Red Mosquito

Ello Sailor wrote:That's going to piss a lot of people off, and I'm here for it.

Jorge wrote:

tree_ wrote:haha i can think of wayy worse bands.. queen is very good technically so you have to at least give them that.. they're arguably one of the best classic rock bands

Technical skill means nothing to me if you use it to come up with shit like "We Are the Champions" and "LAS PALABRAS DE AMOR"

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jorge wrote:

tree_ wrote:haha i can think of wayy worse bands.. queen is very good technically so you have to at least give them that.. they're arguably one of the best classic rock bands

Technical skill means nothing to me if you use it to come up with shit like "We Are the Champions" and "LAS PALABRAS DE AMOR"

those are pop songs as much as they're rock songs; a lot of "good" pop songs are dumb

Ms Harmless wrote:

Jorge wrote:

tree_ wrote:haha i can think of wayy worse bands.. queen is very good technically so you have to at least give them that.. they're arguably one of the best classic rock bands

Technical skill means nothing to me if you use it to come up with shit like "We Are the Champions" and "LAS PALABRAS DE AMOR"

those are pop songs as much as they're rock songs; a lot of "good" pop songs are dumb

Jorge wrote:Queen and all their stupid fucking songs

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Ello Sailor wrote:"Under Pressure" slaps.

96583UP wrote:the whole 'okay to be gay' thing in music is def way overdone

The Argonaut wrote:Don't stop me now, what a time, oh wow

wease wrote:

Ello Sailor wrote:"Under Pressure" slaps.

Nah.

Ms Harmless wrote:

96583UP wrote:the whole 'okay to be gay' thing in music is def way overdone

no it isn't, you're just unreasonably drawn to noticing it

Jorge wrote:No, I agree. "Under Pressure" is like the only good one