All of Q2 most of Q1 and bits and pieces of the next three. Captured an amazing magical spell feeling, If they stopped recording then and there, its still more than enough stuff to love them.
@Teo Torriatte Creativity made them change. Their collective favourite group was the Beatles. I guess they were taking a leaf out of their book, by changing and developing
Shaira Frye Javier I don’t know :/ I know that he left Queen but by that logic Freddie shouldn’t be mentioned either as he’s dead... is it that hard just to put his name in?
Wordplay like that is really genius, making utter nonsense somehow MAKE sense takes real talent, John Lennon was great at it, but I think Freddie was better
@@covakk you’d find a lot of intelligent wordplay on most Peter Gabriel era genesis stuff, notably Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway albums
Vintage Queen is like listening to a novel. They were great storytellers and used all of their imagination to convey fantasy, terror, whimsy, and everything in between.
Roger said : "I never once saw Freddie with a book. But he had all these words about this painting. Fred was like a magpie. He had this very sharp brain but he was not what you'd call a well-read man."
@@triciascott9254Richard dadd went to egypt. He smoked and felt off. He came home back to England and killed his dad. He painted this in bedlam. Fairy paintings were popular during Richard dadds time. He was still in bedlam while crowley was little and I really wonder if crowley heard about dadd growing up. Please look further into Richard dadd to anyone that see this short summary. Freddie was a zoroastrian. The parī is like a persian fairy. I understand Freddie's intrest in the fairy painting after learning that. Parī are said to be female while the male spirits are divs. Fun fact: in prince's of the universe, he's singing about fighting arhiman, the darkness.
I cant help but think its a shame that they didnt pursue this direction. Dont get me wrong, they had a fabulous career, but what if they had tried to become the band from Queen 2 for the rest of the decade? Best prog art rock act ever. They chose to be one of the best classic rock bands ever and that was absolutely amazing, but this album to me is very special. Shame that they felt they should dumb it down a bit.
Richard Dadd. Fairy Fellers' Master-Stroke. 1855-1864, Tate Gallery London Freddie's just pointing out everything that's on the painting, he was a lover of the arts!
I don't think that's quite all that he's doing here. I think this song has a double meaning for Freddie in terms of his sexuality. You can interpret the word "feller" as a corruption of the word "fellow," and "fairy" is slang for a gay man. I'd hate to sound gross, but I would think Feddie is also the type to reinterpret the words "master" and "stroke" to refer to a private activity. I believe other lyrics in this song will support my theory.
No synthesizer there! That's the famous Deacy Amp, an electric guitar amplifier created in 1972 by John Deacon. He used an amplifier circuit board from a Supersonic PR80 portable radio found in a skip, fitted into a speaker cabinet and powered by a 9-volt battery.
Ok i must. Do you hear that amazing bass line? Yes. Do you know who plays it? Yes, John Deacon. SO WHY'S HE NOT IN THE DESCRIPTION. And also so magical song. I love it.
Yes. Yes. He's not in the description because it's referring to the solo material, wich John Deacon doesn't have none. Also, John left the music industry and don't want to be mentioned anymore.
Thank god for my dad cause he “forced me” to listen to every Queen’s song since i was 4/5 and i today I’m a proud 28 yo obsessed by them. No hate if you discovered them only after the film, you’re still amazing cause all Queen’s fans are amazing. Love from Italy
Freddie said he wasn't inspired very often by a work of art, in terms of creating a song around one, but on this occasion he said he was. He would go to the gallery and study it carefully. In my mind's eye, l can see him there leaning in to the painting taking in every little detail. That was his nature. He was masterful when taking up his own works of art and truly a perfectionist which is why Queen succeeded. So grateful the musical genius that you were and are. Well done, Freddie darling, well done.
This song is amazing and the transition into "Nevermore" is perfect. My kids are all under the age of 11 and they love this song too, asking me to play it over and over and humming it around the house.
John's bass guitar work is sending me somewhere Ive never been before. Hard to imagine he was in his early 20s creating complex sounds like these. It blends so well with everything. Im quite in awe.
All these words I’ve never heard of! He had such a vast vocabulary! It’s crazy! Senatorial, satyr, tatterdemalion, junketer, quaere, arch-magician, harridan, apothecary, ostler What a wild ride! I love it!
Literally crazy! Freddie is describing the painting of the same name by Victorian artist Richard Dadd, painted while he was incarcerated in Bedlam lunatic asylum in London for murdering his father! The words are taken from Dadd's poem "explaining" the painting "Elimination of a Picture & its Subject-called The Fellers' Master Stroke (1865)".
Freddie Mercury has such a magical quality this is queen. Queen were full of high pitch sounds. Freddie’s piano check. Brian’s awesome guitar, check. Johns amazing bass guitar , check. And last but not least , Rogers super outrageous falsetto and amazing drumming! This is queen!!
Some definitions: "Tatterdemalion": a person in tattered clothing. "Junketer": someone taking part in a junket or banquet etc; a partygoer. "Pedagogue": a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one. "Quaere": query (i.e. find out more about this fellow?) "Ostler": a man employed to look after the horses of people staying at an inn.
The man was a genius!!! Only recently looked in to the history of this song and it blew my mind. A painting and a poem that he turned into a gem of a song!
Shall we all agree that Freddie's 70'd vocals, Bryan's medieval-like guitar from the 70's, Roger's infinite drums from the 70's and John's unbelievable bass from the 70's are the best?
This blew me away when I heard it all those years ago. No wonder I couldn't I couldn't figure out the words. He's a fairy feller The fairy folk have gathered round the new moon shine To see the feller crack a nut at nights noon time To swing his axe he swears, as it climbs he dares To deliver... The master-stroke Ploughman, "waggoner will", and types Politician with senatorial pope - he's a dilly-dally-o Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow What a dirty laddio Tatterdemalion and a junketer There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter - he's my hero Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend The nymph in yellow What a quaere fellow Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy Waiting to hear the sound And the arch-magician presides He is the leader Oberon and titania watched by a harridan Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary-man Come to say hello Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend The nymph in yellow What a quaere fellow The ostler stares with hands on his knees Come on mr. feller, crack it open if you please
this song is pure magic and shows what great musicians they are! you don't find something like that anymore today. One of the greatest songs EVER (in my opinion)! I think I am a musician. After I heard this song I realized I am only a small four chord song maker. THIS is music in perfection and nothing less. Thank god that there is music like this in this world. Thank you Queen for writing this song for us!
I always thought this song was a masterpiece. Now I have listened over hundreds of times and I feel this may be the most special Queen song to be composed by Freddie Mercury. Everything in this short song is unwordly, coming straight from Mercury.
I do love this song so much too. Inspired by Richard Dadd's painting. The artist defied convention and painted fairies instead of the popular religious themes. My mum and aunt (big Queen fans) took me to see the painting when I was 15. I've read his poem/explanation for the painting several times. Many spots are hard to understand but I do appreciate the genius of the man as I do the genius of Mr Freddie Mercury.
This is my long time favorite Queen song written by Freddie, just out of this world. The album Queen2 is always one of my favorite Queen albums, I just don't know how I could describe this feeling, Freddie is a musical genius and real artist. When I heard this song in 1977, I was 12, at that time I didn't know about that painting or I even didn't understand the lyrics because I'm a Japanese native, but I was totally blown away with everything I heard. I'm now 56 and still addicted to this song. アリガトウ！
Such magisterial grace from every moment. Young bands take note. Have the confidence and balls to do it. That's what separates the great from the good.
Freddie was behind all the early hits.such a talent.grew up with his music and although I love listening to their songs it still hurts that Freddie has passed.
I liked this song, then when I found out it's describing a painting I looked at the painting(and tried to find all the stuff he was describing)and now for some reason I find this song so much more interesting
Fun fact: Many people speculated that Fairy Fellers Master-Stoke was never performed live at all. It wasn’t until the Rainbow Concerts were released, as Queen performed FDM-S live during the march concert as the Rainbow.
The Rainbow live version is heavily pitch-corrected though, the entire show is, there is no other source other than the pitch corrected one so we don't have a single idea as to how the song really really sounded like when they played it.
‘Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan’. I loved that song from the very first note but after hearing a reference to the ‘A midsummer night’s dream’ play by Shakespeare I can die a happy man.
You make me sad!! I have read it various times and always forget so much things, like names... and well I just love how Freddie is a very cultured man and adds a little bit of art to his wonderful masterpieces
down inside, you know the prog-queen was the best queen. A genius like Freddie should have continued doing prog. music till the end. Yet, in their second album queen made one of the best prog rock albums ever. Queen II B-side is a milestone for progressive msuic.
Freddie sounds so young in this song. I'm the same age now as Freddie was when he passed. When this came out he wasn't even 30 yrs old yet. I look at all the older stuff and they're all just so adorable and young yet so talented❤
He's a fairy feller 彼こそ妖精界の名高き木こり The fairy folk have gathered round the new moon shine 月明かりが鳴りをひそめ、星だけが輝きを増す新月のころ、 妖精の仲間たちがこぞってやって来る To see the feller crack a nut at night's noon time 真夜中０時に、木こりが木の実を割るのを見るために To swing his axe he swears, 黄金に輝く斧を振り下ろし、確実に一刀加えるのを as it climbs he dares 彼はまるで恐れを知らぬかのようで To deliver... それを見届けるために... The master-stroke ため息まじりに誰もが感嘆する 「あの一撃は神技さ！」 Ploughman, "waggoner will", and types 農夫で『鋤車引きのウィル』なんて正にそれ 車に手をかけ、その時を今かと待ち構える Politician with senatorial pipe - 政治家と上院議員は、管弦楽器を吹いている he's a dilly-dally-o 手持ち無沙汰にのらりくらり、とね Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown 博識を鼻にかけた学者は目を細め、しかめ面 And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow サテュロスは仲間の女のスカートの下に、いやらしいヤツ What a dirty laddio 相変わらずの好きモノさ Tatterdemalion and a junketer ぼろ服の男と、物見遊山の男は There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter - 泥棒と、トンボのトランペット吹きの近くにいる - he's my hero トンボのトランペットはそれは素晴らしくて 僕のヒーローだ Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend 男前の妖精は女の友達に、たわむれに手をかけている The nymph in yellow "can we see the master-stroke" 若く美しいニンフは無責任に煽る 「本当に私たちはあの神技を見られるのかしら？」 What a quaere fellow なんと身勝手な連中だろう Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy 兵士、水夫、鋳物の修理屋、仕立て屋、牛すきを引く田舎者 Waiting to hear the sound 有象無象が寄せ集まって、一撃の響きを聞こうと待ちわびる And the arch-magician presides 弓なり型の帽子をかぶった魔法使いが仕切り役 He is the leader 彼は、誰もが認める指導者さ Oberon and titania watched by a harridan オーベロンとティターニアは、また何か仕出かさないように 付き添いの口やかましい婆さんに見張られて Mab is the Queen and there's a good apothecary-man マブの女王の傍らには、腕の良い薬師の男が Come to say hello みんな揃ってご挨拶 Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend 洒落男の妖精は、いたずらに女友達をくすぐりつつ The nymph in yellow 麗しいニンフは疑いの目で時を見守る What a quaere fellow まったく勘ぐり過ぎなやつらだよ The ostler stares with hands on his knees 馬の世話人は膝に手を当てて、ことの成り行きをじっと見つめ Come on mr. feller, さあ、名うての木こり、その腕を奮ってくれ crack it open if you please 木の実に渾身の一撃を、目に物見せてくれないか
November 24th 2020. R.I.P. Freddie. This is my long time favorite Queen song written by Freddie. You're the most talented song writer and musician on this planet. From Japan.
Love this song ! This was my first Queen album and fell in love with them.. I was in grade school back in the day and my friends thought I was strange for listening to them .. but little did they know Queen best band ever and forever!!!
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I love all Queen songs, but the ones they wrote in the 70's had such a magical quality
yeah, I feel that too. It feels like freddie take me back to the middle age fairy tales.
Queen 2 had some great songs that get very little airplay
Agree!
All of Q2 most of Q1 and bits and pieces of the next three. Captured an amazing magical spell feeling, If they stopped recording then and there, its still more than enough stuff to love them.
@Teo Torriatte Creativity made them change. Their collective favourite group was the Beatles. I guess they were taking a leaf out of their book, by changing and developing
The sensational bass by John Deacon
Deacon amazing!
Those bass lines, yes!
And they don’t even mention his name in the description:/
@@idk-ch7hj why do they always not putting his name in the description? I love deaky
Shaira Frye Javier I don’t know :/ I know that he left Queen but by that logic Freddie shouldn’t be mentioned either as he’s dead... is it that hard just to put his name in?
Freddie’s vocabulary was out of this world!
Agree 💯
Wordplay like that is really genius, making utter nonsense somehow MAKE sense takes real talent, John Lennon was great at it, but I think Freddie was better
@@covakk you’d find a lot of intelligent wordplay on most Peter Gabriel era genesis stuff, notably Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway albums
Yes
Oh yeah
Vintage Queen is like listening to a novel. They were great storytellers and used all of their imagination to convey fantasy, terror, whimsy, and everything in between.
This was by Freddie
Queen 2
Freddie songs are side B/black side
This song is actually a painting and they put words to the painting
@dreamstalker8002 A copy of the painting was on the album sleeve.
Deacon's bass line is incredible.
He was a legend...
@@levisalvini4110 Is still.
a lot of queen songs lose something without the bass, "'39" most notably. you're right
@@shawnflanagan4995 "39" yes .
A completely under-appreciated element of Queen. John really did an amazing job on this. Thanks for making that comment
Queen II - one of the best albums of all time.
Roger said : "I never once saw Freddie with a book. But he had all these words about this painting. Fred was like a magpie. He had this very sharp brain but he was not what you'd call a well-read man."
I can see Roger making that observation, you can see pictures and interviews of him reading Jack Kerouac back in the day.
@@TheaterPup But Freddie himself said: "Reading is a waste of time".
Richard Dadd, the artist who painted the subject of this song. Look his story up.
@@danielfelipe1606the only thing in which he was wrong
@@triciascott9254Richard dadd went to egypt. He smoked and felt off. He came home back to England and killed his dad.
He painted this in bedlam.
Fairy paintings were popular during Richard dadds time.
He was still in bedlam while crowley was little and I really wonder if crowley heard about dadd growing up.
Please look further into Richard dadd to anyone that see this short summary.
Freddie was a zoroastrian.
The parī is like a persian fairy.
I understand Freddie's intrest in the fairy painting after learning that.
Parī are said to be female while the male spirits are divs.
Fun fact: in prince's of the universe, he's singing about fighting arhiman, the darkness.
the way Freddie describe the painting and put the aesthetic lyric it just amazing man and the up beat background music with his voice mind blowing
so well put..no words though can explain the magnificence of this song..I am also a singer....I named my first band "Masterstroke". :)
Mind-blowing is a nice way to describe this song.
I swear i cannot stop listening to this song.. So underrated and such a masterpiece
Same
I totally agree with you.
right!! it’s so catchy and so entertaining to listen to!!!
If you still listen to it 37 years after discovering it (me), I wouldn't say it's underrated.
Underrated por quién??
Second album, and they were already reaching these heights of complexity. Composition, melody and harmony wise. Out of this world.
I bet they felt like Freddie was challenging them!
This and black queen on the same album
He was getting them warmed up for bo rap!
I cant help but think its a shame that they didnt pursue this direction. Dont get me wrong, they had a fabulous career, but what if they had tried to become the band from Queen 2 for the rest of the decade? Best prog art rock act ever. They chose to be one of the best classic rock bands ever and that was absolutely amazing, but this album to me is very special. Shame that they felt they should dumb it down a bit.
@@Chadner , they were so good in the second album that many today's rock bands try to recreate that unique sound.
And no synthesizers.
Richard Dadd. Fairy Fellers' Master-Stroke. 1855-1864, Tate Gallery London
Freddie's just pointing out everything that's on the painting, he was a lover of the arts!
Incredible! Thank you very much for this piece of knowledge! Makes the song even better (:
Wow! Thank you very much for the information, now I have more respect for Freddie and the Queen.
I don't think that's quite all that he's doing here. I think this song has a double meaning for Freddie in terms of his sexuality. You can interpret the word "feller" as a corruption of the word "fellow," and "fairy" is slang for a gay man. I'd hate to sound gross, but I would think Feddie is also the type to reinterpret the words "master" and "stroke" to refer to a private activity. I believe other lyrics in this song will support my theory.
@@LillyTheLonelySock not everything is about sex
Just watch the painting and find everything he sings about.
Queen is probably one of the most interesting musicians of all time from the speed thrash of stone cold crazy to this, geez
Stone Cold Crazy to Seaside Rendezvous. Incredible.
My Fairy King to Death On Two Legs to Flick Of The Wrist
Queen is a band, not a musician
@@mooopy4887 Well he did said "musicians".
@@juanspeko but they said queen not the members of queen
John Deacon at 2:15-2:20 aaagh is just too much!! Amazing.
What that John with the falsetto?
DinosaurFilms - Maps you can listen through the whole song how amazing John is!
I've heard him do some great falsettos live, but I didn't think that he had done any in the final records.
its freddie
Freddie has that voice
No synthesizer there! That's the famous Deacy Amp, an electric guitar amplifier created in 1972 by John Deacon. He used an amplifier circuit board from a Supersonic PR80 portable radio found in a skip, fitted into a speaker cabinet and powered by a 9-volt battery.
He was an electrical engineer after all
... And nobody played synthesizer... again.
Interesting. Thank you:)
He has a degree in electrical engineering
te pregunté capo, gracias?
Ok i must.
Do you hear that amazing bass line?
Yes.
Do you know who plays it?
Yes, John Deacon.
SO WHY'S HE NOT IN THE DESCRIPTION.
And also so magical song. I love it.
Yes.
Yes.
He's not in the description because it's referring to the solo material, wich John Deacon doesn't have none.
Also, John left the music industry and don't want to be mentioned anymore.
Don't mess wid the American public, please sir.
Nothing we have today compares to what they did
They are kinda like the Pink Floyd of the Pop/Rock Scene. I would even compare them to King Crimson.
Greta van fleet is decent.
they are exceptional, no one can disagree with that
Exactly man 👊
Schizoid Thanks for saving me the trouble of writing that same thing.
Thank god for my dad cause he “forced me” to listen to every Queen’s song since i was 4/5 and i today I’m a proud 28 yo obsessed by them.
No hate if you discovered them only after the film, you’re still amazing cause all Queen’s fans are amazing.
Love from Italy
A lovely dad.
Freddie said he wasn't inspired very often by a work of art, in terms of creating a song around one, but on this occasion he said he was. He would go to the gallery and study it carefully. In my mind's eye, l can see him there leaning in to the painting taking in every little detail. That was his nature. He was masterful when taking up his own works of art and truly a perfectionist which is why Queen succeeded. So grateful the musical genius that you were and are. Well done, Freddie darling, well done.
This song is amazing and the transition into "Nevermore" is perfect. My kids are all under the age of 11 and they love this song too, asking me to play it over and over and humming it around the house.
yeah I've been humming it for 49 years, lol
John's bass guitar work is sending me somewhere Ive never been before. Hard to imagine he was in his early 20s creating complex sounds like these. It blends so well with everything. Im quite in awe.
I've been addicted to this song for 42years! It's just unbelievablly brilliant!
Agree!
I remember hearing it when it first came out... Had to check a dictionary... Awesome
@@splatmannsplatmann7732 😂
All these words I’ve never heard of! He had such a vast vocabulary! It’s crazy!
Senatorial, satyr, tatterdemalion, junketer, quaere, arch-magician, harridan, apothecary, ostler
What a wild ride! I love it!
Literally crazy! Freddie is describing the painting of the same name by Victorian artist Richard Dadd, painted while he was incarcerated in Bedlam lunatic asylum in London for murdering his father! The words are taken from Dadd's poem "explaining" the painting "Elimination of a Picture & its Subject-called The Fellers' Master Stroke (1865)".
The end of this song is the very beggining of the "Nevermore" song!
I noticed that too because I'd be listening to this song and all of a sudden I'd hear Freddie singing the lyrics to "Nevermore".
That's how they did it back in their day
The beggining of this song is the very end of the "Ogre Battle" song!
I have the album on record and all the tracks transition onto the next one. Great album
Pope-Eye you also find it with tenement funster,flick of the wrist to lily of the valley on sheer heart attack as well.
Freddie Mercury has such a magical quality this is queen. Queen were full of high pitch sounds. Freddie’s piano check. Brian’s awesome guitar, check. Johns amazing bass guitar , check. And last but not least , Rogers super outrageous falsetto and amazing drumming! This is queen!!
Where on earth did they get the genius to write this masterpiece? This is bloody brilliant 😍😍😍😍😍
From Richard Dadd, the Killer Painter
Zafiro B. Aye I know that but I meant the whole musical concept rather than the topic
Oh.... don't know eather xD sorry
Zanzibar my dear. ; )
Phil Barrett what does Zanzibar have to do with this song?
1:35 is probably my favorite part i like the harmonies they do with there voice
Yes, I enjoy the harmonies they do with thEIR voiceS too
This is probably Queen's weirdest but coolest songXD
You probably didn't hear "Don't Try Suicide" That one is real craziness.
Kuba Tyniec I don't think is really normal that I want to dance to a song that talks about suicide.
Kuba Tyniec That's because is based on a chaotic and claustrophobic painting, Queen transferred that feeling from a painting to a song perfectly.
absolutely..it was inspired by a painting in the leuvre
Well that works. It's not a dance tune.
Queen=Bach=Mozart=Beethoven. We'll see it also after 300 years. Queen, we love you madly, every day. Forever
Let my imagination run away with you gladly.
Sorry, but for me Queen>Bach Mozart and Beethoven
@@cachorrodragao6679 You genius
OMG, I thought I was the only one who love Mozart AND Queen. Mozart was a genius and Queen, collectively, was (RIP Freddie)/is too.
@@cachorrodragao6679
Um cachorro dragão não seria um Dracão?
Deacon, the most underrated bassist in the history of rock.
Love all Queen songs. No exceptions.
4 old ladies still rockin' away...
That bass
Some definitions:
"Tatterdemalion": a person in tattered clothing.
"Junketer": someone taking part in a junket or banquet etc; a partygoer.
"Pedagogue": a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one.
"Quaere": query (i.e. find out more about this fellow?)
"Ostler": a man employed to look after the horses of people staying at an inn.
Thanks
From what I've gathered, quaere = old spelling of queer
Absolutely bananas. How would anyone come up with this? And one of my favorite queen songs. As weird as the actual painting.
I cant even understand this mans vocal range, he makes himself sound like a full-fledged girl at 00:52. and it sounds so heavenly.
That part is pitch correction
Freddie did the falsettos and in post production they added pitch correction in some parts
@@antabakaalex029 the pitch correction was done to the live performance at the rainbow. the studio version is not pitch corrected as far as i know
@@antabakaalex029 pitch correction, if you're talking about autotune, wasnt even around at this time.
@@antabakaalex029 there is not like pitch correction in Fredddies case
These guys were unreal. This is only their second album but the talent and creativity is already off the charts.
John's bass line is amazing.
The man was a genius!!! Only recently looked in to the history of this song and it blew my mind. A painting and a poem that he turned into a gem of a song!
Shall we all agree that Freddie's 70'd vocals, Bryan's medieval-like guitar from the 70's, Roger's infinite drums from the 70's and John's unbelievable bass from the 70's are the best?
Who's Bryan?
Absolutely stunning
@@FunkyDisco79Brian
Queen II is such whimsical album, it feels like a dark and eerie fairy tale. I love it.
This blew me away when I heard it all those years ago. No wonder I couldn't I couldn't figure out the words.
He's a fairy feller
The fairy folk have gathered round the new moon shine
To see the feller crack a nut at nights noon time
To swing his axe he swears, as it climbs he dares
To deliver...
The master-stroke
Ploughman, "waggoner will", and types
Politician with senatorial pope - he's a dilly-dally-o
Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown
And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow
What a dirty laddio
Tatterdemalion and a junketer
There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter - he's my hero
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow
What a quaere fellow
Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy
Waiting to hear the sound
And the arch-magician presides
He is the leader
Oberon and titania watched by a harridan
Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary-man
Come to say hello
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow
What a quaere fellow
The ostler stares with hands on his knees
Come on mr. feller, crack it open if you please
this song is pure magic and shows what great musicians they are! you don't find something like that anymore today. One of the greatest songs EVER (in my opinion)! I think I am a musician. After I heard this song I realized I am only a small four chord song maker. THIS is music in perfection and nothing less. Thank god that there is music like this in this world. Thank you Queen for writing this song for us!
I always thought this song was a masterpiece. Now I have listened over hundreds of times and I feel this may be the most special Queen song to be composed by Freddie Mercury. Everything in this short song is unwordly, coming straight from Mercury.
Yeah!
I just found out it was inspired by a Victorian painting that freddy ( a graphic artist ) really liked ...
I do love this song so much too. Inspired by Richard Dadd's painting. The artist defied convention and painted fairies instead of the popular religious themes. My mum and aunt (big Queen fans) took me to see the painting when I was 15. I've read his poem/explanation for the painting several times. Many spots are hard to understand but I do appreciate the genius of the man as I do the genius of Mr Freddie Mercury.
This is my long time favorite Queen song written by Freddie, just out of this world. The album Queen2 is always one of my favorite Queen albums, I just don't know how I could describe this feeling, Freddie is a musical genius and real artist. When I heard this song in 1977, I was 12, at that time I didn't know about that painting or I even didn't understand the lyrics because I'm a Japanese native, but I was totally blown away with everything I heard. I'm now 56 and still addicted to this song. アリガトウ！
Maybe the most underrated song in Quen history
Seven seas of Rhye.
39"
Bohemian Rhapsody, just kidding it We Will Rock You (Fast)
The March of the Black Queen, Innuendo, The Prophet's Song!!!!
It' s my second favorite (after My fairy queen) for the last 35 years!
Freddie had the “This song’s gonna have more complicated words than the last one” competition with himself
The lyrics on this track are incredible...I can't even begin to comprehend how genius they were ❤
Deacon's bass is outstanding
Only a guy like Freddie could write such an amazing song about a painting that shares the same name.
Such magisterial grace from every moment. Young bands take note. Have the confidence and balls to do it. That's what separates the great from the good.
Perfect!
One of my favourite Queen songs. I adore the story behind the song and the lyrics are amazing. Very Freddie !
most underrated queen song
+Adrian Mars i agree with you
Definitely a QUEEEN masterpiece 💛
"The nymph in yellow"
*roger starts singing*
Roger is a nymph confirmed
Actually yellow was Freddie's favorite color.
That's about him.
They were the best of friends
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@@hypatiahawks1740 I think the reference to the nymph is because of Roger’s voice.
Was first introduced to this song in 1987 ( I was a 9 year old Queen fan) , its like a musical version of a Midsummer nights dream....
The piano at the end is the start of "Nevermore". It maybe the next track on the album
It is the song before this is ogre battle which nicely transitions
my favorite song of all and not just by Queen.
+kurtmorr me too
Yeah. It's a really good one.
Freddie was behind all the early hits.such a talent.grew up with his music and although I love listening to their songs it still hurts that Freddie has passed.
80's Queen songs are good but I like 70's Queen songs better because it feels so much better to me 💃
I love Freddie's 70s fairy world :)
I liked this song, then when I found out it's describing a painting I looked at the painting(and tried to find all the stuff he was describing)and now for some reason I find this song so much more interesting
i love how the songs conect to each other, this is THE band
other bands did songs which connected to other songs too.
this is literally a masterpiece. i cant even imagine how talented someone needs to be to perform this song. God bless freddie mercury and queen
The lyrics and melody to this song are just so intricate and beautiful, it gives off that magical fantasy vibe that I can’t get out of my head.
Perfection
I love the "weird" diversity that Queen incorporated. So. Damn. Talented.
Fun fact: Many people speculated that Fairy Fellers Master-Stoke was never performed live at all. It wasn’t until the Rainbow Concerts were released, as Queen performed FDM-S live during the march concert as the Rainbow.
They also performed it in blackpool, sunderland and birmingham that same tour
The Rainbow live version is heavily pitch-corrected though, the entire show is, there is no other source other than the pitch corrected one so we don't have a single idea as to how the song really really sounded like when they played it.
“fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend” hits different
Frrrr best part of the song
I learned a shit ton of words just by listening to queen’s early 70’s songs 😳
Only a genius can write such a song and sing it so flawlessly.what a voice!!
Freddie would have been 75 today Sept 5 2021, happy birthday freddie.
this album and Sheer Heart-Attack are still my favorite Queen's records!
Love their voices especially Roger's it's amazing!
Queen is the only band that's more than twice my age yet so in love with. Songs like this made me want more than just Bohemian Rhapsody
This song is so amazing! Can't get enough of it
Sweet lord, bless the writer of such a phenomenal literature!! SIMPLY EPIC 💜✨
The lyrics are filled to the brim with rare and beautiful words!
I’m on the journey of listening to every queen song on number 18 of 198 of the playlist enjoying it so far. Favourite is probably my fairy king !
❤+ My melancholy blues + Dreamers Ball + Nevermore + You take my breath away
0:52 can WE TALK ABOUT THIS PART
Bro sounds like Bell from the UA-cam series TPOT
Bohemian Rhapsody is a masterpiece, but the Master-Stroke is THE Masterpiece!
Yes.
Bohemian is overestimated.
I can remember that in one of the Queen fan club magazines,they showed the painting that inspired this song.
‘Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan’. I loved that song from the very first note but after hearing a reference to the ‘A midsummer night’s dream’ play by Shakespeare I can die a happy man.
You make me sad!! I have read it various times and always forget so much things, like names...
and well I just love how Freddie is a very cultured man and adds a little bit of art to his wonderful masterpieces
I didn't realize that this song was based off a painting until recently. Only made it even more awesome.
Queen is my favorite rock band and their early albums are phenomenal god bless his soul Freddie Mercury
One of my all time favourite Queen tracks,especially when you see the painting that inspired Fred to write this.Masterpiece.
Every time I hear a Queen´s song I discover something new.
1:28 - 1:50 the aaaAAAaAaaAaaa is so dominant in the instrumental part that nobody is talking about that incredible guitar magic
My fave queen song of all time . In fact my favourite
ALBUM
down inside, you know the prog-queen was the best queen. A genius like Freddie should have continued doing prog. music till the end. Yet, in their second album queen made one of the best prog rock albums ever. Queen II B-side is a milestone for progressive msuic.
Freddie sounds so young in this song. I'm the same age now as Freddie was when he passed. When this came out he wasn't even 30 yrs old yet. I look at all the older stuff and they're all just so adorable and young yet so talented❤
that's my favorite Queen. everything after News of the World is just a shadow of the band i LOVED
He's a fairy feller
彼こそ妖精界の名高き木こり
The fairy folk have gathered round the new moon shine
月明かりが鳴りをひそめ、星だけが輝きを増す新月のころ、
妖精の仲間たちがこぞってやって来る
To see the feller crack a nut at night's noon time
真夜中０時に、木こりが木の実を割るのを見るために
To swing his axe he swears,
黄金に輝く斧を振り下ろし、確実に一刀加えるのを
as it climbs he dares
彼はまるで恐れを知らぬかのようで
To deliver...
それを見届けるために...
The master-stroke
ため息まじりに誰もが感嘆する
「あの一撃は神技さ！」
Ploughman, "waggoner will", and types
農夫で『鋤車引きのウィル』なんて正にそれ
車に手をかけ、その時を今かと待ち構える
Politician with senatorial pipe -
政治家と上院議員は、管弦楽器を吹いている
he's a dilly-dally-o
手持ち無沙汰にのらりくらり、とね
Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown
博識を鼻にかけた学者は目を細め、しかめ面
And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow
サテュロスは仲間の女のスカートの下に、いやらしいヤツ
What a dirty laddio
相変わらずの好きモノさ
Tatterdemalion and a junketer
ぼろ服の男と、物見遊山の男は
There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter -
泥棒と、トンボのトランペット吹きの近くにいる
- he's my hero
トンボのトランペットはそれは素晴らしくて
僕のヒーローだ
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
男前の妖精は女の友達に、たわむれに手をかけている
The nymph in yellow "can we see the master-stroke"
若く美しいニンフは無責任に煽る
「本当に私たちはあの神技を見られるのかしら？」
What a quaere fellow
なんと身勝手な連中だろう
Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy
兵士、水夫、鋳物の修理屋、仕立て屋、牛すきを引く田舎者
Waiting to hear the sound
有象無象が寄せ集まって、一撃の響きを聞こうと待ちわびる
And the arch-magician presides
弓なり型の帽子をかぶった魔法使いが仕切り役
He is the leader
彼は、誰もが認める指導者さ
Oberon and titania watched by a harridan
オーベロンとティターニアは、また何か仕出かさないように
付き添いの口やかましい婆さんに見張られて
Mab is the Queen and there's a good apothecary-man
マブの女王の傍らには、腕の良い薬師の男が
Come to say hello
みんな揃ってご挨拶
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
洒落男の妖精は、いたずらに女友達をくすぐりつつ
The nymph in yellow
麗しいニンフは疑いの目で時を見守る
What a quaere fellow
まったく勘ぐり過ぎなやつらだよ
The ostler stares with hands on his knees
馬の世話人は膝に手を当てて、ことの成り行きをじっと見つめ
Come on mr. feller,
さあ、名うての木こり、その腕を奮ってくれ
crack it open if you please
木の実に渾身の一撃を、目に物見せてくれないか
To write and sing this song you have to be and extraordinary musician!!!! Its so unique.... only dear Mr Mercury can do this.!!!!
OMG the bassline is awesome
I absolutely love this song. One of Queen's finest.
His songwriting ability was unreal
I LOVE the bass in this song❤
This is my favorite song along with Seven Seas Of Rhye on the Queen ll album
The whole song is perfect, but the end is really beautiful.
the ending is just the transition to another masterpiece, "nevermore" is short but mindblowingly beautiful
November 24th 2020. R.I.P. Freddie. This is my long time favorite Queen song written by Freddie. You're the most talented song writer and musician on this planet. From Japan.
The transition into Nevermore is orgasmic!
That "nevermore" piano ending...perfect
Love this song ! This was my first Queen album and fell in love with them.. I was in grade school back in the day and my friends thought I was strange for listening to them .. but little did they know Queen best band ever and forever!!!