The Queen moment that made the biggest impact on you.
Oct 6, 2021 2:27:17 GMT
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Post by Strange_frontier on Oct 6, 2021 2:27:17 GMT
Checking out Brian's solo work, Roger's solo work and The Cross for the first time. But especially the latter two.
It was 2015, my first big Queen year, and I was in 8th grade at the time. One of the websites I would frequent back then was ultimatequeen, I found it so fascinating to read all the stuff about Queen and their solo works and I thought it'd be worthwhile to check them all out. I started in the summer with Brian's Driven By You and Roger's Future Management, and then when I heard Strange Frontier for the first time I was blown away. I went further down the rabbit hole, even digging Happiness? and Fun on Earth as well. BUT the height of my interest in Queen's solo would arguably be my giving the Cross a chance...For me it seemed fitting as Roger had become my favorite Queen member RIGHT as I had gotten into Queen (and is still my favorite to this day!) The first I heard of them was either Shove It or Cowboys and Indians, and I must have had a divine intervention the first time I heard those, because I saw in them something special. Then I remembered reading on ultimatequeen that Penetration Guru was a thing, and that pleased me too. I began listening more to MBADTK and Blue Rock and it impressed me SO MUCH that even today the last two albums are among the greatest I have EVER heard! But at the time I liked Shove It a lot more than I do now; Contact, Love on a Tightrope, Cowboys and Indians etc. give me nostalgia rushes!
I even went as far as to snag myself a cassette copy of Shove It as well as the Cowboys and Indians single. And as for my interest in the other solo projects, I also got CD copies of Happiness? and Another World, which remain my favorite Roger and Brian solo albums respectively.
As much as I loved Mad Bad and Blue Rock, and had my sights on Roger's The Lot boxset, I was certain I would not get it. Although I was at least hopeful that I would EVENTUALLY obtain the Cross albums, I knew like it was a fact in a textbook, that I would NEVER EVER EVER snag Mad Bad OR Blue Rock on vinyl, let alone the Lot boxset, while I was still a Queenie (However, I finally was able to snag all of the aforementioned items earlier this year!)
It's very sad how overlooked Brian's and Roger's solo catalogs are. They deserve to be held to at least the same level as Mr Bad Guy and Barcelona (which, incidentally, I to this day have found it difficult to get into Freddie's solo work).
MBADTK is the greatest album hardly anybody's ever heard. After all, I don't call myself "Sister Blue" for nothing!
It was 2015, my first big Queen year, and I was in 8th grade at the time. One of the websites I would frequent back then was ultimatequeen, I found it so fascinating to read all the stuff about Queen and their solo works and I thought it'd be worthwhile to check them all out. I started in the summer with Brian's Driven By You and Roger's Future Management, and then when I heard Strange Frontier for the first time I was blown away. I went further down the rabbit hole, even digging Happiness? and Fun on Earth as well. BUT the height of my interest in Queen's solo would arguably be my giving the Cross a chance...For me it seemed fitting as Roger had become my favorite Queen member RIGHT as I had gotten into Queen (and is still my favorite to this day!) The first I heard of them was either Shove It or Cowboys and Indians, and I must have had a divine intervention the first time I heard those, because I saw in them something special. Then I remembered reading on ultimatequeen that Penetration Guru was a thing, and that pleased me too. I began listening more to MBADTK and Blue Rock and it impressed me SO MUCH that even today the last two albums are among the greatest I have EVER heard! But at the time I liked Shove It a lot more than I do now; Contact, Love on a Tightrope, Cowboys and Indians etc. give me nostalgia rushes!
I even went as far as to snag myself a cassette copy of Shove It as well as the Cowboys and Indians single. And as for my interest in the other solo projects, I also got CD copies of Happiness? and Another World, which remain my favorite Roger and Brian solo albums respectively.
As much as I loved Mad Bad and Blue Rock, and had my sights on Roger's The Lot boxset, I was certain I would not get it. Although I was at least hopeful that I would EVENTUALLY obtain the Cross albums, I knew like it was a fact in a textbook, that I would NEVER EVER EVER snag Mad Bad OR Blue Rock on vinyl, let alone the Lot boxset, while I was still a Queenie (However, I finally was able to snag all of the aforementioned items earlier this year!)
It's very sad how overlooked Brian's and Roger's solo catalogs are. They deserve to be held to at least the same level as Mr Bad Guy and Barcelona (which, incidentally, I to this day have found it difficult to get into Freddie's solo work).
MBADTK is the greatest album hardly anybody's ever heard. After all, I don't call myself "Sister Blue" for nothing!
