Mute button straight away. What a load of overplayed pretentiousness. With all of a superb Queen back catalogue why do stations continually play this dirge. Flash Gordon is better than this.
jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Jun 30, 2010 - 07:23
It really doesn't get any more obnoxious than this.
DaMoGan (Body on the east coast, Mind on the west coast.)
Posted: Jun 30, 2010 - 07:21
Oh, this one brings back memories of a party I went to in grad school. While we were sitting in a circle passing something around this song came on, and we all just started singing along spontaneously, and of course, doing the headbanging thing at the end. Good times, good times.
I read someplace that all of the voices on this song belong to Freddy. A killer production!
I always tell my daughter that Freddy Mercury had one of the finest - and indeed, even most beautiful - voices in rock and roll history. I stand by that statement, especially when I hear this song - and even more so now that I've read your comment. What am amazing singer he was!
Hanging out in Lori's basement - 1975. Listening to this album as loud as it would go! Such fun. So hard to believe it has been 35 years - truly seems like yesterday. Thanks Bill!
Every single year this one ranks number 1 in the Dutch TOP 2000. I for one can't understand why... To me this song is such a terrible mess, truely hate it...
I love/hate this song. Love it because it pioneered a lot of very incredible, lush, operatic rock music. Hate it because it's almost over the top in its melodrama. Still, Freddy Mercury was known for being over the top. There are some very wonderful high points in this - it changes direction and tempo various times without seeming herky-jerky or disjointed. It would have been SO cool if Queen had built an entire rock opera around this song instead of producing it as a stand-alone. *sigh* Imagine what Queen would be putting out now, had Mercury not died of AIDS.
And I still can't listen to the full-on rock part without thinking of the headbanger scene in "Wayne's World." Sorry. Really. It haunts me, but now it might haunt you, too...
I marvelled at the statement on the LP cover that no synthesizers were used. Stared at it for a really, really long time, I think, as the unique song construction unrolled from the speakers.
This is one that will be around for a hunderd years, no kidding.
The first time I heard this song,it was in the middle of the night on the clock radio, I was about 11, maybe.
It's fascinating how many similar statements there are on this board! I remember quite specifically the first time (also age 11) that I heard "Killer Queen." Clearly the band must have been something quite amazing and different to make such an immediate and lasting impression on a generation of radio listeners.
Was it just me? The concept of music totally changed the day I first heard this. I remember it like it was yesterday - it just blew away every established norm of pop! I bought the LP that day. RIP Freddy - you were an original.
Just as Freddy sang "easy come, easy go" the connection dropped!
If you want to see Queen in action with the late Mr Mercury, I suggest you pick up "Queen - Live At Wembley Stadium" The DVD recording of their concert(s) at the Wembley Arena in 1986. The DVD also also contains extras including interviews with the band members, all except for the secretive John Deacon. The concert is good, but I always skip through the excruciating (long) guitar solo by Dr. May and I get tired of the long flourishes at the ends of songs...sheesh...just finish the darn song already and get to the next one.
What I think is interesting is that this song went against the grain of three-and-a-half minute songs that many radio stations at the time required. And like "Stairway to Heaven" and "Baba O'Riley" it still became wildly popular.
i just went to the symphony tonight. i'd like to see this performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Harlem Gospel Choir, and Soundgarden. and George Michael.
,,music is fine tho.
