Queen: Classic Or Dud

As for the morons debate well i think your generalising a bit mate. Dont ask me what i think about metalheads... death metal, country and wester, most r&B, I think you will find morons in any category of music in fact i will back up what a previous post mentioned and say that generally people are stupid. (is that generalising?) and to a lot of people I am but who cares!

Queen Rock... one of the timeless classic bands.. never to be seen again as processed pop (or should I say marketed pop) takes over. Its now sadly a teenage girl industry. Makes me sick!

Much as I like them, not entirely. Listen to those early Sparks records. ;-)

My comments were stupid and I retracted them.

Marcello: Britglam? Absolutely. "You're My Best Friend" RoXoR. But I still can't think of a worse example of 80s fascism of size. Apart from Opus, maybe. Ah, enter Laibach :).

undoubtedly classique, especially period between long hair silver jump suit freddie and suspicious moustache de-closeted freddie aka sheer heart attack => a night at the opera => a day at the races => news of the world => jazz best run of consecutive albums EVAH?

"I don't care much for them fairies... but Freddy Mercury did fuckin rock."

They occasionally make the same comment about the guy from Judas Preist.

It was a mix of bands, but mostly Iron Maiden.

Anyone who dares deem Queen a dud has lost control of his/her senses, and ought to be dunked in a barrel of rancid milk until reason reclaims its rightful iron fist on the steering wheel of their brain bus.

Buy "Hot Space". I'm curious what Tijn would make of that album.

The Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls is lucicrous, preposterous, beyond words. Also catchy, funny, and genius (or at least crafty).

Hahahahahahaaha

Could very well be, Anthony.

don't wish to dignify them further.

Also, the second "In the year of '39" is a nice, subtle touch...I had always assumed it meant the same year from the perspective of the travellers, but actually I think it means 100 years later from the perspective of the people on the planet (hence the "'" before 39)...

Interesting that this one is getting the anniversary treatment.

Would much rather have deluxe overdose editions of day at the races and sheer heart attack

Yeah, I agree!

hm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y7X6le5qmE

I mean, I've seen worse?

https://i.imgur.com/rMHrPim.jpg

The Freddie in this BBC production isn't terrible, though his moustache is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xipkQboBAE

looks pretty hacky tbh, can't imagine the one-two of a decent mid-length doc and a concert film wouldn't be 10x better

I thought the Days of Our Lives doc was decent, but could have been better. I think the definitive Queen doc is yet to be made and I think the quality of it would be down to how much the band members feel comfortable about revealing and John Deacon's involvement.

As long as the movie's second half covers 'Nazis 1994' and music May wrote for Timothy Spall's 'Frank Stubbs Promotes' then I'll be satisfied

so? I haven't seen it, haven't decided whether I want to, but surely someone here has…

There’s a thread on ILE; I can’t link from Zing.

Come anticipate BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY with me, the 'troubled' Queen biopic starring Mr Rowboat as F. Mercury

I wonder how many times I'm going to have to explain to people that Queen didn't actually split up and were actually in full touring mode by the time of Live Aid...

Haven't seen the film yet but I just know the coverage of that pre-Live Aid period is going to extremely irritating

BE

day-oh

The movie does have some good things about it - the actors playing Brian May and John Deacon are really dead-on, and I was blown away by how they recreated the Live Aid gig at insane levels of forensic detail... that must have taken some serious fucking rehearsing.

However, the script/dialogue is woeful in places, and a lot of the fucking about with the timeline and historical facts is really irritating to me. I'm really supposed to believe that they performed 'Fat Bottomed Girls' on an American tour in 1974? (This is just one example of... well, far too many)

Yeah, I understand that it was supposed to be relatively "family friendly", and that there's so much that would have impossible to explore with any degree of depth over 90 minutes, but this would have been easier to live with if they hadn't fucked about with the facts too much.

My favorite Queen songs not written by Freddie.

Listening to the Flash Gordon soundtrack this morning...wow is that a wacky record. Parts of it would not sound out of place on some of Trans Am's later records with the synth parts.

My favourite Queen songs not written by Freddie:
Keep Yourself Alive (Brian)
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll (Roger)
White Queen (Brian)
Brighton Rock (Brian)
Tenement Funster (Roger)
Now I'm Here (Brian)
I'm in Love with My Car (Roger)
'39 (Brian)
The Prophet's Song (Brian)
Long Away (Brian)
Sheer Heart Attack (Roger)
Plus various bits of the Flash soundtrack not written by Fred

Not much John there I guess, sorry John.

No love for "Another one Bites the Dust"? That's an all time groove all genres.

He also wrote You're My Best Friend.

Here's ten of fifteen:

[1. “Back Chat” (John Deacon)
2. “A Kind of Magic” (Roger Taylor)
3. “Under Pressure” (Queen/David Bowie)
4. “The Invisible Man” (Roger Taylor)
5. “Hammer to Fall” (Brian May)
6. “Dragon Attack” (Brian May)
7. “You’re My Best Friend” (John Deacon)
8. “Calling All Girls” (Roger Taylor)
9. “39” (Brian May)
10. “I Want to Break Free” (John Deacon)

I'd prefer Another One Bites the Dust if it was actually played by Chic, rather than Roger "Not Funky" Taylor trying to sound like them.

You're My Best Friend is endlessly charming.

Dragon Attack features a brief but monstrously thrilling drum spotlight.

You're My Best Friend my go-to song when I want to demonstrate to someone how a Wurlitzer electric piano sounds different than a Fender Rhodes

Is YMBF Wurlitzer or Fender Rhodes?

Wurlitzer

the Wurlitzer has a gritter "bark" or "growl" (at least when played loud), whereas the Fender Rhodes is more mellow and chiming.

good lord A Day At The Races is great and I don't think I've ever heard any of these songs before? was there a hit?

Somebody To Love was the big single, #2 in the UK (and a totally sublime bit of faux gospel). Tie Yr Mother Down went #31, and Good Old Fashioned Loverboy - which I never liked as a kid but is now the excelsis of Queen's joyous whimsy to these ears - hit #17. It's my favourite LP of theirs after Sheer Heart Attack, and a lot less bitty and uneven than A Night At The Opera. You Take My Breath Away and Long Away are both crazy beautiful, and White Man is like a heavier and more focused Prophet's Song, and Teo Torriate is just wonderful, a big, blousy, over-the-top emotional anthem.

thanks!

i think nowadays Good Old Fashioned Loverboy is maybe my fave queen single

"Drowse" might be Roger Taylor's best song, more considered than his earlier contributions.