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MaxxLarge: Brian May. Hand-built his own axe from junk and scraps. Used it to create the most unique guitar tone in the world. Became world-famous, millions-selling, stadium-packing rock star who wrote several #1 hits, and whose band (which once held a world record for paid concert attendance) has a greatest hits record that still tops the all-time sales charts in the UK. Earned a legitimate Ph.D in Astrophysics. Became a University Chancellor. Literally wrote the book on the big bang, and then one on Stereoscopic photography. Saves hedgehogs on his own backyard wildlife preserve. And from personal experience, I can attest that he's one of the nicest and most humble people alive.

Eat your heart out, Buckaroo Banzai.


From what I understand, Queen's singer wasn't bad either.

DINSDALE!

DINSDALE!

MaxxLarge: Brian May. Hand-built his own axe from junk and scraps. Used it to create the most unique guitar tone in the world. Became world-famous, millions-selling, stadium-packing rock star who wrote several #1 hits, and whose band (which once held a world record for paid concert attendance) has a greatest hits record that still tops the all-time sales charts in the UK. Earned a legitimate Ph.D in Astrophysics. Became a University Chancellor. Literally wrote the book on the big bang, and then one on Stereoscopic photography. Saves hedgehogs on his own backyard wildlife preserve. And from personal experience, I can attest that he's one of the nicest and most humble people alive.

Eat your heart out, Buckaroo Banzai.

Whatever. He'll always be Captain Slow.

The common people? That statement rings a little off, Bri. Your music speaks for people who dig British music hall and quasi-opera--among other eccentric influences--mixed in with their hard rock, topped by some fairly frilly arrangements to boot. I say that as a huge Queen/Brian May fan.

Punk was the musical wave of the common people, and aesthetically punk was a direct rebuff of such bands as yours. Along with Jethro Tull, Yes, ELP, et al. Even Kiss.



Singer for the Common People

I just read about the hedgehog. That's awful and Brian May is awesome.

scraping_fetus_off_the_wheel: DINSDALE!

DINSDALE!

*shakes fist*

/better than getting my hard nailed to the table

Bo Rap and Killer Queen "spoke for the common people"? Hell, most of Queens songs weren't really about anything specific, so I'm not sure they spoke for anyone.

/Queen fan
//miss Freddie

macross87: scraping_fetus_off_the_wheel: DINSDALE!

DINSDALE!

*shakes fist*

/better than getting my hard nailed to the table

Sounds really painful.

Queen is the reason why I have Muse to enjoy, so I am very happy. However, I read the headline thinking about QE2 and was confused as to how a monarch speaks on behalf of the common people...

ZMugg: macross87: scraping_fetus_off_the_wheel: DINSDALE!

DINSDALE!

*shakes fist*

/better than getting my hard nailed to the table

Sounds really painful.

Wow oh wow. I havnt laughed that hard in a while. Stupid fat fingers and auto spelling on the phone. Why oh why does iOS now recognize my Vienna sausage fingers?

Hey, it's a kind of magic....

This sequence just works on so many levels:

We Will Rock You from A Knight's Tale (new window)

You will never speak for common people. You will never do what common people do.

inkblot: You will never speak for common people. You will never do what common people do.

Well, I certainly farked that up.

Really?

'Radio GaGa' speaks for the common people?

I like Queen and think that Brian is a pretty cool guy but PhD in astrophysics or not I think he didn't truly reflect on his comment before making it.

A Screaming Man with Two-Toned Shoes: The common people? That statement rings a little off, Bri. Your music speaks for people who dig British music hall and quasi-opera--among other eccentric influences--mixed in with their hard rock, topped by some fairly frilly arrangements to boot. I say that as a huge Queen/Brian May fan.

Punk was the musical wave of the common people, and aesthetically punk was a direct rebuff of such bands as yours. Along with Jethro Tull, Yes, ELP, et al. Even Kiss.



Singer for the Common People

Nah, punk spoke for wankers

And really who the hell kicks a hedgehog?

Fear the Clam: Whatever. He'll always be Captain Slow.

Heh. At least he isn't the Hamster....

Wait, the Hamster is awesome!

douchebag/hater: Really?

'Radio GaGa' speaks for the common people?

I like Queen and think that Brian is a pretty cool guy but PhD in astrophysics or not I think he didn't truly reflect on his comment before making it.

Yeah. It does. Before we had music videos and iPhones, you had the radio.

Queen needs to do a show with Gary Mullen, not Adam Lambert.

I think he's just perpetuating the stereotype that the commoners really love dat ass.

Just watched that performance, and Adam Lambert is entirely the wrong person to be singing Queen songs. He's overzealous, and a diva.

A Screaming Man with Two-Toned Shoes: The common people? That statement rings a little off, Bri. Your music speaks for people who dig British music hall and quasi-opera--among other eccentric influences--mixed in with their hard rock, topped by some fairly frilly arrangements to boot. I say that as a huge Queen/Brian May fan.

Punk was the musical wave of the common people, and aesthetically punk was a direct rebuff of such bands as yours. Along with Jethro Tull, Yes, ELP, et al. Even Kiss.

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Singer for the Common People

Mercury punched out Sid Vicious. Your argument is invalid.

A Screaming Man with Two-Toned Shoes: The common people? That statement rings a little off, Bri. Your music speaks for people who dig British music hall and quasi-opera--among other eccentric influences--mixed in with their hard rock, topped by some fairly frilly arrangements to boot.M

So, the "common people" can't dig music hall, opera, hard rock, frilly arrangements or other eccentric influences? *cough* Bullshiat! *cough*

Punk was the musical wave of the common people

You mean the "common people" like the shiatty, talent-free Ramones, who grew up in middle-class Forest Hills, where the US Open tennis tournament takes place? Oooohhhh, feel the soot and grime of the streets!

You mean the "common people" like 2/4 of The Clash, Joe Strummer (RIP) being the son of a foreign service diplomat who lived in Cairo and Mexico City (among others) until he was deposited in to a posh boarding school in the Surrey countryside? Or Topper Headon, who grew up in a middle-class town in Kent? Wow! I can feel the pain of the poverty they endured growing up!

etc. etc. etc.

Their fans here in the US were middle-class white boys, poor whites, blacks and Latinos didn't give a shiat. It was hilarious to go to shows in the early 80's like X/Bad Religion/TSOL and see all these dudes from well-off Orange County acting like they were street urchins.

That "common people" bullshiat is just one of the many self-mythologizing things about punk that I hated then and smirk at now. So what if the Ramones, Clash, Pistols and the rest of them (and going further back, the MC5 and Stooges) were poor, struggling musicians? So were Yes in their pre-Steve Howe days, King Crimson when they were known as Giles, Giles & Fripp and so on.

and aesthetically punk was a direct rebuff of such bands as yours. Along with Jethro Tull, Yes, ELP, et al. Even Kiss.

And the prog bands were a direct rebuff of the British blues boom bands like Ten Years After and the pre-gigantic Fleetwood Mac, as Keith Emerson said: "We're white Englishmen, not black sharecroppers from the American south". Also people like the Grateful Dead or CSN&Y, who would show up an hour late, stand around talking for 10 minutes while they tuned up and then start playing.

Golly, who knew? Musical styles often pop up in reaction to the prevailing aesthetic! Hmmmm....synth pop and the New Romantics and Boy George, they couldn't possibly have been a reaction against dumb boys in leather and spiky haircuts playing the same 3 chords could they?

Note: I love the Clash, Pistols and especially the American bands like X and the Dead Kennedys, but to pretend that they didn't become what they were supposedly against is a laugh. It's easy to talk bullshiat in interviews about "dinosaur bands" and "the music of the streets", but funny how a major label record contract with multinational conglomerates like EMI and Sony can ease the pain of the hypocrisy.

How many farewell and reunion tours have the Sex Pistols done to replenish their bank accounts because the 3 living members not named John Lydon haven't done shiat since ca. 1978? The Clash opening up for the dinosaurs The Who in American football stadiums and putting out appalling bad albums like Cut the Crap? I was as bored as anyone by the dinosaur bands in 1976 and I loved God Save The Queen and White Riot, but it wasn't anything that hadn't been done before, down to starting your own label, which dates back to the invention of LP's.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Just watched that performance, and Adam Lambert is entirely the wrong person to be singing Queen songs. He's overzealous, and a diva.

Yeah, cuz Freddie Mercury was such a shrinking violet.

Beelzebubbles: TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Just watched that performance, and Adam Lambert is entirely the wrong person to be singing Queen songs. He's overzealous, and a diva.

Yeah, cuz Freddie Mercury was such a shrinking violet.

You know what I mean. He butchered those songs. Icarus flew too close to the sun.

MaxxLarge: Brian May. Hand-built his own axe from junk and scraps. Used it to create the most unique guitar tone in the world. Became world-famous, millions-selling, stadium-packing rock star who wrote several #1 hits, and whose band (which once held a world record for paid concert attendance) has a greatest hits record that still tops the all-time sales charts in the UK. Earned a legitimate Ph.D in Astrophysics. Became a University Chancellor. Literally wrote the book on the big bang, and then one on Stereoscopic photography. Saves hedgehogs on his own backyard wildlife preserve. And from personal experience, I can attest that he's one of the nicest and most humble people alive.

Eat your heart out, Buckaroo Banzai.

Bears repeating. I have a serious man crush on Dr. May. He's the closest thing we've got to a da Vinci these days.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache:He butchered those songs. Icarus flew too close to the sun.


For a one-off performance it was serviceable and nothing more. Although I didn't think it was that good, it was certainly better than Paul Rogers singing lead.

I dunno, man. Queen was anything but common. That's why their music still rocks.

When reached for comment, the hedgehog could only muster the following:
"GOTTA GO FAST"

douchebag/hater: Really?

'Radio GaGa' speaks for the common people?

I like Queen and think that Brian is a pretty cool guy but PhD in astrophysics or not I think he didn't truly reflect on his comment before making it.

Fat bottomed girls seems to speak for most Americans.

the common man rides a bicycle

Henry Holland

You mean the "common people" like the shiatty, talent-free Ramones, who grew up in middle-class Forest Hills, where the US Open tennis tournament takes place? Oooohhhh, feel the soot and grime of the streets!

Hey, whoa there big guy. They were hardcore, they'd go do crimes you know; like having sushi and not paying....

/I blame society, it made me what I am.
//the coolest thing about Queen is that even the most homophobic metal heads I knew were able to get past Freddie's obvious gayness because he f*cking rocked
///killer band. best frontman ever. many excellent songs.

jj325: Queen endures because this is one of the greatest albums of all time

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/Personal opinion
//May not reflect the feelings of other Queen fans

You would be correct. Can't believe how overlooked this album is. Not to sound like a hipster, but March of the Black Queen is one of the best songs they ever recorded and the album is pretty solid top to bottom. Link (new window)

70s Queen > 80s Queen. I'm lost on everything post-1980, except Under Pressure, I Want it All, The Hitman and a few other songs.

Fear the Clam: MaxxLarge: Brian May. Hand-built his own axe from junk and scraps. Used it to create the most unique guitar tone in the world. Became world-famous, millions-selling, stadium-packing rock star who wrote several #1 hits, and whose band (which once held a world record for paid concert attendance) has a greatest hits record that still tops the all-time sales charts in the UK. Earned a legitimate Ph.D in Astrophysics. Became a University Chancellor. Literally wrote the book on the big bang, and then one on Stereoscopic photography. Saves hedgehogs on his own backyard wildlife preserve. And from personal experience, I can attest that he's one of the nicest and most humble people alive.

Eat your heart out, Buckaroo Banzai.

Whatever. He'll always be Captain Slow.

Well paid, FTC, well paid.

thefireandpassion: Fear the Clam: MaxxLarge: Brian May. Hand-built his own axe from junk and scraps. Used it to create the most unique guitar tone in the world. Became world-famous, millions-selling, stadium-packing rock star who wrote several #1 hits, and whose band (which once held a world record for paid concert attendance) has a greatest hits record that still tops the all-time sales charts in the UK. Earned a legitimate Ph.D in Astrophysics. Became a University Chancellor. Literally wrote the book on the big bang, and then one on Stereoscopic photography. Saves hedgehogs on his own backyard wildlife preserve. And from personal experience, I can attest that he's one of the nicest and most humble people alive.

Eat your heart out, Buckaroo Banzai.

Whatever. He'll always be Captain Slow.

Well paidplayed, FTC, well paidplayed.

FTFM...

From another article about hedgehog: The animal, thought to be about three years old, was put in a bag and swung round in the attack, and had a concrete block dropped on it. he attacker was prosecuted by the RSPCA and given a nine-week suspended jail sentence with a 12-month supervision order.

Just like the Vick case, this is a situation where I would be fully supportive of the "eye for an eye" theory. This cockbag is completely unfit to live in civilized society, and nothing happens to him. Slit his throat, toss him off a bridge and be done with it. And nothing of value was lost.

velvet_fog: 70s Queen > 80s Queen. I'm lost on everything post-1980, except Under Pressure, I Want it All, The Hitman and a few other songs.

THIS. I do have a weakness for the "Highlander" soundtrack, however....