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Queen, Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction 

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A theatrical expression of a colorful personality, in my opinion this piece of music is a good description of Freddie’s personality, at least what I know of him.
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@deepermind4884
@deepermind4884 Год назад
This song gets an extra kick when it's heard as it is on the album, immediately following 'Death On Two Legs' with hardly a fraction of a second between them. 😂
@dianecourtney2724
@dianecourtney2724 Год назад
Yes ✌🏼
@staceybateman1315
@staceybateman1315 Год назад
And immediately before ‘I’m in love with my car’!
@Dillon12
@Dillon12 Год назад
I am waiting for The March Of The Black Queen
@paulvanholsbeck5615
@paulvanholsbeck5615 Год назад
Please do Brian May’s “Good Company”. Pure guitar genius- He plays an entire jazz band (trombone clarinet tuba etc. on his guitar). He used instrumental phrasing and tones to create this Gem…..! Leads the song on Ukulele Something up your alley I believe
@MiscellanyTop
@MiscellanyTop Год назад
Yup, I mentioned that as a pair with this song in my reply (above) to Wayne Kitching. This is a genius album with not a single wasted opportunity. Hard to say my fav track because of the perspectives they offer. But Good Company is a fab offering from my fav guitarist of all-time.
@unshaken95
@unshaken95 Год назад
Yes! I really want Amy to listen to some of the Queen songs that have Brian or Roger in main vocals, and "39" or "Good Company" would be great choices for Brian in this album.
@MiscellanyTop
@MiscellanyTop Год назад
@@unshaken95 Yup :)
@letsgomets002
@letsgomets002 Год назад
Yes not yup yep stop this crap!!!!😮😮😮
@kentnottingham9635
@kentnottingham9635 Год назад
Ha, just asked for this too! Pure genius!!!!
@garetjax19
@garetjax19 Год назад
Another sweet little song, that always reminds me of a seaside scene from Edwardian Britain. The new age of cycling and European excursions. The sights and sounds of the sea, hearing the distant megaphone, calling out sightseeing tours either by omnibus or little steamer, around the bay. With everyone in their 'Sunday best' and all wearing hats. Strolling to the end of the pier, before returning home tired, but looking forward to the next day, because it's one day closer to being Sunday. Peace All
@DrNothing23
@DrNothing23 Год назад
I've always taken the "Ordinary Guy" line, especially placed directly prior to the painting in the Louvre line, upping the ante on the latter's brag with a bit of facetiousness and VERY faux humbleness. "What am I going to do TODAY? Oh, nothing much, Dear; just a little painting in the Louvre. TOODLES!" :)
@solino2002andrea
@solino2002andrea Год назад
I think that when he sings “…painting in the Louuuuvre”, that elongated word is the final brushstroke of a self satisfied artist given to his last masterpiece (or he thinks it is, at least) and is the same formula as the bicycle bell: how does a paintbrush sound? Louuuuvre ( like Zorro’s sign done by his sword). Absolutely genius.
@Concreteowl
@Concreteowl Год назад
The emphasis on the oo makes it sound like he paints in the bathroom but no he pops over the channel to Paris 😁
@solino2002andrea
@solino2002andrea Год назад
@@Concreteowl 😂😂Respect: Everyone sees his own meaning into an abstract painting 🖼️
@j6samsung679
@j6samsung679 Год назад
​@@ConcreteowlAbsolutely agree with you. Thursday I go waltzing to the zoo. Fridays I go painting in the loo.. rhyme with zoo, but he cheekily ended with Loo......uvre 😅
@stephenbryan219
@stephenbryan219 Год назад
I'm so glad you're doing some of Queen's lesser known songs. I was somewhat disappointed that Queen II was glossed over with just the one hit song from it. Many Queen fans view it as being their best album so hope you go back to it for a few more songs.
@marsfer
@marsfer Год назад
Please, do a reaction to "The Prophet Song", in my humble opinion the best song in A night at the Opera.❤
@CoxJul
@CoxJul Год назад
Brian May is on the record as being a big fan of a band called the Temperance Seven, a very British trad/Dixie jazz band from the very early sixties produced by George Martin (pre-Beatles) and I recognise a big connection in the style of this. Especially the hollow megaphone voice treatment.
@WayneKitching
@WayneKitching Год назад
Yay! Looking forward to it. These novelty songs are like palate cleansers between the heavier numbers.
@dianecourtney2724
@dianecourtney2724 Год назад
😀✌🏼
@alexandrocinta
@alexandrocinta Год назад
Another day asking for My Fairy King from Queen's first album 🛐
@Suzismymom
@Suzismymom Год назад
I'm literally praying you do a song with Roger Taylor, the drummer, singing. I'm In Love With My Car follows this song on the album. Roger Taylor is an incredible vocalist!
@jay-remedy-plz
@jay-remedy-plz Год назад
^ That’s a must at this point. Actually I’m pleading here! I’m so used to hearing these songs in the original order.
@markwilliams6394
@markwilliams6394 Год назад
'39 with May singing wouldn't be too bad either.
@markwilliams6394
@markwilliams6394 Год назад
Sorry, I meant May wrote the song, I think but Freddie sings it.
@yvrkid7070
@yvrkid7070 Год назад
@@markwilliams6394 Brian sang the song on the album. Freddie sang it live.
@markwilliams6394
@markwilliams6394 Год назад
@yvrkid7070 I thought he did but really wasn't sure since I last heard the song live. Haven't heard the album version in about 10 yrs.
@Cats_FurLife
@Cats_FurLife Год назад
Brian once said Freddie played the piano almost drum like. He was very precise!
@kendallneason3645
@kendallneason3645 Год назад
Yay! You found another Queen hidden gem. Such diversity. Queen music is really unique. Freddie was always so experimental and the whole band were talented enough to make each member’s visions come alive. Great reaction!
@LeeKennison
@LeeKennison Год назад
A really clever song that provides a throwback to a 1920s vaudeville style (in a very Queen like manner). Loved how you made a Gilbert and Sullivan connection. You have a good memory for lyrics and melodies, and on other occasions for poetry. Emily Dickinson comes to mind when you quoted her poetry once, whereas I only remember her mentioning bees a lot. You had such a wonderful take on the lyrics. I really got a kick out of Vlad's "maybe he's an artist" comment, since the same thought crossed my mind right before he said it. Also, as a bass player, I really like how you have been noticing the bass a lot more in songs lately.
@41Forethought
@41Forethought Год назад
I'd like to know how the heck Brian May got his guitar to sound like a steam calliope! Great review and reaction as always, Amy - thank you!
@kendallneason3645
@kendallneason3645 Год назад
Brian May credits the Deacy amp, which bass player John Deacon built from scrap, with allowing him to change his guitar sounds drastically depending on the songs. Check out his interview with Rick Beato’s analysis of Bohemian Rhapsody.
@nellgwenn
@nellgwenn Год назад
The song does have a British Music Hall feel to it. You can picture this character in a French Impressionist painting. He's in there somewhere just doing an ordinary thing in the background. There is a painting by George Seurat called Sunday on La Grande Jatte. I'm sure you know it. It's the famous painting with people hanging out in a park by the water. Our hero in this case would be a guy in a canoe in the background. He's having the time of his life just happy to be there. There is a certain amount of freedom when you are anonymous. That's probably the whole point of the song.
@patrik3083
@patrik3083 Год назад
The song actually reminds me of Beatles' Lady Madonna and also When I'm 64. The playfulness, piano sound and the voice effect.Thanks for another great reaction video.
@fercus_inc
@fercus_inc Год назад
I love when you enjoy a song. This particular song it seems a kind of joke but its not, for me its such a classic and it fits perfect into the whole album. Thanks a lot for your reaction and analysis.
@trevorgoddard2278
@trevorgoddard2278 Год назад
I think because it's so short a lot of people just assume it was thrown in to make the album the right length, but like most (if not all) of Freddie's creations it's a work of art and should be appreciated as such.
@rogerhoffmore9262
@rogerhoffmore9262 Год назад
The guitar solo at the end - which sounded like multiple guitars, playing at the same time all together - made me think of a chorus, such as in Gilbert and Sullivan doing a call and response…
@brucedillinger9448
@brucedillinger9448 Год назад
I always got 20's or 30's vibes from this short sweet romp. Great lead in to I'm In Love With My Car...if memory serves. ✌
@brianswift2706
@brianswift2706 Год назад
It's weird to hear it NOT leading into I'm in love with my car
@BarleyC
@BarleyC Год назад
Another wonderful reaction! I always loved this side of Freddie's creativity in the mid-70s. I hope you'll react to other songs of his that are in a similar vein: Seaside Rendezvous, The Millionaire Waltz, and Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy!
@bernhardfbuttner5694
@bernhardfbuttner5694 Год назад
Thank you, again! - Hope you enjoyed this precious little jewel like i enjoyed you're reaction!
@proflcr8779
@proflcr8779 Год назад
One might say that Freddie was very mercurial.
@GiordanoBruno42
@GiordanoBruno42 Год назад
Hmm that makes me wonder if that was why he chose that name?! 🤯
@bobtheskutterbot
@bobtheskutterbot Год назад
I was looking for this comment! Amy kept saying changeable as if mercurial was not right there...
@YourBeingParanoid
@YourBeingParanoid Год назад
I so needed Roger to come in with the heavy drum at the end with I'm in Love With My Car
@nickjoy8868
@nickjoy8868 Год назад
The opening piano always reminds me of the Cuckoo song which was the theme to Laurel and Hardy! Very daffy and daft, both the cuckoo song and Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon- and I find both to be highly enjoyable and cheering. Actually I think this is not Freddie singing autobiographically- this a persona, much like Bertie Wooster from the Jeeves and Wooster books by PG Wodehouse. It explains the bucket trick on vocals to give a comic take on the clipped English upper class accent. Also the activities are absolutely bang on for Bertie Wooster, an idle son of landed gentry doing all sorts of things 'just for a laugh' as they never have to worry about money. That's my interpretation- sorry it differs from yours; I greatly enjoyed your video and very much look forward to more Queen please!
@ZENOBlAmusic
@ZENOBlAmusic Год назад
Awesome reaction! The song seemed to make you especially cheerful! Freddie was an artist he went to art college he did actually do drawings and paintings as well, he did get a degree in graphic design. He drew and designed the Queen crest originally. He is describing the bohemian lifestyle. I hope you also do Seaside Rendezvous or The Millionaire Waltz. Perhaps that would be too many of these types of Vaudeville songs for some people. But I do really love these types of songs from Queen. Freddie could really do justice to these types of songs.
@DENVEROUTDOORMAN
@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Год назад
Freddie and the Wmpboys...they suck
@boletuserythropus8344
@boletuserythropus8344 Год назад
Great suggestions, but don't forget Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, an absolute gem!!!
@Keith_Butcher
@Keith_Butcher Год назад
And bring back that Leroy Brown!
@ZENOBlAmusic
@ZENOBlAmusic Год назад
Yes, I do enjoy Good Old Fashioned Loverboy and especially Bring Back That Leroy Brown. Maye we can still get Good Old Fashioned Loverboy.
@jeffidyle4957
@jeffidyle4957 Год назад
Agreed on Millionaire Waltz and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy! Really anything from those two albums. I'd love to hear '39, Prophet's Song, or Good Company too.
@fernandobarreto1418
@fernandobarreto1418 Год назад
I´m a singer and guitar player in a rather succsessful band in Rio and you don´t know how much i´ve been learning from you. Your song analysis has incredibly broadened the different feelings that you can put in a performance to touch or reach people´s hearts, thank you so much! (And I will say it again your hands are beautiful).
@endreszatmari2302
@endreszatmari2302 Год назад
Great review. I'd like to note that England have always been famous because of its eccentrics, and of course there were circles of bohemian artists as well in many periods and places. Although I'm not British, I think English culture, while being somewhat strict in social norms and expected behaviours, is paradoxically also rather forgiving towards eccentric behaviour. Much so than the traditional culture of the US, for comparison. But of course this is my personal opinion. I've read somewhere an opinion that stated, the number of eccentric people a country has is an indicator of the healthiness of its society.
@shacharh5470
@shacharh5470 Год назад
I didn't expect you to include this song in the project. At this rate you might as well do the whole album :-P
@thedarcbird
@thedarcbird Год назад
This little ditty flies into Roger Taylor's piece, "I'm In Love With My Car".
@hippydippy
@hippydippy Год назад
Nice breakdown as usual. I can't wait until you get to "The Prophet's Song" on that album. I think it's one of the greatest songs they ever did. Freddie's lyric's are quite moving.
@krisnunney8030
@krisnunney8030 Год назад
Two other great ones for Freddie being camp and arch are “Good Old Fashioned Loverboy” and “The Millionaire Waltz”. Genius.
@kentnottingham9635
@kentnottingham9635 Год назад
So many gems on this album. GOOD COMPANY may be of interest. Brian May uses his guitar to make a Dixieland Jazz band. He made Trombone, trumpet, etc. It starts with him playing a Banjo/Ukulele that his dad had in the war. Please listen to this, very incredible!!!!
@davidmaholchic6146
@davidmaholchic6146 Год назад
Cannot wait to watch this queen journey is wonderful love you
@christineirving4491pluviophile
Yes, this was a fun little one. There are a couple more in a similar vein, Freddie's 'Seaside Rendevous' and Brian's 'Good Company.'
@barriehull7076
@barriehull7076 Год назад
It’s important to note that this is not the first song about Sunday afternoons. The Small Faces first released “Lazy Sunday Afternoon” a few years prior and The Kinks released “Sunny Afternoon” in 1966 where the chorus lyrics end with “Lazin' on a sunny afternoon…”. Just a thought! Channel Tunnel, also called Eurotunnel, rail tunnel between England and France that runs beneath the English Channel. The Channel Tunnel, 50 km (31 miles) long, consists of three tunnels: two for rail traffic and a central tunnel for services and security. Launched in 1994, the Eurotunnel is an excellent alternative way to take your car to France, using the Channel Tunnel's two double railway tunnels which have been dug beneath the sea bed in the English Channel. St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras or St Pancras International and officially since 2007 as London St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is the terminus for Eurostar services from Belgium, France and the Netherlands to London. Eurostar runs high-speed passenger services through the Channel Tunnel between London and a number of other European cities, including Paris, Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Avignon and Marseille. So some other "common Londoner" could paint in the Louvre today.
@buca505
@buca505 Год назад
Great analysis as always Amy 👍 It is strange bland of modern production with try to get that old sound from old records on wining turntables with the big trumpet speaker, and they nailed that. Vaudeville style of funny little tune with lots of humor in one, and technical difficulty to record the guitar solo only one one left channel that it shared with vocals, once again May make the guitar sing joyful la, la, la melody on the end like it is vocal himself, no classical solo guitar piece. This little song is much complex and significant in Queen music, than it looks on first listen. Once again thanks Amy and Vlad for this wonderful experience and kiss the little one✌️
@pedro19611969
@pedro19611969 Год назад
I believe this song was written in the style of Noel Coward , the vocal effect is inspired by old 1930s 40s BBC light service
@TootlinGeoff
@TootlinGeoff Год назад
Possibly trying to capture the effect of singing through a megaphone which some 20s/30s vocalists used in the days before decent mic/amp combinations
@misery.machine15
@misery.machine15 Год назад
Don’t stop with just 50. You’ll miss so many phenomenal songs written and performed by the very best of all time!
@splitimage137.
@splitimage137. Год назад
Will Vlad have Amy lisen to The Prophet's Song?
@DavidLindes
@DavidLindes Год назад
Hah, I've clearly listened to this album a lot of times... my brain went straight to In Love With My Car right after 4:21 (and 20:00). :D And my thought at 20:02: of course it is, the engine is running already, no time for being lazy anymore! gotta get in the car! :D
@scyz2807
@scyz2807 Год назад
I bought this album when it first came out. : - ) I heard this song, like you said, as an old time (78 rpm) 1910-1920s recording. Considering the character of the voice and the "I'm just an ordinary guy" lyric, the song comes off as intentionally sarcastic in a funny enjoyable way. Ironic may be the better word here. It certainly makes me smile imagining this "ordinary guy" doing all these things, then lazing on a Sunday afternoon.
@chattikathy4391
@chattikathy4391 Год назад
Amy, you really need to listen to the whole A Night at the Opera album in one go. The arrangement of tracks is truly spectacular. Right after Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon comes Roger Taylor's I'm in Love with my Car. Two totally different songs and Roger's follows this one beautifully. This album is truly a masterpiece!
@Blackadder75
@Blackadder75 Год назад
When I was a schoolboy I got this album on tape cassette, copied of course, and I didn't know at first when some songs ended and a new one began, but I liked all of them except Sweet Lady
@VWrijder77
@VWrijder77 Год назад
The flow of that album is great. I tend to listen the Queen albums in the original order when I can. It adds another layer of greatness to this formidable band
@chattikathy4391
@chattikathy4391 Год назад
@@Blackadder75 Give Sweet Lady another listen. Now that you're older, you may view it differently. I, personally, do not think there's a bad song on the album. Each was selected with care of where they would fit in.
@Blackadder75
@Blackadder75 Год назад
@@chattikathy4391 I don't hate the song, but I will never like it. I have listened to the album more than 50 times so I don;t think anything will change it...
@chattikathy4391
@chattikathy4391 Год назад
@@Blackadder75 Well, I guess it's true that every song isn't for everybody! Heck, I've even heard Brian and Roger say they didn't like every song (or like to perform every song...I cannot remember), so there's that! You're in Good Company! 😁
@MobiusBandwidth
@MobiusBandwidth 9 месяцев назад
Freddie was a genius. they all were. that guitar solo is exquisitely crafted to somehow not sound out of place, in what otherwise could pass for a record from the 20s.
@davidsweet9163
@davidsweet9163 Год назад
The statement of a true artist. ' I'm just an ordinary guy"
@rsmallfield
@rsmallfield Год назад
Your delight in music is infectious. Thank you. I wonder if another interpretation might be that this is an unreliable narrator - a fantasist? No one goes painting in the Louvre, do they?
@indeovertuin
@indeovertuin Год назад
In the Bible, God created everything in six days and the seventh he rested. In his early work Freddie often refered to gods or to planets/the universe. Because his name Mercury refers to the god Mercury and the planet Mercury. He gave (by choosing this name) himself universal proportions (I don't want to be an artist, I want to be a legend). Also remember 'The seven seas of Rhye': I descent upon your earth from the skies...
@auralfixxation6702
@auralfixxation6702 Год назад
I've suggested this to you and I'm so glad you did it.
@babyfacemichael1
@babyfacemichael1 Год назад
Lovely reaction , some songs are just for the zany playfulness of it all. Queen in a studio, were kids in a candy store. On a different note, i listened to `Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds` today , me thinks Amy would love the intro, or all of it actually ?? Violins, synths, great guitars , OOOO LAAAA
@cosmos586
@cosmos586 Год назад
I love your awesome reation about Queen 😀 thanks
@JK-ld8cd
@JK-ld8cd Год назад
A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races are 2 masterpiece albums released back to back....
@BostonBobby1961
@BostonBobby1961 Год назад
As a Queen fan since 1976 and someone who had some music training including some basic music classes at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston your explanations and interpretations of their music is phenomenal. I would have loved having you as my piano teacher. Great job!!!!!
@billmaier9314
@billmaier9314 Год назад
This one should be accompanied by Millionaire’s Waltz
@spartakistmk2557
@spartakistmk2557 Год назад
The Gilbert & Sullivan connection is an interesting idea, but I think the major influence on this song is Noel Coward, particularly that ironic line about painting in the Louvre. Coward was a master of one-line quips where the second part slyly contradicts the first (e.g. "I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop!"), and given that the protagonist of the song is clearly an interwar upper-class dilettante like Bertie Wooster, it seems straightforward that Freddie's depicting him as an endearingly empty-headed chap, so privileged that he doesn't even realise painting in the Louvre isn't something the average man does on a Friday. Given that Noel Coward was also gay, at a time when it was still illegal, I think Freddie (whether consciously or not) must have seen something admirable in his life and work that he wanted to emulate. During the war, Coward was one of the 3,000 people on the SS's Sonderfahndungsliste GB, a list of anti-fascist British public figures who were to be rounded up and executed in the event of a successful Nazi invasion of the UK; when he discovered this fact after the war, Coward's response was to joke to one of his fellow listees (with tongue-in-cheek snobbery): "darling, the people we'd have been seen dead with!" That strikes me as Freddie's sense of humour too, right down to the ground.
@simonwatkins3236
@simonwatkins3236 Год назад
The Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band influence is strong in this song.
@thedarcbird
@thedarcbird Год назад
I hope you are going to listen to '39 by Brian May. (Sung by Brian May with backing vocals from Freddie and Roger.)
@alexmctear5420
@alexmctear5420 Год назад
This song is a pastiche of early British music hall, rather than vaudeville, although I am surprised that Freddie was familiar with it as he was brought up in Zanzibar and then educated in India at an English school, It does show the wide musical knowledge he exposed himself to, I as an ninety year old just caught the tail end of this type of music.
@coreywilliams923
@coreywilliams923 Год назад
Thanks guys, loved it. English cousin to "Bring back that Leroy Brown" perhaps? As a long time Queen fan (became hooked in '86 as a 12 year old), your analysis of these songs, BoRhap in particular, have really shown me new aspects to the music otherwise missed. Keep it up.❤
@lk5355
@lk5355 Год назад
Thank you for covering less famous songs by Queen. If you haven't i suggest "Good Company" by Brian May.
@realshaoran4514
@realshaoran4514 Год назад
This and Seaside rendezvous are one of my favorite songs of Queen, specially because they are not afraid to just do a happy little song just for fun.
@burtrangle3546
@burtrangle3546 Год назад
Your channel is immaculate. I would love your reaction to, The Kinks ( mid period), Pentangle, Dukes of Stratosfear aka XTC, Genesis (Peter Gabriel era), the Left Banke, The Stranglers ( '77- '90), Mott the Hoople, and perhaps the Lionheart LP by Kate Bush. Thank you so much as I have internalized the sonics rather than the form, of many great songs.
@DaffierPig6843
@DaffierPig6843 Год назад
This song reminds me of a tropical vacation for some reason
@mmanes100
@mmanes100 Год назад
Dear Amy and Mr. Vlad, great song, great selection on queen’ 50, again a very detail analysis, but I have may special request (if you may). A lot of fans like, you can ask, the music that was the predecessor of Bohemian Rhapsody. The song is The March of the Black Queen. i know im a very boring guy asking from the song again and again ahahahahaha. i hope someday this request will be atender. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
@diegosandman2700
@diegosandman2700 Год назад
Great reaction one of the very few who makes real learned reactions I am surprised you have skipped Nevermore from the Queen II album
@andrewdonkin3809
@andrewdonkin3809 5 месяцев назад
I'm in love with my car follows Lazing on a Sunday afternoon
@Dimentius1
@Dimentius1 Год назад
Freddie liked paintings and he ended up as a bachelor in school of art! There are a few drawings by Freddie in the internet and they are pretty impressive!
@barrymitchell6444
@barrymitchell6444 Год назад
I assume you mean the ones of Jimi Hendrix, Roger Moore and Rock Hudson? Have you seen any of his drawings and Imperial Leather ads being sold at Sothebys next month yet?
@barrymitchell6444
@barrymitchell6444 Год назад
He actually didn't want to be an artist or graphic designer. He went to Ealing College of Art to get into music. Meeting Tim Staffell there set him on that path. I think it was Pete Townsend and Ronnie Wood who had attended the same college.
@Dimentius1
@Dimentius1 Год назад
@@barrymitchell6444 I never sad that he wanted to be a graphic designer! As I sad I am a Queen fan since 1995, I watched all documentaries, interviews I could find on RU-vid, books etc...
@barrymitchell6444
@barrymitchell6444 Год назад
@@Dimentius1 No... *you* didn't say he wanted to be graphic designer (or an artist, actually) but many books and articles claim he was a graphic designer/illustrator.
@barrymitchell6444
@barrymitchell6444 Год назад
@@Dimentius1 I've been a fan since 1973, and saw Queen live a number of times, but only in London. It must have been fun, catching up on all that Queen studio and live music.
@viewer8888
@viewer8888 Год назад
The early portion of the song reminds me of a gramophone record of a music hall song from the start of the twentieth century. The move into a more Queen style by the end pulls it back into its time. It also reminds my of the hidden track, "Blood," on My Chemical Romance's album "The Black Parade."
@eurositi
@eurositi Год назад
Noël Coward's works from the inter-war period was probably a major source of inspiration for these 'retro-sounding' Queen tunes. Freddie often labelled himself as a romantic by heart. He wrote more tunes in the same vein: The Millionaire Waltz, Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, Seaside Rendezvous and Bring Back Than Leroy Brown. Brian must've been inspired by Freddie, because he also wrote a couple of 'retro' sounding songs: Good Company and Dreamer's Ball. I wouldn't label them as passionate romantic tunes like Freddie's but they are certainly something he couldn't have written, if he hadn't grown up with Freddie.
@41Forethought
@41Forethought Год назад
I gotta wonder if Freddie was inspired by The Kinks "Sunny Afternoon?" The styles are quite different but the underlying irony in both is unmistakable.
@ambitaz
@ambitaz Год назад
Freddie did not write most of Queen's songs. He's credited on over a third of their songs; Brian May is credited on about a third; Roger Taylor and John Deacon just shy of a third together.
@bluebell3720
@bluebell3720 Год назад
if you include Brian did two with lyrics on flash ( the rest were instrumental I think ) and exclude MIH as it's a mish mash Brian did 43 Freddie did 49 John 12 and Roger 21 ( not included a few B sides not on the album, I can't get clear info on them) the rest were John and Freddie or the whole group collab, I think Freddie did two with Brian one with Roger, Roger and Brian did TGIC but wasn't on the album in the 70s Freddie wrote 34, Brian 27, John 7 and Roger 9 ( not including instrumental only with lyrics)
@ZENOBlAmusic
@ZENOBlAmusic Год назад
Freddie did write the most Queen songs, that is simply a fact. Adding collaborations, Freddie 71, Brian 64, Roger 33, John 26.
@bluebell3720
@bluebell3720 Год назад
@@ZENOBlAmusic Your no are much higher than mine I double checked John as its easier, I still got 12 I didnt include the ones he wrote with Freddie or instrumental on flash Have you included them on yours and mih?
@ambitaz
@ambitaz Год назад
He wrote more songs than anyone else, but he did not write "most of Queen's songs"@@ZENOBlAmusic
@ambitaz
@ambitaz Год назад
@@bluebell3720 Deacon is credited on 32 tracks that I can see. I include instrumentals, shared credits, etc. For the rest I have Mercury 83, May 76, Taylor 38, and me, too much time on my hands
@Zadster
@Zadster Год назад
It owes a lot to "Barbershop Quartet" music, which started in the Edwardian era and still very much continues. Lots of close-harmony whimsy about upper class young gentlemen and their ladies promenading at the seaside or the park. The title owes something to The Kinks' (Lazing on a) Sunny Afternoon from 1966. As an aside, The Kinks are contemporaries of the Beatles (and lasted a lot longer!) and very much worth a listen. They were huge innovators and wrote/performed in many popular music genres, I suspect Lola may surprise you when you realise what he is singing about...
@heatherqualy9143
@heatherqualy9143 Год назад
If no one has told you yet, Freddie DID write a lot of songs for Queen. But it wasn’t as uneven as most people think. Freddie and Brian wrote almost exactly the same number songs. I believe it’s 67 and 66 album tracks. Roger wrote somewhere around the upper 30s. John wrote 27 or thereabouts? And yes, this song is simple and SO fun to play on the piano. I learned it in a day, and I’m not the quickest at learning new pieces (I have to memorise as I go, so I can lose the distraction of looking at the sheet music). But yeah, very very fun to play along with. No idea why, but grace notes have always been my favourite in any piece, and this has nice bouncy grace notes. 😊
@philproffitt8363
@philproffitt8363 Год назад
A fine and fun feast of an album. From the shark fin soup to the royal jelly...I usually scoff it down in one go :-p
@AndersonDawesWasRight
@AndersonDawesWasRight Год назад
I've always heard "painting in the Loooovre" as a pun. You think he is painting in the loo (the toilet) until the last second, then it switches to the Louvre, a very different image. Very Vaudeville/ British Music hall comedy.
@danielramage6237
@danielramage6237 7 месяцев назад
I love the juxtaposition between "ordinary guy" and someone who apparently proposes and honeymoons weekly. Doesn't walk to the zoo, waltzes. Doesn't look at paintings in the Louvre, he goes there to paint. It's silly fun, like Monty Python.
@charlieknowlton7003
@charlieknowlton7003 Год назад
Another Queen 'retro" song to check out would be Seaside Rendevous. Getting inspiration to do that kind of retro song might have come from some hits of the 60's. In '66 The New Vaudeville Band came up with the song Winchester Cathederal. In '67 The Beatles released on their Sgt. Peppers album, the song When I'm 64 and in "68 there was a song out by Guy Marks entitled Loving You Has Made Me Bananas..
@donnamalvenda8530
@donnamalvenda8530 Год назад
Love that song
@P.Galore
@P.Galore Год назад
Paul McCartney used the days of the week (except Saturday!) equally as well in Lady Madonna
@Hartlor_Tayley
@Hartlor_Tayley Год назад
Fun song. Great analysis and commentary. Thanks Virgin Rock.
@GuimaraesDreamers
@GuimaraesDreamers 11 месяцев назад
Usando essa técnica de gravar do balde é quase como se estivessemos ouvindo uma música ainda mais antiga pelo rádio, com essas ideias eles conseguiam alcançar qualquer gênero
@robertrussell6864
@robertrussell6864 Год назад
There’s an earlier song entitled LOSA by the Small Faces which was recorded in the sixties. A more series song and not just a pastiche which this version clearly is. I realise this song is probably just a piece fun for Freddie. It doesn’t carry the weight that the Smalls Song does. In reality I think it’s an exercise in displaying the bands musical talents.
@IwasInThe60s
@IwasInThe60s Год назад
I hope this leads up to an anlysis of "Lazing on a Sunny afternoon" by The Kinks!
@romeosyne
@romeosyne Год назад
Hey I think you need to do a reaction to one of those classic albums documentaries it's a great series! I used to own many on dvd back when that was a thing haha....
@ДимаДимов-ц8ж
@ДимаДимов-ц8ж Год назад
one, two, three, four we need some more/
@breadmoth6443
@breadmoth6443 Год назад
should do a reaction to '39 , as far as I know - it is the only Queen song that Freddie Mercury didn't sing , it is such an underrated song.
@mikes9305
@mikes9305 Год назад
A couple corrections: 1. The title should say "Lazing," not "Lazying." (Thanks for fixing that ☺) 2. Gilbert and Sullivan referred to "animal, vegetable, and mineral," the precise order in which students had to memorize the classes of organisms known at that time. Compositionally, I'm interested in hearing confirmation that (according to my ears) the electric guitar's entry has modulated to a different key, and how (I presume?) it manages to wind its way back to the home key so efficiently... Thanks ☺
@jerilynlyons4922
@jerilynlyons4922 Год назад
Interesting tidbit: Mercury graduated with a degree in graphic arts, so he was a visual artist as well as a musical artist. Mercury designed the Queen crest shown on the album cover for Day at the Races and Night at the Opera. Talented man.
@somedude6161
@somedude6161 Год назад
I've always associated this song with Jeeves and Wooster: it's so 1920s spoiled English rich kid.
@digmacdiggydoo
@digmacdiggydoo Год назад
I am waiting for her review of Sheer Heart Attack from News Of The World.
@dougefresh7435
@dougefresh7435 Год назад
I wonder if anyone has ever taken a week long vacation and recreated the content of this song just for fun ? 😂
@SocBeat
@SocBeat Год назад
I think the point of these lyrics is precicely that he ISN'T an ordinary guy - he's a totally oblivious rich kid who doesn't understand that the rest of the world doesn't go painting in the Louvre and waltz to the zoo! This is satire! He is exactly an upper class Londoner who fits right in to the ton, not the people on the streets.
@neilfranklin5644
@neilfranklin5644 Год назад
Reminds me of the 1920's temperance 7 kind of thing, bit bonzo dog and his do dah band.
@soundsfromthewestcoast9939
@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 Год назад
Surprised at this selection - nice song but not essential. Please do Prophet's Song from this album.
@MiscellanyTop
@MiscellanyTop Год назад
Prophet's Song - yes fab. But I'll also defend this song (please see my reply to Wayne Kitching, above). I actually think this song is a fab perspective on Fred's mind. His fantasy lyrics and his musings are well-revealed here. Cheers.
@soundsfromthewestcoast9939
@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 Год назад
@@MiscellanyTop Don't get me wrong, I love this song too, but having skipped over March of the Black Queen I think more attention should be given to their proggier early numbers. 😁
@MiscellanyTop
@MiscellanyTop Год назад
@@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 Hiya. YES!!! I'm a big prog fan. Though I tend to think of progressive music (which covers this whole album) rather than specifically rock. But I do listen to Pink Floyd, Genesis, Queen, The Beatles (one could argue they started it), Yes, King Crimson, etc. Cheers. PS MOT Black Queen is one of my fav tracks of all time - if you'd like a review, see The Daily Doug on YT - he did it :) )
@splitimage137.
@splitimage137. Год назад
@@MiscellanyTop Been watching Dr. Doug for a while now. Doug liked the "row-row-row-your-boat" (what is the musical term for this? I forgets) parts of The Prophet's Song in particular. (NO. I know Freddie doesn't sing "row your boat," silly!)
@clintonsmith5163
@clintonsmith5163 Год назад
@@splitimage137. I believe it is called a "round."
@joecunningham_mpls
@joecunningham_mpls Год назад
Someday please do a deep dive in The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. Your take on Pink Floyd's greatest masterpiece would be of enormous value. Approaching the entire album, rather than one song would be appropriate because it is perhaps the most concise, complex concept albums ever recorded.
@YourBeingParanoid
@YourBeingParanoid Год назад
Please say The Prophet Song & '39 from the same album are being reacted to (in fact this album deserves an entire play through)
@XFLexiconMatt
@XFLexiconMatt Год назад
Freddie piano style was as much as about attack as well as flourish.
@dmitrykazakov2829
@dmitrykazakov2829 Год назад
I think you have got it all wrong. I see this song as a reference to the long bygone era of the Gentleman Amateur. Freddie ironically portrays "an ordinary" upper class guy, who has hobbies of all sorts. He does not need to work and must fill his empty life, a gentlemen of means as opposed to a lowlife professional who has to earn money for living. The gentleman is "busy" all week long and is "lazying on a Sunday afternoon." To a hard working professional like Freddie the guy is actually lazying all the time. The opposition gentleman vs professional in sport, science, art was typical to the Victorian and Edwardian times. It ended with WWII with the demise of gentry. BTW, compare how Arthur Conan Dole describes this opposition on the case of Sherlock Holmes vs Inspector Lestrade. Dole's feelings are on the other side.
@kentl7228
@kentl7228 Год назад
Lazing not Lazying... Good Company is worthwhile. You hear Brian May sing and play banjo or mandolin (from memory)and the replication of brass instruments like trombone on guitar is very clever.
@DonnaleaSpencer
@DonnaleaSpencer Год назад
Super reaction! Queen (Freddie especially) were pretty playful sometimes.
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