I want to give you my list of album favorites. I realize you have a huge list! If you get to zero, one, or many of these albums, of course that is perfectly fine. My criteria is the following…no greatest hits or live albums allowed. I picked albums that I thought are closest to a perfect greatest hits album. Sometimes an artist has been working on an album since middle school. This many times makes for the first album being the best. Others build to a crescendo of an album that is closest to perfect. I could give you a further reason why each is on this list. Thanks again for the style of reaction you provide to each wonderful album! Boston - Boston Shania Twain - Come on Over Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Mumford and Sons - Babel (Deluxe Version) Jewel - Pieces of You Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Carole King - Tapestry Who - Who’s Next Elton John - Goodbye Yellowbrick Road Billy Joel - The Stranger
hello my amazing friend! 💛💛💛🖤🧡💜💚 wow! I am so very grateful for this list! not sure why I never saw this before until this very moment and I am happy to say many that you mentioned here are already on our list and we will definitely be getting to them! thank you for bringing more to my attention! I can’t wait! 💛🖤🧡💜💚
The fact that Queen had the guts to even record Bohemian Rhapsody is awe inspiring. It seems impossible that a band could come up with something like that, and then execute it so wonderfully. And while Freddie is justifiably the star of the show, the other 3 band members are incredibly underrated. Brian May is one of my favorite guitarists... his feel is perfect, he realizes that sometimes less is more. To me, rather than dominate songs his guitar sometimes is more like singing a duet with Freddie, if that makes sense. Great reaction, I look forward to more Queen reactions for sure.
Ah I was waiting for you to get to this one, Crystal! The Prophet's Song is such an overlooked and incredible song! Possibly my favorite on the album, though right up there with it is Love of My Life, one of the most beautiful songs ever written. This whole album is brilliant, but especially this side!
It's worth noting that, aside from the ukulele & percussion, every other sound in Good Company is made by Brian May and that remarkable "Red Special" guitar. Plus it is his vocal as well.
Indeed, and if you listen again to the instrumentation at the end, you’ll realize that it is literally a JAZZ BAND composition, with May’s guitar emulating the trumpets, trombones and woodwinds all individually. It’s amazing.
It's funny that one of my least favorite songs on the album, had one of my favorite moments in it. The "brass band" sound at the end of Good Company was _SO_ impressive, because it was all Brian May's guitar playing. Talk about elite guitar players.
Greetings and salutations, Crystal! I am on holiday and just got finished listening to Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” when I received your RUclips notification. Flashback to March 1992. I was 19 years old and this new movie had came out called “Wayne’s World”. It featured “Bohemian Rhapsody” in an iconic scene and, amazingly, the song started getting played on Top 40 radio stations again. And, they even had a music video which aired on MTV almost every hour. It was crazy! But cool! Back then there was no TikTok or “Stranger Things” to help get a song back into the public consciousness or the music charts. I always loved this song and Queen. And, my Dad, sister and I were singing along to it and head banging years before Wayne and Garth. But it was awesome to see young people back then who never listened to Queen getting into them. I heard that before he died, Freddie got to see a rough cut of the iconic scene and Brian May said he laughed and loved it. 😊 “The Prophet Song” definitely has a Pink Floyd vibe and the trademark layered multi-track harmonies of Queen. Harmonies are missing in music today. Auto-tuning has replaced it. What a great rocker. “Love Of My Life” never fails to choke me up. I don’t think you’ll ever hear a more sincere declaration of love. This one hits close to home for obvious reasons. It’s so beautiful and that harp gives it an ethereal feel. From the heavens. I think Freddie does all the vocals on this one. “Good Company”-Brian May is a genius. Truly. Turning a guitar into a one-man band. No wonder he’s an astrophysicist. I picked up “When I’m Sixty Four” vibes on this one. A tongue-in-cheek and a wink to the 1920’s. “God Save The Queen” is very good, but I always thought of it as a funny joke to end the album after the massive “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Sort of like The Beatles doing “Her Majesty” after the “Golden Slumbers”/“Carry That Weight”/“The End” medley. Crystal, when you get to “Queen II” there is a song called “The March Of The Black Queen” which is very reminiscent of “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Please let me know what you think of it. Last but not least, I think a great album is like a great road trip. You get lost along the way, but it’s ok because you make all of these unexpected turns which take you to amazing places and you always find your way home. Still, you are eager to go back for a ride. P.S. I LOVE listening to you play and sing! 🙏❤️🤗
Wow thank you so very much for your wonderful thoughtfulness!! 🖤🤍🖤🤍 You are so much appreciated my good pal!!! And when you were talking about the scene from Wayne’s World I totally thought of the similarities between that revival of Bohemian Rhapsody to the revival Running Up That Hill has had with Stranger Things!!! That’s when two arts combine to create an iconic moment for us all!!! Magical!!! And those break downs for each song right on the money!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!!!
@@CrystalMarieShannon Dear friend, thank you very much for your words. In fact, I believe that music is a divine gift (but it can also be diabolical). There is little that distinguishes humans from animals: art (including music), ethics, faith.😍
Thanks for a wonderful reaction. This album is magical in itself, but you add to the magic - it's really great to see how you appreciate the music I also love very much.
Hey Crystal! About the sweet guitar on Good Company, Brian is mimicking a full Dixieland brass ensemble by multi layering the guitar with different tones. The sweet guitar trills you noted at the beginning emulate the clarinet; when the full “band” joins in you can hear the trombone slides and the tuba. Really cool.
When the famous American rock experimentator Frank Zappa was once asked of what music aside of his own he listens to, he answered remarkably, "I like Queen. I like Gentle Giant". Gentle Giant led by PhD in composition from London Royal Academy Of Music, Kerry Minnear, actually also ended their album, the debut one, with the rendition of British National Anthem - five years earlier...
I remember buying this album when it came out as a junior in high school. I've owned it on 8-Track, cassette and CD as well in past 47 years. I had the pleasure of seeing them live twice in 1980 & 1982 at Madison Square Garden. In fact if you've seen the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" the scene when the play the Garden, for the 1st time, for a 3 night stand that was during the Game tour of 1980-1981. Brian flew his parents over on the Concorde to see him play for the first time during those shows and I was there, one of the 3 nights. 😁
@@CrystalMarieShannon I came across this video and it would definately be a total wild card for you to check out. Not a complete album, just something fun and different. ruclips.net/video/04fEWQOwUD4/видео.html
Thanks for another insightful reaction! I would love to see you react to the cappella cover of Bohemian Rhapsody by Pentatonix. It’s on their album PTX, Vol IV: Classics. As a matter of fact, I would love to see you react to anything by Pentatonix. There are a lot of good a cappella groups out there these days, but Pentatonix is still my favorite. What they do with 5 voices is mind boggling.
Hey there my delightful friend!!! I am so beyond glad that you brought up the Pentatonix! I absolutely adore them with all my heart and couldn't stop thinking about them as I was filming!!! We definitely have to get into a PTX reaction eventually! Thanks to you, they are now on our list!
It's a proven fact that it's impossible to listen to Bohemian Rhapsody without singing along to it. Go ahead and try it, everybody! It's impossible, right?! 😄 Brian May in The Prophet's Song sounds a little like Jimmy Page to me. No complaints from me about it. Love of My Life seems like a prelude to Bohemian Rhapsody, imo. I think it was one of the bands favorites to play Live. Freddy's vocals really match his stage performance more than any other singer I can think of from that era. Scaramouche! Scaramouche!
I totally see the Brian May / Jimmy Page connection in The Prophet’s Song!!! Good catch on your part & amazing talent on May!!! And Love of My Life is the most beautiful prelude there ever was placed right before BR!!!!
The video of Love of my Life live at Wembley is incredible. It will melt your heart. I'd love to see your reactions to it, if you've never watched it before. This reaction was really enjoyable, Krystal. 👍👍
Good Company is Brian May's ode to Traditional Jazz. May uses guitar to mimic every sound a traditional jazz band would play. Besides playing ukulele, May recreates clarinet, trumpet and trombone sounds on guitars with just a few pedal effects.
Incredible album huh? This was probably Queen's best era, and the previous two albums are part of it. The March of the Black Queen (from Queen II) is often seen as a precursor to Bohemian Rhapsody, it has even more switches! Queen II also features the full version of Seven seas of Rhye. Sheer Heart Attack is an awesome eclectic album, right up there with A Night at the Opera.
Thanks Crystal! It was lovely to watch you react to this side of the LP for the first time. I just take it for granted as it's been in my life since 1975 when I was 6. Music has a way of just putting you in a time and place and I recall that feeling of seeing Bohemian Rhapsody on Top Of The Pops at xmas and knowing it was special. Glad you love Prophet Song and yeah Love Of My Life is really special with the wonderful classical piano/cello like guitar interplay.... not to mention Freddie's voice which was much softer back in those days.... Can't wait for you to hit Day At The Races as that contains Freddie's masterpiece "Take My Breath Away" which is my personal favourite Queen song and one which inspired me to take up piano.
The beginning and ending of, "The Prophet Song", has an ancient oriental sound. Full of wisdom and mystique. "Seaside Rendezvous", "Lazing On A Sunday" & "Good Company", have a 1920's style to them. Wouldn't you agree??? "Night At The Opera", is such a great album... gonna have to grab my vinyl LP and throw it on my Victrola turntable. ✌️❤️🌹
Hi Crystal! It's great that you covered the entire album, a lot of it gets overlooked with B.R's massive popularity. Love Of My Life is amazing, it gets me every time. It seems to me that with what Queen was doing here, along with Elton John & ELO around the same time, a void was being filled that the Beatles left with their break up. Pop music needed a certain artistry and dynamics and those musicians carried on the Beatles' legacy (at least for a while). And hey, with Queen you get the hard rock element as well! Love your passion as always, cheers!
It's really fitting that a song from "A Night at the Opera" (the title of a Marx Brothers movie) includes the use of a harp. Harpo Marx played the harp, as well as piano and many other instruments and played them all brilliantly. Just to get ahead of it, since I know someone would add this as a reply: the next album, "A Day at the Races" is also a Marx Brothers movie title. I don't know what you know about "Weird Al" Yankovic, an artist best known for his song parodies, but on each album, he dedicates one track to picking up his accordion and doing a medley of pop songs that topped the charts since the last album, but in polka style. ANYWAY, after Freddie's death, Al put his medley tradition aside and instead did Bohemian Rhapsody in its entirety - in polka style. He titled it Bohemian Polka.
I've always felt like ANATO was like Queen's Sgt Pepper, in a sense that the album feels like a musical revue of sorts. Though not having any narrative of any kind, the songs still feel like they're tied together, forming a cohesive whole that makes it feel like a concept album. While each track being an excessive stylistic exercise, each one slightly preposterous, slightly over the top, and finally closing off with an epic mini-symphony, just like Pepper.
Brian is actually the vocalist for Good Company. He also does a great vocal on All Dead, All Dead, a beautiful tribute to his childhood cat. That song helped me a lot a few years ago when my own pup Nelson passed.
Thanks for the Side II reaction! Always nice to hear the original, beautiful studio version of "Love of My Life," which I felt was overshadowed by the live acoustic guitar and vocal version in later years.
Crystal, first, thank you for doing the entire album. So many channels review a song or two of an artist, but that's missing the point. Albums are stories. Case in point - this album. It's a complete story through songs. Also, always nice to see you smile. You're doing great. Someone in heaven is certainly smiling on you. Keep up the amazing work!
I agree, but I suspect a lot of them avoid doing full albums because of copyright issues. Reacting to one song then having it blocked isn't as frustrating as putting time into a whole album reaction and having it blocked, which happens even when cutting up the songs for the video. With that said, I definitely appreciate when people do full albums, or half by half like Crystal does.
@@Billinois78 Ya I forgot about copyright headaches. I know Crystal has had some. I do know one thing - she can't do the Eagles. Don Henley from what I know is manic about lawsuits.
When I saw you were reacting to this one Crystal I quickly put on my tux to properly enjoy the Opera! This reaction is the perfect intersection of Queen and Crystal Shannon reacting!! What more could I want?? Well, only one thing I can think of, and that is to please please please please one day get back to react to Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack, their third and fourth LP's. Both plant the seeds that emerge in their songs on this and their future albums! Looking forward to whatever you have next for us!!
Hey Crystal! It's so nice to have you back on a more or less regular basis. Welcome to The Prophet Song! This is My favorite track on this album: Only surpassed by a few tracks from the previous album (Sheer Heart Attack). That string sound at either end of the song is from a japanese instrument called a koto. The final track, God Save the Queen is reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix' studio version of The Star Spangled Banner. You might want to seek that out on your own since it would likely get blocked on RUclips. Cheers!
Good Company is a wonderful song. Despite its happy sounds and apparent shallowness, it is in fact instrumentally and vocally complex with the lyrics taking a really sad & lonely turn.
Crystal, you should look up *Marc Martel* He sang for some of the songs in the film Bohemian Rhapsody, and actually got approved by Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor to front the official Queen tribute band!
Hi sugarbear, waiting for Side II and The Prophet Song... didn't want to spoil it, so stayed quiet :) Hugs PS this is worth the $$ for decent headphones, which'll take it up another notch!
Desde que hiciste la parte 1 estaba esperando ésta. Especialmente por The prophet's song. Sabía que te iba a llamar la atención. Una oda a la creatividad. Increíble su poca difusión, pero ya sabemos no es comercial.
Great Crystal! Isn’t ANATO such a masterpeice?. It bkowed my m ind when it came out. Suggest you listen to Queen II next. That’s where it sort of took off.
August 3, 20237:11 PM EDTUpdated 2 days ago LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Fans of Freddie Mercury might wonder if this is the real life, or just fantasy, when they walk into a near-replica of his London home, where thousands of items belonging to the late Queen frontman will be on exhibition starting Friday. Rare items including handwritten lyrics, art and collectibles from Mercury's London home, Garden Lodge, have been looked after by his close friend Mary Austin since his death from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991.
No criticism intended; Queen, ELO, Genesis, Jethro Tull, and Yes, had by the mid-to late-70's grown self-indulgent and the whole prog-rock thing had grown a little tiresome. They are all great bands, no mistake, but it should be evident why by '77 punk washed over this in a refreshing back to basics & even angry rejection. I love your reactions as young person hearing this music for a first time. Keeping the music fresh is so important.
"Why didn't anyone introduce me to this?" I hear young people say this all the time. Well, I don't get it. Nobody owes it to you to show you the good music that's out there. Us older folks have given you the technology we never had to FIND this stuff for yourself. But so precious few of you ever do. Nobody showed us this stuff. We had to find it. Now YOU find it.
I want to give you my list of album favorites. I realize you have a huge list! If you get to zero, one, or many of these albums, of course that is perfectly fine.
My criteria is the following…no greatest hits or live albums allowed. I picked albums that I thought are closest to a perfect greatest hits album. Sometimes an artist has been working on an album since middle school. This many times makes for the first album being the best. Others build to a crescendo of an album that is closest to perfect. I could give you a further reason why each is on this list.
Thanks again for the style of reaction you provide to each wonderful album!
Boston - Boston
Shania Twain - Come on Over
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Mumford and Sons - Babel (Deluxe Version)
Jewel - Pieces of You
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Carole King - Tapestry
Who - Who’s Next
Elton John - Goodbye Yellowbrick Road
Billy Joel - The Stranger
hello my amazing friend! 💛💛💛🖤🧡💜💚 wow! I am so very grateful for this list! not sure why I never saw this before until this very moment and I am happy to say many that you mentioned here are already on our list and we will definitely be getting to them! thank you for bringing more to my attention! I can’t wait! 💛🖤🧡💜💚
The fact that Queen had the guts to even record Bohemian Rhapsody is awe inspiring. It seems impossible that a band could come up with something like that, and then execute it so wonderfully.
And while Freddie is justifiably the star of the show, the other 3 band members are incredibly underrated. Brian May is one of my favorite guitarists... his feel is perfect, he realizes that sometimes less is more. To me, rather than dominate songs his guitar sometimes is more like singing a duet with Freddie, if that makes sense.
Great reaction, I look forward to more Queen reactions for sure.
Ah I was waiting for you to get to this one, Crystal! The Prophet's Song is such an overlooked and incredible song! Possibly my favorite on the album, though right up there with it is Love of My Life, one of the most beautiful songs ever written. This whole album is brilliant, but especially this side!
Incredible Jerry!!!!!! Hello my wonderful friend!!! For the Prophet’s Song to be overlooked sounds like such a crime!!! I absolutely loved it!
I completely agree with you on the brilliance of this album ! So much to love here! 💛🧡💛
It's worth noting that, aside from the ukulele & percussion, every other sound in Good Company is made by Brian May and that remarkable "Red Special" guitar. Plus it is his vocal as well.
Indeed, and if you listen again to the instrumentation at the end, you’ll realize that it is literally a JAZZ BAND composition, with May’s guitar emulating the trumpets, trombones and woodwinds all individually. It’s amazing.
@@GeoffTrowbridge Thanks for saving me some typing! Just that section was/is so innovative!
It's funny that one of my least favorite songs on the album, had one of my favorite moments in it. The "brass band" sound at the end of Good Company was _SO_ impressive, because it was all Brian May's guitar playing. Talk about elite guitar players.
Greetings and salutations, Crystal! I am on holiday and just got finished listening to Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” when I received your RUclips notification.
Flashback to March 1992. I was 19 years old and this new movie had came out called “Wayne’s World”. It featured “Bohemian Rhapsody” in an iconic scene and, amazingly, the song started getting played on Top 40 radio stations again. And, they even had a music video which aired on MTV almost every hour. It was crazy! But cool! Back then there was no TikTok or “Stranger Things” to help get a song back into the public consciousness or the music charts. I always loved this song and Queen. And, my Dad, sister and I were singing along to it and head banging years before Wayne and Garth. But it was awesome to see young people back then who never listened to Queen getting into them. I heard that before he died, Freddie got to see a rough cut of the iconic scene and Brian May said he laughed and loved it. 😊
“The Prophet Song” definitely has a Pink Floyd vibe and the trademark layered multi-track harmonies of Queen. Harmonies are missing in music today. Auto-tuning has replaced it. What a great rocker.
“Love Of My Life” never fails to choke me up. I don’t think you’ll ever hear a more sincere declaration of love. This one hits close to home for obvious reasons. It’s so beautiful and that harp gives it an ethereal feel. From the heavens. I think Freddie does all the vocals on this one.
“Good Company”-Brian May is a genius. Truly. Turning a guitar into a one-man band. No wonder he’s an astrophysicist. I picked up “When I’m Sixty Four” vibes on this one. A tongue-in-cheek and a wink to the 1920’s.
“God Save The Queen” is very good, but I always thought of it as a funny joke to end the album after the massive “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Sort of like The Beatles doing “Her Majesty” after the “Golden Slumbers”/“Carry That Weight”/“The End” medley.
Crystal, when you get to “Queen II” there is a song called “The March Of The Black Queen” which is very reminiscent of “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Please let me know what you think of it.
Last but not least, I think a great album is like a great road trip. You get lost along the way, but it’s ok because you make all of these unexpected turns which take you to amazing places and you always find your way home. Still, you are eager to go back for a ride.
P.S. I LOVE listening to you play and sing! 🙏❤️🤗
Wow thank you so very much for your wonderful thoughtfulness!! 🖤🤍🖤🤍 You are so much appreciated my good pal!!! And when you were talking about the scene from Wayne’s World I totally thought of the similarities between that revival of Bohemian Rhapsody to the revival Running Up That Hill has had with Stranger Things!!! That’s when two arts combine to create an iconic moment for us all!!! Magical!!! And those break downs for each song right on the money!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!!!
Three musical phenomena have occupied me more than almost anything else in recent years: Bohemian Rhapsody, Miss American Pie and Syd Barrett.
Wow!!!! Your three musical phenomena sound like the absolutely perfect trifecta sent from the most divine!!!! You, my friend, have immaculate taste!
@@CrystalMarieShannon Dear friend, thank you very much for your words. In fact, I believe that music is a divine gift (but it can also be diabolical). There is little that distinguishes humans from animals: art (including music), ethics, faith.😍
Thanks for a wonderful reaction. This album is magical in itself, but you add to the magic - it's really great to see how you appreciate the music I also love very much.
Thank you you so much for being so sweet to me!!!
Great reaction as always Crystal So glad to your going back to Queen
Queen can’t hold a candle to you. Rock on, lovely one.
Thank you my amazing rock and roll super hero!!! 🫧✨💞
@@CrystalMarieShannon adore you, Crystal 😇
Hey Crystal! About the sweet guitar on Good Company, Brian is mimicking a full Dixieland brass ensemble by multi layering the guitar with different tones. The sweet guitar trills you noted at the beginning emulate the clarinet; when the full “band” joins in you can hear the trombone slides and the tuba. Really cool.
When the famous American rock experimentator Frank Zappa was once asked of what music aside of his own he listens to, he answered remarkably, "I like Queen. I like Gentle Giant". Gentle Giant led by PhD in composition from London Royal Academy Of Music, Kerry Minnear, actually also ended their album, the debut one, with the rendition of British National Anthem - five years earlier...
I remember buying this album when it came out as a junior in high school. I've owned it on 8-Track, cassette and CD as well in past 47 years.
I had the pleasure of seeing them live twice in 1980 & 1982 at Madison Square Garden.
In fact if you've seen the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" the scene when the play the Garden, for the 1st time, for a 3 night stand that was during the Game tour of 1980-1981. Brian flew his parents over on the Concorde to see him play for the first time during those shows and I was there, one of the 3 nights. 😁
Another wonderful album and another insightful review. I'm really looking forward to when you get back to Yes. Close to the Edge
Hey there brilliant Bob!!! Thank you so much my buddy! I am looking forward to more Yes as well!!! Close to the Edge is definitely on our list!!!
@@CrystalMarieShannon I came across this video and it would definately be a total wild card for you to check out. Not a complete album, just something fun and different. ruclips.net/video/04fEWQOwUD4/видео.html
Thanks for another insightful reaction! I would love to see you react to the cappella cover of Bohemian Rhapsody by Pentatonix. It’s on their album PTX, Vol IV: Classics. As a matter of fact, I would love to see you react to anything by Pentatonix. There are a lot of good a cappella groups out there these days, but Pentatonix is still my favorite. What they do with 5 voices is mind boggling.
Hey there my delightful friend!!! I am so beyond glad that you brought up the Pentatonix! I absolutely adore them with all my heart and couldn't stop thinking about them as I was filming!!! We definitely have to get into a PTX reaction eventually! Thanks to you, they are now on our list!
It's a proven fact that it's impossible to listen to Bohemian Rhapsody without singing along to it.
Go ahead and try it, everybody!
It's impossible, right?! 😄
Brian May in The Prophet's Song sounds a little like Jimmy Page to me.
No complaints from me about it.
Love of My Life seems like a prelude to Bohemian Rhapsody, imo. I think it was one of the bands favorites to play Live.
Freddy's vocals really match his stage performance more than any other singer I can think of from that era.
Scaramouche! Scaramouche!
Will you do the Fandango? (sorry, I had to ;)
@@dago87able Hahaha 😄
@@robk.6591 hehe
Hahahaha you are spot on about that!!! I can’t ever just listen to it! Nearly impossible!
I totally see the Brian May / Jimmy Page connection in The Prophet’s Song!!! Good catch on your part & amazing talent on May!!! And Love of My Life is the most beautiful prelude there ever was placed right before BR!!!!
Oh crystal your song was super cool. What a talent you are
Thank you so very much Ian!!! 💚💚
The video of Love of my Life live at Wembley is incredible. It will melt your heart. I'd love to see your reactions to it, if you've never watched it before. This reaction was really enjoyable, Krystal. 👍👍
Good Company is Brian May's ode to Traditional Jazz. May uses guitar to mimic every sound a traditional jazz band would play. Besides playing ukulele, May recreates clarinet, trumpet and trombone sounds on guitars with just a few pedal effects.
Incredible album huh? This was probably Queen's best era, and the previous two albums are part of it.
The March of the Black Queen (from Queen II) is often seen as a precursor to Bohemian Rhapsody, it has even more switches! Queen II also features the full version of Seven seas of Rhye. Sheer Heart Attack is an awesome eclectic album, right up there with A Night at the Opera.
Thanks Crystal! It was lovely to watch you react to this side of the LP for the first time. I just take it for granted as it's been in my life since 1975 when I was 6. Music has a way of just putting you in a time and place and I recall that feeling of seeing Bohemian Rhapsody on Top Of The Pops at xmas and knowing it was special. Glad you love Prophet Song and yeah Love Of My Life is really special with the wonderful classical piano/cello like guitar interplay.... not to mention Freddie's voice which was much softer back in those days....
Can't wait for you to hit Day At The Races as that contains Freddie's masterpiece "Take My Breath Away" which is my personal favourite Queen song and one which inspired me to take up piano.
The beginning and ending of, "The Prophet Song", has an ancient oriental sound. Full of wisdom and mystique. "Seaside Rendezvous", "Lazing On A Sunday" & "Good Company", have a 1920's style to them. Wouldn't you agree??? "Night At The Opera", is such a great album... gonna have to grab my vinyl LP and throw it on my Victrola turntable. ✌️❤️🌹
Hi Crystal! It's great that you covered the entire album, a lot of it gets overlooked with B.R's massive popularity. Love Of My Life is amazing, it gets me every time. It seems to me that with what Queen was doing here, along with Elton John & ELO around the same time, a void was being filled that the Beatles left with their break up. Pop music needed a certain artistry and dynamics and those musicians carried on the Beatles' legacy (at least for a while). And hey, with Queen you get the hard rock element as well! Love your passion as always, cheers!
It's really fitting that a song from "A Night at the Opera" (the title of a Marx Brothers movie) includes the use of a harp. Harpo Marx played the harp, as well as piano and many other instruments and played them all brilliantly.
Just to get ahead of it, since I know someone would add this as a reply: the next album, "A Day at the Races" is also a Marx Brothers movie title.
I don't know what you know about "Weird Al" Yankovic, an artist best known for his song parodies, but on each album, he dedicates one track to picking up his accordion and doing a medley of pop songs that topped the charts since the last album, but in polka style. ANYWAY, after Freddie's death, Al put his medley tradition aside and instead did Bohemian Rhapsody in its entirety - in polka style. He titled it Bohemian Polka.
Great breakdown, as usual! I love your enthusiasm and appreciate your insight.
I've always felt like ANATO was like Queen's Sgt Pepper, in a sense that the album feels like a musical revue of sorts. Though not having any narrative of any kind, the songs still feel like they're tied together, forming a cohesive whole that makes it feel like a concept album. While each track being an excessive stylistic exercise, each one slightly preposterous, slightly over the top, and finally closing off with an epic mini-symphony, just like Pepper.
Brian is actually the vocalist for Good Company. He also does a great vocal on All Dead, All Dead, a beautiful tribute to his childhood cat. That song helped me a lot a few years ago when my own pup Nelson passed.
Thanks for the Side II reaction! Always nice to hear the original, beautiful studio version of "Love of My Life," which I felt was overshadowed by the live acoustic guitar and vocal version in later years.
Totally agree... love Freddie's softer vocal and his piano work is just incredible..
Crystal, first, thank you for doing the entire album. So many channels review a song or two of an artist, but that's missing the point. Albums are stories. Case in point - this album. It's a complete story through songs.
Also, always nice to see you smile. You're doing great. Someone in heaven is certainly smiling on you. Keep up the amazing work!
I agree, but I suspect a lot of them avoid doing full albums because of copyright issues. Reacting to one song then having it blocked isn't as frustrating as putting time into a whole album reaction and having it blocked, which happens even when cutting up the songs for the video. With that said, I definitely appreciate when people do full albums, or half by half like Crystal does.
@@Billinois78 Ya I forgot about copyright headaches. I know Crystal has had some. I do know one thing - she can't do the Eagles. Don Henley from what I know is manic about lawsuits.
Wow 🥰 another wonderful reaction k
Thank so very much sweet Lisa!!! You made my day my amazing friend!!!
My favorite Queen Album was "The Game" by Queen that came out in 1979.I hope you will do the Album in the near future.
1980. I know it’s nitpicky. 😁✌️
When I saw you were reacting to this one Crystal I quickly put on my tux to properly enjoy the Opera! This reaction is the perfect intersection of Queen and Crystal Shannon reacting!! What more could I want?? Well, only one thing I can think of, and that is to please please please please one day get back to react to Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack, their third and fourth LP's. Both plant the seeds that emerge in their songs on this and their future albums! Looking forward to whatever you have next for us!!
Hey Crystal!
It's so nice to have you back on a more or less regular basis.
Welcome to The Prophet Song! This is My favorite track on this album: Only surpassed by a few tracks from the previous album (Sheer Heart Attack). That string sound at either end of the song is from a japanese instrument called a koto.
The final track, God Save the Queen is reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix' studio version of The Star Spangled Banner. You might want to seek that out on your own since it would likely get blocked on RUclips.
Cheers!
Queen is very beautiful and so are you….
Next please react to “A Day at the Races”, thank you 👑🙏
Good Company is a wonderful song. Despite its happy sounds and apparent shallowness, it is in fact instrumentally and vocally complex with the lyrics taking a really sad & lonely turn.
Hopefully you’ll continue with the whole discography of Queen!
Side one is cool.
Side two is a trip.
Great album!!
The Prophet's Song is definitely a major highlight, and yet Bohemian Rhapsody remains on its way, at that point.
Crystal, you should look up *Marc Martel*
He sang for some of the songs in the film Bohemian Rhapsody, and actually got approved by Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor to front the official Queen tribute band!
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Yo Crystal! It’s been days, where is your next video? I want more Beatles and solos from you 😉 Everything okay?
you need to hear the march of the black pff queen 2 if you haven't yet!
Hi sugarbear, waiting for Side II and The Prophet Song... didn't want to spoil it, so stayed quiet :) Hugs
PS this is worth the $$ for decent headphones, which'll take it up another notch!
React to MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN'S (PUSCIFER) cover of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY official music video. 🤞✌️
Desde que hiciste la parte 1 estaba esperando ésta. Especialmente por The prophet's song. Sabía que te iba a llamar la atención. Una oda a la creatividad. Increíble su poca difusión, pero ya sabemos no es comercial.
you should react to their previous album "Sheer Heart Attack"
Great Crystal! Isn’t ANATO such a masterpeice?. It bkowed my m ind when it came out. Suggest you listen to Queen II next. That’s where it sort of took off.
Why oh why did you stop doing Queen?
August 3, 20237:11 PM EDTUpdated 2 days ago
LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Fans of Freddie Mercury might wonder if this is the real life, or just fantasy, when they walk into a near-replica of his London home, where thousands of items belonging to the late Queen frontman will be on exhibition starting Friday.
Rare items including handwritten lyrics, art and collectibles from Mercury's London home, Garden Lodge, have been looked after by his close friend Mary Austin since his death from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991.
By the way, God Save The Queen is a Great Britain anthem, Queen's version. May Queen. B. May of The Queen)
One of the greatest sides of an album ever...Bohemian Rhapsody and Love of my Lfe on the same side....and the Prophets Song isnt bad either......
The sky children by kaleidoscope
You should react to the Smiths
no synth was used on this album
Radiohead please. Please. You won’t regret it
No criticism intended; Queen, ELO, Genesis, Jethro Tull, and Yes, had by the mid-to late-70's grown self-indulgent and the whole prog-rock thing had grown a little tiresome. They are all great bands, no mistake, but it should be evident why by '77 punk washed over this in a refreshing back to basics & even angry rejection. I love your reactions as young person hearing this music for a first time. Keeping the music fresh is so important.
"Why didn't anyone introduce me to this?"
I hear young people say this all the time. Well, I don't get it. Nobody owes it to you to show you the good music that's out there.
Us older folks have given you the technology we never had to FIND this stuff for yourself. But so precious few of you ever do.
Nobody showed us this stuff. We had to find it. Now YOU find it.
Love of My Life: Great example how a delicate, heartfelt song gets ruined by being played live. Having the crowd sing part of it?? Ugghh.