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B-Side of the Day (22.4.)

2009-04-22

Singles Time for the next part of this little series about Queen singles’ B-sides, this time “Machines (or ‘Back To Humans’)” on the “I Want To Break Free” single from 22 April 1984 from the album The Works.

The pop song on the A side is probably best known for its video with the four Queen guys wearing drag, imitating a British sitcom – Freddie once said he’s always asked in interviews how he convinced the others to do that, but it wasn’t his idea at all, but Roger’s instead, if I remember correctly… The video wasn’t good for Queen’s success in America, though:

According to Brian May in an interview about Queen’s Greatest Hits, the video ruined the band in America, which – like many in the UK – failed to see the soap-opera connection & interpreted the video as an open declaration of transvestitism and Mercury’s homosexuality.
(Wikipedia)

The B side about the topic “rather humans than machines” aptly contains relatively much electronics, and the (near-)instrumental version also a few samples from older Queen songs – so enjoy:

» “I Want To Break Free” – video
» lyrics
» “Machines (or ‘Back To Humans’)” – fan video
» “Machines (or ‘Back To Humans’)” Instrumental Version – fan photo video
» lyrics

Musik-Quiz 55

2009-04-21

Und wieder einmal willkommen zu den neuesten Musik-Bilderrätseln, die Lied- und/oder Bandnamen darstellen. Wie immer gibt’s bei Bedarf Tips in den Kommentaren…

1. Which song title is depicted here?

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Gelöst von symBadisch (und Yjgalla 44 Sekunden später): “White Wedding” von Billy Idol (Text-Video) – der Berliner Ortsteil Wedding in weiß.
Berlin-Karte aus der Wikipedia

2. Welche zwei Liedzeilen aus welchem Lied werden hier dargestellt?

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Gelöst von Julia (und David 37 Sekunden später): Die Zeilen
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
'Long as I gets a little golden shower
aus “Bobby Brown” von Frank Zappa (Live-Video).

3. Welcher Bandname ist das hier?

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Gelöst von Yjgalla: Selig (Video von “Schau Schau”) – eine Ligatur von S und E in Anlehnung an die HTML-Entity vom ß „ß“.

Das war’s, bis nächsten Dienstag!

Starlet

2009-04-16

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An ad on a local ad newspaper (Bayrisches Taferl 16/2009) in normal newspaper size – complete view1 in the top left, the right and lower parts show enlarged details of the red framed areas. (Click to enlarge.)

My congratulations to the winner of the “Least Readable Asterisk Explanation Text” contest!! ;)

Update 17:20: Ha, they even got the same offer on their website – here’s the non-selectable text in default size:

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At least you can read it without problems when zooming in with the browser – it says the usual about the limited time, extras are extra, can’t be combined with other offers, and the copyright of “Doctor’s Associates Inc.”, who own the SUBWAY® brand.

  1. except for the other ads that I blurred, that is ↺