Queen: Opinions Please...

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Just wanna know what the group feels about Queen...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 13 July 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 13 July 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

that rhymes

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 13 July 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

they rule. duh.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 13 July 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

one of the best singles careers ever. I can't bring myself to get into much of the albums, though.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 July 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

al, you should check out "a kind of magic", its great all the way through.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 13 July 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny, I always thought of Queen as one of the definitive album bands, at least until the 80s. That they managed to have hit singles before then is actually pretty amazing - how many other groups get away with releasing, much less hitting, with "Bohemian Rhapsody"?

― dleone (dleone), Sunday, 13 July 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Eloise

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Sunday, 13 July 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Queen was the most diverse rock band that may have ever been. It was scary how well they were able to tackle any style of music that they chose and achieve at the highest caliber possible.
Freddie Mercury had a voice that shall never be equaled...guitarist Brian May has one of the most distinct tones in all of rock music, and he was one of Zappa's favs so you know that he was top notch...Deacon and Taylor mostly kept it simple and focused on locking in tight, always showing their versatility while adapting to the many styles that the band dared to dabble in.
Just one hell of an amazing band.

― bahtology, Sunday, 13 July 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Queen rocks.

For the Flash Gordon soundtrack, if nothing else.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c854/c854097248u.jpg

even tho the stupid fuck that does the star ratings for AMG only gave it "2".

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 13 July 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing I love about Queen and hate about many other groups is that they veer into all sorts of different styles, rule them utterly, and (this is the difference) have so much fun doing it! For guys that were so serious about producing good music, they had a grand time putting it out there. They never pretended to be changing the world with Important Musical Ideas. They just changed your world by rocking it hard.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 July 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

they changed my world for the worse.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 13 July 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Individual songs on each album were so great that they never had to bother making a great album. I haven't heard all of Kind Of Magic but I'm tempted to believe it's one of their best, since Hot Space is tremendous and the decision to finally let Freddie Mercury sing everything (which happened around the same time they let in the synthesizers) was an excellent one. When they teamed up with fellow great song/filler-filled album artist David Bowie, they made the best song of all time. Fitting!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 13 July 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

OTM!!

They were unbelievably, head-smackingly great.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 13 July 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Queen: Opinions Please... ?

mine ain't much of an opinion really, it's more like a... no, not even a "taste", rather a Proustian "recollection of a smell", sort of

(the ILMers prone to machine gunning dirty jokes can take their shots here, evidently, but what i actually mean is)

- when hearing the early Queen albs for the first time in the mid-70s -- Sheer Heart Attack, II, A Night At The Opera, Queen, probably in that order -- i did have that teenage fan's feeling of intense happiness and great gratitude for the music: like, i was unexpectedly given a big bowl of huge oranges, and given quite a bit of time to peel 'em at leisure -- only for the juicy fruits to be suddenly taken away again, later on. hotdamn! (sometime 'round Hot Space, i gathered).
after that i've not bothered to have an opinion 'bout Queen one way or another, to tell the truth.
and by now i certainly don't care any more where the fk exactly that fruit bowl vanished, d'oh.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 13 July 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

''Queen was the most diverse rock band that may have ever been. It was scary how well they were able to tackle any style of music that they chose and achieve at the highest caliber possible.''

how do you know that? you've heard other bands attempt this? with whom are you comparing queen with?

''Freddie Mercury had a voice that shall never be equaled...guitarist Brian May has one of the most distinct tones in all of rock music, and he was one of Zappa's favs so you know that he was top notch''

to a lot of ppl that would be a negative.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 14 July 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Live Killers" and "News Of The World"!
A question for anyone who has seen Whitehouse perform live:
might have Wm. Bennett appropriated his swagger from Freddie Mercury?
and might he be too skinny for bicycle tights?

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Monday, 14 July 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Queen were untouchably brilliant, and you should be set on fire and thrown off a cliff onto a field of sharp, jagged rocks and broken glass if you think otherwise.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It's for sentences & sentiments like that that I [heart] Alex. He's right you know.

FWIW "Another One Bites the Dust" is one of the 5 funkiest songs ever recorded by a not-funk-band band and is 100% unfuckwithable. A Night At the Opera is one of the top 5 "classic rock" albums to listen to on headphones late at night when you're high. They're totally responsible for my late-teens 180 on big ridiculously bombastic rock. My opinion = shit yeah.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Why did he have that half-mic stand?

2. The other day, after not having shaved for a while, I shaved all my face except the mustache, and everyone told me I looked like Freddy Mercury. I don't have an overbite, though.

That is all.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

some of their albums are poor, but they were a great singles band. "Jazz" and "A Kind of Magic" are dreadful albums - but the run of "Sheer Heart Attack", "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races" (I *think* those three were in a row) is a damn good one. i'm of the opinion - and i may be alone here - that "play the game" was their best song.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i heart "in the lap of the gods" also.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jazz" and "A Kind of Magic" are dreadful albums

Once again, kilian's apparently drunk off his ass, because Jazz features the majesty of "Mustapha" and "Let Me Entertain You," and any album featuring tracks of that caliber should never be called "dreadful."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

CREEPY!

― kelly denison-cole (dustjacket), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, and "Don't Stop me Now" is unbelievably good. Actually I didn't think A Day at the Races was all that great.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I only own the greatest hits I and II, for reasons above, but I'm always happy being Mr. Fahrenheit!!!! -- actually found myself running down the street when that song came on me headphones, which was truly bizarre since I was headed to work.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Jazz has 'Bicycle Race' and (esp.) 'Fat Bottomed Girls', both of which are brilliant.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

alex uses "mustapha" as reason why "jazz" is good = He (and not me) is drunk off his ass. 10 year old kilian was greatly displeased when he bought that record and this was the first thing that came out of the speakers. "bicycle race" is one of queen's worst singles, too.

as for "a day at the races", any album that closes with "teo torriate" (contender for best queen non-single?) deserves praise. (a night at the opera was the first album i ever bought actually, i'd say i'd still enjoy most of it quite a bit)

you know, i'm starting to think "innuendo" may be underrated. great title track, i'm going slightly mad, the show must go on, bijou (another neglected gem) - what's not to love?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

''A question for anyone who has seen Whitehouse perform live:
might have Wm. Bennett appropriated his swagger from Freddie Mercury?
and might he be too skinny for bicycle tights?''

if whitehouse got some of their moves from queen then there's a reason to like them but this is negated by the fact that alex in nyc likes them ;-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

alex uses "mustapha" as reason why "jazz" is good

"Mustapha" is fucking GREAT, man.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

kilian is drunk off his ass

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I am the only in thsi thread who is sober.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

what's wrong with "mustapha"?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~bgwaters/q.html

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 14 July 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm glad to hear somebody else isn't moved by "Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls" either. Mustapha's ok, but overall Jazz is pretty weak. There's a reason they let the synths in.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 14 July 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

what's wrong with "mustapha"?

NOTHING. IS. WRONG. WITH. IT. !. IT'S. FUCKING. BRILLIANT!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

check out the Google homepage!

can't help but wonder if they know what the song is rumoured to be about. i'm betting not..

― piscesx, Monday, 5 September 2011 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

Being 8 years old when Freddie died, I remember there being a lot of TV programmes on about Queen and Freddie Mercury at that time, so for a few years until into my teens I'd always associated Queen as being a stadium-playing, tracksuit-wearing pop band that happened to have a piano ballad with an opera section in it. That all changed when I was about 14/15, I'd discovered a tape in my uncle's car with just the word 'Queen' written on it, which turned out to be the "Sheer Heart Attack" album. I was struck my how much the first track rocked - the frentic drumming, the rock licks, the soloing, the way that the tracks segued together to create a 'whole' work - just the sheer ambition of it. It just seemed far removed from stuff like 'I Want To Break Free', and 'A Kind Of Magic' - it had a musicality and a purpose to it, not to mention a complexity and energy. By the time the intro to the first "In The Lap Of The Gods" (not the revisited part) came on, I was sold. Having said that, I did get into some of their later stuff eventually, even though I don't think they made a GREAT album after at least 'Jazz', they were still capable of some incredible individual moments.

― Turrican, Monday, 5 September 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)

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