Late Period Queen albums

Besides it's not like Queen had one static sound anyway

No, but Queen at their best are sort of supposed to be pompous and operatic. That is what Queen is all about. That is what made them so fantastic and wonderful.

So you didn't like their ragtime songs then?

In the late Seventies, Emerson, Lake and Palmer released two albums called Works, as in "works of art," but in 1984, Queen put out an album called The Works, as in the stuff you pile on hamburgers.

Totally remembered this line from reading it as a kid, had no idea you wrote it, Chuck.

I'm terrified of this period of Queen, maybe I should reconsider.

So you didn't like their ragtime songs then?

Their ragtime songs had some of the pomp in them, like the backing vocals and all. I think that is part of my problem about Queen's funk songs, that some of the elements they stripped away for them were those wonderful backing vocals.
(That is also my main problem about the "Made In Heaven" album - Freddie sadly didn't have time to record a lot of backing vocals before he passed away)

Wasn't it around that "Hot Space" and "Body Language", etc.

I don't think *anybody* liked that period, Freddie himself excepted (prob)

"Las Palabras De Amor" is a great song though. :)

The rest of "Hot Space" was largely an attempt to re-write "Another One Bites The Dust" though.

I think it was a fair reflection of where Fred's head was at, to be, um, fair.

'Back Chat' was kind of great.

"Back Chat" is IMO perhaps their best attempt at this funk/disco thing (yes, much better than "Another One Bites The Dust"). But still not Queen at their typically best.

Hot Space is a great albummm, ya bonkers hatahs ya! :) No, I'm serious.
And add my vote to Innuendo. - Which 'll make it how many? 4 votes? And thus Innuendo 'll rise above A Kind of Muckage anyway, yay.

i'm dreaming of a fine day in maybe 2031 when hot space is finally due to get a (very well deserved) mention in the 'Albums for which critical opinion has changed the most over time'-thread. just listen to Las Palabras De Amor for god's sake.

"Las Palabras De Amor" is a great song, but very atypical of "Hot Space". It may well be the one track in there pointing forward to "The Works" and "A Kind Of Magic" the most though, which its mix of new wave/new romantics influenced synths and the good old mid 70s Queen bombast.

Cool Cat is great! Is it a Prince rip off do we think? It's damn early if so. Can't be i.. guess.

lol i also totally remember that line about the works (actually was first thing i thought of when i saw this thread), also had no idea chuck wrote it.

geir so wrong again. jazz/the game are their best albums.

The Works.

Then Play Long reaches A Kind of Magic to find that it's, uh, not really all that: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/queen-kind-of-magic_27.html

Damn, I thought this would be about a band called Late Period Queen.

irl lol

Then Play Long reaches The Miracle and finds that rock isn't the magical elixir, always: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/queen-miracle.html

I kind of like The Miracle. Was It All Worth It? is their last flash of brilliance imo.

Geir seems to have confused The Works with A Kind of Magic and nobody caught it.

just finally heard The Works for the first time. really solid album.