QueenZone discussion #1500428

NastyQueenie74 wrote: I like More of That Jazz and find Hot Space decent minus a few songs

matt z wrote: I think John's alleged fragility is due to internal arguments. He quit.

bradbobly wrote: I also find TCR acceptable

matt z wrote:

bradbobly wrote: I also find TCR acceptable

HOLY F***! .... i need to sit down..... ....did i just read that? ...God, ...the room is spinning

Michael Scapp wrote: I hate most of A Kind of Magic, although this is probably an unpopular opinion in the UK.

Nick Browning wrote: A Winter's Tale is the best song on the Made in Heavan album and the most depressing Queen and christmas song ever recorded

Sebastian wrote: 'White Queen' is better on the album than on the BBC and live versions. 'All Dead, All Dead' sounds better when sung by Frederick. It's absolutely alright to refer to the band's lead singer as Frederick, as that was his name.

mike hunt wrote:

matt z wrote: I think John's alleged fragility is due to internal arguments. He quit.

I agree! Of course we'll never know, but John being fragile and suffering from Depression has been over blown in my opinion.

bradbobly wrote: I consider 'Flash Gordon' a Queen album and enjoy The Hero and Football fight, i also thought these along with Flash worked well and fitted in nicely live.

ANAGRAMER wrote: I think you'll find it's Farrokh.

miraclesteinway wrote: Despite the popular opinion that Brian is approachable and quite humble, there have been several instances documented in the press, anecdotes by other people, and behaviour on instagram and twitter that show he may in fact have the biggest ego of any rock star ever.

Wiley wrote: Sign me up for the Hot Space is great camp. I've always liked it. The Flash Gordon album is underrated. In my opinion it's better than your average Original Soundtrack recording with only orchestral pieces. It's got great music on it, it flows great and the addition of dialog almost makes you feel like you've watched the movie. Quite an experience from beginning to end and I can only imagine Brian feeling super proud about the whole thing, being the co-producer. (Side question: is Brian's "The Dark" from these sessions?) Love of my life should be dropped from their live setlist ASAP. It is especially embarrassing in American tours where only 5% of the people sing it. Europe and South America? Ok, maybe it works there but not in the U.S. I watched 8 Q+AL shows in the U.S. in 2014 and 2017 and it was, at best, passable. Last year in Newark you could see Brian visible annoyed at the lack of singing. Adam Lambert's (LIVE!) version of Who Wants to Live Forever is better than Freddie's studio version (let alone, the live ones, 2 semitones lower). Fucking Lambert blew my mind with that every single time.

Oscar J wrote: Freddie sang worse and wrote inferior songs when sporting a moustache.

Seed_Of_Rhy wrote:

Oscar J wrote: Freddie sang worse and wrote inferior songs when sporting a moustache.

Also, In the eightees Freddie became to behave more gayish, particulary in clips. Videos to Breakthrough and I'mGSM are flooded with the air-kisses, duck faces, winking and all that mimic. Being avid fan of the band I can't take it as his sort of humor, it's just silly. Not so that i'm homopfobic (or Fred was not gay :))), but when they came to making videos on the last 2 albums, his behaving started to annoy. Brian's not have a big talent to acting too, in a videos often looking embarassed or smiling/mimicing like a shy-baby.

Sheldon wrote: Are you talking about the videos for The Miracle and Innuendo? I'm not a huge fan of "gayish" behavior either (hate the studio version of See What a Fool and the 70s outfits by Queen and many other performers and Freddie's constant use of the words "darling" and "dear"), but there is certainly not much of it in Freddie's last videos. IGSM sure, but IWIA, Breakthru, Scandal, The Miracle, TATTOOL - he's really "manly" in all of them and very little stupid goofiness going on in my opinion.

Invisible Woman wrote: -I think Jim Hutton was a better person than Mary Austin(and more atractive).

Invisible Woman wrote: -Freddie looked more like a gay when he was with Mary. -I think Jim Hutton was a better person than Mary Austin(and more atractive). -Brian is always prettier than Roger. -Adam has a pretty face, but something evil is radiating out of that face.And he is fat a little,I think.so ;-D But I'm serious.

Bullet with Butterfly Wings wrote: I'm shocked, I thought it was only me who didn't like POTF! I hate, and I mean hate the song. Worst song Queen ever did, IMO.

Oscar J wrote: What song is POTF? Somehow I can't think of a song with that acronym.

Invisible Woman wrote: I don't like when the names of songs are written as acronyms. Maybe this is unpopular opinion too.

LOTV wrote:

Bullet with Butterfly Wings wrote: I'm shocked, I thought it was only me who didn't like POTF! I hate, and I mean hate the song. Worst song Queen ever did, IMO.

Don't mind POTF at all. Not even close to the worst song. Radio Ga Ga Delilah All God's People especially is fucking awful.

Panchgani wrote: I generally like acronyms, but I could not remember that PotF was Put out the Fire. However. it was rather easy to google up an alphabetical list of Queen songs. Probably not contoversial: I think aDRRfmD is infinitely better than DLyH. Probably controversial: I think that Innuendo and tSMGo are mediocre songs. To me, Innuendo tries too hard to be epic, and does not recapture the 70's magic. Plus the synths were too prominent in my opinion. For me, I could never get over the cliche song title of tSMGo when I first heard it in 1991 (I did not know Freddie had AIDs at the time). I also was not fond of the simple staccato synth intro for the song.

Sheldon wrote:

Seed_Of_Rhy wrote: Also, In the eightees Freddie became to behave more gayish, particulary in clips. Videos to Breakthrough and I'mGSM are flooded with the air-kisses, duck faces, winking and all that mimic.

I'm not a huge fan of "gayish" behavior either

miraclesteinway wrote: Roger is a consistently better songwriter than Freddie. Although Freddie is possibly a better composer.

Bullet with Butterfly Wings wrote:

Invisible Woman wrote: I don't like when the names of songs are written as acronyms. Maybe this is unpopular opinion too.

Ah, sorry about that.

bradbobly wrote: Roger's solo work is better than Brian's ( subjective i know but still )

Sebastian wrote: Why should they? They're enjoying it, they're making money off of it, and they're making loads of people quite happy. Seems like a win-win situation.

musicland munich wrote: Money isn't everything at least to me.

GreatKingFairyFeller wrote: The first album sounds very flat on most of the songs.