Paul Jack Griffiths is watching Queen with The Hitman .... @Im gonna kill for your love ... Queen Music Reviews in 1991 Rolling Stone Magazine reviewed the epic Innuendo album .... Review byChuck Eddy ... One way to confirm that Queen never consisted of your typically haughty progressive rock snobs is to consider the following, In the late 70s 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. This suggests that Queen is well aware that its forte has always been eclectic excess for its own sake and probably helps explain why Queens still making records and ELP isnt and why an album like A Night at the Opera from 1975 sounds so much smarter now than when it came out. These shameless all time glam survivors would try anything once and amid their messes they attained classical kitsch pinnacles, helped invent rap music and provided celebration songs for every championship team on earth. In 1990, they were sampled by Vanilla Ice covered by Metallica TV commercialed by Huffy Bicycles and explicitly acknowledged as an important inspiration by arty hardcore ensembles and funk-metal and industrial drone bands alike. With Another One Bites the Dust which topped the pop chart for three weeks ten years ago Queen became the first mainstream troupe to comprehend the rock potential of hip hop minimalism. But since then the band has floundered, sinking to passable Bowie duets, feeble groove moves, queasy myth metal and antiradio diatribes that wound up being the most annoying things on the radio. So to call Innuendo the groups most playful top to bottom pile since The Game from 1980, may not be saying much yet theres no getting around the new albums craft. From the circus drumroll that introduces the opening Zep screech epic about justice and death in the desert sand Innuendo to the quick rap in the closing bump and grind the show must go on these old entertainers sound like theyve decided to stop trying so hard, like theyre finally satisfied with their lot in life. Innuendo is so lightweight youll forget it as soon as its over which with this band should go without saying anyway but theres nothing cynical about it. Unlike most fortyish rock relics the boys in Queen are still too kooky and insincere to settle for any of that well earned wisdom of middle age bunk. They just throw food at the wall and if it sticks fine. And if it doesnt stick well thats fine too...... Released on the 4th of February in 1991 Recorded from March 1989 to November 1990 Recorded at Metropolis Studios in London UK & Mountain Studios in Montreux Switzerland... Written by Queen Produced by Queen & Mack Made no:1 on the UK LP Chart ... Innuendo was the first of two Queen albums released in 1991 the second was the Greatest Hits II. The album was promoted in the USA with a press launch aboard The Queen Mary. Four of the twelve tracks were edited for vinyl release these were Im Going Slighty Mad, Dont Try So Hard, Bijou, and The Hitman. First editions featured a special 1991 calendar which is now a much sought after collectors piece and all the illustrations on the artwork were by Grandville...... Here is one of my personal favourites from one of my top 3 best Queen LPs ever, this is The Hitman .... Im a head shredder thats better baby baby baby Im a hitman hitman hitman yeah trouble in the east trouble in the west struggle with the beast what a thief what a pest come back mother nuke that sucker yeah, yeah, yeah Who knows what I am talking about? waste that brother alright ooh thats the way to do it ha ha Im the hitman Im your prize but this hitman can cut you down to size love me baby dont be so cool love me love me baby Ive been to the hitman school yeah yeah youre gonna make my day gonna blow you away .....
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:56:18 +0000
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