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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2018 20:14:54 GMT
Went to see Bohemian Rhapsody (the film about Freddie Mercury). As a film its OK. Only really scratches the surface I felt and I am sure there are some inaccuracies based upon my own limited knowledge of Queen.
Anyway what I found interesting, given I was only about 10 or 11 when the song was released, so have little memory of the period other than the video, was that it was pretty much universally panned by musical press at the time. Yet somehow it became a classic of such proportions I have no doubt it will be being played in 200 years time.
I can't really recall a piece of recent popular music so roundly damned and yet became so popular. Can you?
It reminds me of a conversation with an American cousin who is an art historian. His view is that anything popular by definition has to be rubbish and that anything really good is inaccessible to the general public. I simply mentioned Beethoven's Fifth to him and he went '...Oh yeah...'
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Post by Humph on Oct 27, 2018 20:30:57 GMT
Everyone likes Queen. It's just that it used to be unfashionable among those who thought they were fashionable, to admit to it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2018 21:07:01 GMT
In the film the band members said when they were about to be singed that they were '...the people who stand at the back of the room and we play for the people who stand at the back of the room...' Or something similar.
Abba is another band who were unfashionable amongst the fashionable crowd but we all love the songs in Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia 2. I always liked them; therefore I'm obviously not trendy - thank the Lord.
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 27, 2018 21:44:46 GMT
...Queen and Abba, you old fogies FFS,
get down wiv der youf and into things like this:
(you might end up quite confused.....)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 13:51:32 GMT
For me, popular music stopped in 1998. Occasion lurker when son #2 fires up the turntable with some indy band on it. I also like ELO and 10cc (all four of whom grew up within the same district as I have always lived). Sorry, but this is the Grumpy Old Farts pub, so I make no apology.
I wonder what Brahms fans said about Beethoven buffs in the middle 19th Century? Were they also fogeys?
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 28, 2018 16:44:21 GMT
For me, popular music stopped in 1998....... I think that's a real pity. Of course, one does tend to identify with the music from one's formative years, and have a tendency to think there is an awful lot of substandard noise around nowadays compared with then, but (IMO) this is a fallacy. You only have to listen to some of the "throwback" shows on the radio, or even more so watch the archived TOTP shows on iPlayer (I can't, for long) to realise that there was an awful lot of dross around in the past. I'm probably a 70's man myself, but I listen to the music my kids have espoused, and though I don't like all of it (they don't like all of mine, either, but my daughter can answer 70's music questions in pub quizzes  ) there is some good stuff out there. That combined with friends that have eclectic tastes (however else would I have discovered Jan Garbarek? - or indeed Christine and the Queens  ) keeps me refreshing my music library. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 16:59:27 GMT
I used to have a huge library of music, now I do not. I delete all the music on my computer and I don't think I own any CDs, though I am sure you could find some in the back of a drawer if you looked. I don't think we own any way of playing them anyway, well other than computer drives.
I am a big, big fan of radio, I also bought a Spotify family account for the girls, and consequently I also use it myself and anyway I am increasingly a fan of peace and quiet. I definitely find the Radio the most peaceful and effort free way of listening.
The girls often put their music on in the car. It's ok. Mostly always that. Occasionally awful, occasionally great, but mostly ok.
>>and have a tendency to think there is an awful lot of substandard noise around nowadays compared with then
I think, or at least for me, the music I like the most has some tie to something I was doing at that time. And since when you are younger you are doing so many things for the first time, or enjoying them so much, that is what sets songs in your mind. Sometimes newer ones stick but for that they have to be actually good rather than just tied to a moment in your life. Johnny Cash / Hurt and Disturbed / Sound of Silence are two that easily spring to mind. Both came from my eldest daughter.
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 28, 2018 17:56:06 GMT
I think, or at least for me, the music I like the most has some tie to something I was doing at that time....... On another forum, and in another life I recently posted virtually the same thing a propos "Cover Versions better than the original". I generally think a lot of one's taste is either a "Zeitgeist" thing, or a result of personal circumstances through history. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 15:18:46 GMT
I also prefer the radio to CD or iPod type stuff in the car. Radio 4 most days with Radio 2 on Sundays if Espadrille is with me.
Five Live on the way home from the ManCity games.
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Post by Alanović on Oct 29, 2018 15:50:03 GMT
I only listen to non-music radio stations, i.e. Radio 4 and 5. All music radio stations are appalling. BBC ones are either broadcasting dreadful music or, in the case of 6 Music, more interested in broadcasting the DJ's ego than the music itself. All commercial stations are dreadful, without exception. I can not imagine listening to music radio in the UK unless under some kind of threat of death.
95% of music released since the year 2000 is unlistenable drivel. I have very, very few albums from beyond that date, and those that I have are by artists whose careers started before 2000.
The alleged "music" my near-14 year old son listens to makes me want to cut my own head off and feed it to the pigs. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 15:52:24 GMT
The RSPCA won't like that.
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Post by Alanović on Oct 29, 2018 15:55:25 GMT
They'd do the same as me, rather than listen to 3 seconds of Sonny A's "music".
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) there is some good stuff out there.
) keeps me refreshing my music library.