A truly great and epic composition. I absolutely love this one, and I thought this was one that you would really appreciate for its lyrical and musical depth. I really like all the transitions and variety in the different sections. You had some great commentary on the lyrics and the music. Not only does it speak on the greed and other darker aspects of our nature, but with a sense of hope that we can rise above these qualities and push on. Your gift for seeing and describing the imagery you experience from lyrics and music was on full display here. A great musical piece for all of us to experience together with you. Great reaction! I loved it!
Honestly this is the best channel ever. Thank you for your accurate reactions. As a classical musician, you really understood what Queen were all about... One of the greatest band ever, in my opinion the best. Mercury was a pure genius. God save the Queen🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🎹🎹🎹🎵🎵🎵
It’s a grand beginning to an absolutely spectacular album. When I first heard this album, I simply thought that the band had really become re-energized, and Freddy was really taking his singing seriously. Most of us did not know at this point that Freddy had AIDS. When he announced his health condition a few days before he died, it changed the perception of the album for me. Suddenly, them not holding back on the album made sense, they were all making one last push to the finish line, and were not going to leave anything left on the table. Then when Freddy died, the perception of the album, for me, changed again. It became a celebration of everything Queen, and everything Freddie Mercury. The album is serious, funny, spectacular, heart wrenching, and everything else in between; just like Queen, and Freddy.
Innuendo is an astonishing piece of art, simply a masterpiece. It has so many layers and depths that every listening to it is an incredible experience. Amy, you are just amazing yourself. I admire you a lot and I wish you will continue with Queen after this 50 series. I know there are a lot of great rock bands to experience but your journey into rock music has just began. You really have to do Queen's deep cuts because there are at least new 50 gems hidden.
Innuendo is so layered and complex yet bitterly beautiful too. Another Queen genius work. I’m so glad you got deeply into this one. I’m going to miss you pointing out amazing sounds and explanations on Queen songs. What a wild ride this one was! Thanks 🙏
The reception of the title and album back then when it has been released and before Freddys death was quite the opposite of what it had become afterwards. But that story has been forgotten how terrible and poor the reviews were then in spring of 1991 and I did not like the album nor the title after I had bought it early. I was disappointed like hell and withn days that should change later in november 1991 when the news spread out that freddy had died by Aids / HIV positive. And that message was so incredibly loud and big that it changed everything - and especially for the 2 latest album Innuendo and THe miracle.
How could you comment in such a competent, so genuine, so precise, and so captivating way on this true Queen's masterpiece? Please never, never give up because this channel fill my music lover's soul.
The video that accompanies the song is a work of art in its own right. Please make sure to watch it. Although we all bring ourselves to the music we hear, the visuals here add so much, and deepen the listening experience.
we are not far from „These are the days of our lives”! So far, the trip has been fantastic (thank you!), but the „days” are the summit. I am looking forward to that event!
Between the hope of The Miracle and the acceptance of Innuendo, Freddie clearly knew the cure wasn't going to arrive in time. I don't like to hear the fear in the lyrics in this song, it makes me very sad but as I get older I come to understand this more.
Have no doubt you'll listen "These Are The Days" and "The Show Must Go On". But I really hope you'll check "You Don't Fool Me" and "A Winter's Tale" from the "Made In Heaven" album.
This was my first listen. It started very Led Zep or Rainbow (Stargazer?). Freddie was in great form vocally despite his state of health. The guitars had fun together but Epic is the right term for the whole piece. Your reaction was good but then you clinically, philosophically, dissected it without killing the music, which like bolero built and built. and FIN! Wonderful! Keep Reacting!
Wonderful analysis. Thank you. I feel a tinge of sadness now we reach this point, as we are now nearing the end, and the music is coloured by that reality that Freddie was facing. It is remarkable that he was able to sing so powerfully and contribute so much to these final songs and recordings.
Thank you for bringing back this masterpiece to me. I loved that song in the 90s (though I was absolute into hardcore techno at that time🤪) I didn't listen to this song for years, still knowing the lyrics and the awesome melodies! A true masterpiece! I love your reaction and analysis of this song! One more time: Thank you!!!
Amazingly insightful and emotional reaction Amy! As always, you never disappoint. You balance the technical and soulful masterfully. Polyphonic did a great analysis of this song too, Innuendo, likening it to Bohemian Rhapsody. You might like it. I can’t wait until you react to Mother Love and Only The Good Die Young-The latter being a tribute to Freddie without Freddie. And I beg you to react to Roger Taylor’s tribute to Freddie, Old Friends. You listen to it and you know Freddie was maybe Roger’s best friend.
This is a very special album, almost every song, I feel is inspired by or for Freddie. This one is very powerful about humanity's good and bad, but also exudes hope, Freddie states keep on smiling, that's so Freddie, that's exactly what he did. Bijou on this album is beautiful, then you have Freddie's song about his favorite cat Delilah which is funny and cute. Every song has a special meaning. Great reaction.
I am happy you like it and that people even now appreciate this Album. 😊 I had bought the Album when I came out, but my musical appreciation was still developing (I was 16) - although i liked it at the time, only years later I truly recognized the geniuses that was Queen. And sadly, Freddy was gone.
Now that you’ve reached the Innuendo album, when you get to your reaction to “The Show Must Go On”, PLEASE also react to the gorgeous track that acts as a prelude to “Show” titled “Bijou”. It’s a track by Brian that turns the song structure inside out, being largely instrumental but with a brief vocal bridge sung by Freddie. The songs truly should be heard consecutively. ❤👑
Beautiful reaction. You made me realize something: The Miracle and Innuendo are the last Queen records with Freddie alive. Both have a song with the same name. The Miracle and Innuendo talk about the same thing. The Miracle is optimistic towards a destiny, while Innuendo it's much more realistic in a sense of fate. Just a thought, no matter what, we'll just keep on tryin'!!!
Amy - your reactions are so fun and educational. I do wish however that there was more selections from early Queen. The two you have done (Seven Seas of Rhye and Keep Yourself Alive) were both written to be singles and are rather conventional. Is this taste? My favourite Queen song is Liar. It was once the crowd favourite too. Also please March of the Black Queen (standalone version). The Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke is a description of a painting in the Tate Gallery. It has a harpsichord, Deacon’s driving bass and has been described as a polka. Would love to know your take. Many people love early Queen best.
Impressed! She got the Kashmire influence! ❤I love thinking of this song as the hero’s journey - thanks! . I’ve said with each Queen video - you have to keep going with the Queen journey and do the deep cuts! There are so many you’ve missed and so much more to discover. I think Vlad should explain his choices and omissions. I know he’s said he wants you to experience the variety the Queen discography has but now that you appreciate their musicianship it would be a real shame not to do a deeper dive. “March of the Black Queen” “Fairy Fellers Master Stroke” “I Was Born to Love you” “Great King Rat” “Ogre Battle” “Father to Son” “In the Lap of the Gods” ”Was it all Worth it?” To name a few you missed.
There are many more Freddie & Queen songs to enjoy and they are beautiful gems, a list of 50 songs I think is too short. Queen is one of the most popular bands in history, despite not being to the critics taste, it's 20 years of career with Freddie, for many Bohemian Rapshody is the best song ever, Live Aid was shown to be the best staging of a rock number in history, the movie, the most successful biopic of a musician, if you look at Spotify, Queen is the most listened to classic rock band, even over the Beatles. Their greatest hits album, is the best selling album ever in Britain, that you can understand is not easy in the UK. I think your list should at least have 100 Queen songs, including some live versions, because there are some gems that surpass what was done in the studio, like Somebody to love in ‘Rock Montreal’, there are many songs that live took another dimension.
Yes and Queen have a long history of mutual respect ....They go back as far as 1971 when Queen supported Yes at their London Polytechnic gig ... Steve Howe said that he admired them not just because of their music but also their camaraderie. He was very honoured that Queen asked him to play on their album. But that story looks like an intervention from Higher power, it is not just serendipity... ❤
Fun fact - The Sun newspaper gave this 2 stars (says a lot about the attitudes of the media at the time towards people who didn't fit the norm) and was called going through the motions and bland.
dont remember which but some Swedish newspaper said Led Zeppelin were ok but Robert Plants voice wasnt very good. I swear these newspapers dont understand music
Finally you are here, the grand finale for Queen and Freddie. I've been longing for your reactions to songs from Innuendo, not just the song itself. But I must say I miss the times when you had the score to relate to. Anyway, I enjoyed this video a lot and look forward to the next one. We are not far away from TSMGO...
Definitely do more Yes! Please and thank you! I’d suggest the song “Awaken”, not only because it is some of Steve Howe’s best work, but also it has a harp in it! 😊
I MUST have missed her reaction to Queen's "The Prophet's Song" as it one of the very greatest Queen songs ever and I know she would adore it. Can someone please direct me to it? And Amy, if you missed it, PLEASE PLEASE react to The Propet's Song or at least listen to it for yourself - it is a masterpiece.
I really hope to see you react to 'Freddie Mercury - Time Waits For No One' at some point (I recommend the official video version as it's more striped down, Just Freddie's vocals and a piano), 'Time' is a 1986 song recorded by Freddie Mercury for Dave Clark's musical of the same name. it's a beautiful song, I think you'll love it.
I have various versions / mixes of that song, but my favourite is the original 7 inch single from 1986 Time LP, which has a different mix to the one on The Freddie Mercury Album from 1992.
Stylistically, it's too short to be a "rock opera" unto itself, but it's definitely got the right epic feel - brash, bombastic, and overblown. And we love it all the more for that.
There's a lot of cynicism about Rock music, whether it has any musical value when compared to classical music. This song answers that question, I believe. Rock is a very broad church that can be as beautiful when it's simple as it is when it's complex, Queen were masters of the advanced end of the genre and Innuendo was one of their finest examples.
I was lucky enough to attend the playback of some of the Innuendo album tapes at Metropolis Studios in London on 30th September 2017. Hearing the band piece together this towering achievement from the most basic ideas was utterly fascinating - and the levels from the recording desk made it sound as if they were playing live in the studio next door. There were also some outtakes - when Freddie sings 'oo-oh oo-oh' he adds ' it's me ...!' - as if he were just popping into someone's kitchen or similar.
Please, please, please: don't leave out March of the Black Queen, together with BoRhap and Innuendo it forms the "hold trinity" for us Queenies. And Mother Love... Show must go on... their best.
I guess it is apparent by now that Queen were heavily influenced by many genres especially (Classical) in that they wrote and composed very much like classical artists of the past did . Incorporating a main theme , with multiple temple changes and movements incorporated in around it . These guys were unapproachable by most bands. What they did was un - reproducible by many bands. That's why you do not see many covering their music , unless the artists covering it are in their own right epic , and at the top of their game in their virtuoso ability.
10:13 Matter of fact, while performing "Innuendo" at the Tribute Concert, Robert Plant included the fifth verse of "Kashmir" (Oh, pilot of the storm...), after the second chorus, before moving to the interlude. So.... ua-cam.com/video/ZUkSGT_4xUo/v-deo.htmlsi=3p2RdpGgExDVL6xK&t=158
You're right, Led Zeppelin's Kashmir is definitely an influence on this track along with Ravel's Bolero with the ghost of Bohemian Rhapsody peeking over their shoulders (it also reminds me of Spanish Caravan by The Doors). Great to hear Queen get their ambition back after losing their way a bit in the 80s. Unusually for a Queen song, the music for this was written first and it definitely is the stronger element here. Queen played an orchestral version of Innuendo before some of their recent concerts and it sounded like the intro to a Roman epic. There's a cover version by Bryan Adams that's worth a listen too.
you're mixing up things. Writing music first was a norm (a least for Freddie), not other way around. One important exception was Killer Queen when he wrote the words first.
@@konradtomala3580 I'm not mixing up anything, thanks for the offensive remarks, pal. Innuendo wasn't just written by him, so your comment doesn't apply.
Always think of this great track as Queen paying homage to their prog rock beginnings. But doing so while acknowledging what they were facing at the time of recording.
@@robertkramer2271 yep.I heard Phil Collins saying that Genesis wrote "Squonk" after listening to Kashmir, trying to sound like Zepp, but in my opinion Queen had better success
I've been requesting this song before this Queen series began and I happy it's finally here. Amy, another band you need to react to is the underrated 70 glam rock band Sweet. They were ahead of their time and influenced many bands, yet are not in the RNR HOF. As for songs: "The Ballroom Blitz", "Fox On The Run" and "Love Is Like Oxygen" (album version).
Certainly The Miracle and Innuendo albums have tracks that are reflective and in some cases directly influenced by Freddie's illness, but the Made In Heaven album that was released after his death, contains his final ever song recorded 'Mother Love' I do hope you react to that one as it is finished by Brian because Freddie died before he could complete the vocals. A winter's tale is another of the final session on that album that is very Chrismassy
Yes do give Yes another chance (Close To The Edge is a big ask to absorb at one listen). Roundabout is their most iconic and representative single. But if you want to hear Steve Howe and Jon Anderson at their most accessible and beautifully melodic, you should really do Turn Of The Century.
You can tell that everyone had a great amount of input into the songs from Innuendo. The band recalls having felt more unified than ever when the album was recorded. Despite Mercury’s ailing conditions, everyone had fun (as they described) in the studio, free of any distractions. I fell in love with this song rather quickly; it sounds simultaneously poignant and epic. Hope Don’t Try So Hard (fantastic guitar work) is also on the list.
Deberías reaccionar también a The show must go on es una cabcion imperdible de la última etapa d4 Queen. Saludos hermosa, me encanta el ángel que pones en tus reacciones
You're on Queen's best album ever. Not so much from a musical point of view but from a sentimental point of view. In the sense of 'feeling' what is composed musically. Or rather, musically produce what you feel inside. Previously it was more or less appreciable musical works, here we're talking about something else! This is a SENSATIONAL album... it would take a whole day of videos to describe it. This album is basically very dark as principal colour. The musicality is veri 'greve', i don't know how to says it in english. Recorded between the end of 1989 till the end of 1990 the band find the better solution between the synths, strongly used in this album' and the clearity of the muscal instruments. Instruments are clear but the background is very remastered. The same thing has happened in the recording of 'A day at the reaces' album in 1976 (with different technology obviously, but with the same results). The fact that Freddie stopped with sigaretts is very audible in his vocals, almost not raspy at all except maybe in the 'Delilah' song.. Lyrics are mostly pointed around the slow fall of Soviet Union and about the changes and the impossibility to see clearly the future of humanity. Anyway inside we can easily hear the will of keep on the hope for Freddie about a solution regard his illness condition, but it's not in first stage. There so much to tell about this song.. i will be back later..
Another one whereby I think the video helps somewhat, as the images throughout have some meaning behind them, and according to Freddie's closest friends and family he never actually questioned " why me " they never heard him complain even when in horrendous pain towards the end, he just took the hand he was dealt, and in interviews which are rare, he hated this part of the job, he never thought he was going in his words " make old bones" same with John Lennon and Marc Bolan and I think David Bowie, it's an if some have a feeling their here for a purpose but for a short time, and make the most of life good and bad
A serious composition about human life in this eternal habit of allowing ourselves to be deceived from time to time by the worst little part of our side and just like the waves of the ocean we will always be trying to be better by advancing and retreating and advancing and then advancing and retreating and advancing again. Until the end of time. Breathless ... I would venture to say that it is through the fantastic creation of music by humans that the Universe gets aware of itself.
Hello, I recommend you listen to these songs from the Innuendo album - ''Don't Try So Hard'', ''All God's People'', ''These Are The Days Of Our Lives''. Thank you.
I'm quite sure the collection is already set. And considering that throughout Queen's 80's albums all of the selections were the singles I predict the songs will be: "I'm going slightly mad", "These are the days of our lives" and "The show must go on".
I would imagine The Show Must Go On and These Are The Days Of Our Lives will be two of the final selections of songs in this series, I'll be shocked if they aren't. I also suspect there'll be one from the Heaven For Everyone album as well.
Little rock by a meadow. And let that now be the second name of Roger, only spelled differently Meddows. Although in the '70 they spelled it the same, Meadows.
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A truly great and epic composition. I absolutely love this one, and I thought this was one that you would really appreciate for its lyrical and musical depth. I really like all the transitions and variety in the different sections. You had some great commentary on the lyrics and the music. Not only does it speak on the greed and other darker aspects of our nature, but with a sense of hope that we can rise above these qualities and push on. Your gift for seeing and describing the imagery you experience from lyrics and music was on full display here. A great musical piece for all of us to experience together with you. Great reaction! I loved it!
Queen's last masterpiece!
Honestly this is the best channel ever. Thank you for your accurate reactions.
As a classical musician, you really understood what Queen were all about... One of the greatest band ever, in my opinion the best.
Mercury was a pure genius.
God save the Queen🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🎹🎹🎹🎵🎵🎵
I agree, Amy is utterly brilliant at describing her thoughts, feelings and emotions
The video to Innuendo is amazing. One of the best Queen videos of all.
It’s a grand beginning to an absolutely spectacular album. When I first heard this album, I simply thought that the band had really become re-energized, and Freddy was really taking his singing seriously. Most of us did not know at this point that Freddy had AIDS. When he announced his health condition a few days before he died, it changed the perception of the album for me. Suddenly, them not holding back on the album made sense, they were all making one last push to the finish line, and were not going to leave anything left on the table. Then when Freddy died, the perception of the album, for me, changed again. It became a celebration of everything Queen, and everything Freddie Mercury. The album is serious, funny, spectacular, heart wrenching, and everything else in between; just like Queen, and Freddy.
Innuendo!! The song that started my addiction to Queen. The chorale, the multi-layered guitars, the musical styles, the rythms and that VOICE.
Better late than never.
@@williamwallace5857absolutely. Almost 33 years ago 🤟
Innuendo is an astonishing piece of art, simply a masterpiece.
It has so many layers and depths that every listening to it is an incredible experience.
Amy, you are just amazing yourself. I admire you a lot and I wish you will continue with Queen after this 50 series. I know there are a lot of great rock bands to experience but your journey into rock music has just began. You really have to do Queen's deep cuts because there are at least new 50 gems hidden.
Innuendo is so layered and complex yet bitterly beautiful too. Another Queen genius work. I’m so glad you got deeply into this one. I’m going to miss you pointing out amazing sounds and explanations on Queen songs. What a wild ride this one was! Thanks 🙏
The reception of the title and album back then when it has been released and before Freddys death was quite the opposite of what it had become afterwards.
But that story has been forgotten how terrible and poor the reviews were then in spring of 1991 and I did not like the album nor the title after I had bought it early. I was disappointed like hell and withn days that should change later in november 1991 when the news spread out that freddy had died by Aids / HIV positive. And that message was so incredibly loud and big that it changed everything - and especially for the 2 latest album Innuendo and THe miracle.
How could you comment in such a competent, so genuine, so precise, and so captivating way on this true Queen's masterpiece? Please never, never give up because this channel fill my music lover's soul.
Innuendo es otra obra maestra. El SEÑOR FREDDIE MERCURY, ÉL ERA UNA OBRA MAESTRA. 👑 ❤ Gracias, gracias por el video😊 👍
Freddie gave everything he had left on this album, and the band went with him to the end. Epic.
The video that accompanies the song is a work of art in its own right. Please make sure to watch it. Although we all bring ourselves to the music we hear, the visuals here add so much, and deepen the listening experience.
In my honest opinion Innuendo is their Opus Magnum.
Besides, Queen plus Steve Howe - that couldn't go wrong.
It is their most underrated song to be sure, one of my favourites.
we are not far from „These are the days of our lives”! So far, the trip has been fantastic (thank you!), but the „days” are the summit. I am looking forward to that event!
Between the hope of The Miracle and the acceptance of Innuendo, Freddie clearly knew the cure wasn't going to arrive in time.
I don't like to hear the fear in the lyrics in this song, it makes me very sad but as I get older I come to understand this more.
Not just the lyrics, his singing is full of fear as well. It's a beautiful, painful expression of humanity.
Have no doubt you'll listen "These Are The Days" and "The Show Must Go On". But I really hope you'll check "You Don't Fool Me" and "A Winter's Tale" from the "Made In Heaven" album.
I really enjoyed this, particularly the note taken of John Deacon’s bass. He often goes without the credit he richly deserves.
This was my first listen. It started very Led Zep or Rainbow (Stargazer?). Freddie was in great form vocally despite his state of health. The guitars had fun together but Epic is the right term for the whole piece. Your reaction was good but then you clinically, philosophically, dissected it without killing the music, which like bolero built and built. and FIN! Wonderful! Keep Reacting!
Another amazing piece of Queen is: "White Queen" the live version at the Hammersmith Odeon 1975
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As a classic musician you should listen to " The march of the black queen" and " The prophet song".
I love this song, it's a masterpiece, the Bohemian Rhapsody of the 90´s.
Wonderful analysis. Thank you. I feel a tinge of sadness now we reach this point, as we are now nearing the end, and the music is coloured by that reality that Freddie was facing. It is remarkable that he was able to sing so powerfully and contribute so much to these final songs and recordings.
One of Queen's best albums to be sure. They really pulled out the stops on this one.
The bit towards the end where it moves from the fast part back to the 1st verse style of music gives me goosebumps
Thank you for bringing back this masterpiece to me. I loved that song in the 90s (though I was absolute into hardcore techno at that time🤪) I didn't listen to this song for years, still knowing the lyrics and the awesome melodies! A true masterpiece!
I love your reaction and analysis of this song!
One more time: Thank you!!!
Amazingly insightful and emotional reaction Amy! As always, you never disappoint. You balance the technical and soulful masterfully. Polyphonic did a great analysis of this song too, Innuendo, likening it to Bohemian Rhapsody. You might like it.
I can’t wait until you react to Mother Love and Only The Good Die Young-The latter being a tribute to Freddie without Freddie.
And I beg you to react to Roger Taylor’s tribute to Freddie, Old Friends. You listen to it and you know Freddie was maybe Roger’s best friend.
This is a very special album, almost every song, I feel is inspired by or for Freddie. This one is very powerful about humanity's good and bad, but also exudes hope, Freddie states keep on smiling, that's so Freddie, that's exactly what he did. Bijou on this album is beautiful, then you have Freddie's song about his favorite cat Delilah which is funny and cute. Every song has a special meaning. Great reaction.
Bijou and Delilah are beautiful little gems
Was It All Worth It (Miracle album!) please!!!
I am happy you like it and that people even now appreciate this Album. 😊
I had bought the Album when I came out, but my musical appreciation was still developing (I was 16) - although i liked it at the time, only years later I truly recognized the geniuses that was Queen. And sadly, Freddy was gone.
Led Zeppelin KASHMIR was an influence. Robert Plant even sang Innuendo at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992
A fragment of Innuendo, mixed with a fragment of Kashmir :D
Great song and analysis. Thanks Virgin Rock
A truly monumental song...speaking out to the whole of humanity ❤
Best band ever
A truly epic video Amy , one of your best me thinks , the song deserved an epic, and it got one.
Now that you’ve reached the Innuendo album, when you get to your reaction to “The Show Must Go On”, PLEASE also react to the gorgeous track that acts as a prelude to “Show” titled “Bijou”. It’s a track by Brian that turns the song structure inside out, being largely instrumental but with a brief vocal bridge sung by Freddie.
The songs truly should be heard consecutively. ❤👑
Yes. YES.
It’s a such a heartbreaking song. From the lyrics sung by Mercury and the very evoking guitar instrumental by May. A real gem 💎 of a song in the album
Beautiful reaction. You made me realize something: The Miracle and Innuendo are the last Queen records with Freddie alive. Both have a song with the same name. The Miracle and Innuendo talk about the same thing. The Miracle is optimistic towards a destiny, while Innuendo it's much more realistic in a sense of fate.
Just a thought, no matter what, we'll just keep on tryin'!!!
Amy - your reactions are so fun and educational. I do wish however that there was more selections from early Queen. The two you have done (Seven Seas of Rhye and Keep Yourself Alive) were both written to be singles and are rather conventional. Is this taste? My favourite Queen song is Liar. It was once the crowd favourite too. Also please March of the Black Queen (standalone version). The Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke is a description of a painting in the Tate Gallery. It has a harpsichord, Deacon’s driving bass and has been described as a polka. Would love to know your take. Many people love early Queen best.
Wonderful reaction, thank you, loved every minute of it
Terminé llorando, realmente no me había dado cuenta de cuánto me gusta Queen, tremenda reacción, aprendí muchísimo. Saludos y cariños
This has to be one of your very best reactions/reviews/interpretations, and-- it was as inspiring as the music.
One of my favorite Queen songs. Very underrated.
This song is an action-adventure, hero's journey epic movie without the movie. Simply fantastic.
Impressed! She got the Kashmire influence! ❤I love thinking of this song as the hero’s journey - thanks! . I’ve said with each Queen video - you have to keep going with the Queen journey and do the deep cuts! There are so many you’ve missed and so much more to discover. I think Vlad should explain his choices and omissions. I know he’s said he wants you to experience the variety the Queen discography has but now that you appreciate their musicianship it would be a real shame not to do a deeper dive. “March of the Black Queen” “Fairy Fellers Master Stroke” “I Was Born to Love you” “Great King Rat” “Ogre Battle” “Father to Son” “In the Lap of the Gods” ”Was it all Worth it?” To name a few you missed.
There are many more Freddie & Queen songs to enjoy and they are beautiful gems, a list of 50 songs I think is too short. Queen is one of the most popular bands in history, despite not being to the critics taste, it's 20 years of career with Freddie, for many Bohemian Rapshody is the best song ever, Live Aid was shown to be the best staging of a rock number in history, the movie, the most successful biopic of a musician, if you look at Spotify, Queen is the most listened to classic rock band, even over the Beatles. Their greatest hits album, is the best selling album ever in Britain, that you can understand is not easy in the UK. I think your list should at least have 100 Queen songs, including some live versions, because there are some gems that surpass what was done in the studio, like Somebody to love in ‘Rock Montreal’, there are many songs that live took another dimension.
I hope you will listen Bijou. It's a guitar masterpiece.
She did. 👍
YES is Jhonn Deacon's favorite band
Yes and Queen have a long history of mutual respect ....They go back as far as 1971 when Queen supported Yes at their London Polytechnic gig ... Steve Howe said that he admired them not just because of their music but also their camaraderie. He was very honoured that Queen asked him to play on their album. But that story looks like an intervention from Higher power, it is not just serendipity... ❤
IMO, one of their epic masterpieces!
Quite an exceptional analysis..wonderful....well done Amy....you really get this one!
Innuendo is such a great song, and album.
this is definitely my favorite Queen piece
Finally, Innuendo 😍😍😍😍 I'm so excited!!! This is probably the first time I comment before actually watching the video 😂
Fun fact - The Sun newspaper gave this 2 stars (says a lot about the attitudes of the media at the time towards people who didn't fit the norm) and was called going through the motions and bland.
dont remember which but some Swedish newspaper said Led Zeppelin were ok but Robert Plants voice wasnt very good. I swear these newspapers dont understand music
Finally you are here, the grand finale for Queen and Freddie. I've been longing for your reactions to songs from Innuendo, not just the song itself. But I must say I miss the times when you had the score to relate to. Anyway, I enjoyed this video a lot and look forward to the next one. We are not far away from TSMGO...
Fantastic!!! I am delighted with you and this analysis of the composition! I discovered a lot of new things thanks to you in this composition.
Please react to Bijou from this album. Wonderful reaction as always!
Definitely do more Yes! Please and thank you!
I’d suggest the song “Awaken”, not only because it is some of Steve Howe’s best work, but also it has a harp in it! 😊
Agree! Awaken simply must be the next Yes song :)
Awaken .
Has to be Todmobile ft Jon Anderson ??
@@mamertobernal4460 That's technically not a Yes performance, but it is a fantastic version of the song.
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It is an epic performance..
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@@mamertobernal4460 I think that is my fav version, possibly because of the choir, it added a different dimension that worked so well
I MUST have missed her reaction to Queen's "The Prophet's Song" as it one of the very greatest Queen songs ever and I know she would adore it. Can someone please direct me to it? And Amy, if you missed it, PLEASE PLEASE react to The Propet's Song or at least listen to it for yourself - it is a masterpiece.
Sadly, she missed it.... 😢
I was pretty amazed when this album came out. It was the first queen album I bought on CD too.
One of my absolute favorite queen tracks.. 🥰 if not my favorite.
I really hope to see you react to 'Freddie Mercury - Time Waits For No One' at some point (I recommend the official video version as it's more striped down, Just Freddie's vocals and a piano), 'Time' is a 1986 song recorded by Freddie Mercury for Dave Clark's musical of the same name.
it's a beautiful song, I think you'll love it.
I have various versions / mixes of that song, but my favourite is the original 7 inch single from 1986 Time LP, which has a different mix to the one on The Freddie Mercury Album from 1992.
Stylistically, it's too short to be a "rock opera" unto itself, but it's definitely got the right epic feel - brash, bombastic, and overblown. And we love it all the more for that.
and Queen never produced opera, just operatic parts.
Amy, please watch the video. I'm always amazed at how accurate you are at describing what pictures the music paints.
The Show Must Go On is my Fave Queen Song, this is my second Fave
We love the gut wrenching fear and the smile he carries while he sings.
For me, with The Show Must Go On (from the same album that was highly underrated at the time of its release), this is their very best work.
Finally!! ❤❤❤🤩🤩🤩 Thank you!
My favourite Queen song
There's a lot of cynicism about Rock music, whether it has any musical value when compared to classical music. This song answers that question, I believe. Rock is a very broad church that can be as beautiful when it's simple as it is when it's complex, Queen were masters of the advanced end of the genre and Innuendo was one of their finest examples.
FINALLY!!! My heart is in peace now =)
I was lucky enough to attend the playback of some of the Innuendo album tapes at Metropolis Studios in London on 30th September 2017. Hearing the band piece together this towering achievement from the most basic ideas was utterly fascinating - and the levels from the recording desk made it sound as if they were playing live in the studio next door. There were also some outtakes - when Freddie sings 'oo-oh oo-oh' he adds ' it's me ...!' - as if he were just popping into someone's kitchen or similar.
Please, please, please: don't leave out March of the Black Queen, together with BoRhap and Innuendo it forms the "hold trinity" for us Queenies. And Mother Love... Show must go on... their best.
You forgot "My fairy queen".
Oh wow! I've had no idea Steve Howe also played on _this_ musical masterpiece! 😀
Queen the ultimate antidote and antithesis to the 3 minute 'sho-be-do, I love you' pop song!
I was waiting for this one.
I guess it is apparent by now that Queen were heavily influenced by many genres especially (Classical) in that they wrote and composed very much like classical artists of the past did . Incorporating a main theme , with multiple temple changes and movements incorporated in around it . These guys were unapproachable by most bands. What they did was un - reproducible by many bands. That's why you do not see many covering their music , unless the artists covering it are in their own right epic , and at the top of their game in their virtuoso ability.
10:13 Matter of fact, while performing "Innuendo" at the Tribute Concert, Robert Plant included the fifth verse of "Kashmir" (Oh, pilot of the storm...), after the second chorus, before moving to the interlude. So....
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You're right, Led Zeppelin's Kashmir is definitely an influence on this track along with Ravel's Bolero with the ghost of Bohemian Rhapsody peeking over their shoulders (it also reminds me of Spanish Caravan by The Doors). Great to hear Queen get their ambition back after losing their way a bit in the 80s. Unusually for a Queen song, the music for this was written first and it definitely is the stronger element here. Queen played an orchestral version of Innuendo before some of their recent concerts and it sounded like the intro to a Roman epic. There's a cover version by Bryan Adams that's worth a listen too.
you're mixing up things. Writing music first was a norm (a least for Freddie), not other way around. One important exception was Killer Queen when he wrote the words first.
@@konradtomala3580 I'm not mixing up anything, thanks for the offensive remarks, pal. Innuendo wasn't just written by him, so your comment doesn't apply.
@@konradtomala3580 Oh, and if you're going to be mouthing off at least don't post anonymously like a coward.
I'm going slithly mad 👌
and there you have it
Slightly mad *
Nooooo
slightly
Most Metal Queen's song, one of my fav
most symphonicisch metal, for me , as a metal lover, it was Stone cold crazy by Queen. Also covered by Metallica and Brighton Rock.
It is like a miniature opera, and much more ...
Sou do Brasil e gosto muitos das suas reações, parabéns pelo trabalho.
Always think of this great track as Queen paying homage to their prog rock beginnings. But doing so while acknowledging what they were facing at the time of recording.
Yes, it reminds a little of “Kashmir” by Led Zeppelin. Not by chance, Robert Plant chose this song to sing in tribute to Freddie with Queen
That's right. Plant said he chose it because it was so much like a Zeppelin song.
@@robertkramer2271 yep.I heard Phil Collins saying that Genesis wrote "Squonk" after listening to Kashmir, trying to sound like Zepp, but in my opinion Queen had better success
@FABIO_MARTINSS I love Genesis, but I don't hear "Kashmir" when I hear "Squonk". But, you definitely hear it in this song.
it was 'i want it all'..
really? did Robert sing this? OMG! i would love to hear that!
I've been requesting this song before this Queen series began and I happy it's finally here.
Amy, another band you need to react to is the underrated 70 glam rock band Sweet. They were ahead of their time and influenced many bands, yet are not in the RNR HOF. As for songs: "The Ballroom Blitz", "Fox On The Run" and "Love Is Like Oxygen" (album version).
Watching this reminds me how good this was/is. 🇬🇧 ❤
Certainly The Miracle and Innuendo albums have tracks that are reflective and in some cases directly influenced by Freddie's illness, but the Made In Heaven album that was released after his death, contains his final ever song recorded 'Mother Love' I do hope you react to that one as it is finished by Brian because Freddie died before he could complete the vocals. A winter's tale is another of the final session on that album that is very Chrismassy
Yes do give Yes another chance (Close To The Edge is a big ask to absorb at one listen). Roundabout is their most iconic and representative single. But if you want to hear Steve Howe and Jon Anderson at their most accessible and beautifully melodic, you should really do Turn Of The Century.
You can tell that everyone had a great amount of input into the songs from Innuendo. The band recalls having felt more unified than ever when the album was recorded. Despite Mercury’s ailing conditions, everyone had fun (as they described) in the studio, free of any distractions.
I fell in love with this song rather quickly; it sounds simultaneously poignant and epic. Hope Don’t Try So Hard (fantastic guitar work) is also on the list.
Innuendo was Queens best album since The Works
Deberías reaccionar también a The show must go on es una cabcion imperdible de la última etapa d4 Queen. Saludos hermosa, me encanta el ángel que pones en tus reacciones
You're on Queen's best album ever. Not so much from a musical point of view but from a sentimental point of view. In the sense of 'feeling' what is composed musically. Or rather, musically produce what you feel inside. Previously it was more or less appreciable musical works, here we're talking about something else! This is a SENSATIONAL album... it would take a whole day of videos to describe it. This album is basically very dark as principal colour. The musicality is veri 'greve', i don't know how to says it in english. Recorded between the end of 1989 till the end of 1990 the band find the better solution between the synths, strongly used in this album' and the clearity of the muscal instruments. Instruments are clear but the background is very remastered. The same thing has happened in the recording of 'A day at the reaces' album in 1976 (with different technology obviously, but with the same results). The fact that Freddie stopped with sigaretts is very audible in his vocals, almost not raspy at all except maybe in the 'Delilah' song.. Lyrics are mostly pointed around the slow fall of Soviet Union and about the changes and the impossibility to see clearly the future of humanity. Anyway inside we can easily hear the will of keep on the hope for Freddie about a solution regard his illness condition, but it's not in first stage. There so much to tell about this song.. i will be back later..
Innuendo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
I love this song
Interesting when she gets to the flamingo section and said it’s like a “village dance”, got to watch the video!
Flamenco* 😅
@@iris67si sorry, dance not bird. Love spellcheck.
@@AliT0555 😂 I know... Spellcheck obviously knows a bird but not a dance ... 🙃
@@iris67si 🤣
Innuendo always reminds me of Kashmir.
This is Queens' best song.
Another one whereby I think the video helps somewhat, as the images throughout have some meaning behind them, and according to Freddie's closest friends and family he never actually questioned " why me " they never heard him complain even when in horrendous pain towards the end, he just took the hand he was dealt, and in interviews which are rare, he hated this part of the job, he never thought he was going in his words " make old bones" same with John Lennon and Marc Bolan and I think David Bowie, it's an if some have a feeling their here for a purpose but for a short time, and make the most of life good and bad
Queen 50 series?? Not enough. At least 100.
A serious composition about human life in this eternal habit of allowing ourselves to be deceived from time to time by the worst little part of our side and just like the waves of the ocean we will always be trying to be better by advancing and retreating and advancing and then advancing and retreating and advancing again.
Until the end of time.
Breathless ...
I would venture to say that it is through the fantastic creation of music by humans that the Universe gets aware of itself.
Hello, I recommend you listen to these songs from the Innuendo album - ''Don't Try So Hard'', ''All God's People'', ''These Are The Days Of Our Lives''. Thank you.
The Show Must Go On!
@@mortimore4030I am sure she will.
I'm quite sure the collection is already set. And considering that throughout Queen's 80's albums all of the selections were the singles I predict the songs will be:
"I'm going slightly mad", "These are the days of our lives" and "The show must go on".
I would imagine The Show Must Go On and These Are The Days Of Our Lives will be two of the final selections of songs in this series, I'll be shocked if they aren't. I also suspect there'll be one from the Heaven For Everyone album as well.
... and also BIJOU. 💖💎
Little rock by a meadow. And let that now be the second name of Roger, only spelled differently Meddows. Although in the '70 they spelled it the same, Meadows.
Can't believe we are on to Innuendo but you haven't heard Was It All Worth It from The Miracle?!