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Queen: The Works

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Label: Parlophone Records
Released: 1984
Time:
 55:09
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.queen-fip.com
Appears with: Brian May, Roger Taylor,  Freddie Mercury
Purchase date: 2006.04.12
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] Radio Ga Ga (R.Taylor) - 5:49
[2] Tear It Up (B.May) - 3:28
[3] It's a Hard Life (F.Mercury) - 4:08
[4] Man on the Prowl (F.Mercury) - 3:28
[5] Machines [Back to Humans] (B.May/R.Taylor) - 5:10
[6] I Want to Break Free (J.Deacon) - 3:20
[7] Keep Passing the Open Windows (F.Mercury) - 5:21
[8] Hammer to Fall (B.May) - 4:28
[9] Is This the World We Created...? (B.May/F.Mercury) - 2:13

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Freddie Mercury - Piano, Vocals, Producer
Brian May - Banjo, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
Roger Taylor - Drums, Vocals, Producer
John Deacon - Bass, Guitar, Producer

Fred Mandel - Synthesizer, Piano
Mack - Demolition fairlight programming


Josh MacRae - Producer, Engineer
Michael Beiriger - Engineer

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1984 LP EMI 1
1990 CD Capitol ST-12322
1990 LP Capitol 12322
1993 CD Elektra 61233
2004 CD Toshiba 67351



Following the disappointing commercial performance of the dance-oriented Hot Space in 1982, Queen took 1983 off to get refocused and work on a follow-up that would put the band back on track. While the songwriting had definitely improved on the resulting The Works in 1984, the album sonically lacked the punch of such earlier releases as News of the World and The Game (strangely, Hot Space even had a better overall sound). Although the album only peaked at number 23 on the U.S. album charts, it was a Top Ten hit in just about every other area of the world, producing the huge single "Radio Ga Ga." Three other tracks were hits in Queen's native England -- the uplifting "I Want to Break Free," the love song "It's a Hard Life," and the politically conscious rocker "Hammer to Fall," which dealt with the danger of nuclear weapons. Other highlights included the '50s-sounding "Man on the Prowl," the electronic experiment "Machines," the thunderous "Tear It Up," and a touching acoustic ballad, "Is This the World We Created...?" Perhaps with a more straight-ahead production (and a U.S. tour), The Works would have landed Queen back on the top of the charts stateside. [The 1991 CD reissue appended three bonus tracks: "I Go Crazy" and extended versions of "Radio Ga Ga" and "I Want to Break Free."]

Greg Prato - All Music Guide



Flash Gordon (´80) und Hot Space (´82) waren für Queen-Verhältnisse erschreckend schwach ausgefallen, und so lastete auf den Briten bei den Aufnahmen zu The Works (´84) ein enormer Erfolgsdruck. Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon und Roger Taylor schafften es allerdings relativ souverän, sich endlich mal wieder hochkarätige Songs aus den Hirnwindungen zu leiern und ihre Fans wieder ein wenig zu versöhnen. Jahrhundertalben wie A Night At The Opera (´75) oder A Day At The Races (´76) bleiben zwar unerreicht, mit "Hammer To Fall", "It´s A Hard Life", "I Want To Break Free" und der sehr simpel gestrickten Hitsingle "Radio Ga Ga", die in 19 Ländern die Pole Position der Charts belegte, sind aber genügend kompositorische Highlights am Start, um von einem gutklassigen Queen-Album sprechen zu können. Die vier Briten rocken endlich wieder unbeschwert drauflos, ohne sich dem immer noch schwelenden Disco-Trend anzubiedern. Queen-Altfans dürften mit The Works auf jeden Fall wieder etwas anfangen können.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de



Radio Gaga," the single that opens up the new Queen album, is another instant jewel in Queen's Top Forty crown. It's one more anthemic lament to that overfamiliar icon, sung and played with Queenly overkill in "Deutschland Uber Alles" style by a group that did its share to corrupt the airwaves in the Seventies. This slab of false pomp aside, the rest of The Works – surprise, surprise – ain't half bad. Disregarding a best-of, a soundtrack, one single made with David Bowie and the obligatory solo projects, this is the glitter-rock band's first real album in some time. And rather than move in ever-widening spirals of bombast, they've trimmed a lot of the excess – mainly, the fat vibrato of Brian May's multitracked guitars and Freddie Mercury's overdubbed tabernacle choir of vocal effects. What's left is a lean hard-rock sound, making The Works perhaps the first record to refute the maxim that the words Queen and listenable are, of necessity, mutually exclusive. Granted, the messages have all been heard before and practically cancel each other out: love is all you need; let's get physical; machines have feelings, too; be an individual, stand your ground. Instead, the revelations are in the music. For the carnivorous, rewards are to be found in the thundering Led Zeppelinisms of "Tear It Up" and "Hammer to Fall"; for the doubters, the surprises are in the comely melody and (relative) restraint of "Keep Passing the Open Windows" and the straight-up Fifties rocking of "Man on the Prowl." And try this one our on the atheists: "Is This the World We Created...?" is an acoustic meditation on hunger and hate and generational responsibility, sung with conviction by Mercury. This unanticipated humanitarianism is the perfect grace note to the preceding thrash-fest. The Works is a royal feast of hard rock without that awful metallic aftertaste; as such, it might turn out to be the Led Zeppelin II of the Eighties. Not so depressing a prospect at that.

PARKE PUTERBAUGH - Rolling Stone (RS 419)
 

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Radio Ga Ga

I'd sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio
You gave them all those old time stars
Through wars of worlds - invaded by Mars
You made 'em laugh - you made 'em cry
You made us feel like we could fly

So don't become some background noise
A backdrop for the girls and boys
Who just don't know or just don't care
And just complain when you're not there
You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio

All we hear is Radio ga-ga
Radio goo-goo, Radio ga-ga
All we hear is Radio ga-ga, Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?, Radio someone still loves you

We watch the shows - we watch the stars
On videos for hours and hours
We hardly need to use our ears
How music changes through the years
Let's hope you never leave old friend
Like all good things on you we depend
So stick around because we might miss you
When we grow tired of all this visual
You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio

All we hear is Radio ga-ga
Radio goo-goo, Radio ga-ga
All we hear is Radio ga-ga
Radio goo-goo, Radio ga-ga
All we hear is Radio ga-ga, Radio blah blah
Radio what's new? Someone still loves you
Radio ga-ga, Radio ga-ga
Radio ga-ga, Radio
You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio


Tear It Up

Are you ready? - well are you ready?
We're gonna tear it up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Give me your mind baby give me your body
Give me some time baby let's have a party
It ain't no time for sleeping baby
Soon it's round your street I'm creeping
You'd better be ready

We gonna Tear it up, Stir it up, Break it up - baby
You gonna Tear it up, Shake it up, Make it up - as you go along
Tear it up, Square it up, Wake it up - baby
Tear it up, Stir it up, Stake it out - and you can't go wrong

(Hey listen)
I love you because you're sweet and I love you because you're naughty
I love you for your mind baby give me your body
I wanna be a toy at your birthday party
Wind me up - wind me up - wind me up - let me go

Tear it up, Stir it up, Break it up - let me go
Tear it up, Shake it up, Make it up - as you go along
Tear it up, Turn it up, Burn it up

Are you ready?(Oh yeah)
Baby, baby, baby, are you ready for me?(Oh yeah)
Baby baby baby are you ready for love?(Oh yeah)
Are you ready - are you ready - are you ready for me?(Oh yeah)
I love you so near I love you so far
I gotta tell you baby you're driving me Ga Ga


It's A Hard Life

I don't want my freedom
There's no reason for living with a broken heart
This is a tricky situation, I've only got myself to blame
It's just a simple fact of life, It can happen to anyone
You win - you lose
It's a chance you have to take with love
Oh yeah - I fell in love
And now you say it's over and I'm falling apart

It's a hard life, to be true lovers together
To love and live forever in each others hearts
It's a long hard fight, to learn to care for each other
To trust in one another right from the start
When you're in love

I try and mend the broken pieces, I try to fight back the tears
They say it's just a state of mind, But it happens to everyone
How it hurts - deep inside
When your love has cut you down to size
Life is tough - on your own
Now I'm waiting for something to fall from the skies
And I'm waiting for love

Yes it's a hard life, two lovers together
To love and live forever in each others hearts
It's a long hard fight, to learn to care for each other
To trust in one another - right from the start
When you're in love

Yes it's a hard life
In a world that's filled with sorrow
There are people searching for love in every way
It's a long hard fight, But I'll always live for tomorrow
I'll look back on myself and say I did it for love
Yes I did it for love (for love) oh I did it for love


Man On The Prowl

I'm gonna take a little walk on the wild side
I'm gonna loosen up and get me some gas
I'm gonna get me some action, go crazy driving is the fast lane
My baby left me alone
She done me dirty and I'm feeling so lonely
So come home, come home
If you don't you're gonna break my heart

Man on the prowl, you'd better watch out
I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
So look out (yeah, yeah) - look out (yeah, yeah)
I'm a man on the prowl

I don't wanna be a rock'n'roll steady
I just wanna be low down trash
I wanna go to the movies, all I wanna do is sit on my ass
So honey come home (come home, come home)
Don't leave me when I'm feeling so lonely
Come home (yeah, yeah) - come home (yeah, yeah)
If you don't you're gonna break my heart

Man on the prowl, You'd better watch out
I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
So look out (yeah, yeah) - look out (yeah, yeah)
Because I'm a man on the prowl

Well I keep dreaming about my baby
But it ain't gonna get me nowhere
I'm gonna teach my baby dancing
But I ain't no Fred Astaire

So baby look out - I'm a man on the prowl
Look out - man on the prowl - yeah!
Baby, baby, baby look out - man on the prowl

So baby come home
I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
Baby come home - oh yeah!
Because I'm a man on the prowl
So honey come home - come home
Because I'm a man on the prowl - yeah!
Man on the prowl


Machines (or Back To Humans)

Machines...
It's a machines world, Don't tell me I ain't got no soul
When the machines take over, It ain't no place for rock and roll
They tell me I don't care, But deep inside I'm just a man
They freeze me, they burn me, They squeeze me, they stress me
With smoke blackened pistons of steel they compress me
But no-one, but no-one but, no-one can wrest me away
Back to humans

We have no disease no trouble of mind
No thank you or please no regard for the time
We never cry we never retreat
We have no conception of love or defeat

What's that machine noise? It's bytes and megachips for tea
It's that machine boys, With random access memory
Never worry, never mind, Not for money not for gold
Its software, is hardware, its heartbeat, is time-share
Its midwife's a disc drive, its sex life, is quantised
It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised
Back to humans, Back to humans
Back to machines

Machines...
Living in a new world, Thinking in the past
Living in a new world, How you gonna last?
Machine world, Back to humans
It's a machines world, Thinking in the past (back to humans)
Living in a new world, How you gonna last?
Machine world, It's a machine's world
Back to humans, Living in a new world
How you gonna last? Machine world
It's a machine's world


I Want To Break Free

I want to break free, I want to break free
I want to break free from your lies
You're so self satisfied I don't need you
I've got to break free
God knows, God knows I want to break free

I've fallen in love
I've fallen in love for the first time
And this time I know it's for real
I've fallen in love, yeah
God knows, God knows I've fallen in love
It's strange but it's true
I can't get over the way you love me like you do
But I have to be sure, When I walk out that door
Oh how I want to be free baby, Oh how I want to be free
Oh how I want to break free

But life still goes on
I can't get used to living without, living without
Living without you by my side
I don't want to live alone, hey
God knows got to make it on my own
So baby can't you see, I've got to break free
I've got to break free, I want to break free, yeah
I want, I want, I want, I want to break free....


Keep Passing The Open Windows

This is the only life for me
Surround myself around my own fantasy
You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
Forget all the sadness cos' love is all you need
Love is all you need

Do you know what it's like to be alone in this world
When you're down and out on your luck and you're a failure?
Wake up screaming in the middle of the night
You think it's all been a waste of time, It's been a bad year
You start believing everything's gonna be alright
Next minute you're down and you're flat on your back
A brand new day is beginning
Get that sunny feeling and you're on your way

Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows

Do you know how it feels when you don't have a friend
Without a job and no money to spend?, You're a stranger
All you think about is suicide
One of these days you're gonna lose the fight
You'd better keep out of danger - yeah!
That same old feeling just keeps burning deep inside
Keep telling yourself it's gonna be the end
Oh get yourself together, Things are looking better everyday

Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows

This is the only life for me
Surround myself around my own fantasy
You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
Forget all the sadness because love is all you need
Love is all you need

Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
Forget all the sadness because love is all you need - yeah
Love is all you need, Baby - love is all you need
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
Just keep passing the open windows...


Hammer To Fall

Here we stand or here we fall, History won't care at all
Make the bed light the light, Lady Mercy won't be home tonight, yeah
You don't waste no time at all
Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
It comes to you as to us all
We're just waiting for the hammer to fall

Oh every night and every day, A little piece of you is falling away
But lift your face the Western Way, Build your muscles as your body decays, yeah
Toe your line and play their game, yeah
Let the anaesthetic cover it all
Till one day they call your name
You know it's time for the hammer to fall

Rich or poor or famous, For your truth it's all the same (oh no, oh no)
Lock your door the rain is pouring through your window pane (oh no)
Baby now your struggle's all in vain

For we who grew up tall and proud, In the shadow of the mushroom cloud
Convinced our voices can't be heard, We just wanna scream it louder, and louder, louder
What the hell we fighting for?
Just surrender and it won't hurt at all
You just got time to say your prayers
While your waiting for the hammer to, hammer to fall

It's gonna fall
Hammer..you know..hammer to fall
Waiting for the hammer to fall, now baby
While you're waiting for the hammer to fall

Give it to me one more time!


Is This The World We Created

Just look at all those hungry mouths we have to feed
Take a look at all the suffering we breed
So many lonely faces scattered all around
Searching for what they need

Is this the world we created?, What did we do it for?
Is this the world we invaded, against the law?
So it seems in the end, Is this what we're all living for today?
The world that we created

You know that every day a helpless child is born
Who needs some loving care inside a happy home
Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne
Waiting for life to go by

Is this the world we created?, We made it on our own
Is this the world we devastated, right to the bone?
If there's a God in the sky looking down
What can he think of what we've done
To the world that He created?


I Go Crazy

I took my baby dancing, to see a heavy band
But I never saw my baby 'til the encore
She had the singer by the hand
I didn't wanna cry because I had to be cool
I didn't wanna tell you that you're much too cruel
Did you have to run off with that doggone fool...

All I gotta do is think about you
Every night and day I go crazy
All I gotta do is get my hands on you
You better stay away from me baby...

I wouldn't mind the postman, if the neighbours didn't know
Or the gas man,electric man,man to fix the car
I'd have to let it go
But you had to bring me down for a rock'n'roll clone
Leave me like a sucker standing all alone
Did you have to run off with that rolling stone?
Go ahead fool

All I gotta do is think about you
Every night and day I go crazy
All I gotta do is get my hands on you
You better stay away from me baby.

So I ain't gonna go and see the Rolling Stones, no more
I don't wanna go and see Queen no more, no more
I ain't gonna go and see the Rolling Stones, no more
I don't wanna go and see Queen no more, no more

Now I don't wanna hurt you, like you been a-hurting me
But you know I'll be watching
Rolling on the floor next time you're on TV
Had enough of your pretending that you know where it's at
Coming on to all the boys like a real spoilt brat
To think I nearly let you get away with all that
No way man

All I gotta do is think about you
Every night and day I go crazy
All I gotta do is get my hands on you
You better stay away from me baby
Oooh you'd better stay away from me baby
Baby, baby, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy...

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