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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 22:25:52 GMT
The only thing worse than listening to Queen, is having to watch the horrible, glorified Lifetime Network movie based on Queen
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Nov 28, 2019 12:57:24 GMT
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Post by fonz on Nov 28, 2019 12:57:24 GMT
They’re one of those groups that just ‘are’ and always have been. Inescapable. The music may have been tolerable, up to a point. In fact, ‘We are the Champions’ was the first record I asked for when I was a boy. I thought it was marvellous. Forty-odd years later my 9 yr old loves them.
Listening to them now feels like a chore, and I dread it.
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Nov 28, 2019 16:03:32 GMT
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Post by fearlessfreap on Nov 28, 2019 16:03:32 GMT
The highs were high and the lows were lows and I’m only talking about the 70’s. They weren’t popular here in the 80’s so I never heard them. The thing I didn’t like was the campy McCartney granny crap like Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon and Good Old Fashioned Loverboy which we’re as insufferable as Ob La Di and When I’m 64 and the Broadway shit—Was Don’t Stop Me Now a hit in the UK? It was buried on one of their lesser lp’s here and I never noticed it, but now it’s one of their most popular songs, and I can’t stand it. I expect a big dance routine would go with it as the hero of the show cavorts about on a staircase before taking Manhattan by storm. I saw them in concert in 1976 on the Night At the Opera tour with Thin Lizzy. It was pretty good but I preferred Lizzy.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2019 17:19:01 GMT
Was Don’t Stop Me Now a hit in the UK? It was buried on one of their lesser lp’s here and I never noticed it, but now it’s one of their most popular songs, and I can’t stand it. I expect a big dance routine would go with it as the hero of the show cavorts about on a staircase before taking Manhattan by storm. It was a pretty sizeable hit in the UK at the time, but, like a lot of their stuff it became a bit forgotten. But post Live Aid all this stuff started coming back. It feels like Queen are bigger today than when they were going. There's an interesting snippet on the success of the song currently in The States.
“You might have noticed a new commercial promoting the new season of American Idol. It was a 90-second music video featuring a dozen or so bright-eyed contestants, all of whom gleefully belted lines from a beloved song that has felt particularly ubiquitous as of late. No, it wasn’t “Shallow,” or “Thank U, Next” — it was Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” a classic-rock energizer that has, in the last six months alone, also been featured in commercials for Toyota, Silk almond milk, Amazon and L’Oreal. In the latter spot, Camila Cabello lip-syncs to the 41-year-old song as she dances and applies her lipstick. “Don’t Stop Me Now” is not only one of the band’s most treasured cuts, but one of the most popular songs of its entire era. On Sunday, March 3, it eclipsed 500 million plays on Spotify — nearly double that of any Rolling Stones, U2 or Led Zeppelin song on the service.”[7]
I mean that Spotify fact is just nuts, but teens and people in their twenties seem to love them.
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Post by quaco on Nov 30, 2019 6:28:59 GMT
Not a note wrong for four massively great, ambitious albums. Before and (especially) after that, there's bad and good. They can thrill me like little else, but when they're doing things I don't care for, I tire of them REALLY quick.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Nov 21, 2020 16:49:05 GMT
Queen unleashed their fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera, on Nov. 21, 1975, and were transformed from fast rising stars into a household name. With the luxury of considering Queen's entire career in hindsight, there's little doubt that A Night at the Opera is the group's ultimate tour de force.
Their other albums can't paint as comprehensive, awe-inspiring and definitive a picture of what Queen stood for and accomplished quite like A Night at the Opera did. Even the group's similarly eclectic and ambitious third LP, Sheer Heart Attack, was ultimately aspiring to what A Night at the Opera became – just as every Queen LP in its wake attempted to replicate its magic, if not always its every unpredictable move.
Read More: How Queen Completed Their Masterpiece 'A Night at the Opera' | ultimateclassicrock.com/queen-a-night-at-the-opera/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
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Post by daveythefatboy on Nov 21, 2020 16:56:57 GMT
The less Queen I hear, the more I think of them as something truly special and infused with imagination, fun and invention. The more Queen I hear, the less that opinion holds up.
So I try hard to hear very little Queen.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2020 17:33:58 GMT
They are Britain's favourite band ever. Way bigger than the Beatles. I like two of their songs. I have been ridiculed my whole life for not liking Queen .The reaction in a pub when I groaned oh no as they were announced as the next act on Live Aid had to be seen to be believed. They are ,as I said,this countries darlings.
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Nov 21, 2020 17:40:52 GMT
Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2020 17:40:52 GMT
They are Britain's favourite band ever. Way bigger than the Beatles. I like two of their songs. I have been ridiculed my whole life for not liking Queen .The reaction in a pub when I groaned oh no as they were announced as the next act on Live Aid had to be seen to be believed. They are ,as I said,this countries darlings. They are. But I get the impression most don't delve too deeply into them.
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Nov 21, 2020 20:42:16 GMT
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Post by fange on Nov 21, 2020 20:42:16 GMT
Triple M, arguably Australia's most popular and widespread "classic rock" radio station network, recently ran a listeners vote, and the punters voted Queen as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time).
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Sept 29, 2023 11:01:57 GMT
Post by Stacy Heydon on Sept 29, 2023 11:01:57 GMT
It's their emptiness that has made them so lasting. They can't be tied to an era because there's no real content.
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Sept 29, 2023 11:12:47 GMT
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Post by riggers on Sept 29, 2023 11:12:47 GMT
Triple M, arguably Australia's most popular and widespread "classic rock" radio station network, recently ran a listeners vote, and the punters voted Queen as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). I stated my views on Queen on another thread, but just wanted to say how much I fucking LOATHE that expression. Young people actually say the word 'Goat', don't they? Sub human scum. 😡
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Post by fearlessfreap on Sept 29, 2023 11:35:14 GMT
Triple M, arguably Australia's most popular and widespread "classic rock" radio station network, recently ran a listeners vote, and the punters voted Queen as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). I stated my views on Queen on another thread, but just wanted to say how much I fucking LOATHE that expression. Young people actually say the word 'Goat', don't they? Sub human scum. 😡 I don't know if it's young people as much as our incredibly lame press who also like to say that projects "dropped," call asshole politicians "firebrands," and use the phrase "clap back" when a celebrity responds to an insult.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 29, 2023 14:45:45 GMT
It's their emptiness that has made them so lasting. They can't be tied to an era because there's no real content. Really G? In a way it's odd to see them endure but as a long term fan it does warm the cockles a bit. I doubt Da Kids are listening to Queen 2 and thinking "this is great!" but clearly the big hits have staying power and a musicality that has endured. Maybe they are the rock ABBA or something.
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Post by adamcoan on Sept 29, 2023 15:15:31 GMT
It's their emptiness that has made them so lasting. They can't be tied to an era because there's no real content. Really G? In a way it's odd to see them endure but as a long term fan it does warm the cockles a bit. I doubt Da Kids are listening to Queen 2 and thinking "this is great!" but clearly the big hits have staying power and a musicality that has endured. Maybe they are the rock ABBA or something. There's no 'maybe' about it.
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