Bohemian Rhapsody

tonadax
tonadax Posts: 594
edited January 2008 in Other Music
This song it's one of the greatest of all time and, have it all: piano, opera, guitar riff, guitar solo, low and super high vocal range, it's an masterpiece

Do you would put Bohemian Rhapsody next to Staiway to Heaven in terms of greatness?
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  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    absolutely.
  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Yup. Awesome awesome song.
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    *faints*

    oh my god I love the song!!

    you can't listen to Bohemian Rhapsody and not be moved by it in some way.

    and I don't think you can compare it to anything. (at least none of the songs I've heard in my lifetime.) it's just WOW. :D
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  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    tonadax wrote:
    This song it's one of the greatest of all time and, have it all: piano, opera, guitar riff, guitar solo, low and super high vocal range, it's an masterpiece

    Do you would put Bohemian Rhapsody next to Staiway to Heaven in terms of greatness?

    It's a great song.
    For me ledzep are such sacred ground though... I think Mercury and co. were more than just musicians, and genius at what they were doing, but Stairway has an untouchability about it... Bohemian has a caricaturesque quality about it, on the other hand.
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • stateoflove79
    stateoflove79 Posts: 2,845
    Fantastic song...whenever I call my wife's cell phone from home, that song plays for her. Queen is one of her favorite bands.
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Great song but I am at the point where I am very sick of hearing it
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  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    A good song but I think that Hey jude is better than both.

    The rest of Queen material isn't anything special.
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    i listened to it for years in the waynes world days, then gave it a rest and was recently re-blown away by how amazing it is. one of the most unique songs ever. have you guys seen them perform the first part of it at live aid? pretty good. queen in general rocks. i have two dvds, the bowl, and wembley, but i want to get the new one in montreal, has anybody heard about it or got it for christmas?
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,999
    fada wrote:
    The rest of Queen material isn't anything special.

    You're out of your freaking mind.
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  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    fada wrote:
    A good song but I think that Hey jude is better than both.

    The rest of Queen material isn't anything special.
    Zuh?

    Have you never heard Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Bicycle Race, Flash, We are the Champions, We Will Rock You, I Want to Break Free, I Want it All, The Show must Go On, Another one Bites the dust, Under Pressure, Fat Bottomed Girls, Killer Queen and so forth?
    I could go on for a long long time. Queen were an amazing band.
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  • Fender_Man
    Fender_Man Posts: 408
    I grew up with Queen. A Night At The Opera was the first LP I ever owned. Can't say I listen to them much now, but it's hard to argue about the quality of their music (especially the first 6 or seven albums). They will always be a special band IMO. Saw them live 3 times (the youtube clip below is from the second time) and they were as good live as anyone I've seen.
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    1STmammal2wearPants wrote:
    You're out of your freaking mind.


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  • Ricsard
    Ricsard Posts: 1,943
    tonadax wrote:
    This song it's one of the greatest of all time and, have it all: piano, opera, guitar riff, guitar solo, low and super high vocal range, it's an masterpiece

    Do you would put Bohemian Rhapsody next to Staiway to Heaven in terms of greatness?

    DEFINITELY I WOULD!!!


    And we shouldn't forget about

    Innuendo, The SHow Must Go On, Headlong, Friends Will Be Friends, Radio Ga-Ga, Princess Of The Universe, One Vision, A Kind Of Magic, Stone Cold Crazy!!!


    There are very few bands that had more major hits than fuckin' Queen!!! They are amongst the very best bands EVER without any doubts and Freddie was a truly hypnothic and fantastic frontman! Should I praise Brian May's characteristic guitar sound???;)
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    I love this song! One of the greatest ever written, for sure. And i just learned recently that it was the number 1 song in england the week i was born. bohemian rhapsody and under pressure are 2 of my all time favorite songs...
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  • i like matt.c
    i like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    Eddie Better wrote:
    I love this song! One of the greatest ever written, for sure. And i just learned recently that it was the number 1 song in england the week i was born. bohemian rhapsody and under pressure are 2 of my all time favorite songs...
    Under Pressure is a masterpiece!
  • writersu
    writersu Posts: 1,867
    tonadax wrote:
    This song it's one of the greatest of all time and, have it all: piano, opera, guitar riff, guitar solo, low and super high vocal range, it's an masterpiece

    Do you would put Bohemian Rhapsody next to Staiway to Heaven in terms of greatness?


    yeah, but I will never be able to hear Boheniam Rhapsody without thinking of Wayne's World, right?

    I was in high school when Bohemian Rhapsody came out (I guess Stairway to Heaven as well) and the song was one of those songs you sing along with meaning as you sing. The part he is talking to his Mom was always so deep. I am not sure if that is the effect it would have now, but then it was.
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    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I recall being three when the song was first released. It was the soundtrack to Christmas 1975, in my memory, and I remember it being on Top of the Pops. That's when Christmas was Christmas.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    tonadax wrote:

    Would you put Bohemian Rhapsody next to Stairway to Heaven in terms of greatness?

    No, I'd put it miles ahead of Stairway, which bores me until my piss comes out in lumps.
  • writersu
    writersu Posts: 1,867
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    Zuh?

    Have you never heard Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Bicycle Race, Flash, We are the Champions, We Will Rock You, I Want to Break Free, I Want it All, The Show must Go On, Another one Bites the dust, Under Pressure, Fat Bottomed Girls, Killer Queen and so forth?
    I could go on for a long long time. Queen were an amazing band.


    I think that you have to think of the time that the songs were written and given that, it really got itself out of the box so to speak and gave Queen some notoriety that they may not have had prior to the songs mentioned. Just like when you see The Rocky Horror Picture Show, it may not be much compared to these days and what is out there----(hell PG13 is sometimes too much for me----even in cartoon form----but back to the point), but think about it's original timeframe and it's pretty out there---with the whole transvestite thing, you know?
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    fada wrote:
    A good song but I think that Hey jude is better than both.

    The rest of Queen material isn't anything special.

    Check out anything from Queen II through The Game. Compared to a lot of other 70's stuff, they were incredible and managed to work prog, rock, pop, metal, classical, operatic and folk music into a beautiful conglomerate.
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