OPO - Queen

it feels a bit like Judas Priest

This is good, though it hammers the point a bit.

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All I can think about when I hear “don’t stop me now” is how much coke they were doing

Somebody to Love, damn it.

I can't hear DSMN without thinking of Brian in a massive huff over most of the guitars being mixed out

It's p wild that I can remember a time when Led Zep/Doors/Floyd/Aerosmith loomed larger in the classic rock pantheon than Queen

Just incredible legs on this band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1oxQh8Z04

Me on A Day At The Races: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/queen-day-at-races.html

This is a really good review.

Hard for me to pick between From Father to Son or Who Wants to Live Forever... Maybe that "one" really is Under Pressure, argh

"Bicycle Race", my favourite fusion of the grandiose and the trivial.

..although if I picked a Brian May song, it would be "Long Away".

Is it weird my favorite Brian May song is '39?

That one Brian May wrote about his childhood cat 'All Dead, All Dead', makes me blub every time.

Just incredible legs on this band

― Whiney G. Weingarten,

ehhh have you seen Freddie in shorts

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article25451413.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/0_Queen-I-want-to-break-free-Video.jpg

Long Away is a good one for tricking a hater in to enjoying a Queen song

The thing I don’t like about them is that they seem so perfectionist / overstudied. Things like “fat bottom” and “crazy little thing” ..it’s like that turned rockabilly / 70s rock into something that would feel most at home in sheet music in a library rather than something with variables and imperfections

It works for some things but sometimes just comes across as lifeless and overly calculated

Even the eagles seem to have more swing than queen to me

I'm going to copy & paste my comment from the rolling TOTP thread: BoRhap sums up my feelings about Queen - when they put energy, enthusiasm, intelligence, and humour into their music, they were amazing. Without those ingredients, the same band produced songs that were empty scaffolding.

Even the eagles seem to have more swing than queen to me

Now that's just cruel.

"The Disco Strangler" vs. "Another One Bites the Dust"

i think Queen’s studied perfection is part of what makes them great. It’s like the oldschool drag ethos, you’re putting on a fucking SHOW for the children you HAVE to flawless or what are you doing. In that worldview , Imperfection = laziness.

like, they get kinda overlooked bc they were so prepackaged and ubiquitous and inescapable but the whole point of them is anyone can’t just roll out of bed & do what they do. it’s aspirational in an unattainable way, you can’t just do that in your garage. that’s why i love them

Otm. Plus, the band was unquestionably, supremely talented. Not just Freddie, who arguably was the best frontman ever, but the rest of the band too. Brian gets overlooked too often in discussions of great guitarists.

Yeah May is awesome. His solos are the best part of so many of their songs and he actually has the most swing out of any of them…