Additional musicians on their tours. Lazy band.
Additional musicians on their albums. Lazy band.
Queen died in 1981.
Baby, you've been had.
PS GOFLB doesn't count.
Wow. That's a very extremist position to take. But hey - why stop there? Queen died when they introduced synths in 1980. Queen died when they stopped making strictly thematic albums in 1974 (ok, so it was just one album...sue me). Queen died when they changed the name from Smile. Queen died 22 January, 1901.
I'd say having additional musicians onstage from 1981 meant they were anything but lazy.
As they'd just recorded an album featuring extra instrumentation they simply couldn't duplicate live with just four players, the 'lazy' thing to do would have been to simply not bother playing those tracks, or to bodge them between the four of them, or resort to backing tracks.
Adding a live keyboard player and working out how they could do the Hot Space tracks live, and also incorporate extra keys in some older tracks, would have required extra rehearsal, thereby by definition proving to be the opposite of lazy.
The Game is a double album, half of it recorded in 1979 and the other Side Recorded in 1980....The released album is the double album in regards to content theme, Side A and B on the album have very different styles which you only pick up with headphones...try it and come back.....x
Bullies.
I said back in 2004 that Queen II had 13 tracks. Deep RIdge and Surrender To The City have now been quoted in lots of different Queen books etc.
All that is happening now is the second stage of denial. Get over yourselves.
Let's see, bands with extra musicians on tour and/or albums..........The Who, Stones, Floyd, Rush, the Beatles..........yeah bunch of lazy buggers there...........
I'm glad to have seen them in São Paulo in 1981, and man ... a powerful rock'n'roll that actually lost some of its strength in the following tours. I think that cocaine has a large share of the blame.
I'm no expert on Queen and their discography, I'm just a fan. I particularly like the mid to late seventies period when they did Night at the opera, Day at the Races, News Of The World, Jazz. Most of the classic hits and albums come from that period. However there were some good songs and albums before that, and certainly after that as well. I think its fair to say that as makers of classic singles and albums perhaps one could say 1974-80 was their peak, least filler, most iconic singles. But to simply write off the rest of their career after 1981 is silly and misinformed. You could say that for your money, you don't care for their work after 1981 in the studio, but millions of people do, and ten million people can't be totally wrong in this case.
I really like a few tracks here and there on the last five or six albums. I ike the stand alone tribute single Only The Good Die Young, almost as much as anything they ever did. Although I think Paul Rodgers was a terrible fit for Queen, I like several Cosmos Rocks tracks a lot, the ones that sound more like Queen and less like Paul Rodgers. Hard Rock and Blues is everywhere, I don't Queen to hear one four five progressions not really, But those signature May guitar sounds and styles, those unique Queen group Block vocals, listen to Cosmos Rocks again, those block vocals are stamped like fingerprints all over Cosmos Rocks. Queen is Iconic, their entire career is worth study and a place in history, wait for the new songs, tell me you aren't moved after you hear them, and I'll get back to you, meanwhile take a couple aspirin and chill
musicfanyes wrote:
Although I think Paul Rodgers was a terrible fit for Queen, I like several Cosmos Rocks tracks a lot, the ones that sound more like Queen and less like Paul Rodgers. Hard Rock and Blues is everywhere, I don't Queen to hear one four five progressions not really, But those signature May guitar sounds and styles, those unique Queen group Block vocals, listen to Cosmos Rocks again, those block vocals are stamped like fingerprints all over Cosmos Rocks. Queen is Iconic, their entire career is worth study and a place in history, wait for the new songs, tell me you aren't moved after you hear them, and I'll get back to you, meanwhile take a couple aspirin and chill
I actually found the collaboration refreshing. Three legends with nothing to prove, and just enjoying themselves. There are definitely 4 or 5 great tracks on there sporting the classic Queen sound.
As for the original post - I can see where they're coming from. Creatively, 1982-1988 was not Queen's peak. Every artist has a lull. But unlike most, Queen still had hits in theirs.