What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



The groups fourth and best for me, loving seven tracks. Special memories help it though, as the tour supporting
this release was the first concert I had taken my wife to. I was trying to ween her off the Carpenters. It never
worked. The album proved the band was much more than metal, with branches going everywhere, but you still can't
help but bang your head when Bohemian Raphsody kicks back in. That remains my favorite and one of their signature
songs. Yes the album is over produced by Roy Thomas Baker, making some of the tracks unable to be re-created in a
live setting, which is why I prefer some studio music over live. Roger Taylor and Brian May both get vocal outings
here with Brian winning on two superb track, '39 and Good Company. Roger's I'm In Love With My Car get's a passing
grade. It's still Freddie that carries the band though with a delivery that's hard to equal. The only thing that
shouldn't be on here is May's adaptation of God Save The Queen where he tried to one-up Hendrix. The album was an
expected #1 in the homeland and a #4 in the states.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - God Save The Queen

Best Track - Bohemian Raphsody

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

It's too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?
Thunderbolts and lightning - very very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo Figaro - magnifico-o-o-o

I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go - will you let me go
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go
Never let you go - let me go
Never let me go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no -
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me
for me
for me
for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh baby - can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters, to me
Anyway the wind blows

1) Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To...) ***
live - Queen- Death On Two Legs - YouTube
2) Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxWyt7K4hw
3) I'm In Love With My Car **
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9JuAx_CB6o
4) You're My Best Friend ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JSUXaY-tw&ob=av2e
5) '39 ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjuyXR5by2s
6) Sweet Lady **
live - Queen-Sweet Lady Live Hyde Park (1976) - YouTube
7) Seaside Rendezvous **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1yzauVUvCo
8) The Prophet's Song ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZjjsrn9FY4
9) Love Of My Life ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4lupqXayYI
10) Bohemian Raphsody ***
video - Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody' - YouTube
11) God Save The Queen *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjEphmIqtjM

3's - 7
2's - 3
1's - 0

Grade - 2.5

so many albums, so little time