re: Bohemian Rhapsody

Listening to FM isolation vocals on YouTube is magical

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but the band hated it and felt the movie should focus more on how they carried on after freddies death.

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Except that’s nowhere close to the plot.

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so i can only assume this movie is prob a lazy puff piece.

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Wrong

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Of course you can argue that Queen is the GOAT. Music is Art which is all a matter of opinion.

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I said there is no argument which is different than saying you can f argue.

No. I don’t take opeinion. It’s like you can’t read.

Go find “Queen Live Killers”. May be the finest live album ever made.

Agreed. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Not a great movie but it’s very solid and certainly enjoyable

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but some queen fans i know were disappointed

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They are wrong. Don’t listen to them.

I thought Sasha's version got turned down because the band didn't want it to focus on his bisexuality. This movie was pretty gay. Rami killed it. Loved him since his Cajun character in Band of Brothers or whatever that other Tom Hanks military series was.

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They're more interested in being controversial than anything else. I remember one of their Top 50 lists where they dismissed bands like the Eagles as not having a place in any Rock list. Then a decade later they'll list Hotel California as one of the most important Rock albums. They just like to stir shite up.

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They like to be...well snobby.

Anybody who does something different is an instant classic.

They loved Beach Boys Pet Sounds...in fact, even to this day they have it #2 as the greatest rock album of all-time behind Sgt. Pepper (which was also trying to do something different.)

Now those aren't great examples because people still listen to all those songs...and a ton were very commercial still to this day with the Beach Boys especially...Wouldn't it be nice, God only knows, you can still hear in movies and commercials.

But the point stands, Rolling Stone loves them some albums that appear avant garde at the time...their #8 greatest album of all-time is the Clash.

To them Queen was plastic stadium rock.

They have Nirvana, tons of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Chucky Berry, Robert Johnson, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon (solo), Joni Mitchell, Ramones, Carole King, The Sex Pistols, The Doors, Bob Marley, Public Enemy...all above Queen.

Glad I saw it in the theater. It was a good movie, with great music.

This thread had a lot of early speculation/rumor about Freddie dying in the middle of the movie because the surviving members wanted it to show how they pushed on afterward without him.

That turned out to be, as Brian May said, "complete bullshite":

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The film ends with Queen playing Live Aid in 1985. Was there a temptation to go beyond that?

No. I think there’s a natural culmination there. And that has pretty much always been the case, from the earliest scripts. We felt that was the pinnacle – despite what some people have said in the press, who know frick-all about it. Somebody who shall be nameless said: “Oh, they’re going to portray Freddie dying in the middle of the movie, and then the rest of it is gonna be about life without Freddie.” Well, complete bullshite. This is all about Freddie, and I think Live Aid is a good point to leave it. Who knows, there might be a sequel [laughs].

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