funny to me discussing Queen in the context of these other bands...I actually have a soft spot for them but always regarded it as something closer to musical theater
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
xp You people are weird.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
Ha, are there any Riley-like instrumental bits outside of the song named after him?
'Won't Get Fooled Again's outro, kind of.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
what about jim steinman productions in general: bonnie tyler, meatloaf, sisters of mercy, celine dion - and then what? nope, no-one cares
― Defund the indefensible (NickB)
Not among my friends! There was a period where we all got obsessed, and it's still generally accepted that STEINMAN RULES OK. Got to get that pomp fix.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
I have no idea what 'Don't Stop Me Now' sounds like either. It's not on the 1992 North American edition of their Greatest Hits.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
have to admit I was previously unaware of this connection between the Sisters of Mercy and Bonnie Tyler, Meatloaf and Celine Dion
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
Ha, yeah, I had a period of being really fascinated by Steinman. I don't think those things are forgotten here? Maybe it's just that we have a neighbour who blasted those Bonnie Tyler and Celine Dion things really loud through the summers, along with 80s Heart. We kept trying to imagine what their life was like, picturing a 50ish woman with bottles of wine and old photos.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
this one does the burbling synth trance-out thing pretty nicely, but then kind of morphs into a chemical brothers song 20 years ahead of its time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk9d3K383RA
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
Idk that he ever got much coverage in history books but looks like we've moved on from that.xp
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
haha, plz get him in for the next Slum of Legs album ok?
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, August 13, 2020 10:58 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
There's Townshend's 13-minute instrumental "Baba O'Riley" demo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xgugs1i_Y0
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Honestly, if we could, that would be the dream right there.
xp
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
Queen are okay but I'd rather never have to hear a single one of their songs ever again
I don't mind them but they almost never do as much for me as I feel like they should? I think Hadrian is right, though; if I think of them as an Andrew Lloyd Webber production, they're easily among his better ones. Drunk group "Bohemian Rhapsody" karaoke is fun, though.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
My loathing of musicals knows no bounds, so it's a wonder I've enjoyed some Queen songs in the past. And I do agree that 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is all-time, especially when booze is involved.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
Styx > Queen is my unbeatable challop.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
with all due respect
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
we are the challopians, my friend
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Domo Arigato, Mr. Challopo
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
If I'm not back again this time tomorrowChallop on, challop onAs if nothing really matters
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
"Don't Stop Me Now" seems to be about as well known in North America as Journey and Styx are in the UK. And Kansas.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
... the band. I mean, Journey and Styx are well known in Kansas, I assume.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
Based on singles, post-79 Styx and post-84 Queen about equally garbage imo.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
Kansas >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pre-1975 Styx >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> post-1975 Styx >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> having someone literally stuff human feces into your ears > Queen
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
Prepare to get ok boomer’d (I’d otm that if I knew what Kansas sounded like).
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
i mostly hate queen due to severe overexposure to their selection of overripe cheeses, but there are just enough likeable -if somewhat marginal- things about them that will give me pause from smashing the delete button should i ever manage to hack the mod account for this wretched planet:
- 'under pressure' is undeniably great- hearing echoes of qawwali in some of freddie's singing, i totally warmed to him after i got into nusrat- i started hating brian may's haircut a lot less when i realised it was basically an isaac newton tribute act- the flash gordon soundtrack is amazing for weird space noises and goofy synth bombast- that first solo album that roger taylor put out is also amazing in its own terrible way, i mean look at this thing (and also check out the song 'future management')
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aDgwrORiL._SY355_.jpg
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
- also the aforementioned 'cool cat'
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
https://media1.tenor.com/images/6ae79db3634273931f67f730b06db602/tenor.gif?itemid=14463002
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
Pom, you've never heard "Dust in the Wind" or "Carry On Wayward Son"?xps
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
looks like my highly controversial challops here is "Queen were ok and had a few pretty good songs"
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
Maybe I have, Sund4r, and I just don’t know it. Lemme check.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19PWdj9x860
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
I know nothing by Kansas or Styx, but haven't liked 90% of American rock music post-1975 that I've heard, so may not bother.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
Re: Kansas, I recognized neither song, but they're both pretty good.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Their hits were ballads but their albums are full of wild-ass prog-rock suites with lots of violin.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Sounds up my alley. Which LP would you recommend as a starter?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Foreigner > REO Speedwagon > Styx > Journey > Kansas > Queen
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
Their first five studio albums - Kansas, Song For America, Masque, Leftoverture and Point Of Know Return - are all I know, but they're all great. "Icarus (Born on Wings of Steel)" from Masque is insane.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Cool, thanks.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
My challop has been beaten.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
ok but how is their 2020 album
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Here you go:
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=65453
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
xxxxp I don’t really think of Queen as related to those other bands. (None of them had Freddie Mercury, for one thing.)
― Washington Foosball Team (morrisp), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
REO Speedwagon = don't knowJourney, Foreigner = know some songs, don't like any.My rankingLots of other music >>>>>>>>>> Queen >>>>>>>> all of these bands >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the poo in the ear thing
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
all we are is poo in the ear
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
genuine lol
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
All in all it's just a'nother poo in the ear
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
feel like this is where I should come in and say, controversially, that I quite like a lot of Queen songs
-Colonel Poo In The Ear
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
Note: I don't really like any of these bands that have been mentioned recently, being on this thread right now is like being at a Superbowl party, just to get out of the house.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
queen rules. queen haters are fuckin weird.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
i started hating brian may's haircut a lot less when i realised it was basically an isaac newton tribute act
omg
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link