News of the World

Queen - News of the World

News of the World
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Artist: Queen
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-02-12
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
  1. We Will Rock You
  2. We Are the Champions
  3. Sheer Heart Attack
  4. All Dead, All Dead
  5. Spread Your Wings
  6. Fight from the Inside
  7. Get Down, Make Love
  8. Sleeping on the Sidewalk
  9. Who Needs You
  10. It's Late
  11. My Melancholy Blues
  12. We Will Rock You [*][Mix]

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Free Music Review: An Under-Appreciated Classic
Hit: 5 Stars

Released after the magnificent one-two punch of A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races, this particular album underwhelmed some on its initial release. Severely stripped down, Queen did away with a lot of the operatics and novelty songs on this outing- the closest to one of those familiar lightweight Queen tracks being John Deacon's latin-tinged Who Needs You. This is a band flexing their musical muscles, with the songs sounding like they were largely recorded live in the studio with overdubs done afterwards, rather than the albums before that sounded like the songs were largely pieced together bit by bit.
The album begins with the now overly-familiar We Will Rock You, an instant classic, and a ballsy way to start an album. It would signify that this was a more basic Queen- rockier, edgier; abandoning all the studio trickery employed on the previous albums. I wasn't around at the time, but I can only imagine that Queen were tiring of being criticized for hiding behind overdubs, and wanted to present a more natural, harder side of themselves. If you have heard A Night At The Opera, and liked Sweet Lady, you will find plenty here of that nature to whet your appetite. We Are The Champions follows- an overly theatrical Freddie anthem, that has since become ubiquitous. If you're new to this album, the first real surprise (other than that wonderful album cover) will be Sheer Heart Attack- a Roger Taylor belter that is pure punk. Racing along at break-neck speed, the song is wonderfully nonsensical and contains truly great lyrics.
All Dead All Dead follows before Spread Your Wings slowly unfurls itself before the listener. A John Deacon ballad about escaping ennui- it is an under-appreciated Queen classic. As anthemic as anything else they ever released, it is a shame that this song kind of got left by the wayside somewhat. Freddie delivers a wonderful vocal here, and Brian's guitar-work is as illuminating as ever. Fight From The Inside is a standard Roger rocker, but you can hear that his songwriting is developing nicely at this point. If you dig this particular track, then you should go and investigate his solo albums, Fun In Space and Strange Frontier- they are full of little gems like this.
One of only three Freddie compositions on this album, Get Down Make Love comes next. Dirty, sweaty and filled with innuendo ("You say you hungry, I give you meat"), it is slightly off-kilter with the rest of the album, and is all the better for it. A real Queen curio, that you will either fall in love with or despise. It was later covered by Nine Inch Nails, but this is by far the better version. Brian's bluesy Sleeping On The Sidewalk is the album's most inconsequential track. By no means a bad song, but clearly filler- Brian recounts life on the road as a struggling musician over a simple backing. The aforementioned Who Needs You makes a brief appearance before...
It's Late. The standout track on the album. In my opinion it is the most under-appreciated song in the whole Queen canon. Penned by Brian May, it is an epic guitar-heavy song about love gone bad. Freddie's voice is magnificent here as he towers over this track with such command; his phrasing is wonderful- his ad-libs are perfect as always. This really is the highlight, on an album filled with highlights.
The lights go down as Freddie sits down at the piano for his beautiful, self-penned, My Melancholy Blues. The album ends as it began- stripped down and honest. Y'see, this is Queen's last truly honest album, up until the melancholy-drenched Innuendo, anyway. Here the songs seem to mean something; be it dealing with being under the spotlight or trying to survive within a crumbling relationship. Lyrically, the songs would become more generic after this outing. I don't have a problem with that myself. I never really looked to Queen to dazzle me with their words- though I do miss the wonderfully inventive lyrics of those early Queen records.
I have lived with this album for many years now. I first heard it as a teen, and fell in love with it immediately. It's a far more concise affair than the follow-up album, Jazz. This would be in my top five Queen albums, alongside Innuendo, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera and Queen II. If you're a fan of the heavier Queen songs, then give this album a try. If, on the other hand, you prefer the more outrageous efforts, then go for Queen II, or A Night At The Opera. But this really is worth the price of admission for It's Late alone.
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Japanese remastered (2001 digital remastering) reissue of 1977 album packaged in a miniature LP gatefold sleeve, features 11 tracks. Virgin. 2004.
When it was released in 1977, News of the World seemed at loggerheads with a music world that had moved beyond Queen's operatic pomprock and on to punk. In fact, the album was more in step with the punk scene than the output of most superstar acts of the time, as it contains Roger Taylor's furious "Sheer Heart Attack" and Freddie Mercury's lean, brutal "Get Down, Make Love." Of course, News is famous for its opening medley, "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions." Attend any sports event in the Western world, and you'll hear the former. If it's a championship match and the home team wins, you'll hear the latter. That's a tribute to the staying power of the music, but News of the World offers proof that, even as Queen maintained their position as rock & roll royalty, they continued to evolve and react to the times. --Daniel Durchholz

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