Queen II | Sheer Heart Attack | A Night at the Opera | A Day at the Races | News of the World | Jazz
The Game | Hot Space | The Works | A Kind of Magic | The Miracle | Innuendo
- Alternative Character Interpretation: "One Vision" was obviously written as a cheesy plea for an end to war, famine, religious intolerance and other problems pop stars tend to call "bad things". However, due to the vagueness of the lyrics, it's more than a little ironic that it can be interpreted as a fascist anthem from the perspective of a frustrated wannabe-fuhrer. The Slovenian art-rock group Laibach did a version in German for this very reason which they re-titled "Birth of a Nation".
- Contested Sequel: Fans were divided on the album. The fact that it's a film soundtrack to Highlander was already polarizing enough, as that was a common criticism regarding Flash Gordon (1980), but unlike Hot Space and The Works, which have at least one standout song each in the form of "Under Pressure" and "Radio Ga Ga", most of the songs here are generally considered to be unmemorable, with songs even such as "Who Wants To Live Forever" generally not having memorable rhythms to them, while other fans were still able to cherish such songs, and point out that it has an overall more consistent quality of songs compared to the last two albums.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The cover art for the album features the band as blue-skinned cartoon illustrations, and the music video for the title track has animated, similarly blue-skinned backup dancers/singers. Six years later... Even better, the guy who drew the cover art and the animation for the video, Roger Chiasson, got a job at Disney soon after he drew it!
