Staying Power

2/2/2021 I skipped last week because it was a duplicate-- a song I already posted about prior. I honestly think that's the first time this has happened. I don't know if that's noteworthy or not, you decide. Today's song comes from Queen. It's the underrated opening track to their 1982 album "Hot Space" The song is called 'Staying Power' written by Freddie Mercury and introduces a new (at the time) sound that Queen had not yet presented. I dig the track. I hope you do too! Hugs Brady

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

9/30/18

I love Queen.  I just do.  They are great. 

Here's a goodie, from Queen's 1976 Album "A Day at the Races"  Nobody does it quite like Freddie Mercury.  It falls on track 8 of the record.  Have a listen:

Life is Real (Song For Lennon)

While they certainly have gotten plenty of attention over the years, I can't express enough how highly underrated I feel the band Queen is.

Today's song comes from their 1982 album "Hot Space."   Penned by Freddie Mercury, the song is called "Life is Real" and is dedicated to John Lennon, who was murdered on December 8th 1980.  

This is going to be totally lazy of me, but here's what Wikipedia has to say about the song:

Mercury wrote "Life Is Real" as a tribute to John Lennon, whose murder in 1980 had also previously prompted the band to perform his song "Imagine" on tour. Like Lennon's songs, "Life Is Real" features a sparse piano-based arrangement and a melancholy tone. It is also one of the few Mercury songs whose lyrics were written before the music ("Killer Queen" being another). The title may be a reference to the lyric 'love is real', from Lennon's 1970 song "Love", or the line 'nothing is real', from The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever". It begins with three bell-like piano notes, meant to recall the opening bells in Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over", and "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)". Also, the first two words, 'Guilt stains...' are virtually identical interval-wise (though in a different key) to Lennon's first two notes in his song, "Mother".

Who knows if all this jazz ^ was coincidental or intentional in Mercury's songwriting.  

Anyways, here's the song:

Did you like that?  I hope so.  

Fun fact, I caught a rare Pokemon and named him Lennon.  It's a ditto and apparently is super rare.  

Hugs.  

Another One Bites the Dust

Yep.

We Are The Champions

I woke up with a song that everybody knows today.  Immediately I thought about a certain NBA team I don't like and how they just won a championship, even though it was a shortened season and it doesn't really count anyway.  But it would be immature to make fun that team because it might demonstrate major insecurites that my NBA team didn't win this year, and likely will not in the near future, or possibly ever because of the small market we play in.  I don't want to be a sore, bitter loser, and most of all immature, so I'll just post a picture I drew and leave it at that.

So, who knows why Queen's "We Are the Champions" was playing in my head today.  When I first woke up I did some browsing online and found out that a team of scientists and researchers determined in 2011 that WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS has the catchiest melody in the history of pop:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2043089/Queens-We-Are-The-Champions-voted-catchiest-pop-song-time--scientists.html

Here's the video for all to enjoy.  I'd like to know how much someone would have to pay you to wear the spandex outfit that Freddie Mercury is donning in this:

AND here's our version of the song for all to enjoy!  We did this in one take, it was 10:30 at night and we had had it with rehearsal- not that it would have been much better otherwise.