mooghead wrote:
Hmmm... I wonder how subscribers to a Queen fan site will answer this one....
this was my friends first thing to mention when i told him i was going to post a question like that. still, Queen funs are perceived as genuinely open-minded for a reason ;-)
last-horizon 42265 wrote:
"Wind Of Change" was released in 1990
true ( i take your word for it) , but the buzz was on during 1991.
update...
"It appeared on their 1990 album Crazy World but did not become a worldwide hit single until 1991, when it topped the charts in Germany and across Europe." wikipedia
Russian Headlong wrote:
show must go on isnt really a ballad is it?
well...i don't know . it has some of the dynamics of what it was popular as a power ballad during the 80's but its not really there as i come to think of it .
In what "genre" would you categorize it?
doesn't really matter "how" we categorize it - if it's not a ballad (which it isn't) then the argument is void
incidentally, it reached No2 in the UK charts and was kept off the top spot by an actual ballad: Bryan Adams' - Everything I Do, I Do For You (was No1 through the summer and autumn of 91)
while all this was going on Queen's TSMGO just scraped into the top20 at no16
''while all this was going on Queen's TSMGO just scraped into the top20 at no16 ''
That was always strange to me. Perhaps it was ahead of its time. But it aged well. It was still pretty relevant a couple of years ago. Now it starts showing some ''aging issues'' . Or is it just me who sees it that way?
However it remains pretty seminal within Queen history as well as in some other concepts.
you nailed it more or less with the within queen history comment.
however, as regards general music buyers/listeners it's not of any significance...the masses will seldom get beyond
bo rhap, wwry/champions, break free, gaga, and dust
There's something about Innuendo's production that underwhelms me in a way. Most of them are great songs. There's real guitar, real drums, in there, but even the parts that rock don't rock as hard as Queen used to. I don't think it's the performance but maybe something in the way it was recorded or mixed. Can't put my finger on it but the term that pops into my head is 'sterile', for some reason.
The miracle suffers a bit of it as well, the keyboards make it sound dated but in there the guitars Rock really hard.
Now, I've often wondered how The Show Must Go On would sound, had Queen used real strings as opposed to a synth pad... or, better yet, a Brian-esque guitar orchestration or something like what Jimmy Page did in Kashmir (he uses a bow to play his guitar, doesn't he?). I'm talking about the main backing melody that plays throughout the song.
At first, I got excited that my crappy Yamaha keyboard has almost the exact same synth pad used in The Show Must Go On but then I noticed how crappy it sounds.
Wiley wrote:
There's something about Innuendo's production that underwhelms me in a way. Most of them are great songs. There's real guitar, real drums, in there, but even the parts that rock don't rock as hard as Queen used to. I don't think it's the performance but maybe something in the way it was recorded or mixed. Can't put my finger on it but the term that pops into my head is 'sterile', for some reason.
The miracle suffers a bit of it as well, the keyboards make it sound dated but in there the guitars Rock really hard.
Yep. The word "processed" comes to mind for some reason. Even so, the song Innuendo rocks.
Wiley wrote:
There's something about Innuendo's production that underwhelms me in a way. Most of them are great songs. There's real guitar, real drums, in there, but even the parts that rock don't rock as hard as Queen used to. I don't think it's the performance but maybe something in the way it was recorded or mixed. Can't put my finger on it but the term that pops into my head is 'sterile', for some reason.
The miracle suffers a bit of it as well, the keyboards make it sound dated but in there the guitars Rock really hard.
Yep. The word "processed" comes to mind for some reason. Even so, the song Innuendo rocks.
My guess is, although i hate to admit, that this is done because of Freddie's voice. Although it gained an angelic quality and a very effective touch it became also very thin. It was impossible to mix such a timber of a voice with the rock Queen sound. So, heavy process with loads of compressor i imagine, were necessary for the final result.
Wiley wrote:
Now, I've often wondered how The Show Must Go On would sound, had Queen used real strings as opposed to a synth pad... or, better yet, a Brian-esque guitar orchestration or something like what Jimmy Page did in Kashmir (he uses a bow to play his guitar, doesn't he?). I'm talking about the main backing melody that plays throughout the song.
At first, I got excited that my crappy Yamaha keyboard has almost the exact same synth pad used in The Show Must Go On but then I noticed how crappy it sounds.
I disagree with the real strings. The May orchestration sounds creative. But i prefer the epic-ness of the synth sound they used. I can also hear something like a helicopter in the entering chords. There is also a light static effect/vibe there.
* I had that sort of ''sweet distortion'' when back then i used to record in the tape-recorder directly from the TV sound output.
i can't stand klaus meine's voice. the whisteling in the intro is one thing... but his voice is killing my nerves!
'show must go on' instead is a very beautiful song. i just stripped it down to the acoustic instruments some time ago. it's a real masterpiece!