01.2012 12:26 |
Actually, yes, they're sampling both... the bass line and the Chorus. I think the first verse is written very well. |
| Bigfish 04.01.2012 12:35 |
Hmm - can you give me a link to an example ? |
| Micrówave 04.01.2012 16:01 |
You need me to provide a link to an example of the most sampled Queen song? Do you need instructions on how to boot your computer or open your Internet browser as well? |
| Micrówave 04.01.2012 16:05 |
Here's a very rare Wyclef Jean version: link Here's a step by step guide to boot your computer: 1. Sit down 2. Turn monitor on 3. Turn computer on 4. Sit back and enjoy and to open a browser: Click the Internet Explorer icon on your desktop. Glad to help. |
| matt z 04.01.2012 17:17 |
This is by far the easiest question....ever. Obviously it's THE COSMOS ROCKS. "I've got a criminal urge to ...twist and shout" "the dragons and mysteries of life will explode" (someone correct me if i've gotten this horrible lyric wrong) i mean ...seriously... the dragons... what the FUCK? about the dragons????? this isn't HOLY DIVER... (and please don't take that liberty of ragging on RJD lyrics, if you deconstruct em, his were very great and aware...all except for HOLY DIVER which i've never understood...seems like a cheap deliberate way to get the SURVIVOR kind of rhythmic thing goin from "Eye Of The Tiger") That said. There WERE some good beliefs on "we believe" and C-lebrity was a funny one. Astounded by people saying "HOT SPACE" had dreadful lyrics. certainly not so on Las Palabras De Amor probably some of Brian's Greatest are on that one: "One foolish world, so many songs, senslessly hurled to the never ending cause And all for fear, and all for greed, Speak any tongue, but for God's sake we need..." Pretty much sums up a lot. |
| Sheer Brass Neck 04.01.2012 21:17 |
matt z wrote: probably some of Brian's Greatest are on that one: "One foolish world, so many songs, senslessly hurled to the never ending cause And all for fear, and all for greed, Speak any tongue, but for God's sake we need..." Pretty much sums up a lot. Or as my ears and most others hear it, "so many souls, senslessly hurled through the never ending cold." |
| tomchristie22 04.01.2012 23:28 |
Souls and cold seems to make more sense, I don't have the CD on me to check the lyrics though. |
| Bigfish 05.01.2012 05:08 |
Yes - I think it's Souls too. Nice lyric to Las Palabras.. and generally Brian Lyrics were pretty good. Infact the lyrics on Hot Space were the least of it's problems. |
| Bigfish 05.01.2012 05:10 |
By the way I wasn't counting Cosmos. I never do.. |
| br5946 05.01.2012 17:17 |
Hmm... I'm not entirely sure. I can point out some dreadful songs lyrically. For starters, Dragon Attack and Save Me. Those songs make me cringe in all aspects. They're the extreme low points on Queen's worst album, and the lyrics are pretty trite - 'don't take no prisioners, gotta give me the bisuness, got a dragon on my back' and 'save me, save me, I'm naked and I'm far from home' - seriously?! Was Brian stoned when he wrote those two? It definitely seems like it - Dragon Attack is his worst track EVER guitar-wise, hell, it seems like he's doing a Jimmy Page imitation. Dog With A Bone is a bit iffy lyric-wise too. |
| redspecialusa 05.01.2012 22:51 |
The Miracle has the worst lyrics...you can hear that they were having a lot of fun & got pretty musically creative...but lyrically?? Gimme a break. |
| Ivo-1976 06.01.2012 04:26 |
I really like the lyrics on songs like "the Miracle", "Breakthru" and "Was it all worth it". Scandal's not bad as well, the song has a story to tell. My baby does me and Invisible Man were not that good. Listening to Queen 1&2 I sometimes think: What the beep is this about? |
| Bigfish 06.01.2012 05:24 |
Yes the Miracle has some VERY dodgy lyrical moments too. I have to say "Was it all worth it" is probably the worst offender. Dreadful. |
| Amazon 06.01.2012 06:53 |
I don't think I would describe WIWI's lyrics as dreadful, however the use of such words as brill was quite amusing. :D Still, I think it's a great song. |
| Bigfish 06.01.2012 06:59 |
Sorry but I've got to say that lines like; We bought a drum kit blew my own trumpet Played the circuit thought we were perfect and Yes we were vicious yes we could kill Yes we were hungry yes we were brill are pretty poor by Queen or anybodies standards - Shame they didn't spend more time on the lyrics cas musically it's a lot of fun. |
| Squidgy 06.01.2012 07:02 |
What??? Was it all Worth it is a great song!! "What is there left for me to do in this life Did I achieve what I had set in my sights" "Played the circuit, thought we were perfect" "Giving all my heart and soul and staying up all night Was it all worth it Living breathing rock'n'roll a godforsaken life Was it all worth it was it all worth it all these years" "We served a purpose like a bloody circus" A great song about their past and whether or not what they have done was worthwhile. Difficult question because many albums have the odd duff song or one that I like less than the others (duff maybe a bit harsh) but overall I would actually say The Miracle not counting the song above!! I cant say The Game because I just love the line "when your feeling down and your resistance is low, light another cigarette and let yourself go, this is your life...." |
| Bigfish 06.01.2012 10:20 |
Sorry !! I stand by it. IMO - "Worth it"lyrics are simplistic and cringeworthy at best. At worst they're quite embarrassing for a mature band considering what else they were cabable of. |
| Amazon 06.01.2012 11:38 |
I agree that the lyrics aren't great. When I said that the use of the word brill is amusing, I didn't mean in a good way. Still, lyrics aside (which I don't think are all that terrible), I do think it is a terrific song. |
| Bigfish 06.01.2012 13:37 |
Sure lots of fun but could have been so much better. |
| Bigfish 06.01.2012 13:37 |
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| matt z 06.01.2012 13:58 |
Sheer Brass Neck wrote: matt z wrote: probably some of Brian's Greatest are on that one: "One foolish world, so many songs, senslessly hurled to the never ending cause And all for fear, and all for greed, Speak any tongue, but for God's sake we need..." Pretty much sums up a lot. Or as my ears and most others hear it, "so many souls, senslessly hurled through the never ending cold." Wow.... you're EFFING RIGHT!! and all this time i thought it was a deep meditation on the fact that purely and simply "the song remains the same" i think Brian should go back and rewrite that one. ;) Sounds better that way (at least to me) senselessly hurled through the never ending cold? was he referring to Russians or the Polish,... while singing in partial Spanish?? the man was clearly spreading himself thin! BTW: WAS IT ALL WORTH IT ... the lyrics are deliberately playful.... The guys prob wanted to have some fun.... Blew his own trumpet... probably true. Fred stopped just a little short of eschewing his own damn self... ala Little Richard or Prince... but consider this from a man who renamed himself after a MESSENGER OF THE GODS i think it's all very fitting. |
| Bigfish 07.01.2012 04:27 |
Don't think the yrics to Worth it are deliberately playful or even deliberately bad. They just didn't spend enough time on them - I'm really surprised it got through the quality control. |
| Amazon 07.01.2012 05:10 |
Regarding In Only Seven Days, I don't know why people dislike it. Yes, it's simple, but so what? The simplicity is part of the beauty. IOSD tells a story, and I think the lyrics are quite beautiful. As a matter of fact, its lyrics play a huge role in it being IMO Queen's greatest ever love song. |
| Bigfish 07.01.2012 09:22 |
Yep covered this already. Fine narrative on IOSD. Underrated song. |
| drmurph 07.01.2012 15:12 |
Generally songs which use the days of the week bug me (Craig David anyone?) though he's not solely responsible. So I don't particularly like In only seven days (it does what it says on the tin). In terms of albums with poor lyrics it is difficult to identify the worst. Songs like Coming Soon, Rock it have words with little emotional content but they're fine for the type entertaining rock 'n' roll songs they were written as. Perhaps Hot space for me. Pretty much every song has meaningless lyrics (again as they were probably not written to have any meaning). Put out the fire bugs me too as it's a preaching sort of song telling us how to live our lives. Life is real I don't feel any connection to (though buried under the many phrases there are some of Freddie's feelings peeking out). The same goes for Brian in Las palabras de amor. I'm not bashing Hot space as an album here, just maybe the "worst lyrics". |
| GratefulFan 07.01.2012 20:27 |
Bigfish wrote: Yep covered this already. Fine narrative on IOSD. Underrated song. ============================ Narrative of what though? It's not really credible as fleeting passion (there is none), and it's not particularly compelling or plausible as a love song. You get the sense that whatever happened is going to be reluctantly left there in the past, so maybe it works as an abstraction of sorts of a kind of low grade loneliness that runs through many lives that we only become aware of when it's interrupted. Or maybe it works as a metaphor for the way time unfolds. It's all kind of front loaded and sometimes it gets to be late in the grand scheme of things. Or maybe not. Either way, this song doesn't really move me as a narrative. Really, as a narrative it's kind of silly. |
| GratefulFan 07.01.2012 20:44 |
drmurph wrote: Generally songs which use thedays of the week bug me (Craig David anyone?) though he's not solely responsible. So I don't particularly like In only seven days (it does what it says on the tin). ====================== I liked 'it does what it says on the tin'. Well expressed and true. I kind of like The Cure's 'Friday I'm in Love'. That works pretty well as a days of the week song, probably because unlike either 7 days version it's not trying impart something fluid in an onerous appointment book format. Anyway, it made me think of songs with days in their titles. I Don't Like Mondays Rainy Days and Mondays Tuesday Afternoon Friday I'm in Love Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting Saturday Night Sunday Bloody Sunday Wednesday and Thursday get no love. :( At least as far as I can summon off the top of my head. |
| Amazon 07.01.2012 20:51 |
GF, there's also 'Friday on My Mind' by the Aussie group The Easybeats. :D |
| Bigfish 08.01.2012 07:23 |
Yes a simple song done well. A pleasant uncomplicated narrative sure and I think it's at least indicative of Jazz being more lyrically interesting than 'the album that followed it. Someone mentioned 'The Miracle' earlier and Was it all worth it and how playful the lyrics were...if you want playful it doesn't get much better than Bicycle Race. |
| Amazon 08.01.2012 07:56 |
I also don't agree that The Game was Queen's worst album lyrically. While there were a few duds (Don't Try Suicide, the two Taylor tracks), the lyrics to Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Play the Game, AOBTD, and the three May tracks were IMO superb. The lyrics fit the songs perfectly, and were often extremely cool and (in a couple of cases) very beautiful, such as with Save Me. Play the Game- fantastic lyrics. Mysterious, cool, sexy in a futuristic way. Dragon Attack- terrific lyrics. What does it mean? Who knows? Also, who cares? I don't think that great lyrics always need to have meaning. Sometimes they simply need toenhance the mood. Another One Bites the Dust- I think the lyrics are outstanding; extremely cool, I love that it introduces a character as the protagonist of the song, and the lyrics themselves fit the music like coke and vodka. 'Steve walks warily down the street, With the brim pulled way down low, Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet, Machine guns ready to go'. I think that is extremely impressive. Crazy Little Thing Called Love- great lyrics. There are a few things about the lyrics to CLTCL which jump out at me. First, it comes across as a classic Elvis Presley song or of that era, however it is no facsimile. Second, that it was written in such a short period of time is extraordinary and indicative of Freddie's genius. Third, the 'Ready Freddie' line remains one of my all-time favourite Queen moments. :D Every time I listen to CLTCL, I await that line with anticipation. :D Sail Away Little Sister- enigmatic, sexy, a little twisted. I love the lyrics, and reading them now, I can't help but hear Brian's voice. Which is a great thing. Save Me- devastating. Incredibly sad and beautiful lyrics. 'I clothed myself in your glory and your love' is a beautiful line. Sorry, BF, but I don't agree with you that The Game was Queen's worst album lyrically. Although, considering that it is all relative, even if it were, I don't think it would matter. The lyrics are superb IMO. :D |
| Amazon 08.01.2012 07:57 |
Bigfish wrote: if you want playful it doesn't get much better than Bicycle Race. That I definitely agree with. :D |
| Bigfish 08.01.2012 08:30 |
Wow - an impassioned and quite complete response !! Save Me ? devastating ? hmm I'll have to think abiout that one. Of course Queen lyrics are, generally, very good and as you and others have pointed out usually very well suited to the music. The whole point of this thread is to say that compared to other Queen albums it's probably the bottom of an albiet very impressive pile. |
| GratefulFan 09.01.2012 11:47 |
Amazon wrote: GF, there's also 'Friday on My Mind' by the Aussie group The Easybeats. :D ============================ Thanks. :) I've got a local one too. :) Sudbury Saturday Night. It's a 40+ year old Canadian country/folk yee haw about my home town. It's an iconic song by an iconic old time musician that puts the hard working, hard partying and camaraderie of hard rock miners for The International Nickel Company (INCO) (and their partners ) to music. It's unlikely to be appealing to anyone outside of Canada who gets the reference and the culture, but one thing that might be interesting to somebody is the song's juxtaposition with another song - the same song essentially at it's core - that was written just a couple of years ago. The second song was written by a local guy, filmed here (the exteriors are about 5 minutes from my house) and really tells the very same story about the job and about a working class that takes care of it's own, works hard and parties hard. I just think it's interesting to see the same story, about the same city, in the same genre of music - but 40 years apart. The evolution of the storytelling and the format is really interesting in it's way. Sudbury Saturday Night Rock Town |
| Holly2003 09.01.2012 13:36 |
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the A Kind of Magic album. Some of the lyrics are laughably bad, albeit they had the excuse that some of it was written for Highlander. But that doesn't that explain either "fried chicken" or Friends Will Be Friends!? lol |
| Bigfish 09.01.2012 15:00 |
I was wondering when someone would mention AKOM. Yes some bad lyrics here FRIENDS is a good example and quite possibly my least favourite Queen track ever. Sorry though, I think the fried chicken line is quite funny. |
| Your Fairy King 09.01.2012 19:55 |
Dragon Attack- terrific lyrics. What does it mean? Who knows?Chasing the Dragon is slang for smoking opium. Monkey on the back is slang for addiction. "Got a dragon on my back" can only mean one thing. Now review the lyrics. Puts it in a whole new perspective, doesn't it? |
| Bigfish 10.01.2012 00:09 |
No. Like most people I knew that already. |
| Your Fairy King 10.01.2012 16:31 |
Bigfish wrote: No. Like most people I knew that already.Amazon didn't. |
| Amazon 11.01.2012 05:35 |
Holly2003 wrote: "I'm surprised no one's mentioned the A Kind of Magic album. Some of the lyrics are laughably bad, albeit they had the excuse that some of it was written for Highlander. But that doesn't that explain either "fried chicken" or Friends Will Be Friends!? lol" Completely agree. The lyrics on the AKOM album are extremely disappointing. For instance Don't Lose Your Head had dreadful lyrics. I don't know if I agree about Friends Will Be Friends BTW (one of my favourite songs off the album as it happens), however the album certainly had ordinary lyrics, compared to most of Queen's other albums. Which is a massive reason why IMO it is one of Queen's weakest albums (along with The Works.) |
| Amazon 11.01.2012 05:40 |
Your Fairy King wrote: "Amazon didn't." You're absolutely right, and I think that is fascinating. :D It actually does explain a hell of a lot, and if anything, I think it enhances the song. Wow, a drug song. :D Queen wouldn't have had that many. GF, thanks for the links. While (as you noted), it isn't particularly appealing to me, it is certainly very interesting. |