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Title: Hot Space Leaves Me Cold
Review: Hot Space is not only Queen's worst album (I'm leaving out their contribution to Flash Gordon) but may be one of the worst of all time. From the first notes of Staying Power, one wants to ring up Brian May and ask him, "Dear god WHAT were you thinking? Did someone put a gun to your head and make you record this awful formulated music?" Queen is one of my all-time favorite rock bands, but to hear them playing dance music like performing monkeys is torture to me. The first five songs are truly awful (horns on a Queen song??). This is the new funky Queen. Freddie Mercury is "Calling All Girls"? Please! The second half has some nice rock and roll tunes, as if they woke up from their haze. "Under Pressure" with David Bowie is one of a kind. "Life Is Real (Song for Lennon)" is surprisingly touching. But even these don't make up for an attempt by Queen to apparently ride the success of "Another One Bites the Dust" by turning up the funk levels to 11. Be afaid, be very afraid.
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