Classical Composer Reacts to My Fairy King (Queen) | The Daily Doug (Episode 194)
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In this episode of #TheDailyDoug, I'm reacting to My Fairy King by @Queen. This is from their debut self-titled album, released in 1973. I found this to be a fascinating look into the mind of a young Freddie Mercury.
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Queen's first album is horribly underrated, IMHO.
I agree. IMO Queen's first album is easily among their top 5!
Tot ally agree
Not by me! I think it's their best!
I agree also. In fact I think all the LPs before Night at the Opera are somewhat overlooked in most critical assessments
@@tapchapman Yes. Queen 2. I find, is not as easy to listen to as the first - still a good album, just not as immediately accessible. But Sheer Heart Attack is my 2nd favourite!
"Liar" and "Great King Rat" are the masterpieces from the same album.
Totally agree !
+1 for Great King Rat! Really amazing song.
Doing All Right and The Night Comes Down for me
agree
This whole album is a masterpiece in my opinion. Not one bad note on it.
The high notes are done by Roger Taylor, he has a huge range.
Can you imagine if Queen did not have Roger Taylor?
@@EgoShredder where can I get one?!
As he also did in the opera section of Bohemian Rhapsody.
yup, when you have F Mercury in the band but the drummer take care of the high notes - you know its an awesome band!
Maybe not so much of range these days on his solo work, but this is a good example of his VERY impressive singing, back in the day.
Listen to a Queen song twice in a row??? ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!
it reminds me of that legendary moment when John Peel opted to play a second a second time.
Early Queen is criminally underrated and the way Freddie sings on this, ‘II’ and ‘Sheer heart attack’ is so different from the powerful voice of later album is almost like another singer all together. The falsettos by Roger and Freddie is beyond comprehension. Thank you for the analysis, great job!
Listen to the whole album. It is a brilliant album, even more remarkable that it was their debut.
I think the "Fairy Queen" melody may have been re-purposed from a Smile demo I heard way back when
Fully agree!! Cannot just listen to a single song from the album. need to listen to the entire album in a single setting!
Freddie always said “Roger has the dog whistle pitch, very high voice”
I saw queen live 3 times between 1974-76, front row seat every time in a 2000 seat theatre. The image of them delivering the goods less than 15 feet away from me will live with me to my grave.
The end of this song is the end of the side A on the vinyl LP. It creates the expectation of something more to come. In that sense you cannot separate the message from the medium.
Good point!
1973: "Someone has drained the color from my wings, broken my fairy-circle ring." 1991: "My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies, fairy-tales of yesterday will grow but never die."
and finally: I can flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, my frieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeends
Lightbulb moment. How have I never made that connection before?
Interesting. It could be a coincidence, but references to Queen's early albums are present in their late work.
It's well known, for example, that the B-side to "The Show Must Go On", their final single released while Mercury was still alive, was "Keep Yourself Alive", the first single they ever released.
They also played some bars from "Death on two legs" in "Was It All Worth It", the final song on The Miracle (1989).
And there's the final words on These Are The Days of Our Lives, "I still love you", which could well be a reference to Love of My Life.
omg! i've listened to both songs approximately a million times, but never noticed this! the moment i read your comment i had immediate goosebumps all over my body... rest in peace freddie
I've been a Queen fan for 40+ years. Know every song. Seen them live with and without Fred. Spoken to Brian may in person.....
I never spotted this link.
I thank you!
Doug: "Man! What would it have been like to be around in the early 70s and hear all of these really fantastic albums coming out...?"
Me (who was 14 in 1973): "Just friggin' awesome! A great time to be growing up!"
Born 1960 and this was one of my first LPs I bought back then. I can still remember the excitement of this record and Qeen 2. They were on heavy rotation on my player. But I habe to say that after their first 3 or 4 records I lost interest and it becqme the big Stadium thing.
Me, too! Got this for Christmas ‘74 and never looked back. Got to see them December ‘77 (News Of The World). Thank you, God!
Yup Doug... As our man says here... It was just friggin' awesome. Weren't we lucky people..and we get to watch other people discover it all over again.. I remember the single from this album, "Seen Seas of Rye", being on Top of the Pops (Britain's big hit show) and I tuned to my dad and said these guys are really good.... I got that "Dad look" that said, "alright son, if you think so..."
@@johnpbh And I went out on the following Saturday and bought the single. I still have it. :)
Wow
You were very lucky to experience that!
This was the time of albums not just single songs and the songs interlaced, best to listen to the album in sequence.
Agreed. I would usually assume that this is just another CZcamsr who doesn't remember that period when albums were the primary tool for listening to music, rather than just single tracks. But Doug's almost as old as I am, so that can't be it! ;-)
@@stewmott3763 But he might not have been a Queen fan at the time and when you now look for songs and don’t want to purchase an album you wouldn’t know about the flow from song to song. Not all artists had interlacing songs at the time.
@@claudiabetia5515 I suppose that technique is just a victim of the changing ways in which people listen to music. And for all I know, Doug never got into buying and listening to albums the way a lot of our generation did. He is classically trained after all, maybe he was too busy with that! :-)
@@claudiabetia5515 Besides, I always had a soft spot for those 70s prog rock bands that would structure their music almost like a symphony or a short opera. And they were way before my time, too! :-)
You’re right. “My Fairy King” in 1973 to “The Black Queen” in 1974 to “Bohemian Rhapsody” in 1975 all share the Freddie Mercury theatrical DNA. Amazing how they instantly sounded like Queen and inimitable.
So true good to see how the sound carried to 3 albums. But there are 3 messages through each song that tell the same story but in different ways
The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke / Nevermore (yes, together) or the SHA trilogy (Tenement Funster, Flick of the Wrist, Lily of the Valley - yes, together ;)) would be a great follow-up if you wanna do some more early Queen
The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke / Nevermore would be really awesome :D
I made a mix CD for a friend and put in those two "trilogies" from albums 2 & 3. Curious for you to mention them together. I know Masterstroke/Nevermore isn't 3 songs, I just included the tail-end of Ogre Battle for the CD (I don't think my friend is ready for the full Ogre onslaught!). Anyway, the aforementioned songs are some of their most underappreciated (and most creative) work.
I wish "Nevermore" lasted 2 hours. Such a beautiful song.
@@kirvergalarragacastro1448 indeed
@@kirvergalarragacastro1448 Me too. I could listen to it enough ❤️
Another crazy song by Freddie is from Queen 2 called The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke (this song flows into another short song called Nevermore, so they has to be listened together for a bigger picture) Mind blowing!
The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke is a painting by Richard Dadd and can be seen in the Tate Gallery in London. Obviously the song is based on the painting, so I went to see it and all the references in the song can be seen in the painting.
@@EmptyGlass99 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke
The Night Comes Down is the underated gem on this album
Queen was very unique rock band, they were able to compose, play and sing every genre of music, so talented guys, love them. Yes, more Queen, please
I a 66 yrs old....I have been a musician for 50 years.....l saw Queen in Charleston SC at Gailhyard audtiorium on March 16, 1975 they did their first 3 albums in their entirety! I was sitting 12 feet from Freddie playing his grand piano.....I have never seen an audience reaction like that in the thousand or more concerts I have been to in my life.....every person in the building stood in their seat for the entire performance! the original Kansas lineup opened the show so the concert was one of the best ever! I saw Queen 3 more times in Columbia SC at 2 different venues but nothing has ever matched that first time I saw them in Charleston! it was the best concert I have ever attended! the bands and artists from back in that period from the 50s through the mid 80s had so much talent and creativity it will never be duplicated no matter how long mankind lasts in this universe!!!
If you're keen to checking out more Queen, I would love to see you react to the trio of songs from their third album, Tenement Funster/Flick Of The Wrist/Lily Of The Valley. They all segue into each other and form one my all time favorite suites of Queen music!
I agree! "Sheer heart attack" is my preferit album of the glam era of Queen. That triptych is a true masterpiece.
That's the point Prog... absolutely right,
Bear in mind. According to Brian May the sessions for for this album was whatever sessions weren’t booked. Which meant in some instances their recording sessions were sometimes 2am. They also had a problem with the drum sound. If you know anything about Trident studios they had a signature drum sound. A very tight almost “tissue paper sounding” according to Brian. Drummer would be put in a drum booth to obtain this certain sound. Well Queen was looking for that opposite sound with all the drums and symbols mic’d with each mic a certain distance away to capture the ambiance of the room where they were recording. Very Led Zeppelinesque, ie the John Bonham drum sound.
The song is about the destruction of Fairyland. You might read it metaphorically as being about the end of childhood innocence? Freddie wrote another couple of songs in the fantasy-world setting that seem to belong with this one: "Seven Seas of Rhye" and "Lily of the Valley." Maybe queue the two of them up for a reaction video? :)
agree - and there is a subtle - yet short - epilogue in The show must go on:
"My soul is tainted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly !
"
as in a happy end: Freddie does not die but returns to fairyland, as his wings revert to full capacity, while facing what the disenchanted would call death.
I would also recommend Ogre Battle and The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke (based on painting by Richard Dadd) from Queen 2. Great fantasy tracks.
By the way, those super high notes are sung by Roger Taylor, the drummer. He's got a crazy high voice.
There is NOTHING that pleases me more than a competent person listening to my favourite music. This music is precious to me. Its been at my side since 92. Queen were kids at 20-24 years of age when making this! Kids! Not the astute adults when saw at the time of Innuendo
Brilliant reaction, loved the way your jaw nearly hit the floor 😂😂
You must do Millionaires waltz from A Day at the Races
Great reaction! I would say the Seven Seas Of Rhye is the song that follows up on this one. The Seven Seas Of Rhye tells the story from a different perspective. It tells the story from the point of the view of the attackers. There are a few songs that fits into Freddie's fantasy world, another one is The Great King Rat.
Great point Never thought bout it like that.
So fun to hear a song I've heard a million times with you. It's like listening for the first time all over again.
I had a feeling he would like this one.
first time I've ever heard it! ;)
As you say
I was fortunate enough to be 17 in 73 and grew up with this exceptional music. I was even more fortunate to have Roger Taylor as my table head at school lunches and be present at the first ever Queen performance in my City Hall. Notwithstanding, Yes and Genesis are still my number ones, keep them coming.
That sounds like a really groovy memory my friend.
I may have mentioned before but my late Father was a big fan of queen, and I spent a lot of my early teen years watching his old VHS tapes of queen live. So I've definitely got a lot of time for these Queen reaction videos, especially some like this that are a little off the beaten track to a casual fan.
I'd really love to see a reaction to the song Innuendo. It actually features Steve Howe from Yes doing a very distinctive section on the guitar. But I like that it goes through these various movements, and despite being at the very the end of their career, it feels like a bit of a throwback to their earlier material. I also really like the lyrics. Especially knowing what we know of Freddie's condition in hindsight, I feel like they take on a certain poignancy.
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One take, Freddy went all in ... Since otherwise he wouldn't have been able
Yes, do Innuendo, it is a great song 😊, oh and while you 're at it, please do The Show Must Go On.
You might want to listen to Freddie’s song “in My Defense”. Written for a play Time by Dave Clarke. Beautiful song and touching.
This is part of a series of songs that go together on the album; you're trying to read one chapter of the book and make sense of it 🎵
Makes sense
Great King Rat would be good to do next. Great showcase for Roger’s drumming and Brian’s guitar playing.
White Queen from Queen II is probably my favorite Queen track though.
In my opinion, the live version of White Queen is even better than the studio version.
@@wind-upboy939 Agreed. Shows they were not all about layering guitars and vocals. Could do it live, too.
“…died syphilis, but he fall on his birthday!” 🎶
Sheer Heart Attack, Queen, A Night At The Opera, in that order. The Game, Innuendo, News Of The World. All favorites. I adore Queen.
@@richardhorky3717 Sheer Heart Attack was the first album I ever bought. Think I mostly liked the cover. Brighton Rock got me hooked from the opening few bars. Decades later, still listen to it regularly.
Wow, Doug thanks for this. Their first album is simply a gift from the gods, it's breathtakingly beautiful.
There aren't many bands that deserve to be called legendary, Queen certainly fits the bill, in fact I would go so far as to call them mythical.
Can you please react to Innuendo? I promise you will not be disappointed.
Let us not forget sheer heart attack the album.
I think you'd get a kick out of '39 from A Night at the Opera. Brain May song about travelling at near lght speed and coming back to Earth to find decades have passed.
It's basically "Interstellar" (the movie) in song form.
I love '39!
Appropriate typo for "Brain" May.
I like how confused Doug always is by the endings of songs
I highly recommend The Fairy Feller´s Master Stroke from the second album. A very short but fascinating piece !
Yes!!!!!!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke
My favourite album. Had this on my 8th birthday. Im now 56 😁
I totally agree Doug, the early 70's was an amazing time for Rock, Prog and music in general. The evolution from the late 60's, "aided" creativity, to the more complex and serious musicianship of the early 70's made it a golden period. The most interesting, organic, unprocessed explosion of creative music ever! I love it. More Genesis please 🙏😁
I've met Freddie, he was the most beautifully spoken and gentle man. He had very little confidence in his paino playing abilities and was never satisfied with his vocals. Most of us would be thrilled to have half of his talent.
I discovered Queen back in the mid seventies,and have been a fan ever since..This year marks 30 years since Freddy passed...I feel old..
Doug - I'm new to your channel. As best I can tell, you haven't covered The Millionaire's Waltz. Please if you get a chance, review this one. It's similar in construction to the other songs you've covered by them minus A Winter's Tale and The Show Must Go On. There's a certain type of acyclic suite that Queen was amazing at - I hope that you enjoy it. One thought if you haven't (or have) covered the Fairy Feller's Masterstroke - that song was inspired by a painting by Richard Dodd (who has his own crazy story). The songs and their content, painting included represent kind of a Victorian England take on mythology. Look at some of the early Queen material through these lenses. I love your channel. Please keep up the great work! P.S. Roger Taylor is always hitting the highest notes in Bohemian Rhapsody, this song, In the Lap of the Gods, etc. Upper G's and A's.
You need to continue to listen a lot more Queen. All of their music is great!
I grew up in the early 70s Doug, and did listen to alot of the cool music back then....and you're right, you younger guys did miss out on alot of great music....
Hey Doug, if you listen to the whole album in full, you'll see that My Fairy King is NOT incomplete! The whole album blends together to tell a story... It's perfection!
most of queens songs join together, You have to listen to the whole album in one go
On a related note, the famous Queen song "The Show Must Go On" (last single released during Freddie's lifetime) indirectly refers "My Fairy King" in the bridge after the 2nd chorus, as a subtle way to wrap the Mercury saga up in history:
- from "My Fairy King":
Someone someone has drained the colour from my wings
Broken my fairy circle ring
And shamed the king in all his pride
Changed the winds and wronged the tides
(...)
I cannot run I cannot hide
- from "The Show Must Go On":
My soul is tainted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly !
so it's a happy end: the destruction of fairyland is reversed, and the wings return to full capacity. Freddie does not die but returns to the realm of the enchanted.
*_"My soul is tainted like the wings of butterflies"_*
PAINTED! Painted like the wings of butterflies.
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I remember NME writing that Queen were a lesser substitute for Led Zeppelin and plundered Zeppelin's catalogue. How anyone could hear a track like My Fairy King and relate it in any way to Led Zeppelin remains a mystery to me. Not saying one is better than the other of course - but they come from different musical starting points.
I first heard this over 40 years ago and I've never thought about how it was constructed - really interesting to hear it through the lens of this channel
Music press always hate on Queen cause they were much more than some mediocre musical critics could handle.
@@alexandrocinta1835 the uk press really hated Queen and were downright nasty to them their entire career, but Queen are still very much loved by millions of us today whereas those arsehole journalists who tried to destroy them are long forgotten like the insignificant nobodies they were 👑✊🇬🇧
A hugely enjoyable album - one of their best, and awesome live!!!
To be around in the 70's????...was unbelievable for the music around!!
Yes, this song always felt like an open ending to me; just the destruction or the change of this magical world or this magical character (maybe Freddie himself). If i had to follow the text with another song, it would be with Lilly of the Valley (which is the ending of a medley with Tenement Funster and Flick of the Wrist). It speaks about the ending of a kingdom (specificly the king of Rhye) and also, it could be said, their fantastic lyrics. That if you don't count maybe The Prophet's Song, Princes of the Universe, and Innuendo; but that could be going a little far. Of course, all of the songs that could really belong to this kingdom are in the first two albums (except for Lilly of the Valley), but you can also maybe appreciate a little reference in The Show Must Go On (which for many is the real final goodbye of Queen), where they say "the fairy tales from yesterday will grow but never die".
Listen to the whole Queen album ,it has a wonderful cohesive flow..Queen II is the follow up ,and equally as good..If not better.
The fans who buy and listen to full albums instead of singles will tell you that none of Queen's other work even comes close to Queen II in terms of quality.
Roger Taylor has named Queen II as his favorite of their albums, and John Deacon said Queen II was the album that ultimately convinced him that the band was going somewhere.
@@BadgersInTheAttic in every interview I've heard from Roger, he says that Sheer Heart Attack was his favorite. Not that it matters much though since both are absolutely brilliant.
In the song Lily Of The Valley from Sheer Heart Attack, Fred sings the lyrics "Messenger from seven seas has flown, to tell the king of rhye he's lost his throne".
Doug you should do Queen's Sheer Heart Attack album. The entire album! I know you'd truly enjoy discussing all the songs on that one.
I remember i was in a record store and my father said he would buy me an album. I looked at Queen 1 and Queen 2 for about 15 minutes and chose Queen 1 ! This was my first album and then through the years bought everything by them....I was 10 years old [1976]. I think the BBC sessions of the first album are fantastic, so raw and hungry. Nothing will ever replicate the majestic splendour, that is Queen.
According to Roger Taylor, aside from "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Doing All Right" Freddie wrote everything else in very short time. They wanted to get an album out ASAP so they went with it. So Queen and half of Queen II has a lot of Freddie's really weird stuff on it. Of course that doesn't mean it's all odd with endings and everything. I highly recommend doing a listen of "Ogre Battle"/"The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke"/ and "Nevermore." "Ogre Battle" is particularly interesting because the first 10 seconds or so of the song is the last 10 seconds of the song played in reverse and "Fairy Feller" is based on a painting.
*_"According to Roger Taylor, aside from "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Doing All Right" Freddie wrote everything else in very short time."_*
What an odd thing to say. _Keep Yourself Alive_ was written by Brian May and _Doing All Right_ was written by Brian May and Tim Staffel when they were in _Smile._ WITH Roger Meddows-Taylor as he was at the time.
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Agree - that is probably the best of Queens triple medleys they did across many
Of their albums.
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 that is what
He said.
I would add that Roger wrote Modern Time Rock and Roll though. May also wrote Son and Daughter and most of the 1st half of Queen 2.
@@molokoko786
Queen 2
Roger wrote one track
Brian wrote procession instrumental and (edit) 3 songs
Freddie wrote 6
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
There's nothing wrong with that sentence, pretty much what they said
As a kid I never really thought much about analyzing this song, I just enjoyed the pictures it painted in my head. As I revisited it through the years I always got something different from it. When I was mature enough to comprehend its lyrical poetry, the colour from my wings line blew me away all over again. When I could understand vocal range, the register changes Freddie glided effortlessly through blew me away. Now, it just stands as a beautiful fixed moment in space and time where the universe threw the members of Queen together and created the spark of magic that set light to their catalog. How it starts, ends, progresses, changes, matters not against it's majesty. Ladies and gentlemen, Queen has entered history.
The all time "Where's The Rest Of The Song?" award would have to go to "Rice Pudding" by the (first) Jeff Beck Group.
BTW: I bought the first Queen LP when it was released. I related to them immediately; loved them ever since.
Re-listening to Queen from you Doug. Yes, the 70's was the golden age. New music coming out all the time, so uniquely crafted each to their own style. Jr high and high school was a wonderful time in the 70's.
I love Queen, and definitely feel the 70s albums were mostly the best.
Queen II is the best album in my opinion. Freddie Mercury's Barcelona album is also really enjoyable to listen to.
You can play it three times if you like! This was genuine progressive rock.
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Seeing someone say they want to hear the same Queen song two times in a row is a wonderful sight to see
Love the reaction. Always thought the subtle piano towards the end of the track is unmatched.
Just found your channel and am so happy to find someone who enjoys the fairytale aspect of early Queen's music as much as I do.
This song is in my top five Queen songs!! Brian May commented that this was the first song that he noticed Freddie’s piano skills. My fav lyrics are “Someone, Someone has drained the color from my wings .. Broken my fairy circle ring .. And shamed the king in all his pride .. Changed the winds and wronged the tides .. Mother Mercury Mercury ..”. This is believed to be the lyric that Freddie got his last name from (legally, of course). Thank you!! 🌿🌸🍃🌼🌿
The "rest of the song" is further along the album. Well, not exactly... I've listened to those early albums a lot as a teenager. They always felt like a full story aurally and lyrically. So I can appreciate that "where's the rest of it" moment. All of that is to say, listen to the rest of the album.
I do believe it's when the Night Comes Down
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How can it be when that song was written by Brian May?
Lyrically, if there IS a continuation, the trilogy would be:
_My Fairy King_
_Seven Seas of Rhye_
_Lily of the Valley_
on their first three albums.
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@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 mhm you got it. they all tell the story of the attack on the fairy kingdom, and the lily watching from afar
@@minmodulation
_Messenger from Seven Seas has flown to tell the King of Rhye he's lost his throne_
_Wars will never cease, is there time enough for peace?_
_But the Lily of the Valley doesn't know..._
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Some of the most underrated music ever conceived. Simply brilliant.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! One of the most awesome songs on a true masterpiece of an album. Hearing this, as I did, when it first came out was enlightening and awe-inspiring. I want EVERYONE to hear this album but most people don’t have the attention span or stillness to truly ‘hear’ it.
This is so beautiful. I'm so glad you had a listen to it. Thank you.
God I love this song!
And ending the song on that half bar made me feel robbed at first too, but after a while I realised it was genius. Who else did that?
Queen and Queen 2 are like these relatively unknown albums of bonus ‘hidden’ content, totally different to the staple main stream Queen we all know from Greatest Hits etc, and filled with utterly brilliant, complex songs. These two albums I can play through without skipping a single track, there is nothing bad in them. :)
*_"Queen 1 and 2 are like these unknown albums"_*
PAH! Queen appeared on Top of the Pops in February, 1974, just after my 12th Birthday. Blew me away. I bought both albums by the time I was 13. I grew up living this stuff!
PS Oh, by the way the albums are Queen and Queen II. There is no Queen 1 or 2
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@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 relatively unknown - most Queen fans I have met haven’t heard a single song off them except Seven Seas of Rhys. Even Doug hasn’t heard them!
And - ahem - most Queen fans weren’t even born when you were buying these classics as a kid! ;)
@@molokoko786 Too right as I said above I remember buying both Queen and later Queen II on the strength of "Keep Yourself Alive". Bloody brilliant song. Sadly underrated albums, both of them. Personally only one of the first 5 I was unsure of "Sheer Heart Attack" which was really the type of music I was into, but it didn't float my boat.
You are a wise man in disguise by friend
Let us not forget the album sheer heart attack.
That was an absolutely fantastic breakdown of that song. Most of the songs I sent to you as requested need to be heard twice absolutely. My next recommendation for older Queen would be in the lap of the Gods part 1 and 2 off of the sheer Heart Attack album. This song is broken into two halves on the album. As far as my fairy King goes I do believe the conclusion is on the Same album. I do believe it is called when the Night Comes Down.
Excellent suggestion about _In the Lap of the Gods_ and _In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited._ He could play them back to back if he has them on his PC.
I listened to that stuff multiple times a day from 1974 onwards. For a while, I only had 5 albums, and three of them were _Queen, Queen II_ and _Sheer Heart Attack!_ Then I bought _Black Sabbath, 24 Carat Purple_ and _Close to the Edge._
*BUT*
*_"I do believe the conclusion is on the Same album."_*
Nonsense. _The Night Comes Down_ was written by Brian May, not Freddie. _My Fairy King_ is its own, self-contained thing. They did do more progressive rock, like _March of the Black Queen, Seven Seas of Rhye, Lily of the Valley_ etc. And _The Prophet's Song,_ but that was one of Brian's.
In fact, _Lily of the Valley_ has the line:
_"Messengers from Seven Seas have flown to tell the King of Rhye he's lost his throne..."_
but that's just a lyrical allusion to _Seven Seas of Rhye,_ and possibly the king in _My Fairy King_ who is shamed in all his pride.
So, if it IS continued, the trilogy would be:
_My Fairy King_
_Seven Seas of Rhye_
_Lily of the Valley_
I am nearly 60, I've been listening to queen since I just turned 12, when everyone hated them because they were _"all a bunch of poofs"_ and could not possibly reproduce their albums live on stage.
How wrong they were!
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_(Edited for tyops)_
PS The guitar at the ends of _Fairy King, Black Queen_ and _Bohemian Rhapsody,_ sound superficially similar in isolation. But if you edit them out of wave files and splice them together, they are quite different.
:D
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 absolutely fascinating comments my friend. I'm glad I could make your day. Brian May was watching literally. I will ask him about my fairy King.
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 I just asked him I'll let you know when I get a response.
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 keep it between us he doesn't like the pr.
There is something missing if In the Lap of the Gods isn't going into Stone Cold Crazy.
In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited is a great end to a great album.
BTW, the next song on Queen I after My Fairy King is Liar. A great track. (It was the first track on Side B).
Please add Lady Fantasy - Camel, and the very long The Human Equation -Ayreon to your very long list, they're absolutely mind blowing
Snow Goose side 1?
Not watched the reaction yet, but I LOVE this album, always have done from way back in 73 when I bought it. Missed an opportunity to see them in a small hall. Oh and remember NO SYNTHESIZERS.
Everyone knows that Freddie was an alien gifted to us a few short years and then went back to music land !!!
If you do fairy fellers master stroke the reference is s painting by richard dadd in the 1800s and has a lot of reference about mid summers night eve. Also it runs into another song called nevermore so it would good to hear both chris
I'd be interested in seeing your reaction to a song from King Crimson In The Court of the Crimson King LP. Also Take A Pebble by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
Unfortunately, Doug will not be able to do King Crimson as Robert Fripp has his people blocking the music from everyone. ELP should be fine though.
Take A Pebble yes, but also The Barbarian.
Perhaps follow up with Seven Seas of Rhye ( Rhye being the land Mercury and his sister created) and then the Richard Dadd inspired "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke"...
Remember Doug, Queen wrote albums….all of their albums, especially early Queen just flow! Not smear (paper industry term)
Hi Doug, i did meet Freddy on May 17th 1977 in Rotterdam... and studied all his interviews... as far as the song not finished? the first 4 Albums the songs flow over, like Pink Floyd did
These 4 Albums will forever be master pieces only just to be discovered, mostly as they did not get Famous in USA since Dumb and Dumber
YES! Thank you for doing this one! I suggested it a while ago, and I think so did others!
_"Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me... I cannot run I cannot hide..."_
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Absolutely love your older Queen song reviews. Came here from seeing you cover these and I'm definitely sticking around for more!
In fact Queen II has a black and a White side Freddy and Brians masterpiece and the interlude to Boh Rhap... this is where it all started to create the Opera album 4
Innuendo is also a complicated one that would be interesting
As a Queen fan since 1975, I thoroughly enjoy your analysis of Queen songs. Thanks
What a brilliant and interesting video. I love your Queen analysis videos.
Fun fact: When Freddie wrote this song he was still known as Freddie Bulsara. After he presented it to the rest of the band they asked who's mother Mercury and he said he's singing about his own mother. From now on, he became Freddie Mercury.
The next track (track 1 on side 2) is the song "LIAR" and, if you're used to listening to full albums (i.e. on CD), then you can't wait to hear that next track begin and, man, it's a banger!
Thanks for more Queen, Doug! Please consider White Queen from Queen 2 for a future video. Another unique song.
Millionaire's Waltz from 1976 Day at the Races is well worth it a listen
I've always loved this song, and now I have more reasons to do so. Thanks for this, Doug.
Freddie said he really couldn't read music very well. Freddie would work it out on the piano, the melody would be in his mind, sometimes he would record it, but most of the time he said if it was a worthy melody he would remember it. In the studio he would record it on piano for other band members, he wrote the structure of the song, such as, he wanted layers of guitars and bass. Freddie's music was mostly in his mind and the band were so excellent they could follow and create it.
Thank you for this one, Doug. What a joy to see your emotions and shock while listening to this early masterpiece of Queen. I recommend you to make a video about Queen’s Somebody to Love, live in Montreal 1981, the greatest live performance ever. :) Greetings from an unbiased Queen fan from Germany.
I discovered you the other day with the other Queen songs you made, and they're all fantastic! I love that you're able to do a mini breakdown of the notes and stuff and not just saying "oh this is cool" or whatever hahah. As with your question, I don't actually think there is a continuation of this song (at least, as far as I know), but I could be wrong, of course.
Btw, another great song by them that goes along the same themes of a fantasy world is The Fairy Feller Master-Stroke, which is in Queen II.
"Someone has drained the color from my wing, broken my fairy circle ring. Shamed the king & all his pride.
Changed the winds & wronged the tides. Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me. I can not run, I can not hide" one of the most beautiful things Freddie wrote. that I have zero idea of the meaning. It's just stunning though.
I love watching your videos I learned so much as a novice musician, but most of all I like watching you react to the queen songs because they’re my favorite band.
It’s the highest compliment and sign of respect that you played the song twice in one reaction. That pleases me so much to see such recognition of the genius of my favorite, much beloved band. I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction to this truly UNIQUE song.
That's, queen, never know what your going to get, but it's amazing
This is my favorite song on the album. There's just so much going on, no chorus, and suspense is gradually building to something huge, but then suddenly nothing. But my favorite section is after the last line of lyrics with the guitar harmonies. For some reason, it either makes me think to a happier time, or feels like wind blowing through a forest. Thank you for your reaction.
I adore this song with all my heart ❤ and I also wish it was longer
I absolutely LOVE Queen's first album. I still remember getting home from the mall, hyper excited to have found it, I was like, 12 years old (it was 1997). Every time I listen to it, it feels special. Like a brute diamond. Even at these early stages, they knew where they wanted to go. Heck, this album was recorded on studio downtime!! All songs were recorded in the wee hours of the morning, when no one else wanted to use the studio.
I cannot run
I cannot hide ,
ALAWAYS brings tears to mg eyes , since I first heard it way back in 75
great reaction. Thanks you. Love this. There are other songs from this magical world of Freddie's. I've heard some people say that they are like a trilogy and that like other stories of this type, the parts (three songs) may not have necessarily been written or recorded in order. This is an amazing song.
IMHO, the greatest Queen album. I love listening to it front to back.