It was 50 years ago - Sgt Pepper

[cloughie]

Well, to be fair, you could listen to one side of a Ramones album in the same time it would take to hear Bohemian Rhapsody burble to a conclusion, so it was win /win back then for those of us who could see the light.......

And to think that Mercury was quicksilver. Ah well!

[teamsaint]

And to think that Mercury was quicksilver. Ah well!

Sorry, but just to go OT for a moment, but prove that I am fairminded, (!!) " Hammer to Fall" was probably the best song ( in terms of effect) that Saints ever came out on to the pitch to. Much good it did us, mind......

[cloughie]

Sorry, but just to go OT for a moment, but prove that I am fairminded, (!!) " Hammer to Fall" was probably the best song ( in terms of effect) that Saints ever came out on to the pitch to. Much good it did us, mind......

Perhaps an appropriate track if it coincided with your dark days when you went bust and fell into the third tier with Pardew as your way back! Again OT and on Queen, I always loved the simplicity of 'Crazy little thing called love', after the complexity of Boh Rhaps but one of their best lines must be in 'Killer Queen', Gunpowder, gelatine, dynamite with a laserbeam.

[MrGongGong]

Perhaps an appropriate track if it coincided with your dark days when you went bust and fell into the third tier with Pardew as your way back! Again OT and on Queen, I always loved the simplicity of 'Crazy little thing called love', after the complexity of Boh Rhaps but one of their best lines must be in 'Killer Queen', Gunpowder, gelatine, dynamite with a laserbeam.

Queen were lightweight shite IMV
but this is truly genius
Memorably described by John Peel as being sung by "a rather gruff Fozzy Bear"

[cloughie]

Queen were lightweight shite IMV
but this is truly genius
Memorably described by John Peel as being sung by "a rather gruff Fozzy Bear"

Should've cleared his throat first. You call it genius, ay 'appen not!

[greenilex]

Re that Fluxus performance art list, I can't help wondering how those sixties folk managed to waste so much time...I remember working like a dog the whole decade and topping it off with my first pregnancy.

[MrGongGong]

Re that Fluxus performance art list, I can't help wondering how those sixties folk managed to waste so much time...I remember working like a dog the whole decade and topping it off with my first pregnancy.

"Wasting time" is an interesting idea

[Bryn]

"Wasting time" is an interesting idea

I wasted a lot of time in the '60s too; going to school and tech. college, serving in the armed forces, watching wood wasps and their parasites oviposit, testing central heating and air conditioning system, plucking chickens, breeding locusts ... , and worst of all, attending Cornelius Cardew's experimental music classes at Morley College and participating in the Scratch Orchestra (including fluxus events at the Royal Court and Chelsea Town Hall). What a misspent youth!

[french frank]

but this is truly genius
Memorably described by John Peel as being sung by "a rather gruff Fozzy Bear"

I though the critical analysis more interesting than the song/video.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, to be fair, you could listen to one side of a Ramones album in the same time it would take to hear Bohemian Rhapsody burble to a conclusion, so it was win /win back then for those of us who could see the light.......

Bohemian Rhapsody was the cause of a relationship breakdown for me - I could never figure out what my ex-gf-to-be could see in it - together with her ripping an LP by the World Saxophone Quartet off the plate & throwing it at me across the room!

(Her 15-year old son, who was into the Buzzcocks, had far better taste...)

[cloughie]

Bohemian Rhapsody was the cause of a relationship breakdown for me - I could never figure out what my ex-gf-to-be could see in it - together with her ripping an LP by the World Saxophone Quartet off the plate & throwing it at me across the room!

(Her 15-year old son, who was into the Buzzcocks, had far better taste...)

I think Queen and the sax quartet would rank equally with me, the Buzzcocks being a long way behind in third place!

[cloughie]

I though the critical analysis more interesting than the song/video.

Sounds a bit like a heavy metal Eurovision entry!

[Serial_Apologist]

I think Queen and the sax quartet would rank equally with me, the Buzzcocks being a long way behind in third place!

Between the ridiculous and the sublime...

[cloughie]

Between the ridiculous and the sublime...

...but I guess that's where we of wide musical tastes on these boards leads us, and may it continue to do so.

[Serial_Apologist]

...but I guess that's where we of wide musical tastes on these boards leads us, and may it continue to do so.