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This is absolutely Rock By Numbers but even Rock By Numbers can produce something that becomes an acceptable sort of earworm.  (Though I tried the album it is off and it is like someone fed a load of cliches into a random generator.  One song even has the word "dynamite" immediately after "rolling thunder".  And lots of use of the word "baby".)

 

 

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On 16/10/2022 at 18:34, teddymeow said:

 

Oh my.

 

It isn't the best Queen song. It was never going to be seeing as it was cut from an album and forgotten about but, well, fuck me if I don't get shivers every time Freddie sings the word "soooooo" in his incredibly unmistakable style.

 

Freddie Mercury is, in my mind, the greatest of all time. 

I've never been a big Queen fan, but I think now that maybe because I've only really heard their hits (I do have a soft spot for Fat Bottomed Girls though (IRL too ;) )). This is lovely. Also, maybe sounds like the theme tune to a modern Bond movie - Moonglow.

 

Edit: Meant to mention, I think Freddie has to be the best frontman ever. Just so much talent, charisma, chutzpah, flamboyance, everything needed to absolutely entertain. He is immense on stage from what i've seen.

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On 26/10/2022 at 00:49, MarkN said:

I've never been a big Queen fan, but I think now that maybe because I've only really heard their hits (I do have a soft spot for Fat Bottomed Girls though (IRL too ;) )). This is lovely. Also, maybe sounds like the theme tune to a modern Bond movie - Moonglow.

 

Edit: Meant to mention, I think Freddie has to be the best frontman ever. Just so much talent, charisma, chutzpah, flamboyance, everything needed to absolutely entertain. He is immense on stage from what i've seen.

 

Seriously man, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th  (Queen II through News of the World) are just magnificent throughout.

 

Freddie himself, aside from all that stuff, is just a remarkable singer. A singular talent. He just makes it sound so easy and it's so, so hard what he's doing.

 

At the end of that album run is the song My Melancholy Blues, which is a pretty succicint demonstration of his voice and piano playing. Astonishing.

 

But within that, there's the sheer talent and diversity of the group shown in the tracks at the end if Sheer Heart Attack -  like Stone Cold Crazy - catchy but fearsomely difficult proto-trash metal, into May's Dear Friends- basically a hymn, a deadly serious hymn written by a gravely ill May, for fuck's sake, into John Deacon's first song, a weird calypso influenced number called Misfire, which leads into to Queen doing dixieland jazz with Bring Back That Leroy Brown (no, not that one) with double bass and banjo and ukelele, leading, madly, into a strange proto-shoegaze drone track sung by Brian May, which ends with a soundscape of sirens, city traffic and heavy breathing - called, and I shit you not She Makes Me (Stromtroopers In Stillettoes). And after that, Queen's first attempt at a crowd singalong Lap Of The Gods, Part II.

 

And that's less than half of Sheer Heart Attack, their second album from 1973.*

 

Considering the first half of the year had Queen II, the insane, proggy, baroque fantasy album - it's some going.

 

 

 

*Ok, so, the first half begins with a feature guitar delay solo song, Brighton Rock, which throws away riffs in a few seconds other bands would kill for. Then into Killer Queen - stone cold classic. Taylor's oddity, Tenement Funster - great, unusual change of pace. Straight into Mercury's angry theatrical number Flick of the Wrist which blends into his lovely Lily of the Valley (one of those secret best Queen songs) and into May's Now I'm Here (a track I never really liked actually. You can hear Def Leppard in this quite a bit). Then the bonkers Cecil B. deMille-style Lap of the Gods (starting with an astounding Taylor high-pitch singing, and a bizarre Freddie slowed-down Phantom of the Opera style track).

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On 03/11/2022 at 04:34, Monkeyboy said:

 

 

The Has Been album is a very moving piece of work when it comes to dealing with getting old and making sure you live your life to its fullest.

 

Has Been and the This is Hardcore album by Pulp have smoothed my way into 'old age' beautifully. I owe  Shatner, Ben Folds and Cocker a good few beers.

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Fucking hell, on my journey I gone dun found the AON Breakin' bit (heard it long ago but it became much lost to me). Bad film but with this as his backing it put Ice T out there. I love this bit in that film. Utterly superb tune, probably one of the best break beat tunes ever, in fact. Ridiculous. Play it loud. 1984, fuck me.

 

 

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