Queen

Innuendo - Parlophone 1991

Tracks: 1. 1. Innuendo / 2. I'm Going Slightly Mad / 3. Headlong / 4. I Can't Live With You / 5. Don't Try So Hard / 6. Ride The Wild Wind / 7. All God's People / 8. These Are The Days Of Our Lives / 9. Delilah / 10. Hitman / 11. Bijou / 12. Show Must Go On

Comments:

"Innuendo" was the last album Queen released while Freddie Mercury was still alive. Nine months after its release, he died of complications related to his AIDS disease. Musically, the album is in some sense a return to Queen's roots, with its harder rock sound, complex musical compositions and psychedelic effects. On some tracks you may feel a slightly weakened Mercury, but as always stands strongly in the overall picture.

As usual, Freddie Mercury and Brian May are responsible for most of the songwriting, but Roger Taylor contributes to three songs, including not least the melodically very catchy "These Are the Days of Our Lives" – perhaps my favourite song on the album. 2-3 tracks are fairly ordinary rockers, such as"Headlong" and "The Hitman". The opening and closing tracks "Innuendo" and "The Show Must Go On" written by Mercury / Taylor and Brian May, respectively, are the most ambitious musically - related to the classic "Bohemian Rhapsody". - Both highlights. Moreover, Mercury's "I'm Going Slightly Mad" and "Don't Try So Hard" are really fine - typical Mercury tracks - charming and melodic.

Apart from "The Show Must Go On", Brian May's songs are not particularly memorable, but nevertheless "Innuendo" is a solid and worthy goodbye from the group.

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