I tried listening to a Queen album a while back and there were like THREE 20s/30s pastiches on it - I thought, fuck this McCartneyesque empty eclecticism tbh.
― A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 May 2014 16:13 (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ah so this is the thread where I posted this. OTM, still.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 November 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
Queen is one of the best rock bands of all time fuiud― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, November 5, 2016 7:09 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, November 5, 2016 7:09 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
id
― 195,000 Momus Threads Can't Be RONG! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
i still can't get over the fact that Brian May played the same guitar that he made when he was a kid on every Queen album. that is just so endlessly cool to me! You think of all those big flashy rock bands with their truckloads of guitars...
I love that story about how when they were tracking "Crazy Little Thing..." it was decided they needed a Telecaster tone to achieve the desired Rockabilly feel, and Brian was all like, "Give me a couple hours, and I can make [my guitar] sound like a Tele!"--To which Mercury or somebody responded by having an engineer pull a Telecaster from the gear vault and saying something to the effect of, "No! Real Telecaster! You play--Now!"...and that ended up being the one song in the catalogue he didn't use his own guitar on.
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 November 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
haha
― brimstead, Sunday, 6 November 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
The solo to 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' was done on an Esquire, I think, even though he used a Tele in the vid.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 6 November 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
this is one of my fave things on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ_OamX-PA8
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 November 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
I think there's a video on Youtube from the early '80s where he just demonstrates riff after riff...
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 6 November 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Spent the afternoon reading this thread, it was fun!
― JacobSanders, Monday, 7 November 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
Few rock bands had every one of its members write songs, all of which were hits in some chart or other.
I just noticed that every member of Madness wrote songs - that's seven writers. I don't know if they all wrote hits but at least five of them did.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 November 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
TS: Queen vs Madness
― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 14 November 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
I'm afraid the Queen revival is over. In New Zealand.
(Note: smug man with cellphone = embattled deputy prime minister)
‘Listen up’ – Winston Peters plays Queen’s Radio Ga Ga to journalists during questioning of SFO investigation- https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/-listen-up-winston-peters-plays-queen-s-radio-ga-journalists-during-questioning-sfo-investigation
Just hope no politician tries to ruin the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
Dave Marsh otm
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 05:47 (four years ago) link