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Fko Lrrtok
05-08-2010, 03:08 AM
I've noticed that a few of the people here quite like Queen and I was wondering what your favourite Queen song was?
Having grown up with Queen during the late 70's and so on, my favourite has changed quite regularly, but for some reason i keep coming back to "Radio Ga Ga".
I love the tune the lyrics and most of all the music, a close second is "I Want to break Free".
What are yours?
Tìrol
05-08-2010, 08:59 AM
I Want It All (and I want it now). :D Close second is Bohemian Rhapsody. I approve of this thread.
This one goes to eleven
05-08-2010, 11:07 AM
I would say that We Are the Champions is my favorite Queen song, with Another One Bites the Dust and Under Pressure also in the mix.
BTW, with the power invested in me by no one, I hereby declare ALL of Fko lrrtok's threads, past, present and future, to be approved. =)
Tìrol
05-08-2010, 11:51 AM
BTW, with the power invested in me by no one, I hereby declare ALL of Fko lrrtok's threads, past, present and future, to be approved. =)
I support this statement.
Galileo, Figaro, Magnifico...
Svansfall
05-08-2010, 11:52 AM
Yay for you, Fko lrrtok!
But damn, what a tricky question! There are so many Queen songs I absolutely love, it is nearly impossible to decide one favourite. After looking through all the records, I listed a few favourites from each album, and singled them down to a list of 20 songs... but to find one favourite out of those 20... not easy.
My favourite albums are Sheer Heart Attack, A Day at the Races and Innuendo, but favourite song....
I have to go with... The Show Must Go On. I think the song is brilliant beyond belief... I often play it by myself on piano, because the chord-progression is so wonderful... and from each section of the song to the next, they always make it rise in intensity... even between the second verse and the second chorus, where there is actually a keychange a half-step DOWN, but still they make this change come across as rising in intensity. And there's not a single wasted guitar-note in here. Every guitar-touch by Brian May is perfect in this song. And every nuance in Freddie's voice... Not to mention that this is a Freddie who knows that he does not have very long to live that is singing this song.
"My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies.
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die.
I can fly, my friends."
Edit: Correction, the second verse is two half-steps different from the main part of the song, not one half-step as I wrote.
Fko Lrrtok
05-08-2010, 06:24 PM
Thanks guys for your thoughts, this means a lot to me, I sincerely thank-you .
It is a very hard subject i know as your favourites do often change, in the late Seventies I absolutely loved 'A night at the Opera', and as every subsequent releases came out it just seemed that Queen were always there.
It sort of like that you become so used to them being there, that when they are gone you really appreciate how much they meant to you.
'Bohemian Rhapsody' was my favourite for so many years, then to have 'Under Pressure' take the title for a while.
During the 2nd half of the Eighties, 'It's a kind of magic' was enthralling and catchy whilst 'Who wants to live forever' haunted me and still gives me chills to this day.
I have so many more favourites that have been part of the big soundtrack of my life, that I feel a sense of ownership to their music, funny isn't it how so many bands and their songs become part of your life.
not a queen fan and dont know too many of their songs but i would have to say we will rock you. the stomping of feet and the clapping is a genius idea for a beat in my opinion. + awsome guitar = epic song. I mean, who doesn't know this song?!
Fko Lrrtok
05-08-2010, 07:20 PM
not a queen fan and dont know too many of their songs but i would have to say we will rock you. the stomping of feet and the clapping is a genius idea for a beat in my opinion. + awsome guitar = epic song. I mean, who doesn't know this song?!
Definitely the legendary unmistakable Queen guitar riffs:nparty:, It would be hard not to tap away to this song for sure.
Svansfall
05-09-2010, 02:34 AM
I have embarrassing childhood memories of cycling along with a friend who also loved Queen, and without hands on the handle bar, singing Radio Ga Ga loudly and doing the hand-clapping thing while cycling into town, and through town. I loved Radio Ga Ga very much during a period of my childhood.
Fko Lrrtok
05-09-2010, 05:55 AM
I have embarrassing childhood memories of cycling along with a friend who also loved Queen, and without hands on the handle bar, singing Radio Ga Ga loudly and doing the hand-clapping thing while cycling into town, and through town. I loved Radio Ga Ga very much during a period of my childhood.
I don't know what you look like Svansfall, but I can picture that scene with great warmth and laughter.:nsmile:
gold2040
05-09-2010, 04:45 PM
has to be Radio Gaga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esji7AnyUZM
all that emotion coming from Freddie...I was born to late dammit
I also agree with this comment on the YouTube video
I dont agree!
Freddies worst was better than ALL other singers..
His talent to be a showman is just TOO incredible
Fko Lrrtok
05-10-2010, 05:05 AM
Yes, a toast to the late Freddie Mercury.
BTW Gold2040, you may think you are born too late to see him live, but you have access to the complete back catalog at your fingertips, that would have been a dream to many of us years ago, as sometimes it was hard to get certain songs at some record stores a while after they were released.
Today we can go on youtube and see a video clip straight away, we are so lucky now, and yes I'm showing my age:nlol:.