The Game
| The Game | ||||||||||
|
CD - USA - 2011 remaster. |
||||||||||
|
The Game is the eighth studio album by Queen released on 1980-06-30 and produced by Queen and Reinhold Mack. Like with previous albums, this one shows a clear evolution of the band's sound by not only expanding into new genres like rockabilly and funk, but also from adding a previously vilified synthesizer to their list of instruments.
Contents
Personal
| Own? | Yes. US vinyl, Hollywood Records CD, original master in the Crown Jewels. |
|---|
I bought this album later into my obsession with the band. I had already heard Another One Bites the Dust from the radio, and Play the Game, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and Save Me from compilation albums, but the rest of the album was new to me. Need Your Loving Tonight became an anthem of mine for awhile, and I enjoyed the record as a whole, but a couple of the tracks like Don't Try Suicide and Coming Soon never really grew on me.
Track Listing
| Track | Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | Rank | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Play the Game | Freddie Mercury | Freddie Mercury | 4 | 
|
| A2 | Dragon Attack | Brian May | Freddie Mercury | 8 | 
|
| A3 | Another One Bites the Dust | John Deacon | Freddie Mercury | 5 |
|
| A4 | Need Your Loving Tonight | John Deacon | Freddie Mercury | 7 |
|
| A5 | Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Freddie Mercury | Freddie Mercury | 2 | 
|
| B1 | Rock It (Prime Jive) | Roger Taylor | Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury | 6 |
|
| B2 | Don't Try Suicide | Freddie Mercury | Freddie Mercury | 10 | 
|
| B3 | Sail Away Sweet Sister | Brian May | Brian May, Freddie Mercury | 3 |
|
| B4 | Coming Soon | Roger Taylor | Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor | 9 | 
|
| B5 | Save Me | Brian May | Freddie Mercury | 1 | 
|
The album's total score is 650.
Media
When EMI released their CD version they used black text and a different photo from the same photo shoot. When Hollywood Records released their CD, they used the original photo with white text, but the title was noticeably larger. When Hollywood remastered the album in 2011, the cover was reworked to look more like the original vinyl.
Vinyl, back.
CD, EMI (different photo).
CD, Hollywood records - 1991.
CD, Hollywood records - 2011.
Links
