Queen II | Sheer Heart Attack | A Night at the Opera | A Day at the Races | News of the World | Jazz
The Game | Hot Space | The Works | A Kind of Magic | The Miracle | Innuendo
- Americans Hate Tingle: While the disco song "Another One Bites the Dust" became a hit single despite being released at the height of the American Disco Sucks movement, the decision to make a full album based around the sound garnered especially large amounts of backlash in the United States, where audiences for the album's supporting tour harassed the band with "Disco Sucks" banners. Queen would never play in America again until 2003. This backlash set the stage for a sharp and prolonged decline in popularity that the band would never truly recover from until after Freddie Mercury's death.
- Broken Base: Some fans praise the album for its production, vocal harmonies, and willingness to try something different and transcend musical boundaries. Alternatively, it's hated and considered to be below to the band's standards, mainly because of the use of synthesized bass and drum machines and the fact that Brian May's guitar is essentially Demoted to Extra. This sentiment even extends to the band themselves: John Deacon was the one who pushed the band towards synths, as both he and Freddie Mercury were very interested in the funk and dance music they heard in American clubs. May and Taylor, on the other hand, viewed the entire project as a mistake, and the fact that they are for all intents and purposes Queen in the twenty-first century may have influenced the album's status as the black sheep of the catalogue.
- Just Here for Godzilla: Multiple reviewers noted that "Under Pressure" is typically the only reason that most people checked out and remember the album. This got so prominent that the song was included as a bonus track on the 1995 reissue of David Bowie's better-regarded album Let's Dance, and it remains a staple of both artists' Greatest Hits Albums to this day.
- One-Scene Wonder: David Bowie joining up for "Under Pressure", generally regarded as one of the best musical collaborations of all time.
- Signature Song: "Under Pressure" is the best-known song from the album, to the point where most people bought Hot Space solely because the track was on it, and it remains one of the most popular tracks in both Queen and David Bowie's catalogs.
