Few could have foreseen a rock group with a penchant for glam-inflected, genre-bending, often progressive songs striking it big during the disco era, but famed UK rockers Queen did just that in 1980. "Another One Bites The Dust" took Freddie Mercury and company's signature sound, and adapted it into a funky, club-friendly style that earned the group their biggest commercial success in America, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for three weeks, and making a chart hit out of The Game, the record it was attached to.

Spurred on by this achievement, and hyper-focused on maintaining this newfound pop clout in the US, Queen responded to The Game's reaction by doubling down on the disco focus of "Another One Bites The Dust". 1982's Hot Space was the result, a record which traded the band's hard, operatic guitar rockers for electronic dance numbers with synthesized arrangements, which took heavy inspiration from the disco group Chic. Though Hot Space rendered a top 20 hit in the US, and contained one of the band's most enduring songs (Tacked on as a last-minute addition from a previous single release) it was widely panned by critics and fans, and would be the last major commercial success Queen had in America before Mercury's passing.

On the latest episode of Jukebox Zeroes, Lilz & Patrick welcome back Ashleigh and Maggie of the Rock Candy Podcast. The four of them dig into Hot Space and decide for themselves if it was deserving of the negative reception so many decades later. Join us for rousing discussions on the "disco sucks" movement, petticoats, and Billy Joel's drunken carousing.

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