Please join me in enjoying Queen's "Brighton Rock."

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OH ROCK OF AGES
DO NOT CRUMBLE
LOVE IS BREATHING STILL!

OH LADY MOON
SHINE DOWN
A LITTLE PEOPLE MAGIC IF YOU WILL!

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

This song has it ALL I tell you. 5.10 of insane flair and bizarre whimsy and epic fucking grandeur. Queen's finest moment? Probably Brian May's. Freddie in top form as well with that falsetto. Exquisitely aged 70s hard rock of the highest quality. If only Led Zeppelin had always been this much fun.

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

SECONDED

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

The solo goes on a bit too long but otherwise, glorious. Besides, it invents the sound of the Smashing Pumpkins if not the thematics.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

it invents the sound of the Smashing Pumpkins

YOU RUINED IT FOR ME

(j/k)

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

The solo goes on a bit too long

I'd almost agree, but the excess-bordering-on-grotesquerie just suits the song so well.

Also please tell me which Smashing Pumpkins song to listen to that I will groove on as violently as I do "Brighton Rock." Seriously.

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Listen to "Jellybelly" sometime.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

seaside rendezvous!

(give us a kiss)

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

The whole Sheer Heart Attack album is amazing, and it pisses all over their supposed high-watermark "A Night At The Opera". SHA has Lap Of The Gods, Tenement Funster, Now I'm Here, She Makes Me, Stone Cold Crazy.....It's just fantastic

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

HELL yeah. I owned Sheer Heart Attack when it was quite recent, if not actually current ("Killer Queen" was the draw for twelve-year-old me). I remember "Stone Cold Crazy" with awe too, and "Now I'm Here" still echoes in my head at times: "...now I'm here ... now I'm there..." I had A Night At The Opera and possibly A Day at the Races as well (or was it News of the World?), but thirty years on, nothing on those had the staying power of the best songs on Sheer Heart Attack. Clearly it is high time to buy it again and reacquaint myself.

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I want to hear Sheer Heart Attack. I really like "Seven Seas of Rhye" on Queen II.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

gladly! *bangs head to hot riffs*

― 6335, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Well GOD FUCKING FORBID anyone should post such foolishness on I Love Music. Fun-hater.

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

are you talking to me, xero? i really do love this song! if not, carry on...

― 6335, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The Xmas spirit of glam/prog-rocking joy may have fatally skewed my perceptions of who is being a crab-ass fun-hater and who is not. Beg pardon.

IT'S SO GOOD TO KNOW THERE'S STILL A LITTLE MAGIC IN THE AIR!
I'LL WEAVE MY SPELL!

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

one of the bands i play in has discussed covering either this song or 'stone cold crazy'! and honestly, i'm a little frightened of both of them. (being the guitar player) it would be really fun, i just don't want to butcher it...

― 6335, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

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