The Game

Description

Following up the most idiosyncratic album of their career (JAZZ), Queen makes the transition here from weird pomp-rock band to weird pop band, marking a new musical direction for their 80s output. The major development here is the incorporation of funk into Queens already-broad stylistic pallete. The mega-hit Another One Bites the Dust is based around an irresistibly funky bass riff that would be sampled by countless rappers over the next two decades. Dragon Attack mixes the funk quotient with some fiery guitar heroics from Brian May. The pure pop aspect of Queens music blossoms into full flower as well. Need Your Loving could be a Badfinger or Records out-take. Crazy Little Thing Called Love predates (at least in the U.S.) the Stray Cats-led rockabilly revival of the early 80s. There are hints of late-period ELO on Coming Soon. On Rock It the band shows that they still know how to pull out all the rock & roll stops. THE GAME is arguably Queens most artistically successful, fully realised work. THE GAME found Queen at the top of their craft and the top of the charts, with two number-1 singles (Crazy Little Thing Called Love and the Chic-inspired Another One Bites The Dust). It also featured the first appearance of a synthesizer on a Queen album.