This is one of Queen's most macabre and brilliantly twisted songs. It's clever, witty and hilariously funny. Sort of like a person observing themselves losing their mind. The melody is also very unusual. Very theatrical, and it shows off Freddie's lower register quite well. It's a very underrated song.
@@anicolau It's a great video. It's just a shame that Freddie looks so skinny and ill in it. He could barely stand up during the shoot, and they had to cover his face in powder to make him look somewhat healthy. Very sad.
If you are the type that really pays attention to the lyrics of a song and analyze meanings, this song is so personal. It’s as if Freddie was trying to explain, in his cheeky way, without outright telling us how much he was suffering. Brave genius. Great analysis Amy thank you!
A fun song on a often frustrating thing most of us experience at times that is dealt with in a humorous way. The laugh to keep from crying thing, particularly considering the backstory of Freddie's condition. The brain fog and forgetfulness you have experienced from sleep deprivation gives you a preview of what some of us get to experience as we get older.😉 The music does have a hypnotic and slightly underwater feel which fits the theme perfectly. Great commentary on the guitar solo being the icing on the cake, by making you feel like you are in a mad house. Good catch on the "Comfortably Numb" vibe and phrasing which I hadn't noticed before. Nice words at the end that puts it all into perspective. Great reaction!
Our darling Freddie was never ever going to allow anyone to show pity for him. He couldn’t bear it. The video is so worth seeing… strangely shows the feelings of the group while Freddie is being his stoic self. He was physically in a painful place yet he would despise the guys being maudlin. 🙁
It is a fantastic song, Queen could only write with this coherence between the music, the lyrics and the feeling...all the sounds accompany the sense of the song, beautiful song of Freddie in spite of the circumstances, but again Brian May, puts the right notes, there is no other guitarist that has his musical sense, the important thing is not the guitar solo itself, but the song, what shines is the song not the guitarist...Brian is a great musician.
I was lucky enough to attend the playback of (a small amount) of the Innuendo album tapes at Metropolis Studios in London on 30th September 2017 - there was a wholly different, completed version/mix of 'Slightly Mad' played to us there which the band had worked on - and was fantastic in it's own right. 'Slightly Mad' remains my youngest daughter's most favourite Queen track due to the video. Gorilla, bananas, penguin, daffodils - what's not to love ?
You are VERY lucky. I wanted to attend the Back To The Tapes of Innuendo at Metropolis in 2017, but I couldn't afford it. And I was never in England before, so it was generally too big undertaking for me at that time. I was reading a very long and detailed thread on queenzone forum from the people who were there. Could you describe your experience? What details do you remember? Dates? Facts? Anything? Those things are really important for Queen historians like myself.
@@Gaxinha Different in virtually EVERY way - far wilder, with sounds and lyrics seemingly flying in from all directions - I'd love for it to surface on an official release sometime. Totally unique.
I’m sure Freddie who was well read knew this poem. I thought of it too when listening to this song. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed-and gazed-but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. - William Wordsworth (1802)
Great analysis. I think this song was Freddie's way of saying that he was ill and that he accepted it was sending him down a path that was transforming him physically and mentally.
This song was so much fun after I was in the army and I had to get used to civilian life. half the stuff I did was considered insane and half the stuff civilians did seemed insane to me.
Amy needs to watch the “Making of I’m Going Slightly Mad video”. Watching Freddie direct everyone is fascinating. “I’m going to go here and I want you to do this, then I’ll do this and Roger should do this etc, etc.”. So fun, especially the incident on the sofa with the penguin!
A type of song that only Queen could make, I miss getting to listen to a new album every second year or so from them. It’s painful to see Freddie in the video knowing that he didn’t have much longer to live when they recorded it. Love the feeling in this song crowned by the guitar solo.
Actually, if I didn't know who made this song, I would probably have guessed it was a David Bowie piece. Musically and lyrically it's much closer to something Bowie could have written. Fascinating piece of music.
To me the beat reminds me of the sound of a grandfather clock ticking. Freddie I'm sure, got the daffodil idea from the poem. Freddie was very courageous all his life not just at the ending. Freddie to me was a lovely human. As always a great reaction.😊
Beautiful song in an old style despite the modern arrangement. I love the deep color of Freddie's baritone voice here. He rarely used this vocal register
Freddie was definitely not a baritone, that is why he almost never sang in that range. Tenors can sing low notes, it is part of their range. Some tenors can have very impressive lower notes, here is tenor with great low notes vs. baritones: th-cam.com/video/UnbksSldzyk/w-d-xo.html
@@ZENOBlAmusic Freddie said he was a baritone himself, and Montserrat Caballe, the lyric singer he loved so much also said this publicly. This has some validity I imagine. So you can tell them that. In any case, these FACH classifications are useless for popular singers like Freddie, who use resources such as falsetto, drives and vocal distortions and achieve interesting highs and lows but would never make them a bass or tenor or soprano in the academic sense of the world of opera. because it doesn't have the color and vocal quality that is expected in this medium. Freddie certainly reached low baritone levels and tenor high notes, perhaps even mezzo soprano, this did not make him a baritone or mezzo soprano capable of singing in the classical market. So, this discussion is stupid and doesn't make sense....you can say at most in baritonal color, sopranistica, etc., which is what I meant. The difference in register between a tenor and baritone is a minor third, and Freddie reached all of these notes. So he was everything, a baritenor and also a soprano, since he could also reach high notes? Again, it doesn't make sense, as we are using classic terminology that only works in that environment. To have a vague idea of what he could have been like as an opera singer if trained, we would have to know the exact length of his vocal folds, since those of a bass baritone are a few millimeters longer than those of a tenor
All three singles from Innuendo are, for me, the greatest Queen songs. Wildly different from each other, yet still so massively creative and memorable. Freddie and his mates are on such top form. Glorious. Very happy revisiting them through this channel; super interesting takes from fresh ears.
Agree. My favorite Queen album is Innuendo, it's a rollercoaster of emotions; it sounds sooo soo mature, well-rounded, and precisely delivers the intended message. A masterpiece of a culmination of the greatest career in rock music history, ever.
There were four, weren't there? Innuendo, I'm Going Slightly Mad, The Show Must Go On and These Are The Days Of Our Lives. And they're all superb, and very different.
I'm 29 and have been a Queen fan since my childhood. This has always been one of my favorite Queen songs ever. When listening to this song the synth makes me feel like I'm in a room with rythmically dripping water, and the drums give me a ticking clock feeling. I think those add a lot to the complexity of the feeling of going mad, yet being simple figures.
Fun track, some real song craft aside from the synths. Thank you. Brian's slide guitar is fitting and fun, he didn't play much slide guitar, but when he did, it was good.
I Do recommend taking a look at the video for this piece. A great playful piece of art. PS The Penguin and the clogs has been associated with Brian from the very start of Queen. DS
So many songs on this album that would warrant a listen. I hope we get The Show Must Go On still before moving on. (And Ride The Wild Wind. And Delilah or Bijou. But I guess we need some tracks from Made In Heaven as well. And hopefully "No One But You" at the end of the 50.)
I appreciate seeing a first reaction sans video. The vid is fun and creative but distracts from the important subject matter of the song. "Everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio"; form your own imagery from what you hear. As always, Freddie's brilliant vocals perfectly paint a playful picture of how he dealt with his illness. Thanks, Amy.
Thank for these videos. I'm 47, and Freddie was probably the only celebrity whose death really moved me. This song, along with Days of Our Lives, are some of my favorites from the band. Off topic, but your english is impeccable. Ridiculously so. I can't pinpoint the accent, but I highly suspect it's American with maybe a hint of dutch influence. It's nice to hear during your lectures/teaching/analyses.
The Queen is most entertaining and artistically uncompromising rock band you can imagine. It is probably the most important rock band ever existed. I love them and their brilliance so much!
One of the most incredible songs they ever did, a precise and bittersweet way of expressing what Freddie was going through, lyrically and musically accurate in what he wants to express... I hope you can listen to the entire album, and not just the "singles", there are many songs on this album that deserve a good analysis (I Can't Live With You, Don't Try So Hard, Bijou) that were not singles, but deserve attention
You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn. - Milton H. Erickson - Freddie had a wonderful voice. Thank you.
I agree with all 3 (I think Delilah is a sweet song) but you didn't mention BIJOU, which is in my opinion an incredible piece. There's a really tight number (only 50 Queen songs) but I would really like to hear Amy's opinion on: *All God's People, *These Are the Days of Our Lives, *Bijou, *The Show Must Go On, *A Winters Tale, *Mother Love And after Queen 50 series we really need Queen 50 deep cuts...
@@iris67si abouth mother love and a winter's tale they are on the next album.. With it's a beautiful day (but not the 'reprise' one), 'let me live' and 'you don't fool me' the Made in Heavaen album should be over. The others are basically B-sides of innuendo/the miracle and some FM solo's reprised songs. Still perfectally re-arranged but not originals..
It *has* to be. Freddie's vocal is frankly terrifying, in a good way. The whole song is brilliantly poignant, and that high note at the end is a real spine tingler.
I don't think I've listened to this song since pre-2020. Now living with long-COVID the song takes on new meaning as the #brainfog resonates so much with what's being said. I always liked this song but with the (not so) fresh perspective I feel closer to what Freddie must have been going through. Also I'd never noticed the echoes of "Comfortably Numb" (the strings section). Thanks Amy!
Don't feel too bad about forgetting names Amy. My mom once forgot my name and ran through all the names in the family, including past pets, before getting to mine. My mom also invited me to bleed on the porch once after a misadventure. I then bled and waited for her to put makeup on before she took me to the emergency room for stitches because she forgot I was hurt and it was the Wimbledon final with Bjorn Borg and Mcenroe.
I'm Going Slightly Mad (1991) and A Winters's Tale (1995) are my favorite Queen songs. I became a fan during the 90's and basically listened to Queen's discography in a reverse order. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (1974) completes my top 3.
I love this song - it actually inspired a picture I painted the first time I heard it [it's a picture of an attic or perhaps a small old barn, filled with random items].
@@TheoZoffrok No, you are thinking of Nick Straker. Peter Straker is an actor and singer. His album "This One 's On Me" was produced by Freddie Mercury and Roy Thomas Baker.
The description of becoming a parent and loosing the sleep is quite accurate. Our son let us sleep max. 2 hours at time for the first year of his life. That was BANANAS. I can not remember much from that year anymore. It vanished in the black hole of parenthood.
Being slightly crazy is like being half drunk or half happy or half sleepy. Being slightly crazy is like being aware of a mental prostration towards a physical inertia and an indifference to the stimuli that come to us from what surrounds us as a momentary and temporary giving up of the jovial and normal interest in what surrounds us. Finally this moment arrives as if we had been waiting for a long time and in a way it saves us from complete madness. It is the contemplation of the abyss of madness and feeling vertigo for a moment and stepping back from its edge, before it is cames to late, because in total madness we would no longer have the notion of personal animation. Or would it be another way of living? Do I send everything to the cabbages? But the feeling is not bad if only in this small amount because we feel that not even light can escape from the abyss.
The music video makes the song even more amusing, with Freddie wearing a bunch of bananas on his head, John wearing a jester hat, Roger wearing a tea kettle "hat", and Brian dressed like a penguin lol
Subconsciously he could have been wortied about dementia due to his illness Roger said Freddie was waiting at the studio Roger was first to turn up an hour late He said Freddie said to him I'm going mad waiting here and had started writting this song
I am trying to guess the last songs... Not the ones i necessarily like though, like Hitman as an example... The Show Must Go On Bijou Made In Heaven Mother Love Heaven For Everyone
Yes this song could remind a bit 'killer 'Queen'.. both of them are a first person's song. They have completely the opposite meaning but yes. Definitively those songs are very similar in their style. And about the guitar style too.. With different technologies inside but, the guitar style is quite the same. As regard the bass line (tied with the drum line) seems to be quite simple but it is researched and very linear to the 'Noir humor' that this song must have.
The lyrics are a satire on how the English have an aversion to directness. It would be considered impolite to call someone mad directly which is why the English have created so many different ways to indirectly describe someone as being mad, and Freddie reels off these descriptions one by one when referring to himself being mad. The song it a nod to English repression.
'Not in your peak, my dear'; This is 'camp'. It's the way that characters speak in 'The Importance of Being Earnest', and reprised (for example) in the characters Hinge and Bracket who were contemporary to this number. Ironically, for somebody who was secretive about his sexuality in the media, this comes in the period when fans began to realise that he was ill, that it was probably AIDS, then they thought about his performances and then the penny finally began to drop. It always seemed a bit strange to his friends and intimates that he remained 'ungay' for the media until the end, despite being quite open and flamboyant in private and among friends.
Everso slightly out-of-kilter, skew-whiff, lop-sided, cock-eyed, askew. Not quite as it should be, but using understatements to express it as such. Typically English.
This is one of Queen's most macabre and brilliantly twisted songs. It's clever, witty and hilariously funny. Sort of like a person observing themselves losing their mind.
The melody is also very unusual. Very theatrical, and it shows off Freddie's lower register quite well. It's a very underrated song.
the video is bittersweet, because you know when was made and you just only think: these guys are silly, very silly. Amen to that. Long live to Queen
@@anicolau It's a great video. It's just a shame that Freddie looks so skinny and ill in it. He could barely stand up during the shoot, and they had to cover his face in powder to make him look somewhat healthy. Very sad.
YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY WATCH THE VIDEO it’s so much connected to the music, ironic and fun!
Freddie's way of dealing with the side-effects of his AIDS medication. He was so BRAVE!
Yes 🌷
If you are the type that really pays attention to the lyrics of a song and analyze meanings, this song is so personal. It’s as if Freddie was trying to explain, in his cheeky way, without outright telling us how much he was suffering. Brave genius. Great analysis Amy thank you!
A fun song on a often frustrating thing most of us experience at times that is dealt with in a humorous way. The laugh to keep from crying thing, particularly considering the backstory of Freddie's condition. The brain fog and forgetfulness you have experienced from sleep deprivation gives you a preview of what some of us get to experience as we get older.😉 The music does have a hypnotic and slightly underwater feel which fits the theme perfectly. Great commentary on the guitar solo being the icing on the cake, by making you feel like you are in a mad house. Good catch on the "Comfortably Numb" vibe and phrasing which I hadn't noticed before. Nice words at the end that puts it all into perspective. Great reaction!
Amy should watch the video to this one (and to "These Are The Days"!
I agree, as heartbreaking as it is to see him so frail and near the end, it still brings a tear to my eye when I watch the TATDOOL video.
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Definitely need to watch the video for "These are the days"!!!!
Our darling Freddie was never ever going to allow anyone to show pity for him. He couldn’t bear it. The video is so worth seeing… strangely shows the feelings of the group while Freddie is being his stoic self. He was physically in a painful place yet he would despise the guys being maudlin. 🙁
11:23 That's John's bass, actually. If you listen closely, he's all over the place on the fretboard during the entire song. One of his best.
Esperando el glorioso y mejor tema de Queen The show must go on!!!!
Don't try so Hard is wonderfuul piece. And of course, The show must go on....
Yes, Don't Try So Hard is very underrated, it is a beautiful song, and Freddie does amazing singing on it.
Bijou is a real gem of underrated song from this album as well.
Don't Try So Hard is one of the best vocal recordings of all time. It's a masterclass of singing.
I have been waiting for someone to react to this piece, I am glad you were the first.
Thank You
It is a fantastic song, Queen could only write with this coherence between the music, the lyrics and the feeling...all the sounds accompany the sense of the song, beautiful song of Freddie in spite of the circumstances, but again Brian May, puts the right notes, there is no other guitarist that has his musical sense, the important thing is not the guitar solo itself, but the song, what shines is the song not the guitarist...Brian is a great musician.
Freddie wouldn't have let him take the spot light in his song!
Freddie went to a British style boarding school in India
Based especially on his earlier songs I think he he studied a lot of British literature
I was lucky enough to attend the playback of (a small amount) of the Innuendo album tapes at Metropolis Studios in London on 30th September 2017 - there was a wholly different, completed version/mix of 'Slightly Mad' played to us there which the band had worked on - and was fantastic in it's own right. 'Slightly Mad' remains my youngest daughter's most favourite Queen track due to the video. Gorilla, bananas, penguin, daffodils - what's not to love ?
Different in which way?
You are VERY lucky. I wanted to attend the Back To The Tapes of Innuendo at Metropolis in 2017, but I couldn't afford it. And I was never in England before, so it was generally too big undertaking for me at that time. I was reading a very long and detailed thread on queenzone forum from the people who were there. Could you describe your experience? What details do you remember? Dates? Facts? Anything? Those things are really important for Queen historians like myself.
@@Gaxinha Different in virtually EVERY way - far wilder, with sounds and lyrics seemingly flying in from all directions - I'd love for it to surface on an official release sometime. Totally unique.
Lucky person indeed, was this the one with the Innuendo outtakes as well.
I’m sure Freddie who was well read knew this poem. I thought of it too when listening to this song.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
- William Wordsworth (1802)
Great analysis. I think this song was Freddie's way of saying that he was ill and that he accepted it was sending him down a path that was transforming him physically and mentally.
This song was so much fun after I was in the army and I had to get used to civilian life. half the stuff I did was considered insane and half the stuff civilians did seemed insane to me.
Amy needs to watch the “Making of I’m Going Slightly Mad video”. Watching Freddie direct everyone is fascinating. “I’m going to go here and I want you to do this, then I’ll do this and Roger should do this etc, etc.”. So fun, especially the incident on the sofa with the penguin!
"roger, what did you do??"
An underappreciated gem from their final album.
A type of song that only Queen could make, I miss getting to listen to a new album every second year or so from them. It’s painful to see Freddie in the video knowing that he didn’t have much longer to live when they recorded it. Love the feeling in this song crowned by the guitar solo.
Actually, if I didn't know who made this song, I would probably have guessed it was a David Bowie piece. Musically and lyrically it's much closer to something Bowie could have written. Fascinating piece of music.
To me the beat reminds me of the sound of a grandfather clock ticking. Freddie I'm sure, got the daffodil idea from the poem. Freddie was very courageous all his life not just at the ending. Freddie to me was a lovely human. As always a great reaction.😊
Beautiful song in an old style despite the modern arrangement. I love the deep color of Freddie's baritone voice here. He rarely used this vocal register
Considering that Freddie was so very ill and in so much pain, his voice is absolutely stunning in this song.
@@chergui77 Yes. Also in "The Just Go On Show". Most singers can't do this even at their best.
Freddie was definitely not a baritone, that is why he almost never sang in that range. Tenors can sing low notes, it is part of their range. Some tenors can have very impressive lower notes, here is tenor with great low notes vs. baritones: th-cam.com/video/UnbksSldzyk/w-d-xo.html
@@ZENOBlAmusic
Freddie said he was a baritone himself, and Montserrat Caballe, the lyric singer he loved so much also said this publicly. This has some validity I imagine. So you can tell them that. In any case, these FACH classifications are useless for popular singers like Freddie, who use resources such as falsetto, drives and vocal distortions and achieve interesting highs and lows but would never make them a bass or tenor or soprano in the academic sense of the world of opera. because it doesn't have the color and vocal quality that is expected in this medium. Freddie certainly reached low baritone levels and tenor high notes, perhaps even mezzo soprano, this did not make him a baritone or mezzo soprano capable of singing in the classical market. So, this discussion is stupid and doesn't make sense....you can say at most in baritonal color, sopranistica, etc., which is what I meant. The difference in register between a tenor and baritone is a minor third, and Freddie reached all of these notes. So he was everything, a baritenor and also a soprano, since he could also reach high notes? Again, it doesn't make sense, as we are using classic terminology that only works in that environment. To have a vague idea of what he could have been like as an opera singer if trained, we would have to know the exact length of his vocal folds, since those of a bass baritone are a few millimeters longer than those of a tenor
Oh Amy! You really do need to see the video on this one!
All three singles from Innuendo are, for me, the greatest Queen songs. Wildly different from each other, yet still so massively creative and memorable. Freddie and his mates are on such top form. Glorious. Very happy revisiting them through this channel; super interesting takes from fresh ears.
Agree. My favorite Queen album is Innuendo, it's a rollercoaster of emotions; it sounds sooo soo mature, well-rounded, and precisely delivers the intended message. A masterpiece of a culmination of the greatest career in rock music history, ever.
There were four, weren't there? Innuendo, I'm Going Slightly Mad, The Show Must Go On and These Are The Days Of Our Lives. And they're all superb, and very different.
John Deacon never gets the praise he deserves for this bass line, really brilliant staff!
I'm 29 and have been a Queen fan since my childhood. This has always been one of my favorite Queen songs ever. When listening to this song the synth makes me feel like I'm in a room with rythmically dripping water, and the drums give me a ticking clock feeling. I think those add a lot to the complexity of the feeling of going mad, yet being simple figures.
Fun track, some real song craft aside from the synths. Thank you.
Brian's slide guitar is fitting and fun, he didn't play much slide guitar, but when he did, it was good.
So, what will be next? "Headlong, The Show Must Go On?", I wouldn't mind "These Are The Days Of Our Lives" or "Don't Try So Hard".
I Do recommend taking a look at the video for this piece. A great playful piece of art.
PS The Penguin and the clogs has been associated with Brian from the very start of Queen. DS
So many songs on this album that would warrant a listen. I hope we get The Show Must Go On still before moving on. (And Ride The Wild Wind. And Delilah or Bijou. But I guess we need some tracks from Made In Heaven as well. And hopefully "No One But You" at the end of the 50.)
I appreciate seeing a first reaction sans video. The vid is fun and creative but distracts from the important subject matter of the song. "Everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio"; form your own imagery from what you hear. As always, Freddie's brilliant vocals perfectly paint a playful picture of how he dealt with his illness. Thanks, Amy.
Thank for these videos. I'm 47, and Freddie was probably the only celebrity whose death really moved me. This song, along with Days of Our Lives, are some of my favorites from the band.
Off topic, but your english is impeccable. Ridiculously so. I can't pinpoint the accent, but I highly suspect it's American with maybe a hint of dutch influence. It's nice to hear during your lectures/teaching/analyses.
I love this song..
The Queen is most entertaining and artistically uncompromising rock band you can imagine. It is probably the most important rock band ever existed. I love them and their brilliance so much!
Alert set, looking forward to this!
and there you have it ……
Best band ever
Amy how about reaction to Freddie's solo music there is some fantastic music?
You should watch the videoclip, you'll be surprised to see the match 😂
The video complements this numbness of the sound with some hilarious takes
Thank you Amy.
My favorite Queen song, music wise and lyric wise
One of the most incredible songs they ever did, a precise and bittersweet way of expressing what Freddie was going through, lyrically and musically accurate in what he wants to express... I hope you can listen to the entire album, and not just the "singles", there are many songs on this album that deserve a good analysis (I Can't Live With You, Don't Try So Hard, Bijou) that were not singles, but deserve attention
Definitely need to watch the video.
Once again a great video Amy , we all knew you were just going to love it- Oh Yes we did. Wonderfully NoelCowardesk
Bijou!!!!
El videoclip es magico! el mejor de queen. Pero falta la reaccion de was it all worth it (Miracle album)!!
You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.
- Milton H. Erickson -
Freddie had a wonderful voice. Thank you.
Really need to watch the video for this one.
That's quite a big number there. Roger what did you do.
All god's People is a MUST as These are the days of our lives and Delilah..
Agreed on These Are the Days of Our Lives, but the other two have no place in a Queen 50 Series. Delilah in particular is easily Queen's worst song.
@@arnehenkler8391 in your unrespectable opinion obviously.
I agree with all 3 (I think Delilah is a sweet song) but you didn't mention BIJOU, which is in my opinion an incredible piece.
There's a really tight number (only 50 Queen songs) but I would really like to hear Amy's opinion on:
*All God's People,
*These Are the Days of Our Lives,
*Bijou,
*The Show Must Go On,
*A Winters Tale,
*Mother Love
And after Queen 50 series we really need Queen 50 deep cuts...
@@iris67si Yes, bijou too is just wonderfull! i forgot it🤣
@@iris67si abouth mother love and a winter's tale they are on the next album.. With it's a beautiful day (but not the 'reprise' one), 'let me live' and 'you don't fool me' the Made in Heavaen album should be over. The others are basically B-sides of innuendo/the miracle and some FM solo's reprised songs. Still perfectally re-arranged but not originals..
The video for this is so full of visuals it would explain it better
The show must go on, is essential for this series surely.
It *has* to be. Freddie's vocal is frankly terrifying, in a good way. The whole song is brilliantly poignant, and that high note at the end is a real spine tingler.
@@TheoZoffrok Yes that's it exactly the performance and the context of the song just make an amazing piece of art.
I don't think I've listened to this song since pre-2020. Now living with long-COVID the song takes on new meaning as the #brainfog resonates so much with what's being said. I always liked this song but with the (not so) fresh perspective I feel closer to what Freddie must have been going through. Also I'd never noticed the echoes of "Comfortably Numb" (the strings section). Thanks Amy!
This always puts me in mind of Noel Coward, doubly so when coupled with the music video they filmed for it.
Don't feel too bad about forgetting names Amy. My mom once forgot my name and ran through all the names in the family, including past pets, before getting to mine. My mom also invited me to bleed on the porch once after a misadventure. I then bled and waited for her to put makeup on before she took me to the emergency room for stitches because she forgot I was hurt and it was the Wimbledon final with Bjorn Borg and Mcenroe.
I think I don't need to talk about the impact it had on me. :P
The WHOLE ALBUM in my opinion is a masterpiece
I strongly recommend you to react to another Queen song, ' the show must go on' !!!
I'm Going Slightly Mad (1991) and A Winters's Tale (1995) are my favorite Queen songs. I became a fan during the 90's and basically listened to Queen's discography in a reverse order. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (1974) completes my top 3.
Obrigado por reagir ,eu indiquei essa linda canção do QUEEN .
I love this song - it actually inspired a picture I painted the first time I heard it [it's a picture of an attic or perhaps a small old barn, filled with random items].
Tom Waits.
We're all mad here.
😊.
I love Peter Straker. He has such a great sense of humour.
Is it the same Peter Straker of The Pete Straker Band, one hit wonders? It was a great hit though, A Walk In The Park.
@@TheoZoffrok No, you are thinking of Nick Straker.
Peter Straker is an actor and singer. His album "This One 's On Me" was produced by Freddie Mercury and Roy Thomas Baker.
@@FM4ever Ah, gotcha!
The description of becoming a parent and loosing the sleep is quite accurate. Our son let us sleep max. 2 hours at time for the first year of his life. That was BANANAS. I can not remember much from that year anymore. It vanished in the black hole of parenthood.
I like the video to this
Amy, I hope you watched the music video. It really adds another dimension to the song.
By the way, you may compare this one to Gentle Giant's 1978's hit song "Giant for a day"... A suspicious similarity...
Have you picked your nest band to do a series on? The Beatles, Queen……Zeppelin 20? 😁 We know you enjoy them .
Being slightly crazy is like being half drunk or half happy or half sleepy.
Being slightly crazy is like being aware of a mental prostration towards a physical inertia and an indifference to the stimuli that come to us from what surrounds us as a momentary and temporary giving up of the jovial and normal interest in what surrounds us.
Finally this moment arrives as if we had been waiting for a long time and in a way it saves us from complete madness.
It is the contemplation of the abyss of madness and feeling vertigo for a moment and stepping back from its edge, before it is cames to late, because in total madness we would no longer have the notion of personal animation.
Or would it be another way of living?
Do I send everything to the cabbages?
But the feeling is not bad if only in this small amount because we feel that not even light can escape from the abyss.
The music video makes the song even more amusing, with Freddie wearing a bunch of bananas on his head, John wearing a jester hat, Roger wearing a tea kettle "hat", and Brian dressed like a penguin lol
On the subject of "Wee Oohs" maybe Amy would appreciate listening to the whole of Jeff Wayne's musical version of "The War of The Worlds"?
You must watch the video
It's hilarious and intelligent
Freddie is on his finest form sadly for in his final months
Subconsciously he could have been wortied about dementia due to his illness
Roger said Freddie was waiting at the studio
Roger was first to turn up an hour late
He said Freddie said to him I'm going mad waiting here and had started writting this song
The way he is singing makes me imagine someone on a vaudeville stage with a old 1920s tin megaphone.
I’d definitely recommend you check out the cures disintegration live at wembley versions specifically lullaby, disintegration and homesick
The phrasing and language reminds me of Noel Coward.
I am trying to guess the last songs...
Not the ones i necessarily like though, like Hitman as an example...
The Show Must Go On
Bijou
Made In Heaven
Mother Love
Heaven For Everyone
I’m at the edge of my seat waiting for “The Prophet Song.”
Oh, dear 🗣️
I would love to see you reacting to some Tame Impala´s songs!
Yes this song could remind a bit 'killer 'Queen'.. both of them are a first person's song. They have completely the opposite meaning but yes. Definitively those songs are very similar in their style. And about the guitar style too.. With different technologies inside but, the guitar style is quite the same. As regard the bass line (tied with the drum line) seems to be quite simple but it is researched and very linear to the 'Noir humor' that this song must have.
Bob Dylan
Blowin in the wind
The lyrics are a satire on how the English have an aversion to directness. It would be considered impolite to call someone mad directly which is why the English have created so many different ways to indirectly describe someone as being mad, and Freddie reels off these descriptions one by one when referring to himself being mad. The song it a nod to English repression.
"It finally happened...happened" style is much like a cuckoo noise which is also another reference to madness.
For this he wore what we call a penguine suit!
Smart black black suit and tails
So am I, Fran....
Freddie also wrote killer Queen
I feel as though you've missed some great and important songs. Hopefully there will be more Queen after you make it to 50.
Timon & Pumbaa
Stand by me
'Not in your peak, my dear'; This is 'camp'. It's the way that characters speak in 'The Importance of Being Earnest', and reprised (for example) in the characters Hinge and Bracket who were contemporary to this number. Ironically, for somebody who was secretive about his sexuality in the media, this comes in the period when fans began to realise that he was ill, that it was probably AIDS, then they thought about his performances and then the penny finally began to drop. It always seemed a bit strange to his friends and intimates that he remained 'ungay' for the media until the end, despite being quite open and flamboyant in private and among friends.
Amy got it right, it's not "in the peak" but "in the pink", an English colloquialism which was olf fashioned even back in the early 90s.
Where can I send you suggestions?
Check: Falling in Reverse, The drug in me is Reimagined....
there is an even madder version "totally bonkers"
I think Freddie could tone down the voice, because the video talks for everyone and everything, these are all sayings we'd use in the UK
I dunno..the fun is totally lost on me with these late recordings... even the self-irony feels just tragical, infinitely sad.
46 These Are The Days Of Our Lives
47 Show Must Go On
48 Mother Love
49 Too Much Love Will Kill You
50 A Winter's Tale
Queen was such a disappointment starting in the 80's.
I would broaden your musical taste. No Jackson 5? Bill Withers? James Brown? Cymande? Earth Wind and Fire? DeBarge? The Jimmy Castor Bunch?
:)
The video is fun, but the attitude is very English, while still being very Freddy.
Everso slightly out-of-kilter, skew-whiff, lop-sided, cock-eyed, askew. Not quite as it should be, but using understatements to express it as such. Typically English.
This channel has Queen on the brain. LOL