A Kind of Magic ? 1986
(1.6/5) Nearly one star.
7 ? Best Song: Pain is so Close to Pleasure
Ohh boy, what a shit! Magic? Yeah, it'd take a fucking mystical wizard to come up with something
as mindboggling and terrible as this album. Ugh, I hate being so rough when Works was so solid,
but this is a dip, the big dip, too. It's a bigger dip than from Day to News, and that's saying quite a
lot. What's wrong with it? It might as well not even be a Queen record. It sounds half like the
Temptations, half like Elton John's 1980's crap, and I'll throw it in there and say the electronic
recording techniques sucked the life out of everthing. I can't hum a single line, and the melodies
suck ass. It's much worse than Pink Floyd's biggest gaffes in the 1980's (mainly just Momentary
Lapse of Reason), which showcases both bands as meagerly paying tribute to their former selves.
'Pain is so Close to Pleasure' is the only immediately accessible song on here that doesn't make
you go screaming out of the room in a heated panic. I thought at the very least they'd hit me with
something memorable or stadium-ready, but it's more along the lines of thin adult contemporary
and new-soul. The overpowering synth washes are a predominate mark of the album as well, like
the opening and background to the vilely slow 'Who Wants to Live Forever', and the songs are
anemically empty. What a disgrace, friends.
Alitare |2/5 |
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