ba: we introduced our 6 year old to queen this year and he loves them as well. bohemian rhapsody, not so much. but we will rock you can be listened to over and over and over.

of course, nothing matches rush. rush rocks so hard we had to take the short person to see rush live in concert last summer (with proper hearing protection).

Thanks!

Jim

JC

Thanks for that BA.

My previous idea was that Bismallah, like Beelzebub, was the name of a medieval demon …

…Of course to past (& still some modern?) Christians I guess it might as well be .. Sigh.

Great song. One of my personal faves.

Plus I learnt what /who Scaramouche was here too – Excellent!

As far as I can remember, Mercury had claimed the Bismillah was a nonsense word. Considering how well it fits and how those guys were all pretty smart for rockers, I’ve never been convinced that it was not intentional.

Jim

Wow.

Nice stereo work, BTW.

Thus sayeth Hoagland

Eh, for the sake of polite discourse let’s leave PZ’s thoughts on the matter out of it.

My friends and I in high school would go driving about the town much too fast with the windows rolled down and us yelling/screaming along to the lyrics of “Bohemian Rhapsody” turned up much too loud. Good times.

Now I know what I have to listen to sometime today… and now I’m also wishing I had the [i]Venture Bros.[/i] DVDs. Thanks a lot, Quiet_Desperation. *has a thought*

Then again, hanging on in Quiet_Desperation is the English way, neh?

My sister bought me a Queen music book years ago and so I decided to do my own version. There’s about 40 vocal parts in this song. So I played all the instruments and sang all the vocals. My kids thought I was a little weird belting out the high notes. They couldn’t hear the other parts while I was doing the recording. Here’s a link to it: http://members.cox.net/jamesortner/BohemianRhapsody.mp3

Jim

http://members.shaw.ca/brlexicon/lexframe.htm

If I recall, Freddie Mercury (nee Bulsara) was of Parsi ancestry (Iranian Zoroastrians who fled from Muslim oppresion to Bombay). If I recall, he was even given a Zoroastrian funeral after he died.

Anyone disagreeing will have to deal with uber Zep fan Brock Sampson.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/BrockSamson.jpeg

(Now I know what I’ll be singing for the rest of the day. “Be-EL-zebub has a devil put aside for me… for me… FOR ME!”)

http://www.lyricsundercover.com/?p=60

He does a pretty good job of deciphering wierd lyrics for lots of songs.

@Rowsdower: Wikipedia says: “Scaramuccia, also known as Scaramouche, is a roguish commedia dell’arte character who wears a black velvet mask and black trousers, shirt and hat. He is usually portrayed as a buffoon or boastful coward. [...] The name was that of a stock character in 17th-century Italian farce, Scaramuccia (i.e. literally “skirmish”), who, attired usually in a black Spanish dress, burlesquing a don, was beaten by Harlequin for his boasting and cowardice.”

BTW, someone (no, not me) used to be hearing “Caught a moose, caught a moose” instead of “Scaramouche, Scaramouche”.