The Works

Album cover.

The Works is the eleventh studio album by Queen. It's mostly hard rock and pop rock with a bit of experimental sounds as is typical of the band. The album's title comes from a comment Roger Taylor made as recording began, "Let's give them the works!". It was produced by Reinhold Mack and the band and published on 1984-02-27.

Personal

This was one of the later Queen albums I bought, I think because I already knew about half of the songs on the album from compilations and live albums I owned. When I did buy the album, I bought the Hollywood Records CD version, which was a good choice because the the additional bonus tracks make up for this being one of Queen's shortest albums. I really like the album, and it's in my top 40 favorite albums ever, but none of the songs ever made a serious emotional connection with me, so it's one of my least favorite Queen albums. Of course, that's like saying it's my least favorite diamond.

Status

I own the album on CD.

Track Listing

Track	Title	Writer(s)	Vocals	Rank
A1	Radio Ga Ga	Roger Taylor	Freddie Mercury	3
A2	Tear It Up	Brian May	Freddie Mercury	6
A3	It's a Hard Life	Freddie Mercury	Freddie Mercury	5
A4	Man on the Prowl	Freddie Mercury	Freddie Mercury	7
B1	Machines (or 'Back to Humans')	Brian May, Roger Taylor	Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor	8
B2	I Want to Break Free	John Deacon	Freddie Mercury	2
B3	Keep Passing the Open Windows	Freddie Mercury	Freddie Mercury	4
B4	Hammer to Fall	Brian May	Freddie Mercury	1
B5	Is This the World We Created...?	Brian May, Freddie Mercury	Freddie Mercury	9