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[CRAZY-HORSE]

QUEEN "a kind of magic" cd, 1986

career stats:
studio albums...................15
singles.............................72

this album.......................#1 UK...#12 AU...#46 US
singles:
"one vision".....................#7 UK...#35 AU...#61 US.............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_1IMZmJe-U
"a kind of magic"..............#3 UK...#25 AU...#42 US...#28 NZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p_1QSUsbsM
"princes of the universe"...............#32 AU............................ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw
"friends will be friends"....#14 UK..............................#50 NZ (see best track)
"pain is so close to pleasure"..................no chart action......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2W2mU8R7-A
"one year of love".................................no chart action......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgib8QoBKHE

Queen's twelfth studio album....
Freddy was diagnosed with AIDS less than a year after this was released...
lots of synth/electronic stuff on this album....
a far cry from their debut self titled set where on the back cover May proudly wrote
"no synths on here just real instruments!", or words to that effect...
very little to champion on this album...
none o what I would call typical Queen tracks because Freddie is not using his voice to
its usual standard and gone are the soaring solos from May....
I this was another band, maybe a young up and coming band I may nave liked this this
but their reputation precedes them and leaves this one for dead IMO....

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

WORST TRACK: gimmee the price
best track: friends will be friends

[video=youtube;0AIlz08fZos]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIlz08fZos[/video]

tracks:

1...one vision **
2...a kind of magic **
3...one year of love **
4...pain is so close to pleasure **
5...friends will be friends **
6...who wants to live forever *
7...gimmee the price *
8...don't lose your head *
9...princes of the universe *

3s=0
2s=5
1s=4

rating: 1.5