Brighton Rock
The song begins with carnival music, oddly enough. Before long, you begin to hear May's guitar... and he really shows his chops, the way he opens the song. The whole affair moves pretty fast, with drums and guitar. Soon, it shifts to a slower part... but then it shifts into a very fast drum beat, and Brian May begins riffing like a goddamn madman. Before long, it shifts again... into a bridge, leading into Brian May playing some of the fastest notes of his career so far. This thing shifts more than 2 obese children on a see-saw. At one point, it sounds like there's a phone ringing! He slows down not too long after... then he picks up a little, with some faint playing. Afterwards, everything goes back to normal, but with Brian doing his thing in the background... THEN ANOTHER SHIFT into what sounds like early Rhythm and Blues (none of that Rn B crap).
Overall, it sounds like a love story between a girl named Jenny and a boy named Jimmy. Freddie does both voices, with Jenny being a high falsetto and Jimmy being a bit deeper. It looks like Jenny needs to leave Jimmy, because all hell will break loose if she finds out what's going on. Then it looks like Jimmy regretting his loss and wishing she'd come back.After a good 2-3 minutes of straight riffing from Brian May, the lyrics pick back up: Jenny does love him, and she writes a letter to him every day. It looks like Jimmy's moved on since then, doing something or other on his holidays.
Killer Queen
(Let's be honest: if you're reading this, you've probably heard Killer Queen. We all know just how it sounds, we all know the lyrics. This isn't a song I'd ever call my favorite. I'll be giving it a basic skim-over, but I won't go into detail too much.)
This one starts off with a chintzy piano, but the others come in and give it a really... "warm" feel, for lack of a better word. The vocal harmonizing sounds cool, as if they've been fed into a synth (which we all know is impossible, they were synth-free until the 80's). Everyone keeps their pacing, and the song is rather slow. Everything sounds similar, Brian May's solo even sounds just like a verse of the song. the second part of it did sound kinda cool, admittedly. Near the end, there's a creative use of what sounds like charms.
The song's lyric consists of Freddie singing about the "Killer Queen". Basically, she's a fancy woman who sounds like she comes from royalty. In fact, she comes off as royalty, as he mentions her being like Marie Antoinette, and speaking like a baroness. Overall, he spends the song just raving about this unrealistic woman while everyone else plays a slow, boring beat.
Tenement Funster
This one starts off with steely guitar notes, and then suddenly A WILD ROGER TAYLOR APPEARS. Despite his earlier songs, this song is rather slow and somber. Once again, the beat is rather repetitive, but there's some soaring guitar around the middle of the song, if that.
This song seems to be about a performer doing shows at gatherings and the such. He says how lucky he is with the girls, and how they all line up to be with him. The chorus is basically about how awesome he is with both guitars and women. Then he goes on about he likes the good things in life, but most of the good stuff is free... but it looks like he's gotten himself into quite a predicament. Still... Roger Taylor, I salute you.
Flick Of The Wrist
Tenement Funster leads right into this one, which starts with a fun little jingle to it. This soon degenerates into a slow paced song which sounds like it's leading a bunch of zombies in a march, sadly. The song becomes rather plain while Freddie's singing, but soon it picks up, and the instruments and voices really do work together. May's solo is fairly short, ending way too quick.
The first few lyrics... honestly, don't make much sense. It looks like The Devil or some asshole is seducing this girl named Disco Kate. Indeed, it sounds like a manipulative asshole has gotten into Kate's head. The guy has some connection with prostitutes too, I think... Next, it goes into the guy's point of view, saying he's been earning money ("saying"), but she won't accept him... It's around here when I realized she was the prostitute. Anywho, the song ends mid-sentence, because it leads into the next song.
Next time, I'll be doing "Lily Of The Valley" and "Now I'm Here", because I forgot to take the number of songs on each side into account.
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