Is it okay to like 70s Rock bands, including glam rock?

[Goodbook]

Well, Freddie Mercury was gay and he died of AIDS.
I never really watched him but of course I heard his music as Queen was a popular rock band and its played all the time on the radio.
Is it a sin? well, it does glorify the world and not God, I haven't really examined the lyrics closely but they appeal to the emotions.

when rock or pop songs talk about falling in love, more often than not its about being seduced by satan. So just be wary.

 

[Goodbook]

oh that reminds me in the book and movie 'heaven is for real' about the boys vision or near death experience of Heaven he asked the angels whether they would sing 'we will rock you' and they laughed. lol.

Somehow I don't think Queen is gonna be the soundtrack of heaven.

 

[Armoured]

Well, Freddie Mercury was gay and he died of AIDS.
I never really watched him but of course I heard his music as Queen was a popular rock band and its played all the time on the radio.
Is it a sin? well, it does glorify the world and not God, I haven't really examined the lyrics closely but they appeal to the emotions.

when rock or pop songs talk about falling in love, more often than not its about being seduced by satan. So just be wary.

"More often than not". Because of course it is.

 

[Dave-W]

Somehow I don't think Queen is gonna be the soundtrack of heaven.

Yeah - me neither. I have heard that heavenly music a couple of times. Freddy Mercury was not part of it.

 

[Citanul]

when rock or pop songs talk about falling in love, more often than not its about being seduced by satan.

And I'm sure that you've got ample evidence to back this up.

 

[SensesFailed]

The way I see it, like what you want to like. If you enjoy the music, listen to it. It's not my business nor anyone else business to tell you what you should or shouldn't like when it comes to anything, including music. You do you.

 

[thehehe]

Well, Freddie Mercury was gay and he died of AIDS.
I never really watched him but of course I heard his music as Queen was a popular rock band and its played all the time on the radio.
Is it a sin? well, it does glorify the world and not God, I haven't really examined the lyrics closely but they appeal to the emotions.

You are talking about the most amazing band the world ever knew! Seriously! Bohemian Rhapsody is still one of the most ingenious and inventive song ever, with such a great creativity and musical composition (Innuendo is the only one at the same level).

@Lik3
The only thing I truly cannot understand, is why people always ask "can we listen to [modern band] or it is a sin", when nobody asks if listening to opera and classical is a sin. Quite cliché, you shall agree with me. As an opera-lover, I can assure you that a lot of them are really violent or have nothing to do with the religious side. And this is NOT a sin to listen to opera, you shall again agree. Then, why do people such a mess of rock bands? Puccini wrote very violent stories. Queen never did (at least not that violent). And nobody would object that Puccini was an amazing composer.

Listen to what you want. Just remember a little fact: in my country, an imam called to a revolution against singers and all types of music. He said that to sing was a sin against Allah. Everybody reacted to that, and condamned it. Yes, this is an extremist point of view. I'm sure you now have your answer.

 

[Armoured]

You are talking about the most amazing band the world ever knew! Seriously! Bohemian Rhapsody is still one of the most ingenious and inventive song ever, with such a great creativity and musical composition (Innuendo is the only one at the same level).

I tend to think Innuendo is greatly underrated. Bohemian Rhapsody is nice and all, but it doesn't have May playing Flamenco on an electric guitar...

 

[Armoured]

I tend to think Innuendo is greatly underrated. Bohemian Rhapsody is nice and all, but it doesn't have May playing Flamenco on an electric guitar...

It's "Who wants to Live Forever?" that brings me to tears though, both the vocal and instrumental versions. It was the sound track to my first really serious break up, and 30 years later, it still hits me.

edit: great. Now I have to go break out my It's a Kind of Magic CD

 

[thehehe]

It's "Who wants to Live Forever?" that brings me to tears though, both the vocal and instrumental versions. It was the sound track to my first really serious break up, and 30 years later, it still hits me.

I'm sorry for you..

I like this one, even if this is one of my favorites from Queen!
I especially love the choirs for Bohemian Rhapsody!

 

[Armoured]

I'm sorry for you..

I like this one, even if this is one of my favorites from Queen!
I especially love the choirs for Bohemian Rhapsody!

Oh, it's one of my favourites, too. It just has deeper meaning for me.

And I lost my virginity to "Fat Bottom Girls", but that's a different story...

 

[Armoured]

 

[Armoured]

 

[thehehe]

Never watched the clip of Innuendo before - now I have to watch it again, I'd like to analyze it.

 

[Armoured]

Never watched the clip of Innuendo before - now I have to watch it again, I'd like to analyze it.

It's pretty intense. Bear in mind, too, that it's an OLD video. Music videos were a relatively new concept, and most of them were just straight shots of musicians playing. Just another way Queen were pioneers.

 

[thehehe]

It's pretty intense. Bear in mind, too, that it's an OLD video. Music videos were a relatively new concept, and most of them were just straight shots of musicians playing. Just another way Queen were pioneers.

Queen are the best. At least for me! Freddy has a great presence too.
The symbolic looks interesting to analyze. I like that sort of clip which forces to reflection!

 

[Citanul]

I tend to think Innuendo is greatly underrated. Bohemian Rhapsody is nice and all, but it doesn't have May playing Flamenco on an electric guitar...

It was actually Steve Howe (of Yes) who played the flamenco bit...

 

[Citanul]

It's "Who wants to Live Forever?" that brings me to tears though, both the vocal and instrumental versions. It was the sound track to my first really serious break up, and 30 years later, it still hits me.

The part just after "Who dares to love forever", where Freddie Mercury basically goes "Oooohhhhh" is one of my favourite moments of any Queen song which gives me goosebumps pretty much every time I hear it. I've heard other people do the song, but nobody else gets that part right, and even Mercury couldn't do it in the same way when he sang it live.

 

[actionsub]

I liked ABBA, but they would not be considered Glam; or at least not here as they were not metal. They were just regular pop. The only exception to that was their first song here SOS which had some baroque style keyboard work and power chords.

And I agree that the marital breakdowns of both couples was very sad. But such is the world system ....

LOL. I cannot hear the name ABBA without hearing it prefaced with Casey Kasem calling them "that Shwedish shupergroup..."

 

[Armoured]

The part just after "Who dares to love forever", where Freddie Mercury basically goes "Oooohhhhh" is one of my favourite moments of any Queen song which gives me goosebumps pretty much every time I hear it. I've heard other people do the song, but nobody else gets that part right, and even Mercury couldn't do it in the same way when he sang it live.

It's the "touch my tears...with your lips..." bit for me. Every time, icicles down the spine.