QueenZone discussion #1440835
Why is it
| mooghead 04.10.2015 09:26 |
that the worst single Queen ever made is the one that is on the radio most often? |
| Chief Mouse 04.10.2015 09:34 |
Which one is that? |
| mooghead 04.10.2015 09:55 |
Which one do you hear most? |
| Oscar J 04.10.2015 10:43 |
Awful single that's on the radio a lot? Has to be Radio Gaga or Break Free. |
| mooghead 04.10.2015 11:11 |
Break Free... |
| andres_clip 04.10.2015 11:53 |
Because its made for mainstream retards that doesnt know The real Queen stuff |
| master marathon runner 04.10.2015 11:57 |
Break free is just average to me, but ga ga is phenomenal man. |
| kosimodo 04.10.2015 12:15 |
Thought u ment wwry.... A song from they that brought u motbq, ytmba and innuendo.... |
| oligneisti 04.10.2015 13:08 |
I have almost nothing but fondness for Break Free. Of course I first remember it from when I was five years old and thought men dressing up in drag was the funniest thing ever. Still funny. Except Roger. He's just cute. |
| musicland munich 04.10.2015 13:16 |
IWTBF and GAGA I think are the most played songs on the radio stations in my country ( Queen-wise) IWTBF has a funny Video but the song is average imo and it's really played to death, at least to my ears. Somehow I still love GAGA..works fine for me after all those years. |
| The King Of Rhye 04.10.2015 13:24 |
I always liked IWTBF, more so than Radio Ga Ga which someone else mentioned in this thread.... I'm guessing though, that when you talk about those songs being played on the radio a lot, you're talking about the UK and/or Europe, right?? I definitely don't hear those on the radio often in the US. I can think of about 10 Queen songs that I hear with any regularity, and those aren't on that list.... |
| musicland munich 04.10.2015 13:35 |
The King Of Rhye wrote: I always liked IWTBF, more so than Radio Ga Ga which someone else mentioned in this thread.... I'm guessing though, that when you talk about those songs being played on the radio a lot, you're talking about the UK and/or Europe, right?? I definitely don't hear those on the radio often in the US. I can think of about 10 Queen songs that I hear with any regularity, and those aren't on that list....Yes, GAGA and IWTBF were Top 10 Hits throughout Europe back then. |
| mooghead 04.10.2015 14:05 |
Yeah, UK radio, its on all the bloody time, and its the crap extended single version, not the album cut with more cowbell... |
| andyb1968 04.10.2015 14:08 |
I always hated crazy little thing ! Still do ! What the f##k were they thinking !! Rockabilly ! Classic Queen |
| Fat Bottomed Queen 04.10.2015 15:26 |
You like I Want To Break Free kid? That's cute, now heres a copy of Queen II. Super commercial sounding song. I'd shit my pants if i heard Great King Rat on the Radio! Love Radio GaGa though. Always gets me involved. |
| *goodco* 04.10.2015 15:30 |
I don't listen to the radio. So.....either turn it off, or switch stations moog |
| Fat Bottomed Queen 04.10.2015 15:32 |
*goodco* wrote: I don't listen to the radio. So.....either turn it off, or switch stations moogMainstream radio= 99% shit. Non Mainstream stations are fine. Are you in the UK? I listen to Planet Rock. |
| mooghead 04.10.2015 16:40 |
*goodco* wrote: I don't listen to the radio. So.....either turn it off, or switch stations moogWill go down well with the rest of the people I work with... |
| The King Of Rhye 04.10.2015 17:22 |
Queen songs I hear on the radio: obviously there's We Will Rock You, Champions, BoRhap, Dust, Crazy Little Thing, Under Pressure, Killer Queen....Fat Bottomed Girls, Bicycle Race and Tie Your Mother Down from time to time...Keep Yourself Alive gets a suprising amount of play on the classic rock stations. Once in a great while they'll play an album track if you're lucky, but thats about it. |
| master marathon runner 04.10.2015 18:49 |
Andyb re cltcl, are we talking about the same song here, ? It's class man. |
| thomasquinn 32989 05.10.2015 05:24 |
The answer is simple and self-evident. Three words: lowest common denominator. It's the foundation radio is built on. |
| The King Of Rhye 05.10.2015 05:55 |
.. |
| The King Of Rhye 05.10.2015 05:58 |
In other words, a simple pop song can become a hit......who knew? :O |
| Mr.QueenFan 05.10.2015 06:27 |
So many great songwriters in Queenzone! IWTBF and Radio GAGA are genius songs. But i'm looking forward to listen to the songs of the people saying these songs are shit. There's a reason these songs are played many times throughout Europe after 31 years. People love them, and they sound very, very nice. Any of these songs with any other singer would fall flat, but you add Freddie Mercury's voice from the period where his tone was the most beautiful (to my personal taste), and you have something that people just cannot let go. Very special indeed! And i don't understand why people on this forum are so obsessed in open up threads about things they don't like, or highlighting the negatives about Queen. It seems to me that the majority of people here don't appreciate Queen - at least judging from the threads on this forum. The negative things about Queen surpass the positives. Sad really ... |
| Oscar J 05.10.2015 08:26 |
This is not about whether any of us have written songs that musically surpass GaGa and Break Free (although I don't think that would be much of an accomplishment). This is a Queen discussion forum, not a Queen praising forum. I don't love the songs, and I don't think they sound very, very nice. They're not very well written, and personally I find that The Works period had Freddie at his worst, vocal wise. And it should be perfectly fine for me to say that. The positive things about Queen FAR surpass the negatives - for example I think that their 8 first albums were, in their own ways, amazing accomplishments: just packed with musicality, diversity, personality and great performances. I think mooghead started this thread in frustration over how some of Queen's most simple songs are the ones that get the most airplay, while their hidden gems that are a 100 times more impressive remain unknown to the public consciousness. Don't you too find it slightly tragic how Queen is often regarded a bubblegum pop band, when it in fact has a catalogue of great songs that can easily hold its own against the biggest of rock history's greats? |
| dysan 05.10.2015 13:39 |
I'd hoped this thread was going to be about Don't Stop Me Now. IWTBF and RGG are brilliant singles and I love them. I can understand why the former might irk though. |
| Thistle 06.10.2015 11:28 |
andres_clip wrote: Because its made for mainstream retards that doesnt know The real Queen stuffThat, in itself, is a completely retarded statement. One could know all of the Queen catalogue backwards and inside out, and still prefer IWTBF to anything on Queen II or ANATO. Or...they could just like it because it's a fecking good tune, even though there are much better Queen tracks to choose from. There is nothing wrong with "mainstream" radio either. Music is subjective and you're just being snobbish. That said...it would be nice for the radio stations to put on some of the deep cuts so that they're heard by a wider audience. It shouldn't matter to us though...we can hear any of their stuff when we want!! And, if you want to hear Queen on the radio all the time, there's: link |
| Daburcor? 13.10.2015 06:11 |
There is absolutely nothing wrong with "I Want To Break Free." By Queen's standards or not. |
| The King Of Rhye 13.10.2015 09:08 |
Oscar J wrote: I think mooghead started this thread in frustration over how some of Queen's most simple songs are the ones that get the most airplay, while their hidden gems that are a 100 times more impressive remain unknown to the public consciousness. Don't you too find it slightly tragic how Queen is often regarded a bubblegum pop band, when it in fact has a catalogue of great songs that can easily hold its own against the biggest of rock history's greats?I kind of agree with that.... It's like its part of what made Queen what they were, though, that they could do a relatively simple, catchy song that could become a hit, and also do more complex prog-rock type stuff just as well, and that would even become a hit in some cases (BoRhap, Innuendo) I totally agree with that last sentence, though. I got into an argument with some schmuck in a Youtube comment section a while ago...it was some list of rock's best frontmen, where #1 and #2 were Freddie and Robert Plant, so it turned into a Led Zeppelin vs Queen argument. I think Zep was pretty great, but this guy kept going on about how Queen was just a 'novelty pop band' and not a "TRUE rock band" or something, and how their best selling album's Greatest Hits, and they didn't have a iconic album (and I guess Night At The Opera doesn't count for some reason) |
| dysan 14.10.2015 02:43 |
That's very much an 80s viewpoint from yer tough rock audience. I think it is generally accepted that ANATO or SHA for instance are rock 'classics', far moreso than they were back in the per internet days! Of course a Led Zep fan wouldn't appreciate the concept of a 'single'. |
| malicedoom 14.10.2015 12:03 |
Here in The States, they play Crazy... a lot. Too much in fact. But I never get tired of hearing Bohemian Rhapsody come on the radio. Ever. They never play I Want To Break Free or Radio Ga Ga here, sadly. |
| Thistle 14.10.2015 18:16 |
^ I've only been to America once, for a week - but I heard Queen pretty much everywhere I went.....Play The Game, CLTCL, DSMN, WATC, WWRY, Bo Rhap aaannnnddddd......IWTBF and Ga Ga...... |
| malicedoom 15.10.2015 10:50 |
Nice. I need to find that station. |
| Queenfanrach 16.10.2015 02:46 |
Iwtbf is a great song |
| matt z 16.10.2015 08:53 |
Why should I care, if I have to cut my hair. I've got to move with the fashions or be outcast. |