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Free Music Review: Queen - Innuendo
Hit: 5 Stars
The music CD was in top condition. It was sent out to me before the alloted time. I would purchase a CD from these folks again. Free Music Review: Queen - The Show Must Go On........
Hit: 5 Stars
Much like Warren Zevon's "The Wind" album, "Innuendo" is the final portrait of a dying man. At the time of it's recording, Freddie Mercury was in the last months of dying from AIDs. Incredibly he threw himself into the recording process on days when he was physically able, and he and the band came up with what in my opinion is one of their best albums. One would really have to go all the way back to "A Day At The Races" in 1976 to find an album that is even close to this one. The majority of this disc deals with death, but incredibly it is not really a downbeat album and in fact finds Freddie and the boys in a reflective yet hopeful mood. The album did not make too much of a splash in the U.S. although the single "Headlong" did get some AOR airplay. It is a great rocker and one of the best singles the band ever release in my opinion. Just about every song on this disc is great. The one exception being "Delilah", a song about Freddie's cat. Yea, it is pretty horrible, but I am guessing that the band let Fred indulge a bit on this one due to his condition. Other than that the tracks are all strong. The title track "Innuendo" is as loud and bombastic Queen at it's best with a nice Spanish guitar interlude provided by special guest Steve Howe (Yes, Asia). Other highlights include "I'm Going Slightly Mad", "I Can't Live With You", "Don't Try So Hard", "Ride The Wild Wind", "The Hitman" and "Bijou". Probably two of the most effective songs on the album are "These Are The Days Of Our Lives" which finds Freddie looking back on his life and forward to his demise. The final track, "The Show Must Go On" is the high point of the album and really sums up Freddie and his love of the stage. Even to this day when I listen to him belting out this tour de force it brings a bit of a lump to my throat. When the Beatles ended their career the final statement on "Abby Road" of "and in the end, the love you make, is equal to the love you make", was the perfect coda for the end of the band. To me "The Show Must Go On" has the same impact in its message. With Freddie's final words "on with the show" he summed up the entire career of one of the most innovative bands in the history of rock n roll. If you are a Queen fan and don't own this one you need to pick it up.Free Music Review: This album is true treasure. A timeless master piece.
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is true treasure. The best of Queen. A timeless master piece. Queen has turned Rock'N' Roll Pop music into the finest art form.
Since I recently discovered Queen I Lost interest in other bands. I can listen to Queen forever. When Freddie Mercury starting to sing, all other stars faint away. Freddie is the Sun. He has no equal. There always thousand great singers around but there is only one Freddie Mercury. Brian's truly a guitar prince. The sexiest hottest the most seductive sounds ever played. Roger Taylor's drum beats all. I love love Queen
Free Music Review: An Epic Last Stand
Hit: 4 Stars
What blows me and other people away about this album is not just that it was Queen's last studio recording together (not counting the posthumous Made in Heaven), but how powerful the band sounds. Not to belabor a point, but Freddie Mercury's death soon after this would make this a very poignant release. To the end, he remained very much the life and soul of the band - present in every track, and delivering some of his most passionate vocals. When rock stars like Hendrix, Michael Hutchence, etc die, it's usually unexpected. Freddie knew his days were numbered, but kept going.
The album as a whole is refreshing. Innuendo saw the band rebounding from a so-so album (The Miracle) with a killer title track - Innuendo - which encapsulates the band's adventurous journeys, while invoking Led Zeppelin's Kashmir. Playful, experimental, dark, conventional - all the usual Queen elements are served up here in this epic and bittersweet album, which showcases tight musicianship and great production from track one to the end.
The album is also somewhat biographical. The Show Must Go On was truly a rock swansong if ever there was one. I'm Going Slightly Mad; These Are the Days of Our Lives; Don't Try So Hard are all great songs which seem to reflect Freddie's introspection. It's difficult listening to this when I think about the music videos - which reveal Freddie in a fragile state. But as much as the body was failing, the voice was very much inside and alive.
If anything's different about this from other Queen albums which veered from being pompous, romantic to rock - Innuendo comes across with a more melancholy and dark edge. Even throwaway tracks like Headlong and Hitman feel undercut by the reality that was happening beyond the album. A fitting farewell to a great singer and band.
Free Music Review: Queen's equivalent to Abbey Road still a classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Queen's sixteenth US release Innuendo was first released in February of 1991.
The album would be the last Queen album released during Freddie Mercury's lifetime.
In between The Miracle and Innuendo, the band cancelled its contract with Capitol Records for the US and Canada and went with a new label created by Disney called Hollywood Records which initially had a distribution deal with Queen's first US label from 1973-83 Elektra (Hollywood's US and Canadian distribution would change to PolyGram then Universal now Universal/Vivendi). Also, the band wanted to bring back the classic Queen sounds with a modern touch.
At the time, the Innuendo album was being recorded, lead singer Freddie Mercury was very ill and could only record as much as he could and guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor, bass player John Deacon and co-producer David Richards to create what was to become one of the greatest farewell albums EVER (as I found out in April of 1992 when I recorded the album onto tape then got on CD that Christmas).
The opening UK #1 and US rock radio Top 20 smash title cut to Innuendo is a great, innovative, multi-sectioned rocker to kick off Queen's farewell. The song brings back the feel of earlier epics without sounding like any of them. Yes guitarist Steve Howe appears on the track playing classical guitar in the middle. Roger said the track Innuendo was and I quote "Oscar Wilde meets Led Zeppelin", end quote. Great song. Also, its video was groundbreaking despite the band do not appear in it save for computer generated images designed like different artists (John (Picasso), Freddie (Da Vinci) and so forth). "I'm Going Slightly Mad" follows and is a great number. This song's video was a classic black and white clip of the band being silly complete with penguins and gorillas. The next track was the third British single but first single released from Innuendo here in the States called "Headlong". This rocker is an awesome song. When I first heard this track in January of 1991, I said Queen can still rock. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts and was Queen's biggest American radio hit since "I Want it All" two years earlier. Next is the pop-rocker "I Can't Live With You" which is an excellent song with alot of Brian guitar works. Next is "Don't Try So Hard" which is one of the band's best ballads, period, containing a stunning haunting falsetto-sounding vocal delivery from Freddie despite his delicate condition. "Ride the Wild Wind" follows and we rock out again in full speed with good lyrics and makes you want to drive 110 on the highway.
The second half of the album starts with "All God's People" which is the 90s Somebody to Love but not sounding like or re-recording Somebody to Love. The ballad "These Are the Days of Our Lives" follows and is a excellent ballad which sadly had the last video Queen made with Freddie before he died and his miming of the words "I still love you" was a fitting way to end his filmed performance career as his AIDS ailment was getting to him. We then go silly with "Delilah", a song about Freddie's cat and a nice up-number. Next is the Brian-laced rocker "The Hitman" which sounds like it would not have been out of place on any metal album. Great song! Next is "Bijou" which is a great showcase for an epic guitar solo by Brian with synthesizers and beautiful vocals from Freddie that appear in the middle singing about his cat. "The Show Must Go On" closes the album in the same way that The Golden Slumber Medley ended Abbey Road, majestically. The song expressed Freddie's need to continue making music and living life, even in the face of imminent death (he would die of AIDS a few months after the release of this album) and the music was stunning.
Innuendo when released gave Queen their first US Gold selling album (meaning it sold 500,000 copies in the US) since 1984's The Works and hit #31 at a time when hair metal schlock like Poison, larger-than-life crooners like Michael Bolton and divas like Mariah Carey infested the US music landscape.
Sadly, Innuendo also marked Queen's final album to be released when Freddie Mercury was alive as he would pass away in November of 1991 at the age of 45 of AIDS becoming rock and roll's first major AIDS casualty.
Innuendo is RECOMMENDED!