Queen were a fine rock band and NOT CRAP at all. I do hate "Radio Ga Ga", though. This is a terrible song.

I'm sure I said this in another thread, and I'll say it again: Queen II is one of the instances where I can enjoy an album in spite of all the fantastical wizard-and-goblin lyrics.

I'm sure the only other band I can ignore this sort of thing in is T. Rex (though not Tyrannosaurus Rex).

Angry_Dragon wrote:I'm very interested in checking this out:

Dynamite with a Laserbeam: Queen as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G

Highlights:

Blood Brothers
Glass Candy
Melt Banana

And of, course, Weasel Walter doing a solo, multitracked rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody"

I think you'll like it.

Stuck in rush-hour traffic in Terre Haute yesterday, barely halfway through a seven-hour drive back to Kentucky from Chicago, "Somebody to Love" came on the radio. Despite the fact that I was exhausted and a little depressed, by song's end I was filled with that kind of grandiose euphoria that is pretty much unique to Queen's music. I drove on, a much happier man, recalling having stayed up until midnight--on a school night!--to tape A Day at the Races off of LRS 102, onto a blank 8-track, a week before its official release.

Absurd? Sure. Overwrought? Undoubtedly. But definitely NOT CRAP.

Arise, Thread Witch!

not crap.fucking brilliant.end of thread.

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Even the shitty songs sang by the drummer are passable. Laughable, no doubt, but somehow passable as well.

The song "Mustafa" always gets me. Strange and respectable production job too.

What's also weird is that Brian May's voice sounds eerily like Freddie's when he's singing softly (see "All Dead All Dead").

I've always dug how Freddie's facial "oddities" never seemed to slow him down.

Not crap. No waffles except for the '80s stuff.

so not crap, so many good songs, so funny, the live killer kill me so many time (yea it's possible)!!

NOT NOT CRAP!!!

My favourite album cover as a kid was News of the World, with that big sentinel on it. I used to look and look at it. So strange and eerie. And Queen, all dead.

And Spread Your Wings is on it. Wonderful.

Not crap, largely for Sheer Heart Attack (1974, I think), and particularly "Brighton Rock": this song has it ALL, I tell you. 5:09 of insane flair and bizarre whimsy and epic fucking grandeur. Queen's finest moment? Certainly Brian May's. Exquisitely aged 70s hard rock of the highest quality.

OH ROCK OF AGES
DO NOT CRUMBLE
LOVE IS BREATHING STILL!

OH LADY MOON SHINE DOWN
A LITTLE PEOPLE MAGIC IF YOU WILL!

Its greatness covers a multitude of sins -- in Queen's case, a vast multitude. Say what you will about Queen, but to be against this song is to be against life.

edit: Melt-Banana's "We Will Rock You": also not crap.