Queen - Queen II (1974) (1 Viewer)

[pete]

yeah i couldn't get into it at all

 

[rettucs]

LONG LIVE THUMPED ALBUM CLUB

(have a bit of catching up to do)

 

[David Kronenbourg]

yeah i couldn't get into it at all

me too. NEXT!!!

 

[dudley]

Did you listen three times?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I didn't even make it through one : (

 

[pete]

Two and a bit here. It's very Queeny.

 

[nooleen]

well i like it

the advice song to his mum is a bit shite though

 

[pete]

a 3 because i can't vote 2.5

 

[rettucs]

2 listens in. This is great. Way better than I expected.

 

[dudley]

2 listens in. This is great. Way better than I expected.

Isn't it, though? An lp I fail to understand how someone couldn't love it

 

[rettucs]

This was very unexpected. We had an old C90 tape at home when I was growing up with 'A Day at the Races' on one side, 'Night at the Opera' on the other. Until 1986, when I got 'A Kind Of Magic', on tape, they were my only exposure to Queen albums. And though they were only a couple of years after this, they couldn't be more different.

If I heard some of these songs without knowing who I was listening to, I wouldn't guess in a million years that it's queen. 'The Loser In the End', for example. Thats yer man Roger Taylor on lead vocals? Good job. I was thinking Freddie wasn't sounding terribly like Freddie so had to look it up.

Brian May is the main reason why I could never bring myself to like Queen more. He has the personality of a cardboard-cutout of himself. The total opposite to the theatric extravagance of Freddie.

Suppose some of it is typical enough Queen (Ogre Battle), but there's nothing that's standout catchy. I enjoyed my first few listens but couldn't really remember much about it after.

Must make a point to listen to more Queen, Brian May or not.

4/5

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

But the guitaring is deadly on this

 

[rettucs]

But the guitaring is deadly on this

yeah it is. I don't like those whiny guitar effects he's famous for. I just picture him whining. Its great on this album. I wonder if he had a personality back then?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Just had another listen, very good not as good as Gaucho

 

[Lili Marlene]

Just had another listen, very good not as good as Gaucho

Maybe but Seven Seas of Rhye is better than every song Steely Dan ever wrote.