"Liar and March of the Black Queen show that Freddie was trying to write Bohemian Rhapsody from the word go."
Millionaire Waltz shows that Freddie couldn't stop!
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I agree, Liar was extremly underated. That's nothing new, queen have loads of underated songs. Millianare waltz and it's late are also underated.How about Great king rat or my fairy king?
You could consider the entire first album to be underrated then, which I think it is.
When I talk to non-Queen fans about music and we come to Queen then most of them think Queen's earliest album is A Night At The Opera.
When I talk to non-Queen fans about music and we come to Queen then most of them think Queen's earliest album is A Night At The Opera.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME].DeaconJohn. wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sorry, I know nothing about remixes.
When was it officially released?[/QUOTE]
1974. In the States, NZ, Oz and Netherlands (as B-side).
When was it officially released?[/QUOTE]
1974. In the States, NZ, Oz and Netherlands (as B-side).
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME] <font color=FF0099>Linda Of The Valley wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]
THANK YOU!
I mean I love Liar and do think it's possibly under-rated by some but My Fairy King has got to be Freddie's least acknowledged song. I love that era where he was into that...argh..can't even think of a genre for it! :) [/QUOTE]
My Fairy King is a beautiful track...and it probably went as close to true prog-rock as queen ever got.....the whole "alternate reality" theme...oh, and the complete lift from Robert' Browning's - The Pied Piper of Hamelin: (but still pretty awesome nonetheless)
Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew,
And flowers put forth a fairer hue,
And everything was strange and new;
The sparrows were brighter than the peacocks here,
And their dogs outran our fallow deer,
And honey-bees had lost their stings,
And horses were born with eagles' wings;
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hameln.html#browning
THANK YOU!
I mean I love Liar and do think it's possibly under-rated by some but My Fairy King has got to be Freddie's least acknowledged song. I love that era where he was into that...argh..can't even think of a genre for it! :) [/QUOTE]
My Fairy King is a beautiful track...and it probably went as close to true prog-rock as queen ever got.....the whole "alternate reality" theme...oh, and the complete lift from Robert' Browning's - The Pied Piper of Hamelin: (but still pretty awesome nonetheless)
Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew,
And flowers put forth a fairer hue,
And everything was strange and new;
The sparrows were brighter than the peacocks here,
And their dogs outran our fallow deer,
And honey-bees had lost their stings,
And horses were born with eagles' wings;
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hameln.html#browning
I agree that Liar is underated, but I believe that the Doing All Right was there first Gem. I mean I know the song was originally a Smile song, but with Freddie on vocals and the piano in the beginning, that song just clicks, it's amazing really.
I dunno if Liar is too underrated actually...it's a favorite among Queen fans. A lot of bands have really good early album tracks before having a breakthrough that non-fans have never heard....