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- From: blanchar@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Blanchard)
- Subject: Re: Best Albums/Queen
- Message-ID: <By0ny1.Krq@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:24:59 GMT
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- alwalsh@unix1.tcd.ie (Andreas Walsh) writes:
-
- >Speaking of best albums and Queen, their best would have to be :
- >
- > Queen:Queen
- > Queen:Queen II
-
- >Any Comments???
-
- With Queen being my favorite band and noting the variety of all
- their albums, it's hard to say what is the best albums. "A Night
- At The Opera" is regarded by MOST fans as their best album, but
- then again some of the bizarre wierd stuff on there (like "Good
- Company") turns some off -- but I think that all their albums have
- their high and low points. I particularly like their last two
- albums, "The Miracle" and "Innuendo". I like "Innuendo" the best,
- because they all ralied around Freddie and they knew it was going
- to be their last album and they put their heart and soul into it.
- I don't think there's a bad track on "Innuendo". (of course this
- is all subjective). :) And, it also depends what mood I'm in as
- to which is my favorite album. :)
-
- Someone before said because Freddie died everyone "jumped on the
- bandwagon". Hardly the case. What made Queen popular again was
- the movie "Wayne's World" -- Freddie was dead for months and the
- single "The Show Must Go On / Bohemian Rhapsody" was doing absol-
- utely nothing, until MTV got a hold of re-cut video for "Bohemian
- Rhapsody" that included scenes from the original 1975 video and
- scenes from the movie "Wayne's World". The single "The Show Must
- Go On" was released right after Freddie's death, and it didn't
- take off until "Bohemian Rhapsody", the b-side was sent to radio
- stations (with a nice hefty check I'm sure).
-
- But, amist my complaints up there, one good thing has came out of
- this Wayne's World thing -- people now know the true genius of all
- of Queen's work, and when people think of Queen they think of good
- music, not the band whose gay lead singer died of AIDS.
-
- Sorry for babbling, I could babble on for days on Queen...
-
- laters
-
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