"Jazz", the album with Fat Bottom Girls was actually very good. The Game, the next LP was very good as well, although it contains my most hated Queen song (and their biggest hit) Another Bites the Dust. I do agree they lost their way with Hot Spaces (one entire side of disco-ish 'dance grooves', ugh), but Works, back to their classic Night at the Opera style, kicked ass, and The Miracle, though uneven, had some good songs. Innuendo, a kind of comeback for them, was incredible IMHO. The final release, 'Heaven' was a mishmosh of throwntogetether tracks and not really a great release.
Say what you will, but "Another One Bites the Dust" (a John Deacon composition) is still a very important song. It provided the basis for the breakout single by that misunderstood genious, Weird Al Yankovick. Weird Al's "Another One Rides the Bus," and the flip side, "Gotta Boogie" ("Gotta Boogie..... Gotta Boogie.... Gotta Boogie.... I gotta boogie on my finger and I can't shake it off!) began his meteoric rise to susper-stardom.
Mark
And I'm NOT bandying about the word "genious" here, either!
Inuendo was a terrific album (could not remember the name as I was typing the post).
To my mind nothing compares to the first five albums....Queen II is an amazing compilation and the more commercial they got the worse thier music became.