KindOfBlue

@ negative: I agree with the personal talk, but I was referring to a fact I've noticed in almost all the discussions I've participated in. Many people I talk to always say "I started listening to Queen, now I hate them" or "I started with Queen, now I listen to other stuff." The worst is that everyone has gone through them.

Anyway, I give the album a 3 because I've never liked live albums. :)

@ negative: Brian May may not be art, but there have certainly been and still are guitarists with speed and technique bordering on superhuman, almost like a Nietzschean Uebermensch, who ultimately express nothing new or exciting: Ok, music is mainly emotion, because if you don't feel it inside, it's neither music nor art, it's just a chord like A min 5+ or something like that, but pairing music, or rather emotions, with good technique is not a bad thing at all, and I believe Brian May is not all that speedy or technical; he stands right in the middle between virtuosic trash (see Petrucci, Buckethead) and the "epic" guitarist (see Page, Clapton), epic because with HIS technique he has managed to enter history (evidenced by the fact that Frank Zappa congratulated Brian May once, ipse dixit...), disgusting because the excessive commercialization that has been done (and that they themselves do) of Queen is nothing short of horrendous. To make a long story short, Queen are neither an extremely important band nor a completely useless one, and, like Brian May with his technique, they have brought a commercial and (a bit) artistic innovation to rock. Personally, I have always recommended Queen to anyone who wanted to start listening to music; I went through the same phase because they are a band that "opens doors." Surely, those who speak too highly of them are overly passionate fans, and those who speak too poorly are overly critical critics (XD) against Queen's music. If I hadn’t started listening to Queen, I wouldn’t have known David Bowie, and thus Brian Eno, and then Roxy Music, Velvet Underground, Doors, etc., without continuing an eternal connection of bands and musicians. In mediis stat virtus, the ancients used to say; then, he who lives will see.

A gracious yet soporific record, good review.

Come on, don’t tease him poor thing, he’s just getting started (in the meantime I’ll give you a 5 so you stop bothering me with this 0 issue) let him toughen up...

Very nice review, but I can't vote for the album because, having it, I still don't have the "courage" to listen to it properly... I happened to listen to Le Petit Chevalier one night when I couldn't sleep and... well... I got scared. :)

I've been listening to Queen since I was 8 years old, but I’ve never considered this album as something epic; it’s a good commercial product for sure, with some songs that can (and have) marked the history of Queen, but to call it one of their best albums? No, I don't agree. And I don't agree either on The Game, which is subject to the same remarks as A Kind Of Magic; perhaps because I'm too attached to the first 6 albums of the band. P.S.: the title is "Pain Is So CLOSE To Pleasure" anyway :P

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Great album, good review.

Poor thing (I mean Pinochet!), we will miss his exterminations... here goes another great pro-American dictator leaving us, only Berlusconi is left.