Sky Arts tonight, starting at 8pm with July 1986 Magic Tour from Wembley followed by “The Great Pretender” documentary about Freddie, followed by “Days of Our Lives” documentary about how Queen got started.

Special treat tonight as BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, the movie is on Channel 4 at 9.2Opm tonight.

That is all.

Mine is Spread Your Wings

Every time I see a pic of Garden Lodge, I wonder what the interior layout is like. We've all seen pics of the living room and a glimpse into the kitchen, but what does the rest of the home look like? Is it just me or does anyone else wonder about this?

https://youtu.be/SK0NhZCgFNw?si=bX9HaszrYRS5EjrJ

My list

Side A

Seven seas of Rhye

Fairy Fellers master stroke

Killer Queen

Seaside Rendezvous

Bohemian Rhapsody

Somebody to Love

Bicycle

Tie your mother down

Side B

Another one Bites the Dust

I want to break free

The Miracle

I want it all

It's a kind of Magic

Flash

I'm going slightly mad

Hammer to Fall

For me it's Mustapha or White man, I think 😞

You see artists and groups do tiny desk concerts often now. If Queen did a tiny desk concert, what songs would they do?

Stolen idea. Sort of them compiling a perfect album compilation of tracks 1-13. So for this to start:

List your favorite Track 1 on a Queen album. If it's already listed, just upvote that post. The most upvoted song wins, and then we go onto track 2 and continue to 13

Does anybody know if there was a video of the New London Theatre 1977 gig after the We Are The Champions shoot? If not, is there a link to the best audio of the gig. I was there and I'm desperate for a video or great audio of that afternoon.

70s Queen

80s Queen

90e Queen

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This is the second track from Queen's fourteenth album, "Innuendo". How do you feel about this song? How would you rank it among the rest of the Queen's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

1. Innuendo ^(9.85)
2. I'm Going Slightly Mad
3. Headlong
4. I Can't Live With You
5. Don't Try So Hard
6. Ride the Wild Wind
7. All God's People
8. These Are the Days of Our Lives
9. Delilah
10. The Hitman
11. Bijou
12. The Show Must Go On

Album Rankings:

1. A Day at the Races: 8.84
2. A Night at the Opera: 8.41
3. Queen II: 8.39
4. Sheer Heart Attack: 8.22
5. News of the World: 8.18
6. The Game: 8.02
7. Queen: 7.78
8. The Works: 7.77
9. Jazz: 7.64
10. The Miracle: 7.26
11. A Kind of Magic: 7.10
12. Hot Space: 6.68
13. Flash Gordon: 6.32

Hey I just got two Near-Mint first Japanese first pressings of Queen and A Day at the Races. Just wanted to ask the comunity, what are your thoughts on Queen’s japanese releases under the Elektra label. Are they better in sound quality to their US counterpart?

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I was gonna put it on my notes and realized that the album version doesn't show up, no matter what I put on the search bar. It is the only Queen song missing on IG and that's weird. Does it have any reason?

Edit: Solved, see at the bottom.

I’m listening to Brighton Rock on Spotify, and I’m noticing that it’s mysteriously missing some of Brian’s iconic background guitars during the “Jenny, will you stay? Tarry with me pray…” verse. I love those guitars. This only happens on Spotify, which has the 2011 remaster. Other sources have them (even if they’re also the 2011 remaster, so it’s not a remaster-specific thing). I’ve tried to find answers online for this discrepancy, but had no luck.

Just as a quick explanation for what I mean: the song starts the first verse (“Happy little day Jimmy went away…” 00:32) with, let’s call it, guitar part A sounding in the background. When it later reaches the verse I mention after a drum break (00:58), there is now also guitar part B playing on top of guitar part A. Guitar part B are these Brian-esque whiny overlaid guitars that I love. BUT Guitar part B is missing on Spotify. I have no idea why. They sound good.

You don’t need to know music to hear the difference, but if you do, I mean the part that roughly goes D# E F# D# (octave higher) etc.

Original: https://youtu.be/IDpKV6WFYSo?si=0DmpG712A_-aT58D

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/wrapped/share/share-c0e795c52fd64a6c9328f2a2e55734c0?si=LbarhyiiRweZYCQupVdmVQ&track-id=0w7lKfhxW190u1ckXi45E9

EDIT with the answer: So the issue is mono v. stereo, not Spotify v. other sources. But not because the guitars are only playing on one channel and my speaker is only playing the other, or anything like that. Seems like the part I’m talking about is mixed out of phase in both channels for that wide stereo effect, so when you play them all from the same speaker, they cancel out. I had Spotify connected to my single (mono) speaker, so that guitar part was mysteriously disappearing. Since I thought “this is missing something”, I reached for my phone to find and compare another version, and I played that other version on the phone (stereo), which allowed the guitars to come through. You can test the guitars disappearing in front of your eyes/ears: play it in stereo from Spotify or somewhere else, through headphones; then go into settings and change the playing to mono and puff, the guitars are completely gone. Unfortunately, that means the guitar part will always be missing when played from a single speaker. I wonder if something similar happens with other songs from the same remaster?

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This is the first track from Queen's fourteenth album, "Innuendo". How do you feel about this song? How would you rank it among the rest of the Queen's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

1. Innuendo
2. I'm Going Slightly Mad
3. Headlong
4. I Can't Live With You
5. Don't Try So Hard
6. Ride the Wild Wind
7. All God's People
8. These Are the Days of Our Lives
9. Delilah
10. The Hitman
11. Bijou
12. The Show Must Go On

Album Rankings:

1. A Day at the Races: 8.84
2. A Night at the Opera: 8.41
3. Queen II: 8.39
4. Sheer Heart Attack: 8.22
5. News of the World: 8.18
6. The Game: 8.02
7. Queen: 7.78
8. The Works: 7.77
9. Jazz: 7.64
10. The Miracle: 7.26
11. A Kind of Magic: 7.10
12. Hot Space: 6.68
13. Flash Gordon: 6.32

Okay so I gotta know. Out of all queen members (well excluding John), who in your opinion has the best discography? I personally really love Brian's, but Roger's is decent as well. Haven't really listened to Freddie that much but he has a couple of good songs. But yeah lmao Bri's does it for me, truly excepcional! Lemme know what you think (song recs welcome as well)

The Show Must Go On gives me major goosebumps with the lyrics and the instruments.

Edit: gonna go listen to white man now as many of you guys have suggested it

Edit 2 : I listened to it... Let me just say that did give me goosebumps

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Discuss the album The Miracle as a whole. What stands out to you? What could've been improved in your opinion? Trivia? Anything related to The Miracle goes!

1. Party: 5.66
2. Kashoggi's Ship: 6.11
3. The Miracle: 7.55
4. I Want It All: 9.02
5. The Invisible Man: 7.20
6. Breakthru: 8.83
7. Rain Must Fall: 6.23
8. Scandal: 8.11
9. My Baby Does Me: 4.67
10. Was It All Worth It: 9.26

Album Rankings:

1. A Day at the Races: 8.84
2. A Night at the Opera: 8.41
3. Queen II: 8.39
4. Sheer Heart Attack: 8.22
5. News of the World: 8.18
6. The Game: 8.02
7. Queen: 7.78
8. The Works: 7.77
9. Jazz: 7.64
10. The Miracle: 7.26
11. A Kind of Magic: 7.10
12. Hot Space: 6.68
13. Flash Gordon: 6.32