“Flash”! Never could make out what he was saying there. Thanks!
I went through the same phase, where after thinking Queen was okay, and mostly ignoring them, I suddenly got hooked on them. Specifically, their two greatest hits cds (I believe they were released in the U.S. as Greatest hits, and Classics). I just couldn’t believe there were so many gems from so many albums over the decades that were this good, and this diverse, and all from the same band.
I still love Queen, though I still haven’t bought all their albums yet. I have a couple of the later ones. I did realize that once you go beyond their hit singles, their albums do have some weaker material, plus it has some hidden material that could have been hit singles because they were just as good.
The one song I’m really mad at Queen about is “Another One Bites the Dust”. Just hearing the name of that song makes that song get stuck in my head, and it’s not all that great a song, but it’s soooooo addictive. It’s got that property of being simple enough to just sit there in your brain all day, repeating over and over and over. Arrrrrgh. Stop it! What have I done?!?
I just listened to Who wants to live forever for the first time.
Holy crap.
Queen wrote two songs which I can’t stand. Unfortunately, they’re the two most overplayed Queen songs ever; Another One Bites the Dust and We Are The Champions. Can’t stand either of them! Dunno why.
Everything else they’ve done, I can get stuck in my head for days.
Really? Not a Highlander fan?
Did you listen to the new Muse CD recently?
Queen wrote two songs which I can’t stand. Unfortunately, they’re the two most overplayed Queen songs ever; Another One Bites the Dust and We Are The Champions. Can’t stand either of them! Dunno why.
Here goes any credibility I might of had regarding music but … Warrant did a good cover of We Are The Champions. There, I said it.
Might I humbly suggest that you go and check out their earliest work, if you haven’t? By the time they really became big-hit popular, they had a lot of really nice work. Frankly, I find their material after “A Day at the Races” and “A Night at the Opera” to be much weaker on whole than their first 5 albums, mostly because they apparently decided they wanted to become more pop-oriented and make some money.
But Queen/Queen II/Sheer Heart Attack/ADatR/ANatO are all excellent albums, and those last two demonstrate a virtuosity you rarely find in popular music.
No…I have seen Highlander as a kid, but had no idea that song was in that movie.Certainly do not remember it from there.
I just turned 40 this year, so that pretty much disproves your argument.
I don’t watch Glee, so I doubt that’s it.
I haven’t. I have liked some Muse stuff previously, but not enough buy any of their albums. Are you suggesting the newest Muse CD is Queen-like?
I’m not sure if I would like their earliest stuff. I can only base that on what songs in this collection I have that I like the most, but almost all of them seem to come from the latter half of their career. Not that I hate their earlier stuff, but songs like Seven Seas of Rhye aren’t at the top of my list.
Definitely.
Egregiously!
Also, let the record show that I am in full agreement with BennyProfane on Queen’s early catalog. It’s really spectacular stuff.
All of Muse is Queen-like.
Queen’s early stuff is a lot like Pink Floyd’s early stuff - not in style (by no means!) but it’s not the stuff most people are used to hearing and is a bit more… unpolished, I guess you could say. Nevertheless, Queen I is still a great album to have on in the background on a weekend when you’re not doing anything in particular.
I can’t understand a single reference in this thread other than jason talking about grindcore and still liking random pop songs.
Queen is one of the select few that have never worn out their welcome with me.
I think Hot Space and The Miracle are their only truly weak albums. I’m wishy-washy on The Works. I think they were trying too hard to be mainstream or something in the mid-80s.
I haven’t really heard much Muse, but will have to look into them now.
What, because you’re about to reach some arbitrary milestone in your life your taste in music has suddenly and irrevocably been set in stone, never to change again? My dad ‘rediscovered’ Queen at 50ish.
I see. Well, you obviously haven’t heard Princes of the Universe. The theme song to a little movie made in the '80’s called fucking Highlander!!
Note that Queen did not do the music for the '80s Porno, Fucking Highlander!