Track List:

1. Mustapha 3.10? (Mercury)
2. Fat Bottomed Girls 4.16 (May)
3. Jealousy 3.13 (Mercury)
4. Bicycle Race 3.10? (Mercury)
5. *If You Can't Beat Them 4.15 (Deacon)
6. Let Me Entertain You 3.10? (Mercury)
7. *Dead On Time 3.23 (May)
8. In Only Seven Days 2.30 (Deacon)
9. *Dreamer's Ball 3.30 (May)
10. Fun It 3.29 (Taylor)
11. *Leaving Home Ain't Easy 3.15 (May)
12. Don't Stop Me Now 3.29 (Mercury)
13. More of That Jazz 4.16 (Taylor)

INTERIOR ART
Group Shot
Center Spread
Brian

Notes: Following up NOTW must have been a daunting task, and Jazz delivered. There isn't much new experimentation here, but the diversity is still intact, going from Dead On Time (almost metal in its speed & intensity) to Jealousy (lilting piano and melancholy singing) and Mustapha (chanting in Arabic (?) with heavy guitar). Bicycle Race is the most well-known song on this album. Jazz is a really good album, about the same strength as A Day At The Races, which means that there are no bad songs, but outside of one or two cuts, nothing really jumps out right away.

On a more personal note, Fat Bottomed Girls was the first Queen song I ever figured out how to play by myself. The first Queen song I learned to play was One Vision, but someone else had to show me how to play it. Oh, come on, I'd only been playing for six months.

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