Fun in Space [Import]

Roger Taylor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 27, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B0000074DD
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #260,760 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. No Violins

2. Laugh or Cry

3. Future Management

4. Let's Get Crazy

5. My Country I and II

6. Good Times Are Now

7. Magic Is Loose

8. Interlude in Constantinople

9. Airheads

10. Fun in Space

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better then Brian not as good as Freddie, December 11, 2004

By 

Brian Ogilby "Ogi" (Worcester, VT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fun in Space (Audio CD)

All the Queen members had thier eccentricties, Brian had long hair through all the albums, John never sang lead vocals on his songs, Freddie grew a mustache and ultimatly a beard and Roger had blue eyes and blond hair and often songwritingwise went against the grain of the other Queen members compositions. It was because of this that most of his songs were not featured on Queens live albums, they were too distinctive and wierd. How else to explain songs like Drowse, Fight From The Inside and Calling all Girls. However while he wrote few songs with the group he wrote some of Queens best songs, Loser In The End, Im In Love With My Car, Radio GaGa, Modern Times Rock And Roll and Tenement Funster to name only a few. He was also the second best singer in the group next to Freddie a great drummer and the most talented musician in the band and he kept it up in his solo career making him a better artist then Brian May though not as good as the bands leader Freddie Mercury as Fun In Space cleverly showed.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magis IS Loose, but words aren't enough!, August 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Fun in Space (Audio CD)

I became a Queen fan in 1983. At the same
time I was introduced to their music, I also
got to hear Fun in Space, which blew my mind
more than anything. The copy I listened to
for years was one I had made -open air!- from
one cassette recorder to another. The music
was so good I didn't care. There is a HIGH
nostalgia factor here, which biases my review, but
which you 'might' understand if you remember and
enjoyed the music of the early 1980s.
This album just seemed like a miracle then, and it
still does now. Ironically, it has largely
gone unnoticed by the masses. I believe that
this indicates the novelty of the music as
opposed to its lacking in anything. It's a one
of a kind piece of music - one I'll always
keep close to the vest.
Roger does most or all the music himself, and
provides us with poignant even haunting melodies
at times. All the tracks are good - not one
could have been omitted. The album is full of
catchy guitar hooks and keyboard melodies,
but does not sound derivative (to my ears).
Comparable at times to The Game, this is
Roger's game, and its `epic' in its own personal way.
A special piece of art not to be missed, esp. by fans
of Queen. If I could give it an extra star, I would
without reservation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very creative album, April 17, 2008

By 

Jasper Lynn "jasper_lynn" (Waldorf, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fun in Space (Audio CD)

I have enjoyed this album for 20+ years - I used to have the LP. It is a great album to just sit and listen to all the way through. This current CD copy is very high quality - very true to the original sound.