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Siamo nel 1975 e qualcosa nella musica sta cambiando, un nuovo disco dei Queen è appena uscito e promette di stupire. L'album è: A Night At the Opera, e la perla e Bohemian Rhapsody canzone n.11 della tracklist ma n.1 in tutto il resto.
Questa canzone composta dal genio di Mercury, in breve tempo sconvolge tutti i canoni musicali fino ad ora conosciuti, e in pochissimi giorni si stabilisce prima in quasi tutte le classifiche mondiali. La ragione di questo enorme successo, di sicuro sta nella sua quasi bizzarra originalità di sovraincidere decine di suoni e voci diverse in modo contemporaneo, ma il motivo forse ancora piu importante è la presenza di un videoclip che accompagna la canzone, anche se non si tratta del primissimo videoclip, è senza ombra di dubbio il piu importante dell'epoca, che darà l'input a tutti gli altri artisti a creare per ogni loro hit un nuovo video.
Grazie a questa genialata della band A Night At the Opera e i Queen entrano di diritto e meritatamente nella storia del rock. Ma la cosa eccezionale è che l'album non si limita solo a Bohemian Rhapsody ma ogni singola canzone presente rappresenta un diamante.
Infatti con questo disco i Queen hanno saputo coniare ancora una volta (ma ora in maniera più accurata ed esperta) un originale ibrido tra le asprezze hard rock e il pomposo gusto "glam". Con la straordinaria voce di Freddie Mercury e la chitarra di May in primo piano.
Ma nonostante questo, i Queen ebbero molte critiche sul loro effetivo talento, e Freddie sempre restio nelle interviste rispose così: "quando qualcun'altro farà una canzone che si avvicini alla spettacolarità di Bohemian Rhapsody possiamo parlarne"
Forse una dichiarazione un po' presuntuosa, ma assolutamente veritiera, imfatti a distanza di anni Bohemian Rhapsody è considerata da molte persone intenditori e non, la più grande canzone di tutti i tempi.
Canzoni consigliate: (secondo il mio personale gusto)
The Prophet's Song (una specie di Bohemian Rhapsody)
Love Of My Life (stupenda canzone, molto dolce)
Bohemian Rhapsody
You're My Best Friend (bellissima canzone, cantanta quasi sottovoce da Freddie)
'39 (canzone country,canta May)
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...) (03:45)
You suck my blood like a leech
You break the law and you preach
Screw my brain till it hurts
You've taken all my money - and you want more!
Misguided old mule
With your pigheaded rules
With your narrow-minded cronies who are fools of the first division
Death on two legs
You're tearing me apart,
Death on two legs
You never had a heart...of your own
Kill-joy, Bad guy,
Big-talking small fry
You're just an old barrow-boy
Have you found a new toy to replace me,
Can you face me?
But now you can kiss my ass goodbye
Feel good, are you satisfied
Do you feel like suicide (I think you should)
Is your conscience all right
Does it plague you at night
Do you feel good - Feel good!
Talk like a big business tycoon,
But you're just a hot-air balloon,
So no one gives you a damn,
You're just an overgrown school-boy
Let me tan your hide.
A dog with disease,
You're the King of the 'sleaze'
Put your money where your mouth is Mr. Know-all,
Was the fin on your back part of the deal...shark!
Death on two legs
You're tearing me apart
Death on two legs
You never had a heart of your own,
(You never did, right from the start)
Insane, you should be put inside,
You're a sewer-rat decaying in a cesspool of pride
Should be made unemployed
Then make yourself null-and-void,
Make me feel good
I feel good!
02 Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon (01:09)
I go out to work on Monday morning
Tuesday I go off to honeymoon
I'll be back again before it's time for sunny-down,
I'll be lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
Bicycling on every Wednesday evening
Thursday I go waltzing to the Zoo
I come from London town, I'm just an ordinary guy,
Fridays I go painting in the Louvre
I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night
(There he goes again)
I'll be lazing on a Sunday
Lazing on a Sunday
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
04 You're My Best Friend (02:54)
Ooo, you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It's you, you're all I see
Ooo, you make me live now honey
Ooo, you make me live
You're the best friend that I ever had
I've been with you such a long time
You're my sunshine
And I want you to know that my feelings are true
I really love you
You're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
I've been wandering 'round
But I still came back to you
In rain or shine you've stood by me girl
I'm happy, happy at home
You're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I got you to help me forgive
Ooo, you make me live now honey
Ooo, you make me live
You're the first one when things turn out bad
You know I'll never be lonely
You're my only one
And I love the things
I really love the things that you do
You're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
I'm happy, happy at home
You're my best friend
You're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
You, you're my best friend
05 '39 (03:33)
In the year of '39 assembled here the Volunteers
In the days when the lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen.
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried.
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew.
In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
The Volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey, little darlin' we'll away
But my love this cannot be
For so many years have gone though I'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me.
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew.
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand
For my life
Still ahead
Pity Me.
06 Sweet Lady (04:06)
You call me up and treat me like a dog
You call me up and tear me up inside
You’ve got me on a lead
Oooh you bring me down
You shout around
You don’t believe that I’m alone
Ohh you don't believe me
Sweet lady
Sweet lady
Sweet lady...Stay sweet.
You say
"You call me up and feed me all the lines
"You call me sweet like I’m some kind of cheese
"Waiting on the shelf
"You eat me up
"You hold me down
"I’m just a fool to make you a home, you really do me
"And you say
"Sweet lady
"Sweet lady
"Sweet lady...Stay sweet"
Stay now
My sweet lady
Though it seems like we wait forever
Stay sweet baby
Believe and we’ve got everything we need.
07 Seaside Rendezvous (02:18)
Words and music by Freddie Mercury
Seaside - whenever you stroll along with me I'm merely contemplating what
you feel inside meanwhile I ask you to be my Clementine -
You say you will if you could but you can't - I love you madly -
Let my imagination run away with you gladly -
A brand new angle - highly commendable - Seaside Rendezvous -
I feel so romantic - can we do it again
Can we do it again sometime,
Fantastic, c'est la vie mesdames et messieurs
And at the peak of the season, the
Mediterranean -, this time of year, it's so fashionable.
I feel like dancing - in the rain,
Can I have a volunteer -
Dancing - what a damn jolly good idea -
It's such a jollification - as a matter of fact, so tres charmant my dear -
Underneath the moonlight - together we'll sail across the sea -
Reminiscing every night - Meantime - I ask you to be my Valentine
You say you have to tell your daddy if you can - I'll be your Valentino -
We'll ride upon an omnibus and then the casino -
Get a new facial - start a sensational -
Seaside Rendezvous - so adorable,
Seaside Rendezvous -
Seaside Rendezvous -
08 The Prophet's Song (08:23)
Oh Oh people of the earth
Listen to the warning
The seer he said
Beware the storm that gathers here
Listen to the wise man.
I dreamed I saw on a moonlit stair
Spreading his hands on the multitude there
A man who cried for a love gone stale
And ice cold hearts of charity bare.
I watched as fear took the old men's gaze
Hopes of the young in troubled graves
I see no day, I heard him say
So grey is the face of every mortal.
Oh Oh people on the earth
Listen to the warning
The prophet he said
For soon the cold of night will fall
Summoned by your own hand.
Oh Oh children of the land
Quicken to the new life
Take my hand
Fly and find the new green bough
Return like the white dove.
He told of death as a bone white haze
Taking the lost and the unloved babe
Late too late all the wretches run
These kings of beasts now counting their days.
From mother's love is the son estranged
Married his own his precious gain
The earth will shake in two will break
And death all around will be your dow'ry
Oh Oh people of the earth
Listen to the warning the seer he said
For those who hear and mark my words
Listen to the good plan.
Oh Oh - and two by two my human zoo
They'll be
Running for to come
Running for to come
Out of the rain
Flee for your life
Who heed me not, let all your treasure make you
Fear for your life
Deceive you not the fires of hell will take you
Should death await you.
Oh Oh people can you hear me?
Oh People can you hear me?
And now I know, and now I know
And now I know, and now I know
And now I know, that you can hear me
The Earth will shake and two will break...
The Earth will shake and two will break...
The Earth will shake and two will break...
And now I know, and now I know...
And now I know, and now I know...
And now I know, and now I know...
And now I know, and now I know...
Listen to the wise, listen to the wise
Listen to the wise, listen to the wise man
Come here, Aye you
Come here, Aye you
Come here.....
Listen to the man, listen to the man
Listen to the man, listen to the man
Man......
God give you grace to purge this place
And peace all around may be your fortune.
Oh Oh children of the land
Love is still the answer, take my hand
The vision fades, a voice I hear
"Listen to the Madman!"
But still I fear and still I dare not
Laugh at the Madman.
10 Bohemian Rhapsody (05:57)
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see.
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
To me
Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh,
Didn’t mean to make you cry.
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters.
Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine
Body’s aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody, I’ve got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh, (any way the wind blows)
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me
Galileo - Galileo
Galileo - Galileo
Galileo - Figaro
Magnifico - ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go,
Will you let me go?
Bismillah! No! We will not let you go! - Let him go!
Bismillah! We will not let you go! - Let him go!
Bismillah! We will not let you go! - Let me go!
Will not let you go! - Let me go!
Will not let you go! - Let me go, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Mama Mia, Mama Mia, Mama Mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Ooh baby, can’t do this to me baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right out of here
Ooh yeah
Ooh yeah
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows
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Altre recensioni
Di 2Torri
Al primo ascolto verrai completamente rapito dalla genialità di queste 4 persone.
In quest'album è contenuta la più bella canzone che un essere umano abbia mai creato, mi riferisco a Bohemian Rhapsody.
Di Torre Ste
Non esistono aggettivi per descrivere l'opera rock per eccellenza!
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: opera armonica, poetica e dura nel momento stesso, dominata dal piano, chitarre, cori lirici e dalla grandissima interpretazione di Mercury.
Di Walterstarman1
“’Bohemian Rhapsody’ è il manifesto esplicito di come la musica sfugge alle classificazioni e Freddie ne è il Mercurio, il messaggero tra gli Dei e noi.”
“‘A night at the Opera’ è il capolavoro dei Queen, un lavoraccio immane e stressante, barocco e classico, sperimentale e poli-stilistico.”
Di piccolojedi1991
"Un album che non è nemmeno corretto definirlo tale, in quanto non è una raccolta di canzoni, ma di opere d'arte."
"Abbiamo ascoltato una delle migliori canzoni che mente umana abbia scritto, perfetta sotto ogni punto di vista... un’esperienza unica e semplicemente indimenticabile."
Di ledeep
"Bohemian Rhapsody rappresenta il primo esempio di opera rock."
"L'album si chiama in onore di un film di Groucho ed è la colonna sonora per una serata di puro intrattenimento."
