Innuendo - the last album with the living Freddie, to say it bluntly. Innuendo impressed, moved, and a depressed simultaneously. Of all the Queen albums, of which virtually all small masterpieces were (just think of the highly entertaining "Jazz" or the famous "A Night at the Opera") the last album in my opinion is the best. The songs are all of the highest quality, from the song structures on the melodies and chord progressions, to the texts ... incredible. The opener shows how it's done: Moody Keyboard walls and Freddie's vocals, in which you get goosebumps. With more than 6 minutes, a real epic. Better the album could not start. "Headlong" is a die-hard rockers Queen with Freddie in Maximum power, despite his then progressing disease and weak physical condition. "Do not Try So Hard" and "These Are the Days of Our Lives" are beautiful, deeply sad ballads. The song "Delilah" Freddie has dedicated his cats ... awesome (!): Even the humor he kept still and so they hear guitars that sound like Cat meowing. "The Hitman" is again a loud rockers with blast-guitar riffs. Ends finally does Innuendo with an equally masterful epic like the opener: "The Show Must Go On", pioneering and like no other song describing what mood the band was back then. So to speak Freddies farewell song. Innuendo has a thread that runs through all the songs: This oppressive atmosphere, some overwhelming emotional and deeply sad. Given the approaching death of the singer and his request, as soon as possible einzusingen still songs, of course. And this is precisely the point that make this album and Queen generally so fascinating: Queen succeed still to create with such a difficult and terrible fate more than brilliant songs. Freddie, Brian, Roger and John - all they knew that there would soon be no more, and especially no more Freddie band. Nevertheless, they let their creativity through gushing and never stopped making music ... the result is Innuendo.
To Remaster: After the 1993 remasters (which were already really good) appear here the songs again improved. I was surprised that this was at all possible and already feared compressed Songbrei à la Loudness War. Not even close! Even more powerful, clearer and more transparent the result, remastering is completely successful.