What's the use of making a duet with this lame impersonators band? I definitely won't buy this! Enough is enough! I refused to buy the Zucchero duets album and I won't let this crap enter my collection. I'm becoming a responsible collector, I'm afraid
Where did you read this ? I can't find it on QOL or BM.com ?
EDIT: Ah, at Queenzone.com - I never check the frontpage.... Anyway, should be interesting. I'd rather have him working with The Darkness then working on a new adaption of the musical for the poor people in Zimbabwe.
I saw The Darkness live in Turin last month and they were great. Justin is a good singer and also a good guitarist, I'd say even better than his brother Dan.
In Turin the Darkness drummer started to play a tempo which was similar to We Will Rock You. So we started to sing We Will Rock You. We were in the second row, and all the audience followed us singing We Will Rock You. The drummer kept the time and started to play the drum part of We Will Rock You, then Justin smiled and started to play an instrumental version of We Will Rock You on his guitar, in a key which was different from the original key of Queen because he had to follow us! It was great!
Of course I keep preferring Queen far more, but they are talented. Givin Up has a great melody and an excellent solo!
I'm looking forward to listen to this collaboration between Brian and the fours.
damn
the darkness is the most stupid not serieus band i know i get sick of everybody comparing it with queen, i see queen as a serious band (with talent)
and brian shouldn't do this leave a great song alone
I like the darkness very much, at first i had some doubts about their skills. But I saw them live in Amsterdam this year and it was great, really great. Justin is very talented, but to be honest compered with Freddie Mercury he's nothing, so i don't think it will do the song any good, but i just want Queen in the charts again, that's all!
I also like some of their b-sides.
While the song is questionable. It's cool. I like the fact that it's split Queen fans because that's exactly what Queen did! You either love or hate them.
Peace,
Adam.
I am a seasoned Queenie and back in their beginning they were dissed just like The Darkness is being dissed especially by the music press, personally I think they are wonderful!
They will be huge despite the hatred just give them a few years, they are getting their feet wet just like any new band.
Kriz ;o)
I have to say I like The Darkness. Their music is really funny and enjoyable. I understand that Justin’s vocal could be unacceptable for some of us, but I like it anyway. This collaboration would be interesting in some way. More than B. Spears, Beyonce etc. as somebody told here above.
I saw the Darkness in Pittsburgh PA and Justin did this guitar solo, wandering through the crowd on the shoulders of a roadie. The Queen references were there if you knew what to expect. A great rock show, amazing costumes, fog machines, tv screens, the whole nine. The opening band, The Wildhearts, cleaned the wax out my ears they were so loud!
If they want to cover a Queen tune they should go right ahead-- I agree it's got more promise than anything Britney would touch. I'd really like to hear the Darkness do the fast WWRY, it's more their style, "fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die": August 9 1986
I hope it never sees the light of day.
The Darkness BLOW. HARD. They're a schlock AC/DC-VanHagar wanna-be band with a distinctly un-funny "Monty Python parody of Freddie Mercury" as a frontman. CRAP.
I don't know how new that information was about them
doing somebody to love. If you look at what other news is on there some of the more recent items are at least a month old. And some of it goes back to last year with no dates on or anything.
Why the hell do the Darkness get so much shit??? They aint a parody, their album 'Permission to Land' has some superb heavy rock songs on it. If you took a while to listen to the album, youd find out that these guys can write and record on thier own merit without being compared to Queen. The only reason a lot of you give them so much crap is because of whats written in the press, so they like Queen???? I think Extreme did a far better job of trying to impersonate Queen than The Darkness do. And if the internet were about in 1992, then Im sure that Extreme would be getting as much shit as the Darkness do on here!
I hope they collborate, would be 10 times better than half the dog crap in the charts at the moment.
This 'news' first surfaced on here around Christmas 2003.
I remember John S Stuart commenting that The Darkness had already recorded their version of STL, in reference to the vague similarities between STL and their Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End).
And besides, Brian has confirmed this 'news' as being bollocks on his site.
Although I'm not really a 'hair-metal' fan I do like my bands to have a sense of humour. Hence Queen, The Beautiful South and now the Darkness. If Brian wants to record with them then so be it.