Tell me about Queen.

[BeachBaby]

[lazarus]

1. Freddie Mercury

is the best front man in rock history.

Great band with a few not so great albums (Hot Fuss, for example). A Night At the Opera is superb. A Day At the Races is almost as good.

My favourite, because it's the first album of theirs I really go into, is 1984's The Works. But A Night At the Opera is their best.

[nolabear]

2. She's a killer, Queen.

And I don't know if Freddie Mercurey was THE best, but easily one of them. God save Her.

[blm]

3. Timeless. My 9yo daughter LOVES them now, and she totally 'gets' Freddie Mercury

and what the band created.


Brian May is simply amazing.

[LynneSin]

4. I love the concept that Brian May has ha PhD is Astrophysics

or something deep like that

[blm]

5. heh...that's why he was able to get that 'other-wordly' sound out of his guitars.

.

[Aristus]

8. Queen was one of the first major music groups in which every member was a college graduate.

B-)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

26. Yeah he wrote his thesis on zodiacal light.

He's a total brain. I love it. He's also the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2008/04/15/brianmay_johnmoores_feature.shtml

[tango-tee]

34. So does my husband - and he's 70!!!

No kidding - when it comes to Freddie Mercury, I feel ancient compared to DH (and he's 13 years older than I am).

[jkhelgi]

6. Yeahh!

when i heard it for the first time i thought - o, my god, what is it?!...

i guess their music spreads the spirit of the sun, the spirit of the life, which was in Freddie Mercury's soul, which he had absorbed from Zoroastrianism...

[graywarrior]

7. I took Mr Gray to see them in Boston (1976-77, maybe 78?))

He totally fell in love with Freddie. as far as he is concerned, NO ONE is a better performer.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

9. Queen, along with Michael Jackson, defined the modern music video

With their creative techniques and ideas expressed in the videos for the singles they released. They set a high standard in visual creativity that others are still struggling to emulate

As well as that, their music rocked. One of my favorite music acts of all time

[Roon]

12. I love the radio ga ga video eom

[Dr. Strange]

31. Yeah, baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdwsXLmrHE

But why is Sting driving the AirCar?

:hide:

[Roon]

33. LOL

it does look like sting! Must be the hairstyle everyone wore back then.

[Shell Beau]

10. Awesomeness!

That is all to tell!

[TZ]

11. +1

I miss Freddy Mercury so much....

[Roon]

13. I have a few friends who are disappointed in freddy

They thought he should have come out that he had aids.

[redqueen]

14. Yay... new earworm. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZpZQG2z10

[MrCoffee]

15. Brian May doesn't get nearly enough credit for being a guitar god.

[Zomby Woof]

16. Can't stand 'em

Never could, even during their peak in the 70's.

Violating the boycott on South Africa by playing at Sun City in the 80's drove them even further down in my estimation.

Pompous, pretentious, and boring - a bad trifecta of musical sins (although certainly not as bad as Yes or ELP in those categories). As for Mercury, he was the boggest preener and poseur to walk the stage until Bono came along.

:thumbsdown:

[mitchum]

23. Cue up the theremin music...

because this is something else we agree on.
They never did it for me. Neither visceral enough or pretentious enough for me. I like the extremes, and found Queen to be just...y'know...blah. Not enough of either.

[blm]

29. heheh....bet you own a few Nick Cave records. ;)

.

[mitchum]

30. Busted!

The name "Blixa" actually came up during breakfast table conversation this morning :)

[Taverner]

35. Not a fan, but I will give Mercury credit for inventint the perfect studio voice

Without him, Elliott Smith would have been lost

[Taverner]

17. Freddy Mercury invented the perfect studio voice

Its amazing how many bands, from Def Leppard, to Beyonce who followed his lead.

You see, he would sing a line, and he had a problem with singing flat. So he'd doctor it up in the studio, sing the line again, doctor it up, add it, and lather rinse repeat until it sounded like there was a whole chorus of Freddy Mercuries.

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. Can't go wrong with anything they recorded in the 1970's.

Get the "Crown Jewels" box set. It's all the Queen you'll ever need.



Didn't care for their 80's albums as much, but they still rocked live, at least up through 86 when they stopped performing. Due to Freddie's declining health, which he managed to keep from the public until literally the day before he died. :evilfrown:

[CreekDog]

19. They are a bit much for me

But I think "Break Free" and "Somebody to Love" are wonderful songs.

(when I first saw them on tv as a kid, they scared me) :hide:

[TZ]

21. Okay...

I dub thee ScaredyDog...:rofl:

[Mopar151]

20. I saw them live, and I beleive....

Freddy embodied rock androgny "More woman than you can handle, More man than you'll ever be" Freddy, and 1 white spotlight, had more stage presence than Gene Simmons, costumes, makeup, fake blood, and pyro.
Like a few others (Steve Marriot comes to mind), he seemed not to perform songs, but be possesed by their spirit. I'd reccomend the "Rock Montreal" DVD

Some You tube links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHQk6HFn4rE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKwxyyf1L8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKwxyyf1L8

Last 2 are from "Rock Montreal"
Bucktooth, ugly little git with hedgehog hair, and you can't take your eyes off him. RIP

[Initech]

22. Fat bottom girls you make the rockin world go round!

[Sky Masterson]

24. To much love will kill you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7FGPIRJx6I
(Brian May and Luciano Pavarotti)
It did Freddy. :(

[TreasonousBastard]

25. One may find it difficult to forgive them for "Radio Ga Ga", but...

they're really not responsible for Lady GaGa no matter how she tells it. The song is a good one.

Other than that, they are on a level of their own. Freddie Mercury just takes you away with him, and you don't bother asking where you're going.

(Ever see "Flash Gordon"? That cheezy flick would be nothing without Queen's background and title music. Mercury must have heard some Wagner-- like Die Valkerie.)

[mr blur]

27. Overrated, over-produced, overblown, over-exposed, ludicrous,

pretentious, sad corporate schlock.

[TZ]

28. Don't hold back tell us what you really think!!:P

IMO- Freddy Mercury was the GREATEST FRONT MAN EVER. I miss him bad

[Zomby Woof]

36. That's an opinion I can fully endorse

[frogmarch]

32. Queen's guitarist, Brian May,

was awarded a doctorate in astrophysics. Dr Brian May was confirmed as the new Chancellor for Liverpool John Moores University following a unanimous decision by the University's Governing Body in November 2007.

http://www.livescience.com/space/080801-brian-may-doctorate.html