I know many people like/love Sleeping on the sidewalk. I don't like the way it is recorded, it sounds messy, would fit better on the Jazz album. Also the lyrics...something about a trumpet...
Brian sings like he will record his voice later again, but then better.
Holly2003 · Member since
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Probably be helpful if you read the lyrics. It's about a musician, not a trumpet. He is down on his luck, then is discovered by a record company, then his music goes out of fashion again and he becomes disillusioned by the music business and maybe also with being a musician.[b] [/b]It's autobiographical in some respects. It also has a great blues vibe and cool solo, which shows Brian can play spontaneously in contrast to his usual structured compositions.
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FlorianS · Member since
Probably be helpful if you read the lyrics. It's about a musician, not a trumpet. He is down on his luck, then is discovered by a record company, then his music goes out of fashion again and he becomes disillusioned by the music business and maybe also with being a musician. It's autobiographical in some respects. It also has a great blues vibe and cool solo, which shows Brian can play spontaneously in contrast to his usual structured compositions.
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KJ wrote: I know many people like/love Sleeping on the sidewalk. I don't like the way it is recorded, it sounds messy, would fit better on the Jazz album. Also the lyrics...something about a trumpet...
Brian sings like he will record his voice later again, but then better.
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Please do not start a fight over this...in the end it is noting more than personal taste. And this page has already enough ridiculous fights.
Holly2003 · Member since
Err.. no one is fighting. Am I not allowed to offer some insight into the song? Or would you prefer Queenzone to consist solely of lists of best and worst songs/albums etc., with no discussion?
KJ · Member since
There is no fight. I like the discussion about songs.
FlorianS · Member since
Err.. no one is fighting. Am I not allowed to offer some insight into the song? Or would you prefer Queenzone to consist solely of lists of best and worst songs/albums etc., with no discussion?
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There is no fight. I like the discussion about songs.
I love the discussions about the songs, but nowadays in this forum People start a lot of fights about nothing...
master marathon runner · Member since
Your slur on teo torriate renders your musings,obsolete and without gravity I'm afraid.
brENsKi · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
And, for the record, most of them were written by Mercury.
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in a nutshell. that's the mystery of queen's establishment as a nit-making band - more than 50% of the singles released prior to the co-writing credits of the late 80s were Freddie's compositions - he was the one who knew how to write catchy brain-infectious songs.
I think is said this somewhere before: if you took ALL of the Mercury compositions from the first 3 albums - you have in essence the perfect rock album.
Kuijpy · Member since
Top 10
1. Was it all worth it
2. Father To Son
3. The Show Must Go On
4. The March of Black Queen
5. Bohemian Rhapsody
6. Innuendo
7. It's Late
8. You Take My Breath Away
9. Hang on in There
10. I Was Born To Love You
Flop 10:
1. Dancer
2. Cool Cat
3. Staying Power
4. My Baby Does Me
5. Blurred Vision
6. Coming Soon
7. Fun It
8. Sleeping on the Sidewalk
9. Leaving Home Aint Easy
10. Seaside Rendezvous
whynot · Member since
Top:
1. Fat bottomed girls
2. March of the black Queen
3. Brighton Rock
4. Hammer to fall
5. Put out the fire
6. You take my breath away
7. Dead on time
8. Bohemian Rhapsody
9. My fairy King
10. I want it all
Worst:
1. More of that Jazz
2. Fun it
3. A human body
4. Who wants to live forever
5. She makes me
6. Coming soon
7. Don't loose your head
8. Pain is so close to pleasure
9. I was born to love you (made in heaven version)
10. Drowse
brENsKi · Member since
wow ^^^ you really don't like Roger's song-writing do you?
6 of your ten "worst" are Roger songs
Holly2003 · Member since
6. Coming Soon 7. Fun It 8. Sleeping on the Sidewalk 9. Leaving Home Aint Easy 10. Seaside Rendezvous
[b] 8, 9 & 10 are three of my favourite Queen songs and the other two I would rate as good album tracks, if nothing special. [/b] 2. Fun it 3. A human body 4. Who wants to live forever 5. She makes me 10. Drowse
[b]IMO 4 & 10 are among the best tracks Queen have produced, 3 is a really good b-side that is better than much of the filler album materal Queen produced in the 1980s, and the others are 2 & 5 are fine album tracks.
So the moral of this is .. there's no accountng for personal taste in music, so these best and worst lists are mainly pointless.[/b]
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]MadTheSwine73 wrote:[/b]
Well if you want songs that will endure for centuries, that's a different list. Tracks that made people famous are not necessarily the best.
I see what you're saying, but this asked for the "best'. Mind you, best is more or less subjective.[/QUOTE]
Indeed. But what makes a track enduring is its melody and accessibility, so what could be a more valid criteria for "best" than that?
My Fairy King is a great track. But what does it have that Bohemian Rhapsody or Killer Queen doesn't have, and better?
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]KJ wrote:[/b]
I know many people like/love Sleeping on the sidewalk. I don't like the way it is recorded, it sounds messy, would fit better on the Jazz album. Also the lyrics...something about a trumpet...
Brian sings like he will record his voice later again, but then better.
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...which is essentially what happened. What you're hearing is take 1. They did many more takes, but they all lost the spontaneous feel and sounded too calculated.
The question is - is the lead vocal from this first take? I don't think they ever clarified that, or did they?
br5946 · Member since
Oh here we go... my top 10 can change weekly, but oddly enough, most of my bottom 10 stays solid! Anyway...
TOP 10 (taking what I just said into consideration)
1. Bo Rhap 2. It's A Hard Life 3. Now I'm Here 4. Headlong 5. '39 6. The Prophet's Song 7. Somebody to Love 7. You Don't Fool Me 8. One Vision 9. Stone Cold Crazy 10. Doin' Alright
BOTTOM 10
1. Save Me 2. Dragon Attack 3. Coming Soon 4. I Go Crazy 5. My Baby Does Me 6. All God's People 7. Drowse 8. My Life Has Been Saved 9. Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll 10. Silver Salmon - had to put this on because I was running out of 'bad' ones from the albums!
