QUEEN

The first Queen album was rudimentary and blunt: it didn't have many repercussions when it was released, and even nowadays (with all the fame Queen has) it is not a very much appreciated production. Only Keep Yourself Alive and the instrumental Seven Seas of Rhye (whose lyrics were later incorporated, in Queen II) achieved a certain degree of notoriety. And probably that style so contrasted with their later works, much more produced and full of textures and sound layers pushed to the limit of the technical capabilities of recording studios, is what gives Queen I that little identification with the rest of their discography.

Nevertheless, it is without a doubt an excellent album. Queen I is deeply related to the heavy rock genre that dominated the early 70's musical trend. Its songs, with their powerful guitar riffs, deliver a mass of energy just like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. The aforementioned Keep yourself alive and the eagers Great King Rat, My Fairy King, Liar, Modern Times of Rock and Roll, and Father and Son, are a proof of it.

On the other hand they also give us glimpses of his sensitivity and versatility that is to come, with the beautiful and changing Doing All Right, or the intense and interesting reference to the biblical Jesus, in the song that bears his name.

Queen I is an album that in my opinion deserves to be accommodated within the rest of the group's legacy, which at that time was in search of its own sound and place in the world of rock.