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Re: The Queen Thread
« Reply #455 on: December 10, 2014, 07:16:11 PM »
Because of the Brian May vs. JP thread in the DT forum, I decided to listen to the entire Queen discography again. Still amazing.

In that other thread, somebody said that Queen did not delve into metal. I disagree. They did. What do you think are the Queen songs that could qualify as metal (or approach close to what we know as metal)? I will give a few.

Flick of the Wrist
Son and Daughter
Stone Cold Crazy
Ogre Battle (one of my top
Gimme the Prize
Death on Two Legs (portions, it's like a cross between hard rock and metal)
Innuendo (I love how prog this song sounds)
The Hitman

Add to the middle of Father to Son to this list.  Queen rarely got as dark and heavy as they did there, but man, that is some heavy shit.  :metal :metal

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« Reply #456 on: December 11, 2014, 06:02:56 AM »
There is indeed no denying quite some metal bands (especially powermetal) have a lot of Queen influences in their songs.

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« Reply #457 on: December 11, 2014, 07:00:28 PM »
After going through my latest run through the Queen discography, I find myself appreciating The Game more. It has a lot of songs I really like, and I actually find it a better listen than ADATR.

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« Reply #458 on: December 12, 2014, 03:35:56 AM »
Also, I would just like to share that because I am now a full time academic, I am happy that i finally can download Brian May's researches. LOL. Here is a published article that follows up on his published PhD thesis. https://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/429/4/2894.full.pdf+html Pretty deep stuff there for our astrophysicist guitarist. :p

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« Reply #459 on: December 12, 2014, 07:43:21 AM »
I am very close to the academic world (as in still studying but probably not going to do a PhD), it is really weird to see such a serious publication by May, haha. Awesome stuff.

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« Reply #460 on: December 12, 2014, 10:53:18 AM »
Yeah, very cool. Just skimmed through the thing, and it's funny to read "was initially investigated by May in 1966 .... further developed by May in 2007". I guess there was a band called Queen in the middle :lol

Watching the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert right now. Gotta say, Hetfield does a pretty good job at Stone Cold Crazy.
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« Reply #461 on: December 12, 2014, 11:16:11 AM »
I loved Extreme at the Tribute Concert.  I haven't watched that in a while.
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« Reply #462 on: December 13, 2014, 09:01:40 AM »
This reminds me that I still need to get the Blu-ray of the Freddie Mercurty tribute concert, which has all of that early stuff from the concert that was omitted from the original DVD release, including that stellar Extreme medley.

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« Reply #463 on: December 13, 2014, 10:53:19 AM »
Damn Kev!  I didn't know about the Blu-Ray!  I'm on it!
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« Reply #464 on: December 13, 2014, 11:23:38 AM »
Yeah, that Extreme medley was sweet.  I remember watching it when it was originally broadcast, and thinking that the vocals were just perfect for Queen.  Then it wasn't on the DVD, and I was sad.

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« Reply #465 on: December 15, 2014, 06:23:54 AM »
Yeah, that Extreme medley was sweet.  I remember watching it when it was originally broadcast, and thinking that the vocals were just perfect for Queen.  Then it wasn't on the DVD, and I was sad.

Another sad thing is, most of the available videos cut off the "Love of My Life / More Than Words" portion at the end. True, Gary's vocal wasn't great at that time, but Nuno's guitar playing was superb! Luckily I have both the medley and acoustic portions on a bootleg cd of Extreme.
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« Reply #466 on: December 15, 2014, 08:06:02 AM »
So what do you guys think is the ultimate Queen DVD/Blueray?

I always thought Live in Montreal was amazing, that Freddie's vocals were at their best there. But the new Rainbow Blueray is really awesome as well!
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« Reply #467 on: December 15, 2014, 10:50:27 AM »
I only have Montreal, so I can't compare them, but the Montreal Blu-ray (with the Live Aid stuff as "bonus") is pretty amazing.

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« Reply #468 on: December 15, 2014, 03:37:59 PM »
The Rainbow DVD is excellent indeed.
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« Reply #469 on: December 15, 2014, 03:40:24 PM »
Speaking of Extreme, I remember seeing Brian May at the Garden on St. Patty's Day '93 (opening for GnR) and Gary Cherone came out and sang Tie Your Mother Down.
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« Reply #470 on: December 21, 2014, 08:34:19 PM »
I played lots of Queen again today, and I have to say that John Deacon is very underrated. Amazing bass playing, he seems to be always lost in talks about Queen's musicianship.

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« Reply #471 on: December 22, 2014, 06:35:58 AM »
+1

His bass line on Radio GaGa is pretty cool.

Again though I think it's the early albums where he shines. Millionaire Waltz from a Day at the Races - the intro where it's just him and Freddie on the piano - it's nicely sublime.
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« Reply #472 on: July 03, 2015, 06:17:22 PM »
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« Reply #473 on: July 03, 2015, 06:59:03 PM »
Queen was awesome, and one of many great things about them is that even their worst albums all mostly still had at least a few great songs, except for, well, Hot Space. :lol :lol

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« Reply #474 on: July 03, 2015, 07:24:24 PM »
Queen was awesome, and one of many great things about them is that even their worst albums all mostly still had at least a few great songs, except for, well, Hot Space. :lol :lol

I actually kind of like Hot Space, to be honest with you. Definitely NOT my fav Queen album, but I like Staying Power, Life Is Real, Las Palabras De Amor etc. Those are cool songs, dude. And then there are songs like Cool Cat (have you heard the unreleased version in which David Bowie was in it?) and Body Language. Which established band would dare to do that kind of experiment? Oh, and this is how I like Queen.  :tup
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« Reply #475 on: July 03, 2015, 08:31:35 PM »
Yes, part of Queen's greatness was them never being afraid to try almost anything, but I just think that Hot Space is mostly a big swing and a miss.  To each his own. :hat

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« Reply #476 on: July 03, 2015, 08:36:52 PM »
To me Hot Space is actually 2nd bottom. Absolute bottom is Flash Gordon. It's not even an album really.
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« Reply #477 on: July 03, 2015, 08:47:43 PM »
To me Hot Space is actually 2nd bottom. Absolute bottom is Flash Gordon. It's not even an album really.

You're not into soundtrack music, are you?   Flash Gordon....as a soundtrack album....is a freakin masterpiece. 
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« Reply #478 on: July 03, 2015, 08:57:57 PM »
I usually love movie soundtracks. But that requires that the tracks can stand on their own, without the movie. Flash Gordon, to me, is mostly just sound effects and movie samples that make no sense without the movie.
To me, personally, that "album" was just a way of cashing in (because of the Queen name), as it should never have been separated from the movie it was written for.
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« Reply #479 on: July 03, 2015, 09:36:53 PM »
I usually love movie soundtracks. But that requires that the tracks can stand on their own, without the movie. Flash Gordon, to me, is mostly just sound effects and movie samples that make no sense without the movie.
To me, personally, that "album" was just a way of cashing in (because of the Queen name), as it should never have been separated from the movie it was written for.

You mean Flash Gordon the movie actually makes sense?  :lol

Man, I still love that scene in Ted.  :lol
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« Reply #480 on: July 03, 2015, 10:04:02 PM »
Just to clarify...I'm talking about REAL movie soundtracks.  Not soundtrack albums like Footloose or Top Gun.   What they call "Original Score" albums these days.  That's what Flash Gordon is.   

I'll agree it's not really a proper Queen album.   But as an Original Score, I think the album is absolutely amazing.
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« Reply #481 on: July 03, 2015, 10:32:30 PM »
As an example, I loooove the Back to the Future soundtracks, particularly the ones for the sequels. They are true soundtracks (not just collections of songs played during the movie, like A Kind Of Magic), but Sivestris orchestration stands up on its own really well.
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« Reply #482 on: July 08, 2015, 06:16:28 AM »
Lousy quality, but here's Brian May playing God Save The Queen on top of the Buckingham Palace in 2002 :metal

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« Reply #483 on: July 08, 2015, 10:51:17 PM »
Heh, I guess he still dyed his hair in those days :lol
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« Reply #484 on: July 09, 2015, 06:39:53 AM »
It's a "The Miracle" kind of day today.
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« Reply #485 on: July 09, 2015, 07:23:33 AM »
Onto, "The Works".
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« Reply #486 on: September 16, 2015, 11:48:09 PM »
My favorite   :hat
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« Reply #487 on: September 17, 2015, 12:54:14 AM »
Actually stumbled onto something called 'The man from Manhattan'. It's Brian May, Freddie Mercury and two other dudes....haven't listened to it yet, will keep you posted.
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« Reply #488 on: September 17, 2015, 08:22:34 AM »
Yeah, that Extreme medley was sweet.  I remember watching it when it was originally broadcast, and thinking that the vocals were just perfect for Queen.  Then it wasn't on the DVD, and I was sad.

Another sad thing is, most of the available videos cut off the "Love of My Life / More Than Words" portion at the end. True, Gary's vocal wasn't great at that time, but Nuno's guitar playing was superb! Luckily I have both the medley and acoustic portions on a bootleg cd of Extreme.

Memory is what memory is, but literally the one song from the entire Tribute show that I want to hear again - Plant's "Innuendo" - is not on either release at Plant's request.  He's a dick like that (see: Live Aid) and now I wish I recorded it (as I did with Live Aid). 

As for Queen, that live disk at the Rainbow is the standard by which others should be judged; holy crap is that good.  Queen II is my favorite Queen album by a lot, so that helps, but still...

As for the catalogue, well, sometimes the eclecticism is a little too much, and some of Freddie's little ditties are a shade too twee for me.  A Night At The Opera is a colossal accomplishment, but to listen to it in one setting is therefore not something I do often and keeps it from being one of my overall favorites (unlike Queen II which is almost perfect, and "Funny How Love Is..." sublime).   

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« Reply #489 on: September 17, 2015, 11:50:30 AM »
Queen II is awesomely good.

But people forget who good some of the deep cuts from Night at the opera are. Like Prophet Song. Holy crap. ´The earth will shake in two will break and death all around will be your doury.´

Also, ´I´m in love with my car´, My sweet lady, ´39´,  ´My best friend´. 

Also, each year around christmus there is a top 2000 aired on the radio. For about ten years running, Bohemian Rhapsody was always no. 1. But musically, a track like Inuendo is very VERY underrated.
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