Wednesday 17 September 2008

Music

The Cosmos Rocks by Queen + Paul Rodgers
Finally, it has arrived -- and it's brilliant. Hurrah! Packed with variety in a way only Queen seem to know how to do -- especially these days, when the first-listen of a new album often sounds like the same track played 10 times on loop. Stand out tracks for me (after one listen, mind) were:
  • Cosmos Rockin' -- a great opener; should've been the single, if you ask me
  • Time to Shine
  • Small
  • Call Me -- very different to the rest (a comment that could be used for several songs, but none more so than this)
  • Say It's Not True -- released as a free single last year, it's still a great song.
  • That's just picking five from 14, mind, as I could also have mentioned Warboys, We Believe, Some Things That Glitter, C-lebrity, and Surf's Up... School's Out! The weakest moment, I thought, was track 3, Still Burnin'. It's by no means a bad song, but it suffers from poor placement -- too similar in theme to track 1, it would've been more effective as the final or penultimate track.
    Still, these are minor gripes with an otherwise wonderful piece of work. Hurray!

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