If I had the time and energy, I would have liked to say exactly what Regor said.
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Some of my fellow Americans here have probably forgotten this, but in 1995 VH-1 had a Queen Week that heavily promoted Made In Heaven (I taped it). It was great...Champions of the World, Live in Budapest and videos...nice to OD on Queen for a week, and great teaser for the album, because after watching COTW (with its snippets of songs from the album in the last 30 minutes of the program), I wanted to hear the rest SO badly! Then, a nice friend of mine gave me an advance vinyl copy on white vinyl two weeks before it was released and I WAS in heaven!
The first listening of the album had shivers going up and down my spine, especially when Mother Love played, with those nice concert sounds added. Side Two started out joyously and ended on a triumphant note (the "yeah" in the middle of the last song made me weep) and it was as if Freddie was saying things were okay, he was happy where he was (sounds weird but that was my impression). When the CD came out with the nice "hidden track", I had fun listening to that as well. It tends to lull you into a half-sleep, almost trancelike, really peaceful feeling....then you hear Freddie's voice clearly..."Are we running?"...and you JUMP out of your skin!! OOH, nice touch Brian!! But I dearly love it, and play it for patients in my clinic. They like it too and more than a few have ended up buying the CD just for that track -- but I'm sure they've listened to the rest of it as well.
I remember that week myself. They also aired Queen at Rock in Rio and Milton Keynes in hugely edited form. Also had an 8 Track Flashback episode devoted to Queen. On the latter, they had a unique clip for BoRhap as they played an alternate video version with some alternate camera angles before segueing into the conclusion from the We Will Rock You film.
I wish they would repeat that week someday. It would have been a great tie-in last September with the US premiere of the musical, wouldn't it? But nobody thought of that...sadly!
I remember that week...
I had to explain to a friend in school (I was in High School at the time) that it really was his hair and NOT a wig - of course it was Brian.
Ahhh, fond memories of enlightening people about Queen.
I had to explain to a friend in school (I was in High School at the time) that it really was his hair and NOT a wig - of course it was Brian.
Ahhh, fond memories of enlightening people about Queen.
i agree with above, U2 came out with a new album, it was all over the t.v, and radio, they even had a commercial of their newest single, Queen never went to those extremes to make a hit album, i remember when innuendo came out and they pluged that album but nothing the way U2 do. i think they were on their way back when he died because innuendo was in the top 30 with no tour, obviously if they announced a tour, innuendo makes the top ten or fifteen, also the single i want it all would have hit the top forty, people get excited about tours.
I don't know if you know that, but DoRo made a Queen documentary for the German/French channel arte by 1996 with interviews of the band, Gerry Stickells and Jim Beach and Gerry Stickells said, that Bri and Rog wanted to tour and told Gerry that he had to convince Freddie of touring. He agreed on a European Tour and an American Tour only, if they would've had a big hit single in the States. That never happened, must have been by around The Works. That's another reason why Queen were kinda let down by the States, I guess.
MIH is a great album, I got it for Christmas in 1995 but discovered it in the shelf accidentally and listened to it, everyday I came home from school when my mother was still at work. I loved it. I was 8 then. Especially the more rockin' tracks like IWBTLY and A beautiful day (reprise). But nowadays I love every little thing about it. It's fantastic. back then there was one page sort of review in our daily news with the headline "King Commerce buys Queen". I read that article and didn't understand it, I read it a few years later and got it. Just happened to find a vinyl copy of Mr Bad Guy by that time around and compared the mentioned tracks. Last year I finally got a copy of Scandal and compared that track, you know. I still love MIH and wasn't upset about it nor am I. It was my first Queen album. In 1993 my was listening to Queen and I asked her what it was. She told me that it was Queen and made me a tape, which I really loved and played all day long, don't dare to play it now...and my other aunt gave me the Gold Package of GH I & II for Christmas in 94 (along with some woodfeller shirts(right word? know what I mean?)...haha...had never heard of Kurt Coabin at that time...he was a great Queen admirer, especially NOTW...) and then I fell in love with Queen. Still my all time favourite band along with Led Zeppelin. Not to mention The Beatles...they're kind of my religion, you know, bigger than Jesus...;-) ahmm...yeah...that's what I've wanted to say, for my friends are not interested in music like me...at parties when I'm complaining about the music, they put on We Will Rock or We Are The Champions and think I'll be alright, but I hate it when they do that, because they only know and only like those songs and that's pissing me off...love this forum!
MIH is a great album, I got it for Christmas in 1995 but discovered it in the shelf accidentally and listened to it, everyday I came home from school when my mother was still at work. I loved it. I was 8 then. Especially the more rockin' tracks like IWBTLY and A beautiful day (reprise). But nowadays I love every little thing about it. It's fantastic. back then there was one page sort of review in our daily news with the headline "King Commerce buys Queen". I read that article and didn't understand it, I read it a few years later and got it. Just happened to find a vinyl copy of Mr Bad Guy by that time around and compared the mentioned tracks. Last year I finally got a copy of Scandal and compared that track, you know. I still love MIH and wasn't upset about it nor am I. It was my first Queen album. In 1993 my was listening to Queen and I asked her what it was. She told me that it was Queen and made me a tape, which I really loved and played all day long, don't dare to play it now...and my other aunt gave me the Gold Package of GH I & II for Christmas in 94 (along with some woodfeller shirts(right word? know what I mean?)...haha...had never heard of Kurt Coabin at that time...he was a great Queen admirer, especially NOTW...) and then I fell in love with Queen. Still my all time favourite band along with Led Zeppelin. Not to mention The Beatles...they're kind of my religion, you know, bigger than Jesus...;-) ahmm...yeah...that's what I've wanted to say, for my friends are not interested in music like me...at parties when I'm complaining about the music, they put on We Will Rock or We Are The Champions and think I'll be alright, but I hate it when they do that, because they only know and only like those songs and that's pissing me off...love this forum!
I think MIH was a great album but the album was somewhat ignored here in the US when it was released despite the fact it went Gold. The album peaked at a dismal #51. However, in other countries, MIH hit #1 and was the band's best selling original material studio album. In the US, those honors go to NOTW and The Game each at 4 million a piece. Americans at the time of MIH's release(not counting myself and some real music purists) were big into faux rap like Cypress Hill, the Adult rock of Hootie and the Blowfish, and the angst-ridden grunge alt-rock of crap like Alanis Morissette, Alice in Chains and The Smashing Pumpkins, AAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGH! I played some tracks of MIH when I did college radio like Mother Love, It's a Beautiful Day(Reprise), Too Much Love, the title cut and others. I think MIH was ignored as my fellow Americans were too angry and bowing down at the shrine of the loser Kurt Cobain and the rest of those loser grunge freaks!
Americans have no taste. But they are happy to export their rap and R&B shit.
Let's sum it up like this:
After Freddie Mercury died, music - for the most part - has gone to shit.
People became corrupted by the fact that new music was garbage, regardless of genre, and thus had to adapt to the new music scene.
Thus, the large profusion of emo/grunge and rap/crap artists.
Oh, and Japanese Torture? You are absolutely correct, my friend. Just enjoy.
And as for Track 13, it is rather haunting. But if you turn up the volume loud enough to hear the music, the "are we running" winds up being earsplittingly loud.
Or at least, it was for me. Curse you, ambient noise!!!
After Freddie Mercury died, music - for the most part - has gone to shit.
People became corrupted by the fact that new music was garbage, regardless of genre, and thus had to adapt to the new music scene.
Thus, the large profusion of emo/grunge and rap/crap artists.
Oh, and Japanese Torture? You are absolutely correct, my friend. Just enjoy.
And as for Track 13, it is rather haunting. But if you turn up the volume loud enough to hear the music, the "are we running" winds up being earsplittingly loud.
Or at least, it was for me. Curse you, ambient noise!!!
I still think "Made In Heaven" is phenomenal. Whoopty doo if it is different, not hard, synth driven and more pop than the first few l.p.s? I think it is one of their saving graces from not just being the same all of the time. It helps bring the public into their other stuff, helps in the sales department which will help them to stay around longer in theory, AND artistically they don't remain the same but change. Here is the good news for someone like me and who ever thinks the U.S. strongly prefered the harder rock stuff. They can always return to doing all of that again! I think they will too. It doesn't mean they won't do more pop in the future but it also doesn't mean that they can't do more rock stuff whether in the harder category or bluesier stuff. I hope that they do all of the above and cover new ground with both Paul Rogers on a couple of new studio l.p.s and whoever else in the future down the road. There actually is much truth in the post about what the U.S. were interested and not with Queen. The only thing is when they did their first l.p.s and eventually starting becoming popular here in the U.S. they could never really break through because they were considered gay. Of course remember this is their best selling studio l.p. with international sales of TWELVE MILLION copies! As it is I always viewed it if not a good-bye l.p. for Queen then at least a good-bye l.p. for Freddie Mercury and that is why I find it appropriate while some find it not so because they did have to stuggle to put it together yet many people found it to be quiet good.
Enjoy it for what it is: Freddie Mercury telling us it's a beautiful day up in heaven, and that everything's cool now.
^_^
Everytime I hear that track, I feel totally motivated to do something important in the world.
^_^
Everytime I hear that track, I feel totally motivated to do something important in the world.
Americans at the time of MIH's release(not counting myself and some real music purists) were big into faux rap like Cypress Hill, the Adult rock of Hootie and the Blowfish,
Hootie is from my town..HOOOOOTIIIE..*lol*
I read a few posts up there was some sort of Queen week at the time of the release.. I can't remember. The only thing I do remember is seeing the album in the Best Buy sale paper..:-S And that was it.
Sorry for the reply in such an old thread, but it's a great thread.
Has anyone noticed Smashing Pumpkins copied Queen?
Queen released Heaven For Everyone's video first, and the Smashing Pumpkins video for 'Tonight, Tonight', came out later in the year, and was practically the same thing!
Has anyone noticed Smashing Pumpkins copied Queen?
Queen released Heaven For Everyone's video first, and the Smashing Pumpkins video for 'Tonight, Tonight', came out later in the year, and was practically the same thing!
kinda makes ya wonder what us Queen fans would have said had Eminem impersonated Freddie Mercury instead of MJ ... sorry to bother you with this little rant .. but i couldnt help myself.
Yours Truely
Ronald Joseph Silvey
Never would of happened. Queen is Eminem's favorite band.
I wish they would repeat that week someday. It would have been a great tie-in last September with the US premiere of the musical, wouldn't it? But nobody thought of that...sadly!
Sadly VH1 doesn't have anything to do with Classic Rock anymore. VH1 Classic (another program owned by VH1) plays Queen videos in the USA, but, they don't have LEGENDS (no legends show of any band, when regular VH1 had legends, Queen LEGENDS documentary was played weekly), but now it's all music videos. There's music videos by Queen, even songs that didn't chart (such as Breakthru and solo stuff), but no documentarys or other things. I think Wembly was on there last summer though.
Would someone explain to the 18,400 people in NJ and the 17,000 people in LA that Queen is forgotten in USA.I dont know if you all pay attention but big bands have played theatres and small outdoor sheds.Selling out arenas is a major deal.This country never forgot what this band is but were dissapointed in the crap they released in the 80's.You UK folks could not sellout 2 dumps in that shit hole Ireland so stop giving shots to USA.Still the place where Queen has sold the most.period.