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QUEEN II

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alainPP
3 stars the 2nd to advance in extravagant glam rock, a place of debauchery and musical creation, that makes me think of a guitarist of the moment!!

The white side...yes think about the two future albums! 1. Procession ... the instrumental, the premonitory procession of the future accession of the group quite simply, very British of course 2. Father To Son for one of the 2 longest titles; the typical drums of the time, Brian has already finished the break-in; the WHO yes again for the lively flayed sound of 'Tommy', after stop listen to this guitar solo drift, the sound is violent, fat, swirling; he is! The angelic break which no longer has anything to do with rock or hard rock; Freddie with his voice amplifies this estravagant side (yes I won't say glam there), a musical slap 3. White Queen (As It Began) follows, yes a sign that we were already on a prog note; the arpeggio, the spleen sound, the romantic bluesy rock atmosphere, colorful zaniness that breathes and these choirs and this rise; majestic because it did not yet exist before, they inscribed it in our memory; Freddie sings sweet, sad, focused; the oriental oriented solo that melts, yes the beginnings of a large group are well established 4. Some Day One Day for a pop rock song title that goes everywhere, more pop ballad with a latent air 5. Loser In The End with the recognizable drum beat, the saturated guitar, an ersatz of the masters LED ZEPPELIN again, for an electrified rock title

-The Side Black from the time when we got up to change our face... 6. Ogre Battle with the emerging madness of QUEEN, energy, power, dithyrambic choruses, a hard break flirting with heavy dinos, a heavy word that will come much later in fact and a guitar sound that goes into all directions, a proto QUEEN glam full of madness and Brian who instills a heavy riff whatever anyone says 7. Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke for the moment prog, it smelled far away, here we go: crazy bucolic air, a charisma label sound with the madness of the voice supplanting the instrument and vice versa; choirs of angels who do battle with Freddie, for a maelstrom which engages the following title 8. Nevermore with the angelic ballad, a sort of grandiloquent opera slow on the piano, we feel the concept before its time, we feel the desire to go further, further and 9. March Of The Black Queen arrives with the markers of the said group: choirs, vocals, classical piano, greasy and bucolic guitar, air which leaves on a prog space ... before the hour; because yes here it is a twirling rock musical band, it is above all a catch-all which will later come out better placed; 3 minutes and the spread out your wings which takes me to the other spread your wings... there are links; this title is baroque, crazy creative, it creates the musical illumination that will make them play and be considered apart; a title that is difficult to translate, a bohemian before its time for me until the outro 10. Funny How Love Is continues with the final title, a sort of repetition of the stamped sound, an anthem worthy of a convoluted FLEETWOOD MAC, pop folk song to be repeated in chorus, in short unique and singular 11. Seven Seas Of Rhye for the real finale that I had on the QUEEN 'I' already; a repeat then... at first I thought it was to perfect the recording and get to 40', I thought it came from the K7, yes a pirate which came from Indonesia copied individually... how innocent one can be when one is young! Short!

alainPP | 3/5 |

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