Queen is timeless. They have a song like this that came out half a century ago, one if not two of the most iconic sports songs with We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, the most iconic rock/opera song with Bohemian Rhapsody and the greatest live set performed in modern history when they performed for Live Aid.
“Fat Bottom Girls” and “Bicycle Race” were released together on the same 45 rpm record and reference each other in their lyrics. If this video made you blush, then you should probably stay away from the original video for “Bicycle Race”. :-)
@@kevinL5425 If I remember the story right then it was included initially in the UK, then excluded for the same unknown reasons and then you had a little order form included with which you could get it for free.
Yes, quiet, shy, retiring Brian May! I'm an 'old' Queen fan, since 1974, this was a big song when it came out. As well as it being a great kick-ass rock song, I really love two things in particular: The way the bass drops in at the start; Freddie's little extra ad libs: "I tell ya!", "pleeeease!", and "ride 'em, cowboy!" p.s. and that fantastic drum fill
Stacy, I got a good laugh from your accidental double entendres: 6:13 Ahead of the CURVE...! 6:54 The harmonies take the CAKE...!! 🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, they took that cake all across the airwaves & into stadiums!!! My suggestion for you is my fave Queen song, '39, a gorgeous song written by Brian, it's on the "Night at the Opera" album. 😃👍🏻
I love this woman, everything she said was spot on! - and ain't it cool that brian may wrote songs like fat bottomed girls and! tie your mother down? I mean, he's a gentle-man and a scientist no less. and he's still able to wrote such cool rock ('n roll) tunes man. and freddie's singin' is the cherry on top.
He's a bloke. No matter how polite and erudite we appear to be we all feel the same basic urges that need to be "acted" upon. I'm sure Jack The Ripper was a perfect gentleman when he wasn't out-a-ripping.
When they played this on the radio they almost always played "Bicycle Race" immediately following. And i really think that's how they should be reacted to.
Agree! I was a radio DJ in the 80s and 90s and ALWAYS played those 2 songs together. Some songs just shouldn’t be separated. There’s some Beatles songs, Pink Floyd, and my favorite example, Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid. Reacting to pairs of songs like that (along with understanding that’s the way they used to get played on the radio) would be A++!
Queen was so good they could just write the best southern rock song better than any southern rock band ever could. Same for disco, and early metal, stone cold crazy is as heavy as any Sabbath. They were special
Queen were one of those one in a billion occasions of cosmic forces coming together for a brief moment in time to form something that will never be repeated or surpassed.
My late father's favorite song, I dated a full figure blonde back in the day who looked like early Pamela Anderson. This song brings back memories and tears.
This song live is even better! Check out Milton Keynes from 1982. The thing about Queen is that their live performances are all unique. They didn't just go out on stage and regurgitate the exact same thing everyone's already heard. It had to be unique... they owed that to their fans.
Stone Cold Crazy is a very good rock song from their catalog. It’s an older piece, but man - if you need a boost in your day, that one will do it for sure ✌🏻
One of my favourite less known early Queen songs is “Dragon Attack”. A few years ago someone created a mashup of that song with Dragon scenes from Game of Thrones, which was great!
More Queen/Freddie please! Here are some recommendations: Studio recordings: How can I go on One year of love Love me like there's no tomorrow Too much love will kill you A Winter's tale The great pretender Time waits for no one Let me in your heart again In my defence Live performances: You take my breathe away - Hyde park 1976 Father to son - Rainbow 1974 White Queen (as it began) - Hammersmith 1975 Hammer to fall - Wembley 1986 July 12 & Budapest 1986 Who wants to live forever - Wembley 1986 July 11 Play the game - Milton keynes 1982 Save me - Montreal 1981 Somebody to love - Milton Keynes 1982 It's a hard life - Rio 1985 January
This is the companion track to "Bicycle Race". As I recall that was the B side for this single. And yes, it's meant to be as suggestive as you probably think it is. If anyone would know what makes the world go 'round, it would be Brian May and his PhD in astrophysics!
3 people i miss right now, Freddie, Carlin, and John Candy. RIP boys. played this song one night in a townie bar during college, place was packed, everybody stopped, started singing. was a great time.
Love your channel. You say your not a music expert, but as a musician, I see you have a strong passion for it. Keep making us smile while enjoying vids with you!!
I love your reactions especially your Queen ones.I'm glad you enjoyed this one and your beauty and smile are infectious.If you like Queen rockers then One Vision extended version or Princes Of The Universe both from the A Kind Of Magic album should delight you.Yes Brian wrote this and its a banger! Freddie wrote a song that goes with this called Bicycle Race which is great fun too.Thanks again for another wonderful reaction ❤
thanks Stacey, your giggling was infectious, genuine, ahead of the curve definitely, Its message was as subliminal as Elvis Presley landing upside down in a UFO at the superbowl half time show Can we infer Brian (Professor PhD) is a real badass or should we as you nobly stated see it as a celebration of body form, if so then i can say my body is a temple too, Queen with David Bowie next please love
Hi Stacey - you must listen and watch White Queen live at Hammersmith back in 1975. Recorded on Christmas Eve!! You will definitely get emotional with the performance from the band and the vocals from the greatest frontman that ever lived.
I believe it was written by Professor Brian May PhD. I guess when you have a doctorate in astrophysics, you have an appreciation for things that are astronomically large, including buttocks! < Oops, I went off too early with the comment!
Stacey, I have said this before, and I am so glad you Found Queen and keep Reacting, as FREDDIE was the Best Entetainer/Showman in my Lifetime, and I saw them Live in 1980
I did not see it in the other comments. This was on their "Jazz" album. It also had a 3 page poster in the album, with ALL topless women getting ready to ride their bicycles. Wish i still had that album.
Thank you awesome rection! 1970's Queen is like nothing before and we will never see this kind of band again RIP Fred You should def check out Roger's 'I'm in love with my car' on lead vocal - you will love that
Tie Your Mother Down from Montreal 1981 is fabulous ❤ also In The Lap of the Gods from The Rainbow 1974 not the revisited one which is at the end of the concert (same title two completely different songs) great reaction ❤❤
Love you Stacy, and I love your Queen reactions. 2 absolute belters for you to react to……Freddie Mercury singing solo with Time Waits For No One and the other a duet with an opera singer Monsteratte Caballe ‘Barcelona’
Hello there! I just discovered you today, and let me just say I love your channel and all these queen reactions! :3 I would like to recommend the Medley from Queen’s Live At The Rainbow Concert, it consists the songs In Lap Of The Gods, Killer Queen, March Of The Black Queen, and Bring Back That Leroy Brown. It’s a really iconic medley, and my personal fav!🥰
You,my dear make me smile!! I lost my identical twin brother and best friend (11-17-23)and lately I haven't had much to smile for.. R.I.P my Brother!!Thank You Beautiful ❤😥😢
next queen pls "i want it all" amazingly charged and energizing, it will completely recharge you, perfect to play before exercise to get the blood flowing and you won't even need a warm-up :DD
Freddie, Bon and Brian, Steve Perry, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford, Sammy Hagar, Vince Neil and Diamond Dave, Axl and others were THE lead singers and frontmen of my teens and on. So many all-time greats and I'm sure I've forgotten some that others will rank highly, too! Great reaction vid.
A great May song and one of the best of the album. You have to listen to it side by side with Bicycle Race which is very similar but written by Mercury. The lyrics even refer to each other and it came out as a double A single.
Queen could really rock out! It's amazing that all four members wrote big hits. Brian seems to write guitar rockers, John deacons songs were bass driven and Freddie had the crazy over the top songs. I never figured out Roger's style, but he had some great songs too
The drum fill before the final chorus gives me life. Pretty sure it could resuscitate me if I was in cardiac arrest. Also, I have advocated for this song to be our national anthem for years!
"Ok Roger" best intuitive comment on youtube this year. it had me falling out my chair. if you think it was ahead of its time try listening to THE 1970'S HIT "The Kinks Lola"
Well, I'm not the world's most masculine man But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man And so is Lola I love how that lyric, like the muse in the story, goes both ways.
Fun reaction. Queen were simply fearless in terms of artistic versatility. There wasn't any style that they couldn't pull off effectively and put their unique stamp on it.
Before Queen started playing big stadiums their songs were a bit more diverse and varied, perhaps because they thought the quieter and more esoteric songs wouldn't work on the big stage. Fat Bottom Girls is a song where Queen have got their tongues firmly in their cheeks, I think to some degree they were seeing how much they could get away with.
Stacey you should give "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" and " Tie Your Mother Down" a listen for yet another example of never knowing what to expect from this great band!
A kind of magic is also a must. As are one moment in time from the Highlander movie soundtrack good old fashioned lover boy and Freddie solo songs living on my own, born to love and his duet with Spanish opera star Montserrat caballe
Just discovered your channel. You are the prettiest geek/nerd. I left a lengthy comment on your Sultans Of Swing reaction and hope you read it or will since I’ve been going through your reactions. If you like fun and humorous songs then check out Uneasy Rider by Charlie Daniel’s, My Girl Bill by Jim Stafford and The No No Song, the version by Ringo Starr. I unfortunately don’t play my drums anymore but am partial to them and appreciate you regularly mentioning them. You seem so cool and it would be fun to just hang with you and listen to a ton of songs.
I remember , late 70's riding my chopper bike home and stopping at the record shop to buy this double A side. A lot of the music I listened to back then has lost its flair but this is still fresh today. Chris
I was a teenager in the sixties, so much great music through to the eighties. This was one of them. I like the line "such a naughty nanny". Corrupted by the help...noice. A very good and fun tune.✌
Stacey has the most dear facial expressions! The verbal content is brilliant, but if I were deaf, would still greatly enjoy these reactions! Great stuff. Thnx!
I came across your channel recently, and I enjoy your reactions. I see you've done several Queen tunes, and I'd like to suggest a couple of others. One is called "Dragon Attack" (raw rocker with amazing guitar work by Brian), and the other one is called "One Year of Love." That one is a love song with incredible vocals by Freddie and the only Queen song with a sax solo, afaik. Both are great tunes, and both are worthy of a reaction.
You thought it was Freddie that wrote it, didn't you? 😅😉 A fun song on a great album! JAZZ appeared out of nowhere to me when I got it. I was a member of the fan club back in the day but I'd heard nothing at the time.. I spotted this album (which looked like a Queen album but I'd never heard of it) when we were out shopping, back in the days when vinyl was sold in the supermarkets.. I asked my Dad if he could get it me, which bless him he did. When we got home the new quarterly Queen fan club magazine was waiting for me in the post.. the front cover of the magazine was the new album JAZZ. Between this and "Bicycle Race" (that single was a double A side, with this song) QUEEN tended to get a pass on anything anyway, but no one took any real offence to it. I think many were probably surprised though hehehe. With that said the biggest controversy was the video shoot for "Bicycle Race", but that's a story for another day.
