Track List:

All songs written by Queen
1. Party
2. *Khashoggi's Ship 5.13
3. The Miracle 5.02
4. *I Want It All 4.40
5. *The Invisible Man 3.56
6. Breakthru 4.07
7. Rain Must Fall 4.20
8. Scandal 4.42
9. My Baby Does Me 3.22
10. *Was It All Worth It 5.45

Additional Tracks:
11. Hang On In There 3.46
12. Chinese Torture (instrumental) 1.46
13. The Invisible Man (12" version) 5.29

INTERIOR ART
Group Shot

Notes: This was Queen's comeback album for the late 1980's. With it they finally fully apologized for Hot Space. Their older tight style of songwriting is back here, and just as good as ever. The vocals are top-notch, and Taylor doesn't detract from a single song with over-zealous drumming. May and Deacon find a common groove and work well off each other. The Invisible Man is a terribly manic song, but it seems to work...even the squealy guitar solo. The video for I Want It All was pretty popular on MTV, which helped boost Queen up before Wayne's World came out a few years later.

The cover art is kind of gross, a computer morphed version of a common Queen person with five eyes...it's really cool but freaky. You can see that Mercury is starting to think about the end of his career approaching with the song Was It All Worth It, asking if the lifestyle Queen led was really the best choice to make. Coupled with Innuendo's The Show Must Go On, it is a chilling premontory epitaph for Mercury.

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