The Muppets Rock Out in a Google+ Hangout

Bob E · 2012-01-14 22:39:04

Just saw this commercial during the Saints/49ers game. It's great! ...if anyone here is a Muppet fan. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsJtzPng5U

dubois · 2012-01-14 22:41:53

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There's some serious catching up for you to do in respect to who around here likes The Muppets.

smile

Bob E · 2012-01-14 22:49:55

dubois wrote:

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There's some serious catching up for you to do in respect to who around here likes The Muppets.

..um...I'm quite up to speed on the connection to #! and the Muppets, hence the humorous injection of "...if anyone around here likes the Muppets."

pvsage · 2012-01-14 22:50:34

“Jim Henson had a wait and see attitude, and look what happened to him. Now we’ve got wrong-sounding Muppets,”

Bob E · 2012-01-14 22:52:39

pvsage wrote:

“Jim Henson had a wait and see attitude, and look what happened to him. Now we’ve got wrong-sounding Muppets,”

Am I missing something?

dubois · 2012-01-14 23:00:53

Bob E wrote:

dubois wrote:
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There's some serious catching up for you to do in respect to who around here likes The Muppets.
..um...I'm quite up to speed on the connection to #! and the Muppets, hence the humorous injection of "...if anyone around here likes the Muppets."

Oh. <ha-ha> Your sense of humor was, indeed, subtle. My apologies for not catching it first time around. wink

dubois · 2012-01-14 23:13:05

pvsage has been throwing quotes left and right for several days now. If I, and Google, may answer for him http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9 … ceweasel-a

Bob E · 2012-01-14 23:14:59

dubois wrote:

Oh. <ha-ha> Your sense of humor was, indeed, subtle. My apologies for not catching it first time around.

Cheers. I may only have single-digit posts, but I didn't just get out of the Studebaker. big_smile

pvsage · 2012-01-14 23:18:23

Bob E wrote:

pvsage wrote:
“Jim Henson had a wait and see attitude, and look what happened to him. Now we’ve got wrong-sounding Muppets,”
Am I missing something?

Well, as much as I like Queen & respect Bowie...for one thing, I've never really liked that song, and for another, I'm not sure Jim would like what Disney's been doing with his creations. neutral

The quote is from a Family Guy episode, by the way.

EDIT: ...and thanks for the google link, dubois.

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ShadeOfHades · 2012-01-14 23:19:43

**Rolls eyes**......

And it's a Queen song as well!! That's just insult to injury. >_>

pvsage · 2012-01-14 23:21:46

^ I don't really consider it much of a Queen song, since Bowie has most of the vocals. If Freddy ain't singing, it ain't Queen!

Bob E · 2012-01-14 23:22:08

dubois wrote:

pvsage has been throwing quotes left and right for several days now. If I, and Google, may answer for him http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9 … ceweasel-a

Got it. I started to wonder "WTF? Do people here spell Muppets with a dollar sign or something?" [Muppet$]

I have no problem saying "Voldemort".

h8uthemost · 2012-01-15 06:30:49

Bob E wrote:

Just saw this commercial during the Saints/49ers game. It's great! ...if anyone here is a Muppet fan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsJtzPng5U

I saw it today during the game as well. Freakin' hilarious.

ShadeOfHades · 2012-01-15 13:58:07

@pvsage

Sorry to have to disagree with you, but it is in fact a Queen song. It appeared first on their album Hot Space (track 10, last on the album). Words and music by Freddie Mercury. The duet with Bowie only happened and Live Aid a couple of years later, though that version was chosen for the Queen Greatest Hits 3 album (after Freddie's death).

Again, I'm sorry man. I'm just a really big Queen fan. (I have the Hot Space album on CD and vinyl).

Ohhhh, but I'm totally 100% in agreement with you about if it's not Freddie, it's not Queen!!! When Freddie died, Queen was over. Everything after that event is just an insult to his memory.

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rhowaldt · 2012-01-15 14:46:20

Bob E wrote:

I have no problem saying "Voldemort".

turns out He Who Must Not Be Named made 'Voldemort' into a Taboo. he now knows your location and will unleash Avada Kedavra on your ass. sorry!

pvsage · 2012-01-15 16:08:32

@Hades: My apologies if I offended you. I Love Queen too, but that has to be the most un-Queen-like song that they've ever done. It's just so "soft pop". And Freddie doesn't sound like Freddie on it. And was Brian even there?

rhowaldt · 2012-01-15 16:13:07

@pvsage: well, i am clearly not as big of a Queen-lover as both of you and Hades, but when you say 'it isnt Queen without Freddie', does that imply that Freddie on his own, without the rest of the band, is great as well? because if that is the case, would you care to explain 'Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own'? i couldn't believe that was actually him, because it sounds so incredibly crappy, especially compared to all the stuff Queen's done.

pvsage · 2012-01-15 16:22:39

Redaction: If it ain't got both Freddie and Brian, it ain't Queen.

rhowaldt · 2012-01-15 16:24:23

^ i knew i'd get you with that one smile
good redaction. this i can agree on.

pvsage · 2012-01-15 16:35:57

I also don't really care for Brian's post-Queen sound. As much as I love tube amps, his studio sound with the solid-state Deacy amp was iconic; with an AC30TB, it's just generic Hard Rock. neutral (He used AC30s in the Queen stage shows, but they were slaved to the Deacy.)

dubois · 2012-01-15 16:45:28

Muppetts >> Queen. This ought to merge those two topics. tongue

pvsage · 2012-01-15 17:08:55

Warning: shred
This appears to be a StSanders shred of Bohemian Rhapsody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQRvqkmKmKo
/Warning

dubois · 2012-01-15 17:54:40

^ Ow! That was mean. I mean, it really hurt.

ShadeOfHades · 2012-01-15 18:23:19

Hey man, you didn't offend me. I just like to chime in with my 2 cents when something I know something about happens to crop into the conversation. I really didn't mean to make you think you'd upset me in some way. Seriously, not my intent!! (I'm also a bit autistic, so I get things wrong some times).

In answer to your comment, I'd have to delve into more detail....

Firstly when Queen were first founded, Brian and Roger were in a band called Smile. Freddie comes along as their lead singer leaves, and they employ a bass player (ending with John, after a few others). Freddie wanted the band to be called Queen, but the other's weren't so keen. Roger wanted the band to be called The Rich Kids, does that have the same ring to it? tongue

Freddie got his way though, because he was actually kind of a spoiled brat, and their journey began.

Most of the earlier stuff was indeed Freddie's crations. He had this whole magical lang in his head called Rhye, and even though it was only mentioned by name in 3 songs (most notibly bein' Seven Seas of Rhye), there's lots of fantasy themes in their earlier work.

The band had a little steam, but nothing major at the time and were considerin' givin' up, but Freddie pushed and pushed for them to do one more album.

This was 1975, by the way.

The other 3 were really wantin' to just call it quits, but again, Freddie got his away and they started their new album.

It's said that Freddie was double-jointed in his wrists, and the headboard for his bed was a piano. So, if he thought up something musical in the night, he could reach riiight the way over, and play it. O_O It's said that this is where Bohemian Rhapsody came from.

They admitted it was all Freddie's idea, and they didn't realy understand what was goin' on until it all started to come together at the end. But aren't we glad they listened to him?

So, after this, Queen were pretty huge, and could do pretty much what they wanted. Before A Night At The Opera, they were mainly so big in America. But Boh-Rap pushed them onto a global stage. (Their next album had a song with Japanease in it!!).

They were all big influences in their own way though, and thusly had many different styles and tastes in music, personally, which gets reflected in their albums (track one of their Jazz album, you won't believe it until you hear it).

So they went through a large and experimental phase which took them right up to the early 80's.

Queen were always there, in the charts or near abouts, but it's when they got up there at Live Aid people finally stood back and realise just how many AWESOME songs they had made. They finally got the recognition (and the fan-base) that Freddie had always imagined himself standing infront of. tongue

Then, Freddie gets aids, but they keep it all on the hush. It was a BIG thing back then (big thing now, but even bigger then, it was all new and scarier, harder to contorl).

Since his death was imminent, the other guys pretty much let him do as he pleases. Even though he was too ill to play any more live gigs (after the Magic Tour in 1984, I think).

This is most noted in their albums The Miricle and Innunendo.

He was so so so pushing himself to make more and more music. So ill, so terribly ill.

The last studio recording of him was for the song These Were The Days Of Our Lives. He's so pale and ill, they had to do it in black and white, Freddie shimmers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd9GBtsq-54&feature=fvst

I was goin' to show you the origional video for the song here, but that's even more a point. Why film in black and white when it's live?

So, he passes in 1991, and the world is devistated. A tribute is made and a monument is errected and John Deacon officially retires.

In 1995 they finally finish the last album with Freddie's origional voice with new songs. It's called Made In Haven. He pushed himself riiight up until he couldn't push himself any more. He's on the verge of death here, but his voice is still magnificent.

How can it be Queen without thr 4 of them together? Their influences were indeed diverse, and not always apparent, but always equal in force and equal in importance.

Maybe, MAYBE if they'd found a replacment for him then, and MAYBE if he was half-decent, and they re-worked their sound slightly, they could of carried it on. But everything they've done, and the amount of time they've left it is just an insult.

So, as for all these covers? Well, I wouldn't mind so much if they weren't just tryin' to straight out rip-off Queen. Or even directly insult Freddie (I'm not even goin' to link Electric Six's Radio Ga Ga, it's just awful on so many levels).

Glee versions? Pathetic.

If they took a song and made it their own, something with that particular band's own particular flavour, then I might just be able to get behind it:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHAa0zHps2E

But I think it's time to face the fact that Queen is truly over. This Queen + Pul Rogers thing? What is that? It's not Queen!! It's got 50% of the members, and the title suggests that that's only 50% of the band. So, it's what? 25% "Queen"?

Anyway, again, it sounds like I'm upset. But really, I'm not. I'm just glad that I finally get a chance to talk about this shizzle in an actually relivant topic.

I'm sorry if what I've put here is offensive to you guys, I'm seriously seriously seriously NOT trying to start a flame war. Everything I've posted is MY OWN OPINION and everything else is from memory. So yeah, I could be wrong about dates and shizzle, but I'm pretty sure that's how I remember it.

I can also give examples of how weird got in the mid stages if you please? Think of Crazy Little Thing Called Love, that's most certainly Queen, so was Fat Bottomed Girls. How about Spread Your Wings? They even sung a song about Brian May's cat, All Dead All dead. Then years later, they made one about Freddie's, Delilah.

Anyway, I think you'll all appreciate this. This is my most favourite Queen song. (Never seen this video before though).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMGjN8-9IG0

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pvsage · 2012-01-15 18:27:32

^^ You were warned. Twice. tongue

You thought that was bad, you should see some of the other Youtube shreds. roll And StS' is far from the worst...there are several shreds of dual guitar tapping phenom Zack Kim that are truly, truly horrible.

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