Is Queen over-rated ?

[jwyblejr]

After watching them tonight on VH-1 Classic,I'd have to say without a doubt no.

[Hector]

[megoscott]

I keep seeing this thread and have been meaning to stop by and add my answer to the question

"No."

Carry on.

[Hector]

[JPkempo]

That was months ago I'll have to find them and put them up again. To bad my smile 45 skips so I cant rip it to my computer.

[Hector]

Hector - did you ever download all those b-sides and extended mixes I put up?

No!

WHERE??????

[Hector]

Preach it brother, preach it!!!

[JPkempo]

Hector - did you ever download all those b-sides and extended mixes I put up?

[JPkempo]

As of 2005, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent a total of 1,322 weeks or twenty-seven years on the United Kingdom album charts; more time than any other musical act including The Beatles and Elvis Presley. Also in 2005, with the release of their live album with Paul Rodgers, Queen moved into third place on the list of acts with the most aggregate time spent on the British record charts.

In 2006, the Greatest Hits album was found to be the United Kingdom's all-time best selling album, with sales upwards of 5,407,587 copies, over 604,295 more copies than its nearest competitor, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Their Greatest Hits II album came in seventh with sales upwards of 3,631,321 copies.

One of rock's most successful, influential and popular acts, the band has released a total of eighteen number one albums, eighteen number one singles, and ten number one DVDs worldwide making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. Their total album sales have been estimated at over 300 million worldwide including 32.5 million in the United States alone as of 2004. The band is also the only group in which every member has composed more than one chart-topping single.


They where also a smart bunch
Brian - one paper away from his masters in astro-physics.
Freddie – earned a diploma in Illustration and Graphic Design from Ealing Art College
Roger – Dental degree
John – electronics degree

[Hector]

Oops, lol!!!

[palitoy]

I love how you spelled his name "Brain"

[Hector]

Let's not forget about Brain May, he seems to get lost in the shuffle sometimes from non-Queen fans...but he was every bit as influential as Mercury in Queen, wrote the same amount of songs, has a splendid mind who became a physicist and was appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, and has arguably the most distinct guitar riff sound in all of rock.




Brian May - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The man never took drugs in his life...and drinks very rarely.

[MegoMonk]

I only own a few of their albums and am not a huge fan, but I would not consider them over-rated. People still recognize their songs. I know people who consider them one of their favorite bands.

There are other bands who are supposed to be great or have reputations as being such a big deal, despite the fact that hardly anyone can name any of their songs. How about the Yardbirds? Every rock fan can name the 3 guitarists from the Yardbirds. How many can name 3 of their songs?? Can you name 3 people who you know personally who actually own an album by the Yardbirds? The only hit song they had in the US was "For your Love" a pop tune also covered by Hermans' Hermits. And just like Herman's Hermits, the Yardbirds' version was mostly recorded by studio musicians. So, if anyone wants to name a really over-rated band, how about the Yardturds?

Freddy had a great voice and was also a great front man. I know a lot of the David Lee Roth fans at the Museum make a big deal of what a great front man he was. I agree, but DLR could barely sing in key and had a limited vocal range. Freddy had one of the best voices in R&R history.

[ctc]

>I do remember they were popular in the 70s when I was a kid.

One of the problems discussing stuff like this is putting it in a chronological context. Queen was a sort of culmination of a few trends in music: glam, bigger more opratic songs, what's now called "progressive rock." They took all this stuff from the 70's and squished it onto one polished up whole. Then they kept it going for years.

Nothing exists in a vaccumn; and accrdingly neither did Queen. Also, FROM them came a lot of other bands, and they had influence that lasts to this day. BUT it's tough to see that 'cos for most of us we have very limited experience with a time when that WASN'T the case. So it can be tough measuring how influential they; or any OTHER band has actually been.

Are they the greatest band ever? I dunno. Are they over-hyped? I'd DEFINITELY say that some of their songs are. Can you make that case for ANY band? Yup.

.... DON'T get me started on U2....

Don C.

[Hector]

Mike and Jemboy,. . .I think a few people pointed out through the thread. . .that whilst their popularity was not maintained in the USA so much after the 1970's. . . that it never wained in other parts of the World. And what are the greatest or best things in the world. . . should not always be determined through the filter of American eyes/or tastes.

Similar thing in the Doc Who thread perhaps going on. A cultural divide. America is not the world. . . it is just one of the better places in it.

Your World Series Baseball. . . .um. . .how much of the world actually plays it. . .big in the US and Japan, and the rest of the world plays Soccer/Football.

So we all filter the world through our own cultural perspective. . . but everyone in the world is entitled to an opinion, and in many cases, the rest of the world may differ to the general American populus.

Spot on post, David...spot on.