Queen (with Paul Rodgers)- The Cosmos Rocks

Studio CD

2008
1 Cosmos Rockin' 2 Time to Shine 3 Still Burnin' 4 Small

5 Warboys 6 We Believe 7 Call Me 8 Voodoo 9 Some Things That Glitter 10 C-Lebrity 11 Through the Night 12 Say It's Not True

13 Surf's Up...School's Out!
14 Small Reprise

After Queen's live cd Return Of The Champions, I was ready for a cd of new music by this line up of May, Taylor, and Rodgers. After the first listen I had to put the cd up and come back to it later, a couple of months later. The cd came off more like a Paul Rodgers solo cd than a Queen bad Company mix. I was expecting a lot, maybe too much from this line up, but since I was never a Rodgers solo or Rodger's Bad company fan, and was even less of a Queen fan, I do not know why I expected a lot out of this. Maybe it was because the live cd was so good, both on the Queen songs and the Rodger's song.
Sadly other than C-lebrity there is not really anything good here, they seem lost between wanting to be someone other than Queen or Bad Company, and at times wanting to so much to be like their former selves. Even now as I listened to it today, three times (which is as much as I have listened to it as total in the past), I find myself wondering why? and what could or should have been.
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