Sheer Heart Attack & "punk"

Holly2003 wrote:[/

* no idea who came up with the "scored" design, but I'm struggling to think of any other hard rock bands who did this back in 1974. Maybe it was a minor tribute to Hendrix setting fire to his guitar, or Pete Townshend destroying his guitar as a tribute to Gustav Metzger performance art.

Good point about the album cover, although does it indicate a possible punk direction. The bands outfits certainly don't.

Status Quo Live had a cover made up of a ripped picture, admitadly after Sheer Heart Attack, but it could be argued that there was a punk influence there, though their music certainly didn't show it.

Sebastian wrote:

Well, according to Brian, without 'Hot Space' there would've been no 'Thriller.' And you know the doctor's always right :p[/QUOTE]

:)) in BM's defence Beat It may have been influenced by Queen in as much as it used a rock style riff and solo on a funk/dance track.

But in saying that Rick James had already done that, especially live, and even the Stones investigated a funk path in the 70's so maybe one of those could have been an influence on Jackson and even Queen!

Vocal harmony wrote:

:)) in BM's defence Beat It may have been influenced by Queen in as much as it used a rock style riff and solo on a funk/dance track./

Said influence could've come from quite a few different places besides Queen. And if it did come (at least partially) from Queen, it's far more likely to have come from 'The Game' rather than 'Hot Space.' But anyway, Michael (who knew more about what influenced Michael than anybody else) claimed he was commissioned the song when Quincy specifically asked for a track influenced by The Knacks. Not Queen, The Knacks. And that happened, by the way, before the release of 'Hot Space' anyway.

Moreover, 88.89% of the album is not 'Beat It.'

Sebastian wrote:

Vocal harmony wrote:

:)) in BM's defence Beat It may have been influenced by Queen in as much as it used a rock style riff and solo on a funk/dance track./

Said influence could've come from quite a few different places besides Queen.

I don't know how much they influenced Michael in particular, but Parliament/Funkadelic did that sort of thing quite well before Queen ever got funky ;)

Actually maybe they did influence him, just saw that the Jackson 5 covered a Funkadelic song....

^^^^ I think the second paragraph of my last post kind of explained why there maybe wasn't a Queen influence in Jacksons album.

I'd say that Roger's version of 'I Wanna Testify' is probably the earliest example of anything funky/souly in the Queen related world? And 'Turn On The TV', whilst having a very Led Zep like chorus, also has fairly funky oriented stuff versewise.

Holly2003 wrote:

* no idea who came up with the "scored" design, but I'm struggling to think of any other hard rock bands who did this back in 1974. Maybe it was a minor tribute to Hendrix setting fire to his guitar, or Pete Townshend destroying his guitar as a tribute to Gustav Metzger performance art.

The Who "Odds & Sods" was released in 1974 and had a similar cover, where the picture is ripped up.

Apocalipsis_Darko wrote:

I love punk rock, I can listen X (the band from Los Angeles) and the next cd Miles Davis without problem.

Lol, I remember the times when I used to listen to Never Mind The Bollocks followed by Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Everybody thought it's weird, but for me it was the best relax :-)