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| Queen - The Game (+ Bonus Track) |
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Band: Queen Title: The Game (+ Bonus Track) Rating: Release Date: 17 June, 1991 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 |
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Customer Reviews Gonna use my stack...it's gotta be Mack... 'The Game' which was released in June 1980 was first and foremost a pop album. Queen may have jumped the shark by the time the seventies drew to a close but they were still by anyone's definition a serious hard rock band. For many longtime fans, the record may have come as a disappointment. Queen had always been a pop band with a slew of hit singles but their albums contained hard rock bombast along with the pop ditties. 'The Game' was different, it seemed to go out of its way to be poppy and bright and very much for the 1980's. Evidence would show that American audiences made it (next to 'News') Queen's biggest selling LP, a true case of crossover appeal. Add this to the fact the album, Queen's eight studio record, contained TWO US number one hit singles and both songs were like nothing the band had ever done. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" was the first, a rockabilly for Chrissakes!. . . but it works! Freddie's tribute to the stylings of the King, the song actually made its debut the previous year before the rest of the album was reoorded. John Deacon's "Another One Bites the Dust" was the other megahit. . . a funk song but it blew the band's previous attempt, Taylor's "Fun It", out of the water! Brian contributed another funk rocker in "Dragon Attack", a good but not great song and my personal fave "Save Me", a ballad, sung beautifuly by Freddie and like "Crazy" came out in '79. Overall though I'm not a huge fan of this record, mainly because it is TOO pop. "Rock It" is a perfect example of what I mean. . . great anthemic intro by Freddie and then Taylor starts singing and. . . awww man. . . its like new wave! Ruins it. "Need Your Loving Tonight" is decent but again too poppy. . . sort of the sister song to John's "If You Can't Beat Them" from 'Jazz'. Title track is good but. . . it's too sappy, only Brians's metal guitar makes the song for me, and the synths are cool too. Needless to say I don't play 'The Game' that often. . . to me it's the end of an era. . . . and Freddie cuts his hair and grew a moustache. . . oh well.
Queen's first and best 80s album still rules 25 years on
Another typically bold but watered down Queen release
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