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Brian May - Business Audio CD

A fair review of the Brian May "Business" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Brian May reviews here, or go back to the Brian May tabs.

Brian May Band: Brian May
Title: Business
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Release Date: 1999-01-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: On My Way Up 2: Why Don't We Try Again 3: Maybe Baby 4: Business 5: Another World 6: It's Only Make Believe 7: Hammer to Fall 8: Brian Talks

A Waste of Money
He wrote the best song, whether they were slow and sweet or hard and fast. I love Queen, and I always liked Brian May best out of it's members. Naturally I expected to find these same qualities in a solo effort, so off to the record store I went. This was the only thing they had by him and it was expensive as it was an import, but hey, it was Brian May. I was confident that it would be worth every penny. I was very, very wrong. Simply put, it's just horrible. All the songs are slow and boring. Not that I dislike slow songs, as I said I loved the stuff he wrote with Queen, but these are tuneless, emotionless drones. There is virtually none of the guitar wizardry one would expect, and he even managed to ruin Hammer To Fall, one of his best works. If you like Brian May's work with Queen steer clear of this. It's completely different.


Another Ep of B-sides
It includes Maybe Baby and Only Make Believe, two outtakes from his aborted all-covers album project. Much like the Resurrection EP before, this Japanese EP collects together some of the various B-sides and non-LP tracks, this time, revolving around the Another World LP. Light on guitar, but great vocals, and they show his influences. The highlight of the disc are two live tracks recorded in Paris in 6/98: a light-hearted jaunt thru 'On My Way Up' (preceded by a few minutes of jamming), and a lengthy, slowed-down arrangement of 'Hammer To Fall', which I dare say equals the original in quality (the climactic reprise features the original rocking riff). His tone on this one is reminiscent of 'It's Late'. So until Brian tours the States in support of AW, this 17 minutes of live music should tide you over. The only dissapointment is the inclusion of two regular LP tracks: Another World, and Business, which is erroneously listed as 'USA radio mix uncut' - but is really just the full LP version with out the intrusion of Space or China Belle at the beginning or end. You'd think they'd have put the 'Rock On Cozy mix', but no dice. Then one could have avoided purchasing the 'Business' single, save for the interactive stuff. But, as with nearly all Japanese discs, the lyrics to all songs are included. And the cool title ('bout time he named a record after his legendary axe) and cover (red-and-black silhouette version of the AW cover) are almost worth the price alone. Again, anyone calling themselves a fan must own this disc.


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