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Rating: In 1991, Queen released their last work, "Innuendo". An album much loved, but perhaps not enough. If you took 100 people for a survey on what the best Queen album is, "A Night at the Opera" would surely win. But, if they were to ask me which is the best, I would answer "Innuendo" without any doubt.
Queen worked on this album knowing that it was probably going to be Freddie Mercury's last work. The band therefore committed themselves to make this record great. And the result is remarkable, both for Freddie's great voice and for some historic tracks. It starts with the epic "Innuendo" (for me the best song ever recorded by Queen), a tour de force that fuses rock, opera, Spanish music, and a superb vocal performance by Freddie. The album then alternates extremely rock moments ("Headlong", "Ride the Wild Wind"), ironic moments ("Delilah", "The Hitman"), and touching songs (the ballad "These Are the Days of Our Lives" and the epic closing with "The Show Must Go on").
For me, the album is superior to "A Night at the Opera" for several reasons: the album is more complete musically and there are fewer low points. Every song plays its good part in the album (except, perhaps, "Bijou") and the album assumes an important significance because the band KNEW it would most likely be Freddie's last record. The best way, for a complete artist like Freddie Mercury, to close his career, regardless of everything, of pains and prejudices. Because, in the end, "The Show Must Go on".
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Innuendo (06:32)
While the sun hangs in the sky and the desert has sand
While the waves crash in the sea and meet the land
While there's a wind and the stars and the rainbow
Till the mountains crumble into the plain
Oh yes we'll keep on tryin'
Tread that fine line
Oh we'll keep on tryin' - yeah
Just passing our time
While we live according to race, colour or creed
While we rule by blind madness and pure greed
Our lives dictated by tradition, superstition, false religion
Through the eons, and on and on
Oh yes we'll keep on tryin'
We'll tread that fine line
Oh oh we'll keep on tryin'
Till the end of time
Till the end of time
Through the sorrow all through our splendour
Don't take offence at my innuendo
You can be anything you want to be
Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be
Be free with your tempo be free be free
Surrender your ego - be free be free to yourself
Oooh, ooh -
If there's a God or any kind of justice under the sky
If there's a point, if there's a reason to live or die
If there's an answer to the questions we feel bound to ask
Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask
Oh yes we'll keep on trying
Hey tread that fine line
Yeah we'll keep on smiling yeah (yeah yeah yeah)
And whatever will be - will be
We'll just keep on trying
We'll just keep on trying
Till the end of time
Till the end of time
Till the end of time
02 Bijou (03:36)
Words and music by Queen
You and me we are destined you'll agree
To spend the rest of our lives with each other
The rest of our days like two lovers
For ever
Yeah
For ever
My bijou
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By WalterTenio016
"In six minutes, Queen unleashed a firepower of rare intensity, overwhelming the listener in front of a firing squad."
"At the end of the video, the singer stares at the camera, looks the listener in the eyes, and whispers 'I still love you.'"
By Bromike
We lost not just a pianist, nor a singer, but a legend, an example for any musician.
'The Show Must Go On' makes you jump from your seat and sing, voices like Mercury's are born very rarely.
