Did anyone see this.. there was a decent line up for the rundown to britains best loved number 1 record... with the winner being once again.. Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody' .... zzzzzzzzz God How Boring is this getting now!
I think it must just be me, because I hate the song.
It should never ever be number 1 in any faves program ever.
To say that people will sing Bohemian Rhapsody over The Beatles 'Hey Jude' at a wedding or any other occasion is such a load of crap.
Even John Lennon 'Imagine' should have been nearer the no.1 spot I thought.. not Queen yet again!!
ianbrownfan
16-08-2005, 08:13
Originally posted by ANGELUS
Did anyone see this.. there was a decent line up for the rundown to britains best loved number 1 record... with the winner being once again.. Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody' .... zzzzzzzzz God How Boring is this getting now!
I think it must just be me, because I hate the song.
It should never ever be number 1 in any faves program ever.
To say that people will sing Bohemian Rhapsody over The Beatles 'Hey Jude' at a wedding or any other occasion is such a load of crap.
Even John Lennon 'Imagine' should have been nearer the no.1 spot I thought.. not Queen yet again!!
I'm suprised it wasn't a Robbie Williams song! How the hell he got into the 'Hall of Fame' I do not know. He's awful!
Ousetunes
16-08-2005, 09:22
I can understand why you should deem it somewhat predictable that Bo Rhap should be number one and to an extent I guess it is boring that it should be.
But.
It seriously was a ground breaking record. By 'record' I mean just that, apart from the 'song' itself which is an incredibly complex piece of songwriting and arranging. Written on the piano the opening section (which IIRC is in F#m, not the kindest key) is much more interesting and challenging than the likes of Macca's Hey Jude and Lennon's Imagine which share very similar qualities. Infact, for all their beauty, the works of Hey Jude and Imagine are, in themselves, relatively basic - although Macca's superb harmonic ideas take a simple tune and turns it into something far more interesting.
Bo Rhap, is or at least was interesting in its sheer balls. To have a mini-operatic section followed by all out-out rock section, mingled with some rather wierd (ambiguous?) lyrics worked very well. At the time of its release it got absolutely slated, especially by the likes of the NME.
What won the day for Queen was the use of its accompanying video - not the first as many have claimed. Didn't the Beatles shoot promotional videos for Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever (due to their recording of Peppers and thus not being available for TOTP)?
Maybe then, it's the package, as I say, the 'record' which made Bo Rhap into such a recognisable point in the short history of pop music.
Musicians like myself look at Bo Rhap and try to wonder where it all came from. Well written (with one or two minor exceptions), well played yet unfortunately lacking in production the song - along with its perfect-cousin video will, I'm afraid, remain at the top of such Top Tens or whatever for a long time yet.