"Mahesh Murthy" wrote:
>
> Brian May said it earlier:
> http://www.queenwords.com/lyrics/songs/sng11_04.shtml
This thread inspired me to dig out Queen's _Jazz_ [1], the album
containing the above song. It's been in heavy rotation in my car for
the past couple of days. A brilliant and quirky album, well worth a
listen or several thousand. It contains several of Queen's most-loved
tracks, such as the abovementioned _Fat-Bottomed Girls_, _Bicycle
Race_, and _Don't Stop Me Now_.
A couple of things stand out for me on this album.
Firstly, it doesn't sound like an album. What I mean by this is that
the songs don't "hang together", as it were. They sound like a
collection of songs written at different times, without any musical,
lyrical or stylistic unifying theme. Don't get me wrong - I love all
the songs in this album, but I just don't think of them as a unified
whole. Queen was apparently exploring a wide variety of musical styles
in this album.
Secondly, there's a lot of sly wit in here - several songs provoking a
chuckle, or at times a startled guffaw. Examples: _Mustapha_, from its
opening notes sounding like a call to prayer from a mosque, to the
funk-disco of _Fun It_, to Freddie Mercury vamping it up in _Let Me
Entertain You_ ("I've come here to sell you my body / I can show you
some good merchandise")
All in all, a classic.
Udhay
[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000OAH
