Peak Freddie Mercury

[redgunamo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0

[Ash]

This has mode half of AWIMB cry. :-(

[SWv2]

While I don't wish him dead, the fact that he is doesn't upset me in any way.

Queen out.

[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]

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

[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

[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.

[Ash]

And Jorge, you *******, just mentioning the name of that song has set the infernal thing off in my mind and I am feeling unwell. :-(

[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? :rolleyes:

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

[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!

[Burney]

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.

As a kid, they were a sort of gateway drug into pop/rock/whatever. Before I was hugely concerned about cool or whatnot, I loved them. Of course, as I grew older I moved on to more sophisticated, less silly, more authentic stuff, but I retain an affection for them because they were fun, wrote good tunes and didn't appear to take themselves terribly seriously.

[Pat Vegas]

Did you know Freddie Mercury was buried face down?

[The Jorge]

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

Nope, I've not heard one that doesnt make me want to hit things

[redgunamo]

Nope, I've not heard one that doesnt make me want to hit things

That's not really what I meant, but I'll run with it. Give an example of a song that doesn't make you want to hit things, something you'd sing cheerfully in the bath.

[Pat Vegas]

I only like 1 queen song.
Breakthru as it was on a hockey video I had when I was a kid.

[IUFG]

aren't/weren't Queen just a novelty act, really?

An early precursor to other ****. Like The Darkness?

[redgunamo]

aren't/weren't Queen just a novelty act, really?

An early precursor to other ****. Like The Darkness?

Yeah, but which pop group *isn*t* a novelty act?

[Burney]

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

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

Surely that was the job of Officer Big Mac?

73

[Pat Vegas]

The Darkness were more of a deliberate cheesy band playing homage to what they liked.
They are clearly talented musicians.

Queen belongs in the theatre.

[Burney]

aren't/weren't Queen just a novelty act, really?

An early precursor to other ****. Like The Darkness?

Novelty acts don't sell that many records or fill that many stadia or get that much airtime.

[redgunamo]

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.

Seems a bit harsh, to me. Surely you just do whatever works best, don't you?

[The Jorge]

That's not really what I meant, but I'll run with it. Give an example of a song that doesn't make you want to hit things, something you'd sing cheerfully in the bath.

People=**** by Slipknot

[redgunamo]

People=**** by Slipknot

Then you, sir, are fit only for treasons, stratagems and spoils, I'm afraid.

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

Queen WERE (I use past tense since some of them seem hellbent on carrying on as a travesty act), at moments in their career, pure genius. Aside from some very diverse and brilliantly composed songs (and plenty of duds too), they were also, as individual musicians, inimitable, from Freddie's unique voice and camp charisma, through May's unique guitar tone and harmonies, to the very underrated John Deacon, who's absence from their current "line up" is quite telling. Pity the Freddie biopic will be so tame and pointless, thanks to may and taylor being insistent on the final part of the film focussing on "how the band carried on after Freddie", pff.