FIRST TIME HEARING QUEEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WOW

This is our first time hearing queen bohemian rhapsody and we must say that this is a wow factor.

first time hearing queen bohemian rhapsody wow

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[m_v__m_v]

Queen would be on Mt Rushmore of bands with the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd (in my opinion). Just ridiculously talented, and lead singer Freddie Mercury is the best frontman of all time

[sherryheim]

I have heard this song hundreds of times over the last 48 years and I still love it as much as the first time I heard it. Thank you for your reactions.

[IMEveryTrueAmericanRU]

I Am so happy to see folks hear all this stuff for the first time for real. Too many reactors these days say they never have heard the song then they say something at the end like, 'oh yes I had heard this song, I know this song". THen for me at least it ruins the entire reaction! LOL, I guess I am a professional reactor watcher now hahahaha. Great job you two! Thanks again for doing this channel!

[nancyberry]

This is what we call a "rock opera". Back in the day, many progressive rock bands composed "concept albums", where each songs tells a part of the story to contribute to the overall theme of the album as a whole. They are meant to be listened to in order from start to finish as the entire album is like that of a novel & each song is a chapter within.
Now that you've taken your first step into Queen's vast library of music, I suggest the next video you check out should be "Somebody to Love" live in Montreal 1981. The studio/lyric version is good but the live concert version is a must see for any fan of good music.
Every member of Queen has composed a chart topping hit. People hear Queen's music all the time without realizing it (on the radio, in movies, on TV shows, during sporting events, etc). Songs such as Another bites the dust, We will rock you, We are the Champions, and so on... My favorite songs are "Crazy little thing called love" and "Radio Gaga" (song where Lady Gaga got her stage name from).

[jackiegoodspeed]

" any way the wind blows." Such a concept. Only people who've been there understand how dark of a space that really is. Our artists had depth and many of us understood that depth.

[dawnmclaughlin]

The greatest harmonies in the music business...ever!

[dianecourtney]

The most streamed song of the 20 th century !! Awesomely talented FREDDIE MERCURY ♥️🥰😍🌹💛

[alef]

This guy 😃😃😃...he's FREDDY MERCURY. A Legend !
The King Freddie 👑

[susanfigueroa]

My husband saw them four or five times in our hometown of Chicago. He said they always brought it and brought the house down! RIP Freddie!

[ursabobsage]

The opening a Capella bit is all Freddie Mercury harmonizing with himself.

[sharonpate]

You should watch the full 1985 live Aid concert. Freddie really commands the stage and the audience to sing along. One of the most memorable things I’ve seen in my 70 years. 🎸🔥❤️☮️

[M-VisualDistributions]

Great reaction....love you guys channel....yes Queen is different...one of the greatest songs ever written by this legendary band. There is a reason it has 1.4 BILLION YouTube views!

[behindenemylines]

One of the greatest rock compositions written

[davidmacfarlane]

I'm not quite old enough to remember this era of Queen. But they stand out today, because they play their instruments, they did not autotune live (well Autotune was not around for most of their time in this format) AND they were professionals (they'd not walk out for not getting an award.... they never got award, music journalists hated them). Back then it was expected to be this good. Now? Name another artist this good.

[trishc]

An emotional rollercoaster is an apt description. When someone first hears this song, or actually anything by Queen in general, I like to tell them to sit back, buckle up, hands and feet inside the ride at all times. Queen did the "rollercoaster" stuff well and frequently. Listening to them truly is a ride.

[Sassypaws]

Queen is a British rock band that was formed in 1970 and was comprised of:
Freddie Mercury - Lead vocals and pianist
Roger Taylor - Drummer and vocals
Brian May - Lead guitar and vocals
John Deacon - Bass guitar

Queen is an unusual rock band. All four members had amazing musical talent and each of the four members was a successful composer. Queen is the only group in which all members of the band have songs, that they composed, inducted into the Music Hall of Fame.

Each member of Queen was a strong and unique individual. They each had different musical tastes which is probably why Queen's catalog of music contains such a variety of genres. They wrote and recorded songs that are soft rock, hard rock, progressive rock, arena rock, thrash rock, glam rock, rockabilly, r&b, blues, pop, soul, funk, disco, dance music, jazz, gospel, folk, opera, show tunes, ragtime, etc. They would sometimes combine multiple genres in a single song.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" released originally in 1975 is the creation of Freddie Mercury but he never told anyone what he was thinking when he wrote the lyrics. Freddie often wrote in metaphors so I would not suggest trying to take these lyrics literally. He wanted listeners to be able to apply to the song whatever meaning it had to them personally. Not what it meant to him.

BTW - Freddie did admit that it was composed of three separate songs that he had been working on but could not seem to finish. So he decided to mash them together, adding some transitions and bridges, and created "Bohemian Rhapsody".

"Bohemian Rhapsody" can be broken down into 6 parts:

Part I is the "Into". The video image shows the four members of Queen singing and harmonizing the lyrics of the "Intro" in acapella. In reality, it is only Freddie's voice you hear on the recording. Freddie laid down 5 separate tracks of himself singing and harmonizing with himself. (FYI - multi-tracking and overdubbing runs rampant in Bohemian Rhapsody.)

Next is the "Ballad" portion of the song ('Mama, just killed a man'). Freddie had worked on this song for years but it never had a name. The other members of Queen tentatively titled it "Freddie's Cowboy Song". The lyrist Tim Rice (he wrote the lyrics for "Jesus Christ, Superstar", "Evita", "Alladin", "The Lion King", ...) who was a close friend of Freddie's believes this portion of the song’s lyrics were about Freddie confessing to his fans that he was gay (a radical and scary thing to do in 1975).

The third section is the guitar solo. This is the only part of Bohemian Rhapsody not written by Freddie. Freddie told Brian that he wanted a guitar solo in the song and where he wanted it to fit into the song but left it to Brian to create. Brian wanted to have his guitar effectively sing a verse that would inject a different melody. He heard something in his head. He said that he could hear this melody and had no idea where it came from. That melody isn’t anywhere else in the song, but it’s on a familiar chord sequence, so it dovetails in quite nicely.

The guitar solo leads to the fourth section the "Operatic" section. Freddie not only loved Rock but he loved Opera. He was always fascinated with the idea of combining rock and opera. It took 3 weeks to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the "Operatic" section was much smaller when they began recording but Freddie kept adding to it. Various lyrics in the "Operatic" section seem to refer to the band:

Freddie appears to cast himself as the character, Scaramouche, a stock clown of 16th-century Italian literature who dances around making a fool of himself but speaks the truth.

Galileo who was an Italian astrometer, physicist, and engineer definitely refers to Brian (Queen's lead guitarist) who in real life is Dr. Brian May, a scholar with a Ph.D. in Astrophysics.

Figaro refers to the Mozart opera, "The Marriage of Figaro" and it is a subtle way to reference Roger Taylor (Queen's drummer) who has a four-octave range vocal span (E2-E6) and was even frequently cited as hitting E5 in live performances while playing the drums. Freddie compared Roger's voice to a dog whistle.

The final reference of Magnifico is Queen's bass guitarist, John Deacon, who has a degree in Electrical Engineering. John is the creator of the "Deacy Amp" which when connected to Brian May's homemade guitar (the Red Special) through a treble-booster could produce sounds reminiscent of various orchestral instruments, such as violin, cello, trombone, clarinet, or even vocals. Plus he used his knowledge to keep all of Queen's electronics working.

It is hard to realize that it is only Freddie, Brian, and Roger singing in the "Operatic" section (John never sang on the records). This was 1975, well before digital recordings and autotune. Recordings were made using 24-track analog tape. The limits of tape made it necessary for the three vocalists to overdub themselves many times and "bounce" these down to successive sub-mixes. Some sections of Bohemian Rhapsody feature 180 separate overdubs!

The fifth section is the "Hard Rock" portion. In this section, Freddie sings angry lyrics addressed to an unspecified "you", accusing them of betrayal and abuse and insisting "can't do this to me, baby", before the final lines conclude with him singing, "just gotta get right outta here".

FYI - the "Operatic" and the "Hard Rock" sections of BoRap were featured in a scene in the 1992 film Wayne's World, in which the main character and his friends headbang in a car to the rock part. Because of the success of Wayne's World, Bohemian Rhapsody was re-released in the U.S. in 1992 and rose to Number 2 on the Billboard chart.

In the sixth and final section, the "Outro" returns back to the "Ballad" to close the circle of the song and ends with the sound of a Chinese gong.

Welcome to the world of Queen.

[roadkill]

In my book this is one of the top three rock bands of all time, along with Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd (my favorite). They're catalog of great songs is huge; please continue your discovery of them.

[simonk]

Quite simply the greatest band ever ..
Live version's of
Somebody to love
You take my breath away
Under pressure
Stone Cold Crazy
Dragon Attack are all a must
As well as the Live Aid performance, generally regarded as the greatest Live performance ever.. 👌

[stevenmonte]

Queen!! My first concert as a kid! Nobody ever beat them.

[dalesands]

The guy playing lead guitar 🎸 (Brian May) is also an Astrophysicist.