Fiammy

A mature and refined album. All possible exploration. The title track is one of the most beautiful and epic songs (yes, it's truly epic!) of the 90s. The album has style, continuing the path taken with Was it all worth it, even though it tells very different atmospheres. Definitely more somber. What can you say is beautiful if not an album like this? If you don't like Queen, why are you filling the pages of their reviews? Go praise your experimental groups with their milk-to-the-balls reviews. And don't ask rock to be intellectual.

The Miracle is not one of my favorites... nothing to do with the glories of Night at the Opera from Queen II, nor with the subsequent Innuendo. However, considering the scrutiny towards Queen on the pages of Debaser and the fact that Was It All Worth It makes the whole album worth purchasing, I give this record a 5. On the other hand, it cannot score less than the crap produced by Oasis, Radiohead, and their ilk, and it’s still much better than 80% of all other albums!

He will read Scaruffi to make sure he has some extra arguments against an album he hasn't even listened to.

I was forgetting:

Mr. Iko is so confident in his personal opinions that he is compelled to express himself through quotations.

Dear ...Caz... your jokes crack me up. Have you ever thought about doing stand-up? I think Zelig would be perfect for you. Ah ah ah ah... I can't stop laughing!

As for Princes of the Universe, let me remind you that A Kind of Magic is the soundtrack of Highlander: "I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings," and this is more than any other explanation I could give you, since the piece was built on the story of the immortal character in the film. With this, I don't mean to justify Queen: it's well known that they had no intention of politicizing their songs. For me, this is an immeasurable merit, since I detest politics, as it is built on groups rather than individuals. I conclude by recommending that you also listen to Queen II. I did it with Velvet, and it gave me a terrifying headache, but at least I was able to realize what it was about. I assure you that with Queen II, the effect won't be the same! Kisses

I understand your position ajejebrazorf and I hope that, at this point, you have understood mine as well. I fully share Voltaire's statement, who even claimed that he could die for the free expression of others' ideas. Perhaps the problem is that we look too far beyond music and words. Maybe each of us wants to find a part of ourselves in it, so you feel more sympathetic towards Lou Reed, who felt the need to express his feelings that way. I do not condemn that! I simply said that, in my opinion, being innovative and talking about unexplored themes is not enough to create a masterpiece. For example, I deeply hate modern art, which stems from artistic pretensions corresponding to a complete lack of expressive talent. Heroin might not want to build a hero... at least an antihero, which is a figure well-explored since the late 1800s. I reason this way from your perspective, since you have labeled We are the champions and Princes of the universe as songs with a fascist spirit. On this, I feel compelled to refute you, simply by contextualizing the songs. Have you ever read the lyrics of We are the champions? The chorus is not an empty proclamation, if you also read the verses. It simply talks about a person trying not to get discouraged when faced with closed doors, and the "losers" are not categorized into certain types of people; it's just a way of being resigned that the author tries to avoid. You would probably understand more if you had followed Mercury's personal history, from the boarding school in Pachgani to the complicated and bitter story with record labels and critics, not to mention more personal matters.

Finally, the little girl tells you that people who get high don’t really shock her anymore... it’s an old story, my dear, one I’ve had the chance to study. Unfortunately, I see that the idea of the junkie hero against society still resonates with many. And to think it’s such nonsense! There’s nothing new to glean from that text, just the same old ramblings that fill the autobiographies on the subject. Yet it seems original and poetic to you. If this is art...
Your Heroin pales in comparison to The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, White Queen, The March of The Black Queen.
The fanaticism, if anything, is yours if you’re so naive to talk about artists who don’t want to make money but just make art... then it’s unclear why they release albums and charge for concerts. Concepts that are convenient among alternatives. But look, it doesn’t even matter if you explain it to me: I’m just a little girl too busy giving blowjobs to Queen fans. By the way, no one has ever complained about art!
As for Psychopompe: I know that Heroin is from the 60s, so in the music field it must have been a novelty to talk so explicitly about drugs. Certainly not in other fields, where these notions of the drug addict as detached from society and almost heroic first entered with positivism and decadentism. Regardless of that, meaning the theme addressed, I don’t find any stroke of genius in the lyrics, as I believe poetry is something entirely different, nor in the music!

For ajejebrazorf: let's make things clear: I'm not the one who wrote "W i Queen!" All my messages are signed: sometimes I write them double precisely because I realize that in the first one I haven't signed. Don't you see that the writing style is different? In any case, you can quote all the critics you want, I don't care about them. I don't need to rely on other people's opinions to express my own. I don't care about the influences of an artist. From what I've heard of the Velvet Underground, I can say that I find absolutely nothing genius about them and that they are boring as hell. Do I have to die of boredom to listen to music praised by Scaruffi? Not a chance! I couldn't care less about the trance that heroin brings, in fact, if that song is a faithful representation of it, it will be yet another reason for me to never try it!
You see, unfortunately, you have the misfortune of talking to an educated person, who knows poetry and has the foundations to make unbiased judgments, so I couldn't care less that you consider "Heroin" a masterpiece... because I know it's not.
Finally, you talk about minimalism... but I've always hated it! It's the label that sticks to works that lack substance, like the aforementioned "Heroin," which has no sparks of any kind. What you write also makes me understand that you haven't even listened to "Queen II," but formed an idea based on other people; otherwise, you wouldn't be talking about fascistoid lyrics and all the rest.