| Roy Queen 10.03.2006 09:57 |
What do you guys think? For me know, this is one hell of a good song.. My favorite for the time! It's damn catchy and has a great sound. Just wandered if it's only me that loves this piece of mastership within' music? |
| Jay Mantis 10.03.2006 09:59 |
I like it as well! Great tune and lyrics! |
| teleman 10.03.2006 14:40 |
Perfect cabaret song. Freddie was genius with this type of song on a rock album. |
| TheImpossibleMan 10.03.2006 16:02 |
The gayest song Queen ever did, and I mean that very literally...I think most (as in 95%) of the love songs by Queen were about men and women, but I am convinced that GOFLB is about man-on-man love/sex. |
| brENsKi 10.03.2006 16:50 |
TheImpossibleMan wrote: The gayest song Queen ever did, and I mean that very literally...I think most (as in 95%) of the love songs by Queen were about men and women, but I am convinced that GOFLB is about man-on-man love/sex.it's a parody it was Freddie's attempt at Noel Coward vaudeville style...so by default you are also saying that...seaside rendezvous, lazing, and millionaire - are all gay too? |
| TheImpossibleMan 10.03.2006 16:53 |
<font color=green>Bren<font color=orange>ski wrote:No, because I didn't get the impression that he was talking about gay sex. The style of music is one thing, the lyrics are another, and the lyrics of GOFLB are very gay.TheImpossibleMan wrote: The gayest song Queen ever did, and I mean that very literally...I think most (as in 95%) of the love songs by Queen were about men and women, but I am convinced that GOFLB is about man-on-man love/sex.it's a parody it was Freddie's attempt at Noel Coward vaudeville style...so by default you are also saying that...seaside rendezvous, lazing, and millionaire - are all gay too? |
| teleman 10.03.2006 17:12 |
TheImpossibleMan, GOFLB is very much in the style of vaudeville/cabaret music. Right down to the language. If you listen to some cabaret music from the era of Noel Coward you would know that. There is nothing that sets this as being about gay sex/love any more than any of Freddie's other vaudeville/cabaret songs. Freddie was great at digging into different styles of music and picking up the nuances that set the genre apart. |
| i'm going slight mad... 10.03.2006 21:49 |
erm...i think i agree with theimpossible man...the lyrics suggest a gay relationship. the style of the song is, of course, is very much like seaside roundevous etc. they can all be described as camp, because of the vaudevile nature of the style, but none of them apart from GOFLB imply to me in their LYRICS a gay relationship. |
| 7Innuendo7 10.03.2006 23:04 |
imho the solos in Good Old-Fashioned Lover boy are similar to I Want to Break Free |
| mike hunt 11.03.2006 01:57 |
I don't care if the song is about two men or two women or man and women, the song is bloody brilliant!....as is the whole ADATR album. |
| bitesthedust 11.03.2006 02:05 |
Whether the lyrics relate to gay relationships or not is irrelevant and I don't think they do anyway, it's another Vaudeville tune. Personally I cannot stand this song, to be honest. |
| Munchsack 11.03.2006 03:18 |
mike hunt wrote: I don't care if the song is about two men or two women or man and women, the song is bloody brilliant!....as is the whole ADATR album.There could be three of them, you know... |
| nemesis69 11.03.2006 04:00 |
....IS a opusmaster of Freddie God Mercury... i estudent on a schoolloverboys...:)... THX ALL!!! (Gabriel-Barcelona ). |
| bohemian_killer_queen 11.03.2006 06:07 |
i think it is a awsome song and i just looove the lyrics and the person singin, ode to Freddie!!! even if the lyrics suggest a gay relationship what does it matter? the song rocks anyway! |
| Asterik 11.03.2006 07:54 |
It has a lovely jazzy feel to it. I for one think it is about a straight relationship- old fashioned lover boys of the twenties were rather effeminate compared to today but that shouldn't be an issue anyway. I love the vocal harmonies to- so tightly structured in a way that oozed precision. Like Kiler Queen, it had those little nuances, like the clock chiming at the restaurant that made Queen such a great band. |
| dougie 11.03.2006 08:20 |
So which lyrics imply that this song is about a gay relationship? IMO there are two perspectives in the lyrics: 1. the loverboy himself and 2. a group of outsiders during the chorus -- they are asking THE LOVERBOY, "What you doing tonight, hey boy?" I don't see the lyrics as being about a gay relationship necessarily. (And if they are, who cares?) However, anything that's Noel Cowardesque should come off as gay to some degree. :) There are a lot of posts in these forums speculating as to the "gayness" of Freddie's lyrics -- particularly that Bohemian Rhapsody is all about the homosexual man killing off his heterosexual side. It's all a load of rubbish to me . . . to me . . . to meeeeeeeee! |
| mike hunt 12.03.2006 01:22 |
I agree, I don't see what the whole gay thing has to do with the music. 'thelmpossibleman' seems to be a little on the homophobe side judging by some of his posts, but ignorance of some people never seems to amaze me. "lover boy" is the style of queen that seperated them from the average rock band, if it wasn't for this style queen they would have been just another rock band with little originality. I love this style of 20's meets 70's rock. Only freddie could write such gems! |
| All I Hear Is Radio Gaga 12.03.2006 11:30 |
I love this song! I think it's flawless...but hey that's just my opinion |
| billycat 12.03.2006 11:39 |
I personally think it's a great song and a classic in the Queen catalog. I've always felt that it was aimed at being more "gay" related than not. It's very rare to have a love song that doesn't express the notion of being about the opposite sex which this song has none of. It does however loosely speak both to and from a boys perspective. I suppose there is nothing completely defining this song as being gay-related which does give it a sort of universal appeal but I've always assumed a gay theme to it. I don't understand why it would shock or annoy anyone to consider the possiblities since clearly Freddie did have those sort of feeling towards men and chances are likely that in Freddies mind he was singing this to another guy. BTW, who is Mike Stone and why does he get additional vocal credits on this song in the studio? Did he ever sing on any other Queen or Freddie songs? Is it possible that maybe he's the good old-fashioned lover boy being refered to? just a guess... |
| Koolkikiland 12.03.2006 11:59 |
billycat wrote: BTW, who is Mike Stone and why does he get additional vocal credits on this song in the studio? Did he ever sing on any other Queen or Freddie songs?Great question. I know Mike Stone was their long-time engineer but I don't imagine he is the lover boy being referred to. . . but I always wondered, with Queen being the great vocalists they were, why they bothered having Mike Stone sing on this one? I think I can pick out his voice clearly on the lines "Hey, boy, where'd you get it from. Hey, boy, where did you go"? I also love Brian's psuedo clarinet trio all done with overdubbed guitars throughout the song . . and the little guitar "hiccup" Brian does during the solo. What a nice touch. I always thought Brian's genius always shined brightest on Freddie's songs. |
| RETROLOVE 12.03.2006 12:13 |
I dont think he was talking about gay sex in GOFLB...but I think he was in "Get down make love" If you read the lyrics you know that he was...but theres nothing wrong with that, lol!! |
| billycat 12.03.2006 13:42 |
Koolkikiland wrote: but I always wondered, with Queen being the great vocalists they were, why they bothered having Mike Stone sing on this one?I always thought the additional vocal credit was odd for the same reason. I also love Brian's psuedo clarinet trio all done with overdubbed guitars throughout the song . . and the little guitar "hiccup" Brian does during the solo. What a nice touch. I always thought Brian's genius always shined brightest on Freddie's songs.While Brian has definitely written and recorded plenty of great songs on his own I would have to agree that a lot of his moments he had in Freddies songs stood out in a more catchy and memorable way. Though the psuedo clarinet sounds on GOFLB are like a continuation of the stuff he did on his song, Good Company. I wonder how he got those sounds. I've never heard anything quite like it from a guitar. and yeah, that little "hiccup" bit is just too clever and cool. |
| Cricket Nutter 12.03.2006 15:23 |
I half-ditched this song for a while, but its recently grown on me again. A very upbeat catchy over-the-top (in a good way) tune, with a very well constructed guitar solo |
| Al TurHao 12.03.2006 17:42 |
Musically, it's fabulous. I get shivers down my spine when i try to play it on piano. I don't know if all of you know, but it's not the easiest song to play! ;) Lyrically, it's very funny. Is it gay? Well, like Millionaire Waltz.. I guess they are as gay as they could be, but who cares??? Both are brilliant! In a whole, a masterpiece. |
| hippychick67 04.09.2018 23:36 |
It might be my dirty mind, but I always thought it was about a guy boasting to his mates how he was going to charm his partner with all the romance stuff to get him/her into bed!! ???? |
| RobbyBloodshed 05.09.2018 03:04 |
I love the song, one of Brians best solo's IMO too... am I the only one though that thinks the first verse lead vocals are so low in comparison to everything else in the mix? |
| Sebastian 05.09.2018 12:07 |
I love the solo as well. Probably my favourite 70's solo. |
| Bike It 80 05.09.2018 14:50 |
RobbyBloodshed wrote: am I the only one though that thinks the first verse lead vocals are so low in comparison to everything else in the mix?I think that too. About the guitar solo, there's a bit around 1:58 - 2:00 that reminds me of another bit in the Bo Rhap solo. |
| Vocal harmony 05.09.2018 16:47 |
Wonderful song that encapsulated so much of what 70's Queen were. The other thing is that It sits within the ADATR album on an equal footing with the other songs. Nothing on that album is outshone or outshines anything else, perfect album imo. Another cool thing about the song is their TOTP appearance as I features the only time Brian was filmed using his Greco guitar. |
| PlayingTheGame 08.10.2018 06:36 |
Right, I came to this thread because I thought along the same line with TheImpossibleMan and i'm going slight mad... that the lyric could be perceived as suggesting a man-to-man relationship (an old old thread though it is! :)). It could be the entire opposite for other people, though, but I happen to perceive the lyric this way and not that it's an issue to me personally. I love the song, I love the complexity of mixtures of styles and layers in the composition but that's beside the point. I simply found this intriguingly an ambiguous and cheeky song since Freddie has always been reluctant to confirm his sexual orientation (whichever way it went) publicly. So...maybe it's one of his braver times or it's simply accidental and it's really about general love regardless of the orientation. It's got nothing to do with homophobia though. |
| AlbaNo1 08.10.2018 22:14 |
It’s pure Freddie. Great song with loads of classic Queen ingredients. I’m surprised it hasn’t risen up the historic ranks in popularity from minor hit of the time to major timeless song like Don’t Stop Me Now. And yes lyrically it could have layers. Freddie’s use of words really went to pot in the 80s. |
| ITSM 09.10.2018 00:41 |
My favourite song (in the world). |
| matt z 10.10.2018 14:59 |
Queen + Gay = GDML, IGSM "I suck your mind! You blow my head!" (Humorous take on, "You blow my mind!" IGSM: 1st verse: think of that Outkast music video with all the women just walking around like wildlife. (*only in this instance it's men for Freddie, seeing all the "young daffodils" out there) I'm convinced "one wave short of a shipwreck" is a call to gay navy men. Waving as in HEY SAILOR! !!!! (*in gayest voice possible) "Top billing" could indicate a man named Bill, or bring drilled by Bill "I'm coming down with a fever, really out to sea" Got the hots, taking in what's to SEE "Kettle boiling over" (Horny to anticipation and an URGE) "i think I'm a banana tree" (Sporting a boner) It all came together for me when acknowledging his line "YOU'RE MISSING THAT ONE FINAL SCREW" ....AND HE WASN'T TALKING ABOUT BEING INCOMPLETE ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE!" |
| Under Pressure 17.01.2019 09:17 |
This is my favorite song. Starting to hear more people talking about it, I suppose one of the positive effects of the film. |
| splicksplack 18.01.2019 10:27 |
The only thing that ruins GOFLB is that Drowse starts so quickly after it. :( |
| splicksplack 18.01.2019 10:27 |
The only thing that ruins GOFLB is that Drowse starts so quickly after it. :( |