Queen - Queen II Full Album REACTION and REVIEW

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• AY

  @ayushdd4294 · 4 years ago · pinned

  🥰 thank you for the reaction.

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• KE

  @kentnottingham9635 · 3 years ago

  All of side two, particularly “Black Queen” makes Bohemian Rhapsody sound like a cake walk!

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• JA

  @janetschulman7649 · 3 years ago

  Roger has a great gritty rock voice.  Also is known as the dog whistle because he can sing very high notes.

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• DE

  @deboraclark5791 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Fairy feller's master's stroke was a painting Freddie loved, each character in the song is in that painting. The first album was great too. Great reaction.

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• JI

  @jimbocurtain · 3 years ago

  Seven Seas of Rhye was the breakthrough single for Queen in the UK. I heard it at 7:30am getting ready for school and my life was never the same...

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• DA

  @Danielik25 · 4 years ago

  Queen live at the Rainbow 74 is a really great concert composed from the firsts three albums , it ´s a joy and a pleasure to watch and listen

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• HE

  @headrushindi · 3 years ago

  The entire Freddie side of the record , was a fantasy world created by Freddie , but based on William Shakespeare's " Midsummer Night's Dream" and a classic painting that Freddie saw in a gallery somewhere.. These guys earned every damn letter in the word GENIUS.

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• ZE

  @ZENOBlAmusic · 4 years ago (edited)

  Great review, it is great that you guys know which member is singing each song before the song starts. The first Queen album is amazing as well, and the 3rd Queen album as well. Basically all of Queen&apos;s 70&apos;s albums are top tier. Queen learned early on, it was very difficult for them to get radio play for their heavier songs, but they basically always made heavier songs well. Even in those days radio sometimes had a formula, that is why the best Queen songs are not necessarily always the hits. The first two Queen albums tends to be very popular with musicians, many metal bands would list this album and early Queen albums as an inspiration. Queen II was done on an 18 track machine. That is part of the difficulties within the production, when you have to record so many overdubs. <br><br>Some of these songs are even better live, Queen were an amazing live band, they have often been voted as the best live band. Two songs from this album where the live versions are better is Father To Son - Queen live at the Rainbow 1974 and White Queen - Queen live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1975. &nbsp;<br>Brian May and Roger Taylor had lead vocals on all of their 70&apos;s albums, by the 80&apos;s they just decided that Freddie should sing everything. Roger Taylor has an amazing voice, he could easily have been the lead singer in many bands, but he was in a band with Freddie Mercury. Roger was the main back up singer in the band. <br>There is a lot to unpack in this album, this is somewhat of a concept album, the first side was the white side and second side was the black side. <br><br>Brian May was very close to his father especially as an only child. During this time he and his father was really not getting along, because Brain May had left his Phd studies in Astrophysics behind in order to concentrate on Queen. Of course Brian&apos;s father was very unhappy about his son abandoning his Phd in order to play guitar in a rock band. Brian and his father did build his guitar together from scraps they had around the house. They were both supper intelligent, thus they designed a guitar with features that were unavailable at the time. When you look at a song such Father To Son, you can understand how Brian May might have written the song during that time. Brian and his father did eventually work through their problems. <br>White Queen was written by Brian May about a girl that he really liked at university. The song is about being in love from afar. It is a very beautiful song, and the live version is truly amazing. <br>Roger Taylor wrote a lot of more simplistic blues rock numbers in the 70&apos;s. Queen is the only band where each member has written a number one song. Queen did not use any synths in the 70&apos;s, most of the synth like sounds is actually Brian May with his guitar. He had an amp, build by bass player John Deacon that mimics orchestral sounds. <br><br>Something interesting to understand about Freddie at this time is that he basically created a whole fantasy world through a few different songs, starting from the first album. Some people claim that he was writing a fantasy novel at the time. Songs such as Ogre Battle, The March Of The Black Queen and The Seven Seas Of Rhye fits into this fantasy world. Freddie&apos;s songs in this time often featured direct quotes from the characters within the song. The March Of The Black Queen starts with a battle at sea against a pirate Queen. The battle is lost and she tortures the soldiers from the other ship. Then she seduces the narrator and he falls for her charms and swears fealty to her and leave his old live behind. <br>The Fairy Fellers Master-stroke is about a painting from Richard Dadd, he was in an asylum after he had killed his father, and it took him a few years to finish the painting. Freddie Mercury had a degree in art, so he was always interested in art. The song described the paining exactly. The song even features a polka. Freddie Mercury was a complex person, he wasn&apos;t just living with a women for appearances. The women, Mary Austin, was the love of his life, he even left the biggest part of his estate to her. <br>On the first Queen album there is a song called My Fairy King, where a fantasy kingdom is invaded and destroyed, The Seven Seas Of Rhye is from the opposite perspective. The perspective of the invaders. &nbsp;<br>Freddie created the story of Rhye alongside his siter, when they were children. The idea of the song also shows someone who is dreaming of adventures at sea, which is why it ends with &quot;I do like to live beside the seaside&quot;. That is an English classic. Freddie was born on the island of Zanzibar.<br>It is a good that you have noticed Freddie&apos;s piano playing as well, he is always just known for his singing and his stage presence but he was actually quite a good pianist as well. He actually started singing very late at the age of 23, in his first band he was just the piano player. <br><br>Basically the only Queen album that many people often don&apos;t like is Hot Space, and the dislike comes more from the style of music. All of Queen&apos;s albums were generally good.

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• AY

  @ayushdd4294 · 4 years ago

  When you hear White Queen alive - your mind would 🤯. So beautiful. You will witness also Freddie&apos;s piano playing.

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• RA

  @ravenghostgirl · 3 years ago (edited)

  Brian is using the amp John Deacon made called Deacy’s amp on his Red Special guitar-that guitar he and his dad made from a table, fireplace mantle and parts in his garage. &nbsp;He said that guitar along with the amp John made allows him to make unique sounds. It’s called the red special. I love March of the Black Queen. The more you hear it the more you hear the brilliance of their collaborations. &nbsp;❤😢RIP Freddie.

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• SI

  @simonk7937 · 3 years ago

  Yes it&apos;s their best album IMO , White Queen live is definitely worth a watch and reaction too ..<br>Ogre Battle is just Queen playing speed metal which they&apos;re entitled too as they pretty much created it , Stone Cold Crazy live knocks the Metallica version out the park and is pretty much regarded as the birth song of speed metal &nbsp;.<br>Great reaction guys 🤘

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• CH

  @chalynoir6 · 4 years ago

  Good reaction, allow yourselves to take the full trip and listen to their whole catalogue......then take in the live shows, there is so much more to Queen than just the hits as great as they are.

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