- A mashup of numerous cover versions of Bohemian Rhapsody by The Kleptones: description, MP3 direct link (via Spreeblick).
- A funny speech (in two videos at Friendly Atheist): “All Your Religions Are False”.
- Browser game 1: Who Wants to Live a Million Years? – for Darwin’s birthday (via @gwup).
- Browser game 2: Bubble Spinner (via The Swedest Thing).
- A font from your own handwriting (free and online) at YourFonts (via FamLog).
Pop-Art-Freddie
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B-side of the Day (24.2.)
Time for another look at the Queen archives, this time to a single released on 14 Feb 1974 in USA and New Zealand, the B-side of which was “Doing All Right” (sometimes also written “Doin’ Alright”) – originally a song by Smile, a Queen precursory band, if you will, consisting of Brian May (Queen guitarist), Roger Taylor (Queen drummer) and Tim Staffell (vocals and bass):
» Queen: Doing All Right (BBC recordings from 1973)
» Smile: Doin’ Alright
» Lyrics
But let’s not ignore the A side – well, we’ll ignore the shortened single version, but here’s the album version with the Greatest Hits video:
» Queen: Liar (album version)
» Lyrics
This alternative 1971 demo version from the De Lane Lea Studios is not just over one minute longer, but also offers different guitar parts and somewhat more playful vocals by Freddie (and unfortunately a lower audio quality) – I actually like it better than the album version:
» Queen: Liar (De Lane Lea Studios demo)
(slightly different lyrics, see video page on the right)
It’s up to you which song you’re prefering for your Valentine’s Day…
Music Quiz 47
And again welcome to the latest music quiz with picture riddles depicting band and/or song names. Let’s start:
1. Which song title is displayed here (and whose song is it)?
Gelöst von Julia und symBadisch: “Working On A Dream” von Bruce Springsteen (Video) – MUC war bis 1992 der Flughafen-Code für München-Riem, bevor der neue Flughafen in Betrieb ging ⇒ D-Riem.
Was Einfaches zwischendurch:
2. Welcher Bandname ist das hier?
Gelöst von Julia (wem auch sonst?): Glasvegas (Video von “Geraldine”) – G-förmiger Ausschnitt von Las Vegas. Aktuell ist deren selbstbetiteltes Album übrigens Album der Woche bei Rockantenne.
3. Which song title is displayed here (and whose song is it)?
Gelöst von symBadisch: “My Sacrifice” von Creed (Video) – mice, ACK (Steuerzeichen mit ASCII-Code 06), reef, eyes.
4. Und welcher Liedtitel ist das?
Gelöst von Yjgalla: “Eisblumen” von Subway To Sally (Video) oder aktuell in den Charts von Eisblume (Video) – Eyes, blue men.
Danke fürs Mitmachen und bis nächsten Dienstag!
Album Song of the Day (4.2.)
As an extension of the new series B-side of the day there’s now also “treasures” on Queen albums that are only available on the album and not on singles/maxis. For the 18th anniversary of the release of the Innuendo album, it’s “Don’t Try So Hard” today, a beautiful ballad mainly written by Freddie – apparently one of Brian May’s personal favorites among all Queen songs.
Needless to say that the album reached number 1 on many charts and achieved several platinum statuses – the last Queen album in Freddie’s lifetime who died in late 1991, and curiously it ends with the song “The Show Must Go On”…
Photo: clix/sxc