QUEEN — The Game (review)

QUEEN — The Game album cover Album · 1980 · Non-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
Warthur
Queen had by this point become a rather soulless pop hit machine, cranking out catchy but disposable singles one after the other. This time around Another One Bites the Dust is the obligatory "anthem", Play the Game and Crazy Little Thing Called Love are the love songs, and the rest is rather forgettable. The band make a token effort to strike up some hard rock fury with Need Your Loving Tonight but fail to convince. The Game here is clearly "the music industry", and by this point Queen had become very adept at playing it indeed, because it sold like crazy - but do you know anyone who sincerely claims their favourite Queen song is Another One Bites the Dust? I don't.
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Bosh66 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
The subsequent albums all had some highlights as did The Game, and Innuendo was certainly decent. The best track on this album is the funk rock Dragon Attack. Shit lyrics but a great track nevertheless. Crank it up on your Alexa (other robots are available) :-)
siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Not my favorite Queen album by far by certainly not their worst. It was definitely the success of Another One Bites The Dust that led the band to believe they had to completely sell out with all those awful albums that followed.
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Another One Bites the Dust is a killer song :-)
Vim Fuego wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Someone must like Another One Bites The Dust - it's Queen's most played song on Spotify, with 1.2 billion plays as of March 2022. ;-)

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