Wtf i was looking thru collectable queen stuff and then a track was listed by someone called the Music instructor. The track is a dance track and he cant even sing.. How does someone like this get permission to record a queen song tell me???????????????? link
Didnt like Queen's version but this is a steaming pile of shit. what is it with these dance bands covering rock songs i heard a dance version of pink floyds comfortably numb, its awful.
Of course it's easy to say it's shit now, but this type of music was totally relevant in the mid 90's (in Europe). Queen Dance Traxx was part of the Queen revival that Made In Heaven kickstarted.
Not my kind of album to collect or buy. So much rubbish on it. One cover that i do love is the slow version of "Who wants to live forever" by Dune. But that's about it.
Crappy songs, but really, this kind of music was the rage at the time. I used to love the song "Scatman's World" by John Scatman (R.I.P., by the way) but not many more, to be honest. I remember being a bit excited to see 'trendy' artists of the time covering Queen, particularly Scatman with "The Invisible Man". Less than a year later we had the Latin Tribute to Queen and that one was HUGE in Mexico. Molotov's controversial "cover" of Bohemian Rhapsody was never a single (mostly because of all the swearing) but everybody I know LOVED that song. Molotov was huge at the time. I was on my second year in highschool. Good times!
Seeing how EVERYBODY LOVES A REVIVED TWO YEAR OLD TOPIC. .. I'd come across this episode of EAGLEHEART on demand. (I'm a fan of Chris Elliott and hadn't seen this series in its original run. link
Season 2 episode 07 "THE BEAT SHACK"
It featured an homage to the Scatman mentioned above with his pretty awful version of INVISIBLE MAN.
It's a pretty hilarious episode (as are most of the 12 minute episodes) in which the Scatman is a villain with super scat powers.
Fucking hilarious. :)
This is BARELY a queen topic but I felt like throwing it back into the mix for the Scatman fans out there (not Scatman Crothers)
^ Ey Matt,thanks for the reminder. I almost puke all over myself...it still shocks me how such horrid tunes sell in the 90's.
They really played those songs in Discos and Night Clubs in the early 90's - and I was a witness of that.
DOWNRIGHT CARDINAL SIN !
Lol. Yeah.
it's amazing those guys got a budget for a music video (*things were sorta different then. .. BARELY as this dj crap trend has pretty much killed live bands in favour of "name DJS" """"PERFORMING"""""" at clubs with $200 bottle service (vodka bottle behind a velvet rope")
Consumerist crap.
But anyways I'd never heard that shiiite over here in America. . We only got trash remix singles.
Euro trash remixes that all sounded the same. Same changes although the song WAS WRITTEN IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KEY! ...
I could only imagine them working a static Euro trash remix of a heavily modulated Stevie Wonder songs.
The Scatman homage was funny as hell though.
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ADDENDUM.
I had no idea they'd introduced THE INVISIBLE MAN as part of a bass guitar/drum solo
This was from ZURICH?
suppose it IS the last tour.
Whether in minute bits like this or more do you suppose they'll play ALL THEIR SONGS in one form or another (although it's just THAT BASSIST THEY HIRED FROM BLUE OYSTER CULT) live before they're through?
What's left?
She makes me?
Lily of the valley
seaside rendezvous?
You and I?
drowse? (Allegedly heard in rehearsals)
In Only Seven Days?
Fun It?
Etc?