Queen, Rock It (Prime Jive) - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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Another song inspired by the genre itself! Not such an easy crowd chant is ‘We Will Rock You’, but I actually enjoyed it more because of its well-crafted detail.
Here’s the link to the original song by Queen:
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Ooooh. Didn’t see this one coming ! Underrated Queen song though. Hope we still get Save Me and Sail away, sweet sister.
I want you to react to song by Queen called "Dreamers Ball" from Album Jazz. Please, you wont regret!!!!
“Liar,” “Doing All Right”, “Jealousy” and “It’s Late” might be some of the songs to go back and listen to.
And the Prophet's Song by all means
In only seven day !!!
I think it’s actually Roger listening to Freddie on the radio and being inspired to take his girl dancing to some real Rock And Roll. When I heard this in’80, it inspired me to become a singing drummer who wrote songs and played every instrument. Thanks, Roger!
When I got into Queen over 30 years ago, this was one of the songs I was absolutely obsessed with. Represents one of my favorite aspects of Queen. You have one of the best vocalists who ever lived, but Roger or Brian sing if it serves the song. And his voice certainly serves it well here. Bravo for picking this tune
It is a great choice for me as a Roger Taylor fan. Queen doesn't exist only with Freddie, they are a four man band, there each member can shine with their own style. That's why i am loving Queen.
Well said-Many newbies fail to grasp what a band is versus a backing band. Queen was a band, maybe the most equal band ever. Each member wrote, three sang -And they threaded the needle of professional musicians and friends perfectly.
David Bowie had a backing band, Queen all four were the band. There’s a difference
I was surprised too but it is Vlad’s choice, not mine. It’s a good song but I like others on this album more; Save Me, Dragon Attack, Sail Away Sweet Sister.
I specially love Sail Away Sweet sister and Save Me... save, save, saaaaave me, I can't face this live alone
Don't try suicide is underrated too
@@michaelkruska6097 Nah..that's trying too hard to sound like 'The Police'.
Never seen anyone on CZcams react to this song. Should be an interesting watch!
One of the best Roger Tayler vocals on this one. Not sure why Freddie opens the song, but once Roger hits those high notes in the chorus, it's HIS song.
The starting was beautiful on the harp
This song has the same vibe and sounds as rogers solo album
"Fun in space". Both were 1980 & 81
Love that album!
This was written for Fun in Space. It just got used on The Game because they needed a Roger song.
@@marekbage I didn't know that fact, thanks, For the info! 😃
I hope you react to Save Me from this album; it’s one of my favorite. Since Queen just released the Live Montreal remastered version, that’s the one you should react to, as I thinks it’s better than the studio and you will get a special Brian May treat.
Save Me has a fabulous bass line
Love Save Me!
I've always been a fan of the guitar solo in this song.
Yay another lovely Queen song. Thank goodness! ❤Dragon Attack and Save Me are awesome on this album too. I’d love to watch your face listening to Dragon Attack!!!
Great reaction to one of my favourite 'non regular' Queen songs - excellent if you're doing any repetitive motion that requires a fast pace.
Hi Amy. I hope someday you do a series of Freddie’s Live performances… example White Queen and Dragon Attack … many are works of art ☺️🌷 Vlad Will know the great ones ✌🏼
Or perhaps a full concert (e.g. Montreal), as that way she'd also have something to say regarding setlist, dynamics, song order and so on.
Another fun Queen reaction with Amy having no idea what to expect next. Amy your videos are such a joy to watch.
Fun song and fun analysis! This song has a New Wave-meets-Rocabilly feel (as does a lot of the album) so equating the guitar solo to a revving motorcycle was particularly spot on.
Also, I love this channel because I rediscover and reappreciate songs that I have heard a thousand times, feeling now like I'm hearing them again for the first time. Which I sooooo appreciate!
The thing about Queen is that they had three singers, which in any band (besides Queen) could be the leader singer. However its Queen and you have Mr Mercury, and well there is nothing to argue about there.
Please listen to Brighton rock, or 39
A friend turned me on to your channel. It’s heartwarming seeing people discover this music that I discovered 40 years ago. I love this song and this album. You’re giving me a new appreciation for the music that defined my adolescence.
How nice. I really forgot this song, bur now remember, that I heard it really often, when this album came out.
I'd liked this rock&roll piece, funny and really full, dense charge of emotion and amazing display of artistic habilities. There are a lots of Rock&Rolls, but for me, this kind, is like "let's give now all that we have", in music, expression, art, sports or the field that we'd play... Thank you Amy.
Starts off like a rock ballad, changes to pure classic rock. Rogers' vocal quality and tone here always kind of reminded me of Meatloaf singing Hot Patootie.
I love that you covered this often overlooked gem. It makes me wish you'd taken a look at Drowse as well, because that's such a perfect song in so many ways.
Seconded. Drowse is my favourite song.
"Squishy!" 👍
I always wanted this as a single
A video would've been nice!
Love this song. It kind of grew on me. I always sing along to the chorus oh-oh-oh-oh-oh at the end. It reminds me of Tenement Funster from the Sheer Heart Attack album. Roger has a great voice . I hope you start watching Queen concerts. Especially for the 80s tunes, they were much better live.
Roger / the sound is vaguely "The Cars" sounding in places. Another song I had forgotten about. Thanks for the enthusiastic review (as always)
Nice harp & good choice of song to join in on 🥁
❤ your reactions.
That's Roger chiming in with "to my soul" @ the beginning.
I have shrieked along with the Oh-ohs at the end on many a bike ride!
Sounds different but interesting in every single song.. So Queen I think..
This would make an interesting A/B with Bob Seeger's "Old Time Rock and Roll"
As a gay man - this song is probably the reason I'm always Rocking it
"Get...Get...Get...... Get DOW-OWN!"
I waited for this one to come. I always liked Rogers songs more than the rest. He played this one on his latest live tour too. I hope you do his solo stuff too after this journey.
I don't get how one would love a song, or artist, on first listen - and RESTRAIN themselves from digging deeper. I could never do that.
Enjoyed that. Got me thinking 🤔 Harp Jive
Freddie is amazing, but sometimes Roger's vocals are exactly what I need. Love this song. It's not absolutely amazing, but it suits a certain mood 😊
Ya, this song especially, let alone the entire The Game album, *definitely* broke their many years long "No Synthesizers!" stand.
To be fair, 60% of that album is still synth-less, and the four songs that do have the OB-X only feature it as scattered overdubs that don't really add much to it. The OST is where they really took to them, and then HS... the last synth-less song they ever released would be 'Gimme the Prize' and from then on every single track would have synthesisers. Every. Single. One.
It’s not the first time Freddie and Roger have shared vocals you can listen to FUN IT from Jazz or My Fairy King from the first album for example
39 A night at the opera
I've been hoping they're saving it to be the 39th song in the 'Queen 50' series. I think it's original placement on the NatO album makes it sequentially the 39th Queen song as well.
Wouldn't mind her doing 'Good Company' as well, simply to get her take on Brian May doing an entire jazz band on his guitar.
When I comes to the next album, Hot Space, I really hope you'll check Cool Cat and Life Is Real.
Roger's voice is industrial, metallic, squishiness. 🤔
Thanks VR! Haven't heard this one in a while... surprised that Brian wanted Freddie (Brian and Roger were the "rockers") and John wanted Roger (John was so close with Freddie)... I think this is very ROGER... lol (that said, it's not one of my favorites) If you haven't yet heard Roger's voice other than "I'm in Love with my Car" - check out "Tenement Funster" or "Drowse"... both great Roger features...
This is my absolute favorite from The Game album. So glad you did it Amy
On guitar, it doesn't really matter what key something is in. All of the shapes can move. There are some keys where it's easier to use open strings. As a jazz player, I don't use open strings much, but it's much more common in rock. There is a difference in timbre between open strings and fretted strings, but depending on the amp and effects setup, that can be minimized almost to the point of invisibility.
That's all true, but I also find that the timbre of hitting an open low 'E', or low 'A' string can't quite be duplicated with a fretted note (yes, 'E' fretted in a 'drop D' tuning : ).
@@klaytaylor7011 A few years back I played bass in a rock band with a guitarist who piled on as much gain as he could with his Mesa amp and Big Muff. You could barely tell what note he was playing most of the time, never mind whether it was open or fretted.
That said, even in Jazz, I'll use an open E or A as a base note in certain situations (works great as a pedal tone under some moving harmony) and since I don't use any distortion or effects (other than a slight delay) there's a definite timbral difference.
I wouldn't be surprised if Roger played nearly all the instruments/keyboards. The guitar solo, in the middle, sounds like Brian's Red Special. Chorus is likely all three, Roger, Freddie and Brian. Overall, this tune is a bit monotonous but I like it. I love how you replicated the intro on your harp... very nice.
Madame, I really hope you give a good look to Queen and Queen II albums. There are really exquisite pieces there.
Roger Taylor the album fun in space one of my favorite albums and also David Essex album out on the streets.great actor especially as his musicals acting Evita Oh what a circus ❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I am currently trying to learn this on piano.
This reminds me very much of Sweet Gene Vincent. by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Arpeggiated start and then the beat comes in. The theme is similar too.. \i reminds ne also of the undertones Teenage kicks.
MARCH OF THE BLACK QUEEN and FAIRY FELLERS MASTER STROKE
Both on QUEEN II
please pretty please! ❤❤❤❤
Seeing them perform live,you will see how much Rog allows them to be a three píece vocal band with no extra backing. Brian's guitar was his real voice but Roger carries a large amount of the backing sound.
I've never heard this song before, it reminds me of the band Split Enz.
The reason why it's 'very strict, rhythmically precise' is that it's based on loops, just like 'Another One Bites the Dust'. From this point onwards they'd be using drum computers as well, and then MIDI programming later on.
This album is a little masterpeace of rock in general. You can find basically any kind of genre inside this album except for metal and hard rock basically. The basics of this album is that there's not a basis.. it's a kind of miscellaneous between the old Queen with Play the Game and the new Queen with Crazy little thing called love, Another one bites the dust, Rock it, Dragon attack, the classic ballads with Save me.. a little nasterpeace just because the entire album is just about 40 minutes long.. But with 'The Works', i think that this is their best album in the 80s.. i think in this album there's not a song long more than 3 and half minutes😅
The guitar typically favours sharp keys when playing 'open' string or first position chords. That's why many folk style ballads and simple rock tracks are in G, D, A or E (C is common too). Playing in other keys involves using the first finger to 'barre' across the strings, which any moderately experienced player can do. That's fine for chordal rhythm accompaniments like this, which is mostly power chords (doubled frst & fifth, no third) to avoid too many overtones or feedback when amplified, and to leave room for other instruments in the mix. For more intricate and precise finger-picking styles many acoustic guitarists might use a 'capo' to shift the key to suit a singer's pitch, but that's not so common in rock.
always thought that Kim Wilde's "Kids in America" was a lot like Rock It, plus they've only been together for a year .....and the solo part is similar to "Ride the Wild Wind", another song of Roger... (although it is not strange to start with the lowest strings haha) now that I think about it...almost at the end the bass briefly does the same thing as "Keep Passing the open windows" and "A kind of magic"
I think that harmony vocal behind Freddy in the intro is Brian.
tem coisa muiito melhor pra ouvir.....essa passa longe!!!
Love Of My Life by Extreme ?
or
Love Kills by Freddie Mercury ?
This song sounds a bit like The Cars, especially with those bouncy high pitched keyboard parts.
VLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD 😤
Love version of "save me"please .
Any amazing Electric Harpist that has attracted the attention of many is Kiki Bello.
Please search CZcams for her and give her a listen.
Listen to her rendition of “A Thousand Years”, “Fireball”, and other work including Ed Sheeran and Lindsey Sterling.
a little touch of new wave, post punk...
It would be fun if you will react to REM - Everybody Hurts next😅
CZcams need tô discorver the GREAT Mike Patton.
Why do I get the feeling that Roger Taylor had recently been listening to the Cars?
During the 1970s even I a heterosexual block fancied David 😂😂❤❤
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It would be great if you listened to Dragon Attack and Save Me
What happened with her VIMEO channel?
And The Wall stopped not jus
Huh? Not something like "Dragon Attack"? Odd, choice.
Actually it´s a great choice, one of the best songs in the album.
This album ushers in 80s Queen and, while they had some good stuff still, it's a steep decline compared to 70s Queen. Largely because Freddie isn't the songwriting force he used to be and he was the real genius in the band. From now on Roger Taylor and John Deacon step up more to compensate.
Well you can't keep singing prog-rock epics when literally everyone else in the music business has moved on... Including the fans. You can't be referring to fairy kings and ogres during disco/mods/indie and punk and expect to be cutting edge.
@@celt67 I agree. I have no problem with the change of genres but I don't think it's that- I just think Freddie lost inspiration and his former work ethic after he made it and fell into hedonism. In the first part of his career, he clearly slaved at home endlessly to write Bohemian Rhapsody or say his songs from Queen II. Whereas in the 80s there was a lot of collaborating with John Deacon and writing in the studio which suggests either he was less inspired or just didn't toil quite as much as he used to. Just an opinion. It happens to most artists. It's rare that they keep up the same level of work and inspiration that they did when they were on the way up. Also his writing in the 80s wasn't as deep as before. "It's a Hard Life" is an exception..."Life is Real" is another one that had the emotional depth of his earlier work.
The lyrics can only be something Roger put down. None of the others would ever have written something like this.
Roger's full-blown rock pieces are in the 'urban rock' category. They're not what I'd consider as 'classic rock'.
The synthesizer accompaniment wouldn't have worked quite as well if it had been played n an electric guitar. The synthesizer simply emphasizes the mood and tempo of the main tune.
Good old Roger! I like his early songs for Queen and think, he could've been a real great singer on his own. But Queen is only good as Queen and his work without "Good Company" is terrible trash. You can hear this here a little; some silly effects fighting against his great singing and dumb lyrics of course. - If I remember correctly, it's the last song on an album with him soloing on voice.
"Hot Space" is really a blight in Queen's discography. Even "Under Pressure" is grossly overrated, in my opinion.
When she says she didn´t hear much of the song she is lying, She just didn´t get the "tempo" right. So she needed to check it out
Where is this woman from? She clearly isn´t a native English speaking
She actually is a native American English speaker but with an interesting and unusual upbringing and background. One of Amy's earliest videos highlights her unique background...
Can you just listen all the way through on the first play and stop stopping. It's SO frustrating. Do your stopping on second pass
Thats what she used to do not sure why she changed it
You cant get a real feel for the song if you keep stopping
I prefer when she listened to the whole piece the first pass too. She might have changed because of copyright but there are other reactors who listen to the whole song without stopping and comment at the end.
With respect, if you are reacting to 50 Queen songs, this should not be on the list
100%
They didnt react to The propeth song, the march of the black queen, fairy fellers masters stroke, nevermore, jelousy, seven days. This one dont deserve a reaction.
Agreed!
@@Marco-Duck Agree, it could have, easily, have been "Queen 100 Series", but I do like "Rock It"; Amy did three from side one of The Game, "Sail Away Sweet Sister" is next. "Save Me".....? 🤞
("Dreamer's Ball" 😥plus all you mentioned.) I know Vlad is giving her an overview of the many genres of Queen but, still....it's hurts my heart that someone of her caliber is missing out on so much!
“Dear Friends” !
Gonna be a voice of dissent here. 1) Amy can do whatever she wants (except Taylor Swift 😝) 2. This song is a departure from their usual style, and worth looking at. 3) It's interesting to compare and contrast Roger's and Freddie's voical styles, and Roger's compositonal style to that of the rest of the band. 4) Very unusual guitar solo from Brian.
This album would be better if Freddie sang everything. No need to Roger and Brian voices. Too average. Freddie voice should be recorded even when he was snoring.
Please Amy stop pausing the music so often and talking on first listen. It is so annoying and not a pleasure to watch.
Instead of reacting to this song that represents nothing in Queen's career, I propose that you go back to songs that you skipped like The Prophetic Song, The March of the Black Queen, The Fairy fellers Masterstroke, Nevermore,, Jealousy, Seven Days.
This one doesn't deserve a reaction.
Let it go.
Yes, you are right. It's an OK song, but nothing special. There are a bunch of songs that deserve it more.
This is a great bit of fun music that shows that Queen were certainly able to do what they want rather than be trapped into their origins (probably to disappear into the past) like their contemporaries from the 1970s
@@YourBeingParanoid 💯
So.... a song that Queen actually wrote, recorded, produced and performed "represents nothing in Queen's career"....
What a naff pick. Vlad thinks this is in the best 50 Queen songs. Do me a favour. And he completely ignored Dragon Attack!
I don't think he necessarily picked the best fifty. It could've been a matter of having enough variety and all of that. 'Rock It' is not by any means Roger's best song but it's probably the one that most describes his style.
@@basstian That variety should not include tracks that are just meh. Brian's guitar solo is hugely underwhelming especially for a song called Rock It. And Mack's organ just sounds ridiculous. This more like a B-side than even a track that should have been on an album.
@@79BlackRoseIt's 'just meh' according to your perspective, which is valid but not more so (or less so) than anybody else's. If you ask a thousand people to pick 50 Queen songs for Amy to analyse, you'll get a thousand different lists, and that's alright. Vlad picked that one, you may agree or disagree but that's not gonna turn back time and have him go a different route.
It´s a great pick.
@@79BlackRose One of the best songs in the album.
Great song of Roger! Great intro of Freddie!