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Queen Albums: Blind Reaction

Hello all! So, I’m a new a Queen fan, although I’ve been listening to their music more closely for a couple of months now. I’ve always been familiar with their greatest hits like “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Don’t Stop Me Now”, “Under Pressure”, etc. I never really cared to listen closely until recently when I watched the movie and fell in love with the band. I listened to music a lot more recently, but haven’t dug into the albums really besides A Night at the Opera. So, without further delay, I’m gonna listen to their albums chronologically and react to them! We’re gonna begin first with their first album Queen. Let’s begin! (Disclaimer: this is probably not going to be professional in any sort of way.)

Keep Yourself Alive:

- Alright, right off the bat we have Brian playing guitar, and I’m digging it! It definitely is heavier than what I’ve heard in most of their later songs. If I remember right, this album had more heavy metal in it, so I’m not surprised. I love the sound of it though!

- Oh! I hear some stick and bass from Roger and John, very nice! I always love John’s bass work, his parts are so fun!

- Ah, here’s Freddie! So cool to hear him sing other songs besides the ones I know!

-Oh, is this song about chasing ambition? Or struggling with the chase for it? The lyrics are very interesting to me because they remind of Death On Two Legs.

- Okay, I should mention now that I’m watching the video of this song, and I love how glittery their outfits are. They all look so pretty lol.

- Hey, they’re all singing! Cool that they were doing stuff with the three’s voices from the start.

- Roger and Brian both get solos, and they sound so cool! Roger’s actually grabbed my attention more than Brian’s, but both were rad!

Okay, this was a good song! It definitely isn’t as crazy instrumentally, which makes sense since this is their first album and they’re trying to put themselves out there. I definitely can hear the heavy metal influence in this song and I’m curious as to how that shows in the rest of the album. Alright, next!

Doing Alright:

Oh! I recognize this title! Let’s see what it’s all about!

- Starts with some quiet piano playing, definitely different from the first song!

- Okay, so this is definitely a lot more chill and contemplative than the first song. With Freddie’s singing and Brian’s guitar work, it makes for a melancholy song.

- I really like the lyric in this song too. The music and the lyric really help capture the meaning of song so well. Everyone has times where they’re only getting by, and this song really encapsulates that pretty well.

- WOAH WOAH WOAH It just got VERY heavy metal all of the sudden. That’s very interesting! It almost shifts the tone of the song.

- Oh, it’s back to the original melody. Oh! Brian’s soloing again! Always nice to have that. I’m assuming that’s always a bit of a theme with Queen, since at lot of the music I’ve listened to with them always has Brian soloing at some point.

- Ugh, that is a gorgeous ending with the band members harmonizing and with the quiet piano.

I really liked how this song ended. I liked the song in general! I’m not sure about the shifts between the softer melody and the harder melody, but I still thought it was cool! I doubt they thought of this when making those shifts, but to me I felt like they did that to represent the scared uncertainty the person in the song was feeling about the next day. Shifting between believing that everything would be find and panicking that it won’t be. All in all, I enjoyed the song, and I can’t wait to hear the next one!

Great Rat King:

With a title like that, there already is a 30% increased chance of me liking it. We’ll see!

- This is definitely heavier, I can tell from the guitar and the ambience.

- The lyrics are definitely all Freddie. Only he would write about a Great Rat King and relate to religion.

- Actually, speaking of religion. Is this about a story in the Bible? I’m genuinely curious.

- Dang, I hear some of the multi layering voice stuff they do later on! It’s so interesting to see them trying this stuff even in their first album, to see the root of it all!

- The melody’s interesting, but honestly I’m in awe of Brian’s musical versatility. I think I heard three different types of guitar throughout the song and he played all of them beautifully. I really love the solos he has in this one, they are impressive.

- No slack on Roger or John either. Both of their parts on this song were fun to listen to too! I loved Roger’s solo at the end!

I enjoyed this song too. It isn’t my favorite song ever, but I can enjoy it’s creativity and weirdness of lyric that only Freddie has. I’m not much of a heavy metal person, but I didn’t mind this song too much! I might listen to this album more after this reaction.

My Fairy King

Ooo boy! This looks like another Freddie one! Let’s see what it’s like!

- Huh, starts off with some dissonant guitar notes, pretty cool! Almost reminds me of the UFO sounds Bowie makes in Starman

- AHH ROGER’S FALSETTO, I’M MELTING FU-

Sorry, I just REALLY love that man’s falsetto, it’s almost god like, I swear.

- I really like the bass and guitar bouncing of each other! Gives it a cool jive to it!

- My god, that piano work and Freddie hitting those higher notes, I didn’t know he sounded that good in his higher register!

- Dang, some of this is giving me flashbacks to Lap of the Gods. I’m always down for when Queen tries to make a song sound otherworldly or alien. It’s so neat to see what these four come up with!

- Oh wow, that got pretty fast at the end! I like that speed up actually, it was pretty lit!

- Before I forget, the lyric in this song was distinct too! Freddie always seems to focus on old stories or fairytales and is able to make something original from it, which is pretty neat! I like that a lot!

I think this is my favorite song currently on the album. It’s just so weird and creative, and I love the melody and the voices that Freddie and Roger do for the fairies. Although, Liar is up next, so I could be swayed pretty quickly.

Liar

- Oh, so this song starts off more with percussion and clapping, cool!

- And it has a video! Actually, I’d seen part of it on an Ashley Ann vid I believe. Where they sing “All Day Long!”

- Hey, I like riffs Brian have, those are cool as shit! Really livens up the melody!

- “I’ve traveled to Mercury and Mars” Oh my god Freddie. XD Always gotta flaunt the new name I suppose.

- The melody in this is different, but in a good way. This feels like a more familiar Queen song to me, something that is more like them. Of course, My Fairy King is pretty distinctly them too.

- The lyrics are so easily analyzed, I love it. I can’t wait to listen to this a thousand times and try to make a story out of the album.

- YAS it’s the part where they go “All Day Long!” God, I don’t know why but I love that part so much. It’s catchy!

- Since I’m watching a video of it, I must say Freddie is really strutting his stuff on stage! I’m loving it! Also, they all look so pretty still. It’s probably the same performance but I want to point it out lol.

- Yay! Deaky gets a solo! And it sounds super nice! It’s always awesome seeing the bass player get a time to shine! You go dude!!

Yup, I love this song a lot! I don’t know if it beats My Fairy King, but I can say I really enjoyed the song a lot!

The Night Comes Down

Am I the only one that’s getting ominous vibes from that title? No? Well, let’s find out if my instincts are off or not.

- Oh! Never mind, it’s a Brian song! His song’s aren’t usually scary. We’re good!

- Okay, that first chord reminds me of I’m in Love With My Car and it honestly scared me for a sec lol.

- The beginning of this song almost sounds like something you’d hear on Dateline, vaguely. I wonder if it’s in a minor chord and that’s why?

- Wow, the lyrics in this are sad. “Colouring, now all I see is gray.” Damn, I knew Brian struggled with depression for a long time, but I didn’t think it really set in until his first divorce. Dang it, now I want to hug the old bastard. I hate seeing and hearing people suffer.

- I will say that I love the part where Freddie and Roger harmonize together, they sound good together in a different way from Roger and Brian’s good. I like it. I wonder if I’ll hear that more in the later albums.

- This song is mostly instrumental, which I’m fine with! Good instrumentation and melody is one of Queen’s strong points, so I’m not surprised that they focused on it a bit more in this song, especially since Liar was a little more lyric focused. It seems most of this album focused on instrumental stuff, which is cool since they were trying to find their sound and such!

Personally, I loved this song too! I love quieter songs, so listening to this was a nice breather from the other songs! Although I’m not sure I should listen to it when I’m in a down mood. Anyways, next one up is a Roger song, which means it’s probably the pure opposite of this one, yay!

Modern Times Rock n Roll

- Oh wow! This is fast, me gusta!!

- Simple beat and melody, but really smart lyrics!

- Actually, more on the lyric! I remember reading some place that Brian talked about how smart and aware Roger was of the Rock and Roll scene during the 70’s and that he knew that there was going to be a new wave coming through pretty soon. I feel like this is Roger’s way of commenting on that and that Queen was going to be part of this new wave whether anybody liked it or not. I know that his songs are usually very political and social, so it’s nice to see that he’s been doing that from the beginning!

- Oh, I love the wails that Brian’s doing on his guitar, that’s good shit!!

I haven’t really got much else to say on this ditty. It’s an interesting first song for Roger, but it so definitely defines him, at least to me anyways. Onwards to the next song!

Son and Daughter

- This song is slower, but kind of has an epic sound.

- Not a lot of chaotic things happening like in the other songs, kind of a more straight forward rock song, which I like.

- Again, the lyrics intrigue me. It seems like it’s talking about doubles standards for men, or maybe it’s talking about homosexuality or anything! I really like they are vague enough to let the listeners interpret things, because they can get their own meaning out of it.

- It’s a bit of a heavier song, but it’s not bad. It’s a got a beat and a melody. It doesn’t have that standard chaotic Queen mark but I’m not gonna judge. This is a first album, after all.

- I’m surprised there aren’t any solos in this, but at the same time I’m almost glad because it was feeling formulaic to have Brian do a solo every song (even if he is amazing).

- That speed up was super interesting! I’m sad that it didn’t lead into the next song though. I was so ready for Jesus to be the part two of this one. Oh well!

I liked this one, but it doesn’t really stick out to me in anyway. Even then, it was a good song!

Jesus

- Welp, this is definitely the most religious out of all of them!

- Dang, the song’s actually pretty tame sounding, which makes sense. They don’t want to go too crazy singing about the Lord.

- I’ve noticed something. This song kind of sounds like an old balled or hymn, which is pretty cool considering genre and subject matter. That is all.

- Freddie’s kind of scatting is honey to my ears, I love it madly.

- Same to Brian’s solo work. Even if I get annoyed with how formulaic that can be, doesn’t mean he doesn’t sound wonderful every time he plays.

- I really like the echo effect! Kind of snapped me back into attention when I heard it!

This one was also good but eh to me. The one thing that really grabbed my attention from it was that it was fairly religious, which caught me off guard a little. Queen’s covered a lot in their music, so it shouldn’t surprise me, but I’m surprised that they sang this much about Christianity and such in this early album. More on that later, last song!

Seven Seas of Rhye (Instrumental)

- Wow, that’s all I got to say! I forgot that this was the song with the cool piano part in it, so I’m hyped for when I get to listen to it all the way through! A good decision on their part to leave that in there, a good tease for their next album!

Overall: I liked this album! I’ll admit, I was spoiled most likely when I listened to A Night at the Opera, but I still enjoyed this one! It was really cool to see the band’s beginnings post-Smile, and seeing them get their hands dirty with composing music. I was surprised at the religious undertones of the album, but didn’t mind it. It let them mess around creatively with some things, like getting influences from old ballads or hymns in Jesus. It was neat to see that they were doing stuff like the voice overlaying and solos from the beginning and I’m honestly proud of them for sticking with that to the point of perfection. I’m definitely returning to this album for Liar and My Fairy King, those two are my favorites easily from this album, besides The Night Comes Down, of course.

I hope guys liked my rambling about this album. Tell me if you want me to do more or not! Have a good day!