How bad were Queen?

[Bomber]

Queen were crap, Springsteen is NOT crap ! How can you not like Bruce ? Some people !!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

it would be a lengthy derail, but in short - when you're a kid you only have limited access to music and to an extent 'get what you're given', from family or friends or whatever. i had an older uncle who was into prog, 70s rock, singer / songwriters etc. I worked my way through the lot from a very early age (jesus, i was into Dylan at about 11, but also Alan Parsons Project), but as soon as i became exposed to other stuff i quickly moved on. some stayed with me - Dylan, Van Morrison - some i hastily abandoned - Barclay James Harvest, Manfredd Mann's Earth Band.

What about the radio?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

passing comment like: "Now thats the kind of talent you dont see today, son"

Can you think of anyone today that's half as good as Freddie was on stage? Coz I can't

 

[Jo/Joe]

Superb melody and harmonies. What's the fookin' problem?

 

[kittyP]

Odd poll choices, I think they are all awfull but I think that Phill Collins is ten times worse that bruce springsteen!

 

[madamv]

Er um cough

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=3450281#post3450281

 

[Funky_monks]

Can you think of anyone today that's half as good as Freddie was on stage? Coz I can't

Imagine a middle aged, shitfaced, sofa air-guitar playing Salfordian saying it to you after you've watched the video at full volume for the 1000th time.......

Then you'll understand......


And compare to: Garlic Bread! Its the future! and you'll get his intonation, EVERY time he says it.....

 

[John Quays]

haha this thread's still going, I reckon pilchardman hit a nerve and touched on the zeitgeist there!

Oh yeah, Queen were utterly crap. Wahey!

 

[Major Tom]

How does it happen that you come to dislike music that you once liked?

doesn't everyone change their tastes?

I recently bought a record player so I could listen to all the vinyl i bought while i was at school. That's when I realised how much my tastes had changed.

i used to have very narrow tastes - mainly white, mainly British, mainly contemporary. These days I do not listen to The Jam, eg, a band I was fanatical about in my school days mainly because I realise that the music they ripped off was better. And the people that the Jam ripped off also ripped people off - and they were good too. I can't listen to 60s Stones stuff these days - its either pop or I prefer the original blues that they were listenting to.

I used to listen to The Beatles quite a lot too, but it sounds too limited for me now, I find most of it pretty dull and one-dimensional.

Tastes change as the listener becomes more mature surely?

 

[ether]

Queen? Wack!!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

doesn't everyone change their tastes?

I recently bought a record player so I could listen to all the vinyl i bought while i was at school. That's when I realised how much my tastes had changed.

i used to have very narrow tastes - mainly white, mainly British, mainly contemporary. These days I do not listen to The Jam, eg, a band I was fanatical about in my school days mainly because I realise that the music they ripped off was better. And the people that the Jam ripped off also ripped people off - and they were good too. I can't listen to 60s Stones stuff these days - its either pop or I prefer the original blues that they were listenting to.

I used to listen to The Beatles quite a lot too, but it sounds too limited for me now, I find most of it pretty dull and one-dimensional.

Tastes change as the listener becomes more mature surely?

No, tastes broaden.

Just because you now listen to world music or whatever, it doesn't mean that contemporary white music was bad.

Like I said, I'll probably never buy another disco record, but I can still recognize why I bought the ones I did, when I did, and I don't now hate or even dislike the music I bought, even decades ago.

To me, repudiating the music you once liked is like repudiating who you once were.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Well I voted Brooce...not that I think Queen or Springsteen are bad. They've both been blessed/cursed with whole swathes of knucklehead fans, but taken out of context, many of the songs have a lot going for them.

 

[thestraightman]

Oh its not trendy to slag of the Beatles anymore is it.

 

[cathal marcs]

I despise queen with a passion dunno why but hey just crack me up. Was unsure though on levels of crapness I think Phill Collins is worse than Sting but only just. At least Sting has message in a Bottle and Roxanne.

 

[thestraightman]

doesn't everyone change their tastes?

I recently bought a record player so I could listen to all the vinyl i bought while i was at school. That's when I realised how much my tastes had changed.

I disagree with this, I pretty much rate all the stuff I liked then, now. When I look back at the music I listened to as a kid, I can thank my stars that its Kosh, and you can't fool the kids. The only change is now I have a cultural and critical reasons for liking it, I used to just like it.



P.S With the exeption of Simply red