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Posted: September 09 2011 at 14:06
akaBona wrote:
just an average rock band ... prog rock status makes me
yep there was nothing remotely 'average' about Queen ,prog or not prog. They had the ability to be anything. Perhaps like a lot of seventies bands they just went with the pop flow at the end of that decade but even then they were exceptional and no one release was like another.
Just because a band is original and talented doesn't immediately make the Prog Rock. They were progressive yes. I guess they can be prog related (they already are aren't they?). But cmon. They were a great rock band. That's it
My thoughts exactly. We're sometime guilty of acting like an over zealous border patrol here on PA (and insist that everyone entering is subjected to a full cavity body search for Prog credentials)
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 15:11
The only studio album I have is Flash Gordon. Reading the reviews I should perhaps consider QueenII but lack of keyboards puts me off. This a small taster of what Queen could have been
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 14:58
'Innuendo' and 'Was It All Worth It?' were two 'later' proggy tracks. Also, the 20 minute 'drone' that closes the 'Made In Heaven' album is wonderful but very sad. Remnants of a life but nothing remains.
In general, I think Queen had 'progressive' in their musical arsenal but chose in later years not to pursue it.
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 14:52
Just because a band is original and talented doesn't immediately make the Prog Rock. They were progressive yes. I guess they can be prog related (they already are aren't they?). But cmon. They were a great rock band. That's it
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 14:50
I think its pretty hard to find any band that put an album out without at least one "rubbish" song or "fillers". I dont see why Queen should be singled out as being less than a stellar band given their massive output throughout the duration of their career and the amount of great songs they wrote as a whole. Just because they wrote a few songs that werent up to snuff hardly demeans them.
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 14:41
TheLastBaron wrote:
Definetly proto prog with debut through a day at the races. Queen 2 is my personal favorite, a lot of tempo and stylistic changes in march of the black queen. And though its a bit of a tangent, I love bohemian rhapsody but find Prophets Song to be A night at the opera's best track, pure epic grandoisity!!
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 14:37
lazland wrote:
I think that any album which includes their hits is a great album. Unfortunately, for me, I found that every single album they did also contained some atrocious rubbish.
I was about to write something similar. I don't think there's any Queen album without at least one rubbish track or skippable fillers.
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 14:32
Definetly proto prog with debut through a day at the races. Queen 2 is my personal favorite, a lot of tempo and stylistic changes in march of the black queen. And though its a bit of a tangent, I love bohemian rhapsody but find Prophets Song to be A night at the opera's best track, pure epic grandoisity!!
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 13:54
i would put queen in the 70's as a rock band, the first 2 albums maybe prog but the game onwards more of a pop/rock band.......and i love em
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 13:42
I think that any album which includes their hits is a great album. Unfortunately, for me, I found that every single album they did also contained some atrocious rubbish.
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 13:42
Flimbau wrote:
I wasnt aware that Queen II was released in the quadrophonic format. That is interesting to me.
It may not have been officially..... but my brother's car stereo system separates audio into right and left and front and back, and while some albums still sounded just stereo, Queen II definitely had vocals and guitar parts coming out of all four areas independently.
It was the latest CD remaster (2011), with bonus tracks. Perhaps that is a quadrophonic mix, or surround mix.
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 13:37
Manuel wrote:
I liked and found Queen to be a very progressive band, up until "A Day At The Races". After that, some magic was lost, at least for me, and I lost interest in their music. I think they are all fantastic musicians and composers, but they took a more commercial approach after a great, promising beginning.
Same here. "A Day At the Races" was big big disappointment. After that, there were moments of glory, but no really good albums.
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Posted: September 07 2011 at 13:35
I liked and found Queen to be a very progressive band, up until "A Day At The Races". After that, some magic was lost, at least for me, and I lost interest in their music. I think they are all fantastic musicians and composers, but they took a more commercial approach after a great, promising beginning.
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