Modern Times Rock n' Roll
This song starts very fast, and... Holy shit, ROGER TAYLOR is singing! The song is... indescribable. I've heard the kind of song it is, but I can't for the life of me put it into words. Just... give it a listen.
Due to the state of the MP3s I'm listening to, I can't make out all the vocals. It seems to me that it's a fairly standard 70's rock song about being a chick magnet and speeding in your best car with the air conditioner on. Roger Taylor, I salute you.
Son and Daughter
This song is a bit slower and... well, heavier. It's what you'd expect 60's rock to sound like. I'm not sure who's singing, but I think it's Freddie. About 2 thirds in, things begin to speed up... And the song fades out. What the hell.
The song seems to be sung from a father's perspective, possibly about incest. To me, it sounds like a son and daughter's father finding out about their fling and having caught them on tape. Then it switchs to the father's perspective, saying he'd tried to teach them well, but had failed.
Jesus
This one starts fairly slowly, and it stays relatively peaceful and rhythmatic throughout the song until around 2 thirds in where everything just goes nuts. Think any band Epic Rocking, then imagine the Red Special doing it. It's beautiful.
The lyrics are fairly standard: Freddie sees Jesus in a crowd, where he's healing lepers and the like. A sick man rocks up, Jesus puts his hands on him and sends him off a new man. Then some of Jesus' backstory is told: It started with the 3 wise men who followed the star to Bethlehem. Then the epic rocking happens and Jesus' origins are recounted one last time.
Thoughts So Far: After the songs changing last time, the lack of change in these ones seemed a little jarring. I expected them, and I didn't get too many. Goddamnit boys, why do you troll me so? Still, I enjoyed these ones, and I was pleasantly surprised with 'Jesus'; I'm usually verhemently anti-religion, but the song they did wasn't too bad. It had a dash of Christianism, and most of it is public knowledge anyway (The guy healed people and was visited by 3 wise men, this stuff has been crammed into every major TV show of the last 30 years), which helped I guess.
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Final Album Thoughts: I felt that the album was excellent, being an amazing debut for an amazing band. The rock songs were great, the soft songs were... fairly few, to be honest. After all has been and done, I feel that this album deserves 7 stars out—
Wait.
What's this...? It's a short clip of... of a piano, bass guitar, lead guitar and drums rocking the hell out. This is "Seven Seas of Rhye"... And it's unfinished! FUCK YEAH, SEQUEL HOOK!
This band know how to keep a fan on their toes. Screw grading the albums, these guys cannot be graded. They break expectations and rise above to the top, destroying any lower band trying to take its royal place on the top of the music charts. I loved this album, and I'm looking forward to the other 14 albums they released during their run.
Next time, the much-anticipated sequel to Queen: Queen II! ...Wait, what?
