Talk:The Game (album)

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[edit] Genre

It says hard rock now. Please tell me what song on this (shitty) album that is hard rock. As far as I'm concered, it's like this:

  • Play the Game = Ballad
  • Dragon Attack = Funk rock / Hard rock (Okay..)
  • Another One Bites the Dust = Funk rock
  • Need Your Loving Tonight = Power pop
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love = Rockabilly
  • Rock It = Rock and roll
  • Don't Try Suicide = Pop
  • Sail Away Sweet Sister = Ballad
  • Coming Soon = Pop rock
  • Save Me = Ballad

So, where's the "hard rock"? Sure, Dragon Attack is heavy, but it's the bass that does that. And A Night at the Opera ain't a folk rock album just because of '39. Or can't we add ragtime on Sheer Heart Attack? I mean, it got Bring Back That Leroy Brown. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gustav Lindwall (talk • contribs) 13:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC).

If you mean a song that is completely within the "hard rock" genre, then I would agree with you and say there are none to be heard here. However, Queen was known for genre-jumping within a single song...so portions of songs on this album are hard rock all the way. For example, the heavy parts of "Play The Game" (i.e. right before the solo), the electric guitar solo section of "Save Me," as well as the harmony guitar choir that ends the solo in "Don't Try Suicide."
While I agree with you that it is a very somber album when compared to Jazz or News Of The World, it isn't right to call this album shitty. I consider each Queen album to be a treasure. None are alike, but all are valuable and not trash...heck, I even like Hot Space! Brian May has said in interviews that this album reflected a very dark time in the band's history. He says they went to Munich to record this album and to try to escape the partying and the drugs, and to make a solid album, but those problems ended up intensifying. This was around the time that Brian's first marriage collapsed, and Freddie contracted HIV. 65.248.164.214 (talk)

[edit] Save Me

Save me is absent in the singles' list. It should be added, this is not a list about the US only.VincentG 04:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dragon Attack

Could we get this song as a seperate page and put a stub on it? There are more things that could be added on to it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bansidh (talk • contribs) 17:18, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

I think only singles should get seperate pages (apart from "'39" and "Stone Cold Crazy"). --Candyfloss 19:26, 25 August 2007 (UTC)