Amps211

Newton is nervous... says his facial expressions

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You're not gonna watch to see if the losing coach calls an even worse play than the Seabags did at the end of last year's game?

 

I wouldn't either, it's next to impossible.

 

The game last season ended on a kneel down.

I think you're confusing it with the AFC championship game a couple of weeks ago.

 

No. The Patriots had the ball at the end of the game. I could understand if I was asking you to, say, remember the end of the last significant "Fins" post season win, but this was just 1 year ago. And it was the Super Bowl.

 

They should have ran ..

Beer

Drinking and cheering for controversy ... Don't really care who wins ... Never been much of a manning fan and I have no feelings about Carolina ... My Vikings would have beat them Arizona and the Broncos if they'd made that FG ARGH !!

I've always thought they had a certain magic working for them ... just like many bands who hit it big ... to me the sort of melding of ged's voice, the lyrics/stories that NP wrote, and the AL / GL jam sessions that turned into the music, were just the perfect magical combination ... each guy being an excellent musician was a prerequisite ... but the magic happened when the words and music matched the story teller's voice IMO

I wonder what the Deflator is up to these days?

 

Shame about the Colts this year.

 

the colts are sucking for sure ...I'm a vikings fan ... LACES OUT !!!

I wonder what the Deflator is up to these days?

Got up early to go to the store before I had to go to work ... Made a point of telling myself not to forget to buy automatic dishwashing soap ... Forgot it anyway and had to wash some dishes by hand ... Haha

Another default win for Bob. Take it Bobster!

 

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it was unbeatable so no one tried ..

Bruce is one of my favorites as well. So glad you got to experience The Wild and The Innocent and your description of summery soundscapes is dead on. Rosalita is one of my all time highlights and you gotta love the horns on E Street Shuffle and Kitty's Back! (Sounds like your dad has great taste as well! :) )

 

Well he still only knows Rosalita, but I'll be seeing that Amps211 hears this album ASAP.

 

I put it on for one song as I was heading out this morning ... I remember the E Street Shuffle too ... I think it plays a little on classic rock radio here and there ... peppy song ... good morning groove ... not quite Stevie Wonder's superstition but it will get you moving too

Hey dude YOU try doin dis with your nipples froze to the ground!

 

That's funny as hell !!

I choose ghost of rider ... Good job !!

you just have to keep listening .... I find it intoxicating ... my man crush on LaBrie is off the chart right now

I'm just amazed at how he was able to perfectly encapsulate the entire essence of rock and roll, and I mean from Please Please Me straight through The Astonishing and onward, in 11 little tunes. If I wanted to show someone what rock music was in under an hour, this would be the disc I gave them, even beating out Aerosmith or the Stones.

 

that's a strong statement ... you will need to make me a copy :)

I favor crystals usually

The new one ..... with the mom calling her son and telling him about squirrels while the son is in the middle of what looks like an action movie ... It is much better .... I still like the Europe final countdown one the best though

Hate to say it but they may need a guest singer too, they could really do some killer old stuff. But let Geddy sing the lower keyed stuff.

 

I think if ged felt like he couldn't do a song they wouldn't play it ... I've always thought he should let the crowd sing for him on the ones he really just can't do .. They could even put the words up on the big screens and have a bouncing ball ... WE WILL SING FOR YOU GEDDY !!

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Chosen ... Dream theater

Beer

Okay, three times through, so here's my first impressions review:

 

Innuendo is a very different Queen than I'm used to. Familiar in many ways, but strikingly different in many others. You're average Queen album contains a feverish sense of humor, of camp and pomp, which runs through the lifeblood of the record. Innuendo has much of that, but it's not a euphoric release of laughter like in the past, it's a hysterical, slightly mad chuckle (which of course makes perfect sense with I'm Going Slightly Mad). It's not such a bright album as many others. It becomes very apparent that a new sense of dread or finality has overtaken the band's mentality with many of the tracks, whereas others seem to want to escape those tones, but fail to overtake them. It feels like a great, brave battle between the reminiscent and lightweight and the inevitable and final. What I'm trying to say is, it's obvious Freddie was dying. This is the album of a dying man and his helpless band. They seem to put their all into every song, but the overhanging dread of Freddie's health clouds their usual musical instincts and leads to some very strange, unorthodox experiments, juxtaposed with some determined attempts to reinvoke Queen of the past with varying degrees of success. All of this said, it's a wonderful, insane album which should rank very highly for me once I get used to it. So the songs:

 

Innuendo: Masterful epic Queen track, and done by Roger to boot. This one really succeeds in fusing the star power of Queen in the eighties with the proggy, imaginative, almost hilarious abandon of Queen in the mid seventies. The strange juxtaposition of sections reminds me more of The March of the Black Queen, The Millionaire's Waltz, or The Prophet's Song than Bohemian Rhapsody, but these songs all fall in that same epic category for Queen, and when Queen taps into that area they come out with a masterpiece every time. Easily one of my top four on the record, and very indicative of the succeeding tones on the album.

 

I'm Going Slightly Mad: Has Freddie ever been more seventies Freddie than this? Even in the seventies? This song perfectly encapsulates that tone of diminishing sanity which prevails on the album, and it's of course masterfully written. One of Fred's best definitely, and sung in his lower register as well for more exp<b></b>ression. I love this one, another top four.

 

Headlong: Hm, all the markings of a wonderful Queen rocker from Brian, but without the same sense of driving excitement for me. I have my theories for why it fails to live up to songs like Hammer To Fall or One Vision, but they could of course be wrong. At any rate, it's a great song and a great rocker, but upon the first couple listens I do wish it had the same flow as their older rockers. I do like it though, quite a lot, and the chorus is excellent.

 

I Can't Live With You: So we're continuing with the rock vibe which battles the finality of it all. Overall I find it a more interesting rocker than Headlong, but with a similar lack of flow and classic Queen rocker sound. The choir vocals are always wonderful (I don't think this band has misused them once), though the opening chorus is shocking in it's jauntiness. I probably would rate it a tad higher than Headlong, but not in my top four.

 

Don't Try So Hard: Sweet sweet music to my ears. We've reached a real ballad here, one which hardens back to the most heartbreaking confessionals of early Queen. I'm talking White Queen, You Take My Breath Away, Love Of My Life stuff here, though maybe without quite as memorable of a hook as those last two. Anyways I love this one, as I'm a sucker for this stuff when it comes to Queen. Freddie always impresses, but I'm really pleasantly surprised that he's still got that clean part of his upper range without having to break into falsetto. After The Game it seemed that side of his voice had disappeared. Not quite top four, but almost.

 

Ride The Wild Wind: I said in an earlier post this was a Roger Taylor track if I ever heard one, and I stand by that here. It's somewhere between I'm In Love With My Car, Breakthru, and The Invisible Man, but seem's much more reliant on it's driving beat than it's potential for dynamic, which is initially a tad disappointing, but overall makes a lot of sense. I also said earlier that this would probably be a ton of fun to listen to while driving, and I think that's really the whole point of this song. So I don't think I can fairly rate it until I get a chance to hear it on the freeway or something. Seems great though.

 

I'll do the second half later.

 

Awesome post !! Looking forward to the second half ... I remember having the cassett years ago and loving days of our lives ... Freddie still sits atop my list of all time favorite rock vocalists

Heck YEA, WOULD LOVE TO JAM WITH YOU ANYDAY!

 

Hey folks been many years since I graced this site. But running my recording studio and haven't played in many years with anyone, except tinker on my bass.

 

Anyways a few years ago, I think maybe 5 years ago I ran into two old friends I used too jam with and asked if they still played. The guitarist was still giging, but the drummer hasn't touched drums in 15years. Well long story short I leant him my drums for two weeks and we met up in the studio to have a jam session. Was a train wreck and we overdubs some parts on the lead, and drums, also had to overdubs some parts in the bass, I belive in three sections. But all in all it was pretty much live except of course after they left I added the key liner notes, and overdubbed Taurus pedals in areas, along with live Taurus I did througout the whole song

 

BEEN TWENTY THREES since we tried the song, and only two weeks to learn it the best we could by ourselves, so we had fun and laughed about it. so laugh with us :drool:

 

SOUNDED GREAT !!! keep rockin'

She still plays bad notes I hit two years ago

Full house

The fifth wave .... The only redeeming thing was getting to spend time with my daughter ... The movie was just really barely north of horrible