I saw this commented on one of my youtube videos and i just had to share it. (I deleted the comment because it was just stupid)
I'm a really massive Queen Fan but anything after Queen II is not Queen for me. They Went too commercial for me and everything after is just crappy bubblegum pop. Paul Rodgers Singing Queen is much better but the songs after Queen II are just crappy commercial pop. Queen Sold out during Shear Heart Attack.
Sounds like a typical Genesis Fan...
Brighton Rock, Stone Cold Crazy (SHA), Somebody To Love and other tracks from two albums following QII are a real piece of art. I wouldn't dare call them crappy ? Think that even Freddie said that for him, STL is a better written song than Bo Rhap...
That fool must have been drunk and stupid in any order. What a full time retard. Thats what I love about Queen they always did their thing, never really went mainstream.
Panchgani wrote:
Queenwent mainstream after Jazz, when they started releasing four singles per album and added synths.
Bingo.
They did what everyone else who wanted to make money did - shifted from albums to singles, because that's what FM radio did.
To dismiss SHA through NOTW is just so foolish. One can say what they want about Jazz onward, but Queen's 74-77 era is pretty spotless.
Didn't someone close to the band (I wanna say Bob Harris - not sure, though) say that he felt they had veered much away from their original sound when they did ANATO? and that he felt they could have been an amazing Prog Rock band otherwise. Can't recall what the source was for that.
I love Queen more from the eighties than from the seventies and I don't care if anyone will say it's stupid or I'm stupid.
I really love their whole work and I like that they created different music over the years.
I can imagine being a Queen fan and discovering them from that first BBC session and getting the first album and seeing them develop into the harder stuff. Must've been great. I know I've gone off so many bands by album 3. The guy can think what he wants, as different as it seems from our own unique perspectives on Queen in 2018.
In the 80s, if Polka was sort of big, Queen would have had at least one polka song. It seemed like something like Hot Space and definitely The Works was an attempt to capitalize on what was commercial at the time. Having said that, there are a bunch of songs from those two albums that I love.
Through the 70's I think they wrote and produced music that stood out as being slightly different to "the main stream". And although there were different styles of music it had something that was definitively Queen.
They peaked in 77 with News Of The World on a commercial level especially in the American market. Jazz didn't sell as well and I'm sure they felt they were retreding old ground.
I think they became main stream when they released CLTCL. Great song, but it was played as a straight Rock n'Roll and had none of the this could only be Queen signatures about it. AOBTD repeated this idea, a straight late 79's/80's disco song. . . These two songs could have been played by anybody and without Freddie's recognisable vocal they could have been anybody. That's the point at which Queen went mainstream, the singles in some markets outsold the albums and they crossed the line from producing music that people found and enjoyed and became fans of through exploring albums to a band that made pop music like many other bands, singers or artists.