the corpo wrote:it's late

Agreed times a fucking million. Such an awesome song.

Also:
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
See What A Fool I've Been (b-side of some early single, maybe Seven Seas Of Rhye?)
Need Your Love Tonight
Millionaire Waltz (when it kicks into the metal part)
Sweet Lady
My Meloncholy Blues
Dreamer's Ball

dabrasha wrote:3. I had no idea Freddie was gay until I was in my late 20s

In your late 20s? Was that when you installed eyes and ears? :)

Queen is so NC. Even the name has giant fucking nuts. I'd trade in Freddy Mercury for all the living Beatles, all the living Stones and let's throw The Who in for good measure (sans km).

Sun City
CRAP
End of thread.

tmidgett wrote:7" single

one side: we will rock you
other side: we are the champions

what
the
fuck

Not Crap

Queen is NOT CRAP. Fuck anyone who is into Queen for some ironic/kitsch bullshit.

Brian May shreds.
Queens first couple of albums were just really good heavy glam-rock.

This is one of the first bands I'd ever really heard and appreciated as a child.

Fuckin' Queen!

Ah Queen. In no way crap. Freddy Mercury - a true original. Go look on youtube for the video of them playing radio gaga at Live Aid. Freddy had the type of infectious charisma that could get 75,000 fans clapping in unison like that - a true showman.

Some really rocking early stuff - Ogre Battle, etc.

Listening to them right now - NOT CRAP.

I even don't mind the 80s stuff. Well, in small doses.

Total steaming pile. Even the big fold out picture of loads of naked women on bikes from the Jazz record which held my attention as a child cannot render their music anything other than crap for me. Although, some folks I know reckon their earlier prog rock stuff is not bad.

Dead good until about 1/2 way through Night at the Opera. Then crap for evermore.

The horrible curse of the 1980s seemed to descend on Queen before most other bands. Actually, was it Queen who caused the 1980s??

Poot wrote:Dead good until about 1/2 way through Night at the Opera. Then crap for evermore.

You're high. "Tie Your Mother Down" is a first-rate rave-up, and "Somebody to Love" (both on A Day at the Races) might be the finest song Queen ever did. Jazz and The Game both have their moments, too. And "Under Pressure" is an unlikely classic. They had a great ten-year run.