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Great Song or The Greatest Song

vansmack
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:26 PM UTC #
Greatest Song.
sweetcell
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:27 PM UTC #
walkonby
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:31 PM UTC #
sweetcell
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:36 PM UTC #
kosmo wrote:
Queen - "Fat Bottomed Girls"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0

video lacks fat bottomed girls.

kosmo wrote:
One of my favorite records of the last decade came from Splitsville, a little heard band outside of the power pop scene.  Anyways, you can tell the band members grew up listening to Queen, KISS, The Beatles, Beach Boys etc, but they were able to bring those influences together and still create a sound of their own.  They also recorded the best Coldplay/Keane song I've ever heard.

which album?  the first?  and which is the Coldplay/Keane song you speak of?
Mobius
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:37 PM UTC #
One of Freddie Mercury's gifts was his ability to be absurdly flamboyant and theatrical but to emote Humanity rather than gayness - he captured and released feelings that transcended the banality of sexual preference.
walkonby
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:45 PM UTC #
Mobius wrote:
One of Freddie Mercury's gifts was his ability to be absurdly flamboyant and theatrical but to emote Humanity rather than gayness - he captured and released feelings that transcended the banality of sexual preference.


yeah . . . he hid his gayness to the point of not ruining the band, that not even brian may knew.  now that's transcedence.
James Ford
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:48 PM UTC #
Not to dwell on it, but wasn't Freddie bisexual rather than gay?
walkonby
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:49 PM UTC #
James wrote:
Not to dwell on it, but wasn't Freddie bisexual rather than gay?


oh see, there you go . . . trying to rain on my gay ole time.  ;)
wml7
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:51 PM UTC #
we need a cat pic  ;D
brokensocscene
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:53 PM UTC #
well this turned out to be a Queen thread…

FLASH…..Ahhhh haaaaaaaaa Savior of the Universeeeeee!
walkonby
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 06:57 PM UTC #
wml7 wrote:
we need a cat pic  ;D


wml7
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 15, 2010 at 07:03 PM UTC #
haha  ;D
kosmo
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 16, 2010 at 04:27 AM UTC #
Hey walkie - Thanks for the vote of confidence on my thread

if you seek the Fat Bottomed Girls, I suggest finding the NSFW version of "Bicycle Race" video.

and in terms of keyboard driven pop ballads, I contend that Splitsville "Sasha" tops the output of Coldplay/keane

http://www.last.fm/music/Splitsville/_/The+Mentalist

(note: last.fm the song tagged incorrectly)
kosmo
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Re: Great Song or The Greatest Song January 20, 2010 at 02:55 PM UTC #
Guess I'm killing my own thread, but I march on…

The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You

Arty Cambridge punks influenced by Syd Barrett and the Beach Boys
walkonby
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Re: Great Song or The Greatest Song January 20, 2010 at 03:45 PM UTC #
kosmo wrote:
Guess I'm killing my own thread, but I march on…

The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You

Arty Cambridge punks influenced by Syd Barrett and the Beach Boys


kosmo . . . i could proclaim some more gay shit if you want to spice up the place.
kosmo
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Re: Great Song or The Greatest Song January 20, 2010 at 04:48 PM UTC #
Well it appears that I hit it out of the ballpark with the first choice, beside this exercise  makes for a good mix CD anyways… 
chaz
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Re: Great Song or The Greatest Song January 20, 2010 at 04:52 PM UTC #
Consider "Work For Food" by Dramarama. 
hutch
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Re: Great Song or Greatest Song January 20, 2010 at 05:06 PM UTC #
kosmo wrote:
I'm going through a bit of a Queen obsession at the moment, primarily because I was in a particularly grumpy mood the other day while driving to the Metro and that new classic rock station served up "Killer Queen" and it completely changed my mood.   So I've blasting some Queen greatest hits in the car, for the short trips around the hood.

It dawned on me that a whole lot of Indie Rock bands could use more inspiration from Queen.  Where is the swagger, the hooks, the soaring vocals, when was the last time you air drummed to a Indie Rock band. 


BINGO!

I tend to see it as they could use inspiration from ACDC but for a lot of the same reasons..
James Ford
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Re: Great Song or The Greatest Song January 20, 2010 at 05:10 PM UTC #
ACDC recorded maybe five or six good songs, and basically rewrote those songs over and over after that.

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