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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2002-11-09 21:22
This was voted the number one song of all times. It is 27 years old.
I must live under a rock!!!!!!!i never heard of it. I'm i alone or what.
bob
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Author: Robert
Date: 2002-11-09 21:46
You must definitely live under a rock! Give it a listen- you might be pleasantly surprised?!
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Author: Jean
Date: 2002-11-09 22:54
If you are 27 which means you were born in 1975 and that is about the time the song came out...no you don't live under a rock, you are just really young.
Jean
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Author: Jean
Date: 2002-11-09 22:55
If you are 27 you were born in 1975 and that is about the time the song came out...no you don't live under a rock, you are just really young.
Jean
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Author: David
Date: 2002-11-09 23:11
There is a wind band arrangement of it. I had to decline to play it on account of it being tantamount to vandalising a national monument.
I can't believe there's anyone with electricity who hasn't heard it. No matter what age you are, It was everywhere, non-stop when Fred died. That Japanese soldier who stumbled out of the jungle last April was carrying a copy (vinyl, naturally).
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Author: Ken
Date: 2002-11-09 23:56
David wrote: "That Japanese soldier who stumbled out of the jungle last April was carrying a copy (vinyl, naturally)."
--LOLOLOL...out of a cave in Guam of course. After 4 beers I'm always in danger of pulling out my copies (vinyl of course) of "Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races" and spin them to feel 20 years younger. Thank You Groucho, you and you're brothers truly WERE comic geniuses. v/r KEN
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-11-10 02:12
"Harpo played one beautiful harp."
Let's not forget his hilarious performance on his homemade Bb "Soaprano" clarinet every time he played "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" ...GBK
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Author: Ken
Date: 2002-11-10 03:55
It's Freddie MERCURY; join the "my head is firmly planted deep in my a**" club.
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Author: Francesca
Date: 2002-11-10 06:44
*sighs* Simply put: this is the best song EVER written! That's a bit of an exaggeration, but it is an excellent song. Plus, Freddie Mercury was an amazing singer.
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Author: rmk
Date: 2002-11-10 15:46
Hey Ken,
That was COMPLETELY uncalled for. Just because I have (and never had) any interest in popular music (I'm in my 40's, BTW) doesn't mean I deserve to be insulted.
I may (in your opinion) have my head planted somewhere, but at least I am a professional musician with a good job.
How about you?
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Author: rmk
Date: 2002-11-10 15:47
Hey Ken,
That was COMPLETELY uncalled for. Just because I don't have (and never had) any interest in popular music (I'm in my 40's, BTW) doesn't mean I deserve to be insulted.
I may (in your opinion) have my head planted somewhere, but at least I am a professional musician with a good job.
How about you?
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-11-10 17:21
Sorry, gotta vent...
I'm getting sick of irrelevant ad hominems. Let's not relive the Nazi thread, please!
Anyhow...
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-11-10 18:12
"Not bad for a bunch of old ladies" , "On a good day, at least I can play a guitar." Bryan May
Ah the endless joys of transposing quitar riffs for winds....
any takers on my "John Denver for trombone" charts?
I see a little siloetto of a man...
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-11-11 00:32
It's always entertaining to see the old timers cast their minds back on the "good old days".
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2002-11-11 04:06
Go rent the first "Wayne's World" movie. They sing it in the beginning when they're all in the car. I think it's during the credits.
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-11-11 12:41
Ah, memories, five drunken 80's teenagers rolling on the 13s in Mom's Gremlin... and the WONder! that chicks didn't dig us...
No surprise so many ended up in the USMC.
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Author: Stéphane
Date: 2002-11-11 16:25
rmk wrote: "Fred Who?", Ken answered: "Freddy Mercury". Maybe we could add for rmk perusal that Freddy was the lead singer of Queen, the Rock band responsible for other pop music monuments such as "We are the champions", "The show must go on" and so on..
Stéphane.
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Author: connie
Date: 2002-11-11 17:18
Of course, you haven't lived until you've listened to Bohemian Rhapsody in an altered state of consciousness, with good headphones so you can truly appreciate it as it jumps from ear to ear!
Not that I indulge in consciousness-altering substances. Any more.
connie
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2002-11-11 20:07
Queen... queen queen queen. I sit here and wonder if the older folks know...?
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Author: eilidh
Date: 2002-11-11 20:38
And maybe we could also add that Freddie Mercury was classically trained for those who wish to deride "popular" music
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-11-11 20:48
connie wrote:
>
> Of course, you haven't lived until you've listened to
> Bohemian Rhapsody in an altered state of consciousness, with
> good headphones so you can truly appreciate it as it jumps from
> ear to ear!
I reserved those times for listening to "Firesign Theatre" albums ...
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Author: Vic
Date: 2002-11-11 21:01
The "Firesign Theatre?" Those were sixties comedy albums, right? I'm sorry, but my memory of the sixties, from about August of 1966 through early 1970 is really, like, kind of vague. Wasn't there a bunch of weird stuff going on back then? I seem to recall that, but again, I've got kind of a four-year blank in my mind. Didn't we elect Eugene McCarthy president for a while?
Peace and love..
Vic
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-11-11 21:03
Those were sixties comedy albums? I thought that was real life ...
Mark "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" Charette
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Author: David
Date: 2002-11-11 23:01
(Fred's classical training luckily didn't extend to his singing.
Russell Watson on "Enterprise" is the ONLY classical singer I've ever heard who was able to make a good fist of a popular tune. Divas squawking Gershwin or Bernstein. Gruesome. And those 3 tenors are just as bad...
And apropos of nothing, "Enterprise's closing credit music has got to be "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" at half speed.
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Author: rmk
Date: 2002-11-12 04:48
Now, Firesign Theater I can relate to!
Roll up your arm and bend over...
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Author: ep
Date: 2002-11-12 22:27
To get up to speed on your pop culture radar, I recommend watching the VH1 Behind The Music On Queen. Highly amusing. The appeal of the program is in inverse proportion to the quality of the music: the more you hate the band, the funnier the Behind the Music is. And Queen's campy, stupid rock ballads have a lot to hate. Did anyone catch Brian May on TV for the Queen's Jubilee? Really bad hair and lots of wanky guitar.
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Author: ~ jerry
Date: 2002-11-13 00:11
Bob G.,
Don't feel bad. I can't recall ever hearing this one either but never listened to much besides Brubek and Getz since my Fats Domino days of the fifties.
~ jerry
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