Queen, Radio Ga Ga - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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The voice: nostalgia for a past which is gone; The instrumental music: the modern era.
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Lady Ga Ga, named herself after this song. It's one the most well known things about her.
The song is not about her....
@@johnmcgregor5415 That is not what he said.
@@celtasnakeI think he was making a joke. It made me chuckle in any case, and it defused the irritation I felt at the OP, for its somewhat reproving tone. I mean, sigh, _everyone_ knows that Lady Gaga took her name from Queen's song, don't you know _anything?_ So Jim's riposte pricked that bubble very nicely, or so it seemed to me.
Nobody said it was about her@@johnmcgregor5415
@@Ozymandi_as I see it the other way. The op is beung informative without no reproving tone. But i do find a not very nice tone in your message.
I'd urge you to watch Queen's live performance at Live Aid, to see the effect this song has on a crowd, and also see the way Freddie has the crowd in the palm of his hand.
Indeed!!! Totally agree!!!
Can't wait for Amy to watch the Live Aid performance. I'm sure she mentioned it before but said she will wait until she completes the Queen 50 series so she doesn't hear anything out of sequence. I remember watching Live Aid in 1985 and being blown away by how the audience totally submitted to this song. It wasn't even a Queen audience.
@@callumbruce4154 - Amy hasn't actually _seen_ Freddie and his mates in action yet, or has she?! 😀 Oh I'm looking forward to _that_ reaction! 😁
How much do you want to wager that the capstone of the series will be Live Aid?
She should react to queen at live aid
Every time I hear this song I can totally see the crowd at Live Aid. When it first aired I was in awe seeing hundreds of thousands of people clapping. It still sends shivers down my spine.
Actually, Amy HAS seen the movie Bohemian Rhapsodynif I recall correctly, so she has heard this song and several other Queen songs before being introduced to them on this channel.
You need to watch a live performance of this song. IT is a bit faster and they fixed something with the metric of the song. Then it is amazing how they engage a whole stadium for them to clap. The live at Wembley 86 version is a clear example of what I just described.
I saw Queen one week earlier in Newcastle and it was amazing to be part of a huge audience all doing the claps in perfect harmony 😊
I'd also recommend the medley finale of that concert. We will rock you straight into Friends will be friends (dropped to F). Finished an the A chord and immediately begins into the F chord with A note lead. Then near the end of a chorus it finishes on the C chord as Freddy begins the Cm piano intro to We are the champions.
What makes this song so nostalgic is that while it pines for radio to stay, you know it is firmly in the past, and those days will never return
Yes as others have mentioned please watch the Live Aid performance. Freddie had that enormous audience in the palm of his hand.
"Freddy, what instrument do you play best?"
"The audience, Darling."
@@lowkey1969 yes 😆👏👏👏
You should watch the video too - and then a live performance!
Even at Live Aid, which was not a Queen concert in particular, *everyone* ..., you'll see ;-)
Yeah, it really was a Queen concert. Everyone else there was just playing support. 😉
It’s still amazing to me that all four members of Queen were able to write such successful and interesting music. Freddie Mercury’s voice of course helped make all their music lovely. The fact that each member could come up with at least 4 hit songs is still amazing and showed their talent especially when they all worked together. In this song to me it was a farewell to our reliance on radio and the new phase of television music videos. It was an homage to the way these guys first heard music and fell in love with it through radios. Another Queen hit that involved the audience clapping their hands as shown in the futuristic video.
This was Rogers first single 1984
Hit in several countries
For me, the phrase "You made us feel like we could fly" references Superman's radio adventures from the 1940s-1950s. Despite the song criticizing music videos, the Radio Ga Ga clip generated one of the most impressive audience collaborations during Queen's performances: the double clap beat in the chorus. Therefore, it is worth checking out both the music video and a live performance of the song. Furthermore, while Freddie Mercury performs the single in a more restrained way, his energy on stage elevates the song to another level.
This song is such a banger live. With the audience participation and all. It sort of doesn't seem like a great live song but it absolutely is one of the best Queen songs live. I've only had the opportunity to see them live with Adam but he is great and this song is so good.
Freddie’s lovely voice ❤
Perhaps ironically, the music video for this is also fantastic :)
We were spoiled in the New York metropolitan area during the late 1960’s to the very early 1980’s with WNEW-FM. This was a progressive Rock radio station led by Scott Muni. Scott and his staff presented so much of the evolving music scene that it was great. Elton John’s live album was 11-17-70 is from a show the station sponsored, Scott was friends with John Lennon and played an advance copy of “She Came Through the Bathroom Window” prior to the album release. Live on air appearances, like Harry Chapin and David Bromberg coming to the studio at the same time, and my favorite was the 4 one hour Easter Shows by Steve Goodman. Steve was in NYC for checkups and treatments for his leukemia at John Hopkins in the 1970’s. (Those recordings are combined in a cd available at Red Pajama Records.
I believe that Queen also showed up as well. The format changed in about 1983 which ended an era. It is said that the tv sitcom “WKRP” took themes from that station such as Alison Steele’s evening shows “The Night Bird”. The Venus Fly Trap character is roughy based on her. She was at KFOG in San Francisco for a time afterwards.
Listening to that station was a big portion of my day back then.
Yes we were, and it was great. That programming type continued through most of the 80s, as I grew up. I loved Scott Muni's programming and influence.
Will be interesting. The first Queen song you will have heard with so many programmed sounds. Roger's first single as a writer. And a crowd anthem. The B Side is little known but brilliant.
Great backing vocals from Roger on the chorus too
The March of the Black Queen, go there to find out how complicated this song is. Try it if u dare! U will be in for a wild wild ride
Try it ! Next time?
It’s from Queen 2 from 1974, listen to it
Please Amy!
I was not expecting many songs from Hot Space but at least Cool Cat.
Yes !!! Great song.
Or Las Palabras De Amor.
a lot of the visuals in the video for this song comes from the 1920's Scifi movie metropolis
This is the album that got me into Queen. I loved it, would never have discovered the band without it.
John (bass) and Roger (drums) are pulling the song into the future. Freddie (vocals) and Brian (guitar) are pulling it back into the past. The lyrics and the arrangement convey the same message. Quality music!
This is pretty much the polarization phase with Queen, the whole 'Works' album was not like this, the next track 'I Want To Break Free' is pop, the next 'It's A Hard Life' is a great ballad, 'Hammer To Fall' is very heavy rock, if you add 'Is This The World We Created...?" Is a plantive, social acoustic ballad, the track "Keep Passing The Open Windows" is a cool, anti suicide song. Very broad album.
And...Man on the Prowl....☹️😳🤦
In Chicago, we still have WFMT the classical music station. It's one of my go to stations in the car and you can also listen online which I do at work. The best of both, radio and internet.
WUSF in Tampa used to be a classical music station until it split into two stations. WUSF is now news and talk and WSMR is the classical station. I enjoy both however WSMR has a weaker signal and since we live about 40 miles from Tampa it doesn't come in well on the car radio. Thank goodness it's available via internet.
One of your finest reactions ❤ that you enjoyed this one Amy..... love to see you singing along❤❤❤😊
This 'modern' sound was thanks to the producer of the album Reinhold Mack. The synths / drum synths sound much more refined to what we are used to from 80s music. Certainly a nice blend of classic Queen with 80s POP.
Mack was also responsible for Billy Squier's hits at the time. Freddie and Roger sang backup on Billy's song "Emotions in Motion".
Lady Gaga did in fact partly name herself after this song!
Which is subsequent to the release of the song by several decades.
Partly?
@@karen6477 Not the "Lady" part?
@@karen6477 Her name is Lady Gaga not Radio Gaga
@@zzzaphod8507 - Off-topic, but I once had been the drummer for a band called Zaphod Beeblebrox! 😁
you should really, and i mean REALLY react to their live aid performance, this song is made so much better in that like HOLY
Someone here in the comments mentioned that she's planning to watch Queen's _whole_ Live Aid performance once she's done with listening to 50 of their songs 😀👍
@@mightyV444 oh yoo great :D
@@Roin_robin87 - And can you believe it: Just after entering a local café this morning, the audio from Queen's performance of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at Live Aid started playing! 😳😀
A good one to do from this album would be "Keep on passing the open windows". Very underrated.
Please listen to Radio Ga Ga as performed at the Live Aid Concert in 1985. The crowd reaction is amazing.
As a kid in the 50s and early 60s, I always like electronic sounding music. The old big church organs were the same for that time centuries ago.
While I'm not a big fan of this 80s style electronic music, I admire Queen for giving us their version of it, which is consistent with them always being a band that could play in different styles. "Radio Ga Ga" was one I didn't initially like, but grew to appreciate. I much prefer a real drum sound, rather than the drum machine type sounds. But that was what was popular in the music of that day, and is still found in electronic music.
I know that drummers were worried at the time that they would no longer be needed. Fortunately, enough people still preferred hearing real drummers on actual drums, so they have survived. So in a way, I am surprised that Roger Taylor, the drummer, was the one who wanted to use the drum machine. Today in our home studios we a huge library of real sampled drum sounds that we can use in our own songs that have fairly convincing real drum sounds, without having to be a skilled drummer ourselves or making room in our home for a drum set. You still have to know how the different drums on a drum kit are used in songs, but it is much easier to learn to program the parts than to become a skilled "real" drummer.
Funny cockatoo reference and impersonation Amy. You were so modern with buttons on your phones, we had to use dials that were much harder on the index finger. You could get blisters if you made a lot of calls, until you developed calluses. We used to call them "records" too from the 60s onward (and earlier before I was born) to refer to vinyl records. I rarely called them vinyl back then, it was mainly the terms "records" and "tapes" that were used. With "albums" applying to both, although the word album still makes me think of vinyl.
"Spirit of Radio" by Rush is my favorite song about radio. Brilliant lyrics by Neil Peart that express his love for radio, while also touching on the darker side of the influences that the music industry had on radio, "One likes to believe in the freedom of music / But glittering prizes and endless compromises / Shatter the illusion of integrity." I loved the radio, which is how I was exposed to new songs, in addition to those my friends introduced to me from their record collections.
Great reaction. I really enjoyed this one.
Great comment. Saved me from typing out many of the same thoughts and sentiments. ❤
@@joelhammond4162 Thanks! I wish I would have found somebody too say all this too. It probably all gets said elsewhere, just spread over several comments. Whereas I tend to jam them all into one long one. Which then of course becomes too long for anyone to want to read.😉 So I appreciate that you took the time to read it.
@@LeeKennison thats because I tend to the same and I appreciate detail. I think a lot of folks are just too impatient for that now.
"One likes to believe in the freedom of music / But glittering prizes and endless compromises / Shatter the illusion of integrity."
i never really thot about wut Geddy was singing here 4 some reason - thanx 4 making me think Lee (also Neil) :D
@@stephencolbertcheese7354 Yeah for sure Stephen. Neil, through Geddy's vocals, has certainly got me to think over the years.
Brilliant, as usual 👍😊
Songs unless stated weren't collabs / worked on together as such
But Freddie did tend to ' polish up' Rogers songs as such
Also helped John a lot but more of supporting him
But they did write a few songs together
Wish you'd done cool cat
Great video, great intro summary, that was useful :) I'd add that this song feels a lot more powerful live - and not just because of the audience clapping in rhythm. The instrumentation is different a bit, too, since they play live... And Freddie's energy. :)
You are cultivating what they preach here by listening to music without watching videos with it - to keep the music in focus, not the visual :)
such a unique and brilliant Reaction to a video
Roger came up with the idea for the song & Freddie took it from there.
A very similar sentiment is told in the Buggles song "Video Killed the Radio Star" which is also a classic punk rock song.
Ummmmm…..
That’s not a punk rock song.
It’s New Wave.
@@FriedPi-mc5yt Which at least in this case is kind of bubblegum pop. New wave was very much a reaction and an antithesis to punk.
@@blechtic True with New Wave. I’m not sure I would classify that song in with bubble gum pop though.
@@FriedPi-mc5yt The refrain has echoes of it.
@@FriedPi-mc5yt - Maybe he confused it with the remake from a few years ago?! I can't remember the band's name, but they'd turned it into a Punkrock one.
I far prefer the Buggles' original, though 😊
Yah, I saw an interview where she said she got her name from this.
I love how technological angst has been reflected in songs throughout the years. Video Killed the Radio Star, Radio Ga Ga, Who Listens to the Radio... And here we are in 2024 totally deconstructing a song from 1984, which just goes to show that true art -- no matter the format -- never dies.
'Who Listens To The Radio' by The Sports from Australia? 🙂
It's amazing how everytime you give us an insightful analysis and then distill it into a relevant message that goes beyond the musical. Thank you
I really appreciate how much you love music. There isn't much more beauty in the world than a great song.
A great counterpart to this sentiment is Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio”. It is nostalgic for radio while lyrically expressing concerns for the business of radio and music expression in general.
0:14. Oh it does have something very important to do with Lady Gaga - it was the inspiration for her stage name!
The beautiful appearance of the guitar at the end of the song foreshadows a good deal of the best Queen yet to come, specially as we approach their last masterpiece album Innuendo, full of beautiful pieces and arrangements
It's a hard life surely will be next. Love you
'I Want To Bake Three' (cakes) first, though! 😁
I only have 1 comment:
Fantastic music.
Is this too short?
Sometimes simplicity is all that marvels.
When this came out I purchased the extended play vinyl single of this song. I also have the album on compact disc.
I remember having a rotary phone and a record player... although, this was not pre either button phones nor CDs-the first CDs and mobile phones came out in 1982 and 1984, respectively-so I was just around early enough for the transitional period.
I remember our first radio with two speakers and just putting my face right in front of it to have the full stereo experience.
I really appreciate the (mostly) lack of cuts, it shows to some degree that you're thoroughly digesting what you're listening to, and, really attempting to articulate your thoughts on any specific piece of music
The Live Aid performance of Queen is a must if you haven't seen it. Especially since you enjoyed the hand clapping in this song sooooo much.😊
And I didn't realize you were in Nashville. Always thought you were posting from somewhere in Europe.😂 I'm in Clarksville.👍🏽
It is something that many can not shed their teen years when it comes to music. My namesake grandfather said that they that they don't make any good music anymore, he was locked into the 1910s,
I would love Brian May to do a review with you, I think he would be on the same wavelength
The music video is great too!
You should watch the Live Aid performance. The whole thing, not just Radio Ga Ga. IMO one of, if not THE, greatest live performances of all time. On one video you mentioned Freddie's stage presence. You see it there in full effect.
We as teenagers when listening to this song in the 80s never realized all the aspects of the music as you analyze. We just listen and enjoy it. Thank you, now we realize how amazing this song is even though it sounds simple.
Just a heads-up Amy, people of a vintage not dissimilar to my own cringe a little inside when we hear people saying 'vinyls'. We have always considered it to refer to the material that makes our 7" and LP records (or 'Albums'), and not therefore the disks themselves. We do however feel comfortable referring collectively to them as 'vinyl'. The term most popular being, 'on vinyl' to distinguish it from tape cassette or digital format. 🤓
And also, vinyl has become immensely popular again over recent years, as opposed to just being a piece of nostalgia, and now cassette tapes too have started to follow that trend! 🤯😊
I can hear in this song the origins of Trance music especially running the synth’s Melodies through an Auto Arpeggiator.
These are post WWII children who counted on the radio telling them the truth. 40 years later there was video expressions of music. Ironically Queen created one of the first music videos.
On a more accurate note, one of the first ‘promotional videos’ (The Beatles had filmed videos for their songs in the 60s), but Queen basically made vids the norm for record promotion, which led to the birth of MTV five years later.
Wow! I live just east of Nashville and used to listen to that station as well! I think the station was sold and completely changed their format. }:[
1984 = 40 years ago! 🤯😅
And what an enjoyable and also entertaining reaction to this wonderful song which always brings back great memories of my then 14-year-old self, whenever I hear it 😊
*PS:* She should probably revisit 'Hot Space' for the song 'Cool Cat' - many people in the comments seem disappointed by its omission! 😉
I much prefer studio versions of songs to live ones, especially for first time listening. Now that you have heard it though, you must watch the Live Aid recording of this song, it’s very emotional with the crowd participating with Freddie and the rest of the band.
This song is all about the power of the live performance. If you watch live aid or any other performance of it... you will see what I mean.
It`s a very unique song ,with its very own sound , lovely video Amy. Once you have finished `The Works ` you could do a Live Aid reaction and the film Bo Rap on Amy`s cut, both are rather fabulous.
The film is dreadful. It would take an age to debunk the film from its lies, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and mistakes. It is misleading rather that instructive.
@@79BlackRose Yes its full of timeline issues , and yet Roger and Brian love it because it captures how they felt at the time, they think it got the essence of Freddie and them right , ultimately it`s their judgement that matters, not ours, I love it .
@@babyfacemichael1 I disagree that their judgment matters the most. Any new fan will be hit by the tsunami of inaccuracies and most will just suck it up. :(
What judgement does matter?
Yours? No, not at all.
You don't know them, do you?
If someone think a Hollywood movie is acurat, sorry, that's stupid. It has inspired so many people to do their own reserach about Queen, to get into them and set the facts straight. As a longlife Queen fan I didnt know that Freddie was born in Zanzibar, a Zooastrian, that he was in a boarding school, his real name was Bulsara etc., because when I was young there were not many sources available. So I did my research, inspired by the movie, to find out the "truth" or whatever the truth is, apart from the timeline issues.
I know that "Hot Space" wasn't their finest moment, but I'm surprised that Vlad chose to skip the entire album - it did have some nice moments on it. Yes, I know Amy reacted to "Under Pressure" but that was a standalone single which was included on the subsequent album, so it wasn't really part of the "Hot Space" sessions.
It’s also at the juxtaposition from records and cassettes to cds!
My first album was "Grover Sings The Blues". Bought it 1st grade, from Scholastics Books.
Grover from Sesame Street?
😀👍
Queen had a keen eye for songs that would translate well into a live situation and this one certainly does that. Frankly I can't think of another band that did that part so well.
Interesting story about listening to classical music on your car radio. A lot of times when we would listen to pop/rock on our car radios, if a song came on we liked, we would not exit the car until the song was over. Considering how long a classical "tune" lasts, did you ever sit in your car waiting for it to end?
I need an inspired version of this about the real mobile phones that i grew up with in the 90s. Internet was not everywhere, social media was not everywhere. I miss those mobile phones actually, WITH BUTTONS! yes I'm in my 30s and yet this new mobile phone market is hell!! The visuals is everywhere and opticians celebrate.
In sweden radio is important. When you are out on the road we get traffic news on there. When you witness an accident you should call a number to the radio so that every driver can get the information, sadly it seems like a lot of people does not listen to this but it is a service by public radio. it can save you time, money, life. But the the fluff of internet is so seductive, like the dark side in Star wars.
Great final words!! Like your analysis so much. I am however not into the more hard core rock scene, so I pick the cherrys out of your channel. Want to see another analysis about a piece by ABBA.:)
A little disappointing that more from the "Hot Space" album wasn't covered, but totally understandable.
For sure. surprised they skipped Flash. Then maybe at least two tracks from hot space. Las Palabras DAmour. / staying power. Just so Amy got the understanding of the changes . But all good !
What Queen 1&2?
Re: Hot Space, yes Cool Cat is the bomb!
C'mon Vlad! 😂
@@javiervelasco3921Staying Power would’ve made for an interesting video. That’s a fruity tune!
The popularity of podcasts shows that radio is still alive. It's not exactly radio because it's pre-recorded but radio now has children. That's one way to never die.
I distinctly remember hearing Freddie say CaCa and BlahBlah in some recordings of this...
I'm desperately waiting for Innuendo!!!
We too had a corded phone, but ours was a rotary dial. I still remember when I would call up a friend that had 8,9, and 0 in the phone number. You had to circle the whole dial, and god forbid you messed up and had to start all over again. I also had all their numbers memorized. Now with the smart phone, I only know my number and my mom's which was also my number growing up.
It was a big moment in my family's life when our green corded phone with rotary dial appeared in our home 😁
I grew up in a German village that was quite remote from the nearest city, so the single phone booth up the road from our house had been _everyone's_ phone up to that point (till '78) 🤯😅
"For some reason we didn't call them 'vinyls', we called them 'records'..."
For what it's worth, I don't think I've ever heard the term "vinyls" before this evening! For me, they've always been "records", but with an understanding that "records" is a generic term that includes "any music recorded as reproducible captures of the intended sonic waveform", including "records on CD" as well as "records on vinyl".
(For the record (HA!): I was born in 1965, and raised in the south-eastern UK, listening mainly to "Radio 2" (i.e. music from periods approximately 5 to 55 years before the moment of broadcast). )
'Vinyl' only became a popular term once CD's had taken over, I believe, and in order to distinguish between those two types of 'records'.
Everybody here in NZ refers to LP's and Singles as 'Vinyl' nowadays.
@@mightyV444 'Vinyl' in the singular, as a term for the recording medium (to distinguish it from CD), I'm well familiar with; But 'Vinyls' as a plural term for the actual records...? That's new to me.
@@therealpbristow - Ah! Okay. To me too, actually! I do know the _Divinyls_ , though! 😄😉
You can tell the 80's were well and truly established by this point. A far cry from, 'no synthesizers!' Not only was this song a critique against pop videos becoming the chosen media to experience songs, but in a small way, a critique of the quality of pop songs in general. Although, it wasn't quite _that_ bad... not yet! It would be a few more years before the homogenisation of pop music would occur. Not all, of course, but the mainstream of what was deemed to sell would amalgamate to the point where songs took on a very similar, almost, 'rubber stamp', moulded feel to them, almost identical to the one before and the one after. A factory style production of samey, mediocre, 'hits', that lacked individuality or anything of note. This song, in it's own way, was kind of pointing toward that, in the, 'all we hear is radio ca-ca.' Again, the album this was from was another transitional period for Queen. (So what's new?) Although, I think they got the mix just right, with, 'modern', (for the time), themes like, 'Radio Ga Ga', and, 'I Want To Break Free', appealing to the singles market, whilst still having a more, 'traditional', sound in some of the album tracks. 'Man on the Prowl', being the obvious choice. 'Hammer To Fall', being more of what we expected from Queen as a single. And, we can't ignore the closing track, 'Is this the World We Created?', of course, which would be poignant a year later.
'Machines.. back to Humans', would be an interesting one.
Nice analysis. Thank you. Bit disappointed there was only Under Pressure taken from Hot Space- their best album from the 80s imo. Their most daring certainly. From now on it becomes all a bit MOR rock/dad rock with a few songs excepted.
The Game was their best album from the 80s, no doubt,
@@79BlackRose I actually think the Game was a big step down after Jazz because Freddie's songs were a step down. Can you imagine him producing something as lacklustre as "Don't Try Suicide" in his 70s heyday? At least with Hot Space he was trying something creative with his Berlin disco songs. In the 70s the albums would be half filled with Freddie's genius songs. In the 80s Freddie would write 1or 2 himself and collaborate on a couple of others. His level of inspiration went way down. Just my opinion, of course. It's a Hard Life is an exception- that's reminiscent of his 70s best.
One word
BabyMetal!!
What, because of the "Ga Ga" bit? And it's hardly Metal! 😅
Early explorations in synthesiser included interpretations of Bach (via Wendy Carlos) and Debussy (Isao Tomita). Then came Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream et al...
...Edgar Winter, ELP, Vangelis... 🙂
I have to echo what others have said and that's that you really really need to watch the live aid version at Wembley stadium .... in fact watch the whole performance as it's just under 30 minutes
It is interesting we barely touched hotspace (there are some decent songs on it) and avoided FLASH (its a good sound track, not a great to listen ouside of the movie, but it MADE the movie)
The live versions of this song sound much better than the studio one
The music video further enhances the thematic dissonance with imagery from 1927's scifi epic Metropolis in glorious black and white
Yep, even us are dust in the wind. React to Kansas: Dust in the wind
Please look at the music video for this song, an artistic masterpiece in my view.
It is essential to see this to understand the crowd response to this song at the Live Aid charity event, the miraculous Queen performance mentioned many times in viewer comments to your Queen 50 series.
The non-Queen crowd en mass knew “what to do” when Radio Gaga was performed because of what they saw in the music video. The rest is music history.
My telephone still has a chord. It's a C9#11
Hah! 😄👍
This is, as a writer, Roger Taylors finest hour I think.
I'm sure this series will end with the Queen Live Aid video, but any analysis of this song loses so much context without the original promo video. It is based on Fritz Lang's famous 1927 film, Metropolis, and is suitably epic.
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The closing comments in your video, can also include how do we cope and work with artifical intelligence in music, without allowing it to crush and dilute our human contribution.
Have you also heard the song "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush? If not, you need to!
She'd only listened to a couple of Rush's instrumentals and a long, long time ago, too!
@@mightyV444 I recalled that Amy had listened to "La Villa Strangiato" at least but wasn't sure what else.
@@IanHodgetts - 'YYZ' and also a Peart drum solo, but nothing with vocals yet.
@@mightyV444 YET! ;-) So what do we need to do about that? :-)
@@IanHodgetts - Annoy her with tons of Rush requests! 😁
You must watch this being performed live please
lol I still listen to Nashville classical 91.1 you need to convert your car radio to HD Radio then you can pick up 90.3 FM digitally.
Has echos of Video Killed the Radio Star.
Do you mean that there is the modern and then the nostalgia?
Am I close….. ?
It's Queen's take on the same theme as Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles, (a name deliberately pastiching 'The Beatles') which was first ever video on the MTV channel and one of the first synth-pop hits. It also launched the career Trevor Horn, a major pop producer in the eighties and nineties. Of the two tracks, I much prefer this Queen song, in fact I find The Buggles irritating, but you should probably react to it as significant event in the history of pop-rock.
This is a great song.
I still wonder when you're going to FINALLY get to some Dream Theater though.
You do a pretty good cockatiel!
I just realised you've got TWO concert harps there!
What's the maple one in the background (behind your square body L&H Style 30) - is it an Aoyama?
I like how the chorus ("All we hear is [clap clap] radio gaga") is sung in parallel 8ves the first time round, then three part harmony the 2nd time with just the pared down simple rhythm backing.
I think it was around this time Freddy Mercury bought the rights to Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film 'Metropolis' as that film was heavily featured in the video and the film itself was released with music by Giorgio Moroder. 'Love Kills' being one of the singles from that film entered the UK charts on the same day (22nd of September 1984) as 'Together In Electric Dreams' by Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey (Human League) - 'Love Kills' peaked at 10 and 'Together In Electric Dreams' peaked at 3.
I just Knew you were waiting down with the seconds to allow you can play a bit, for refrence, mabe the bit is in the middle.
Well It got something to do with Lady Gaga , she choosed that name because of this Queen's song.
* had chosen 😉
@@mightyV444 thanks. I'm still learning , English is not my first language
@@ICRA95 - I did think this was the case, too. Your English still is great, of course! 😊👍