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Moving Pictures vs A Night at the Opera


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  1. 1. Overall, which do you prefer?

    • Moving Pictures
    • A Night at the Opera


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Annoying is a good word too :P I'm not saying their music isn't adventurous. They just don't connect with me in any way, and I do find most of their songs a bit pompous, and not in a good way.
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I might take News of the World over MP, but not A Night at the Opera. I admire the accomplishment that the ANATO is, but I just don't dig the songs that much.

 

 

ETA: '39 is a great live song, though

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Annoying is a good word too :P I'm not saying their music isn't adventurous. They just don't connect with me in any way, and I do find most of their songs a bit pompous, and not in a good way.

 

Yep, that, right there.

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I love Queen, but Moving Pictures is the choice here.

 

As with much of 70s Queen all of the Freddie songs are great here (Death on Two Legs, Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon, Seaside Rendezvous, Love of My Life, and of course Bohemian Rhapsody), but Brian's 4 are truly awful on this album. Roger's song (I'm in Love with My Car) is middling at best and Deacon wrote a big mid 70s hit that everyone knows and sounds like radio fodder for the mid-70s. It is still a Top 5 Queen album, but not their actual best despite having their most iconic song on it.

 

I would only place Queen II or Jazz above Moving Pictures.

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Don't like Queen at all, so....

 

How can you NOT like Queen?

Queen can be very polarizing. I like Queen, but I understand why some would find them very annoying. Style over substance, maybe?

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Annoying is a good word too :P I'm not saying their music isn't adventurous. They just don't connect with me in any way, and I do find most of their songs a bit pompous, and not in a good way.

Not even Brian's guitar connects with you? That's what grabbed me at first.

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Annoying is a good word too :P I'm not saying their music isn't adventurous. They just don't connect with me in any way, and I do find most of their songs a bit pompous, and not in a good way.

Not even Brian's guitar connects with you? That's what grabbed me at first.

 

He might have some tasty guitar playing...but I can't just listen to his guitar playing and not the rest of the band, can I ?

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Annoying is a good word too :P I'm not saying their music isn't adventurous. They just don't connect with me in any way, and I do find most of their songs a bit pompous, and not in a good way.

Not even Brian's guitar connects with you? That's what grabbed me at first.

 

He might have some tasty guitar playing...but I can't just listen to his guitar playing and not the rest of the band, can I ?

Why not? That's how Alex won me over to snakes and arrows. :LOL: It certainly wasn't Geddy and his woo-hoo'ing in the songs.

 

:cheers:

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Annoying is a good word too :P I'm not saying their music isn't adventurous. They just don't connect with me in any way, and I do find most of their songs a bit pompous, and not in a good way.

Not even Brian's guitar connects with you? That's what grabbed me at first.

 

He might have some tasty guitar playing...but I can't just listen to his guitar playing and not the rest of the band, can I ?

Why not? That's how Alex won me over to snakes and arrows. :LOL: It certainly wasn't Geddy and his woo-hoo'ing in the songs.

 

:cheers:

 

I'm a casual fan of some of Brian's guitar playing but I really don't like Queen. There you go!!! :D :Alex:

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Annoying is a good word too :P I'm not saying their music isn't adventurous. They just don't connect with me in any way, and I do find most of their songs a bit pompous, and not in a good way.

 

That makes more sense. As much as I don't share your opinion, I do understand it this way.

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Don't like Queen at all, so....

 

How can you NOT like Queen?

 

I find them boring, nothing about their music excites me...reminds me of Dire Straits in that way!

 

I don't like Queen either but they are far from boring. Very adventurous band musically. Not sure how you can hear a song like Bohemian Rhapsody and think they're boring.

 

Annoying is how I've always described them. Freddy was a fantastic singer but something about the overall sound always bothered me.

 

Who is Freddy? His name is Freddie!

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You asked the wrong Rush fan. Let's see...my favorite album by my favorite band with my favorite singer who wrote my favorite song plus three of my other favorite instrumentalists of all time ever forever...vs. my 2.5 fav Rush album which failed to impress me the first time I listened to it....

 

 

You guess what I picked. :P

 

ABBA??

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Don't like Queen at all, so....

 

How can you NOT like Queen?

 

I find them boring, nothing about their music excites me...reminds me of Dire Straits in that way!

 

I don't like Queen either but they are far from boring. Very adventurous band musically. Not sure how you can hear a song like Bohemian Rhapsody and think they're boring.

 

Annoying is how I've always described them. Freddy was a fantastic singer but something about the overall sound always bothered me.

 

Who is Freddy? His name is Freddie!

 

Stop being so anal. You know who I'm talking about. I'm not a fan so how would I know or even care what way his name is spelled. It's pronounced the same either way. I wasn't trying to be disrespectful towards him.

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