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The Anders
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It can never be a parody for me. Sure, there's a lot of exaggeration going on, but it is done in a very tongue-in-cheek way and with a lot of humour. Combining humour and seriousness is a great acchievement in my world. I'm not sure I fully understand what the song is about, but that's the great thing about it. It is open for interpretations, and in that respect it is anything by vulgar.
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The Dark Elf
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Because no serious Prog musician would do anything vulgar with classical music, like Keith Emerson having simulated sex with his overturned Hammond while playing a Rondo.
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richardh
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It was Freddie's 'coming out of the closet' song apparently. 'I killed a Man' is the big clue.
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ExittheLemming
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^ I think that plus his rejection of the Zoroastrianism faith in which he had been brought up
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But that's what parody is, isn't it? |
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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ExittheLemming
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Parody intends to make fun of its subject or open it up for ridicule. I don't think that was the band's intention with Bohemian Rhapsody (and that's the difference between someone like say, Weird Al Yankovic and Queen) Bohemian Rhapsody is closer to pastiche which celebrates it's subject rather than mocks it.
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I prophesy disaster
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I never really considered this particular distinction when I started this thread. Perhaps I should have said "Parody or Pastiche" instead of just "Parody", but it's too late now to change the poll options. |
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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Progishness
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I'd classify it as operatic rock - probably should have been part of a bigger work, because despite its title 'A Night at the Opera' is not really a concept album, nor is it a rock opera (as e.g. 'Tommy' or 'The Wall' are). It is still an excellent album tho.
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BaldJean
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there are definitely some elements of parody in the song; how else could something like "Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo Figaro", which doesn't make any sense at all, be taken? there is an influence of Albert Camus' novella "L'Étranger" in it too (as in "Killing an Arab" by The Cure). but most of all it is a great song
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JD
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Prog, absolutely. Certainly enough comic relief that it may raise the question of parody or not, but there are lots of other examples that cross the line of (for lack of better term) legitimate prog vs humourous or parody prog. I don't see why a band can't bring some fun into the song and not have it be considered straight up progressive.
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