Queen the band sucks. I don’t get why anyone likes them. Aside from Bohemian Rhapsody, their songs are bland and fall short. Their rock is dry. And the opera-style singing is cringe. Examples:

Another One Bites the Dust

  • Catchy bass line, fun to direct at an opponent, CORNY AF. The song is about people being killed, but sounds like a funky Michael Jackson song with an Opera singer.

We Will Rock You

  • Good solo, repetitive and annoying simple beat. Boom-boom-ch. So lame.

We Are the Champions

  • Such a self-aggrandizing and braggy song. “No time for losers”? Okay, Donald Trump.

Bicycle Race

  • I don’t even have to say anything about this one. Everyone knows how corny this song sounds.

Somebody to Love

  • Touching topic, cheesy lyrics and even cheesier choir-like singing. It’s cringe.

I am happy for the band and their success. I admire Freddie Mercury’s unapologetic flamboyance. The dude kept it real. But, I just can’t like the music.

I’m sorry if I’ve offended anyone. I understand we all have different taste and respect everyone’s freedom to like and enjoy what they want. I’m not trying to insult anyone for their taste, but merely expressing my own in a somewhat humorous attempt.

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      To be fair, if someone listens to the six best known songs by a band and only likes one of them, it’s no surprise they wouldn’t bother digging into the catalogue further

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      Anyone looking to dive into a Queen album, might I recommend A Night at the Opera?

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    I love Queen, but (with the exception of Somebody To Love) I feel like you’ve picked out the worst and most overplayed Queen songs. If you’re open to seeing why folks like them so much, I’d suggest the following (in my order of preference):

    • Under Pressure
    • I Want To Break Free
    • Radio Gaga
    • Stone Cold Crazy
    • Killer Queen
    • Crazy Little Thing Called Love
    • You’re My Best Friend
    • Don’t Stop Me Now
    • Who Wants To Live Forever

    There’s a pretty good mix in there. Some are more operatic than others. Some go pretty hard.

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    I just don’t understand how you could describe them as dry?

    Like, in my mind if you were to criticise them it would be that they’re too over the top. They’ve got punchy vocals, in your face solos, and most of the songs you listed are stadium rock.

    There’s a bravado and flamboyance to everything they do, so it’s kinda supposed to be corny and fun. Not all music needs to be sad and have deep meaning, sometimes you need to let loose.

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      I just don’t understand how you could describe them as dry?

      To answer your question as written, yes: you apparently don’t understand, as supported by the paragraph that followed this one. And that’s okay: I don’t understand either, for instance.

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    Not liking something and that something “sucking” is not the same thing.

    I don’t like Walking Dead. It doesn’t catch my interest I find it formulaic repetitive and downright mean.

    But it’s a good show. It’s incredibly well made. The acting is fantastic. The production is fantastic.

    Just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s bad.

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    As many others have pointed out, you list a lot of their radio hits that I suppose can be overplayed and have become cliche in a way. But BORING? I will have to draw the line there. That music is nothing if not lively and full of spirit. Usually doing something unique with it’s themes and style.

    Don’t tell me you are bored by Fat Bottomed Girls and Killer Queen?

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    Choosing their most radio-friendly songs and ignoring everything else? Yeah nah.

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        Spread your wings

        It’s a hard life

        These are the days of our lives

        Doing alright

        You take my breath away

        All dead, all dead

        Jealousy

        Save me

        Cool cat

        Is this the world we created

        Don’t try so hard

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      Oh god, “The Boss” is downright fucking awful, I thought so in 1985, still do today.

      He’s like the worst of the juvenile blue-collar, chip-on-his-shoulder, “I’m deep”.

      And I grew up in blue-collar country, most aren’t like that.

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        I think sometimes some artists need a guide - I didn’t care much for Springsteen until someone lent me We Shall Overcome, based on folk working songs and mythology from Appalachians.

        And then I’ve heard Tom Morello introduce a few of Springsteen’s songs with some socio-political context on his radio show and enjoyed them more with that insight.

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          Maybe since I grew up in blue collar world he always struck me as trying too hard. Then again, my peers and older siblings seemed to like him. Hard to explain, I guess.

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        As he himself says, he writes songs about the working man, but has never held the job in his life.

        However I did go to see him this summer for the first time. The cheesy Rock Icon bit is tedious, but by the middle of the show I was enjoying myself. He really is an excellent showman.

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        Gonna play two chords
        Gonna sing real hoarse
        Gonna brush my teeth and wipe my butt
        An I’m gonna say! …
        This ones for you

        [18 bars of rhythm guitar]

        Got me a band
        Everybody knows how to play
        Gonna drive em crazy
        Cuz we’re gonna just keep on playing this same hook over two chords for four and a half minutes!

        This ones for you

        Sax solo

        [Repeat first verse and fade out]

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        I like Queen as much as any person but I can understand some do the complaints in this post. But I would LOVE to hear some complaints about Bohemian Rhapsody. Even when I was too young to understand music I was like “this is a mastapiece”

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          But I would LOVE to hear some complaints about Bohemian Rhapsody.

          Wish granted. It’s a haphazard mish-mash of two potentially-good songs and one frantic pile of word salad, resulting in a scattered, inconsistent mess.

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              I basically just described my actual thoughts about the song, though. The opening is a banger, the part from “I see a little silhouetto of a man” to “Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me” is kind of a mess, then it goes to a bit that sounds like it should have been the opener of a third song, before finally finishing on something that actually matches the style of the first bit. The whole thing is a weird patchwork that somehow became a hit.