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Inspector Gesicht posted:He composed only one tune in the final game. It's difficult to believe, but the developers were full of poo poo. There is also a Brian May track in Rise 2: Resurrection, but I don't know if that was actually composed for the sequel or just reused from the original soundtrack barely anyone heard.
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ishikabibble posted:Hasn't the bassist been pretty quiet? There was some minor UK media fuss when Electric Six covered Radio Gaga and the video had the lead singer dressed as the ghost of Freddie dancing on his grave. John Deacon's only comment was something along the lines of "I was so offended I nearly forgot to cash my royalty cheque."
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Two Owls posted:There was some minor UK media fuss when Electric Six covered Radio Gaga and the video had the lead singer dressed as the ghost of Freddie dancing on his grave. Electric Six apparently also hated the cover and especially having to release it as the lead single for their second album. Their first one had done really well in the UK, which is presumably why the record label insisted on the Queen cover, which of course ended up bombing massively. Lead singer Dick Valentine (the pleasant fellow in my avatar) did apparently enjoy making the video, at least.
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ishikabibble posted:Hasn't the bassist been pretty quiet? By all accounts he was hit hardest by Freddie’s death, and turned himself into the group’s accountant after he retired in the mid-90’s.
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credburn posted:Surpassed only recently by Cardi B's masterful "punani Dasani" It comes from a tap and gives you cancer
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Torquemada posted:By all accounts he was hit hardest by Freddie’s death, and turned himself into the group’s accountant after he retired in the mid-90’s. something about this phrasing made me picture him turning himself into an accountant by tapping himself with his magic wand, like that duel between merlin and the witch in the disney sword in the stone
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Yeah John Deacon is basically the only musician to announce his retirement and mean it. He hasn't played any of the shows with Paul Rodgers or Adam Lambert.
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Deacon was always a relatively quiet person (electrical engineer by training) who just got a bit broken after Freddie died. He’s basically a recluse. The others speak to him on occasion but describe him as very timid now. He still had to sign off on things, but is not involved much otherwise. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were piles of songs of his archived at his home. He was such a gifted writer (and those bass lines, good god) it’d be terrible if he just gave it all up.
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For the record, I didn't intend for this big Queen derailment to happen. I just hated what was done to Freddie's last request.
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Torquemada posted:TAA-DAH! The first magazine by (and for) gay magicians - Dave Attell
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All the guys from Queen are really talented, but without Freddie they probably would've been AC/DC tier at best. A classic rock band with a few big hits, rather than a cultural icon.
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Sir Lemming posted:All the guys from Queen are really talented, but without Freddie they probably would've been AC/DC tier at best. A classic rock band with a few big hits, rather than a cultural icon. The band existed before Freddie came along, as Smile. The fact that most people don't know this kind of sums it up.
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By popular demand posted:For the record, I didn't intend for this big Queen derailment to happen. Honestly though, I kind of feel like his friends and bandmates are in a better position to judge what Freddie would have wanted than I, a random fan of his who never met him, am.
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granted I’m Australian but … damning a band to be as popular as AC/DC is pretty funny. As popular as an equally popular band? I don’t think anyone says AC/DC is as quality as Queen but they’re not exactly slumming it on that RSL circuit. An actual thing that aged poorly is probably the lyrics for March Of The Black Queen, from Queen II. They quietly erased the N word from most available releases. What’s aged well is the genius basslines that Deacon gave the world in Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
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Sir Lemming posted:All the guys from Queen are really talented, but without Freddie they probably would've been AC/DC tier at best. A classic rock band with a few big hits, rather than a cultural icon. Niche band, AC/DC
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Sure, sure - AC/DC are rightly an institution in Australia, but are they niche in the rest of the world? I've always wondered if they were truly an international act, or if they were more like... John Farnham.
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Jedit posted:The band existed before Freddie came along, as Smile. The fact that most people don't know this kind of sums it up. IIRC Smile existed for like a year and a half and recorded 6 songs while its members were mainly focused on being grad students. It's not like Queen was an overnight success.
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By popular demand posted:To bring back the debate to the subject of the thread: while Lemmy was from all accounts the nicest most considerate person his love of adding Nazi stuff to his wardrobe did not age well. When you do stuff that gets the monocles dropping and breaking in the champagne glasses you can over do it maybe.
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I live in Canada, and if I turn on the radio, I will hear AC/DC within an hour on almost any station. This has been the case my entire life. It's also played in stores, bars, sports games. The highway to hell has no exits.
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I'm an American who lived briefly in Australia. Us yanks dig AC/DC plenty, but the Aussies take their love to another level in my experience.
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I think it's kind of like that line from the Rocky movies, when Apollo Creed tells him "You fight great, but I'm a great fighter." Like, when you think of Queen, if you're not immediately thinking of Bohemian Rhapsody, then you're thinking of Freddie Mercury. When you hear an iconic AC/DC song, you're not thinking of the band or it's members, you're thinking "Hell yeah, it's that classic kickin' rad song."
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the_steve posted:I think it's kind of like that line from the Rocky movies, when Apollo Creed tells him "You fight great, but I'm a great fighter." Sorry, I only think about the Flash Gordon soundtrack.
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SiKboy posted:Honestly though, I kind of feel like his friends and bandmates are in a better position to judge what Freddie would have wanted than I, a random fan of his who never met him, am. ok but like if freddie literally expressed what he wanted and then they did something else so that it would make them money, which is what it sounds like, i think that's lovely. just because "they knew him" doesn't mean they are going to do what's right when he's no longer around instead of doing what makes them more money, that's very rare in human beings actually
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Moreau posted:Sure, sure - AC/DC are rightly an institution in Australia, but are they niche in the rest of the world? I've always wondered if they were truly an international act, or if they were more like... John Farnham. Gargantuan. Back in Black is one of the best selling albums of all time, in any genre.
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Yeah they're huge. I don't really follow music at all and I know who AC/DC are.
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verbal enema posted:Acdc sucks Honestly they’re so ubiquitous I can’t even say they suck. They’re like McDonalds, objectively not actually good, but so omnipresent and inoffensive it’s hard to get angry about them. ‘Ride On’ is pretty good, in the same way I occasionally get a craving for a Big Mac.
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I've worked in a lot of redneck dive bars and people just love playing Thunder 3-4 times a night
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Torquemada posted:Thunder’s Truck Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief
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verbal enema posted:I've worked in a lot of redneck dive bars and people just love playing Thunder 3-4 times a night Whenever I hear that song I think of the short lived TV show Carpoolers, because that was where I first heard it. Carpoolers being best remembered as the other show in the Cavemen ABC comedy block, and the first acting credit of TJ Miller. I still liked it 15 years ago.
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christmas boots posted:Niche band, AC/DC I meant it as kind of a backhanded compliment really. AC/DC are well-known and good at playing rock music, much like the other guys in Queen. But they're still not Queen.
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Sir Lemming posted:But they're still not Queen. Yea, but they’re more current than anything though 
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the_steve posted:When you hear an iconic AC/DC song, you're not thinking of the band or it's members, you're thinking "Hell yeah, it's that classic kickin' rad song." Angus Young posted:“I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.” Best defense ever.
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