Hot Space (Deluxe Edition)

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Queen

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Under pressure the title of the best track on this album and it some's up everything. No matter what anyone says this is the album that alienated Queen fans confused america and internally almost destroyed the group. After the success of Another one bites the dust, Mercury and Deacon, wanted to investigate the R and B and disco sounds of the time, however as Roger Taylor said,in the recent documentary on Queen on BBC2, the record was like entering a Gay club, and that was not the sound that he and May wanted to make.I am all for experimenting with other musical sounds,Kate Bush did it with the Dreaming which led to the classic Hounds of love but I always felt this album was always just going a little to far, The tracks like Body language and Back chat are just not Queen in anyway shape or form. If your a massive fan you may buy this record to add to your collection, personally it was a relief when the Rock tracks returned with the Works a couple of years later and restored queen to there rightful place.In July 2004, Q magazine listed Hot Space as one of the top fifteen albums where great rock acts lost the plot. Most of the album was recorded in Munich during the most turbulent period in the band's history, and Taylor and May lamented the new sound, with both being very critical of the influence Mercury's manager Paul Prenter had on the singer However Hot Space like any other Queen album has its great tracks Under Pressure and Las Palabras de Amor are album highlights. However Seriously can anyone really rate this a classic Queen album up there with a Night at the Opera?, no way should this get the same stars its ridiculous.