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Snowman_McK posted:Ringo also very kindly answered that letter that Marge wrote. I feel like that counts for a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV8JFj17AtY Luckily she got her's in by the deadline.
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I like Pete Best, even though he was by all accounts not a very good drummer, because he had the audacity to release a solo album called Best of the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania in 1965.
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May 17, 2018 01:33
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ALFbrot posted:Not to be a dick, I legitimately don't know- is there something compelling about the band's story before the decade-defining tragedy that permanently etched the lead singer's name into the rock pantheon? Pretty much all I know is Freddie, and that Brian May is very smart and invented a guitar tube amp that sounds cool. Not really. Queen overachieved from the start. Their first album was panned as a Led Zeppelin rip-off, but they had their first hit soon after (Seven Seas of Rhye). There were some nervous moments when Brian May had a spate of illnesses before, during and after their first American tour, but May healed up, Killer Queen became a smash hit, etc., etc. They feuded with manager Norman Sheffield - Death on Two Legs is about him - but nothing that distinctive. Queen did everything well, but they weren't the best at anything. Nor were they pioneers in any regard. They were lucky/smart in that with the exception of Hot Space, they didn't didn't get too quirky, too political or too into a single genre.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Not really. Freddie was so much better as a singer and had so much more stage presence than Robert Plant it's frankly embarrassing.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:They were lucky/smart in that with the exception of Hot Space, they didn't didn't get too quirky, too political or too into a single genre. Sun City notwithstanding.  It's interesting, though, going back to reviews from the late 70s at the height of punk when music critics were denouncing them as "the world's first truly fascist rock band". I don't know if that's because they played May's version of the national anthem at the end of every show or because Freddie always had his magnetic command over the audiences or just because Freddie denied his music ever meant anything or because they deliberately shied away from talking about politics or what. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 08:16 on May 17, 2018 |
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May 17, 2018 08:12
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I mean, clearly they're monarchist.
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Baron von Eevl posted:He's also they only one who can't really sing (although they did what they could and he got by) and he's the Ugly One. Yeah, he was also the introvert and the goofball. His drumming was loving out there though, nobody else on earth plays drums the way Ringo does. Keith moon
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Wheat Loaf posted:Sun City notwithstanding. I read a clickbait article ranking literally all of the acts in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by appropriateness to the venue and talent, and literally the only act ranked below Queen was Bon Jovi and it amazed me that someone disliked Queen that much. quote:When popularity is factored in, Queen is the most overrated band in the history of pop music. This preposterous aggregation looked and sounded awful from the beginning, their music a pastiche of pastiches of things no one in the band were inclined to understand, all of it culminating in “We Will Rock You.” Queen haters love to say the song is appropriate for a Nuremburg rally, but you can also sort of see Leni Riefenstahl giving it a listen, cocking her head and saying, “Nein. A little too much.” Their popularity in the U.S. went down quickly after their heyday, but they remained unaccountable super-duper-stars in the U.K. and in time became the rock equivalent to the beloved ugly toy you had when you grew up. Docked 30 notches because of this: After the band’s closeted lead singer, Freddie Mercury, died of AIDS, the entire rock universe held a televised tribute show, broadcast on MTV, during which mentions of homosexuality and AIDS were kept closely under wraps. The band (and everyone else at the show) let a new generation of vulnerable kids — and thousands of the unloved, dying alone on the streets — know that, yes, they should be ashamed of who they are. Thirty years earlier, the Lovin’ Spoonful, in one of the best songs about rock and roll, captured it this way: “Believe in the magic that can set you free.” By that wholly credible standard, Queen aren’t rock and roll at all and don’t belong in the hall of fame.
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DC Murderverse posted:I read a clickbait article ranking literally all of the acts in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by appropriateness to the venue and talent, and literally the only act ranked below Queen was Bon Jovi and it amazed me that someone disliked Queen that much. Freddie Mercury: Too fascist for Nazis
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DC Murderverse posted:I read a clickbait article ranking literally all of the acts in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by appropriateness to the venue and talent, and literally the only act ranked below Queen was Bon Jovi and it amazed me that someone disliked Queen that much. I agree that Queen being ranked so low is inexplicable, but also, gently caress, Livin' On A Prayer is a good song. 
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21 Muns posted:Livin' On A Prayer is a good song. lol oh, you were serious? let me laugh even harder lmfao
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Bon Jovi has a lane that they're good at  Livin' On A Prayer, Wanted Dead Or Alive, and You Give Love A Bad Name are all really fun songsthey're not a band i'm ever going to go out of my way to see live or buy music by, but if someone puts them on a bar jukebox or they come on the radio i'm not gonna gripe about it
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Bon Jovi has a lane that they're good at "has a lane that they're good at" doesn't really scream Hall of Famer to me, but hey they've sold a poo poo-ton of records so I guess they have to be there.
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Basebf555 posted:"has a lane that they're good at" doesn't really scream Hall of Famer to me, but hey they've sold a poo poo-ton of records so I guess they have to be there. yeah like I'm not defending them being in the HOF I'm just defending them generally as an okay band e: also without Bon Jovi existing and being famous, we don't get one of the best long-form jokes in Always Sunny (Mac and Frank trying to negotiate with "Jon Bovi")
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Rock and Roll Music is bad cheesy junk so Bon Jovi seems good member of hall of fame to me. & he was great on Ally McBeal.
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May 17, 2018 18:44
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imo it's okay to enjoy singing along to songs like Livin' on a Prayer. It's fun, it's catchy, and you can get an entire room joining in with you. Like I'd never sit down and intentionally listen to Total Eclipse of the Heart but gently caress it if that song comes on I'm joining in with the other 30 people that are already singing it.
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May 17, 2018 18:50
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Bon Jovi has a lane that they're good at The funny thing is that all of those songs are from one album.
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Quote-Unquote posted:imo it's okay to enjoy singing along to songs like Livin' on a Prayer. It's fun, it's catchy, and you can get an entire room joining in with you. As long as it's not Sweet Caroline, I'll allow it
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May 17, 2018 18:56
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some songs have a sort of quality about them where I recognize that I like them, but can't enjoy them due to massive overplay on the radio. livin' on a prayer, abba's dancing queen, nirvana's smells like teen spirit, spears' toxic, gaga's bad romance, etc. it's like if you have a steak dinner every night for 2 years, by the third month you'll be like "okay I'm good thanks" and by the eighth the smell of meat and taters will have you gagging
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May 17, 2018 19:05
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I'll never stop being amused that Bon Jovi bought a song from Max Martin, and that the song they bought was nearly identical to a Backstreet Boys song that Martin also wrote.
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lelandjs posted:I'll never stop being amused that Bon Jovi bought a song from Max Martin, and that the song they bought was nearly identical to a Backstreet Boys song that Martin also wrote. Max Martin was in a hair metal band in the late 80s. So was Dann Huff, who produced all of Rascal Flatts' annoying songs and "Amazed" by Lonestar.
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May 17, 2018 19:09
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pospysyl posted:The funny thing is that all of those songs are from one album. “The Best of Bon Jovi”. Raise Your Hands is a fun song too, but that might be Spaceballs’ influence on me. I can’t hate Bon Jovi.
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May 17, 2018 19:29
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Mr. Bovine Joni is a talented man
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Wheat Loaf posted:Max Martin was in a hair metal band in the late 80s. Yup! Which makes it even funnier that when they went to him for a song instead of him giving them, like, a song that actually fit their style he just tweaked "Larger Than Life" a little bit and said good enough.
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May 17, 2018 19:43
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All of the old AOR and hair metal era session guys went off to Nashville when grunge showed up, because there was still demand for that style of guitar playing. Biggest example: Mutt Lange.
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Obligatory Triumph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODLS8IAYs6g
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Bon Jovi is the soundtrack to, like, every school dance I ever went to. If you’re in a certain age range, you’ve awkwardly slow danced to “Bed of Roses”*. *Or resentfully watched from the sidelines while other people did.
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Iron Crowned posted:As long as it's not Sweet Caroline, I'll allow it this is the worst part about being a sox fan.
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Bon Jovi rules. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--8nr2kt4uk
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May 18, 2018 01:10
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Just make a we3 movie for gently caress's sake people.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Just make a we3 movie for gently caress's sake people. Cinematic universe. This is part 1
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May 18, 2018 01:15
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Of course the lead kid's gotta be into EXTREEEEEEME motorbiking.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Just make a we3 movie for gently caress's sake people. Yeah but who directs? Can we get a supergroup of Jodorowski, Del Toro, Villenueve, and Blomkamp??
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May 18, 2018 01:18
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Tars Tarkas posted:Bon Jovi rules. Chassis Come Home
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Just make a we3 movie for gently caress's sake people. Just as long as they figure out how to work the funky panel transitions into the movie (paging Edgar Wright). 
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Len posted:Cinematic universe. This is part 1 Someone in the trailer thread calls it the Monster Trucks Cinematic Universe. Also It's My Life is the rock anthem of my generation.
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ruddiger posted:Just as long as they figure out how to work the funky panel transitions into the movie (paging Edgar Wright). I still have never read it (I own it on Comixology and will someday I swear!) but a long time ago I remember a review of it praising Quitely's art for the usual reasons but specifically in this story for being "unfilmable" in a good way. Taking advantage of the medium to do things impossible anywhere else.
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ruddiger posted:Just as long as they figure out how to work the funky panel transitions into the movie (paging Edgar Wright). Paging Ang Lee.....
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah but who directs? Can we get a supergroup of Jodorowski, Del Toro, Villenueve, and Blomkamp?? All of them, but possessed by Salvador Dalí's ghost.
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It's alive, it's aliiiiive (maybe)! https://screenrant.com/dark-univers..._campaign=SR-TW
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