Have fun!
And yes, I dare to ask the question: Since you said, you have some musical background and are lso interested in operatic voices - did you take a look at Brian and Roger’s collaboration with Adam Lambert?
They are going on tour again next summer. And although some of the old guys here hate him: Lambert has some pipes on him and also a musical background. It sounds, as if you would be able to appreciate him and the show.
If you ever get the chance to see them live... I would recommend it! For a taste: Youtube is your friend. ;)
Who wants to live forever: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bc-AmpIVJWM#
(And now I will duck and run. Have fun with everything Queen!)
Welcome on board! I just wanted to add that it is really worth listening to the original Queen albums rather than greatest hits compilations - at least to give it a try. This way, you can experience the whole range of emotions, see how these songs were supposed to sound like - in the context of the whole album.
Also, if you are interested in watching a Queen documentary, I recommend Days of Our Lives (2011)
Enjoy!
I'd recommend starting from the first albums and listen to the growth and experience as they progress. It is the best way to understand how a band develops. So many gems on their albums but people only listen to the 'hits''. So much to discover. Have fun.
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Have fun!
And yes, I dare to ask the question: Since you said, you have some musical background and are lso interested in operatic voices - did you take a look at Brian and Roger’s collaboration with Adam Lambert?
They are going on tour again next summer. And although some of the old guys here hate him: Lambert has some pipes on him and also a musical background. It sounds, as if you would be able to appreciate him and the show.
If you ever get the chance to see them live... I would recommend it! For a taste: Youtube is your friend. ;)
Who wants to live forever: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bc-AmpIVJWM#
(And now I will duck and run. Have fun with everything Queen!)
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Dont listen to these retarded Clowns trying to convince you that a goat destroying Queensongs is worth any minute
Hello! I'm going to go on a different tack and recommend beginning with A Day at the Races (and A Night at the Opera, but especially A Day at the Races). It's hard to say a best Queen album as they're all so different, but this is my favourite Queen album and I think it works best as an album overall - it just has such a flow to it nd makes me so happy to listen to it! I know the songs you've mentioned are 80's ones, but with the talk of your interest in musical theatre and Sinatra, I feel like surely you'd enjoy what I feel is Queen at their absolute epitome too (I personally love Queen II era a lot as well, but I'd make not choose that as a starting place for you.)
I am one of those people who loves 70's Queen most. I discovered the band as a child when I heard "Heaven for Everyone" & thought "whose voice is THAT!?!" I'd never heard a singer who really had made me feel in the way Freddie did. Other than my Dad who in fact, like you adored Sinatra, my parents did not listen to music at all, so I wasn't introduced to any music via them, but I did play instruments, so Queen were the first *modern*, non-classical music I fell in love with. I used to wish I had a time machine to travel the 70's to see them live.
But I'm with you. I adored Queen through my whole teens - listened to, watched all I could & read loads of biographies of Queen and Freddie (some when maybe I was a tad young to be reading really.). I feel like even though I didn't discover the band until Freddie was already gone from us, in some quite deep way they and their music formed me, as in the teenaged and then adult me and they certainly lie quite significantly at the root of much of adult-me's taste. However, I'd not listened to them as much as time went on - just as I discovered more music eventually too. Bohemian Rhapsody which I hadn't been at all excited to see to be honest, as I was really worried about it only involving the most known Freddie in the 80's) sort of brought me home to my love. I'm so grateful to the film for that, and for all the new folk who will discover Queen's magic - I am so excited for you!!! Whatever you choose - enjoy!! xx
Here are a few live tracks from A Day At the Races to whet your appetite.
My favourite Queen song of all, You Take my Breath Away: https://youtu.be/UBBne8R66xo
Completely different and a bit o' heavy: Tie Your Mother Down: https://youtu.be/YXAvr8g50eQ
The Bohemian Rhapsody few folk have heard, The Millionaire's Waltz: https://youtu.be/rswC0r7PCTg
Somebody to love is on this album! https://youtu.be/JIbmfBODyTk
And last track, Too Torriatte: https://youtu.be/WDynFluHPJs
TEO Torriatte, haha - a pox on spellcheck! Sorry, I can't make the links clickable as for some reason, this forum only lets me do a Quick Reply - if I post on the full "reply" button it won't let me type in the box, boooooo, hissss!!!!!
[QUOTE] [b]spiralstatic wrote:[/b]
Hello! I'm going to go on a different tack and recommend beginning with A Day at the Races (and A Night at the Opera, but especially A Day at the Races). It's hard to say a best Queen album as they're all so different, but this is my favourite Queen album and I think it works best as an album overall - it just has such a flow to it nd makes me so happy to listen to it! I know the songs you've mentioned are 80's ones, but with the talk of your interest in musical theatre and Sinatra, I feel like surely you'd enjoy what I feel is Queen at their absolute epitome too (I personally love Queen II era a lot as well, but I'd make not choose that as a starting place for you.)
I am one of those people who loves 70's Queen most. I discovered the band as a child when I heard "Heaven for Everyone" & thought "whose voice is THAT!?!" I'd never heard a singer who really had made me feel in the way Freddie did. Other than my Dad who in fact, like you adored Sinatra, my parents did not listen to music at all, so I wasn't introduced to any music via them, but I did play instruments, so Queen were the first *modern*, non-classical music I fell in love with. I used to wish I had a time machine to travel the 70's to see them live.
But I'm with you. I adored Queen through my whole teens - listened to, watched all I could & read loads of biographies of Queen and Freddie (some when maybe I was a tad young to be reading really.). I feel like even though I didn't discover the band until Freddie was already gone from us, in some quite deep way they and their music formed me, as in the teenaged and then adult me and they certainly lie quite significantly at the root of much of adult-me's taste. However, I'd not listened to them as much as time went on - just as I discovered more music eventually too. Bohemian Rhapsody which I hadn't been at all excited to see to be honest, as I was really worried about it only involving the most known Freddie in the 80's) sort of brought me home to my love. I'm so grateful to the film for that, and for all the new folk who will discover Queen's magic - I am so excited for you!!! Whatever you choose - enjoy!! xx
Here are a few live tracks from A Day At the Races to whet your appetite.
My favourite Queen song of all, You Take my Breath Away: https://youtu.be/UBBne8R66xo
Completely different and a bit o' heavy: Tie Your Mother Down: https://youtu.be/YXAvr8g50eQ
The Bohemian Rhapsody few folk have heard, The Millionaire's Waltz: https://youtu.be/rswC0r7PCTg
Somebody to love is on this album! https://youtu.be/JIbmfBODyTk
And last track, Too Torriatte: https://youtu.be/WDynFluHPJs
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I actually Agree with you...I mentioned Sheer Heart Attack, but that album Is more hard Rock...If he loved Zeppelin and the Who that would be my choice, but considering he's not a proper Rock fan I would Start with both A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races... then Barcelona, even Made In Heaven...
If you want some sophisticated and experimental stuff, try Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races.
If you want some easy simple music, try News Of The World, The Game, The Works or A Kind Of Magic.
Hey guys!
Just letting you know I, rather slowly I will admit, started listening through some of Queen's albums.
I went through a period of being stuck strictly on live recordings, specifically of The Magic Tour and Rock Montreal. I had been listening to Wembley on repeat as well as Budapest and later Mannheim. I started with 'Innuendo', which was a god damn masterpiece. While Freddie's voice may sound somewhat...'thinner' on the album his vocal range is insane. Shit on of great material on there, specifically the title track.
I moved onto 'The Works' and I struggled a bit on this one, I don't like the overall sound of the album's instrumentals. Very..."80s" if that makes sense? The synthesizer sound and such. I much, much prefer the live versions of "Radio Gaga", "Hammer to Fall" etc. But the overall song content was good. "Is This the World We Created?" is a hell of a song, wish he could've replicated that vocal live at least once.
I took a pause after my haste with "The Works" and just kept listening to live recordings and some of the same album tracks over and over, then the other day I put on the "Live at The Rainbow '74" video and that shit GRABBED ME. Holy fuck. Freddie's voice (even with the obvious digital alterations) was insane, and all the songs, most of which I hadn't heard of, caught my ear. I immediately went and found all the early 70s albums.
"Queen", "Queen II", and "Sheer Heart Attack" blew me the hell away. I never would've expected to have the reaction I did based off of the kind of songs I normally enjoyed from them ('WWTLF' for example). This shit was tight. Can't even explain what it is about those earlier albums but something really got me hooked. I've now listened through "Queen"-all the way to-"News of the World". While I do start to notice a shift musically there's just so much "non-greatest hits" material that I never heard of thats just incredible. I'll definitely have to go back and revisit these, especially the first three.
This may be surprising to some of you but the album that made the biggest impression on me was their first, "Queen". Again I'm piss poor at talking about rock music because it isn't "my lane" musically so to speak but damn...DAMN this album kicks major ass. I'm itching to give it another full listen already and its only been a day haha. Gotta get a vinyl copy of this one.
OH! Also, obviously I found the 'Barcelona' album (the 2012 orchestrated version) and that was just incredible. I think that album has some of Freddie's most beautiful singing on it. He sounds terrific and somehow his voice mixes perfectly with Montserrat Caballé regardless of their completely different musical worlds. I can't believe 'Exercises In Free Love' is Freddie. He's had enough accolades so I can't say anything new...but god damn what a voice. He really could sing everything. I also really love 'The Great Pretender' single.
Well, theres my brief update haha. I've been lurking and reading the threads here consistently since I first joined though! I'll be through with listening to the album discography probably tomorrow so I'll be curious what to listen to next. Do you guys recommend checking out 'Mr. Bad Guy'? Or just stick with the re-worked tracks on 'Made In Heaven'?
See ya!
PS-Just a quick observation, Idk if this is just the copies I found but the mix on the vocals on some of these songs (or full albums) seem really off...to the point where the vocals are almost completely unintelligible and garbled in the mix and it pisses me off a bit when I'm trying to understand the words haha. Is this just me? Or were they mixed like this originally?
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Ignore Mooghead. Always.[/QUOTE]
yes
Welcome, there are plenty of knob-jockeys on this site, but you can normally spot them easily enough as they are either a) acting like a complete knob-jockey, or b) claiming to be the true Queen fans because they were 14 years old in 1975 and anyone who discovered Queen after Freddie died is just a glory hunter.
But plenty of genuine people on here who love the band and enjoy chatting about them and their music, so enjoy it.
Hello sammyfrankfreddie96,
I´m new here too and I think that I went through the same phases as you. Loved Freddie´s voice for ages and I knew all the big hits, but as I was born in 86 (at the day of first gig in Leiden, actually :)), I never listened to their 70´s stuff properly.
I´m going through a difficult times right now and I tried to remember, what made me happy when I was a teenager and it was - music. Queen. So I opened YouTube and fell in love again.
At first there was the 80´s stuff, Live Aid, Wembley ´86, and it was like having Christmas every day - every day I opened a new fantastic gift - a song, a gig. I stayed awake at night for hours and listened to it. And cried a lot, actually. How I cried... My first catharsis came with Don´t try so hard. I practically destroyed the Repeat button listening to this song but it helped me a lot. Since then, things are much better in my life :)
So I moved to their older albums and it was unbelievable. And still is. Every day I discover my new favorite song :)
Now I´m discovering the jewels. For example White queen - I found it quite boring on the album but then I listened to the Hammersmith gig and I couldn´t believe my ears. Fantastic.
And Barcelona - I was sparing this album for the end as I knew it will be incredible. It was. I love Golden boy and Guide me home.
Queen brought me back to life. I know I´m pathetic but it´s true.
And thank you for this forum, it helped to discover a lot of wonderful pieces.
And I have to admit that the biggest surprise for me was how many of Queen songs are much better live. Albums are great, but songs performed on stage have "something" which moves them to upper level. My English is not good enough to describe this "something".
White queen is typical - quite good on album but phenomenal on stage, both in Rainbow and Hammersmith. Take my breath away - Hyde Park. Somebody to love, Montreal and Milton Keynes of course. I can´t listen to the album version anymore, it´s too slow :) And many other songs.
I also like many songs which are generally considere as quite bad. Calling all girls is my favourite one (Again - live much better) :) And also Queen ballad version of Freddies solo song Love kills. I don´t know why, but I like it much more than the orginal.
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