| sundar 07.02.2020 11:16 |
After reading a few comments to this song by Queen on you tube, I posted my own thoughts and my own feelings on hearing it. Whether it succeeds in capturing all the emotions and all the thoughts associated with death and with life or not, this song certainly tries to. In lyrics like, "There's no time for us ..... ", it starts of as a wail and a complaint and a grievance by noting and by pointing out to the listener the fleetingness of time and consequently the non-permanent or the transitory nature of life in time itself , but then also recognizes that the times in our lives we treasure the most are the few precious moments when we are truly in love with, when we are truly in communion with, when we are truly at peace with the world we live in, as an inevitable consequence of which we end up being truly in love with, truly in communion with and truly at peace with ourselves. Even if these times tend to be very brief and even if they tend to be set far apart, yet it is in only in looking forward to and in anticipation of and in hoping to experience those few magical, elevated and captivating moments in our life that we strive and we persevere to live for, much like the only time that makes a year's worth of long hard schooling or a years worth of long hard work and labor bearable and tolerable is always just the month of short vacation at the end of the year, whose happy memories we hope to cherish and we know will serve as the fuel to carry us and to propel and to transport us through the rigor of the next season. But that is not all the message this song tries to covey either. It is very unlike the songs by Queen to just note the irony and the impossibility of a situation without also offering a resolution and a remedy and a cure for it, which in this case we only know all too well, which is that; it is not the span or the duration of our life that has been granted to us, in other words it is not for how long we have lived our life that ever really matters to us, rather it is how well we have lived it for the time that we were appointed and we were privileged enough to live it that always matter's to us; and though we have been frittering away our chances and our opportunities and our energies and throwing away our whole lives in-fact perhaps on our assured knowledge and supreme confidence that god is a god of infinite patience and endless second chances, it does not neglect or shy away from sounding off on ,if not exactly laboring the point, which co-incidentally is somewhat true to life's irony itself. In lyrics like ,"Touch my tears with your lips,.....", this songs ends by extending an invitation and making an appeal to the listener to take the time and to take the trouble and to make the decision and to make the effort to care and to love all the time, and thus to live a life which is always on a "Permanent Vacation". Note :- Believe it or not. To store n bits not more than 2(lg(n)) bits is required. This means to store a 512 MB file not more than 64 bits is required. The method is a fairly straightforward one but also one which you fail to notice or one which you accidentally overlook or perhaps one which you deliberately choose to ignore. |
| brENsKi 07.02.2020 11:24 |
what complete and utter tosh. the song was written for one sequence in a movie - to draw a direct parallel between the immortal one watching his loved one grow old and die. the frustration of living forever, but only having finite time to live with who you choose to live with. having "forever" isn't a lot of fun if all it means is starting over (with someone new) every 50 years or so...a "groundhog lifetime" i am though, very interested in this 512MB storage system of which you speak. |
| sundar 07.02.2020 12:35 |
I am not the one with a poor understanding . But if rigor should read "rigour", not my bad. The fault is of the spell checker, which possibly the non-premium version of the dictionary does not recognize and know the spelling of. There is nothing wrong in appreciating or knowing something or someone at face value, but the truth to anything or anyone at their depths is very much different and often sharply in contrast to what is true of it or them on the surface, especially in regards to who and what people really are like. What are the odds I really know you ? As regards the 512 MB system, like with all problems I have faced, the solution is always if front of your very eyes, at the tip of your very nose in-fact. Talk about something being hid in plain view. But if you are interested in other excellent methods,not this one though, which I just discovered, like 512 MB to 128 KB and so on , although my earlier site is no more, but this a place which hosts some of my stuff for free, link If your reference is to the movie, "groundhog day", I do believe it was nothing more than a re-run of a person's life with the same possibly not so special someone. |
| brENsKi 07.02.2020 12:40 |
sundar wrote:If your reference is to the movie, "groundhog day", I do believe it was nothing more than a re-run of a person's life with the same possibly not so special someone.your posts are exactly like groundhog day. |
| Martin Packer 07.02.2020 13:20 |
"Rigor" is American - and that's OK. The song works on multiple levels - otherwise why does it make me feel sad? |
| sundar 07.02.2020 13:42 |
That would be heaven in comparison to how I have been feeling all along, waking up daily to a worse than hellish nightmare and only getting worse, which I am certainly not the cause of, but I wouldn't blame anyone else for it either. I have made bad and poor choices in my life and was hoping perhaps Queenzone might not be one of them. The only definition for rigor that google turns up so far is for rigor-mortis, which would not be totally inapplicable. Then google must not be American. |
| sundar 07.02.2020 14:04 |
There is nothing in my posts that would suggest I am a polluting, corrupting , bad influence. |
| Penetration_Guru 07.02.2020 18:08 |
sundar wrote: There is nothing in my posts that would suggest I am a polluting, corrupting , bad influence.No, just massively pretentious. Why are you responding to YouTube comments here? Do it on YouTube where your fellow narcissists can have the right of reply / flame / troll. |
| k-m 08.02.2020 23:01 |
Congrats to anyone who actually had the patience to read the original post. I did not. |
| richrich 09.02.2020 08:20 |
My neighbour looks like a queer meth addict. |
| miraclesteinway 10.02.2020 05:43 |
OK so I'm currently doing a doctor of music degree because I want a tenure track job.... There's an element of musicology in it, where we have to read so many papers on various - I've had to read through papers that are ten pages long on why Beethoven used a certain kind of trill there and not here, and vice versa.... The way I see it is, it's nice that the song speaks to you in this way. I'm not sure it spoke to Brian May in this way when he wrote it. It was influenced by the movie, and he also had to draw the inspiration from somewhere so who knows exactly where that came from - even he has said he's not quite sure where but it *may* have been subconscious and realising his father was ill, and realising Freddie wasn't doing too well (NOT TRYING TO MAKE THIS A MORBID FREDDIE POST HONEST!) What I've learned about musicology and what other people have to say about compositions, songs, artists, composers, history, etc, is that if it's not something based in tangible technique, it's nothing more than an interesting idea. So, I'll say that this is an interesting (for you) idea, and that's great. I hope that you can just listen to the song, sit back, and appreciate that soaring, epic vocal, and the rather exceptional arrangement. It's also a very nice and hopeful lyric - yeah, we die, but we're here now so let's cherish it. Cherish the song and don't worry too much about inner meanings because honestly all you'll manage to do is tell us what the song means to you, but you won't necessarily manage to shed any light on what the song meant to Brian May outside of the context of the Highlander movie. |
| Invisible Woman 12.02.2020 08:05 |
I don't know why, but to me outro is the most emotional part of this song. |
| Martin Packer 12.02.2020 09:39 |
Two bits are interesting to me especially: 1) The bit where Brian sings WELL, and then Freddie blows him away. Always makes me smile. 2) As @Invisible Woman says, the outro makes me sad. Certainly one of the highlights of A Kind Of Magic. |
| Martin Packer 12.02.2020 09:39 |
Two bits are interesting to me especially: 1) The bit where Brian sings WELL, and then Freddie blows him away. Always makes me smile. 2) As @Invisible Woman says, the outro makes me sad. Certainly one of the highlights of A Kind Of Magic. |