Why is it

I don't listen to the radio. So.....either turn it off, or switch stations moog

[QUOTE] [b]*goodco* wrote:[/b]

I don't listen to the radio. So.....either turn it off, or switch stations moog[/QUOTE]

Mainstream radio= 99% shit.
Non Mainstream stations are fine. Are you in the UK? I listen to Planet Rock.

[QUOTE] [b]*goodco* wrote:[/b]

I don't listen to the radio. So.....either turn it off, or switch stations moog[/QUOTE]

Will go down well with the rest of the people I work with...

Queen songs I hear on the radio: obviously there's We Will Rock You, Champions, BoRhap, Dust, Crazy Little Thing, Under Pressure, Killer Queen....Fat Bottomed Girls, Bicycle Race and Tie Your Mother Down from time to time...Keep Yourself Alive gets a suprising amount of play on the classic rock stations. Once in a great while they'll play an album track if you're lucky, but thats about it.

Andyb re cltcl, are we talking about the same song here, ? It's class man.

The answer is simple and self-evident. Three words: lowest common denominator.

It's the foundation radio is built on.

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In other words, a simple pop song can become a hit......who knew?  :O

So many great songwriters in Queenzone! IWTBF and Radio GAGA are genius songs. But i´m looking forward to listen to the songs of the people saying these songs are shit.

There´s a reason these songs are played many times throughout Europe after 31 years. People love them, and they sound very, very nice.
Any of these songs with any other singer would fall flat, but you add Freddie Mercury´s voice from the period where his tone was the most beautiful (to my personal taste), and you have something that people just cannot let go. Very special indeed!

And i don´t understand why people on this forum are so obsessed in open up threads about things they don´t like, or highlighting the negatives about Queen. It seems to me that the majority of people here don´t appreciate Queen - at least judging from the threads on this forum. The negative things about Queen surpass the positives. Sad really ...

This is not about whether any of us have written songs that musically surpass GaGa and Break Free (although I don't think that would be much of an accomplishment).

This is a Queen discussion forum, not a Queen praising forum. I don't love the songs, and I don't think they sound very, very nice. They're not very well written, and personally I find that The Works period had Freddie at his worst, vocal wise. And it should be perfectly fine for me to say that. The positive things about Queen FAR surpass the negatives - for example I think that their 8 first albums were, in their own ways, amazing accomplishments: just packed with musicality, diversity, personality and great performances.

I think mooghead started this thread in frustration over how some of Queen's most simple songs are the ones that get the most airplay, while their hidden gems that are a 100 times more impressive remain unknown to the public consciousness. Don't you too find it slightly tragic how Queen is often regarded a bubblegum pop band, when it in fact has a catalogue of great songs that can easily hold its own against the biggest of rock history's greats?

I'd hoped this thread was going to be about Don't Stop Me Now.

IWTBF and RGG are brilliant singles and I love them. I can understand why the former might irk though.

[QUOTE] [b]andres_clip wrote:[/b]

Because its made for mainstream retards that doesnt know The real Queen stuff [/QUOTE]

That, in itself, is a completely retarded statement. One could know all of the Queen catalogue backwards and inside out, and still prefer IWTBF to anything on Queen II or ANATO. Or...they could just like it because it's a fecking good tune, even though there are much better Queen tracks to choose from. There is nothing wrong with "mainstream" radio either. Music is subjective and you're just being snobbish.

That said...it would be nice for the radio stations to put on some of the deep cuts so that they're heard by a wider audience. It shouldn't matter to us though...we can hear any of their stuff when we want!!

And, if you want to hear Queen on the radio all the time, there's:

http://fanloopradio.weebly.com/queen.html

There is absolutely nothing wrong with "I Want To Break Free." By Queen's standards or not.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

I think mooghead started this thread in frustration over how some of Queen's most simple songs are the ones that get the most airplay, while their hidden gems that are a 100 times more impressive remain unknown to the public consciousness. Don't you too find it slightly tragic how Queen is often regarded a bubblegum pop band, when it in fact has a catalogue of great songs that can easily hold its own against the biggest of rock history's greats?

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I kind of agree with that....

It's like its part of what made Queen what they were, though, that they could do a relatively simple, catchy song that could become a hit, and also do more complex prog-rock type stuff just as well, and that would even become a hit in some cases (BoRhap, Innuendo)

I totally agree with that last sentence, though. I got into an argument with some schmuck in a Youtube comment section a while ago...it was some list of rock's best frontmen, where #1 and #2 were Freddie and Robert Plant, so it turned into a Led Zeppelin vs Queen argument. I think Zep was pretty great, but this guy kept going on about how Queen was just a 'novelty pop band' and not a "TRUE rock band" or something, and how their best selling album's Greatest Hits, and they didn't have a iconic album (and I guess Night At The Opera doesn't count for some reason)

That's very much an 80s viewpoint from yer tough rock audience. I think it is generally accepted that ANATO or SHA for instance are rock 'classics', far moreso than they were back in the per internet days!

Of course a Led Zep fan wouldn't appreciate the concept of a 'single'.