Seriously, can you guys take this off-topic nonsense elsewhere? I made a topic just for that purpose now: http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1392170/gerry-gillickers-a-k-a-the-madness-topic.aspx?anchor=0
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Back to your regular topical programming folks...
Any chance of getting these newly leaked Freddie tapes in FLAC? :P
Ok gerry lets fight in this new topic cmon bitch!
inu-liger stop moaning you created the madness with your loony pals on here l.o.l
Dont disrespect my friend old man!
inu-liger wrote:
Any chance of getting these newly leaked Freddie tapes in FLAC? :P
You can download the full tape in FLAC from the link Chief Mouse shows in the first pages.
EDIT:
Here you can download it: http://www.mijnbestand.nl/share.php?key=MEOR77RXIAJJ
Oh I missed that! Thanks BETA :)
Well, this guy has SERIOUS taste issues, SERIOUS anger issues and a SERIOUS persecution complex...
thomasquinn 32989 wrote:Well, this guy has SERIOUS taste issues, SERIOUS anger issues and a SERIOUS persecution complex...
lol
love the fact that the "Gezza/Jeffa" thread went to 17 bloody pages...
angry loony and pee-brained-feck, shouting at pigeons and passers-by....fucking love it
angry loony and pee-brained-feck, shouting at pigeons and passers-by....fucking love it
Are you talking about me?
The Real Wizard wrote:
The Show Must Go On isn't classic Queen?
For the sake of argument, I want to reply to this one: I don't think TSMGO is classic Queen. Sure, it does have some of the classic traits, namely the vocal and guitar harmonies, but other than that, it would've been quite out of place on a seventies album considering:
* It was recorded with a metronome.
* It's got programmed drums alongside the acoustic ones.
* It lacks a 'live' backing track.
* There's no piano or acoustic guitar.
* Drums are set up, tuned and mixed very differently.
* It's synth-based.
* Lyrics aren't fairy tale thingies or straightforward love songs.
Now, I don't mean *every* song in the 70's had those aspects, but those were part of the 'classic' Queen sound.
TSMGO, and the Innuendo album as a whole (with some exceptions) was not a return to the 'classic' Queen at all IMO. It was more of an evolution of the 'new' Queen including a bit more emphasis on the aspects that survived all the changes and experiments, namely the anthem-like vocals (of which there are examples on every single album), the sonic volcano of John and Roger, and the multi-tracked guitar harmonies.
It's a marvellous song and probably a top 10 of their catalogue, but in terms of being 'classic' Queen it's not even top 50 IMO, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
The Real Wizard wrote:
It's better than anything they did after Under Pressure.
That's quite subjective. I personally rate WIAWI higher, but they're both marvellous anyway. By the way, I would consider WIAWI to be closer to 'classic' Queen than TSMGO despite the synths (but they've both got loads of synths anyway).
Your lyrics-criticism aside, those are all production and arrangement points, not compositional. I think you are wrong in considering the production a vital part of what makes Queen-songs Queen-songs. They're not ABBA, ffs.
Well, reading most of these posts one thing is for sure. Queen funs are passionate people.
Freddie would have been proud!
Freddie would have been proud!