Will the new Queen album suck? Or rather, how badly will the new Queen album suck?

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Will the new Queen album suck? Or rather, how badly will the new Queen album suck?

September 2, 2008 5:46 p.m. by Ethan Stanislawski

So as much as some will hate the news of Queen releasing a post-Freddie Mercury album, the endeavor is somewhat inevitable. Despite particularly nasty reviews, the Queen jukebox musical We Will Rock You has been a smash success on London's West End for the past 6 years, and the former bandmembers (minus bassist John Deacon) have been performing with Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers in place of the dearly departed Mercury. With contemporaries of Queen from 70s such as The Stooges and New York Dolls recording new albums for the first time in decades, this seems only natural.

So, lo and behold, it is announced that the new Queen (labeled Queen + Paul Rodgers) will be coming out with a new album in October 28. The Cosmos Rocks, as it will be known, features the following painful track names (not ordered):

"C-Lebrity,"..."Say It's Not True,"..."Cosmos Rockin'," "Time To Shine," "Still Burnin'," "Small," "Warboys," "We Believe," "Call Me," "Voodoo," "Some Things That Glitter," "Through the Night" and "Surf's Up ... School's Out!"

A YouTuber has also posted a "video" of "Time to Shine," a new Queen song that was taken from the radio in the U.K.:

That sounds relatively benign, but at this point it's hard to distinguish Queen from their imitators. Frankly, we liked post-Queen Brian May better when he was hangin' around with Lemmy Kilmister.

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10 Responses

September 3, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

Bob

It will not suck at all. It will be great like all the other Queen albums.

September 4, 2008 at 9:01 a.m.

al murray

your magazine sucks queen rule

September 5, 2008 at 12:19 a.m.

Layla

They need to stop calling it Queen.

September 14, 2008 at 11:50 a.m.

sampson

queen rock! but without freddie mercury... well i dont know what it will be like. it sure as hell wont be queen. i guess it should sound okay, it just shouldnt be called queen!

September 15, 2008 at 9:02 a.m.

quella

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September 15, 2008 at 11:55 a.m.

Mr. Queen Fan

The last album of my favorite band is their masterpiece Innuendo, and Made In Heaven is a nice album with reworked material and a few unreleased songs. Queen was a band of four members, and with the dead of the lead singer in 1991 the story is over.

This crap is not Queen, is a NEW band of these old former members who refuse to accept that they are not Queen anymore, not without Freddie Mercury and John Deacon.

September 15, 2008 at 4:23 p.m.

Mike

I just got the new album and i love it i had to listen to it twice but the second time was better :) yea its not freddie but its not trying to be its rocky its fun and it rocks. im going to see them in november and cant wait. some nice guitar solos from brian and paul gives his on vocal sound to it bit more maybe country style but i think it works give it a chance guys before deciding its good or bad. and remember this whole queen thing maybe to do with something freddie said about carrying on after he died you never know there may be something else to it either way great album i highly recommend it and its better than whats in the british charts at the moment :)

September 16, 2008 at 8:20 a.m.

Daz H

Just bought the new album and no its not queen as we all know but rodger and brian want to carry on playing then so be it freddie can never be replaced we all know that and neither can john .. but as shown by the sell out crowds all over the place and esp in russia were there was 300.000 just shows the pulling power these guys still have!!! RIP freddie your a legend and your name and musice will never die. btw john for a knighthood!!!

September 20, 2008 at 12:12 p.m.

a singing sparrow

album is so so for me. definitely not a queen album.
PR has a good voice, but not for queen. queen were innovative, they were the future of rock music, he is its past.
love his powerful entrance in "say it's not true", but for the rest of the album, he's pretty boring and monotone.
and the songs which are supposed to rock in this album are so antiquated!
i've never been much of a FM's fan (i used to love Bri and Rog more!) until today - now i look back and understand who he was, and i badly miss him!

October 14, 2008 at 6:49 p.m.

hmm

I needed to vent about this, everyone says the word "rock" when refering to Queen this is a rock album it is not a Rock opera like queen used to be in fact overlooking the obvious fact freddie isnt in it anymore, this isnt even half as good as brian mays solo albums, where the hell are the really intricate guitar harmonies , hell where are the songs like "the show must go on" even the Queen songs I really hated off one of those early albums (you know which I mean) are better than this. its either boring as hell Rock 4/4 rubbish or uplifting save the world type crap, and Paul rodgers, if you have to use Melodyne (voice pitch correction) then get the f*** out of there, none of the others needed it. now I think I'm going to go cry because I wanted so much more, I couldve lived with the guys boring ass voice, if the music had been good, or even just a few decent guitar parts, Brian how could you, I even have your guitar!!