What is your favourite Queen video?

I just realized I haven't even seen most of these videos we're talking about! Crap...suppose I'll have to hunt em down online.........lol.....

Out of the few I have seen, I'd go with BoRhap.......classic and influential video!

Maybe I'll have a different answer later......heheh.......

I know that the Bohemian Rhapsody video is an icon and blah blah but I actually find it so boring to watch.

[QUOTE] [b]pottich wrote:[/b]

I know that the Bohemian Rhapsody video is an icon and blah blah but I actually find it so boring to watch.[/QUOTE]

I agree in some ways - the angles and editing in the performance sections are very dry and uninspired (compare with the excellent camerawork on the Rock Montreal film, for example, or the creativity of the entire We Are the Champions clip from November 1977 Top of the Pops).

The studio shot sections in darkness are interesting enough, but since Mick Rock created the photo these shots are based on, we probably shouldn't give the filmmakers full credit - the concept was premade for them. It would have been tricky, but very cool, if they'd actually had the different images of the band in the big array be singing different parts of the choral arrangement, when it diverges. Instead, it's just the same thing repeated for all of them.

Do you know that Bohemian Rhapsody counted as the first music video recorded comercially in the history? Here is the some truth-fact about the video.

It was recorded in just four hours on 10 November 1975, at a cost of £4,500. The video was sent to the BBC as soon as it was completed and aired for the first time on Top of the Pops in November 1975. The video was very innovative. It was the first where the visual images took precedence over the song. It was based on their Queen II album cover, with the four band members looking up into the shadows.

During the near six-minute clip of what would become Queen's magnum opus, the camera zooms in and out on the faces of the four band members, while there is a heavy use of silhouette and a type of colourful, jagged visual feedback that became known as the 'honey comb' effect.

Besides stadium lighting, a liberal use of dry ice and an array of classic 70s attire and haircuts, the video also shows Freddie Mercury performing at the same piano upon which Paul McCartney recorded the Beatles hit "Hey Jude".

Another songfact about the video is that it was voted the UK's best music video of all time in a poll in 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWQZBmJf6M

A Winter's Tale.

I just gave Made In Heaven a listen recentley, great album all the way through. That also completes hearing all of their studio albums for me.


And slightly more obvious...BoRhap. The first music video and still the most epic.

What do you think about Uner Pressure? The band and David Bowie don't plat there are nice footages which I like a lot.

Calling All Girls for me. But that's probably just down to it being new to me when I was sick of Queen about 15 years ago and it was nice to see something different and the band way out of their comfort zone.

Heavy nostalgic vibes for Breakthru and a couple of others from The Miracle.

I guess Princes Of The Universe is, technically their 'best' and I really do love it.

As for commercially available song clip, RNR Medley (Rare Live edit) still staggers me. So exciting. And MTRNR from Rainbow (3/74) is just insane.

If anything, this thread has made me want to take another look at them for the first time in YEARS. So thank you :)

Bohemian Rhapsody and Innuendo I think.

Roger and Debbie's personal home video. It's a three hankie video.

[QUOTE] [b]Panchgani wrote:[/b]

Roger and Debbie's personal home video. It's a three hankie video.[/QUOTE]

Is it that long? [Rimshot?] ....or did you take a few intermissions?

I nominate Freddie's falsies in IWTBF for best supporting actors. Runner up fave video. Best Video: Innuendo - the only one I pursued, and bought (on bootled VHS, would you believe) since no alternative existed at the time. Had to have it.

1) Its a Hard Life
2) I Want to Break Free
3) A Kind of Magic
4) Princes of the Universe
5) Play the Game

Pretty much

Never a big video guy, but princes was really good.

I'm going slightly mad,The Invisible Man,Breakthru,Scandal and A Kind of Magic.