Bohemian Rhapsody Vs Won't Get Fooled Again

 

The Who's song is more important and valuable all around than Queen's. Lyrically the Who's song is, STILL, a massive anti-establishment song that stands out today for its meaning and what it stood for, while Queen's song is a bit different ... still a satire ... but a bit more distance in many ways, but unlike the Who's version that screams out at you, to let you know, the other piece comes off as just a nice fun and lunatic song.

 

The Who, is not everyone's cup of tea.

 

But it was an important band for its time and its significant value, and how they handled their work. They were a mega band, and continued to work, and not give in to the fame ... and that shows to the last album, and you have to admire that.

 

Queen, was, in many ways, musch more ... evasive and strange, until it hit the big ones, when all of a sudden they spoke very well for how we thought and understood things, and Freddie's last song of theirs was massive and something that Freddie could have done, that The Who would not .

 

I had a dream once, and it was after I saw The Who's performance about 10 years ago in a big setting, and I can not remember which. And I saw a detail in the film that spoke a lot and stayed in my mind ... and it was in the middle of one song where Roger steps back, looks down at his feet, then the microphone, then his feet ... and the invisible words I heard when I saw this in my dream, was ... I don't want to do this anymore! ... and I wnet asking some folks that were near/around The Who, that I knew about this. And they all said the same thing ... yeah .. Roger doesn't want to do these things again, and that it's time is over and passed and for most people today, it doesn't mean a thing, and that is the part that hurts Roger the most ...that scream was not for attention ... it was the most meaningful moment in rock music, since the garbage on the Woodstock film ... where all the music and event was reduced to ... litter ... it's all meaningless. ... and on a _______ national anthem on top of it!

 

I really think that Roger has become disappoitned with his generation like I have in a sense ... that we failed ... we wanted a change for the better, and instead it all became ... worse ... more alienated ... more commericalized ... less romantic and adventurous and meaningful. And it's hard to be valuable to yourself, when your work is thought of as just a rock song ... that doesn't mean $hit ... and no one cares, because Metalica or some progressive band is better because of some esoteric detail!

 

It's a different time and place. Times have changed ... and today ... no one gives a cahoot. In fact, it's usually more cool to not give a damn than otherwise ... a lot of threads with that kind of attitude in this board is a perfect example, but you can use it in politics around the world today ... STILL! ... but no one sees that prophecy at all!  I can't say the same for Bohemian Rhapsody.