How much Queen fans are Queenzoners?

Im not a fan of MJ its just that ive seen other people mainly the press describe him as King Of Pop which is totally rubbish of course but again its all about taste and opinion

its about us lot saying we think Freddie is great and then as i have seen on youtube there is people slagging him off but then the comments hat are made mjust be made by retards going by the standard of the comments

Oh and i cant stand the beatles, dont like em at all

> It's all about songwriting

It's not ALL about songwriting: imagine ANATO written the same way, same chords, lyrics, melodies, modulations... but instead of having Freddie, Brian and Roger singing you had three rejects from X-Factor and BGT; instead of human bass, a Moog playing the same notes; instead of guitar choirs, a kazoo ensemble; instead of drums, Linn programming. So it's not ALL about songwriting.

Sebastian wrote: > It's all about songwriting

It's not ALL about songwriting: imagine ANATO written the same way, same chords, lyrics, melodies, modulations... but instead of having Freddie, Brian and Roger singing you had three rejects from X-Factor and BGT; instead of human bass, a Moog playing the same notes; instead of guitar choirs, a kazoo ensemble; instead of drums, Linn programming. So it's not ALL about songwriting.

 Queen obviously were both amazing musicians and songwriter's.  No one's debating that.

stratapple wrote: mike hunt wrote:

Freddie God of music?....Of course not,  but why only pick on fred?....why not add brian or roger or John?....Is brian god of music?.....of course not......Is elton John god of music?....of course not......Is Rainbow god of music?...of course not!......might a few rock singer's be equal or god forbid a little better than freddie.....Maybe, maybe not.   but why limit that statement only to freddie?.......

Im not picking on Freddie, but i often hear people saying Freddie are the God of music, i've never heard anyone say Brain, Roger or John was God of music.. Im sorry if it seemed like i was picking in Freddie.. I wasn't.. I was just wondering how many of you guy on Queenzone was like "Freddie and Queen are Gods and better than anyone else".. :-D

Wasn't it Brian who hit the nail on the head whe he said "Queen are a lot better than anyone of us".?

I'm a huge fan, but they're not the only band I listen to. I WOULD say they're my favourite band, as they most perfectly encapsulate everything I appreciate in music, songwriting and musicianship. Other bands and artists come very close to capturing my imagination, appealing to my sensibilities and/or challenging my perception of the world, such as Rush, Mike Oldfield, Meat Loaf, Supertramp, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, David Bowie, The Beatles, Barenaked Ladies and a host of others.

This is the only music forum I post on, so that probably tells you something.

Was Freddie a god? No. But he was a skilled singer, songwriter, musician and dare I say composer, not to mention a showman few others could match. He was certainly influential on these last two generations of frontmen and performers, whether they acknowledge it or not.

I was instantly excited the first time I heard Killer Queen on the radio at age 13 - midway through the song I realized that it was the best song I had ever heard.  This is something that just really got to me quickly.  I was exposed to a lot of music growing up, and always had favorite songs going through my head, but when I heard Queen for the first time, something clicked in me.  Also, when I saw them perform at Live Aid on TV, I realized I was cold and shaking.  I must have been pretty excited to see them.  My body told me so.  So I was still having that same reaction 10 years or so after first hearing their music and after seeing more than a few of their concerts.  I didn't have to analyze the situation.

It's probably something a person cannot help - if they have intense feelings about certain music (I'm not saying others start shaking like me - ha).  I watched part of a documentary about how the brain can be observed "lighting up" during music that a person really loves.  One of the subjects was interviewed and claimed to love Bach.  Well, they tested his brain, and sure enough, during a Bach chorale piece (which was very beautiful and stirring), his brain really lit up.  They played other classical music for him that he said he didn't care for as much, and his brain also showed this.  Less brain activity during the good but less enjoyable (to him) music.

I always think it is odd that the people here have such different tastes in music.  They will love Queen and also another group that I don't like very much.  Or they will love certain Queen songs that I think are not the best.  So, I guess there is no real similar taste in music - people all have different tastes and reactions to music.  Everyone's top 10 songs would be different.

To me the three best bands ever are Queen, The Beatles and The Doors.

Looking at this I notice there all 4 member bands without any band member exchanges during their active time. They all had a good range in musical style and where excellent in songwriting. Sadly they all had one band member dying too young. I think all these bands are more worth than just the sum of its members.

But from all this three bands Queen is by far the most fascinating due to the fact of having the longest active time and the widest range of styles. Perhaps the others could have reached that too, If they would have been still active in the 80ies.

Some time ago here were some discussions on the setlists and song orders of some of the queen albums. But in my opinion they did the right decisions on every album. Remembering my first listenings of all the albums I always thought something like "How could they make so different songs on one album and still make it sound like one entity". Of course they didn't make any concept albums, but to me the albums always seemed like musically concept albums, which are more than the sum of the songs. Perhaps some of queens songs aren't that genius, but listening in the order of the album their wealth rises to me.
One other impression I had when getting a queen fan was that to me they didn't addept their compositions too much to the band and instead addepted the band to their musical idea.

This makes Queen to my favourite band. Although I listen to a lot of other stuff, but in many cases I just like some songs of other bands albums or just a few albums of their whole catalogue (this meaning ignores compilation albums).