Killer Queen vs Babooshka

The most original musical artists ever in British Music history are Queen and Kate Bush.
And two songs, Killer Queen and Babooshka have so much in common, yet are both so unique to any other forms of music around at the time. They have no musical style other than their own.
This is what made Queen and Kate Bush so UNIQUE, their music was not based upon American Rhythm and Blues like all the other well known "pop" stars, they seemed to actually invent their own musical styles in a way that made them stand out from the rest.
Bohemian Rhapsody and Wuthering Heights are another and perhaps the best example of this, they have to be the most original pieces of music ever in modern British music History.
It is true that David Bowie was original ,yet he relied so much on fifties american doo-wop rock no roll styles, even in his earliest and most celebrated work, to inform and inspire him.
But Bohemian Rhapsody and Wuthering Heights are truly the most unique pieces of modern english music ever , and it for this reason I highlight Queen and Kate Bush as truly the most original artists in British music, ever. David Bowie being the best collector or creative thief ever, which is true in the respect that he could use musical styles and make them so original sounding you missed their origin, unlike the Rolling Stones for example. This had a lot to do with his musical brilliance, but also like Queen and Kate Bush, his unfake choice of english vocals, rather than american impersonation.
Bowie's earlier work though is in the same class of uniqueness, especially his hunky Dory Album, but then he did trail off into the world of Americana, which incorporated doo wap harmonies and rock no roll riffs, which is the greatest ever use of them, don't get me wrong.
But it is the total originality of both Bohemian Rhapsody and Wuthering Heights, as pieces of music, that are of such a magnitude of uniqueness that they cannot be ignored, and rightly deserve their place as the most original pieces of modern english music ever.
Kate Bush later went onto being more experimental like Bowie later did , with her experimental work The Dreaming, which like Bowie's Berlin "Heroes " album was totally unique in it's style also.
Yet out of all three artists, Queen David Bowie and Kate Bush, taking all her work into consideration, Kate Bush ends up the most unique and self inventive of the three , consistently so. Maybe it is because she is a woman and women can be strangely different?
Name me any woman classical Composer of great fame in the times of Beethoven.

Never has anyone said so much without actually saying anything at all....

[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]

Never has anyone said so much without actually saying anything at all....[/QUOTE]

You clearly do not know any of my colleagues at work.

[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]

Never has anyone said so much without actually saying anything at all....[/QUOTE]

Sniff. Thanks Mooghead. That was so kind of you. I don't deserve it. Sniff.

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It's the improper use of paragraphs, full stops and commas

Does nobody know how to punctuate these days?

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It's the improper use of paragraphs, full stops and commas

Does nobody know how to punctuate these days?

:-))

Posting twice, that's annoying too!

And use of a colon, hyphen and two brackets at the end of your text for no apparent reason! Doh!

[QUOTE] [b]Soul Brother wrote:[/b]

And use of a colon, hyphen and two brackets at the end of your text for no apparent reason! Doh![/QUOTE]

Got a sense of humour, have we?

[QUOTE] [b]Soul Brother wrote:[/b]

And use of a colon, hyphen and two brackets at the end of your text for no apparent reason! Doh![/QUOTE]

And starting a sentence with a conjunction but.

Double post, blame ANAGRAMER.

Anyway, I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that I have seldom seen so much uniformed bullsh*t as in topic starter's post. Bowie relied on "doo-wop harmonies"? Disregarding for a moment that the I-vi-IV-V progression of doo-wop wasn't original ("Blue Moon", anyone? That was 1934!), where does Bowie even use that progression?

All bands other than Queen and Kate Bush based their songs on rhythm and blues? Seriously, what the fuck? Magna Carta, The Incredible String Band, Van Morrison are r&b now?

TS's knowledge of music and music history is disturbingly lacking.

[QUOTE] [b]Queen fan wrote:[/b]

Name me any woman classical Composer of great fame in the times of Beethoven.[/QUOTE]

Jane Mary Guest
Amélie-Julie Candeille
Charlotta Seuerling

They were all very famous at the turn of the 19th century, their fame lasted to well after their lives, and their works are still performed and studied.

[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Queen fan wrote:[/b]

Name me any woman classical Composer of great fame in the times of Beethoven.[/QUOTE]

Jane Mary Guest
Amélie-Julie Candeille
Charlotta Seuerling

They were all very famous at the turn of the 19th century, their fame lasted to well after their lives, and their works are still performed and studied.[/QUOTE]

They are not famous

[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]

Double post, blame ANAGRAMER.

Anyway, I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that I have seldom seen so much uniformed bullsh*t as in topic starter's post. Bowie relied on "doo-wop harmonies"? Disregarding for a moment that the I-vi-IV-V progression of doo-wop wasn't original ("Blue Moon", anyone? That was 1934!), where does Bowie even use that progression?

All bands other than Queen and Kate Bush based their songs on rhythm and blues? Seriously, what the fuck? Magna Carta, The Incredible String Band, Van Morrison are r&b now?

TS's knowledge of music and music history is disturbingly lacking.[/QUOTE]

bullshit
i am right you are just argumentative
and wrong.
Bohemian Rhapsody and Wuthering HEIGHTS ARE THE TWO MOST ORIGINAL MODERN SONGS IN ENGLISH MUSIC EVER!!
That was my posts point and so Queen and Kate Bush have to be THE MOST UNIQUE and orginal artists ever because they wrote those songs.

virtually everyone else was influenced and writing songs influenced by AMERICAN MUSIC
EXCEPT FOR FOLK SINGERS WHO MADE UP THEIR MUSIC BASED ON FOLK SONGS.

But even David Bowie was influenced by Rhythm and Blues as was Led zep just copying blues stuff and making it harder rock and then Bowie was influenced by velevet underground etc
elton john american music influence also.

but Queen and Kate Bush sounded unique whatever their influences their music was their own sound and theme.Marc Bolan sounded unique also and he was doing that before david bowie and Marc Bolansounded american influence, i mean you could hear its influence but with Queen and Kate Bush you could not hear the influence their sound was unique.
ELO had a unique sound but their sound didnt sound as pure even though it was orginal, it still had americanised influences

but Queen and Kate Bush they did sound totally unique and those two songs boheman rhapsody and wuthering heights specifically were totally unique and very english. even pink floyd sounded american in their bass lines and beats in fact they sounded like ELP sometimes who also sounded american.
procul Harlem sounded very american and they ripped off classical music for that song they did.