Queen
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They wouldn't be on my list of least favourite bands at all - I quite like them. Good live (only seen them on telly), some decent guitar work, not bad tunes.
I prefered Mercury's solo work though - the Great Pretender was good, as was Barcelona.
So I'm not joining in with the Queen Haters.
EDIT: Can't think of much wrong with the Bee Gees either. Certainly no worse than any other disco pop band. Bit past it now, but done some good stuff in their day?
Showing my Age here, I saw em at Birmingham in 79. They were good. Freddie Mercury was a charismatic front man, and he didn't need an auto cue :D
"Digital Mike Binoche" wrote: Showing my Age here, I saw em at Birmingham in 79. They were good. Freddie Mercury was a charismatic front man, and he didn't need an auto cue :D
He had funny mustache
NObabe wrote:
He had funny mustache
He was a 70s gay. He would have looked REDICULOUS without one, I have based my look on Freddie he was the best
BIGINOIL wrote: REDICULOUS
Is that supposed to be a funny word or you've just misspelled it?
BIGINOIL wrote:
NObabe wrote:
He had funny mustache
It's M.O.U.S.T.A.C.H.E.
Either is correct 
He was a 70s gay. He would have looked REDICULOUS without one, I have based my look on Freddie he was the best
Ok then Col
NObabe wrote:
Either is correct
Your way is the American spelling, according to the OED.
As I am franticlly prooving on the uther thred, I have no rume to tork.
"Digital Mike Binoche" wrote:
He was a 70s gay. He would have looked REDICULOUS without one, I have based my look on Freddie he was the best
Ok then Col
You could have corrected my spelling while you were editing that post, MATE!
Can you LOT stop USING CApitals cos i keep thinking"DID i right that?"(i MEAN WRITE)
RIGHT SAID ROCKET(FRANK)
Rocket Mick wrote: Can you LOT stop USING CApitals cos i keep thinking"DID i right that?"(i MEAN WRITE) RIGHT SAID ROCKET(FRANK)
Ooh - listen to HER!
Stroppy old QUEEN!
Freddie Mercury was fabulous! My brother had a real mad phase on Queen in the late 70's; day at the races, night at the opera - 'You take my breath away' - was an absolutely brilliant song.
Queen were great.Not got a lot by 'em,the greatest hits 1 & 2,A Kind Of Magic album,and a live album.But I always had a lot of time for them.Freddie is still missed.
Anyone got any of the Brian May solo albums - now they are bad, so hilariously bad, that they're actually quite good - and the liner notes are just mind blowing...
Snorri xxx
Christopher Owens wrote: Maya's post got me thinking about them.
What's your opinion on them?
Here's mine: :barf:
...And here's mine;
a lot of bands i'm simply not interested in but Queen i really did/do hate with a passion.Bohemain Rhapsody is torture in the extreme
And how everyone went on about how fcucking "great" Mercury was at live aid in 85 ..aaraarraargghghhhhhhhhhh 
Johnny - he was great! Well, compared to U fin 2 he was - he may have worn some sort of coded clothes, but there wasn't a platform shoe in sight...........:D
Johnny wrote: a lot of bands i'm simply not interested in but Queen i really did/do hate with a passion.Bohemain Rhapsody is torture in the extreme
And how everyone went on about how fcucking "great" Mercury was at live aid in 85 ..aaraarraargghghhhhhhhhhh
Never got into them although I like a few of their songs.
Their bassist, incidentally, lives in my hometown, Putney.
Queen had a sense of humour... they took the self important macho cliche of rock and totally fucked with it intentionally... they were bullshit and knew it and played that act to the hilt and they still rocked
i don't have any Queen records but you gotta admit that Queen was a unique band and they are loads better than many of the 70s classic rock shit they play on the radio (still... seriously, they still play REO Speedwagon and Styx all the time on the radio here!)
pumped full of drugs wrote: the 70s classic rock shit they play on the radio (still... seriously, they still play REO Speedwagon and Styx all the time on the radio here!)
Can't you plug your ears by filling them with hot lead?
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
pumped full of drugs wrote: the 70s classic rock shit they play on the radio (still... seriously, they still play REO Speedwagon and Styx all the time on the radio here!)
Can't you plug your ears by filling them with hot lead?
i suppose so
I'm not as hardline against Queen as a lot of you seem to be. Sure, they were overdramatic and camp, but they managed to overcome this with a few good tunes on seperate occasions. I would never want to sit through an entire album of theirs, but they did put out some good tunes in their day. 
They did give a whole new meaning to the term "lad band", eh?
