Queen, Radio Ga Ga - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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The voice: nostalgia for a past which is gone; The instrumental music: the modern era.
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Lady Ga Ga, named herself after this song. It's one the most well known things about her.
The song is not about her....
@@johnmcgregor5415 That is not what he said.
@@celtasnakeI think he was making a joke. It made me chuckle in any case, and it defused the irritation I felt at the OP, for its somewhat reproving tone. I mean, sigh, _everyone_ knows that Lady Gaga took her name from Queen's song, don't you know _anything?_ So Jim's riposte pricked that bubble very nicely, or so it seemed to me.
Nobody said it was about her@@johnmcgregor5415
@@Ozymandi_as I see it the other way. The op is beung informative without no reproving tone. But i do find a not very nice tone in your message.
I'd urge you to watch Queen's live performance at Live Aid, to see the effect this song has on a crowd, and also see the way Freddie has the crowd in the palm of his hand.
Indeed!!! Totally agree!!!
Can't wait for Amy to watch the Live Aid performance. I'm sure she mentioned it before but said she will wait until she completes the Queen 50 series so she doesn't hear anything out of sequence. I remember watching Live Aid in 1985 and being blown away by how the audience totally submitted to this song. It wasn't even a Queen audience.
@@callumbruce4154 - Amy hasn't actually _seen_ Freddie and his mates in action yet, or has she?! 😀 Oh I'm looking forward to _that_ reaction! 😁
How much do you want to wager that the capstone of the series will be Live Aid?
She should react to queen at live aid
Every time I hear this song I can totally see the crowd at Live Aid. When it first aired I was in awe seeing hundreds of thousands of people clapping. It still sends shivers down my spine.
Actually, Amy HAS seen the movie Bohemian Rhapsodynif I recall correctly, so she has heard this song and several other Queen songs before being introduced to them on this channel.
You should watch the video too - and then a live performance!
Even at Live Aid, which was not a Queen concert in particular, *everyone* ..., you'll see ;-)
Yeah, it really was a Queen concert. Everyone else there was just playing support. 😉
You need to watch a live performance of this song. IT is a bit faster and they fixed something with the metric of the song. Then it is amazing how they engage a whole stadium for them to clap. The live at Wembley 86 version is a clear example of what I just described.
I saw Queen one week earlier in Newcastle and it was amazing to be part of a huge audience all doing the claps in perfect harmony 😊
Whilst this isn't one of my favourite Queen songs, when you see them playing it live it brings everyone together in a beautiful way which I really appreciate.
You have reached the stage where the video and live versions of these songs became essential to understanding their effect and attachment to their fans, they took on a life of their own and the live performances became part of legend. You will gain a greater understanding by viewing them.
I so miss Freddie Mercury.
Me too
That's the thing though, by now he would be 77 and probably long retired.
@@Quotenwagnerianer Not has long as his voice held out. But if anything, we would have had more of his voice.
@@pauldhoff I doubt his voice would have held out. Voices in that range don't last.
We'll never know but from my personal experience with high tenor voices he would have probably gone into retirement about 10 years ago and we would have wished he would have done it 15 years ago. ;)
Still that's 15 years we would have been able to enjoy more of him.
It is what it is.
"Radio Ga Ga'" a straightforward song. By the 1980s, pop music had integrated more drum machines and synthesizers. This trend, frankly speaking, allowed record companies to promote music which frankly relied heavily on skilled production and replacing people with machines, rather than any innate talent of the musicians they were signing. So Queen, who were on the other hand a highly talented and authentic band, were forced to adapt themselves to stay relevant. Roger Taylor, most certainly the band's most rock-oriented member, seems to have written this one. Ironically, this song is now played more frequently than some of Queen's earlier, more sophisticated songs. They were definitely dedicated to maintaining their career at all costs. And had the talent to do it.
As straightforward as it is, it is still a stroke of genius that musically surpasses many of the songs of that era. I mean the entire harmonic build up to the chorus is just marvellous.
What this song reaffirms is that synthesisers and drum machines are just musical mediums, like any other instrument, and the central element of Queen's success is the strength of their songwriting. If you gave Brian May a pair of spoons, Roger Taylor a tea chest and John Deacon a piece of string I'm pretty sure they could come up with a listenable piece of music because Queen were, at heart, brilliant songwriters in whichever medium they chose to use.
Beautifully said
Yes as others have mentioned please watch the Live Aid performance. Freddie had that enormous audience in the palm of his hand.
"Freddy, what instrument do you play best?"
"The audience, Darling."
@@lowkey1969 yes 😆👏👏👏
These songs are beginning to set up one of their best songs imo -The Show Must Go On 😢
and Innuendo
We are at "The Works" there are still two albums in between the Innuendo Album and this. So hold your horses. ;)
@@Quotenwagnerianer Freddie knew he was Ill and his days could be numbered many months before his death . Many of his songs reflected this in the last few albums
@@markwatson6579 In 1984 he only knew that something was off, but what it was was not clear yet. He showed symptoms from 1982 onwards and his diagnosis came in 1987.
It was genius. It was guaranteed tons of radio airplay just because of the subject of the song. The fact that it was very good was a bonus. It was also tailor made for crowd participation at gigs.
*Taylor-made 😁
@@chattikathy4391 - You beat me to it! 😄
@@mightyV444 🤣
@@chattikathy4391 - 😁
Just took me 10 minutes to work out why you substituted the name of a golf brand. Then I finally got it. I'm so slow this morning.
I never cared about this song much, until I learned to learn to play (and listen to) the bassline. It is absolutely stunning.
For me, the phrase "You made us feel like we could fly" references Superman's radio adventures from the 1940s-1950s. Despite the song criticizing music videos, the Radio Ga Ga clip generated one of the most impressive audience collaborations during Queen's performances: the double clap beat in the chorus. Therefore, it is worth checking out both the music video and a live performance of the song. Furthermore, while Freddie Mercury performs the single in a more restrained way, his energy on stage elevates the song to another level.
What makes this song so nostalgic is that while it pines for radio to stay, you know it is firmly in the past, and those days will never return
Radio Luxemburg has played a huge part in early musical growth, in the formation of musical tastes of many British classical rockmen.
Across most of mainland Britain, on long wave, in the evening, you could also hear AFN Germany (American Forces Network) when I was listening to it in the late 70s, they played a lot of classic Wolfman Jack programmes, which often played things we didn't hear in the UK (and, of course, that era had John Peel on the 10 to midnight slot on BBC Radio 1, when the gloves came off, and you had someone who cared about the music, not what the programmers wanted)
It’s still amazing to me that all four members of Queen were able to write such successful and interesting music. Freddie Mercury’s voice of course helped make all their music lovely. The fact that each member could come up with at least 4 hit songs is still amazing and showed their talent especially when they all worked together. In this song to me it was a farewell to our reliance on radio and the new phase of television music videos. It was an homage to the way these guys first heard music and fell in love with it through radios. Another Queen hit that involved the audience clapping their hands as shown in the futuristic video.
This was Rogers first single 1984
Hit in several countries
Freddie’s lovely voice ❤
Perhaps ironically, the music video for this is also fantastic :)
I was not expecting many songs from Hot Space but at least Cool Cat.
Yes !!! Great song.
Or Las Palabras De Amor.
The March of the Black Queen, go there to find out how complicated this song is. Try it if u dare! U will be in for a wild wild ride
Try it ! Next time?
It’s from Queen 2 from 1974, listen to it
Please Amy!
You have to check out “it’s a hard life” from “the works” very different from the rest of the album and really highlights Freddie’s maturity as a singer and the bands growth at writing power ballads!
Tune in tomorrow for that song!
I agree, but Hammer to Fall is different too.
Hopefully she will react to both "Hammer To Fall" and "I Want To Break Free", so she covers songs from all 4 members on this record.
@@egads69 Aye, she got spared Hot Space and Flash, so there is plenty of room to do that... though the next couple of Albums are dense with important tracks
a lot of the visuals in the video for this song comes from the 1920's Scifi movie metropolis
Amy is right. The production and "sound design" may be modern/ futuristic ( even for the nowadays level) with a sense of exaggeration or parody, but the melodic/harmonic construction is tradicional and classic. You can sing this song just with a piano accompaniment and you'll get a ballad like "melancholy blues" or "Barcelona". The arranjment here adds a sociological comment.
Roger listened to the radio and kept up with current trends in music. He is also an encyclopedia of pop trivia. He used to go on a game show called Pop Quiz in the 80s and do very well. I've never been a big fan pf synthesizer and drum machines so I prefer the live version of this song. Live Aid or Wembley 86 are great examples. "you made us feel like we could fly". Indeed!
We were spoiled in the New York metropolitan area during the late 1960’s to the very early 1980’s with WNEW-FM. This was a progressive Rock radio station led by Scott Muni. Scott and his staff presented so much of the evolving music scene that it was great. Elton John’s live album was 11-17-70 is from a show the station sponsored, Scott was friends with John Lennon and played an advance copy of “She Came Through the Bathroom Window” prior to the album release. Live on air appearances, like Harry Chapin and David Bromberg coming to the studio at the same time, and my favorite was the 4 one hour Easter Shows by Steve Goodman. Steve was in NYC for checkups and treatments for his leukemia at John Hopkins in the 1970’s. (Those recordings are combined in a cd available at Red Pajama Records.
I believe that Queen also showed up as well. The format changed in about 1983 which ended an era. It is said that the tv sitcom “WKRP” took themes from that station such as Alison Steele’s evening shows “The Night Bird”. The Venus Fly Trap character is roughy based on her. She was at KFOG in San Francisco for a time afterwards.
Listening to that station was a big portion of my day back then.
Yes we were, and it was great. That programming type continued through most of the 80s, as I grew up. I loved Scott Muni's programming and influence.
Will be interesting. The first Queen song you will have heard with so many programmed sounds. Roger's first single as a writer. And a crowd anthem. The B Side is little known but brilliant.
Great backing vocals from Roger on the chorus too
This song is such a banger live. With the audience participation and all. It sort of doesn't seem like a great live song but it absolutely is one of the best Queen songs live. I've only had the opportunity to see them live with Adam but he is great and this song is so good.
Lady Gaga did in fact partly name herself after this song!
Which is subsequent to the release of the song by several decades.
Partly?
@@karen6477 Not the "Lady" part?
@@karen6477 Her name is Lady Gaga not Radio Gaga
@@zzzaphod8507 - Off-topic, but I once had been the drummer for a band called Zaphod Beeblebrox! 😁
One of your finest reactions ❤ that you enjoyed this one Amy..... love to see you singing along❤❤❤😊
This 'modern' sound was thanks to the producer of the album Reinhold Mack. The synths / drum synths sound much more refined to what we are used to from 80s music. Certainly a nice blend of classic Queen with 80s POP.
Mack was also responsible for Billy Squier's hits at the time. Freddie and Roger sang backup on Billy's song "Emotions in Motion".
you should really, and i mean REALLY react to their live aid performance, this song is made so much better in that like HOLY
Someone here in the comments mentioned that she's planning to watch Queen's _whole_ Live Aid performance once she's done with listening to 50 of their songs 😀👍
@@mightyV444 oh yoo great :D
@@Roin_robin87 - And can you believe it: Just after entering a local café this morning, the audio from Queen's performance of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at Live Aid started playing! 😳😀
you realy should listen to their live performances.
...while also _watching_ them!
😀👍
In Chicago, we still have WFMT the classical music station. It's one of my go to stations in the car and you can also listen online which I do at work. The best of both, radio and internet.
WUSF in Tampa used to be a classical music station until it split into two stations. WUSF is now news and talk and WSMR is the classical station. I enjoy both however WSMR has a weaker signal and since we live about 40 miles from Tampa it doesn't come in well on the car radio. Thank goodness it's available via internet.
This is pretty much the polarization phase with Queen, the whole 'Works' album was not like this, the next track 'I Want To Break Free' is pop, the next 'It's A Hard Life' is a great ballad, 'Hammer To Fall' is very heavy rock, if you add 'Is This The World We Created...?" Is a plantive, social acoustic ballad, the track "Keep Passing The Open Windows" is a cool, anti suicide song. Very broad album.
And...Man on the Prowl....☹️😳🤦
A good one to do from this album would be "Keep on passing the open windows". Very underrated.
Wait. What? Nothing else from Hot Space? Shame we didn't cover Cool Cat. Nothing else like it in the catalog.
However, this was a great dissection of the song. It took me years to really appreciate it, but Amy has grabbed lots of really interesting things about the production and the style and has helped me enjoy it even more.
Looking forward to It's A Hard Life for obvious reasons!
I was also hoping for Soul Brother (the B side of Under Pressure), one of my favourites.
Hot Space is Queen s worst album .B May and Roger Taylor hate it .
@@MrJackd47my favorite one
@@MrJackd47 - Whenever that album title gets mentioned, I 'hear' Freddie wail 🎵"Sexy bodyyy!!"🎵
🙈 😅
@@MrJackd47 I'm not sure they hate it. Brian has said he felt the timing was wrong and it could've done better if released a little later when Michael Jackson was having success fusing rock and funk.
Also, Life is Real is one of Fred's best. Put Out The Fire is as good as Hammer To Fall. Cool Cat is it's own thing and genius. Staying Power using the legendary Arif Mardin is just awesome. Dancer is infectious. Las Parablas is one of my favourite Brian songs.
I really don't understand the hate for this album.
As a kid in the 50s and early 60s, I always like electronic sounding music. The old big church organs were the same for that time centuries ago.
You should actually watch some of the music videos. They can be quite extravagant.
While I'm not a big fan of this 80s style electronic music, I admire Queen for giving us their version of it, which is consistent with them always being a band that could play in different styles. "Radio Ga Ga" was one I didn't initially like, but grew to appreciate. I much prefer a real drum sound, rather than the drum machine type sounds. But that was what was popular in the music of that day, and is still found in electronic music.
I know that drummers were worried at the time that they would no longer be needed. Fortunately, enough people still preferred hearing real drummers on actual drums, so they have survived. So in a way, I am surprised that Roger Taylor, the drummer, was the one who wanted to use the drum machine. Today in our home studios we a huge library of real sampled drum sounds that we can use in our own songs that have fairly convincing real drum sounds, without having to be a skilled drummer ourselves or making room in our home for a drum set. You still have to know how the different drums on a drum kit are used in songs, but it is much easier to learn to program the parts than to become a skilled "real" drummer.
Funny cockatoo reference and impersonation Amy. You were so modern with buttons on your phones, we had to use dials that were much harder on the index finger. You could get blisters if you made a lot of calls, until you developed calluses. We used to call them "records" too from the 60s onward (and earlier before I was born) to refer to vinyl records. I rarely called them vinyl back then, it was mainly the terms "records" and "tapes" that were used. With "albums" applying to both, although the word album still makes me think of vinyl.
"Spirit of Radio" by Rush is my favorite song about radio. Brilliant lyrics by Neil Peart that express his love for radio, while also touching on the darker side of the influences that the music industry had on radio, "One likes to believe in the freedom of music / But glittering prizes and endless compromises / Shatter the illusion of integrity." I loved the radio, which is how I was exposed to new songs, in addition to those my friends introduced to me from their record collections.
Great reaction. I really enjoyed this one.
Great comment. Saved me from typing out many of the same thoughts and sentiments. ❤
@@joelhammond4162 Thanks! I wish I would have found somebody too say all this too. It probably all gets said elsewhere, just spread over several comments. Whereas I tend to jam them all into one long one. Which then of course becomes too long for anyone to want to read.😉 So I appreciate that you took the time to read it.
@@LeeKennison thats because I tend to the same and I appreciate detail. I think a lot of folks are just too impatient for that now.
"One likes to believe in the freedom of music / But glittering prizes and endless compromises / Shatter the illusion of integrity."
i never really thot about wut Geddy was singing here 4 some reason - thanx 4 making me think Lee (also Neil) :D
@@stephencolbertcheese7354 Yeah for sure Stephen. Neil, through Geddy's vocals, has certainly got me to think over the years.
Songs unless stated weren't collabs / worked on together as such
But Freddie did tend to ' polish up' Rogers songs as such
Also helped John a lot but more of supporting him
But they did write a few songs together
Wish you'd done cool cat
Cant believe only 1 song from Hot Space. I realise it wasn't their most successful, but there were a few great tracks. I really liked Body Language and Cool Cat was, well, cool! I saw Queen's The Works Tour when they came to Australia, it was an awesome experience.
"Song for Lennon" is my favourite and widely overlooked
I always think of my father when i hear these lyrics who told me how important his little radio was to him as a teenager sitting in his room in the attic trying to catch a station that played the english rock songs of the time. He grew up in the GDR (born in 1952) where this kind of music was banned. So he tried to catch the station from West Berlin to listen to the music he liked. And yeah he still listens to the Radio a lot, while I don't do that anymore. I did also record songs from the radio in my early teenage years but i also recorded from MTV (every Week they had the European Top 20 which i used to record songs) but of course with the advent of MP3 i moved on from that. So this song always makes me a bit emotional.
You must see Radio Gaga live version !!! Live wembley 86
This is the album that got me into Queen. I loved it, would never have discovered the band without it.
‘So stick around ’cause we might miss you
When we grow tired of all this visual.’
Roger’s vision that the 80s obsession with videos will subside and radio will become a bit more prominent again.
Radio became Podcasts. Thematic radio on demand.
Whis is IRonic, as Queen kind of started the video craze for music ;)
Yah, I saw an interview where she said she got her name from this.
I really appreciate how much you love music. There isn't much more beauty in the world than a great song.
Thanks, VR.. if you don't watch the "Live Aid" performance, you are totally missing out... another Freddie/Queen crowd participation classic! enjoyed your reaction...(p.s. pretty sure it was this song that put Roger in the class of #1 hits.. to make all four members of the band #1 hit writers.. no other band has that distinction.. to my knowledge.. I actually encountered the question in a "Trivial Pursuit" game.. "what band has all four members with #1 hits..." and I laughed and said "Queen, of course".. and my nephew was totally surprised... lol)
0:14. Oh it does have something very important to do with Lady Gaga - it was the inspiration for her stage name!
Vinyls didn't become vinyls until the CD came around.
LPs, 12 inch [single], and 45s were the terms we used in the 80s. For The Works, I collected all the 12 inch singles.
@@rog2224 12" = Maxi single, 45's 0 single here in Sweden.
@@darkiee69 - LP, Single and Maxi Single also in Germany. And also EP, if I remember correctly 🙂
It's amazing how everytime you give us an insightful analysis and then distill it into a relevant message that goes beyond the musical. Thank you
It's a hard life surely will be next. Love you
'I Want To Bake Three' (cakes) first, though! 😁
Great video, great intro summary, that was useful :) I'd add that this song feels a lot more powerful live - and not just because of the audience clapping in rhythm. The instrumentation is different a bit, too, since they play live... And Freddie's energy. :)
You are cultivating what they preach here by listening to music without watching videos with it - to keep the music in focus, not the visual :)
Being part of the crowd with this song at The Magic Tour In Leiden ( Netherlands ) in `86 was unforgettable.
Prince also used the Linn Drum quite a bit.
The Live Aid performance of Queen is a must if you haven't seen it. Especially since you enjoyed the hand clapping in this song sooooo much.😊
And I didn't realize you were in Nashville. Always thought you were posting from somewhere in Europe.😂 I'm in Clarksville.👍🏽
On the subject of things that are no longer around: I remember 78rpm shellac records, 45 rpm vinyl records, 33 1/3 rpm albums, reel to reel tape recorders, cassette tape decks. Then on the vision side of life. Film cameras, KODAK film for 8mm cine, 35 mm still cameras, VHS video recorders. Telephone number 194 (my parents house number), asking an operator to connect you. Staying up late to watch the first grainy black and white tv pictures live from America via the Telstar satellite. Then the first moon landings. Life seemed so much more exciting! Those were the days.
Amy carry on the good work as you work through my record collection!!
Please listen to Radio Ga Ga as performed at the Live Aid Concert in 1985. The crowd reaction is amazing.
Brilliant, as usual 👍😊
I love how technological angst has been reflected in songs throughout the years. Video Killed the Radio Star, Radio Ga Ga, Who Listens to the Radio... And here we are in 2024 totally deconstructing a song from 1984, which just goes to show that true art -- no matter the format -- never dies.
'Who Listens To The Radio' by The Sports from Australia? 🙂
The music video is great too!
Amy, I suggest you listen to the similar themed "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles and watch the live version from the Prince's Trust Concert.
Great suggestion! 🤩👍
This song holds a very special place in my heart. I was only 10 years old when it was released, and I’ve deeply loved it since the first time I heard it. I found your closing words to be so eloquent, touching, beautiful and inspiring. Thank you Amy for another remarkable reaction!🔥🎶
I much prefer studio versions of songs to live ones, especially for first time listening. Now that you have heard it though, you must watch the Live Aid recording of this song, it’s very emotional with the crowd participating with Freddie and the rest of the band.
spent many, too many, hours cruising the backroads of San Andreas to this song.
“The conflict we feel moving into a modern age.”
Ha I felt that. Great discussion.
Roger came up with the idea for the song & Freddie took it from there.
The popularity of podcasts shows that radio is still alive. It's not exactly radio because it's pre-recorded but radio now has children. That's one way to never die.
I really appreciate the (mostly) lack of cuts, it shows to some degree that you're thoroughly digesting what you're listening to, and, really attempting to articulate your thoughts on any specific piece of music
1984 = 40 years ago! 🤯😅
And what an enjoyable and also entertaining reaction to this wonderful song which always brings back great memories of my then 14-year-old self, whenever I hear it 😊
*PS:* She should probably revisit 'Hot Space' for the song 'Cool Cat' - many people in the comments seem disappointed by its omission! 😉
Just a heads-up Amy, people of a vintage not dissimilar to my own cringe a little inside when we hear people saying 'vinyls'. We have always considered it to refer to the material that makes our 7" and LP records (or 'Albums'), and not therefore the disks themselves. We do however feel comfortable referring collectively to them as 'vinyl'. The term most popular being, 'on vinyl' to distinguish it from tape cassette or digital format. 🤓
And also, vinyl has become immensely popular again over recent years, as opposed to just being a piece of nostalgia, and now cassette tapes too have started to follow that trend! 🤯😊
The beautiful appearance of the guitar at the end of the song foreshadows a good deal of the best Queen yet to come, specially as we approach their last masterpiece album Innuendo, full of beautiful pieces and arrangements
Wow! I live just east of Nashville and used to listen to that station as well! I think the station was sold and completely changed their format. }:[
I only have 1 comment:
Fantastic music.
Is this too short?
Sometimes simplicity is all that marvels.
One word
BabyMetal!!
What, because of the "Ga Ga" bit? And it's hardly Metal! 😅
When the small guitar sound in the end comes in I can hear the word AWAY ... everytime.
When this came out I purchased the extended play vinyl single of this song. I also have the album on compact disc.
A great counterpart to this sentiment is Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio”. It is nostalgic for radio while lyrically expressing concerns for the business of radio and music expression in general.
I remember having a rotary phone and a record player... although, this was not pre either button phones nor CDs-the first CDs and mobile phones came out in 1982 and 1984, respectively-so I was just around early enough for the transitional period.
Please do a reaction to Earth Wind & Fire. One of the best groups ever. Top songs, "Reasons", "That's the way of the world", After the Love is Gone", "Shining Star" among many others.
Your comments, especially in closing, make me think that Rush's "Spirit of Radio" would be a perfect bookend to your analysis of this song. It's a work of consummate musicianship, with startling tme and style changes, incredible playing, and a message that I think will resonate with you.
A very similar sentiment is told in the Buggles song "Video Killed the Radio Star" which is also a classic punk rock song.
Ummmmm…..
That’s not a punk rock song.
It’s New Wave.
@@FriedPi-mc5yt Which at least in this case is kind of bubblegum pop. New wave was very much a reaction and an antithesis to punk.
@@blechtic True with New Wave. I’m not sure I would classify that song in with bubble gum pop though.
@@FriedPi-mc5yt The refrain has echoes of it.
@@FriedPi-mc5yt - Maybe he confused it with the remake from a few years ago?! I can't remember the band's name, but they'd turned it into a Punkrock one.
I far prefer the Buggles' original, though 😊
I'm sure now Amy is becoming a Queen fan.
I got the idea from the start Queen had become one of her favourites.
John (bass) and Roger (drums) are pulling the song into the future. Freddie (vocals) and Brian (guitar) are pulling it back into the past. The lyrics and the arrangement convey the same message. Quality music!
Roger did not abandon the idea to use this for his solo album: I Cry For You (love hope and confusion), a song based on the Radio Ga Ga chord progression is featured on his brilliant 1984 solo album Strange Frontier.
I Cry For You is my favorite Roger Taylor solo song. It is a uniquely beautiful track. I wish more people knew about Roger's solo work.
I can hear in this song the origins of Trance music especially running the synth’s Melodies through an Auto Arpeggiator.
It’s also at the juxtaposition from records and cassettes to cds!
And this was 40 years ago radio was the filter to brings us the better artists who could perform live and and got recording contracts and made their name that way. Now that filter is gone and radio and most media is full of plastic and electronic 10 minute wonders the latest big thing. Then forgotten about moving on to the next 10 minute wonder. Great talent is still out there but now you have to search it out for yourself.and it's reassuring when you do find it.
A little disappointing that more from the "Hot Space" album wasn't covered, but totally understandable.
For sure. surprised they skipped Flash. Then maybe at least two tracks from hot space. Las Palabras DAmour. / staying power. Just so Amy got the understanding of the changes . But all good !
What Queen 1&2?
Re: Hot Space, yes Cool Cat is the bomb!
C'mon Vlad! 😂
@@javiervelasco3921Staying Power would’ve made for an interesting video. That’s a fruity tune!
It`s a very unique song ,with its very own sound , lovely video Amy. Once you have finished `The Works ` you could do a Live Aid reaction and the film Bo Rap on Amy`s cut, both are rather fabulous.
The film is dreadful. It would take an age to debunk the film from its lies, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and mistakes. It is misleading rather that instructive.
@@79BlackRose Yes its full of timeline issues , and yet Roger and Brian love it because it captures how they felt at the time, they think it got the essence of Freddie and them right , ultimately it`s their judgement that matters, not ours, I love it .
@@babyfacemichael1 I disagree that their judgment matters the most. Any new fan will be hit by the tsunami of inaccuracies and most will just suck it up. :(
What judgement does matter?
Yours? No, not at all.
You don't know them, do you?
If someone think a Hollywood movie is acurat, sorry, that's stupid. It has inspired so many people to do their own reserach about Queen, to get into them and set the facts straight. As a longlife Queen fan I didnt know that Freddie was born in Zanzibar, a Zooastrian, that he was in a boarding school, his real name was Bulsara etc., because when I was young there were not many sources available. So I did my research, inspired by the movie, to find out the "truth" or whatever the truth is, apart from the timeline issues.
What a pity - I was waiting for Hot Space songs (((( at least Cool cat, Under pressure, and may be Body language ... Hope you will come back with it!
She has already reacted to Under Pressure
My first album was "Grover Sings The Blues". Bought it 1st grade, from Scholastics Books.
Grover from Sesame Street?
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We as teenagers when listening to this song in the 80s never realized all the aspects of the music as you analyze. We just listen and enjoy it. Thank you, now we realize how amazing this song is even though it sounds simple.
It is interesting we barely touched hotspace (there are some decent songs on it) and avoided FLASH (its a good sound track, not a great to listen ouside of the movie, but it MADE the movie)
You can tell the 80's were well and truly established by this point. A far cry from, 'no synthesizers!' Not only was this song a critique against pop videos becoming the chosen media to experience songs, but in a small way, a critique of the quality of pop songs in general. Although, it wasn't quite _that_ bad... not yet! It would be a few more years before the homogenisation of pop music would occur. Not all, of course, but the mainstream of what was deemed to sell would amalgamate to the point where songs took on a very similar, almost, 'rubber stamp', moulded feel to them, almost identical to the one before and the one after. A factory style production of samey, mediocre, 'hits', that lacked individuality or anything of note. This song, in it's own way, was kind of pointing toward that, in the, 'all we hear is radio ca-ca.' Again, the album this was from was another transitional period for Queen. (So what's new?) Although, I think they got the mix just right, with, 'modern', (for the time), themes like, 'Radio Ga Ga', and, 'I Want To Break Free', appealing to the singles market, whilst still having a more, 'traditional', sound in some of the album tracks. 'Man on the Prowl', being the obvious choice. 'Hammer To Fall', being more of what we expected from Queen as a single. And, we can't ignore the closing track, 'Is this the World We Created?', of course, which would be poignant a year later.
'Machines.. back to Humans', would be an interesting one.
"For some reason we didn't call them 'vinyls', we called them 'records'..."
For what it's worth, I don't think I've ever heard the term "vinyls" before this evening! For me, they've always been "records", but with an understanding that "records" is a generic term that includes "any music recorded as reproducible captures of the intended sonic waveform", including "records on CD" as well as "records on vinyl".
(For the record (HA!): I was born in 1965, and raised in the south-eastern UK, listening mainly to "Radio 2" (i.e. music from periods approximately 5 to 55 years before the moment of broadcast). )
'Vinyl' only became a popular term once CD's had taken over, I believe, and in order to distinguish between those two types of 'records'.
Everybody here in NZ refers to LP's and Singles as 'Vinyl' nowadays.
@@mightyV444 'Vinyl' in the singular, as a term for the recording medium (to distinguish it from CD), I'm well familiar with; But 'Vinyls' as a plural term for the actual records...? That's new to me.
@@therealpbristow - Ah! Okay. To me too, actually! I do know the _Divinyls_ , though! 😄😉
I remember our first radio with two speakers and just putting my face right in front of it to have the full stereo experience.
These are post WWII children who counted on the radio telling them the truth. 40 years later there was video expressions of music. Ironically Queen created one of the first music videos.