Bohemian Rhapsody

uninnocent

sometimes i wish that i didn't buy my girlfriend a queen piano book. anytime i'm at her place, she's playing bohemian rhapsody. i even bought her a gnr book to try and get some variety, but 4/5s of the time it's still rhapsody.

beside stairway in the rankings? i dunno, it is up there, but i don't know if it's quite that high.

glasshouse

if i never hear that song again it won't bother me in the slightest.
just not my thing i guess.

fada

1STmammal2wearPants wrote:

You're out of your freaking mind.

I never really warmed to Queen. I have their greatest hits but I won't say that I like alot of it. I'll grant you there were a great live band

Jeremy1012

I don't mean to come in and just make negative comments about Queen in this thread when I could just keep it to myself but I really would like some feedback on this. I just can't understand why anyone likes Queen Hands down the most annoying "respected" band I can think of. Is it really so genius that they had multi-layered harmonised vocals? No. They had been around in classical choral music for centuries. Is it the case that they were ridiculously pompous and overblown? Yes, without a doubt. What then is the attraction? I know people will say the music is catchy or something and that Mercury was an amazing vocalist or whatever but I just can't take the band seriously and when I want music that isn't serious, I'd go somewhere else for something far less annoying

writersu

Jeremy1012 wrote:

I don't mean to come in and just make negative comments about Queen in this thread when I could just keep it to myself but I really would like some feedback on this. I just can't understand why anyone likes Queen Hands down the most annoying "respected" band I can think of. Is it really so genius that they had multi-layered harmonised vocals? No. They had been around in classical choral music for centuries. Is it the case that they were ridiculously pompous and overblown? Yes, without a doubt. What then is the attraction? I know people will say the music is catchy or something and that Mercury was an amazing vocalist or whatever but I just can't take the band seriously and when I want music that isn't serious, I'd go somewhere else for something far less annoying

hey, speaking for myself, here, I don't go out of my way to listen to Queen, yes, there are many other very talented musicians who put out some very good songs that I prefer to listen to, but just answering your question is what I wanted to do, which I think, with all due respect is what you only wanted to do, right?

FnCircus

Mr. Mercury has my vote for the best SINGER and FRONTMAN of all time..........

writersu

F'n_Circus wrote:

Mr. Mercury has my vote for the best SINGER and FRONTMAN of all time..........

yeah, there is a lot to be said for originality, truthfully so I agree with you there. are you familar with T.Rex?

Danimal

I loved this song! Then came a long FUCKING Waynes World and ruined it!

P.S. All Queen songs rule!
Watch Austin Powers come out and sing every Queen song known to man and the band will be ruined for me!

FUCK YOU POP CULTURE!

writersu

Danimal wrote:

I loved this song! Then came a long FUCKING Waynes World and ruined it!

yeah, shwing!!!!

FnCircus

writersu wrote:

yeah, there is a lot to be said for originality, truthfully so I agree with you there. are you familar with T.Rex?

very minutely. Other than knowing Bolan's name and "Get it On", couldn't tell you another song. I did own Electric Warrior at one time......

writersu

F'n_Circus wrote:

very minutely. Other than knowing Bolan's name and "Get it On", couldn't tell you another song. I did own Electric Warrior at one time......

I have Electric Warrior and listen to it from time to time. It's not the best in literary music (I think) but he is someone who kind of reminds me of Freddie Mercury although the songs are different. He had some good songs on that like "Rip off" and that one (can't think of the name) that sounds like it should be played in a strip club. I think it's like "Lean Love" or something. I don't play it regularly but I do pull out when I get sick of my usual CDs, like when I listen to MaterialIssue just for the "Valerie loves me!" song.

eeriepadave

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

hauntingfamiliar

eeriepadave said:

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

Even if the audience was staged,  which it kind of looks like it was, that is really cool performance. It must have been so much fun to have been there!

PJ_Soul

If the crowd had been staged, they would have been a lot cooler and rocking out more, and not as focused on their stupid phones, lol. 

That would have been so neat to witness. So fun.