Peak Freddie Mercury

[Burney]

This has mode half of AWIMB cry.

I don't really get why people get so exercised about Queen. Surely they come under the banner of 'a bit of harmless, silly fun'? And yet it seems to be a badge of music hipster pride to execrate them. Odd.

[redgunamo]

I don't really get why people get so exercised about Queen. Surely they come under the banner of 'a bit of harmless, silly fun'? And yet it seems to be a badge of music hipster pride to execrate them. Odd.

Right. Agreed.

[SWv2]

I don't really get why people get so exercised about Queen. Surely they come under the banner of 'a bit of harmless, silly fun'? And yet it seems to be a badge of music hipster pride to execrate them. Odd.

I am unsure how disliking them can equate to a badge of anything any more than hating any band can be seen as such.

[Sir C]

I don't really get why people get so exercised about Queen. Surely they come under the banner of 'a bit of harmless, silly fun'? And yet it seems to be a badge of music hipster pride to execrate them. Odd.

For some reason they have always made me angry and nauseous in equal measure. I've never really understood it; I don't feel that way about any other band, I don't think.

It may be related to a childhood filled with Bohemian Rhapsody constantly coming out of every radio.

[The Jorge]

For some reason they have always made me angry and nauseous in equal measure. I've never really understood it; I don't feel that way about any other band, I don't think.

It may be related to a childhood filled with Bohemian Rhapsody constantly coming out of every radio.

Dont stop me now should come with a trigger warning, it turns me into Jorge

[Sir C]

dont stop me now should come with a trigger warning, it turns me into jorge

now i've got a ****ing earworm you swine!

[The Jorge]

I don't really get why people get so exercised about Queen. Surely they come under the banner of 'a bit of harmless, silly fun'? And yet it seems to be a badge of music hipster pride to execrate them. Odd.

I resent their ubiquity and the fact I've had them inflicted on me far more than is humane, see also madonna and wham

[redgunamo]

I resent their ubiquity and the fact I've had them inflicted on me far more than is humane, see also madonna and wham

Ah. So you can actually acknowledge they all wrote some decent songs then, which is the important bit, after all?

[Ash]

Ah. So you can actually acknowledge they all wrote some decent songs then, which is the important bit, after all?

They were good, very good at what they did - from a technical perspective in terms of songwriting, arrangement and musicianship, and also from a commercial perspective where they press enough people's buttons to make them like it and buy it. So congratulations so far.

Aesthetically, however, they are not my cup pf tea. In fact they are my cup of coriander. Nauseiating, teeth-on-edge, and like an allergic reaction. I also find it simultaneously creepy, overblown, pompous, and yes, Burnley, quite frankly, uncool. In the same way that, for example, Ronald MacDonald is uncool.

[Sir C]

They were good, very good at what they did - from a technical perspective in terms of songwriting, arrangement and musicianship, and also from a commercial perspective where they press enough people's buttons to make them like it and buy it. So congratulations so far.

Aesthetically, however, they are not my cup pf tea. In fact they are my cup of coriander. Nauseiating, teeth-on-edge, and like an allergic reaction. I also find it simultaneously creepy, overblown, pompous, and yes, Burnley, quite frankly, uncool. In the same way that, for example, Ronald MacDonald is uncool.

Oh, in trendy urbanland, Ronald McDonald id uncool now?

Who is protecting you and yours from the Hamburglar, a? Answer me that!