Year : 2025 (UMG Recordings Records Remastered Edition)
Style : Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 96 mb
Bio:
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works, incorporating further diverse styles into their music.Before joining Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had been playing together in a band named Smile with bassist Tim Staffell. Freddie Mercury (then known by his birth name of Farrokh "Freddie" Bulsara) was a fan of Smile, and encouraged them to experiment with more elaborate stage and recording techniques after Staffell's departure in 1970. Mercury himself joined the band shortly thereafter, changed the name of the band to "Queen", and adopted his familiar stage name. John Deacon was recruited prior to recording their eponymous debut album in 1973. Queen enjoyed success in the UK with their debut and its follow-up, Queen II in 1974, but it was the release of Sheer Heart Attack later in 1974 and A Night at the Opera in 1975 that gained the band international success. The latter featured "Bohemian Rhapsody", which stayed at number one in the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks; it charted at number one in several other territories, and gave the band their first top ten hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. Their 1977 album, News of the World, contained two of rock's most recognisable anthems, "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions".By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world, with "Another One Bites the Dust" their best selling single, and their performance at 1985's Live Aid is regarded as one of the greatest in rock history. In 1991, Mercury died of bronchopneumonia, a complication of AIDS, and Deacon retired in 1997. Since then, May and Taylor have occasionally performed together, including a collaboration with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers under the name Queen + Paul Rodgers which ended in May 2009. Since 2011, May and Taylor have collaborated with vocalist Adam Lambert under the name of Queen + Adam Lambert. In late 2014, Queen will release a new album, Queen Forever, featuring vocals from the late Freddie Mercury.The band have released a total of 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles, and 10 number one DVDs. Estimates of their record sales generally range from 150 million to 300 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. They received the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1990, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
Album:
UMG Recordings started the release of QUEEN‘s thematic series compilations, grouping songs in the same musical style from the band’s 3-decade career catalog. Especially compiled and overseen by Brian May & Roger Taylor, here’s the titled “HEAVY” volume.Let’s not forgot that for all the cod-operatic epics, billowing ballads and diversions into funk, blues, musical hall and pretty much every other genre ever invented, in their origins Queen were a hard rocking band. And they continued to record at least one guitar-driven song on each album.It’s not surprising that most of these songs never were singles, not radio-friendly, but quality ‘inside tracks’. It’s great to have these all together, all selections remastered.Opening is one of our favorite Queen songs, ‘Ogre Battle’ (1974), from one of our fav Queen albums, “II”. Lyrically Queen’s first two albums were based around Freddie Mercury’s epic, fantastical bespoke mythology of kings and queens, senators and messengers, fairies and ogres. It culminates in this thrilling tale with a spectacularly metal title reflected in its pulverizing proto-thrash riff and furious gallop, plus a dizzying backwards intro and the screaming, clashing sound of giants in combat.Rumbling seductively on a gargantuan Tony Iommi-school doom riff (later half-inched by sludge hooligans Iron Monkey for their song House Anxiety), Brian May’s 1973 ‘Son And Daughter’ is a dirty stoner blues metal snarl with an impassioned thud and unusually direct lyrics (“The world expects a man to buckle down and shovel shit”).A proto-Run To The Hills protest song about the massacre of native Americans by invading paleface imperialists; as befits its sombre subject ‘White Man’ (1976) is dark, doomy, brooding and scornful, with a powerful percussive stomp, wailing leads and a simple but ineffably mighty riff. Freddie once introduced it live as “A real bitch of a song, it really gets to the nodules.”An artful spoof of the flourishing punk trend – which in 1977 had relegated Queen to has-been status at 30 in the eyes of the inverted-snob rock media – ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ offers a perfect sonic realisation of an album title from ‘74, with blistering jackhammer guitars, a frantic rasping beat and lyrics bristling with wry teenage disaffection cliches (“I feel so inar-inar-inar-inar-inar-inarticulate!”).‘Dead On Time’ (1978) is a great song. An overlooked energetic deep-cut from Queen’s last album of the ‘70s was virtually beating a path towards speed metal, or a glam rock stomp at five times the speed, voltage and adrenaline. Piled high with May’s heroic fireworks, Taylor’s whirling elastic fills and Mercury’s rapid-fire delivery, the HM quotient is ramped up even further by the “You’re dead!” thunderstorm ending.Sequenced for maximum impact – blasting in all guns blazing after the soft fade on Freddie’s light-hearted love song to his cat, Delilah – Innuendo’s 1991 ‘The Hitman’ aggressive opening volley of insistent chords and meaty, swaggering riff perfectly express the violence of the ruthless gun-for-hire lyrics, thought by many to be the frontman’s veiled reference to the HIV that was soon to take his life.Queen rocks too, and Brian May’s guitar playing & sound became a trademark in Rock history. All that is represented here; this is Queen at it most rocking from the ’70s to the ’80 & ’90s.
Line Up:
Freddie Mercury – vocals, piano, keyboards, occasional guitar (1970–1991; his death) (R.I.P. 1991)
Brian May – guitars, vocals, keyboards, bass guitar (1970–present)
John Deacon – bass guitar, guitars, keyboards, occasional backing vocals (1971–1997)
Roger Taylor – drums, vocals, percussion, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar (1970–present)
Tracklist:
01. Ogre Battle (Remastered 2011)
02. Stone Cold Crazy (Remastered 2011)
03. The Hitman (Remastered 2011)
04. Sheer Heart Attack (Remastered 2011)
05. Princes Of The Universe (Remastered 2011)
06. Son And Daughter (Remastered 2011)
07. Dead On Time (Remastered 2011)
08. Liar (Remastered 2011)
09. White Man (Remastered 2011)
10. Headlong (Remastered 2011)
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