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

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.)

REO Speedwagon = don't know
Journey, Foreigner = know some songs, don't like any.

My ranking

Lots of other music >>>>>>>>>> Queen >>>>>>>> all of these bands >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the poo in the ear thing

all we are is poo in the ear

genuine lol

All in all it's just a
'nother poo in the ear

feel like this is where I should come in and say, controversially, that I quite like a lot of Queen songs

-Colonel Poo In The Ear

Note: I don't really like any of these bands that have been mentioned recently, being on this thread right now is like being at a Superbowl party, just to get out of the house.

queen rules. queen haters are fuckin weird.

i started hating brian may's haircut a lot less when i realised it was basically an isaac newton tribute act

omg

I think my block with Queen might be that I don't really understand camp aesthetics. I feel like there's some kind of ironic distance with all of their stuff that leaves me cold more often than it makes me smile.

Entirely with you on that. It's fun for a spell or two when you're hanging out with friends but as a solitary listening experience, which is how I engage with music 99% of the time, I fail to hear the appeal.

lol trying to imagine putting on headphones and listening to "We Will Rock You"

from the "reception" section on the wiki entry for Don't Stop Me Now, featuring a former-ilxor:

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that the "astonishing" song "may be Queen’s greatest song of all." He felt it was "a direct product of [Mercury's] hedonism and promiscuity: an unrepentant, joyous, utterly irresistible paean to gay pleasure-seeking. You find yourself wondering if its title might not have been aimed at his censorious bandmates."[14] Mike Orme of Stylus Magazine ranked it the 7th greatest penultimate track on an album, calling it Queen's "most flamboyant and energetic single" and commenting: "Essentially three and a half minutes of Freddie Mercury jacking the mike from the rest of the world, the song offers him a chance to let us know just how much fun he’s having in the spotlight."[15] Billboard Magazine praised Brian May's guitar solo and also stated that "less gimmick laden" than Queen's previous single from Jazz, "Bicycle Race"/"Fat Bottomed Girls," "while still retaining the brazen braggadocio of Freddie Mercury's lead vocals."[16]
Despite its popularity, Brian May was not a fan of the song as he felt it was celebrating the hedonistic and risky lifestyle of Mercury.[17] He added that he struggled with the lyrics at the time, because it was about a difficult period in Freddie's life when the singer was "taking lots of drugs and having sex with lots of men."[18][19]

Mike Orme of Stylus Magazine ranked it the 7th greatest penultimate track on an album

Did he then hang himself upon realizing this was what he did for a living?

lol trying to imagine putting on headphones and listening to "We Will Rock You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlxE0SjnctM

Put on headphones and listen to “It’s Late”!

That Youtube is p impressive tbf.

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

― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin)

QUEEN > JOURNEY > FOREIGNER > REO > STYX > KANSAS

Fixed that for you

STYX, REO and KANSAS I would rate about the same level tbh.

I'd definitely listen to Kansas before any of those others

where does Camel fit into this

I don’t think any of those bands are terrible, but placing Queen underneath them is quite the subjective opinion.

And I don’t even like Queen that much.

I have never heard a Camel song in my life. Maybe they are a good answer to this thread, they seemed pretty canonical if you were into prog rock three or four decades ago.