― fallenhammer, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Much as I like them, not entirely. Listen to those early Sparks records. ;-)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
My comments were stupid and I retracted them.
― David, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kathryn, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Harry Hussey, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Snotty Moore, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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 :).
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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?
― schnellschnell, Friday, 28 March 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― schnellschnell, Friday, 28 March 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
"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.
― David Allen, Friday, 28 March 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
It was a mix of bands, but mostly Iron Maiden.
― David Allen, Friday, 28 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 28 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tijn, Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Buy "Hot Space". I'm curious what Tijn would make of that album.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls is lucicrous, preposterous, beyond words. Also catchy, funny, and genius (or at least crafty).
― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 March 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 29 March 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hahahahahahaaha
Could very well be, Anthony.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 30 March 2003 04:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 30 March 2003 05:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 30 March 2003 06:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 30 March 2003 09:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 30 March 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
don't wish to dignify them further.
― kieron, Sunday, 30 March 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― schne;;schne;;, Monday, 31 March 2003 13:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matthew james (matthew james), Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 24 April 2003 22:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 24 April 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
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)...
― Joe (Joe), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 25 April 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
so, queen is to music what scarface is to film?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.dailyvault.com/queen_news.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Doesn't Paul mcartney hold the record for a Concert ?this was also in Rio
― freddo, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link
There's a hell of a lot of Status Quo in there too. Especially the earlier years.
― everything, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
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
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
so? I haven't seen it, haven't decided whether I want to, but surely someone here has…
― veronica moser, Monday, 5 November 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
There’s a thread on ILE; I can’t link from Zing.
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 5 November 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
Come anticipate BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY with me, the 'troubled' Queen biopic starring Mr Rowboat as F. Mercury
― visiting, Monday, 5 November 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
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...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 12 November 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Haven't seen the film yet but I just know the coverage of that pre-Live Aid period is going to extremely irritating
― PaulTMA, Monday, 12 November 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 22 November 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
My favorite Queen songs not written by Freddie.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
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.
― a down-on-his-luck gastromancer enters (Matt #2), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
No love for "Another one Bites the Dust"? That's an all time groove all genres.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
He also wrote You're My Best Friend.
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
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)
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
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.
― a down-on-his-luck gastromancer enters (Matt #2), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
You're My Best Friend is endlessly charming.
Dragon Attack features a brief but monstrously thrilling drum spotlight.
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
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
― Lee626, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
Is YMBF Wurlitzer or Fender Rhodes?
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
Wurlitzer
― Vast Halo, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
the Wurlitzer has a gritter "bark" or "growl" (at least when played loud), whereas the Fender Rhodes is more mellow and chiming.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
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?
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, 26 June 2022 04:10 (one year ago) link
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.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Sunday, 26 June 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
thanks!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, 26 June 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
i think nowadays Good Old Fashioned Loverboy is maybe my fave queen single
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 26 June 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
"Drowse" might be Roger Taylor's best song, more considered than his earlier contributions.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 26 June 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link