This is a perfect example of a Queen song: Freddie's voice is incredible (I just love the way he belts out "humans!")...and the song totally rocks (okay, so some dated effects, but it works)--most importantly, at the very end of the song, it transitions into a ballad-like melody, "living in a new world, thinking in the past...etc." It's hauntingly beautiful and whenever this song pops into my head, I always sing that last part over and over.
@@user-cj8jg4io1lautotune didn,t exist at that time , but that álbum The Works had lots of synths sounds and no real drums at all , but the Queen essence was there. It was a great album for the eighties. Queen was an old fashioned band by that time and this album made Queen sound fresh like New 80,s Groups.
Maybe not until Reznor with NIN did anyone else manage to get synth and full on guitars all dialled into the mix with the vocals with such power, truly astonishing, and surprising Queen never really attempted this again.
Mercury's voice is just on another level on this track,when I was a kid when I first heard it I was gobsmacked at his vocal range on Humans..and still am!
I was born 3 months prior the concerts in Argentina. Queen was the band of my birth, the love of my mom, John and Freddie in particular. Miss this kind of music...
My favorite Queen song, the genius lyrics , masterful musical composition is on another level of mindblowing. Brain May who usually holds back a bit let's it rip all out on this track, he goes off planet with thundering power like Iommi riffs.
Happy they played this in Vancouver for the first time in so many years! Hope they keep it in the set list and perform a more complete version as the tour progresses.
+Axaygiri Goswami Blade Runner's a somewhat heavy movie. This song's decidedly not heavy, with lines like "It's bytes and megachips for tea" and "It's midwife's a disk drive, It's sex-life is quantised, It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised.
Like most brilliant bands their lesser known "album filler" stuff is usually their greatest- nearly always the stuff that has the most grit, the most balls, the best lyrics, guitar riffs, solos and beats. Rock Bands from Rush to Europe to new wave/pop bands like ABC all have great stuff nobody seems to know. Queen especially- this is way better than a mainstream "sing along" track like I want to break free (and even gaga) yet they are the ones the public know.
@Kevin Prima NO!!! for the Divine Creator's Soul/Spirit is sovereign as in QUEEN. AI has no creativity, go back to re-connecting with mother nature through Spirit Kevin.
Prophetic and visionary song. It's exactly what we are living right now. And it will be worst... What a bass line! John does a terrific job here, as usual
_The Works_ reminds me a lot of Queen's 1980 release _The Game_. It really does. Songs like _Man On A Prowl_ can go hand and hand with _Crazy Little Thing Called Love_, _It's A Hard Life_ and _Is This The World We Created_ could go well with _Sail Away Sweet Sister_ and _Save Me_, respectively, and so on and so forth.
Actually, "It's a Hard Life" is a direct sequel, both lyrically and muscially to "Play the Game" (notice the similarity of the melody and phrasing of Play the Game's "it's so easy" with "it's a hard life").
Don’t think it’s a coincidence after the failure of hot space to try and recreate the success of their best selling album. While radio gaga doesn’t sound alike to another one bites the dust like bites the dust it’s queen hopping into a trend and doing their spin on it just like they did with bites the dust. Hammer to fall and tear it up is what sets the album above the game imo
I have to admit the failure of hot space did suck cause imo I love the album and think it’s flawless but that my option, but you are right if that album didn’t fail they would have went in a different path then they did which makes me appreciate that is failed like I said love hot space, but if it succeed they would have made like 3 or 4 more hot spaces which would have sucked.
I don't know..but yeah I can't find atleast a good rock band now that captivates people like the old times.. I like bon Jovi, scorpion, but they are old now..but queen can not be beaten..in my opinion
Queen music is unique in their own composition, American Rock feels more basic or less-experiment than British one. Thats why lot of great rock band came from Britain
The Works the album that introduced me to the music of Queen, 4 great hit singles but just keep passing the open Windows, is this the world we created and Machines are equally as good as is the little known GaGa beside I go crazy..
"We have no disease, no troubles of mind. We are fighting for peace, no regard for the time. We never cry, we never retreat. We have no conception of love or defeat."
I think one of the best songs of the works album together with" ïs this the world..."I was stunned about those vocoder voices then by Roger....reminds me also of his solo album"strange frontier...How i miss Queen and especially Freddy,no Voice ever reached his highs and lows and power...
The Works was released in February 1984. The Transformers first episode was aired September 1984. The delay was due to Soundwave being preoccupied in the recording studio with Queen. It all makes sense now.
_we have no disease, no troubles of mind,_ _we’re fighting for peace, no regard for the time,_ _we never cry, we never retreat,_ _we have no conception of love or defeat._
This has so much to say about society 40 years after the song's release. The relationship between humans and their machines has never been more central to the conversation. What a bunch of visionaries. 🖤
I had a cassette of this album, but I forgot this song. Probably then I just skipped this song, because I didn't know what these RAM, Software, Hardware, Disk Drive were all about. Now, I can appreciate this song.
Dennis Healy hey, I don't know who you are, and stuff, but just out of curiosity, why do you comment the name of the song on almost every queen song I've seen?
After Hot Space Album the Finally back to Humans😅 But i really love Hot space Album Queen ! They do everything what they can do to Music ,such a Genius 4 Guys! Very ahead of its time! Immortal
La letra de esta canción, hoy está más vigente que en su tiempo de lanzamiento. Con el tema la de la inteligencia artificial aplica la preocupación y crítica de muchos en el presente. Además de ser un tema a resaltar, no solo por su letra.
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This is a perfect example of a Queen song: Freddie's voice is incredible (I just love the way he belts out "humans!")...and the song totally rocks (okay, so some dated effects, but it works)--most importantly, at the very end of the song, it transitions into a ballad-like melody, "living in a new world, thinking in the past...etc." It's hauntingly beautiful and whenever this song pops into my head, I always sing that last part over and over.
The instruments are not really Queen-like though, only really Brian's guitar
@@user-cj8jg4io1lautotune didn,t exist at that time , but that álbum The Works had lots of synths sounds and no real drums at all , but the Queen essence was there. It was a great album for the eighties. Queen was an old fashioned band by that time and this album made Queen sound fresh like New 80,s Groups.
Freddie Voice was at the Peak in the mid 80s
simply greatest band of all time.
Yeah
@Netto shopper lmao no
@Judith Aimes Beatles is
@@hombrerusode40anos72I have no huomenna uudelleen
@@hombrerusode40anos72 that
fantastic vocal from Freddie on this track!! As ever superb! omg! How much we all miss him such a talent. R.I.P FREDDIE.
AMAZING vocal
The “Random Access Memory” line always makes me laugh. Such clever lads. Queen forever! 👑
Lots of that now in 2021
I don’t get it
bytes and megachips for tea not bad either
@@vijunaedwards880 "it no place for rock'n'roll"
@@Usario321RAM
I like the mixture of the guitar with the electronic/synth sounds in this song, they go so well together and it sounds so cool!
Maybe not until Reznor with NIN did anyone else manage to get synth and full on guitars all dialled into the mix with the vocals with such power, truly astonishing, and surprising Queen never really attempted this again.
Guitars and synths always sound class together!!
Also the bass
Queen is the Machine that carries on even 50 years later!
Mercury's voice is just on another level on this track,when I was a kid when I first heard it I was gobsmacked at his vocal range on Humans..and still am!
I was born 3 months prior the concerts in Argentina. Queen was the band of my birth, the love of my mom, John and Freddie in particular. Miss this kind of music...
christ The Works is such a great album
The works and it's a kind of magic etc are Amazing
@@kickboxerforever00 those two and Hot Space are MEDIOCRE ALBUMS
No
@@gustavohansen1 NO!
@@kickboxerforever00 AKOM is pretty mediocre, but The Works and Hot Space are legendary.
I love how this album has both the synth sounds of Hot Space, but also their hard rock sound. Nice mixture!
Masterpiece !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahead of its time.
My favorite Queen song, the genius lyrics , masterful musical composition is on another level of mindblowing. Brain May who usually holds back a bit let's it rip all out on this track, he goes off planet with thundering power like Iommi riffs.
I dont think people realize how awesome this song is, its poprock w/techno feel - in smooth blend.
Happy they played this in Vancouver for the first time in so many years! Hope they keep it in the set list and perform a more complete version as the tour progresses.
Did they?
The Most intelligent and simply Beautiful Rock Band the World Has ever Seen.
Great song. Straddling that fragile boundary between the synth-heavy futurism of the early 80s and the more organic music that came before and after.
A very original song. Reminds a machine every second. No love song, just a machine song. One of the best for me in my opinion.
So underrated!
+Nikolas De Giorgis this would have been a good theme song for Blade runner.
Very very underrated!
+Axaygiri Goswami Blade Runner's a somewhat heavy movie. This song's decidedly not heavy, with lines like "It's bytes and megachips for tea" and "It's midwife's a disk drive, It's sex-life is quantised, It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised.
Ah! tell me that after watching Jared Leto :D :D
Like most brilliant bands their lesser known "album filler" stuff is usually their greatest- nearly always the stuff that has the most grit, the most balls, the best lyrics, guitar riffs, solos and beats. Rock Bands from Rush to Europe to new wave/pop bands like ABC all have great stuff nobody seems to know. Queen especially- this is way better than a mainstream "sing along" track like I want to break free (and even gaga) yet they are the ones the public know.
That is a perfect use of the greatest voice of the mankind
This song is composed by Maylor and I love it
This song is fantastic and few people know it
Gonzalo Rosas it’s royal shite
@@hermanhelmich WAT?
Bs as if you were the chosen🤦🏻♀️
Queen predicted daft punk with the line " it's that machine boys with random access memory"
Daft Punk are my 2nd favorite group of all time behind Gorillaz. They got me into electronic music!
@@patricklauer4452 you like electronic music? Listen to some of the old Depeche Mode, Björk and Underworld stuff. :)
mori1bund I listen to all of those!
RAM was a thing back then :D.
@@mori1bund Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin too ;)
They predicted our days now...
Kath Varen Wait for 20 years
History goes on a spiral
@Kevin Prima Brian wrote this
@Kevin Prima NO!!! for the Divine Creator's
Soul/Spirit is sovereign as in QUEEN. AI has no creativity, go back to re-connecting with mother nature through Spirit Kevin.
Both the controlling nature and the backlash.
Queen will always be the best
Prophetic and visionary song. It's exactly what we are living right now. And it will be worst... What a bass line! John does a terrific job here, as usual
Everyone loves Queen!!!!!
No-one could EVER be like them!!!
_The Works_ reminds me a lot of Queen's 1980 release _The Game_. It really does. Songs like _Man On A Prowl_ can go hand and hand with _Crazy Little Thing Called Love_, _It's A Hard Life_ and _Is This The World We Created_ could go well with _Sail Away Sweet Sister_ and _Save Me_, respectively, and so on and so forth.
Actually, "It's a Hard Life" is a direct sequel, both lyrically and muscially to "Play the Game" (notice the similarity of the melody and phrasing of Play the Game's "it's so easy" with "it's a hard life").
I have always been a huge Queen fan .When i bought this album back then when it was released i had the exact same feeling you just described !
Don’t think it’s a coincidence after the failure of hot space to try and recreate the success of their best selling album. While radio gaga doesn’t sound alike to another one bites the dust like bites the dust it’s queen hopping into a trend and doing their spin on it just like they did with bites the dust. Hammer to fall and tear it up is what sets the album above the game imo
One of my all time favorite Queen tracks, it definitely was ahead of it's time, no pun intended
1:40-1:48 is, for me, Freddie's best vocal of any Queen song EVER. The note he hits on "away" is just on another level. Incredible.
That synth + guitar + lyrics = Masterpiece!
If Hot Space didn't happen, we might not have got this amazing album.
I have to admit the failure of hot space did suck cause imo I love the album and think it’s flawless but that my option, but you are right if that album didn’t fail they would have went in a different path then they did which makes me appreciate that is failed like I said love hot space, but if it succeed they would have made like 3 or 4 more hot spaces which would have sucked.
This is such a kickass song. Just saw them in Toronto and this opened the show before leading into Radio Ga Ga. Amazing! 🤘
It's self-perpetuating, a parahumanoidarianised!! Took me some time to appreciate this song, now it's one of my favorites.
Weirdly, one of my favourite Queen songs
It was not common to hear that kind of synth loops back then. The production of this song was really ahead of its time.
I think that Roger is a phsycick. Radio gaga, and now this. AND ON THE SAME ALBUM! They should have called this album, "the future"
Nope, today songs is sucks imagine on future
Or the album with too much pop.
Brian May helped out with this also
*psychic not phsycick
@Margarita Souss .
This album was the first cassette I ever bought and Queen was the first gig I went to in '86.
these lyrics are HEAVY ....i never realized
freddie singing out of the way in here! what a strong voice!
Simply greatest band of all time!
One of the best vocals Freddie has done, regarding this song.
I don't know..but yeah I can't find atleast a good rock band now that captivates people like the old times..
I like bon Jovi, scorpion, but they are old now..but queen can not be beaten..in my opinion
they cant many have come and gone but queen still around
@@huskypoop4917 yeah ..i think they have that magic 😁
its a kinda magic ;-]
Try 'Energy' and 'Green Light' by Fire Tiger.
Queen music is unique in their own composition, American Rock feels more basic or less-experiment than British one. Thats why lot of great rock band came from Britain
one of my favourite Queen tracks - awesome
Parahumanoidarianised! Love it, they coined a word! Now, how to get it into common parlance…
Imagine if there was a video for this song
yep guess what we dont talk about that
maybe the video of "calling all girls" would fit quite well? :)
terminator would fit quite well
@@huskypoop4917 Makes sense since it came out the same year
@@stanzipiep8385 ive been saying that foreverr i think its almost creepy how theyre 'alike'
PURE GOLD. The whole song legendary. Love that robot voice at 1:55. Thumbs up for Queen
''Sing along to 'Good Company' with this official karaoke stle Queen lyric video.''
*Damn it!*
The Works the album that introduced me to the music of Queen, 4 great hit singles but just keep passing the open Windows, is this the world we created and Machines are equally as good as is the little known GaGa beside I go crazy..
A brilliant song from The Works. Keep Passing The Open Windows is another gem. Based on Steppin’ Out by Joe Jackson! Freddie loved that track!
In no way is this song Dated like fine wine it only gets better 100% shining masterpiece that will never lose its glow
I used to listen to this song as a kid way back when. It’s still amazing.
Parahumanoidarianised. Queen's contribution to the Urban Dictionary.
"parahumanoidarianised"....wow, as the non-native speaker, my vocab storage was exploded now...
@Jennifer Valentina Gómez Vargas Cool where from mexico because im Hispanic and my parents are from Guerrero.
Same as a Turkish :’)
@@ichbinzeynep007 Thats cool i’m actually wanting to try and learn some Turkish.
@@iridocyclitis.6118 I appreciate your effort :) I know Turkish is a bit hard language but you can learn it perfectly ❤️
Same thing with Portuguese
This song is so ahead of its time.
"We have no disease, no troubles of mind.
We are fighting for peace, no regard for the time.
We never cry, we never retreat.
We have no conception of love or defeat."
I love the dialogue in this song between the machines and the humans
The album is the GOAT. I need to fall into a RUclips music hole more often.
I guess this is the heaviest use of synthesizers in a Queen song, and it worked very well
112 people just got parahumanoidarianised
Andre Polkstonia fifteen
Andre Polkstonia 19 now
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@Кирилл Оленченко 64
Absolute masterpiece. What else is there to say?
I think one of the best songs of the works album together with" ïs this the world..."I was stunned about those vocoder voices then by Roger....reminds me also of his solo album"strange frontier...How i miss Queen and especially Freddy,no Voice ever reached his highs and lows and power...
I LOVE the harmonies
The Works was released in February 1984. The Transformers first episode was aired September 1984. The delay was due to Soundwave being preoccupied in the recording studio with Queen. It all makes sense now.
I was in reform school in Mississippi 1984 when this came out i would listen on my transistior radio every single day
This is DEFINETLY a Roger Brian song. Perfect.
_we have no disease, no troubles of mind,_
_we’re fighting for peace, no regard for the time,_
_we never cry, we never retreat,_
_we have no conception of love or defeat._
Totally Glorious ❤
Wahnsinns Lied. Hätte meiner Meinung nach als Single rausgebracht werden sollen
Love this drums!!!!
“Its self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised” LOL
I wonder how many times it took for Freddie to pronounce it properly :)
Imagine me making an oral presentation about hexakosioihexekontahexakosiophobia (fear of the number 665+1) 😂
This has so much to say about society 40 years after the song's release. The relationship between humans and their machines has never been more central to the conversation. What a bunch of visionaries. 🖤
Exactly!!!
"it's chips and megabytes for tea"
Very clever.
I think Roger voices the machine cuz I can hear that Roger Accent
one of the most Queen underrated songs. Freddie vocal is insanely good!
Bites & Mega Chips for tea!!.....cracks me up.....brilliant song.
There are not many Roger/Brian songs but the ones there are are amazing
My favorite off "The Works".
I had a cassette of this album, but I forgot this song. Probably then I just skipped this song, because I didn't know what these RAM, Software, Hardware, Disk Drive were all about.
Now, I can appreciate this song.
Fantastic Freddie sounds like pure perfection 🥰
This music is on another level...i think🤔
Been a Queen fan fer years. The Works my fave album! Queen 1&2 awesome too.
"Machines (Or Back to Humans)" by Queen, from: 'The Works'
Dennis Healy hey, I don't know who you are, and stuff, but just out of curiosity, why do you comment the name of the song on almost every queen song I've seen?
He wants to, that's why. He's not harming anyone so let him do his thing.
Will you make a Collector's edition of this album, The Works? We'd love it! 💪🏼🤜🏼🤛🏼🎶
After Hot Space Album the Finally back to Humans😅
But i really love Hot space Album
Queen ! They do everything what they can do to Music ,such a Genius 4 Guys! Very ahead of its time! Immortal
This song makes so much sense in today's music. There's no human element in today's music, it's all just machines.
QUEEN FOREVER!
The Works album....welcome bk Queen
underrated! I LOVE IT!
It's an amazing song
This is a classic and don't know why they never released it on the works album. One of the best tracks easy!!!
I work for an engineering company and on my first day I couldnt get this sing out of my head looking at all the different machinery
Vocoder voice from Roger Taylor
Love this song. Unlike anything before or after. So Queen😁
Prophetic song
Freddie Mercury is a God who calls Mount Olympus home.
La letra de esta canción, hoy está más vigente que en su tiempo de lanzamiento. Con el tema la de la inteligencia artificial aplica la preocupación y crítica de muchos en el presente. Además de ser un tema a resaltar, no solo por su letra.
Videoclip: Machines (Or Back to Humans)
Queen: sInG aLoNg To GoOd CoMpAnY!1!
Amo esta canción, predicción completa del futuro de hoy...gracias Freddie, gracias Queen
This song was ahead of its time nevermore prevalent then today with ai making music and our growing dependency for our human machine world
2:51 my favorite part!
Fantastic!!!