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Thursday, July 28, 2011
So I'm running for the board of Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood
If you or your friends or your cat or your cgi dog can vote for me, please do.
;)
So, I'm running for the board of Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles
If you can vote for me, great, I would appreciate your vote. Or your friends' votes. Or, well, anyone that can cast a vote for me, actually.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Queen for a Day - Leaving Home Ain't Easy
Brian also wrote a ballad for this album. Truth is, he is the one who comes off best on the record, even though Freddie wrote the biggest hits.
Like a cousin to She Makes Me, Leaving is in the trope of '39 or Long Away. If one put together an album of Brian's mid tempo acoustic tracks frommthe 70s I think they would have made for a pretty standard California rock sounding album.
I dig this song even though the subject matter is trite and on the nose. Like i said earlier: give the boys a phrase and they'll conjure up a tune,
Grade: B
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Like a cousin to She Makes Me, Leaving is in the trope of '39 or Long Away. If one put together an album of Brian's mid tempo acoustic tracks frommthe 70s I think they would have made for a pretty standard California rock sounding album.
I dig this song even though the subject matter is trite and on the nose. Like i said earlier: give the boys a phrase and they'll conjure up a tune,
Grade: B
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Queen for a Day - Fun It
Queen goes disco!
Roger came up with this percussive heavy, electric drum, chic guitar track replete with roller disco whistles. As you can see from this song the band was already playing with the style that would garner them great fame and then great enmity in a short time.
My trouble with all the shit on Jazz is that it's all impertinently hummable. The boys are such craftsmen that they can turn crap into, well, not diamonds, but at least zircons.
Grade: B-
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Roger came up with this percussive heavy, electric drum, chic guitar track replete with roller disco whistles. As you can see from this song the band was already playing with the style that would garner them great fame and then great enmity in a short time.
My trouble with all the shit on Jazz is that it's all impertinently hummable. The boys are such craftsmen that they can turn crap into, well, not diamonds, but at least zircons.
Grade: B-
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Queen for a Day - Dreamer's Ball
Brian May wrote this for the late Elvis Presley. Sure, why not?
This is a band that has almost completely run out of ideas.
A simple acoustic campfire ditty with a noodley lead accompaniment, the song is trying to evoke a seaside, Leon Redbone sound with Freddie Mercury crooning along.
Meh.
Grade: C-
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This is a band that has almost completely run out of ideas.
A simple acoustic campfire ditty with a noodley lead accompaniment, the song is trying to evoke a seaside, Leon Redbone sound with Freddie Mercury crooning along.
Meh.
Grade: C-
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Queen for a Day - In Only Seven Days
John Deacon.
I really shouldn't have to say anything more. This is a crappy list song. I hate list songs. In the list he is on vacation and meets a woman who he then can't find and then does...
It's like a shitty movie, Summer Lovers or something. It makes Friday by that Rebecca Black chick seem like genius.
Freddie does his best but this is the band's nadir.
Grade: F
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I really shouldn't have to say anything more. This is a crappy list song. I hate list songs. In the list he is on vacation and meets a woman who he then can't find and then does...
It's like a shitty movie, Summer Lovers or something. It makes Friday by that Rebecca Black chick seem like genius.
Freddie does his best but this is the band's nadir.
Grade: F
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Queen for a Day - Dead on Time
Opening like the introduction of a second act of a Rawk Show, Dead on Time is the song you play for people who THINK they Queen but only know the hits.
A blues breaker unequaled in the band's repertoire, I played this track for my lead guitarist to show him...well, to show him why I loved Queen.
Building on the shredding of Keep Yourself Alive, Dead takes it to a whole bother level. It's more aggressive then Brighton Rock or Stone Cold Crazy combined.
The harmonies are sparse but they kill when they need to. Freddie is there to serve the song, as is the rest of the band and they are all there to seve Brian's guitar god majesty.
If you think you know Queen or you THINK because you like Tie Your Mother Down you are versed in Brian May and his contribution to the annals of rock, sit down, give this a listen and learn.
A masterpiece.
Grade: A+
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A blues breaker unequaled in the band's repertoire, I played this track for my lead guitarist to show him...well, to show him why I loved Queen.
Building on the shredding of Keep Yourself Alive, Dead takes it to a whole bother level. It's more aggressive then Brighton Rock or Stone Cold Crazy combined.
The harmonies are sparse but they kill when they need to. Freddie is there to serve the song, as is the rest of the band and they are all there to seve Brian's guitar god majesty.
If you think you know Queen or you THINK because you like Tie Your Mother Down you are versed in Brian May and his contribution to the annals of rock, sit down, give this a listen and learn.
A masterpiece.
Grade: A+
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Queen for a Day - If you Can't Beat Them/Let Me Entertain You
Just look at those titles. The first thing that comes to mind, for me, is, hmmm, I think these guys have run out of ideas and are just sitting in the studio, tossing out random phrases and writing songs about them.
Hey, what about a song about being jealous?
You know, if you can't beat them...hey, waitaminnit.
And so on.
Both songs are as trite as they appear, the former is saved by an epic guitar solo that takes the song over and remakes it in it's own image.
The latter is bolstered by Freddie's ego, pomp and pomposity.
Without them, however, they are trash.
If:
Grade: C-
Let:
Grade: B-
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Hey, what about a song about being jealous?
You know, if you can't beat them...hey, waitaminnit.
And so on.
Both songs are as trite as they appear, the former is saved by an epic guitar solo that takes the song over and remakes it in it's own image.
The latter is bolstered by Freddie's ego, pomp and pomposity.
Without them, however, they are trash.
If:
Grade: C-
Let:
Grade: B-
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Queen for a Day - Bicycle Race
Dumbest song in the catalog or the most fun?
I particularly love the bike bell battle followed by the descending quarter solo guitar battle.
And the song lends itself perfectly to mashup with eminem 30 years later.
It's goofy, it's piffle and it's a blast.
Credit Freddie and the ensuing all female naked bike race for turning me into an avid cyclist.
Grade: A
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I particularly love the bike bell battle followed by the descending quarter solo guitar battle.
And the song lends itself perfectly to mashup with eminem 30 years later.
It's goofy, it's piffle and it's a blast.
Credit Freddie and the ensuing all female naked bike race for turning me into an avid cyclist.
Grade: A
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