Why is Body Language so reviled?

Sure i respect your choice of songs tom as we all have different choices when it comes to Queen been such a versatile rock group!
I know you like the innuendo song, but it surely can not match classics like "Somebody to love" or "Tie your mother down" !

Well Gerry, I rate Innuendo on a same high level as Somebody to love, a true classic.

well yeah i agree with the fact that Queen put a lot of work into that track,
but for me after a couple of plays i started to get bored with it.
i like Queen when they fuse pop with rock like on "Dont stop me now" that track was amazing

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

We all have our own opinions guys but if you like "innuendo" better than "The Works" that is your personal choice, but for me "The Works" is a better constructed album and lets face it these days hardly any tracks from that album are given air play apart from "These are the days of our lives" where as "The Works" does get loads of air play around "Radio Ga Ga" and "I want to break free"
but before you all bitch once again this is my opinion.
Even "Friends will be Friends" wins hands down as to anything on innuendo![/QUOTE]

Point taken, but thinking along those lines, apart form Bo Rhap and sometimes Youre My Best Friend what from NATO gets airplay, less so from Queen2, Sheer Heart Attack and ADATR

i guess it depends on how many hit singles are made from each album to make the album popular.
I think The Game had quite a lot of hit singles taken from it, where as innuendo album only has "These are the days of our lives"
played from it these days on the radio.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]I was just mentioning the US as they are a tough market to crack and very fussy[/QUOTE]
you'd think that. but there are also huge music fashion "blips" in the USA.
at the time that Queen were hugely busy unravelling their reputation in the states...do you know what was the great thing there?
a huge British invasion of new romantic/synth pop and more besides.

when you consider that Duran Duran, wham, eurythmics, tears for fears, human league and many many more were so big in the states at that time - seems that if queen had maintained their quality control - they'd have held the states no problem.
let's face it - it certainly wasn't just a case of the sexuality thing from IWTBF to blame...if it was, then can someone explain the huge success of Culture Club in the USA

I think boy george got away with it because he fitted in with the romantics image at the time where as freddie insisted in keeping the moustache just to ad an element of fun when he was in drag but the americans do not like seeing blokes with facial hair and full make up because they just can not handle it
If Freddie had not kept the tache who knows it may have been a different story in Queen history, we will never know now!

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
I think boy george got away with it because he fitted in with the romantics image at the time where as freddie insisted in keeping the moustache just to ad an element of fun when he was in drag but the americans do not like seeing blokes with facial hair and full make up because they just can not handle it ![/QUOTE] you're globalising again. YOU don't know this for sure. where are the facts to back this up? it's just YOUR perception.
the only actual facts we all know are that the IWTBF & IAHL videos helped to kill queen in the states, no-one anywhere knows if the moustache contributed to this.

well the only proof i have for you is that freddie got bottled on stage at rio for getting dressed up in drag
with the wig and boobs and he had to quickly get rid before the whole show was wrecked back in 1985!

[QUOTE] [b]PrimeJiveUSA wrote:[/b]

I've always loved Body Language. The studio version of Staying Power even more. Everyone goes on and on about Staying Power(live) while slighting the studio version. I don't get it. Staying Power is one of Freddie's best songs ever, imho.[/QUOTE]


I have a soft spot for Hot Space as it was the first Queen album I owned, along with Races. It was a fun concept and idea, just not well executed. I wouldn't change anything in it. People suggesting ditching the funk tracks and replace them with, say, Soul Brother or any The Game outtakes are IMHO missing the point. It wouldn't be Hot Space.
They took a huge gamble (maybe for the last time) and FAILED.

The Works was a formulaic album. Queen by numbers + new 80s vibe. Brian plays hard for the sake of it... and still there's a synth solo (boy, that must have been hard for the Doctor!).

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]well the only proof i have for you is that freddie got bottled on stage at rio for getting dressed up in drag with the wig and boobs and he had to quickly get rid before the whole show was wrecked back in 1985!
[/QUOTE]
for THREE very clear reasons THAT ^^^ is NOT proof.

reason 1. - Rio is NOT in the USA
reason 2 - Rio is perhaps one of the most liberal cities in the world in respect of cross-dressing and attitudes to sexuality
reason 3 - any "bottling" you refer to was nothing to do with the drag per se, it was that the song in question meant so much to the Brazillian people and they saw the song being performed in anything but a serious manner as a disrespect to them. it didn't matter that he wore false boobs...he coulda come on in a clown outfit, or a cowboy outfit or even dressed as a soldier - they'd have reacted the same. it WAS what the song signified to the people - it was an anthem adopted in the struggle for liberation.

well according to the press and the BBC they said freddies boobs caused quite a riot!
so here we see that the united states did not like freddie in drag, and neither did rio,
why do you think fred takes off the boobs half way through "Break Free" because
the crowds must have been anti-gay and do not forget it was only 1985 so not much tolerance towards
cross dressing etc.......

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
the crowds must have been anti-gay and do not forget it was only 1985 so not much tolerance towards
cross dressing etc.......[/QUOTE]
you really are ignorant aren't you? re-read my reason 3 above. and GO AWAY and check it out PROPERLY. Brazil/Rio was NOT anti-gay in 1985.
for the last time - Freddie coulda come on stage in fake boobs for ANY OTHER SONG in the setlist - just NOT
I WANT TO BREAK FREE. the song was a significant anthem to the Brazillian people - it was a song of liberation held up as banner-waver for their struggle against a bullying government. One more time - it didn't matter what Freddie wore - it was that he was not taking the song seriously enough and therefore was seen to be disrespecting their "anthem".
why do YOU argue about these things when you are so very wrong?

you seem to be the one making the argument here!
were you in Rio in 1985 then? How do you know parts of Rio were not homophobic?
Why did the press say freddie cause a riot?
i will compromise with you here as the riot was a bit of both
1.Because they did not associate that song with a cross dressing man.
2. Because they did not understand why freddie was wearing boobs a wig and had a tache!
i am not ignorant and this is a discussion right?
chill out man.

i never said parts of rio weren't homophobic. i said it was about what THAT song meant to Brazillians...go and check THAT out gerry.

i am not unchilled. but YOU seem set on arguing even when you haven't bothered to research the facts.
a simple google of "freddie mercury fake boobs rio" would get you all the facts you need

btw - when YOU find the facts - feel free to come back and admit you are wrong