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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: kosmo vinyl on January 15, 2010, 10:09:29 am
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Queen - "Fat Bottomed Girls"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0
"Get on your bikes and ride!"
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Most likely in my all-time top 10
at this urgent hour, I'd put it at #6
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I'm going through a bit of a Queen obsession at the moment, primarily because I was in a particularly grumpy mood the other day while driving to the Metro and that new classic rock station served up "Killer Queen" and it completely changed my mood. So I've blasting some Queen greatest hits in the car, for the short trips around the hood.
It dawned on me that a whole lot of Indie Rock bands could use more inspiration from Queen. Where is the swagger, the hooks, the soaring vocals, when was the last time you air drummed to a Indie Rock band.
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Bicycle Race.....i want to ride my bicycle~~~~~~~~ ;D
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It dawned on me that a whole lot of Indie Rock bands could use more inspiration from Queen. Where is the swagger, the hooks, the soaring vocals, when was the last time you air drummed to a Indie Rock band.
agreed, but how many bands have been panned as being "queen rip-offs"?
damned if you do, damned if you don't...
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Bicycle Race.....i want to ride my bicycle~~~~~~~~ ;D
considering how FAT your ass has gotten recently, we all want you to ride your bicycle hon!!!
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It dawned on me that a whole lot of Indie Rock bands could use more inspiration from Queen. Where is the swagger, the hooks, the soaring vocals, when was the last time you air drummed to a Indie Rock band.
agreed, but how many bands have been panned as being "queen rip-offs"?
damned if you do, damned if you don't...
I'm not saying that bands need to start sounding exactly like Queen or become Queen rip-offs, partly because there was only one Freddie Mercury. What they need to do is stop jumping on the latest indie rock craze and develop their own sound, using bands like Queen for inspiration.
One of my favorite records of the last decade came from Splitsville, a little heard band outside of the power pop scene. Anyways, you can tell the band members grew up listening to Queen, KISS, The Beatles, Beach Boys etc, but they were able to bring those influences together and still create a sound of their own. They also recorded the best Coldplay/Keane song I've ever heard.
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Highly recommend this dvd
http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Rock-Montreal/dp/B000VZBCW4
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omg wtf !
Bicycle Race.....i want to ride my bicycle~~~~~~~~ ;D
considering how FAT your ass has gotten recently, we all want you to ride your bicycle hon!!!
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ce/f4/ddfd810ae7a0f2fa96960210.L.jpg)
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"I Was Born To Love You" is a really great and somewhat forgotten or overlooked Freddie Mercury song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPa7ybW6V4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPa7ybW6V4)
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but freddie was gay. people hate gay people.
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"A Night at the Opera" is such a great album, especially the transition of going from "The Prophet's Song" to "Love of my Life".
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but freddie was gay. people hate gay people.
Get over it Walkie. You're living in the past. Thankfully, that statement isn't anywhere near as true as it once was.
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but freddie was gay. people hate gay people.
Get over it Walkie. You're living in the past. Thankfully, that statement isn't anywhere near as true as it once was.
http://trueslant.com/laurieessig/2009/11/30/how-american-christians-helps-kill-african-gays/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a-7up7azdQ&feature=related
http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_11500.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/02/AR2009110202120.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/03/nyregion/anti-gay-attacks-increase-and-some-fight-back.html?pagewanted=1
http://mediamatters.org/research/200910010008
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/pope-gay-marriage-attacks-mankind-an-endangered-species/discrimination/2010/01/11/6772
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008597989_ricinthreat07m.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/31/homophobic-attacks-increase-police-statistics
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no no, he needs fuel to feed his paranoia. his world would crumble if he realized it wasn't quite the horrible, scary place he makes it out to be.
all gays are being lynched! all residents of DC are being continually shot! all aid money is being embezzled! the whole world is made of bacon! etc...
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Thank you, Sweets. You just saved me a rant.
If he truly got what I said, he would have understood that I did not say that homophobia did not exist but that the whole world isn't 'out to get them'. These days, closet salesmen are hurting for business... and that's a good thing.
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but freddie was gay. people hate gay people.
Get over it Walkie. You're living in the past. Thankfully, that statement isn't anywhere near as true as it once was.
Actually, he's living in rural Virginia, you're living in suburban Baltimore, and best I can tell, Sweetcell pretty much spends his life on U Street.
That probably explains your perceived differences in attitudes towards gays.
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actually . . . this thread was boring and going nowhere without me. you see, gays are good for something.
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but freddie was gay. people hate gay people.
Get over it Walkie. You're living in the past. Thankfully, that statement isn't anywhere near as true as it once was.
Actually, he's living in rural Virginia, you're living in suburban Baltimore, and best I can tell, Sweetcell pretty much spends his life on U Street.
That probably explains your perceived differences in attitudes towards gays.
that's why i posted (nobody hate gays anymore) articles from around the nation and outside the states.
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Greatest Song.
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(http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/9/23/633577592665924127-homosexuals.jpg)
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(http://www.randomfunnypicture.com/pictures/1272another_gay_test.jpg)
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Queen - "Fat Bottomed Girls"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0
video lacks fat bottomed girls.
One of my favorite records of the last decade came from Splitsville, a little heard band outside of the power pop scene. Anyways, you can tell the band members grew up listening to Queen, KISS, The Beatles, Beach Boys etc, but they were able to bring those influences together and still create a sound of their own. They also recorded the best Coldplay/Keane song I've ever heard.
which album? the first? and which is the Coldplay/Keane song you speak of?
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One of Freddie Mercury's gifts was his ability to be absurdly flamboyant and theatrical but to emote Humanity rather than gayness - he captured and released feelings that transcended the banality of sexual preference.
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One of Freddie Mercury's gifts was his ability to be absurdly flamboyant and theatrical but to emote Humanity rather than gayness - he captured and released feelings that transcended the banality of sexual preference.
yeah . . . he hid his gayness to the point of not ruining the band, that not even brian may knew. now that's transcedence.
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Not to dwell on it, but wasn't Freddie bisexual rather than gay?
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Not to dwell on it, but wasn't Freddie bisexual rather than gay?
oh see, there you go . . . trying to rain on my gay ole time. ;)
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we need a cat pic ;D
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well this turned out to be a Queen thread...
FLASH.....Ahhhh haaaaaaaaa Savior of the Universeeeeee!
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we need a cat pic ;D
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/3060657563_d56ce5b30b.jpg)
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haha ;D
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Hey walkie - Thanks for the vote of confidence on my thread
if you seek the Fat Bottomed Girls, I suggest finding the NSFW version of "Bicycle Race" video.
and in terms of keyboard driven pop ballads, I contend that Splitsville "Sasha" tops the output of Coldplay/keane
http://www.last.fm/music/Splitsville/_/The+Mentalist
(note: last.fm the song tagged incorrectly)
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Phase two
Great Song on The Greatest Song
Big Star - Back Of A Car
http://www.last.fm/music/Big+Star/Radio+City/Back+Of+A+Car
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Guess I'm killing my own thread, but I march on...
The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
Arty Cambridge punks influenced by Syd Barrett and the Beach Boys
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Guess I'm killing my own thread, but I march on...
The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
Arty Cambridge punks influenced by Syd Barrett and the Beach Boys
kosmo . . . i could proclaim some more gay shit if you want to spice up the place.
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Well it appears that I hit it out of the ballpark with the first choice, beside this exercise makes for a good mix CD anyways...
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Consider "Work For Food" by Dramarama.
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I'm going through a bit of a Queen obsession at the moment, primarily because I was in a particularly grumpy mood the other day while driving to the Metro and that new classic rock station served up "Killer Queen" and it completely changed my mood. So I've blasting some Queen greatest hits in the car, for the short trips around the hood.
It dawned on me that a whole lot of Indie Rock bands could use more inspiration from Queen. Where is the swagger, the hooks, the soaring vocals, when was the last time you air drummed to a Indie Rock band.
BINGO!
I tend to see it as they could use inspiration from ACDC but for a lot of the same reasons..
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ACDC recorded maybe five or six good songs, and basically rewrote those songs over and over after that.
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Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn! I Wish I Was Your Lover...
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I tend to see it as they could use inspiration from ACDC but for a lot of the same reasons..
(http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/10/31/128699547391749115.jpg)
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ACDC recorded maybe five or six good songs, and basically rewrote those songs over and over after that.
Baloney.
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ACDC recorded maybe five or six good songs, and basically rewrote those songs over and over after that.
Baloney.
And even if its true, it made a career for Chuck Berry plus it helped make spying on women using the bathroom a little bit more socially acceptable.
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Old age is officially setting in, how could I forget
Guided By Voices - Glad Girls
and nice addition to the list chaz...