I've just got round to seeing the two part Queen documentary shown on BBC 2 last weekend. It served as a reminder of what a great band they were at their best. It included their controversial appearance in apartheid South Africa with Brian May defending it and Roger Taylor saying it was a mistake. The part devoted to the making of the last album when they knew Freddie was dying was very moving.

I've just got round to seeing the two part Queen documentary shown on BBC 2 last weekend. It served as a reminder of what a great band they were at their best. It included their controversial appearance in apartheid South Africa with Brian May defending it and Roger Taylor saying it was a mistake. The part devoted to the making of the last album when they knew Freddie was dying was very moving.

 

I watched this too, made me realise what a great band Queen are, even in these days with my generic pop taste, they are still a legendary band. And I forgot how many hit songs they had had! :o

I watched this too, made me realise what a great band Queen are, even in these days with my generic pop taste, they are still a legendary band. And I forgot how many hit songs they had had! :o

Good to see someone born years after Freddie died appreciating how good they were. Yes they had their low points (the Hot Space album) but they also gave us some masterpieces.

I watched this too, made me realise what a great band Queen are, even in these days with my generic pop taste, they are still a legendary band. And I forgot how many hit songs they had had! :o

Forget how many hit songs they had?! ... :rofl:

 

So aside from that silly comment, I LOVE Queen. I was brought up listening to them. Freddie is by far one of the greatest male/pop vocalists in the world, and was also one of the best bands front men to ever grace the stage. They made some killer songs (NOT 'Bohemian Rhapsody'), and put on epic shows. Brilliant band.

 

21st Century Brian May however quickly needs removing from the country however.

Good to see someone born years after Freddie died appreciating how good they were. Yes they had their low points (the Hot Space album) but they also gave us some masterpieces.

 

I'd also put myself in that category, I grew up listening to "A Night at the Opera" and have both Greatest Hits I and II on my iPod. Fantastic band.

Queen were a brilliant band, I don't think we'll ever see a song as ground-breaking and epic as Bohemian Rhapsody, and they also did some far more simple but nonetheless still excellent songs like Somebody to Love

 

My most favourite Queen song. Absolutely incredible.

I used to listen to them (or hear them) as a kid. Our relatives used to have that Greatest Hits I album. I liked about 2/3 of the tracks there.

 

TBH, I've also forgot how many hits they've had. Hmph.

I'm amazed at how anyone could say, "I forgot how many hits they had" :lol: Practically every song that they released is well-known and was successful within the charts!

Queen is deffo my fave of the old rock bands - I didn't watch this documentary but still... My favourite is probably Somebody To Love.

Great band! I enjoyed the documentary - some of the clips I hadn't seen before!

I love Queen but I prefer the early Queen, stuff like Brighton Rock, Tie Your Mother Down, Prophet Song, Death On Two Legs, Liar, Sweet Lady for example. Those songs had a real raw edge to them, much as Queen were good up till Freddie's death they became too commercial for me and lost that hard edge they had not long after Night At The Opera.

 

Queen/QueenII/Day At The Races/News Of the World/Night At The Opera/Sheer Heart Attack p*** all over anything they did subsequently.

 

 

Strangely enough my three favourite Queen songs are all from the same album

 

Innuendo, The Days of Our Lives and The Show Must Go On.

I used to really like them as a kid but nowadays whenever anything comes up on my mp3 player I tend to skip them.

 

Favourites probably Tie Your Mother Down, Keep Yourself Alive, Seven Seas Of Rhye, One Vision and Hammer To Fall. Freddie is in my opinion the greatest frontman/woman of all time but the thing I liked most about them was their eagerness to try out new ideas and different styles rather than simply be a hard rock or pop band which would have been so easy for them and let them off a lot of the ridicule they received back then. Pop fans sneered at them because they were too Rock, Rock fans laughed at them because they were too Pop/camp and nearly everybody thought they were cheesy as Hell, which they were. But they were fun and solid songwriters at heart so for me they remain something of a guilty pleasure. I know they're really quite naff half the time but I still hve a fondness for them.

I used to really like them as a kid but nowadays whenever anything comes up on my mp3 player I tend to skip them.

 

Yep, pretty much feel the same... Quite like them when I was at school, but just increasingly found them pompous and over-blown when I started listening to bands like My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Radiohead, Nirvana, Pulp, etc... I always respected Freddie the Showman, but as a band, I just find them awful now....

 

I absolutely loved Queen when I was a kid but then they released A Kind of Magic and that album really turned me off them for quite a while.

But now I'm quite an old bast*rd I have now realised that upto and not including Hot Space, Queen were A f***ing Great Band. I think they have been tarred in the same way that Abba were once considered a bit uncool but then everybody realised how good they really were.

 

Anyway, great article over at The Quietus

Queen's Back Catalogue - The Authorised King James Version

Today would have been Freddie's 65th birthday :( . Google have marked the day with one of their doodles.

Today would have been Freddie's 65th birthday :( . Google have marked the day with one of their doodles.

 

This November marks the 20th anniversary of Freddie's death... 45 is just no age for anyone to die.... And AIDS is no way for anyone to die.... :(

I read in a 'paper' today (The Mirror) that Don't Stop Me Now was recently voted Queen's best lyric at Queenonline.com. Am I alone in thinking the lyrics on that are awful?? I've never thought they were much cop lyrically but always considered this among their worst along with Bicycle Race

'Don't Stop Me Now' is most probably my least favourite Queen song, it's so naff!