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Dear GOD.. forgive me for doubting your knowledge..! Unfortunately for you.. I am not the average fool who only listens to QUEEN and doesn't know music..! In fact.. look a bit closer, despite the name, I probably listen to them the least..! I've always adored the fact that the QUEEN.. yes.. they are COMMERCIAL.. but they have also produced some excellent sophisticated material! Sure.. if you stop at the singles that come out.. then it's obvious! Singles are made to sell.. and they are intentionally commercial! But you need to listen to the rest of the album! Listen to QUEEN 2, if you haven't already, and tell me if FATHER TO SON is commercial.. tell me if MARCH OF THE BLACK QUEEN is commercial.. etc.. etc.. etc..!
The problem is just one: you divine music connoisseurs.. who think you're superior because you listen to what the ignorant masses don't.. you believe that if something sells, it must be COMMERCIAL! If something sells.. then it is commercial and it sucks! That's not true! The COMMERCIAL aspect is not determined by sales but by INTENTION..! Remember that! The commercial aspect is seen a priori, not a posteriori..! When you listen to a song.. you can tell if it was made solely to sell (like, for example, U2 do..) or if the musician still has something to say.. and combines usefulness with pleasure..! Take the same INNUENDO: you can't tell me it's commercial.. otherwise, you understand nothing about music! It’s not commercial.. but it has sold! And that doesn’t make it commercial a posteriori.. got it? I hope I've made myself clear, oh divine music connoisseurs..! Best regards!

So... the truth lies in the middle! CLAUDIO (whom I appreciate because he defends the QUEEN to the bitter end) is wrong to say that money comes first and then the pleasure of making music! Because by saying that... you destroy 50 years of music! You destroy the concept of music!
Meanwhile, the funny NON DIRE CAZZATE is wrong because he believes that what he listens to is music with balls, while the QUEEN and other stuff is not! AND ABOVE ALL, it's an astronomical nonsense what you said: "the VELVET UNDERGROUND, FAUS, SOFT MACHINE didn’t make music for money..."!
Yes... and why did they make it?? To pass the time? The truth is that everyone, for better or for worse, does it for money!!! Otherwise, they wouldn’t have signed contracts with record companies, etc.! Maybe some people care less about the commercial side! But everyone in history pays attention to it! Even those NON COMMERCIAL like you think!

I would say almost everyone in the music world..! So..!

Commercial is a very subjective term..! In my opinion, commercial is something that is designed solely for the purpose of selling..! That's what commercial is..! QUEEN, like few other bands, do not have the sole aim of selling and making money..! They conceived their songs to leave a mark in history.. to make the people who listened to them feel good.. to demonstrate that they had class and creativity and fundamentally.. because it was their job.. and they knew how to do it.. that's all!

This has nothing to do with it..! One thing is commercial a priori..! Not a posteriori! I mean.. you don’t define something as "commercial" just because it does well in the charts..! Commercial is something else entirely! QUEEN 2 is one of the most beautiful albums in history.. and it has practically nothing commercial about it! Maybe just SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE..! If only we had such beautiful commercial pieces!

The one that follows (actually..THIS ONE) deserves a 1 just like this one..just like ZOOROPA and just like POP!
The others, however..are very good (I mean up to ACTHUNG BABY..)! You see: I’m not limited! There is something good..actually..great! And I admit it! But to say that this and the BOMB are masterpieces..is absurd! They are simply pop chart records..that’s it! Just like many other artists know how to do! But it’s not an insult..don’t take it as an insult..! It’s reality..that’s all!

The word "ROCK" and the word "U2" no longer travel together... for at least 15 years..!

Please: don’t BLASPHEME..! If this is the best U2 album.. then we’re in trouble..! U2 were fantastic in the 80s: masterpieces like WAR, UNFORGETTABLE FIRE, OCTOBER.. etc..! Up until ACHTUNG BABY..! If making some pop and catchy songs means making a good album.. then yes: this is a great album! But making a nice album doesn’t just mean that..! And for a band with 20-25 years of career behind them.. I expect much more than WALK ON or STUCK IN A MOMENT, if you don’t mind..!

Even classical music, since Barcelona by Freddie is very similar... and also the operatic choirs of Bohemian Rhapsody... hehe!

Simply put.. the people who claim to understand music.. want to listen to the lesser-known stuff so they can say: "I listen to these that no one knows.. so I'm cool because I discovered them.."!
And instead.. listening to QUEEN, who are super famous, isn't cool anymore because, well.. everyone knows them and it's no longer cool to say: "I like the legendary QUEEN"; because everyone likes them..! What idiotic people..!