Queen: Classic Or Dud

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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)...

so, queen is to music what scarface is to film?

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Doesn't Paul mcartney hold the record for a Concert ?
this was also in Rio

There's a hell of a lot of Status Quo in there too. Especially the earlier years.

Actually, supposedly it's the fabled "Troggs tape" (capturing an especially dimwitted argument between band members in the studio) that was the real inspiration for Spinal Tap. Visually, though, it's all Saxon and Quo (with a dash of Motorhead in the form of Derek "Luke Warm Water" Smalls).

Ev'rytime I get hot
You wanna cool down
Ev'rytime I get high
You say you wanna come down
You say it's enough
In fact it's too much
Ev'rytime I get a
Get down get down get down
Make love

(Get down) I can squeeze - (make love) you can shake me
(Get down) I can feel - (make love) you can break me
(Get down) Come on so heavy (make love)
(Get down) When you take me (make love)
You make love you make love you make love you make
love
You can make ev'rybody get down make love
Get down make love

Ev'rytime I get high
You wanna come down
Ev'rytime I get hot
You say you wanna cool down
You say it's enough
In fact it's too much
Ev'rytime I wanna get down get down get down

Get down make love
Get down make love
Get down make love
Get down make love

Ev'rytime I get hot
You wanna cool down
Ev'rytime I get high
You say you wanna come down
You say it's enough
In fact it's too much
Ev'rytime I wanna
Get down get down
Get down make love

I have things to say about Queen in tandem with the Sweet, coming up in the rolling 1974 blogpost circa November 2010...

Had a dark period from "New Of The World" through to "Hot Space" though, where none of their output was quite up with their best. However, "The Works" was a great return to form, and they also went on to create other great albums such as "A Kind Of Magic" and "Innuendo" before Freddie died.

"GIMME THE PRIZE!"

i love queen so much. was listening to the newish greatest hits, the longer one cuz it was at the wal-mart in my hometown for $5...tracklist is kind of weird, cuz it loses "keep yourself alive" off the old one and now includes "body language" (yuk).

funny i was thinking that geir must love the fuck out of queen...they are so harmonically complex and melodic they make the beatles sound like david banner taking a dump on pissed jeans. also, they probably more than any other band make use of pre-rock and tin pan alley style stuff, broadway show tunes and all...seems like geir rock 2 da extreme.

David Bowie, among others, beat 'em to the Tin Pan Alley/British vaudeville love.

A special on Freddy Mercury on the gay channel makes it seem like it was all his doing, although I suspect this was not really so.

Good lord, did some of the posters upthread/6 years ago seem like miserable people…

At times, I think I love Queen more than I love any musical entity ever…

the gay channel? y'mean Logo?

That's it.

>>they later symbolised all the most contemptibly macho elements of 80s >>corporate / stadium rock

This is so stupidly mean-spirited it's almost amusing. Yeah, as a campy gay guy Freddy sure was one hell of a macho dude in the Eighties. Ronnie van Zant and Ted Nugent, stand aside for Fred!

I'd think a lot can't get over the ubiquitous football cheerization of "We Will Rock You" -- which is not exactly Queen's fault.

I'm so glad to see all the Highlander love here. As ridiculously melodramatic as it is, "Who Wants to Live Forever" totally jerks a tear from me every time.

Queen ruled in the 70s. But they're still nowhere as consistent as Judas Priest.

I think it's important to note that the two greatest male rock voices ever are from dudes that took it up the ass.

anybody who says "dud" admits to being attracted to Dabney Coleman.

Definite classic. and not for their singles. not saying they're bad, but they don't represent their best work.

"Night at the Opera" and "Queen II" are their best works. Pompous yes. Fun? Hell yes.

They started going downhill around Jazz--News of the World is the best of their more "2 minute pop song" era.

Hear, Hear! Altho' I wouldn't assume that either were/are bottoms…Hot Space obviously is where Fred made the kind of music played in the joints he frequented…it's as sleazy as any Patrick Hernandez song evah…

just about every record—barring the Miracle, the only album I don't much like— has astoundingly great hidden gems. You wanna talk "tear to the eye?" Try "Made in Heaven," Fred's "I'm going down swinging" tune: May's clarion harmonized guitar parts are agonizing, and it's much much better than "The Show Must Go On."

well I was trying to say News of the World was better than Jazz but I effed it up with the "--". :) Jazz had some great songs too, but a bit of filler.

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