Queen

[Flashman]

Top stuff up to Hot Space, which still had Las Palabras De Amor and Under Pressure on it which kick arse. Downhill from there for the purists though The Works,A Kind of Magic and Innuendo had their moments for me.

Queen rock!

 

[dirtysanta]

Fuck Queen and all the pompous overblown shallow tosser-rock that followed in its dreadful wake!!!

what he said !

 

[jodal]

Queen did their best stuff with 5ive!

 

[Major Tom]

I always used to hate them - mostly. But...

The "let's rawwwk wembley" side of them was shit. But I had Queen's Greatest Hits from about age 14 and liked a fair amount of it. I've always really loved their late 70s stuff - "Save Me", and 'Play the Game' - I even liked 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love', and 'Another One Bites the dust'. The rest of The Game is virtually unlistenable toss, however.

I've recently discovered I like a fair amount from "A Night at the Opera" - but definitely not 'BH'.

"Flash" and "Under Pressure" were good too.

Everything after Radio Gaga is shit.

I was hoping for a "is shite most of time, but not always" option - but ended up having to vote for the humourless bastard option

 

[poului]

The inspiration for many bands and guitar players (Guns n Roses, Slash, Smashing Pumpkins etc..)..

I rest my sodding case.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I cannot believe that the votes for Queen are out numbering the votes against by 2 to 1! I think there needs to some serious mod banning/carnage to readdress the cool/uncool ratio on U75

 

[A Dashing Blade]

Like the curates egg, good in parts.

Seem to remember Live Killers being a storming double live but havn't been able to track a copy down on any of the download sites.


A Night at the Hip Hopera anyone?

http://www.kleptones.com/pages/downloads_hiphopera.html

 

[kyser_soze]

One of the most original bands ever, and Freddie was always brilliant live. Agree that their stuff tailed off the closer it came to Freddie's bottom falling off (C ROb Newman) but utterly brilliant IMV. Fucking amazing band live as well.

 

[R.I.C.O.]

Queen: Greatest hits 1 was my first album, I used to love "Another One Bites The Dust". I also liked "A Night At The Opera" and "Flash" - but the rest was a little more cheesier or shitter - especially "The Highlander" score.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'm doing the sound for the fanclub annual convention in a couple of weeks time, so I will have three days of nothing but Queen. Just imagine the delights of three different tribute bands, plus three four hour discos where nothing but Queen tracks are played.


So, by the end of that I'll hate them, but you have to admit that Freddie is in with a shout for the "rocks greatest ever frontman" award.

 

[Onket]

I'm doing the sound for the fanclub annual convention in a couple of weeks time, so I will have three days of nothing but Queen. Just imagine the delights of three different tribute bands, plus three four hour discos where nothing but Queen tracks are played.


So, by the end of that I'll hate them, but you have to admit that Freddie is in with a shout for the "rocks greatest ever frontman" award.

I am fully aware that I am leaving myself open to abuse but I went to that for about 5 years in a a row in the nineties. It was fucking quality, towards the later years it was a bit trainspotty, and people I know that still go say that's what it's like now. But you have a good un.

Live Killers is me favourite album. Unfortunately I don't seem to own it anymore.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Mostly great. Mercury had a lovely singing voice and the quality of the songs generally drew a veil over May's more self-indulgent fretwankery. I think their greatest hours were 'The Game' and 'The Works' - 'Radio Ga Ga''s proto-acid 303 instrumental break was a touch of genius. However, I feel that all that (largely) post-Mercury cut-and-paste/odds-and-sods/live celebrity backslap-a-thon bollocks on 'Greatest Hits III' and 'Made In Heaven' should be consigned to the furnace of history...

 

[Louloubelle]

I loved Queen as a kid
I loved Seven Seas of Rhye, which I still have on 7" somewhere, I bought all their albums and everyfink, all my pocket money went on Queen records of magazines featuring Freddie
I love Another Bites the Dust but just can't get into their stuff in the way I used to, it feels so overblown and self indulgent (which was probably what I liked about them in the 1st place)
I'm still upset about Freddie's death, he was a real superstar blass his heart, seeing how he looked when he got really sick was awful. He was one of the first big time celebrities to die of AIDS and he hid it until almost the end, I really felt very sad when he died
RIP Freddie

PS

I haven't voted as there's no option for I used to be mad about them but my tastes have changed

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Been interesting reading peoples accounts of liking them then not liking them; the reason why I always liked them was becuase of the over the top, granduer, May guitar, etc stuff! Very few bands can be taken so tongue in cheek and seriously at the same time! Plus they rock! The riffs and the beats are some rocking shit!

 

[pilchardman]

Crap beyond measure. Music for Jeremy Clarkson.

I had work colleagues who enjoyed playing Queen CDs at work. The horror.

 

[Jo/Joe]

Forget the pomp, what matters is the music. The singles on Greatest Hits absolutely shit over most bands that follow. Unless you disagree with the use of melody and harmony, can any detractors name any better purveyors then Queen? I don't even talk as a big Queen fan. I was indifferent when they were around, but I just cannot deny how talented they were at their peak. People seem to have a problem with successful bands sometimes. This snobbishness doesn't exist like this in the US (Ian Mackaye loved Cheap Trick for example).

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Crap beyond measure. Music for Jeremy Clarkson.

I had work colleagues who enjoyed playing Queen CDs at work. The horror.

Quite aside from their respective merits, for some reason they did seem to attract a lot of wanker fans. Namely those who thought they were hard, macho, hetero, pie and mash, fingers-in-beltloops rock like Status Quo (so therefore one for the Volvo school runs) until they found out that Mercury was 'one of them' and promptly smashed up their Queen records.

 

[pilchardman]

People seem to have a problem with successful bands sometimes.

While that is certainly true, it isn't my problem with Queen. Success doesn't put me off, only bad music does.

You say Queen used melody and harmony. True, but in a hackneyed and corny way. Queen were in many ways like ABBA. Except ABBA were better. Queen are the Lloyd-Webber and Rice of pop-rock.

 

[madamv]

I like Queen. They have a unique sound, excellent on DVD concerts. Freddie such a star. Toured a cemetary a few years a go and the groundsman showed us where Freddie was really laid to rest. Quite sweet.

My (male) cousin used to wrestle me whilst playing his Queen albums.

Wont name and shame the Urbanite concerned!!

Then one day I beat him and he lost his temper and got told off by his mum. Ha.

 

[nick1181]

You say Queen used melody and harmony. True, but in a hackneyed and corny way.

I'm not sure I agree entirly. The diversity of what they did was incredible. Some of it was as corny as fuck, some of it wasn't. But... lest we forget, it had Freddy Mercury at the front, playing to a crowd of tens of thousands of people.

You're not going to get Nick Drake now are you.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

You're not going to get Nick Drake now are you.

I rated Nick Drake's cover of 'Seven Seas Of Rhye'.

 

[tangerinedream]

I think queen are one of those bands that people who don't like music like.

I'm not saying everyone who likes Queen doesn't like music but you see what I mean.

 

[DialT0ne]

i dont listen to that type of music much but queen is actually alright.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

King were good - 'Love And Pride' was a grade one '80s phat choon.

 

[D]

I love the bicycle song.

 

[pilchardman]

I think queen are one of those bands that people who don't like music like.

I'm not saying everyone who likes Queen doesn't like music but you see what I mean.

I agree entirely. It's that Phil Collins, Sting, Dire Straits, Tina Turner thing.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I agree entirely. It's that Phil Collins, Sting, Dire Straits, Tina Turner thing.

Urrrghhhhh!!! Nononononononononoooooo!!!!!!

 

[Jo/Joe]

True, but in a hackneyed and corny way

Just can't agree. Unashamedly effective perhaps (which is harder then people think), but not hackneyed as in tired and cliched.

But hey.

 

[nino_savatte]

I always thought they were overblown. They were the boring old farts we railed against as youths.

They also played Sun City.

 

[pilchardman]

Urrrghhhhh!!! Nononononononononoooooo!!!!!!

Realisation can be painful. (To paraphrase MASH).