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Queen - The Game (+ Bonus Track) Audio CD

A fair review of the Queen "The Game (+ Bonus Track)" 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 Queen reviews here, or go back to the Queen tabs.

Queen Band: Queen
Title: The Game (+ Bonus Track)
Rating:
Release Date: 1991-06-17
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Play the Game 2: Dragon Attack 3: Another One Bites the Dust 4: Need Your Loving Tonight 5: Crazy Little Thing Called Love 6: Rock It (Prime Jive) 7: Don't Try Suicide 8: Sail Away Sweet Sister 9: Coming Soon 10: Save Me 11: Dragon Attack [Remix][*]

Queen The Game
I appreciate it a little more now. Listened to this on 8 track as a teenager.


MFSL gold cd.
Worth the price!. Great sound! The original 2 track masters were used, giving the best possible sound quality, less hiss, clean highs and rich bass.


Amazing despite the use of synthesizers
I mean especially in the 80's every band was using them. I don't know why people got so up in arms because Queen used synthesizers. Make no mistake, Queen never sold out and never violated the basic premise of their own sound. This album is yet another example about how they can change yet still retain their unique sound. It's filled with everything you'd expect from a classic Queen album, filled with beautiful solos, Freddie's perfect voice, great solos from Brian, John, and Roger Taylor's great drumwork. .


Queen rocks
A great transitional record that's a bit stripped down and rocks! Play the Game, Need Your Loving Tonight definitely stand out.


The Emporer's New Clothes
This was the album that opened Queen 2. For the first time, the band declared they would use synthesizers on record, after being almost militant about not using them. So how best to state the obvious? Make a huge descending set of synth sweeps the first sounds on "The Game. " So opens the last really great Queen album and ended their hot streak on the Elektra label.

Those synth sounds, and the ensuing album, found Queen sand-blasting their sound down radically. Gone where the 1,000 voice overdubbed choirs, muliti-tracked to oblivion guitars, and epic theatrics. Instead, the band crafted an arena ready parcel of big popo-rockers (like the terific "Dragon Attack") with an eye towards the wave of stripped down bands entering the scene. For example, there's the chiming guitar in "Don't Try Suicide" that cops directly from The Police's "Walking On The Moon" and the The Stray Cats faux rockabilly of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love. " After being the Kings of Excess for so many years, it was as if Freddie Mercury and company opted to prove that they could do it without the pomp.

Nowhere is this more evident than the monster hit "Another One Bites The Dust. " Blatantly lifting from Chic's "Le Freak" (Chic successfully sued), it was Queen's most successful foray into funk and highlights the underrated bassist John Deacon's playing and songwriting. It also emphasized that Queen, even if they weren't layering it on musically, was still willing to step outside expectations and make an extraordinary song outside their usual realm. Same for "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," a song so classic that Dwight Yoakam eventually covered it without any irony involved whatsoever.

Thing is, this was the first album where Queen seemed less interested in strutting their stuff than blatantly pleading for your attention. "The Game" is so eager to please (right down to Freddie's new haircut), so straight-ahead poppy, that you wonder what was motivating them. This is still among their most consistent albums (matching News of the World or A Night at the Opera), but other than the hits, there's nothing particularly regal here. Given that the band would completely loose focus on the follow-up, Hot Space, "The Game's" new direction and stunning commercial success seems almost an accident.


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