Rubycon
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- Aug 10, 2005
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yep they are up there...but led zeppelin is by far the greatest known to mankind. 2nd by the beatles. 3rd by the doors. 4th by pink floyd. 5th by jimi hendrix. and ill give queen #6....rock onnnnnnnn
HamburgerBoy
Lifer
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Queen of the 1970s was & is influential. Great music! Freddy's voice is amazing.
But best of all? The Beatles of the 1960s for sure. Can't judge them solely for their original music, but the Beatles served like a sort of ice-breaker, with tremendous wide-reaching social influence, breaking up the frozen-as-ice strictly-structured stiff forms of society in many ways. Beatles pioneered new forms and instruments (sitar, tabla) in music, drugs, sponsorship of Heinz Edelman's (similar to the Peter Max style) psycholelia art, more widespread investigation into Eastern philosophy, original things done in film (Yellow Submarine, music videos), social protests (Concert for Bangladesh, lots more); even helped losen up the ways in which people interacted in society at large. The Beatles didn't do it alone, but they were like T H E leading public bellwether of social change in countries all over the world.
Led Zepplin was essentially a cover-band. Yeah it's great to hear Paige's rippin ax mastery, but the true historical fact is, hardly any of LZ's recorded stuff is original. It's almost all covers, although they try to hide that fact. Majority of their stuff is stolen, mostly from Mississippi Delta Blues tradition, and folk music stolen from some other countries too. LZ is the personification of a line from Frank Zappa-they're mostly in it for the money.
Pink Floyd has been getting lots of air time on my local stations. Had musical influence, but not in same league of widespread, all-pervading social influence like the Beatles.
It's good to be back home!
But best of all? The Beatles of the 1960s for sure. Can't judge them solely for their original music, but the Beatles served like a sort of ice-breaker, with tremendous wide-reaching social influence, breaking up the frozen-as-ice strictly-structured stiff forms of society in many ways. Beatles pioneered new forms and instruments (sitar, tabla) in music, drugs, sponsorship of Heinz Edelman's (similar to the Peter Max style) psycholelia art, more widespread investigation into Eastern philosophy, original things done in film (Yellow Submarine, music videos), social protests (Concert for Bangladesh, lots more); even helped losen up the ways in which people interacted in society at large. The Beatles didn't do it alone, but they were like T H E leading public bellwether of social change in countries all over the world.
Led Zepplin was essentially a cover-band. Yeah it's great to hear Paige's rippin ax mastery, but the true historical fact is, hardly any of LZ's recorded stuff is original. It's almost all covers, although they try to hide that fact. Majority of their stuff is stolen, mostly from Mississippi Delta Blues tradition, and folk music stolen from some other countries too. LZ is the personification of a line from Frank Zappa-they're mostly in it for the money.
Pink Floyd has been getting lots of air time on my local stations. Had musical influence, but not in same league of widespread, all-pervading social influence like the Beatles.
It's good to be back home!
CallMeJoe
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- Jul 30, 2004
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Their first two albums were pretty good, but they went downhill quickly from there. I had the good luck to catch them live at their peak, opening for Mott the Hoople in 1974. By the time they hit the big time commercially, they had completely forgotten what rock & roll was all about. A lot of pretentious operatic drivel in service of Freddy Mercury's flaming ego.
308nato
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Sheer Heart Attack in its entirety was what I refered to.....Stone Cold Crazy:music:
Dragon Attack rocks as well
BrokenVisage
Lifer
- Jan 29, 2005
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Well, I really like Queen and consider Mercury to be one of the Top 5 rock vocalists ever, I just don't think they're the greatest band.
We all know it's either The Stones, The Beatles, or you could even say Aerosmith. My favorite rock band is Van Halen but I know they aren't better then any of those guys. In the end it's all about putting your personal likes aside and choosing the "greatest" one.
I'm curious about a Queen song that I really like. In 'Don't Stop Me Now' the lyrics go "I wanna make a super-sonic man outta youuuu", but I've heard version where he goes "I wanna make a super-sonic woman outta youuu". Now it's no secret what Queen's sexual orientation was, so why would it be changed from man to woman? Anyone know if it's just censorship run a muck or something common with Queen songs?
We all know it's either The Stones, The Beatles, or you could even say Aerosmith. My favorite rock band is Van Halen but I know they aren't better then any of those guys. In the end it's all about putting your personal likes aside and choosing the "greatest" one.
I'm curious about a Queen song that I really like. In 'Don't Stop Me Now' the lyrics go "I wanna make a super-sonic man outta youuuu", but I've heard version where he goes "I wanna make a super-sonic woman outta youuu". Now it's no secret what Queen's sexual orientation was, so why would it be changed from man to woman? Anyone know if it's just censorship run a muck or something common with Queen songs?
The real version is "man"... and Queen as a whole was not homosexual. Certain members maybe, but not all...
Partly right. They weren't all gay, but definately huge on the gay pride. I mean, their name is Queen. They were very much about them that was flambouyant and flaunted homosexuality. Doesn't change the fact that they were incredible musicians.
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