| Biggzy10 15.08.2012 12:06 |
nuff said |
| brENsKi 15.08.2012 13:11 |
no it isn't |
| Biggzy10 15.08.2012 15:53 |
u lie |
| Hangman_96 15.08.2012 17:18 |
u lose |
| Heavenite 15.08.2012 20:20 |
I always thought MOTP (or better still MOP) was a bit of a Crazy Little Thing Called Love copy in terms of the mood, but lacked a really strong melody. Having said that, I admit it has grown on me a bit over the years and it has some lovely keyboard playing in it as well. But I still wouldn't rate it as anywhere near to being one of my favourites in the Queen catalogue. In fact,I would also put it lower down when comparing it to the rest of the songs on The Works. Maybe ahead of Tear it Up I think, but that's about it. |
| Ozz 15.08.2012 20:31 |
it is |
| Kamenliter 15.08.2012 22:56 |
I love MOTP...it's a 50's style tune, but in a different direction from CLTCL...and you've gotta love that awesome 'baby baby baby lookout' build-up to the guitar solo and the backing vocals...definitely underrated. |
| tomchristie22 16.08.2012 01:23 |
I think it's very forgettable. Not a terrible song, but not a great one either. Then again, the version I used to have in my iTunes cut off very suddenly at about the 3:00 mark, and I always assumed that was how the song actually went, which would have tainted my enjoyment of it. |
| inu-liger 16.08.2012 03:51 |
Lostman wrote: u lose It's a chance you have to take with debates |
| KevoM 16.08.2012 06:46 |
It's CRAP and still overrated! |
| Flash Jazz 16.08.2012 07:34 |
I love Man on the Prowl, maybe my favourite on The Works. |
| Russian Headlong 16.08.2012 07:35 |
cheap copy of crazy little thing piano driven rather than guitar. |
| Sebastian 16.08.2012 08:34 |
I think it's a fine song. Not a masterpiece, but way way way way way better than Ga Ga, Magic, Dust, Break Free and Body Language, combined (not that it takes a lot to achieve that anyway). |
| Amazon 16.08.2012 11:18 |
Sebastian wrote: "I think it's a fine song. Not a masterpiece, but way way way way way better than Ga Ga, Magic, Dust, Break Free and Body Language, combined (not that it takes a lot to achieve that anyway)." I actually think that all of those songs (apart from possibly Body Language) are superior (I consider MOTP to be one of the weakest songs on The Works), however that aside, I'm surprised that you would consider it to be better than Dust, which is arguably among Queen's best songs. |
| MERQRY 16.08.2012 11:33 |
Amazon wrote: Sebastian wrote: "I think it's a fine song. Not a masterpiece, but way way way way way better than Ga Ga, Magic, Dust, Break Free and Body Language, combined (not that it takes a lot to achieve that anyway)." I actually think that all of those songs (apart from possibly Body Language) are superior (I consider MOTP to be one of the weakest songs on The Works), however that aside, I'm surprised that you would consider it to be better than Dust, which is arguably among Queen's best songs. More FAMOUS song... i don't consider it one of the best queen songs... |
| Amazon 16.08.2012 11:43 |
MERQRY wrote: "More FAMOUS song... i don't consider it one of the best queen songs..." It's funny, while composing my reply, I'm thinking of where to rank it, and I'm realizing how many incredible songs Queen has had! :D I might have exaggerated. It's certainly not in Queen's top 10, and it might not be in their top 20. However I do think it's a fantastic song, and I think its fame is entirely justified. I certainly think it's one of Queen's absolute best songs to have been released in the 80's, and if I were to present someone a compilation album showcasing Queen in all its glory, I would certainly include it. Does this make it IMO one of Queen's best songs? Probably not, if one were to limit 'best' to Queen's 20 top songs (or less). |
| cmsdrums 16.08.2012 14:43 |
In a similar vein, I'm a rock fan yet 8 of my top ten Queen songs of all time are ballads, and three of my top ten are in The Game yet my favourite album is A Day At The Races! Back on topic, I do think that Man on the Prowl is a 'fun' song, but nowhere near their best - certainly not a patch on Ga Ga and Magic, to me. |
| andyboy 16.08.2012 14:45 |
It's the only track I have never liked on The Works. Some of my friends at the time made themselves a tape of the album and left that track off completely! Definately one of their worst songs ever imo and the ending of it is still baffling - what happened there?? Having said all that it's all just personal taste - one man's trash is another man's treasure so if you like it, that's your right. |
| mooghead 16.08.2012 15:39 |
One of the handful of Queen songs that are pure unimaginative filler |
| Wiley 16.08.2012 17:35 |
IMHO The Works is Queen by numbers but still manages to be very enjoyable. WWRY -> Tear it Up LOML -> ITTWWC CLTCL -> MOTP BoRhap -> Hard Life (ok, that might be pushing it) It was like they wanted to revisit their glory days and remind the record buying public of how eclectic and diverse they were. Well, it did work. Listening to it recently I liked it more than I could remember. |
| greaserkat 16.08.2012 17:44 |
Hey Wiley, One a separate note, how is Mexico feeling after we beat you guys last night?? |
| waunakonor 16.08.2012 20:43 |
I really like it. I don't like talking about where it is ranked among all Queen's songs like a lot of people are doing because Queen have so many amazing songs and my favorites keep changing depending on my mood, so all I really have to say is that I like it a lot, although the very end really kills the mood. |
| Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira 16.08.2012 20:55 |
Totally agreed, Wiley! But, IMHO, Hard Life -> Play the Game Cheers, Ogre- |
| Wiley 17.08.2012 12:52 |
greaserkat wrote: Hey Wiley, One a separate note, how is Mexico feeling after we beat you guys last night??I didn't see the game but I heard people say it was a disappointing display from the Mexican team, specially after the U-23 team won the Gold Medal at the Olympics for the first time ever, which was great. We'll see our faces again in the eliminatory rounds for Brazil 2014 and you know how those matches usually end. In the meantime we have a few CONCACAF Gold Cups and brand new Gold medals to polish :P. |
| TheVisibleMan 17.08.2012 13:34 |
Man on the Prowl reminds me somehow of She Blows hot and Cold. It's also from the same era and since Brian played on one Version i wonder if they should have put Hot and Cold on the works and MOP on Mr Bad Guy |
| mooghead 17.08.2012 14:34 |
Hot and Cold and I Go Crazy are better than MOTP |
| pianoshizzle 18.08.2012 18:23 |
Did Freddie play the piano on MOTP? |
| tomchristie22 18.08.2012 21:23 |
The thing is, people are displaying favourtism towards the track just because it's very obscure. To say Man On The Prowl is a better song than Radio Ga Ga or Magic is completely absurd, but people completely disregard the quality of some of their songs just because they're popular. Similarly, I know people (some here) who literally believe Bo Rhap is one of their worst songs, most likely because it's one of their most widely appreciated. In reality it's one of their best. Inversely, tracks like Man On The Prowl are scarcely appreciated, and some people seem to think that means they're good. |
| tomchristie22 18.08.2012 21:25 |
Freddie played the piano, except for the outro which was played by Fred Mandel. |
| dysan 19.08.2012 01:48 |
I agree with the general concensus here - it is the forgotten song from the album, but probably for good reason. I think it suffers an unfair fate due to it's positioning on the album and lets face it, the works suffers 2 big problems - track order and the fact that superior versions of a couple of the songs exist on GH2. Have you heard the 12" remix? Oh jesus. |
| Sebastian 20.08.2012 05:35 |
tomchristie22 wrote: The thing is, people are displaying favourtism towards the track just because it's very obscure.MOTP is not very obscure. Non-album B-sides are obscure; unreleased tracks are obscure; album tracks are not. tomchristie22 wrote:To say Man On The Prowl is a better song than Radio Ga Ga or Magic is completely absurdNo, it's not, because for some people (be it one, two, a hundred, a million or whichever figure you choose) it is, me included. tomchristie22 wrote:people completely disregard the quality of some of their songs just because they're popular.Best Friend is popular and is also a great song; Bo Rhap is popular and is a masterpiece; Killer Queen, Don't Stop Me Now, The Show Must Go On, Who Wants to Live Forever ... they're all great tracks that deserve to be as popular as they are, if not more. Ga Ga and Magic belong to a different group IMO, along with Body Language and Another One Bites the Dust. |
| Heavenite 20.08.2012 09:44 |
Yes I agree that those songs do belong to a different group. A much more commercial group. Its hard to pin down why, but they do. Having said that, they are the pinnacle of that sort of song, just some people don't like that sort of song. I do, but I like those earlier singles mentioned more. I also prefer later Queen songs like Innuendo, These Are The Days of our Lives and Mother Love. While they are very professional too, they aren't quite as commercial as that early 80's stuff and benefits from that in my opinion. |
| dysan 20.08.2012 11:53 |
I think the real question is would have made a better single than Thank God It's Christmas? link |
| Bigfish 20.08.2012 13:10 |
Bollocks. Nice Fred Mandel piano though.. |
| waunakonor 20.08.2012 20:21 |
tomchristie22 wrote: Similarly, I know people (some here) who literally believe Bo Rhap is one of their worst songs, most likely because it's one of their most widely appreciated.There are people that don't like Bo Rhap and actually consider themselves Queen fans? Oh geez. I personally like Radio Ga-Ga quite a lot, but can't really get into A Kind of Magic. dysan wrote: I think it suffers an unfair fate due to it's positioning on the album and lets face it, the works suffers 2 big problems - track order and the fact that superior versions of a couple of the songs exist on GH2.Wait...I Want to Break Free and what else? Hammer to Fall? How is the single version of that better than the album version? |
| dysan 21.08.2012 02:53 |
Cheesier solo dude. |
| Heavenite 21.08.2012 02:55 |
Might be a 12" single Dysan is referring to, although he does say the Greatest Hits album. Would need to check each song in detail and compare to be sure. PS Waunakonor, check ther Personal page for a question I asked you. :-) |
| dysan 21.08.2012 03:34 |
No, I refer to GH2. Amateurs. |
| Heavenite 21.08.2012 10:04 |
Lol. OK, I've learned something. I knew about the Headbanger's version of Hammer to Fall, which runs about 5:08, as I bought a copy of it back in the day on 12 inch. But I hadn't picked up that there was a difference between the single version that runs around 3:55 and the album version that runs around 4:25. |
| Hang On In There 21.08.2012 10:28 |
I don't think it's under rated. I feel like it's a song where the band were thinking - wow people didn't really like Hot Space - let's do an album with stuff we know people do like. Crazy Little Thing Called Love was really popular - let's do a song exactly like that - except of course Fred didn't know any more guitar chords (or was it his guitar) so he wrote it on the piano. It's possible to see the same kind of thinking behind It's A Hard Life - let's do a song a bit like Play The Game and then put some opera in there too - people like it when we do that. Also we used to do gentle acoustic-style ballads - let's do another one! (you know which one I mean) Eventually Brian had to remind everyone that they're in a rock band so we get Hammer To Fall. Yeah I'm being a bit sarcastic but The Works could've been called By The Numbers. I would like to point out here I've bought The Works at least three times and I do actually quite like it. |
| waunakonor 21.08.2012 10:39 |
I like the solo in the album version better than the one in the single (GH2) version, and I absolutely love the "Headbangers' Version," but I guess that's just my opinion. |
| Holly2003 21.08.2012 12:22 |
Man On The Prowl. Limited ambition in my view. As a rockabilly song, it ticks all the boxes, but rockabilly is a lazy, boring, repetitive style of music and for Queen to be releasing this when they had the talent to produce brilliance like It's Late, Millionaires Waltz, White Queen etc is nothing short of criminal. |
| dysan 21.08.2012 13:33 |
Yeah, but they left that back in the mid 70s when they had ambition still. The Works is a bloody lazy album, as much as I love it. Agreed about the Headbangers version - kind of my point about the superior versions not being on the album - a real shame. That said, if you compile all the 12" versions of the whole album together in order with all the repeating and looping you will end up punching someone :o) Good thread. |
| Vocal harmony 21.08.2012 14:00 |
The works is a four track greatest hits album with a bunch of filler. Yes it wasn't written and recorded as such, but that is what it became. The four singles are great on their own, but as an album it's the worst the band made. As for Man on the Prowl, I don't think it would have sold in the way CLTCL did, had it been released as a single. |
| brENsKi 21.08.2012 16:34 |
^^^^ agree comepltely with this comment except for the worst album...not quite HS, then magic, then works |
| waunakonor 22.08.2012 21:03 |
I like several songs on The Works better than I Want to Break Free. I could never really get into that song. Just wanted to throw that out there. |
| tomchristie22 22.08.2012 21:06 |
Perhaps their public perception as a 'singles band' actually led them, whether it be consciously or not, towards making albums where the singles were the good songs and the rest (broadly speaking) was filler. This can definitely be said for Magic.. |
| Heavenite 22.08.2012 23:47 |
Magic is my least favourite album too, but its still got some good songs on it, usually the heavy ones. Gimme the Prize is a ripper in my book and Don't Lose Your Head isn't half bad either. I think Freddie's voice is the weakest it was over his entire career on that album. Songs like Just One Year of Love and Friends Will Be Friends mught have been a whole lot better if Freddie had sung them they had sung on earlier albums. Makes me wonder if smoking was affecting his voice at that point. I know he never stopped completely, but maybe he pulled right back on it in later years because of his illness. Not sure if anyone else can shed some light on this. |
| Gregsynth 23.08.2012 00:00 |
Smoking didn't affect his voice at all. A Kind Of Magic is one of his best vocal albums (from a technical view). His voice was really strong on all the tracks. Jazz is his weakest vocal album (he actually cracks on some higher notes and is on the verge of cracking on some songs). |
| Heavenite 23.08.2012 04:19 |
Thanks for the response Greg. Technically you may well be right, although I think the richness of his tone is affected in some bits on AKOM. Bits like "There's always a rainy day without you" in "One of Love" are the sort of things I'm talking about. His voice seems raspy and forced to me on those high notes. I haven't noticed that sort of thing happening on Jazz although I couldn't rule it out. |
| Gregsynth 23.08.2012 10:15 |
Well on AKOM, Freddie's vocal style changed to more of a "chesty belting" type of style. On most songs, he was showcasing power and didn't really sing "soft" on that album (although "Pain Is So Close To Pleasure" has some really nice falsetto singing). On "One Year Of Love," Freddie was going for a more "soulful" vocal style and was deliberately constricting his throat to produce that strained tone on the song (like on "there's always a rainy day without you"). |
| Heavenite 23.08.2012 19:27 |
Hi Greg Yes, I had never considered that he might be deliberately singing in that more "chesty belting" type of style. I can barely criticise anything Freddie ever did, so you may be right. Not my favourite style of singing though, if that's the case. Although in hindsight it does seem quite deliberate what Freddie is doing there. The only other thing I was thinking is that maybe his view was deeper in the 80's, thus the chestiness came in part from having a lower vocal register as he grew older. Havings said that, it is much less in evidence on Innuendo and Mother Love especially. |
| Gregsynth 23.08.2012 20:10 |
Well his voice did mature and deepen over the years! As for the later albums (The Miracle onwards), he started to lose power (especially on his chest voice), due to his illness progressing. He compensated by singing with a lighter tone (plus his vocal technique was at its best from the mid 80s-onward), which allowed him to hit his higher notes with more of a mix/head voice sound. For the singing styles on AKOM, there's songs where he sings with a heavy chest connection (One Vision, One Year Of Love, Gimme The Prize, Princes Of The Universe), but there's songs where he drops the "belting" style like "Pain Is So Close To Pleasure," "A Kind Of Magic" (which has nice 5th octave notes in mixed voice), and "Who Wants To Live Forever" has great vocals! |
| Heavenite 24.08.2012 10:58 |
Very interesting your comments there Greg. I guess for me if Fred was going to sing a soft one, then I preferred the vocal on something like Who Wants to Live Forever to the one on One Year of Love. Not that crazy about the falsetto vocal on Pain is So Close to Pleasure either, although Freddie was great at trying different things and I guess it was fair enough. Interestingly you mention One Vision as being a song where Freddie used that belting style. I actually think his voice was still pretty much the same as it was on The Works on One Vision. Of course One Vision was released in advance of the album by a few months, so it seems to me that the change in style in Freddie's voice was first noticeable to me on AKOM. It definitely wasn't there on Mr Bad Guy the year before either. Just on your points about Freddie using a mix/head voice sound, its rather ironic to me that as Freddie got sicker his voice came closer again to the way I had always loved it. I love just about all the vocals on Innuendo and Made in Heaven, whereas the vocal on Breakthru off The Miracle was another that I didn't enjoy as much because of the type of vocal that Freddie was now delivering. Having said that, I thought his belting style was perfect on songs like Party, Khashoggi's Ship and I Want It All. |
| Sebastian 24.08.2012 22:29 |
A lot of the vocals from Made in Heaven are from the 1980 - 1988 era. |
| Heavenite 24.08.2012 22:44 |
Hi Sebastian Interesting! I don't know much about the source of the stuff on Made in Heaven. The only one I have heard is that Mother Love was the last song Freddie worked on. A pretty amazing vocal to finish off with. |
| Marcos Napier 25.08.2012 02:05 |
Worst song, as bad as that song about windows thing. |
| dysan 25.08.2012 03:23 |
I used to think that Marcos, but it really grew on me. |
| Heavenite 25.08.2012 03:42 |
Hi Marcos Yes, it amazes me how taste can be so different. I have always loved Mother Love but the "windows thing", as you put it, took a long time to grow on me. Now my least favourite tracks on The Works are the two rockers, although I think Hammer to Fall isn't too bad and is way way better than Tear It Up. |
| tomchristie22 25.08.2012 04:53 |
Keep Passing The Open Windows is surprisingly good in my opinion. Sadly condemned to obscurity though. |
| Holly2003 25.08.2012 06:51 |
tomchristie22 wrote: Keep Passing The Open Windows is surprisingly good in my opinion. Sadly condemned to obscurity though.Not one of my favourites but at least they tried something different . It was let down by some very weak guitar rambling from Brian. Compare guitar in Windows to guitar in Spread Your Wings (a similar song imo) and the latter is much more confident and memorable. |
| mooghead 25.08.2012 11:20 |
I think the guitars are KPTOW's strong points... |
| dysan 25.08.2012 13:45 |
I think after reading about Brian's disinterest and drinking in the 80s, it shows on some of the tracks. A shame. |
| waunakonor 25.08.2012 20:23 |
Heavenite wrote: Hi Sebastian Interesting! I don't know much about the source of the stuff on Made in Heaven. The only one I have heard is that Mother Love was the last song Freddie worked on. A pretty amazing vocal to finish off with.Maybe this could be helpful: It's a Beautiful Day: recorded in 1980, Freddie was probably fooling around with some keyboards during Flash Gordon sessions. Made In Heaven: recorded for Freddie's Mr. Bad Guy solo album, then reworked by Brian, Roger and John from a synthy pop song to a badass rock track. Let Me Live: I believe Freddie's vocals were recorded for a song for The Works that was never really finished, and the other vocals were recorded later on for the MiH release. Mother Love: like you said, Freddie's last vocal performance with some beautiful singing on the last verse by Brian since Freddie was well enough to finish. One of three tracks that Freddie recorded specifically for MiH. My Life Has Been Saved: originally for The Miracle, but instead just became the B-Side to Scandal. I Was Born to Love You: see #2 Heaven For Everyone: written by Roger and appears on The Cross album Shove It. On the album, Freddie appears as a guest vocalist, but on the single version, Roger is the lead vocalist with Freddie on backing vocals. Too Much Love Will Kill You: originally for The Miracle, but then dropped. You Don't Fool Me: another track recorded specifically for MiH. Apparently, Freddie recorded some vocals, but after he died the remaining band members were having trouble figuring out how to arrange it into a song when producer David Richards came up with some ideas and pretty much arranged the whole thing himself using Freddie's vocals. A Winter's Tale: another track recorded specifically for MiH. It's A Beautiful Day (Reprise): same vocals as the original obviously, with some cool instrumentals partially copied and pasted from the debut album's version of Seven Seas of Rhye put in at the end. Yeah: the "Yeah!" that makes up this track appeared in Hot Space's Action This Day, but similar sounding Yeahs appear in The Game's Rock It (Prime Jive) and Don't Try Suicide. I'm not sure if these Yeahs are the same as the one in Action This Day and the MiH album or not. [Untitled Track 13]: created with David RIchards doing a little experimenting and the other band members contributing some ideas. Admittedly, my main motivation for creating that was boredom. |
| Heavenite 25.08.2012 21:52 |
Gee thanks for that Waunakonor. I'm sort of glad you were bored now. That's a helluv an explanation of all the ins and outs of Made in Heaven. Its really funny what a hotch potch of old ideas and a few new things that the album was. I really love that album. Note my site name below my nonexistant avatar is "Heavenite" Just another question though. Can you tell me if the version of My Life Has Been Saved that is the b-side of Scandal is exactly the same as the one on Made in Heaven? Probably the only other thing that I would mention is that around the time of Freddie's death in Australia, it was reported in the mainstream media maybe two days later that Queen had between 3 and 8 albums still in the can complete with video clips etc. For that reason I expected there to be a lot more posthumous material than just MIH. Gradually I forgot about that until Brian and Roger announced that they were going back into the studio to put together another album. I then thought this must be it! Sadly it was not to be, although it still might have been nice to have an album of demos or some such thing that people had never heard before I think. Maybe what was announced in the Australian media was publicity from some record exec or who didn't know his facts. Anyway, that's life I guess. |
| brENsKi 26.08.2012 03:58 |
as far as i'm aware there are defintely two different version of MLHBS here's some of the more obvious differences (aprt from mixing/editing chnages) 1. scandal version - guitar intro MIH version - keyboard/synth strings intro 2. the outros of both use guitar, but the MIH version has a stronger keyboard presence 3. and finally, the freddie monologue "i'm in the dark, i'm blind, i don;t know what's coming to me" was removed from the MIH version - perhaps it woulda felt wrong...out of place, when (by 1995) everyone knew what became of him??? |
| Heavenite 26.08.2012 05:06 |
Hey thanks very much for that brENski Now I'm going to check its been included in the extended version of Made In Heaven, which I've been meaning to buy. If it isn't on there, and I've noticed that some of b-sides aren't then I'll try and grab a copy of the Scandal CD single off Ebay. |
| waunakonor 26.08.2012 12:43 |
Glad to help, Heavenite. The B-Side version of My Life is a bonus track on the 2011 MiH remaster, so if that's what you're referring to by "extended version", then you're in luck. I just didn't mention that because I was trying to keep it simple. Freddie recorded the vocals around the time of The Miracle. Personally, I actually like that version better. Both the guitar intro and Freddie's talking during the guitar solo both make the song more interesting to me, though you're probably right that the monologue would be out of place. 3 to 8 albums worth of stuff? Wow, that could have been really awesome. Geez, this thread started out being about Man on the Prowl, then it became more about The Works in general, now I'm discussing Made in Heaven. For some reason, I just keep coming back to the thread. |
| Gregsynth 26.08.2012 13:56 |
Heavenite wrote: Very interesting your comments there Greg. I guess for me if Fred was going to sing a soft one, then I preferred the vocal on something like Who Wants to Live Forever to the one on One Year of Love. Not that crazy about the falsetto vocal on Pain is So Close to Pleasure either, although Freddie was great at trying different things and I guess it was fair enough. Interestingly you mention One Vision as being a song where Freddie used that belting style. I actually think his voice was still pretty much the same as it was on The Works on One Vision. Of course One Vision was released in advance of the album by a few months, so it seems to me that the change in style in Freddie's voice was first noticeable to me on AKOM. It definitely wasn't there on Mr Bad Guy the year before either. Just on your points about Freddie using a mix/head voice sound, its rather ironic to me that as Freddie got sicker his voice came closer again to the way I had always loved it. I love just about all the vocals on Innuendo and Made in Heaven, whereas the vocal on Breakthru off The Miracle was another that I didn't enjoy as much because of the type of vocal that Freddie was now delivering. Having said that, I thought his belting style was perfect on songs like Party, Khashoggi's Ship and I Want It All.One Vision has a mix of the more "belting" style (like on the "give me your hands-give me your hearts" lines), and then a more "normal" vocal style (the verses). Mr. Bad Guy was a mixture of the Works vocals with Freddie having a more powerful voice (I love his vocals on that album). When Freddie's illness started taking a toll on his health, he had to modify his singing style a bit (singing lighter without excessive chest-heavy belting, plus he reduced his vibrato use/depth). What you got was Freddie sounding almost like his mid/late 70s voice (with better vocal technique). Innuendo is one of my favorite vocal albums from Freddie! |
| mooghead 26.08.2012 14:39 |
Anyway... Man On The Prowl.... |
| Gregsynth 26.08.2012 14:40 |
...Is a catchy song! |
| mooghead 26.08.2012 15:11 |
Funny you say that, I bet after you heard the album for the first time that was probably the one that stuck in your head.. not just because of the WTF ending... After a few more listens it starts to disappear.... |
| Gregsynth 26.08.2012 15:25 |
The ending always confused me on that song. Why they would end right in the middle of Fred Mandel's piano is beyond me! |
| DLCVinnuendo 26.08.2012 16:19 |
the"yeah" in MIH it is by action this day |
| Heavenite 26.08.2012 21:01 |
Thanks for the response Waunakonor. Sounds like its time to get the remaster then. Thanks to you to Gregsynth. Its an interesting topic, the changes in Freddie's voice. The fact that Freddie started to beome more like late 70's Freddie, certainly helped me in liking those later albums. That was the definitely the voice I really loved, although he definitely knew how to crank out a rocker in later years. Back to Man on the Prowl, its a good song in my opinion, just not a standout on The Works. CLTCL on piano somebody said. |
| tomchristie22 27.08.2012 01:54 |
I hate to say Man On The Prowl is growing on me after giving it another chance. I don't exactly like it, but I don't dislike it. The ending is still jarring after repeated listening. |
| Heavenite 27.08.2012 02:36 |
That ending is supposed to be a bit disconcerting I think. But if they thought they were going to have another multi-million dollar seller with it like CLTCL, then they were kidding themselves. |
| madprofessorus 23.03.2013 18:24 |
Not that bad,it was nice hearing Freddie trying to sing a bit like...Elvis! |
| ludwigs 25.03.2013 16:21 |
Man on the Prowl has a great solo!!! There's a tutorial on YT I believe. |
| Holly2003 25.03.2013 17:01 |
ludwigs wrote: Man on the Prowl has a great solo!!! There's a tutorial on YT I believe. Just looked it up. Thanks for the tip. Nice! Not technically difficult but nice touch and feel to get that 1950s sound. Don't like the song but that's given me a new perspective about it. |
| john bodega 26.03.2013 00:00 |
"and finally, the freddie monologue "i'm in the dark, i'm blind, i don;t know what's coming to me" was removed from the MIH version - perhaps it woulda felt wrong...out of place" I dunno - a lot of the lyrics on Made in Heaven could be construed as maudlin considering his untimely death. It's not like he sang "Help I'm stuck in a coffin" in any of the songs though. |
| Martin Packer 26.03.2013 03:39 |
The ending to Man On The Prowl seems deliberate to me: A cutting short in chaos effect. I like it. |
| MercuryArts 29.03.2013 13:24 |
I always liked the sound Brian got on the guitar solo. I enjoy this over Break Free any day of the week. |
| LCSeixas 31.03.2013 08:46 |
I listened so many times to my low-quality .mp3 of MOTP in the past that it started to annoy me. Thank goodness I have all albums on CD now, although I just skip it in my Queen playlist. |
| dowens 31.03.2013 09:34 |
I love the entire album "The Works". It's been said many times that Queen went back to what worked for them after "Hot Space" seemed to turn off some Queen fans. But I may be in the minority here, I love "Hot Space" too. :) MOTP always reminded me of CLTCL, but I love MOTP. It grooves really well, IMO. The " baby, baby, look out" lead in is very rocking! I also love the rhythm guitar riff in IWTBF. The guitar stem I have of this is great! Honestly, there isn't ONE Queen song I dislike, which to me is crazy. However, "Modern Times Rock n Roll" took a very long time to grow on me. |
| giuffro 31.03.2013 19:30 |
Brian & Roger: "Let's make a concept album about nuclear war, with a sound like Radio Ga Ga, Tear It Up, Machines and Hammer To Fall" Freddie & John: "No way, we're afraid of the fans' reaction, we won't sell enough, let's put some pop shit on it" Sadly, it could have been the record of the decade, but... The B-side of The Works as a concept album can be find in Strange Frontier (Strange Frontier, Killing Time, I Cry For You) |