Influenced by Queen - Forever Delayed

Donkey · #1 07-12-2009, 19:37

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_%...9#cite_note-64

Manics are a part of the list of bands influenced by Queen and there's a citation #56 - a BCC interview which is not available anymore. Does anyone have it? I only remember James (or whom...) telling they wanted to create Queen-esque arrangement of La Trisstesse which was successful I guess

MarilynRoxie · #2 07-12-2009, 21:27

It's available in full via Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/200608212...iew_2005.shtml

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We chatted to Nicky after the Manics' appearance at the Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert in January 2005. Here's what he had to say...

How was it for you?

Well it brought back a few memories from the millennium gig! Though it was better organised than ours. We tried to take inspiration from Queen and just do greatest hits, and try to rock as hard as we could. It's a brilliant cause and a pretty solemn day, but we just went out and tried to be ourselves and entertain as much as we could.

hummingbird · #3 07-12-2009, 21:31

Queen influence is oh so very fine by me as long as James doesnt start spinarooning in leotards

Mr Richey · #4 07-12-2009, 21:37

Once again, I point you to JDB's opening vocal on 'Faster'. He sounds like Mr Mercury!!

The Gutless Wonder · #5 07-12-2009, 21:38

Maybe. At a push!

Slideling · #6 07-12-2009, 22:15

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Originally Posted by Richey83

Once again, I point you to JDB's opening vocal on 'Faster'. He sounds like Mr Mercury!!

I was told that by a Non-Manics fan too!

Mr Richey · #7 07-12-2009, 22:19

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Originally Posted by Richian

I was told that by a Non-Manics fan too!

It's totally true!!

It's just the lines 'I am an architect, they call me a butcher'. But you can totally picture it as Freddie.

deadmartyr · #8 07-12-2009, 22:54

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Originally Posted by Richey83

Once again, I point you to JDB's opening vocal on 'Faster'. He sounds like Mr Mercury!!

Using a Dalek voice-changer.

Porco · #9 08-12-2009, 00:39

#Winter lovers... Winter trees... we will... we will... rock you...

#Who wants to live ... Foreverrrrrrr..... delayed.

#Nail it to the House of Lords / You will be buried in the same box as a killer, as a killer, as a killer .... Queeeeeen /Gunpowder, Gelatine, Dynamite with a laser beam...

I'm sure there is more Manics / Queen splicing fun to be had.

Art Vandelay · #10 08-12-2009, 01:40

there's also:

PaulTMA · #11 08-12-2009, 01:57

He sound like Mr. Mercury when he sings "wanna walk in THA SNOW!" on '4st 7lbs.', if you want to go and check.

The Gutless Wonder · #12 08-12-2009, 07:23

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Originally Posted by PaulTMA

He sound like Mr. Mercury when he sings "wanna walk in THA SNOW!" on '4st 7lbs.', if you want to go and check.

Yeah! Good call!

starstruck · #13 08-12-2009, 08:48

now that i think about it, i want to hear the Manics do Radio Ga Ga. think - James doing "you had the time, you had the power", Nicky doing that ace "wobble" bass line (sorry, not a muso) and Sean doing whatever the hell Sean does, probably just the clap thing.

Deets · #14 08-12-2009, 13:09

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Originally Posted by Cam

there's also:

No. this is not the influence. this is picture by Mick Rock (yesterday I put his several pictures of Bowie in Black And White Pictures thread). the session by Kevin Cummins, as I assume you mean these shots

wasn't inspired by the photos of Queen by Mick Rock. In January I pm'ed Mr Cummins on myspace about this and this is his response

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Queen: Sheer Heart Attack. No. I'd never seen the cover until I looked just now. I suppose it's an easy way of getting four people in a shot without just standing them up for the pic.
The idea was to look as if it was the morning after an all-night party and they were lying around wasted...

I was waiting for someone to ask this question about Sheer Heart Attack cover

Jimbojambo · #15 08-12-2009, 13:31

Does nobody remember this?

http://pitchfork.com/news/36599-5-10...ean-bradfield/

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Queen: Killer Queen:

I was just slightly becoming aware of music, and I was just absolutely obsessed with "Killer Queen". It was one of the first records I ever got obsessed with. I just absolutely loved it. I've been kind of a lifelong Queen fan, and that was the first thing that really got me. For a long time, I was hearing "Killer Queen" on the radio a lot, and I was just about understanding what music was, in a really vague, kind of infant sense. I had no idea what they looked like. I had no idea what Queen stood for. But already, there was something otherworldly about them, something shiny and glamorous. When I actually got older and saw what Queen were, it wasn't such a shock, really.

There's just something about Queen which is quintessentially British. There's something quite vaudevillian about them; they're just eminently theatrical. But also there's a pomposity, which they always carry off. Usually, when people use the word "pompous" or "pomposity" or "grandeur" in connection with music, they usually use it as a kind of a criticism. For me, Queen is always essentially pomp, and it's what made them work.

It's easy to be cynical about the reunion tours with Paul Rodgers, and I didn't go. You see a lot of bands perform, whether it be the Velvet Underground or whether it be the Police, and people are always very cynical about it. They always say, "Hey, so why are you doing this? Is it for the cash?" And of course, for a lot of bands, it is the cash. But I don't know that the Police needed the cash in the first place, I must say. The one thing that always strikes me when I see a band get back together is-- when I went to see one of the Police gigs, the first emotion I could sense on the stage between them, especially Stewart Copeland-- the thing that was going through his head was, Wow, man, I've got my band back. You know, my band was taken away from me and now I've got it back, and this is the best thing in the world. So I think that a lot of people miss out on the fact that sometimes, a former band member just wants their music back, they just want their band back, they want the camaraderie back, they want that actual physical feeling of playing the music again. So I understand why Queen did what they did. It's just not something I'm going to criticize them for.