Great bass work from John deacon

Thanks for sharing this song. I have always felt that it was criminally underrated and overlooked because of so many of the other great songs by Queen.

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

I agree. Not quite as funkylicious as 'Fight From The Inside', but only a matchstick comes between them!

I love this track. So much good stuff. I especially like the triple guitar tracks following the panning flip flop after the break 4:53. Freddie’s voice is always great and John’s bass is excellent.

This is my favorite Queen song ever, the bass is 🔥🔥🔥

This is one Queen track that is rarely reacted to. But its one of my favorite late era Queen songs. That bass - that's some good stuff there!

The live version from their Montreal 1981 video is amazing. In fact that entire show is arguably them at their peak. Watch it.

Great reaction!! Always LOVED this song. John Deacon doesn't get the credit he deserves for his amazing (& funky) bass grooves - through Queen's whole career, but he lights this song and Another One Bites The Dust (which comes right after this) right up! Awesome video for my Friday! Cheers.

The Game was the first Queen album to include the use of synthesizers, they were experimenting with a new more minimal sound/style with a new producer. A lot of Queen fans didn't like the new direction and wanted the band to go back to the classic style which could be the “dragon on my back”. In the lyric "I'm gonna use my stack It's gotta be Mack" Mack is the music producer they worked with on this album and the lyric "Take me back to the shack, shack" refers to a club in Munich they used to go to while they were recording this album.

@jerkedevries

7 ай бұрын

Yes! My brother and I only knew the three albums from ‘75 till ‘77 via our sister that had bought them. And then we got Hot Space (also with producer Mack) that was a disappointment. But….. then we heard the greatest hits album which featured Another one bites the dust right after Bohemian Rh. Wow what a revelation that was! That unlocked the rest of their music. And then The Works was a big relief, and had a new balanced sound

Great song, great album! When this came out I was working at a Radio Shack in a mall. We always had a monster system right at the entrance facing into the mall. We would BLAST this tune and they could hear it at the other end of the mall.

Waaay back in the day, some friends of mine had a garage band that played for school and church dances. I convinced them to try out this song. After listening to it, they said, "Yeah. We can do that. But you're singing it." This resulted in the one-night-only appearance of Habichiwoowoo as a kick-ass rock-n-roll star. It was fun, and I got a positive review from one of the attendees. As I helped roadie all the equipment into the van, a dude and his date stopped and said, "That's how rock and roll is sung. Great job." To keep my reputation unsullied, I have not sung publicly since then. Glad you liked it, Justin! Thanks for the shout-out and the joyous reaction. Carry on!

@JustJP

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Habichi! 🧑‍🎤

Great song Great album. It was really hard NOT hearing Another One Bites the Dust right after. That transition is so perfect.

@jerkedevries

7 ай бұрын

I always thought that Another One Btd was a bit too quiet in the mix than it deserves iafter Dragon Attack; especially when it fits so well

I love the studio version of this song! The live version at Montreal & Milton Keynes are fantastic! Queen inserts the song between the intro & outro of NOW I’M HERE! It really spotlights Deaky’s bass!! IMO, the “dragon on my back” could be Sir Brian May’s Fire-breathing Red Special 🎸👉 “ .. it’s a dragon attack”. 🐉🔥

This song epitomises Queen and their individual skills at their very best. I especially love the interplay between the Bass and Drums, the cymbal crashes get me too. The lyrics reference the producer Mack....Gotta use my Stack (use your head), Its gotta be MACK! Freddie developed a very close with the renowned Music producer, Rheinhold Mack and would be Godfather to his Son. On the album the next track that follows is Another One Bites The Dust...killer album, Queen owned the world at this point. The other incredible songs released from this album are Crazy Little Thing Called Love & Save Me.

Definitely one of my top 5 fave Queen tunes.... All under rated tunes too.Sheer Heart Attack,Dragon Attack,Get Down Make Love,Fight from the Inside and It's Late.

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

You are the only person i know that rates 'Fight From The Inside' so highly. The other choices are also right up there. It seems like you're my kind of Queen fan! 👌

'Ole Audiophile to JP: Remember, I'm the one who's always wanting the most superb audio version available regardless of media type. Twenty years ago (2003), Queen thought to remaster this to a brand new medium, DVD-Audio. Better believe I owned & played it in 5.1 before most folks ever even heard of a DVD-Audio or what a six channel 24bit by 96kHz recording meant. It is absolutely sublime...

This needs to be played LOOOUUUUDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

I was pleasantly surprised at how good this was. If and when I make a Queen playlist, this will be on it. Nuff said.

@jaybird4093

7 ай бұрын

This is great track. A banger from the first time I heard it (over 40 years ago!) Hospice says my dad only has days left. Man, is it hard. I’m sending you some belated empathy.

@-davidolivares

7 ай бұрын

@@jaybird4093 Sorry to hear that, I’m thinking and praying for the best possible everything. Be strong and leave nothing unsaid. Yeah, this is one album that slipped through the cracks.

Ooh, thank you! It's been awhile since you've done Queen. Great track!

@XFLexiconMatt

7 ай бұрын

I loved to this day, still, the drum, bass and guitar breaks that lead into that accapella bridge. Pretty amazing!

I forgot how bloody good this was, saw them in 1978 I think the Crazy tour of London concert which was a very small club, a stones throw from the old Tottenham football ( soccer) ground must have been 150 people there, a great intimate concert and Freddie came out on Superman’s shoulders 🤪

@simonspeak9288

7 ай бұрын

I went to the Tiffany’s Purley show on that tour. Amazing seeing such a huge band in a tiny venue. Saw them at Wembley Stadium a few years later which was also great but lacked the intense energy of being packed into essentially a tiny nightclub.

It's my understanding that it was the different recording rooms in the studio, white and black being the piano, Mac was there mixer producer, and the dragon was The demand for another record. Got to get on the track.... But I'm sure people could have interpreted it many ways which always delighted the band members.

The Shack is a club that they all frequented. It had different colours. Mack is Reinhold Mack who was an producer... the stack probably producing equipment. Hope this helps.

I think this is the best Queen song! I like your reaction video’s !

It was mere moments after this track that Queen's artistic integrity fell off a cliff for a while. Up to this point they created some of the greatest Rock Music in history, and then... there was a Hot Space. This track just about stays above water, but of all the tracks on The Game, it heralded what was to come.

@frugalseverin2282

7 ай бұрын

My 2nd ever concert I attended was one with 4 bands, Queen was the headliner and it was the Hot Space tour. Some of the crowd let the band know what they thought of the disco influence, Freddie said lighten up, it's just a fookin' album. 2 of the other bands that day were Heart and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

Agreed! 'The Game' is where i started to lose interest. From their debut to half of 'Jazz' is where it really spoke to me, and 'Innuendo' was a pleasant surprise!

@vinsgraphics

7 ай бұрын

I know “Hot Space” gets dragged every time it’s mentioned, but I like it … different, obviously, but it’s still Queen, creative and at times campy, but it’s worthy of appreciation on its own. A different color on the entire Queen rainbow palette.

@artrock101

7 ай бұрын

I get your point, though it was more than 'mere moments', as after this they did the Flash Gordon soundtrack and released a Greatest Hits album...

@summertime_blooz

7 ай бұрын

'Hot Space' has it's moments. I love the track 'Cool Cat' and most of the other tracks are good if not up to the standard of former glories. @@vinsgraphics

This seems like a jam, more than a song. And I think the words reflect that. I could never make out the lyrics, but your reading makes me realize they were just tossed off. Mack was their engineer at that time, and the song is credited to guitarist Brian May. I feel like the band were responding to Mack's approach in the studio and seeing what came of it, going with the flow. ‘I'm gonna use my [Marshall] stack. It's gotta be Mack. Gonna get me on the track…’ It's inside baseball and gobbledygook, top-of-the-head rhyming. They were focused on getting a good-sounding performance, without having a song first.

Queen and funk go hand in hand. Then again, what couldn't they do!

@jaybird4093

7 ай бұрын

I don’t think we see eye to eye musically but at least we can both agree on Queen! This one’s a banger. Freddie is one of my all-time favorite musicians.

That song rocks. I had forgotten it existed. Good choice.

News Of The World was the last acceptable album by Queen, Queen II was the ultimate.

Great track, John Deacon doesn`t get the credit that he deserves as a bassist. Roger Taylor is no slouch on the drums either. You should do more Queen. Maybe some albums: "A Day at the Races", "A Night at the Opera", "Jazz" or "News of the World".

I have this album. I think that I listened to this song only about five times in 40+ years.

I LOVE this one! There's a live performance where Freddie does a lot of call and answer with the audience - then Roger Taylor does a kind of solo and the sexist drop right into the opening beat. It's BAD A$$!!!!!! Bought this album last Christmas as a gift to myself ;) at a used store. Paid $25 for it, but worth every penny. There isn't a bad song on this record - just good and great songs.

NOBODY has reacted to Queen's early live album "Live Killers" 1979. It's a great live album and it might surprise people how it veers towards hard rock. I suspect most people don't know this double abum exists and it's well before 'Live Aid'. It's ALSO a live concert video of the same title and it's on YT.

Cool Queen song that I wasn't familar with. As for Dragon movies, I remember Dragonslayer was pretty cool as a kid. I wonder how it holds up, I probably haven't seen it since the 80's

Queen ❤

My favourite tracks from the game are Need your loving and prime jive

This is a Brian May song. I emphasize that because this is about as funky as anything John Deacon ever wrotte. Well, besides _that_ hard funk track that follows this song in the album. May did not do groove as well. And this song grooves. I'm a huge Queen fan, but I tend to like the more minimalist records they made. And this song is as streamlined as anything this band could do.

@susanp.7954

6 ай бұрын

Brian said this song developed out of a jam session... he just cleaned it up a bit.... this was one of John's favorite songs to play. especially live... Milton Keynes 1982 live is awesome!....

Thin Lizzy meets Billy Squier

"Mack" refers to the producer on this album, who was in high demand, at the time. His next project was Billy Squier's debut album, and I thought the first track off that (The Stroke) was Queen when I first heard it.

In the old days new albums were always released on Tuesdays. Some album rock radio stations would play a bands new album in its entirety the Sunday night before release. You could prepare with your cassette and tape an advance copy. I remember doing that for Rush Permanent Waves and Queen The Game.

Great song. Something tells me Billy Squier had a 'Stroke' while listening to it though. If you know you know.

Good track from a great album. The Game is actually my favourite Queen album from the 80s. I even prefer it to Jazz and News of the World! It's probably quite simply my favourite Queen album for its musical diversity and its conciseness (it's the band's shortest album with the exception of the terrible Flash Gordon soundtrack album which does not count !😉).

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

What a surprise! This is where my interest began to wane. 😟

@a.k.1740

7 ай бұрын

@@Owlstretchingtime78 Although I agree that they were a wonderful stage band I never really got into Queen outside of A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races and The Game, although I also enjoyed Live Killers in the distant past ...!

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

@@a.k.1740 That's a pretty good selection! 😊

@SmartCookie2022

7 ай бұрын

Strange, as I always considered this to be an end of the 70's album that just so happened to be released in 1980. Especially as their teaser single _The Game_ was released on October 5, 1979.

@a.k.1740

7 ай бұрын

@@SmartCookie2022 Not really, the single "Play the Game" was not released in 1979 since it was recorded during 1980 and released at the end of May 1980, a month before the album. This is "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" which was released as a single in the fall of 1979. The album The Game was recorded during different sessions in 1979 and then in 1980. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Sail Away Sweet Sister", "Coming Soon" and "Save Me" were recorded in 1979 while all the other tracks were recorded in 1980. The Game is therefore a pivotal album, right between the 70s and the 80s.

I gave up on Queen around the time this came out. Sounds pretty good now though to be honest. Queen, Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack will always be my favorites of their albums.

Some songs there's just no point in looking for meaning in the lyrics.. this was a 'sounds good' kinda situation... "It's gotta be Mack" is a reference to their co-producer at the time, Reinhold Mack.

Anyone else think of Thin Lizzy when they hear this?

@delorangeade

7 ай бұрын

I thought exactly that when I heard the opening riff.

@rjart4

7 ай бұрын

2 great showmen

Great song! I just stumbled upon it a week ago 43 after it came out so I’m late to the party, yet again.

One of the songs on this album I never liked. Was a big Queen fan before this album but I can say I was happy for cassettes at the time and could record the ones I liked. About half of the album I guess. Bought the album but hardly ever played it in full. The cassette definitely was the better of the two ;-)

When you do Queen you have to do them live, or your missing our.

The game album was very good, the last album was very good innuendo, ( I know heaven album came after but Freddie was gone so!

I'm not familiar with this - I love a lot of Queen, but they were never a core band for me, like proggier things were. This is great - nothing short of great, awesome! Nothing I could complain about. But it's always hard for me to hear early 80's stuff from 70's bands. It's like hearing 90125 for the first time. I've had decades to adjust to and find my affection for that though. It's much easier to appreciate bands that first emerged in the 80's for me. It's just what the shift in musical styles represented from the 70's to the 80's that was just heartbreaking, and sometimes still seems so to a 70's kid like me.

I'm quite happy for the lyrics to be hand-crafted for the 21st Century Schizoid Man. As soon as they make prosaic sense, they often turn boring or offensively prescriptive or just plain disappointing once the strangeness of the nonsense becomes lost forever. (I also prefer lyrics to remain misheard when I mishear them. Makes them my own. For instance Uriah Heep's "Stealin" expresses regrets about, "Stealin when I shoulda been lyin" - or so I once heard them, and still try to. Boringly enough it's actually "stealin when I shoulda been buyin". They missed a great opportunity, there.) It's not like bands hire the modern Byron to write their lyrics for them. (It's not that I dislike great lyrics, just that I generally don't expect them. So if they're strange, to me that's a bit of a bonus. Phew! Don't have to put up with sometimes hearing the lyrics when I hear this song.)

The Game was their last really solid album although this track is not one of the best.

Justin. Go all the way back to The Great King Rat. On the debut album.

A day without listening to Mike Oldfield's Crises is a wasted day. You're wasting your life 😂😉

This marked the point where Queen's music became either recycled or uninteresting to me, so this was the last Queen album I bought. Not the worst song, but not one I need to hear again.

"Jazz" from 1978 was the last Queen album worth listening to in my view. It was patchy but at least still had some good stuff on it. "The Game" is almost completely awful, cookie-cutter songs devoid of the inventiveness that made Queen great, and things weren't going to get any better. I guess all bands have a limited well of creativity to draw from, and Queen's had run dry by this stage. Their earlier work was so head and shoulders above anything from here on it was like a different band.

Meh... an unremarkable funk-ish/rock crossover, did nowt for me.

@delorangeade

7 ай бұрын

I liked it better at the time than I do hearing it now, but it also marked the point where I lost interest in Queen.

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

@delorangeade I also lost interest here, but 'Innuendo' had moments that harked back to their glory days. Also, one has to bear in mind Freddie's awful condition!

IMO, their 2nd best song. Definitely the best bass line. '39 is their finest song.

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

It's their finest folk song, but i can't agree with finest song they wrote!

@bartstarr100

7 ай бұрын

@@Owlstretchingtime78 What's your nomination?

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

@bartstarr100 It's a tie actually. I love all the early heavy stuff, but i can't decide between 'Seaside Rendezvous' and 'Fight From The Inside'. Both deep cuts, but that's how it is!

@jaybird4093

7 ай бұрын

@@Owlstretchingtime78I’m not sure if I could pick a top Queen track. Seaside is a contender as well as The Prophet’s Song. Back to back great tracks.

@Owlstretchingtime78

7 ай бұрын

@@jaybird4093 Picking those two wasn't easy. As you well know, there's just so many killer songs.

The "Dragon" is a drug addiction.

Some songs there's just no point in looking for meaning in the lyrics.. this was a 'sounds good' kinda situation... "It's gotta be Mack" is a reference to their co-producer at the time, Reinhold Mack.