The Game

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-09-28 rating:
Impressive
A transitional album between the inconsistent Jazz and the Poppy Funk/Dance experiment Hot Space, The Game is a truly impressive transition which took Queen into their most popular, but what some would claim their worst, period of music- The 80's! Starting off with the beautiful piano ballard Play The Game, and then leading onto the catchy Funk Rock of Dragon Attack, next comes one of Queen's most famous songs, the dance funk Another One Bites The Dust. You'll love or hate this track. Need Your Loving Tonight is quite average, but is a good power ballard for what it's worth. The Rock 'n Roll of Crazy Little Thing Called never grows old and is another impressive step for the Game. Rock It is a very basic rockability track, followed by Mercury's regular Dont Try Suicide. Brian May's emotive Sail Away Sweet Sister is next with beautiful lead vocals from May, with Roger Taylor's pop rocker Coming Soon next up. The album ends beautifully with the tranquil Power Rock Ballard, and ends this impressive album on a very high note.

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review by: date: 2008-04-29 rating:
THE Game....
A very close second in my opinion to the overblown majesty of A Day At The Races, The Game (the first Queen album I bought) is an amazing piece of art, and an amazing rock album. From the synth driven intro to Play the Game, to that infitesimal pause in Save Me, the whole album oozes class.

Another One Bites the Dust pounds your guts, Dragon Attack causes serious guitar mayhem, Crazy Little Thing Called Love is a great copy of the 1950s and early 60s Elvis... and then Don't Try Suicide laughs in the face of stupidity in this life. Save Me, a surprisingly heavy sound for this album is also an emotional tour de force. Its just a shame that the funky first side seems to get so much more mention than the second part, of what is, in my opinion an outstanding rock album.

Don't take it from me... buy it. Play it LOUD. Tell the neighbours that the busted wall and windows were worth it!!!

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review by: date: 2008-04-10 rating:
Great way to follow up from Jazz!
A short and sweet album, The Game has got to be one of my favorate albums. The first track is the perfect way to introduce the album, although the next track Dragon Attack is nothing more than Brian's version of John's Another One Bites The Dust. Some of the songs on the album are weak, like Sail Away Sweet Sister, which is slow and by far one of the worst tracks Brian May ever wrote. Some real classics appear on the album such as Play The Game, Antoher One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and the best track from the album, Save Me. This is really the last 'classic Queen' album, but what follows is just as good as this great album!

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review by: Jon Oxley date: 2008-04-01 rating:
More consistent than Jazz
This was the new sounding Queen - their first album of the 80s and its not bad. It's certainly a lot more consistent than their previous album Jazz. It also boasts 4 impressive singles - Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Save Me, Play The Game and Another One Bites The Dust. Other notable tracks are the 2 Brian May compositions - Dragon Attack and Sail Away Sweet Sister. The other tracks are just OK'ish. It definitely feels as though they had the American audience in mind with this release and it worked - this was a big hit both sides of the Atlantic.


review by: JJ date: 2007-11-18 rating:
Lean Mean Queen
The beginning of the 80's found Queen on fine form and ready to move with the times!
Jettisoning many of their old over-the-top studio gimmicks, this is stripped-down lean Queen with Freddie at the top of his game.
The new rhythmic approach owes much to the fresh production of Mack (who later let them down badly on Hot Space).
For once we have Queen imperfect and playing with feel! If only the'd continued that way!

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