QueenZone discussion #1510824
Listening to Queen without Freddie
| whoman89 15.06.2018 20:54 |
I have been a long life Queen fan. My dad always played Queen. First band I ever knew. I have never listened to any Queen prior to Queen Rocks. Should I listen to Queen as an envolving group after Freddie's death. Only 29 and have been raised on Queen so feel that anything after Made In Heaven isn't Queen. First time posting on the forum. |
| emrabt 15.06.2018 21:48 |
Listen to whatever you want to, I'm assuming you live in a part of the world lucky enough to be able to listen to any type of music you want and have youtube which gives you access to 99%** of the worlds music from the point at which time began? If you feel it isn't Queen that's fine, there are no rules, everyones tastes are different. *I made up that percentage |
| mike hunt 15.06.2018 22:05 |
They havn't recorded much music since Freddie passed, so check out the live stuff they did with Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert and decide If you like it....the only album with the Queen name in it is The Cosmo Rocks with Paul Rodgers...it's on youtube if you want too give it a listen....I'm personally not a fan of Queen +. But you might like it. |
| OhioMustapha 15.06.2018 22:18 |
10/10 better than Queen should listen |
| dysan 16.06.2018 07:12 |
I was surprised to hear new Bowie fans not really like the 70s stuff. Depends on your 'entry point' I guess. Usually I get into a band and LOVE the stuff but then am not fussed by new material. See Suede since 1994. |
| dysan 16.06.2018 07:13 |
I know that's not really related but still :) |
| Day dop 16.06.2018 10:54 |
Queen without Freddie and John is Queen+. That's where I draw the line too. I have little interest in what Brian and Roger have done since Queen. |
| Dr Magus 16.06.2018 12:11 |
whoman89 wrote: I have been a long life Queen fan. My dad always played Queen. First band I ever knew. I have never listened to any Queen prior to Queen Rocks. Should I listen to Queen as an envolving group after Freddie's death. Only 29 and have been raised on Queen so feel that anything after Made In Heaven isn't Queen. First time posting on the forum.Great first post and you are correct. Although No-One But You was just the three surviving members, everything from 5ive onwards is pure shite. These days, of course, it is a brand not a band and Bri and Roger have turned into what Roger said he never wanted to be - a tribute to themselves. |
| mike hunt 16.06.2018 19:52 |
I Agree |
| Man from Zanzibar 19.06.2018 10:00 |
Well, you can look at Journey as an example of another approach. Even though Steve is alive and well (more power to him), after he left, the band changed lead vocalists often, until like 10 years ago or so they found a Perry soundalike Arnel Pineda via YouTube of all things, subsequently toured with him and even made two studio albums with the new lead singer (carrying the "legacy sound" of Steve Perry). Those releases did farily well commercially and in terms of touring they're doing mighty fine, but man, they got so much shit for hiring a Perry soundalike and making new music with him. |
| miraclesteinway 19.06.2018 16:06 |
There are of course Queen songs from 1973 to 1991 which don't feature Freddie, because Freddie didn't always handle the lead vocal of a song and sometimes didn't contribute to those songs he didn't sing on.... but if you're talking post-Freddie Queen recordings, the only thing that really counts is No-one but you, since the rest of it is simply back catalogue with a different singer |
| miraclesteinway 20.06.2018 16:27 |
I personally enjoy the Queen plus shows, and it's sort of the Queen experience since we're never going to see all four original members on stage again, but I'm totally aware it's not Queen. I don't know that I'd buy a Queen plus Adam Lambert live DVD, although having been at two concerts now it does have meaning for me (since I'm too young to have seen the original band anyway). I do think Brian and Roger are still good songwriters and phenomenal musicians in their own right, and it would be interesting to see what could happen if they did an album with Adam Lambert, new material, where everyone left their ego outside the studio. That's just not going to happen though. I don't think that The Cosmos Rocks was the worst album ever, but at the time it came out a friend of mine who wasn't aware of the album's release said to me "I heard this song on the radio yesterday, it sort of sounded like Queen, but it wasn't Queen because it definitely wasn't Freddie Mercury singing. But it sounded like they said to themselves "let's try and make the guitar sound even more like Brian May than Brian May, and the drums sound even more like Roger Taylor than Roger Taylor, and we'll wash it in multitrack and backing vocals". I said to her "did the song go like this?" and sang a line, and she said "yeah that's it!" and I said "yeah, that's the new Queen line-up with Paul Rodgers", and she said "hmmm, not bad but trying too hard to be Queen rather than be musicians". For me, that kind of summed up the project. They had an idea that at all costs they had to sound like Queen, and in a funny way they achieved that but in doing so somehow lost a lot of the magic that they had. Some of the tracks sounded like they could have had potential - I quite enjoyed Time to Shine which sounded like it could have been on the album after Innuendo had Freddie lived (although it's not a patch on an actual Queen track), "We Believe" was a little bit of a here we go again from Brian May, not offensive but not a great moment, and Call Me if you need my love was just cringe worthy. IMHO. |
| mike hunt 20.06.2018 16:46 |
I don't think the album sounded like Queen at all.....TCR was more blues Rock, like a Rodgers album than Queen. I agree, songs like Surfs Up, warboys and call Me are even worse than the Hot Space Songs. |
| Thistle 21.06.2018 00:27 |
We Believe was my favourite track on TCR lol. I also liked Small and Some Things That Glitter. Call Me was horrendous. |
| AlexRocks 25.06.2018 05:58 |
"The Cosmos Rocks" if phenomenal and totally QUEEN. Don't let the haters bite cha'. |
| dysan 25.06.2018 07:02 |
I think on first listen I dismissed it as too bluesy for me but as I've said elsewhere when I gave it a listen recently I was pleasantly surprised. I think I'd prepared myself for it to be more bluesy than it was. |
| pittrek 25.06.2018 09:26 |
mike hunt wrote: I agree, songs like Surfs Up, warboys and call Me are even worse than the Hot Space Songs.Wow, those are my favourite songs from the album :-) |