Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Queen-Return Of The Champions


Live Studio CD (2 disks)
2005

1 Reaching Out 2 Tie Your Mother Down 3 I Want to Break Free Deacon
4 Fat Bottomed Girls 5 Wishing Well 6 Another One Bites the Dust 7 Crazy Little Thing Called Love 8 Say It's Not True 9 '39 10 Love of My Life
11 Hammer to Fall 12 Feel Like Makin' Love 13 Let There Be Drums 14 I'm in Love with My Car 15 Guitar Solo 16 Last Horizon

1 These Are the Days of Our Lives 2 Radio Ga Ga 3 Can't Get Enough
4 A Kind of Magic 5 I Want It All 6 Bohemian Rhapsody 7 The Show Must Go On 8 All Right Now 9 We Will Rock You 10 We Are the Champions
11 God Save the Queen


Never really been a Queen fan, wasn't a fan or all the radio hits either. Paul Rodger's Bad Company, did really care for them either. So why on earth did I by this double cd that had Paul replace the late Freddy Mercury on lead vocals? I remember why, I was heading home back to Biloxi after hurricane Katrina, and basically the handful of music I fled with 3 weeks earlier had been listened to and listened to. So I stopped at Walmart in Memphis and picked up a handful of cds, and this was one of them. I am glad I did.


One of the things I disliked about Mercury and Rodgers was the singing, not a fan of the voices. But Paul, does an awesome job here. He doesn't try to be Mercury and breathes a new slightly different life and meaning to the songs. All the Queen hits are here, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, and Another One Bites The Dust all keep true to original but rocks out even more. The Rodgers songs form his career also benefit from this union, Cant Get Enough, Wishing ell, and Feel Like Making Love shine bright. Not all songs from the two fair well, All Right Now, which I never liked, isn't helped here. Same goes for I'm In Love With My Car and '39. Hats off to the band for keeping Freddy in the back vocals for Bohemian Rhapsody.

Over all and excellent cd, and the crowd is loving every second of it, and the same goes for me.
A-

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