March Of The Black Queen - Queen's Real Masterpiece?

It's nice to re-read those threads as they certainly reflect the way people saw these issues four years ago (in my case) and the mistakes made back then.

While genetics, in the strictly biological sense, don't necessarily reflect the way music composition works, there are some parallels in their studies.

Retrospectively, pointing out that people sometimes resemble their own grandparents more overtly than their parents, is in the right direction, although that's not by any means the end of the story.

Biological evolution and musical evolution aren't at all related, yet, again, a parallel can be drawn especially considering how they're both gradual processes and how lack of fossils doesn't at all imply lack of species.

'Bo Rhap' didn't spawn directly from 'Lap of the Gods' or 'Black Queen', the same way no Australopithecus magically gave birth to a Homo habilis; to bring in another parallel, people didn't go to bed in the Middle Ages and woke up the next in the Renaissance. Those are all, again, gradual processes.

Between 'Black Queen' and 'Bo Rhap,' or between 'Lap of the Gods' and 'Bo Rhap,' there were probably dozens of discarded links we'll never know about, which may possibly include a combination of updated/reworked versions of the earlier track, working versions of the latter one, or different songs altogether.

Mack said once that one of Freddie's writing methods was precisely re-writing until he was satisfied with what he had. In that sense, it's possible, as one of the theories, that Fred wrote and re-wrote 'Bo Rhap' many times, adding and subtracting bits and pieces until it took shape, and even while they were recording it he kept coming up with more ideas (e.g., the ascending 'never').

Out of those dozens of ideas, only a few of them got recorded, which identify steps in the whole evolutionary process of his songwriting. Neither 'Black Queen' nor 'Lap of the Gods' would, thus, be a direct forerunner to 'Bo Rhap,' though the point of 'Lap' having more aspects in common and being closer to it still remains.

[QUOTE] [b]Ozz wrote:[/b]

But when it's about tastes and the answers are filled with nitpick and truth ownership.... ugh[/QUOTE]

There's no such thing as 'truth ownership,' and that's the whole point. 'Truth' is verifiable. It's not about taking my word for it or your word for it or his/her word for it, it's about something any person can double-check.

Is 'Bo Rhap' a 'better' song than 'Best Friend'? That's just taste, and there's no right or wrong answer.

Is (the album version of) 'Bo Rhap' longer than (the album version of( 'Best Friend'? There's a definite answer, and anyone with the album can verify it. Unless you're speaking a different language where 'longer' means 'shorter,' the answer is 'yes,' and it's not because I say so or because you say so, it's because anyone can prove it.