Artists/bands that were once quite popular, yet nowadays are mostly ignored in canonical history books

it'd be pretty cool to hear Baba O'Riley again for the first time!

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, August 13, 2020 9:51 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

you should definitely watch that joe pera episode if you haven't. called, 'joe pera reads the church announcements'

Little wonder this song is popular right now with the youngs, many of whom in my experience have a habit of likening every minor accomplishment to being a "rock star." Like life occurs during some endless Rocky training montage

― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, August 13, 2020 7:42 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAuR5bkIlQ

it'd be pretty cool to hear Baba O'Riley again for the first time!

paywalled but I guess Billboard noticed this:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8501348/queen-dont-stop-me-now-biggest-hits
The Evolution of Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now': How a Minor Hit Became One of The Band's Most Beloved (And Inescapable) Songs

Interesting that some of us have managed to escape it until today though

Don't Stop Me Now is a good song, it's so full of joy with just a touch of sadness in the coda, it's 1000 times better than We Are The Fucking Champions.

Anyway my 2020 challop is that Queen are okay but I'd rather never have to hear a single one of their songs ever again. Same goes for The Who, although the instrumental Terry Riley bits are all quite good and I'd listen to a best of compilation exclusively dedicated to that vein.

xps oh sup Brad, wb

Ha, are there any Riley-like instrumental bits outside of the song named after him?

I have no idea what "Don't Stop Me Now" sounds like

funny to me discussing Queen in the context of these other bands...I actually have a soft spot for them but always regarded it as something closer to musical theater

xp You people are weird.

Ha, are there any Riley-like instrumental bits outside of the song named after him?

'Won't Get Fooled Again's outro, kind of.

what about jim steinman productions in general: bonnie tyler, meatloaf, sisters of mercy, celine dion - and then what? nope, no-one cares

― Defund the indefensible (NickB)

Not among my friends! There was a period where we all got obsessed, and it's still generally accepted that STEINMAN RULES OK. Got to get that pomp fix.

I have no idea what 'Don't Stop Me Now' sounds like either. It's not on the 1992 North American edition of their Greatest Hits.

have to admit I was previously unaware of this connection between the Sisters of Mercy and Bonnie Tyler, Meatloaf and Celine Dion

Ha, yeah, I had a period of being really fascinated by Steinman. I don't think those things are forgotten here? Maybe it's just that we have a neighbour who blasted those Bonnie Tyler and Celine Dion things really loud through the summers, along with 80s Heart. We kept trying to imagine what their life was like, picturing a 50ish woman with bottles of wine and old photos.

Ha, are there any Riley-like instrumental bits outside of the song named after him?

this one does the burbling synth trance-out thing pretty nicely, but then kind of morphs into a chemical brothers song 20 years ahead of its time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk9d3K383RA

Idk that he ever got much coverage in history books but looks like we've moved on from that.xp

Not among my friends! There was a period where we all got obsessed, and it's still generally accepted that STEINMAN RULES OK. Got to get that pomp fix.

haha, plz get him in for the next Slum of Legs album ok?

Ha, are there any Riley-like instrumental bits outside of the song named after him?

― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, August 13, 2020 10:58 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

There's Townshend's 13-minute instrumental "Baba O'Riley" demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xgugs1i_Y0

Honestly, if we could, that would be the dream right there.

xp

Queen are okay but I'd rather never have to hear a single one of their songs ever again

I don't mind them but they almost never do as much for me as I feel like they should? I think Hadrian is right, though; if I think of them as an Andrew Lloyd Webber production, they're easily among his better ones. Drunk group "Bohemian Rhapsody" karaoke is fun, though.

My loathing of musicals knows no bounds, so it's a wonder I've enjoyed some Queen songs in the past. And I do agree that 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is all-time, especially when booze is involved.

Styx > Queen is my unbeatable challop.

with all due respect

we are the challopians, my friend

Domo Arigato, Mr. Challopo

If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Challop on, challop on
As if nothing really matters

"Don't Stop Me Now" seems to be about as well known in North America as Journey and Styx are in the UK. And Kansas.

... the band. I mean, Journey and Styx are well known in Kansas, I assume.

Based on singles, post-79 Styx and post-84 Queen about equally garbage imo.

Kansas >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pre-1975 Styx >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> post-1975 Styx >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> having someone literally stuff human feces into your ears > Queen

Prepare to get ok boomer’d (I’d otm that if I knew what Kansas sounded like).

i mostly hate queen due to severe overexposure to their selection of overripe cheeses, but there are just enough likeable -if somewhat marginal- things about them that will give me pause from smashing the delete button should i ever manage to hack the mod account for this wretched planet:

- 'under pressure' is undeniably great
- hearing echoes of qawwali in some of freddie's singing, i totally warmed to him after i got into nusrat
- i started hating brian may's haircut a lot less when i realised it was basically an isaac newton tribute act
- the flash gordon soundtrack is amazing for weird space noises and goofy synth bombast
- that first solo album that roger taylor put out is also amazing in its own terrible way, i mean look at this thing (and also check out the song 'future management')

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aDgwrORiL._SY355_.jpg

- also the aforementioned 'cool cat'

https://media1.tenor.com/images/6ae79db3634273931f67f730b06db602/tenor.gif?itemid=14463002

Pom, you've never heard "Dust in the Wind" or "Carry On Wayward Son"?xps

looks like my highly controversial challops here is "Queen were ok and had a few pretty good songs"

Maybe I have, Sund4r, and I just don’t know it. Lemme check.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19PWdj9x860

I know nothing by Kansas or Styx, but haven't liked 90% of American rock music post-1975 that I've heard, so may not bother.

Re: Kansas, I recognized neither song, but they're both pretty good.

Their hits were ballads but their albums are full of wild-ass prog-rock suites with lots of violin.

Sounds up my alley. Which LP would you recommend as a starter?

Foreigner > REO Speedwagon > Styx > Journey > Kansas > Queen

Sounds up my alley. Which LP would you recommend as a starter?

Their first five studio albums - Kansas, Song For America, Masque, Leftoverture and Point Of Know Return - are all I know, but they're all great. "Icarus (Born on Wings of Steel)" from Masque is insane.

Cool, thanks.

My challop has been beaten.

ok but how is their 2020 album

Here you go:

https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65453

xxxxp I don’t really think of Queen as related to those other bands. (None of them had Freddie Mercury, for one thing.)