The Royal QUEEN Discussion and Adoration Thread!

[bluefox4000]

Also Now whenever i watch that film.......Freddie's mouth prosthetic just bugs me, lol

 

sounds like they just shoved a cotton ball in there, lol

 

Mick

Well, it worked for Brando...

 

and i STILL cannot understand Brando's dialogue....lol.

 

Mick

[Rick N. Backer]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I’m not sure Queen was the victim of bias against homosexuals in the US. It didn’t hurt Elton for example. I think it’s more that they have a very unique sound and a very eclectic catalog. So someone who liked News of the World might not enjoy Hot Space if they’re not a Queen fan.

[goose]

So someone who liked News of the World might not enjoy Hot Space if they’re not a Queen fan.

That's true for me and AM a Queen fan!

[J2112YYZ]

[Entre_Perpetuo]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I’m not sure Queen was the victim of bias against homosexuals in the US. It didn’t hurt Elton for example. I think it’s more that they have a very unique sound and a very eclectic catalog. So someone who liked News of the World might not enjoy Hot Space if they’re not a Queen fan.

 

That's definitely also a factor, but that diversity of catalogue didn't seem to hurt their record sales (aside from Hot Space) around the rest of the world. They had over half a dozen big hits in the 80s which didn't make enough of an impact in America to warrant Queen touring here.

[J2112YYZ]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I'm pretty sure the song Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts when it was used in the movie Wayne's World and that renewed interest in the song. It was played a ton because of that and if it didn't top the charts it damn sure came close.

[goose]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I'm pretty sure the song Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts when it was used in the movie Wayne's World and that renewed interest in the song. It was played a ton because of that and if it didn't top the charts it damn sure came close.

In the US it got to #9 on Billboard in 1976, #2 in 1992, and #33 in 2018-19 (#2 on the Hot Rock Songs list).

[Rick N. Backer]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I’m not sure Queen was the victim of bias against homosexuals in the US. It didn’t hurt Elton for example. I think it’s more that they have a very unique sound and a very eclectic catalog. So someone who liked News of the World might not enjoy Hot Space if they’re not a Queen fan.

 

That's definitely also a factor, but that diversity of catalogue didn't seem to hurt their record sales (aside from Hot Space) around the rest of the world. They had over half a dozen big hits in the 80s which didn't make enough of an impact in America to warrant Queen touring here.

 

There are a lot of bands that are big in Europe that for whatever reason don’t reach the same level here.

[J2112YYZ]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I'm pretty sure the song Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts when it was used in the movie Wayne's World and that renewed interest in the song. It was played a ton because of that and if it didn't top the charts it damn sure came close.

In the US it got to #9 on Billboard in 1976, #2 in 1992, and #33 in 2018-19 (#2 on the Hot Rock Songs list).

 

But when it comes to hit singles is there really that big of a difference in popularity between the number one and number two songs? You could make an argument for Bohemian Rhapsody being just as popular as anything being put out by the top bands of 1992. Seriously, that's how big it got.

[goose]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I'm pretty sure the song Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts when it was used in the movie Wayne's World and that renewed interest in the song. It was played a ton because of that and if it didn't top the charts it damn sure came close.

In the US it got to #9 on Billboard in 1976, #2 in 1992, and #33 in 2018-19 (#2 on the Hot Rock Songs list).

 

But when it comes to hit singles is there really that big of a difference in popularity between the number one and number two songs? You could make an argument for Bohemian Rhapsody being just as popular as anything being put out by the top bands of 1992. Seriously, that's how big it got.

Actually, it comes in at #39 of the 1992 year-end Hot 100. Still impressive for a 16yo song.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1992

[Entre_Perpetuo]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I'm pretty sure the song Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts when it was used in the movie Wayne's World and that renewed interest in the song. It was played a ton because of that and if it didn't top the charts it damn sure came close.

In the US it got to #9 on Billboard in 1976, #2 in 1992, and #33 in 2018-19 (#2 on the Hot Rock Songs list).

 

But when it comes to hit singles is there really that big of a difference in popularity between the number one and number two songs? You could make an argument for Bohemian Rhapsody being just as popular as anything being put out by the top bands of 1992. Seriously, that's how big it got.

 

I agree, but it is interesting that one of the biggest songs in the world didn't ever get number 1.

[greyfriar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO81wtuSELQ

[Mithrandir]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I'm pretty sure the song Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts when it was used in the movie Wayne's World and that renewed interest in the song. It was played a ton because of that and if it didn't top the charts it damn sure came close.

In the US it got to #9 on Billboard in 1976, #2 in 1992, and #33 in 2018-19 (#2 on the Hot Rock Songs list).

 

But when it comes to hit singles is there really that big of a difference in popularity between the number one and number two songs? You could make an argument for Bohemian Rhapsody being just as popular as anything being put out by the top bands of 1992. Seriously, that's how big it got.

 

I agree, but it is interesting that one of the biggest songs in the world didn't ever get number 1.

And Led Zep IV never got to number #1, I believe.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

My kids are mostly into whatever it is that teenagers are into these days, musically. You can thank Bohemian Rhapsody for introducing them to Queen. A week or so ago my son was talking about what a great singer Freddie was. My daughter was walking around the house last night with her ear pods in singing BR. I'm not a huge Queen fan, but man is this an improvement.

 

That movie seems to have finally cemented for the rest of the world what I've known all along: Queen are among the greatest rock bands of all time. You may love them, you may hate them, but you do know them well enough to swing one way or the other.

 

Nah. It was a shitty, easily marketable movie that took liberties with reality and played it so safe and by the numbers that it was bound to be a massive hit.

 

It's garbage, and the band, and Mercury, deserve a better film. It was to Queen what Mamma Mia is to ABBA. I'm no fan of Queen, but the movie was nowhere near as brilliant as A Star Is Born.

 

I disagree. It did take liberties with reality, but Brian and Roger were directly in charge of it, and so did Elton's movie, which was great as well. I honestly doubt Freddie would've preferred a hyper-realistic depiction of his life as opposed to this well-written and acted drama based on his story. Perhaps it was easily marketable and safe, but so are a lot of great movies.

 

As far as it being an assured hit, that's probably so in the UK, but in the USA Queen just weren't as big of a deal as they were everywhere else. There are a lot of factors, but I think conservative America's tendency towards homophobia is a big one. Don't get me wrong, they're well-known enough here, but they aren't ubiquitous. Most of my peers (prior to the movie) had no idea We Will Rock You was an actual song and not just a sports chant, nor that the same band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody wrote Another One Bites The Dust, nor that Crazy Little Thing Called Love isn't an old 50s tune. And most of their 80s and 90s stuff is all but unheard of over here. At least, this was the case before the movie.

 

For whatever reason, be it the social changes of the times or the power of hindsight, the Bohemian Rhapsody movie connected on a level past Queen releases never have in America. The song itself never did reach the top of the Billboard charts, in fact Queen only ever got number one singles with Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. So for the movie to fill up theaters and score 5 Oscar nominations (and win 4 of them) marked a real change in Queen's relevance in this country. Even now the top ten rock songs and albums on iTunes are littered with Queen, where they were lucky to see one song or album in the top ten in the past. I realize I'm rambling, and my bias as a huge Queen fan doesn't help my case. However, it may help this point.

 

Before the movie, I had to explain Queen to other people and all of their hits. People just didn't know about Queen any more than Styx or Boston or David Bowie. But since the movie, everyone knows Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody, and their music has had a huge resurgence in relevancy. At last, when I tell people Queen are my favorite band, they understand me and know what I'm talking about. This movie did for Queen in America what Beyond The Lighted Stage, CA, the RRHoF induction, and R40 did for Rush.

 

tl;dr No, it's not a perfect movie (although it's very hard for me to see that in the same way it's very hard for me to see that Hot Space isn't a great album: bias), but it's made me extraordinarily happy as a Queen fan both for my own experience watching it and for getting to see it succeed so massively with critics and the public. Queen and Freddie deserve every ounce of the praise its garnered in America for all the years they struggled to make it as big here as they did everywhere else.

 

 

 

And on a side note, I didn't see A Star Is Born. May be better, may be worse, I really wouldn't know. Glad you like it though!

 

I'm pretty sure the song Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts when it was used in the movie Wayne's World and that renewed interest in the song. It was played a ton because of that and if it didn't top the charts it damn sure came close.

In the US it got to #9 on Billboard in 1976, #2 in 1992, and #33 in 2018-19 (#2 on the Hot Rock Songs list).

 

But when it comes to hit singles is there really that big of a difference in popularity between the number one and number two songs? You could make an argument for Bohemian Rhapsody being just as popular as anything being put out by the top bands of 1992. Seriously, that's how big it got.

 

I agree, but it is interesting that one of the biggest songs in the world didn't ever get number 1.

And Led Zep IV never got to number #1, I believe.

 

Also interesting!

[The Cat 3]

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[Entre_Perpetuo]

It's so easy to forget about the massive leap forward Queen took between Queen I and Queen II. The harmonies really came into their own here, as well as a lot of Brian's guitar layering, not to mention tracks bleeding into one another to create a more cohesive listening experience, and toying with a bit of concept....and the songs! The songwriting really went full steam ahead, improving where it was already good and diversifying a great deal from the debut. Say what you want about the kind of muddy production, but they also took a lot more production risks and most all of them paid off in spades. Brian even gets his first vocal on the lovely Some Day One Day, a song that would fit right in on A Day At The Races or Jazz! What an incredible record! :)

[Entre_Perpetuo]

It's also very easy to dismiss A Day At The Races as a lesser sister album to A Night At The Opera. In all honesty it may be their most beautiful record start to finish. I love Roy Thomas Baker's work on the first four albums, but when Queen decided to handle everything themselves the results are nothing less than perhaps the most lush and achingly lovely rock record yet released in 1976. ELP and ELO could toy with all the classical and orchestral sounds and compositions they wanted, but they never captured the essence of romance music like Queen would here. Is it in my top 5 Queen albums? Admittedly no...but then maybe it should be. Maybe it should be in my top 3. I suppose I'll have to consult the whole catalogue again sometime soon.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Also there is no question in my mind that John Deacon put in the performance of his lifetime across A Day At The Races. His bass work on songs like The Millionaire Waltz and Just You And I is simply brilliant. Pair that with Roger's most thunderous drum sound, Brian's most moving guitar work, Freddie's most joyous piano, and the now trademark Queen vocals at their peak...wow I love this album.

[The Cat 3]

Sheer Heart Attack

 

A Day at the Races

 

A Night at the Opera

 

...that’s my ranking.

 

After the monster album that “A Night at the Opera” was they follow it up with another masterpiece.

 

It is a slightly more mature album.

 

“A Night at the Opera” and “A Day at the Races” is one of the best one-two punches in all of rock ‘n’ roll.

 

It also contains one of my favourite songs of all times in “Drowse”.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Sheer Heart Attack

 

A Day at the Races

 

A Night at the Opera

 

...that’s my ranking.

 

After the monster album that “A Night at the Opera” was they follow it up with another masterpiece.

 

It is a slightly more mature album.

 

“A Night at the Opera” and “A Day at the Races” is one of the best one-two punches in all of rock ‘n’ roll.

 

It also contains one of my favourite songs of all times in “Drowse”.

 

I've just been reading the liner notes. I'm not sure I ever realized Roger plays most of the guitar (aside from the slide) on Drowse!

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Also, White Man is pretty much the loudest song they ever recorded. Ironic that the rest of the album is so lush and soft in most places, yet knowing Queen that's probably exactly why they felt such heaviness was necessary.

[The Cat 3]

Sheer Heart Attack

 

A Day at the Races

 

A Night at the Opera

 

...that’s my ranking.

 

After the monster album that “A Night at the Opera” was they follow it up with another masterpiece.

 

It is a slightly more mature album.

 

“A Night at the Opera” and “A Day at the Races” is one of the best one-two punches in all of rock ‘n’ roll.

 

It also contains one of my favourite songs of all times in “Drowse”.

 

I've just been reading the liner notes. I'm not sure I ever realized Roger plays most of the guitar (aside from the slide) on Drowse!

 

Roger plays all the instruments on his solo records, “Fun in Space” and “Strange Frontier”.

 

He is mega talented.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Sheer Heart Attack

 

A Day at the Races

 

A Night at the Opera

 

...that’s my ranking.

 

After the monster album that “A Night at the Opera” was they follow it up with another masterpiece.

 

It is a slightly more mature album.

 

“A Night at the Opera” and “A Day at the Races” is one of the best one-two punches in all of rock ‘n’ roll.

 

It also contains one of my favourite songs of all times in “Drowse”.

 

I've just been reading the liner notes. I'm not sure I ever realized Roger plays most of the guitar (aside from the slide) on Drowse!

 

Roger plays all the instruments on his solo records, “Fun in Space” and “Strange Frontier”.

 

He is mega talented.

 

I remember reading or listening to an interview of Roger once where he was asked something like how he felt being the drummer of Queen, and he responded with something like, "I don't really think of myself as a drummer, I just think of myself as a musician."

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Happy Birthday to Freddie Mercury! He would've been 74 years young today. We still love you!

 

[_hi_water._]

Entre, how come you never gave me the link to this thread? Triggered!!!