Talk:Sheer Heart Attack
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[edit] superb
AS much as I love Queen it is POV saying superb guitar solo by Brian May on Brighton rock. Like all album articles its like a dam review Bill102 23:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rap-metal? Yeah, right
I am eliminating the following sentence regarding "Stone Cold Crazy":
An often underrated feature of the song is Mercury's rap-like delivery of the lyrics; 'Stone Cold Crazy' could arguably very well be the first example of rap-metal, which is saying much since rap itself was vitually [sic] non-existent in 1974.
This (unsourced) statement is a big stretch. First of all, it is doubtful that Mercury had ever heard of rap by 1972 (when the song was first performed). I'm not even sure the genre truly existed back then. Certainly it wasn't known to white people. Even its precursors, like funk, probably had little influence on the song.
By the same logic, you might as well argue that '80s thrash metal itself was "rap-like." Or, if you like, you could go back further and describe some of Bob Dylan's songs as examples of early rap. The fallacy here is in thinking that any music which de-emphasizes melody must automatically have some connection with rap. But rap was hardly the first music to do this; it's just one manifestation, and the rap-metal of the '90s used the lack of emphasis on melody in both genres as a means of fusing the two. marbeh raglaim 12:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, this hardly qualifies as rap...songs like Bob Dylan's "Talkin' WWIII Blues," or Bruce Dickinson's "Sacred Cowboys" feature a fast, almost spoken word delivery, but neither qualify as rap, with the Dylan being folk, and the Dickinson metal. 65.248.164.214 (talk) 16:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Killer Queen
Killer Queen section says "They did the song without Brian May at first, leaving spaces for whenever he felt better" but this article says nothing about what Brian May's health problems were. Can someone clarify? 82.41.241.40 21:50, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Brian had contracted and recovered from Hepatitis A or B. He collapsed onstage during the Queen II tour, according to my Queen fake book which lists all their tour dates. 65.248.164.214 (talk) 22:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Jingle Jangle
What's a "jangle piano"? Drutt (talk) 19:38, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Studio and Recording Information
Is there more information about where the record was recorded and mixed? Any more studio information would be interesting to include. Obviously, there would be a separate section for this... and a lot of the information in the "Reception" section can be moved to a Recording section. Citizenkeith (talk) 16:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Citizenkeith, I, for one, wouldn't split the article into "recording" and "reception" (ending up in another row of song descriptions). A split, in some cases, would crack interesting creative contexts within a song. I think engineering and playing belong together, it's an interactive interdisciplinary process, and so should be the description of a song, to get the whole picture of it – song by song. There is not that much text anyway, just a few lines per song. So ... – That's my opinion at the moment. Cheers --Suaheli (talk) 01:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
