moonchildhippy
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| Quote (Bassman @ Nov. 29 2008, 02:20) | (I'm the furthest thing from gay but I swear I got a stiffy reading about this! |
It's not compulsory to be gay to like Queen Bassman, I had the a tingling feeling in my female bits when I heard about this  .
| Quote | ightspore
Posted: Nov. 29 2008, 04:59
The odd thing about Queen is that everyone claimed and claims that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is operatic in style, when nothing could be further from the truth. It reminds me of barbershop quartet or gospel rather than any opera I know of (and that's a great deal, believe me!. I used to have a passing interest in the group; I think "All Dead, All Dead" was their best song. |
Ive got it on my Queen vids "The Magic Years" where Freddie Mercury was palying Bohemian Rhapsody to producer Roy Thomas Baker, and Freddie turned to him and said "Now dears this is where the opera section comes in".
I know many people have tried to analize what the lyrics were about, I know the "opera section" was probably just nonsense lyrics.
I@m not so sure about the theory put that the lyrics were about Freddie coming out as gay. I know the pc brigade often make a big issue about Freddie being gay, but he was in a long term relationship with a woman named Mary Austin. I know he left his estate to her upon his death.
Given that according to Brian May Freddie had Bo Rhap in his head before Queen it could have been a song about growing up , being a teenager, a confusing time for any young person. Then again it could have been nonsense.
I know I found meaning in the lyrics when i was a teenager, especially when i was going through a tough time. I know if I'd have done what my parents wanted I'd have ended up as a secratary , or possibly an environmental health officer. I knew that I wanted to be a mechanic, train driver or join the RAF, but I tried to become a train driver and join the RAF and failed. Still I'm going to become a volunteer "Welfare Worker", Home and Hospital" visitor for the Royal British Legion, and I can do my train driving on a preserved railway, much more fun  .
| Quote | nightspore Posted on Nov. 29 2008, 05:39"39" was good too. I think it's about special relativistic time dilation and the twin paradox - if it is, it must be the must unusual subject matter for a folk song ever written!
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I love '39, great song , has me tapping my feet everytime.
In the year of '39 assembled here the Volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen.
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried.
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew.
In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey, little darlin' we'll away
But my love this cannot be
For so many years have gone though I'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me.
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All the letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand
All my life
Still ahead
Pity Me.
I was never entirely sure what the lyrics to '39 , were, I did think '39 maybe meant 1939 and the start of WW2, and volunteers meant those signing up for the Navy, Army or RAF, I don't know for sure if volunteers were sought for the forces or if men of the right ages were conscripted. "brave souls" could apply to the servicemen willing to put their lives on the line.
I did think maybe it was about a serviceman missing presumed dead in action who then finds his love many years later, possibly she had married someone else and had kids, and subsequently grandchildren. "For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew." with the guy being a step grandparent to the grandkids.
Then again coming back the same day, unless maybe it was an RAF bombing raid, but that was after 1939, and "ship" could be an ambiguos metaphor for a Lancaster, and seas a metaphor for sky, but a plane would have to fly over the see too.
I know that a Queen fan did write and ask what the lyrics to '39 were about. I know it has something to do with Einstein's Theory Of Relativity" in that a spaceship leaves the earth , (and Milky seas , could be a metaphor for Milky Way, as I would imagine that it would look like a sea of stars), travelling faster than the speed of light, and so to the travellers it would seem like a day trip, but on earth the traveller, time would have passed quickly , that he returns to find his grandchildren. Maybe a case of science fiction and science fact.
I've found this where Brian explains the lyrics, which were a a bit ambiguos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2739_(Queen_song)
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I'm going slightly mad,
It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad
If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come.
I'm challenging taboos surrounding mental health
"Part time hippy"
I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS
BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!
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