On is day News Of The World 40 th anniversairy

matt z wrote:

dysan wrote:

But wanking is fun and WNY is fun too.

All Dead All Dead is like being moaned at by an Aunt you don't like.

Maybe John wrote it about his wank off.....sputum.


I come at half past six
you come at seven
always trying to keep me hanging round

Lmao

I like it I like it

mike hunt wrote:

.......A Day At The Races is a work of Art...not a bad song on it.

Totally agree - a pinnacle of songwriting, arrangement and performance.

cmsdrums wrote:

mike hunt wrote:

.......A Day At The Races is a work of Art...not a bad song on it.

Totally agree - a pinnacle of songwriting, arrangement and performance.

Hear, hear. I never got why ADATR was considered the weaker follow-up to ANATO. Both are great albums in their own right.

I know.....Races was and still is considered the weak version of Opera by the average Rock fan. When i first really got into Queen and Read book after book about them, I remember reading a lot of those opinions about the album, that it was a bad attempt at recreating ANATO, though one book I read praised it while stating Jazz lacked the excellence of Both Opera and Races. In all honesty It took me a while too appreciate Races, perhaps I didn't give it a proper listen at first. I was digging the first 4 albums at that point. Eventually when I bought it on CD and gave it a proper listen I loved it. Opera still has the edge for me, but Races is a top album and grossly underated. They did make the right move in changing direction with News Of The World.

I honestly think for me, even though it has a longer run time, ADATR falls into the trap of feeling very slight at only 10 tracks.

And the aforementioned album killer YTMBA placed so early on. Perhaps a straight swap with LA and remove those tedious vocal clownings that bookend it.

Like I say, I dig most of it but curates egg stuff is happening.

Disagree.....Take My Breath away is one of the best on the album.

Fair enough. You soppy thing you.

mike hunt wrote:

I know.....Races was and still is considered the weak version of Opera by the average Rock fan. When i first really got into Queen and Read book after book about them, I remember reading a lot of those opinions about the album, that it was a bad attempt at recreating ANATO, though one book I read praised it while stating Jazz lacked the excellence of Both Opera and Races. In all honesty It took me a while too appreciate Races, perhaps I didn't give it a proper listen at first. I was digging the first 4 albums at that point. Eventually when I bought it on CD and gave it a proper listen I loved it. Opera still has the edge for me, but Races is a top album and grossly underated. They did make the right move in changing direction with News Of The World.

The music press may have had a lot to do with that. If I remember correctly, many of the so called experts slagged ADATR off as the poor man's ANATO. If the release order of those albums had been reversed, they would have said ANATO was a weak copy of ADATR. It was just bad form in the UK to say anything positive about Queen in those days.

Opera did have a little more balance between the Rock songs and the softer stuff. Races only had 2 Rockers in Tie Your Mother Down And White Man. Maybe it could have used one Epic like The Prophet Song to put it on Opera level... Side two of ANATO is unbeatable for me. Both albums are works of art. From the artwork to the music.

dysan wrote:

Fair enough. You soppy thing you.

So you don't like Love Of My Life? Don't get me wrong I love the heavier side of Queen and music in general. Couldn't blame anyone for not liking Soppy songs as you say, but I am getting older and appreciate these soppy songs as long as they're creative. Like Love of my life and you take my breath away. I also like heavy stuff like hardcore and Thrash Metal. Many different parts of my personality.

Fireplace wrote:

mike hunt wrote:

I know.....Races was and still is considered the weak version of Opera by the average Rock fan. When i first really got into Queen and Read book after book about them, I remember reading a lot of those opinions about the album, that it was a bad attempt at recreating ANATO, though one book I read praised it while stating Jazz lacked the excellence of Both Opera and Races. In all honesty It took me a while too appreciate Races, perhaps I didn't give it a proper listen at first. I was digging the first 4 albums at that point. Eventually when I bought it on CD and gave it a proper listen I loved it. Opera still has the edge for me, but Races is a top album and grossly underated. They did make the right move in changing direction with News Of The World.

The music press may have had a lot to do with that. If I remember correctly, many of the so called experts slagged ADATR off as the poor man's ANATO. If the release order of those albums had been reversed, they would have said ANATO was a weak copy of ADATR. It was just bad form in the UK to say anything positive about Queen in those days.

Yea, but for these critics it's about trying too sound cool. Queen wern't considered cool like Zep or The Who and then later on Punk. What makes me laugh is when I see aging middle age men these days that put down Queen and try and be all punk, saying Punk was the best thing to come out of the 70's, while dissing Queen. These old ass men trying too stay young forever. Listen to those Punk records today then listen to Classic Queen and The Who and you tell me what's better. Tell me who won that battle?

To be honest, I didn't like LOML on the album, but I love it on Live Killers.

I'm soppy too. I think Nevermore is incredible. You're right about age changing opinion - Queen speak to me far more personally than say Bowie. But there's something about LOML and YTMBA that for me fall the wrong side of cheese. But with all things Queen, it's the differences in what we like that makes this place interesting. There's definitely no right or wrong. At the end of the day, we all love it.

Let me guess.....the first 2 or 3 Queen records are your favorite...those were the heavier ones.