Raffy wrote: Coldplay, Darkness (reunited), Velvet Revolver (with new singer), Muse, Amy Winehouse (My Melancholy Blues could be a great idea), Keane (It's a Hard Life), Foo Fighters (Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You), Michael Bublè (Crazy Little Thing Called Love), Beyonce, Anastacia, Joss Stone, Wolfmother, Lady Ga Ga (medley at the piano), Mika, Green Day (Sheer Heart Attack), Dream Theater (Queen medley), The Strokes, The Killers, Scissor Sisters, Pink, Alter Bridge, Robbie Williams (We Are The Champions)... from the post '90s scene I can say that these bands/artists are the only ones to take seriously in consideration for an hypothetical Freddie Tribute #2... needless to say, there is no comparison with the original which represented an historic moment for the music, now WE HAVE NO REAL MUSIC... sadly...
That would be an awesome line-up!!!! Would love to see that. I don't agree with your last sentence though.
No, the first one was bad enough
The Fairy King wrote:
That would be an awesome line-up!!!! Would love to see that. I don't agree with your last sentence though.
Maybe my last sentence was a little bit extreme but that's how I consider today's music scene... some artists/gruoups and some of their songs are good but not GREAT... especially in the rock scene. Last mass phenomenon was the rise of grunge and then only desolation and Nu-Metal with other rock/metal genres way too extreme to be accepted by the masses (Grindcore, Death Metal, Black Metal). So for me the music today has lost the vocation, inspiration and the innovative spirit compared to the previous decades and without those elements you can't have REAL MUSIC.
Sebastian - please tell me you were having us on! Contemporary artists destroying Queen classics? That's scarilege to the hilt! Apparently Lady Ga Ga calls Freddie her greatest inspiration - tchah! Right! Modern music doesn't channel the spirit of rock at all! The WWRY Musical timeline was totally right - althoigh the dates might be sooner than expected. 2046 is when all musical instruments banned, but it might as well be the late 2010s by the looks of things in the UK charts. The last genuine rock #1 was Meat Loaf's I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) in 1993 - but rock was really on its last leg in the first half of the nineties anyway. Just look at the number-ones from 1990-95. Out of the ninety-four songs that hit the top spot, ten of them are genuine rock (including the '93 remix of Living on My Own despite the fact it was a dance hit, but its still Queen-related so...). You might as well get some veteran musicians from the 'golden age' to cover Queen songs and there could be guest appearances by Tony Vincent, Hannah Jane Fox and Kerry Ellis.
