queen and squeeze

[Glorious Glorfindel]

i thought that QUEEN the best band in the world, deserved their own thread.
whats your favorite song/album or thing about the band?
i love killer queen and the show must go on best of all. i think that their greatest hits album I and II are the best coz they have all my favorite songs on.
freddie mercury dying of AIDS is one of the saddest things happening ever in my mind. he was in the prime of life, and i feel very strongly on the matter.

i did feel the need though, somewhere to state my love for squeeze. anyone else heard of them? they are also one of the best bands in the world.

[azalea]

You're My Best Friend was the song my husband and I did our first dance to at our wedding reception.

[Glorious Glorfindel]

really?cool! i want that song at my wedding! aaaaaahhhhh!!!

[galadriel88]

I love Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, and Another One Bites the Dust, to name a few.

[Glorious Glorfindel]

i like another one bites the dust, but i don't think i actually have a favorite anymore, i just can't decide! and as for squeeze, has no one heard of them? annie get your gun song is a really good one, and up the junction.

[Elvet]

Killer Queen
Somebody to Love
Under Pressure
Bohemian Rhapsody
These are my faves, but I listen to most of their hits from 2 compilation CDs. Freddy had the best voice for rock vocals. Very unique and what a range. He really was the band.

[azalea]

I also like the songs Stone Cold Crazy and Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

[elf_princess]

I guess I would have to say Bohemian Rhapsody

[Glorious Glorfindel]

your right elvet, freddie did have the best voice for rock. im not sure he was completly the band though! bryan may is excellent, without him queen wouldn't have happened. him and freddie wrote most of the music. im listening to 'im going slightly mad' it's not the best one they have done, but it's pretty cool. radio ga ga is good as well.

[gdl96]

Queen rules!

I'll list all my fav songs later...but I really like Bicycle Race (thanks andiun ;))

[Glorious Glorfindel]

did anyone see the brian may article in the telgraph or times i think over the weekend? he went on a bit about the new musical. i'm trying to get my parents to take me to see it when it comes out. yippeeeeeeee!


i want it all
i want it all
i want it all
and i want it know

[Garina]

Garina is being taken to see We Will Rock You by her very nice Queen fan friend! Whoo hoo!

I love No one but you
Radio Ga Ga
Bohemian Rhapsody of course
Hammer To Fall
to name a few.
Why did Freddie have to die????

[BeardofPants]

Who wants to live forever. *sigh*

[Glorious Glorfindel]

we had this male window cleaner in our school and naturally we all ran to watch him(trying to be secretive but not succeeding in anyway)ANYWAY! he looked like freddie mercury completely, so i ran around school shouting 'freddie lives' i think he heard me, and i was distraught to find he had left at the end of the day (hmm, i wonder why?!!)

[Earniel]

favorites:

Nevermore
Play the game
Hammer to fall

Sooo hard to choose, I love them all! I've started collecting their CD's over the years. They have way too many.....

[Garina]

Apparently for the Queen's jubilee, Brian May is going to stand on top of Buckingham Palace and play God Save The Queen on his guitar!
Weird! (but quite cool :D)

[Glorious Glorfindel]

wow! really garina?! that would be soo cool!

[Elvedans]

I think it's time to revive this conversation coz Queen are the BEST!!!

[Blackboar]

Originally posted by elf_princess
I guess I would have to say Bohemian Rhapsody

Yeah! That rules!

[Elvedans]

Its nearyly a year since this conversation ended but now it's going again I'd like to say that these are my fave songs:

Bohemian Rhapsody
A Kind of Magic
Slightly Mad
Killer Queen
Don't Stop Me now
We are the Champions
Innuendo
Oh God i'm gonna be here forever!

[Miranda]

Originally posted by Elvedans
Its nearyly a year since this conversation ended but now it's going again I'd like to say that these are my fave songs:

Bohemian Rhapsody
A Kind of Magic
Slightly Mad
Killer Queen
Don't Stop Me now
We are the Champions
Innuendo
Oh God i'm gonna be here forever!

And your sister polayed the majority of them on my leg at dancing last week! LOL! Well my fave Queen song has to be No-one but you! Just take a look at my sig! Mx

[Millane]

Fat Bottom Girls is the best queen song of all time...

[Elvedans]

Originally posted by Miranda
And your sister polayed the majority of them on my leg at dancing last week! LOL! Well my fave Queen song has to be No-one but you! Just take a look at my sig! Mx

That was fun! Try bouncing round the room and singning really loud out of tune to queen it is GREAT!!

[Miranda]

Originally posted by Elvedans
That was fun! Try bouncing round the room and singning really loud out of tune to queen it is GREAT!!

I do! Its called musical theatre on a wednesday with Martin!!! Mx

[Elvedans]

Good but the living room is even better! Might do it again some time soon...

[Miranda]

Originally posted by Elvedans
Good but the living room is even better! Might do it again some time soon...

Can I join you? With hair like mine I'm more than qualified for that wonderful middle bit of Bohemian rhapsody! ;) Mx

[Elvedans]

No you wouldn't fit your hair in my living room. We'd suffocate!

[Miranda]

Originally posted by Elvedans
No you wouldn't fit your hair in my living room. We'd suffocate!

Cheeky! I have to say I'm falling in love with Who Wants to Live forever by Queen, its such a wonderful song- very Arwen-esque I thought, giving up her immortality for love! *shut up Miranda I hear you cry!*

[Elvedans]

I LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!

[Miranda]

Originally posted by Elvedans
I LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!

I had a feeling you might! I actually heard the WWRY version before I heard the queen version but I like the original the better. Freddie Mercury was such an amazing man- as were all the other members of the band. Sometimes I listen to his music and I actually have to remind myself that he's been dead what 10 years now? Mx

[Elvedans]

I loved all the queen songs WAY before WWRY. I think Freddie Mercury was absolutely AMAZING!!! I love Brian May too, and it was great when he did the national anthem from the roof of buckingham palace - i was like WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its a kinda magic,
Its a kinda magic,
One dream, one soul,
One prize, one goal,
One golden glance of what should be...

[Earniel]

*sound bump*

For Nerdy to tell us all how it went last friday. :)

[Nerdanel]

Okay, here it comes.. Thanks for the bump, Eärniel!:)

For all those who couldn't care less about the Queen concert I was to this weekend: you can stop reading now. I won't mind.^^

We went by the night boat on Friday, heading for Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden. It was me, a girl from my biology lectures and three of her friends. I had never met them before, but they were nice and we had a good time. We didn't sleep very much that night.. Just got crazy and danced 'til about 3am - and most of us hadn't been drinking. They played some old songs,
so we got sentimental, standing on the middle of the dancefloor singing out loud. My throat was sore the next morning. ^^
We also had to go up on stage in the nightclub, when the participants of some kind of latinoshow came to get us. It was rather amusing actually, to stand there and have no idea what you were supposed to do. *laughs*

Well, on Saturday we arrived in Stockholm about 9am. We first went to the hostel we had booked to check in, but we found out it was far too early for that.. So we left out bags there and went for the city. I've been there several times before, but there is something about Stockholm that can't be found in Helsinki.. Well, we did that for about five hours: after that we could check in. So we did, then went to an Italian restaurant and ate some great food.. Then it was time to make it to the concert. It was a lot easier than we thought, so arrived there in time, took a place in the line and got ourselves some earplugs.

So we got in, and I had to leave my bottle of water outside.. I'm not exactly sure what they expected me to do with it, hit someone with a plastic bottle isn't very dangerous, and i couldn't have drowned anyone with that amount of water.. Well, it would've been nice to have water during the concert, but i survived.^^

First of all, I went to buy a Queen T-shirt and a couple of these (i don't know the real name) pieces of fabric to sew onto a bag or something - one for me and one for my friend who couldn't come with us.
We got some really good places close to the stage, we waited for some time and suddenly all we heard was some song by eminem.. We were quite confused, but after a while the music only got better and as the curtains dropped, Paul Rodgers appeared at the front of the stage - i think he came from under the stage, 'cos he certainly didn't walk there! O.o Well, I won't tell you about all the songs they sang, but the performance was great and Paul Rodgers surprised me - he's a real good singer. It was great seing Brian May and Roger Taylor live, I was amazed how energetic they still were! They both had their own solos, absolutely stunning.

For a long time I had wondered what they'd do about Bohemian Rhapsody - I mean no one can sing it right except Freddy! But they made a great decision - they had a big screen where the song started with Freddy plating the piano and singing.. After a while May and Taylor joined him. Queen was almost back together.. Amazing. Rodgers joined them in the end of the song.

I was singing along to every song, even those few i didn't know.. Poor guys in front of me.:D The concert ended far too soon, but it left me feeling so good, still feeling like there was something missing.. Freddy. But it was an amazing experience, i'm so glad i decided to go.

After the concert we went back to the hostel, straight to bed, woke up 6 hours later and went to the boat that took us back to Finland..

[Nerdanel]

*sound bump*

For Nerdy to tell us all how it went last friday. :)

Okay, here it comes.. And thanks for the bump, Eärniel!:)

For all those who couldn't care less about the Queen concert I was to this weekend: you can stop reading now. I won't mind.^^

We went by the night boat on Friday, heading for Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden. It was me, a girl from my biology lectures and three of her friends. I had never met them before, but they were nice and we had a good time. We didn't sleep very much that night.. Just got crazy and danced 'til about 3am - and most of us hadn't been drinking. They played some old songs,
so we got sentimental, standing on the middle of the dancefloor singing out loud. My throat was sore the next morning. ^^
We also had to go up on stage in the nightclub, when the participants of some kind of latinoshow came to get us. It was rather amusing actually, to stand there and have no idea what you were supposed to do. *laughs*

Well, on Saturday we arrived in Stockholm about 9am. We first went to the hostel we had booked to check in, but we found out it was far too early for that.. So we left out bags there and went for the city. I've been there several times before, but there is something about Stockholm that can't be found in Helsinki.. Well, we did that for about five hours: after that we could check in. So we did, then went to an Italian restaurant and ate some great food.. Then it was time to make it to the concert. It was a lot easier than we thought, so arrived there in time, took a place in the line and got ourselves some earplugs.

So we got in, and I had to leave my bottle of water outside.. I'm not exactly sure what they expected me to do with it, hit someone with a plastic bottle isn't very dangerous, and i couldn't have drowned anyone with that amount of water.. Well, it would've been nice to have water during the concert, but i survived.^^

First of all, I went to buy a Queen T-shirt and a couple of these (i don't know the real name) pieces of fabric to sew onto a bag or something - one for me and one for my friend who couldn't come with us.
We got some really good places close to the stage, we waited for some time and suddenly all we heard was some song by eminem.. We were quite confused, but after a while the music only got better and as the curtains dropped, Paul Rodgers appeared at the front of the stage - i think he came from under the stage, 'cos he certainly didn't walk there! O.o Well, I won't tell you about all the songs they sang, but the performance was great and Paul Rodgers surprised me - he's a real good singer. It was great seing Brian May and Roger Taylor live, I was amazed how energetic they still were! They both had their own solos, absolutely stunning.

For a long time I had wondered what they'd do about Bohemian Rhapsody - I mean no one can sing it right except Freddy! But they made a great decision - they had a big screen where the song started with Freddy plating the piano and singing.. After a while May and Taylor joined him. Queen was almost back together.. Amazing. Rodgers joined them in the end of the song.

I was singing along to every song, even those few i didn't know.. Poor guys in front of me.:D The concert ended far too soon, but it left me feeling so good, still feeling like there was something missing.. Freddy. But it was an amazing experience, i'm so glad i decided to go.

After the concert we went back to the hostel, straight to bed, woke up 6 hours later and went to the boat that took us back to Finland..

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

queen are great and squeeze are excellent

jools holland is so cool

[Lotesse]

I love it when people bump old threads; I can never find good ones by myself-
Nerdanel, that concert sounded really fun - I'm curious about the Eminem song you mentioned, I'm a huge, huge Eminem fan and just wondering, do you remember what song it was, and why it preceeded the Queen show?

[Nerdanel]

i have to admit that i don't remember anymore..>.< i know the song, but i can't recall which one it was now. if i remember, i'll tell you though!:) but don't ask me why they played it..O.o

[Falagar]

Cheeky! I have to say I'm falling in love with Who Wants to Live forever by Queen, its such a wonderful song- very Arwen-esque I thought, giving up her immortality for love! *shut up Miranda I hear you cry!*
Add me to the Who Wants To Live Forever-lover list. :)