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Sandman
10-02-2008, 01:36 PM
Why didn't anyone inform me of this?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pJeaPMc3L._SS500_.jpg

The Cosmos Rocks (http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Rocks-Queen-Paul-Rodgers/dp/B001DU8T6S/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1222972712&sr=8-1)

I demand answers.
zirky
10-02-2008, 02:02 PM
Unless someone figured out a means to reanimate the dead, this confuses me.
Generation ABXY
10-02-2008, 02:04 PM
Why didn't anyone inform me of this?

The Cosmos Rocks (http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Rocks-Queen-Paul-Rodgers/dp/B001DU8T6S/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1222972712&sr=8-1)

I demand answers.

Because if you were a true Queen fan, you'd already own every song and prefer records in any case? Besides, the real Queen died with Mercury.
Sandman
10-02-2008, 02:04 PM
Unless someone figured out a means to reanimate the dead, this confuses me.

Queen + Paul Rodgers.....singer for Bad Company.
AgtFox
10-02-2008, 02:12 PM
Much like Journey is not really Journey without Steve Perry, Queen is not Queen without Freddie Mercury. You can put other analogies into this equation as well.

The only fallacy with my argument is that Steve Perry is still alive and could rejoin Journey whereas the great Freddie Mercury is gone.
Bone
10-02-2008, 02:16 PM
Wow. Bad Company + Queen?

They will rock me.
Sandman
10-02-2008, 02:17 PM
Much like Journey is not really Journey without Steve Perry, Queen is not Queen without Freddie Mercury. You can put other analogies into this equation as well.

The only fallacy with my argument is that Steve Perry is still alive and could rejoin Journey whereas the great Freddie Mercury is gone.

I know it won't be the same but I'll still give it a chance. Not all front-man changes have been totally bad. Judas Priest for one. Then you have the Rage ATM -> Audioslave change. Granted Audioslave was a different band but it still sounded like Rage with a different singer.
Bone
10-02-2008, 02:22 PM
I for one am a huge fanboy of Brian May. I realize nobody can take Freddie's place, but read what Brian had to say about the project on the Amazon link Sandman provided. Freddie was a fan of Paul Rodgers too.
zirky
10-02-2008, 02:27 PM
Much like Journey is not really Journey without Steve Perry, Queen is not Queen without Freddie Mercury.

This was more my point.
LarsenNET
10-02-2008, 02:39 PM
I for one am a huge fanboy of Brian May. I realize nobody can take Freddie's place, but read what Brian had to say about the project on the Amazon link Sandman provided. Freddie was a fan of Paul Rodgers too.

I just wish they would call it something other than Queen. Queen without Freddie isn't Queen.
Sandman
10-02-2008, 02:41 PM
I just wish they would call it something other than Queen. Queen without Freddie isn't Queen.

Queen + Paul Rodgers is the name you'll see everywhere.
Generation ABXY
10-02-2008, 02:55 PM
I just wish they would call it something other than Queen. Queen without Freddie isn't Queen.

Princess, perhaps...what about Duchess?
Wackman3000
10-02-2008, 05:51 PM
Queen without the queen is like Black Sabbath without Ozzy.
pomeroy
10-02-2008, 06:28 PM
I know it won't be the same but I'll still give it a chance. Not all front-man changes have been totally bad. Judas Priest for one. Then you have the Rage ATM -> Audioslave change. Granted Audioslave was a different band but it still sounded like Rage with a different singer.

No. No. Audioslave didn't sound like Rage AT ALL. Audioslave was generic and sort of crappy. Rage was anything but generic.
BLeeP
10-02-2008, 06:38 PM
I am torn on this. Queen has been my favorite band for as long as I have been able to have an opinion on music, but I wasn't too fond of any of the stuff that came from the Queen + Paul Rogers tour they did a few years back. I'll still check it out, but I hope May does most of the singing, although I know that won't be the case 8-P.

Something that irritates me, though is that there is a band called Ours. They are a pretty good band, but to me it almost seems as if their lead singer was born to sing with Queen. I've felt that way for a long long time, and I would love to see it happen.
Lance Uppercut
10-02-2008, 06:38 PM
Much like Journey is not really Journey without Steve Perry

This may be so, but Journey's new singer isn't half bad.
LongStepMantis
10-02-2008, 06:39 PM
Queen without the queen is like Black Sabbath without Ozzy.

I agree so much it hurts.
Freddie Mercury was Queen.

If Queen had existed in ancient Egypt, the rest of the band would have been entombed with him so he could be ready to rock when he reached the afterlife. ;)
pomeroy
10-02-2008, 06:44 PM
Something that irritates me, though is that there is a band called Ours. They are a pretty good band, but to me it almost seems as if their lead singer was born to sing with Queen. I've felt that way for a long long time, and I would love to see it happen.

Mika would be great to front Queen, too.
Bone
10-02-2008, 06:49 PM
I agree so much it hurts.
Freddie Mercury was Queen.

If Queen had existed in ancient Egypt, the rest of the band would have been entombed with him so he could be ready to rock when he reached the afterlife. ;)

No. Brian May is as much to Queen as Jimmy Page was to Zeppelin.

That said I understand how people can't think of it as Queen without him.
Sandman
10-02-2008, 06:53 PM
Queen without the queen is like Black Sabbath without Ozzy.

I actually like the Rio era of Sabbath....he's not that bad if you can listen without thinking about Ozzy.
pomeroy
10-02-2008, 06:54 PM
I actually like the Rio era of Sabbath....he's not that bad if you can listen without thinking about Ozzy.

Rio or Dio?
Bone
10-02-2008, 06:55 PM
LOL. The Rio phase is when Simon LeBon from Duran Duran took over, I guess.
Sandman
10-02-2008, 06:56 PM
Dio....knew it was something like that. Like I said, he's not half bad if you can listen and not think of Ozzy.
pomeroy
10-02-2008, 06:57 PM
LOL. The Rio phase is when Simon LeBon from Duran Duran took over, I guess.

I'm imagining a mashup of "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "Iron Man".

To be honest, that sounds amazing.
LongStepMantis
10-02-2008, 06:57 PM
No. Brian May is as much to Queen as Jimmy Page was to Zeppelin.

That said I understand how people can't think of it as Queen without him.

Sorry, I didn't intend to imply that other band members aren't talented. Brian May is certainly deserving of more attention than he already gets.

Just that Freddie was one of those larger than life figureheads for a band, and in the public eye at the very least, cannot truly be replaced.
Sandman
10-02-2008, 08:02 PM
Don't get the live album....stay far far away from the live album.
muddi900
10-03-2008, 02:18 AM
I actually like the Rio era of Sabbath....he's not that bad if you can listen without thinking about Ozzy.

Dio is more awesome than Ozzy.
Sandman
10-03-2008, 02:30 AM
Dio is more awesome than Ozzy.

How dare you insult the Prince of Darkness.
muddi900
10-03-2008, 08:11 AM
please bring me an Ozzy album that can even touch Holy Diver's feet*:

DJ_FgL5l1og

The Most Awesome(and Metal) Midget of All Time.

Fun Fact: Dio invented \m/

*Disclaimer: Do not "watch" the video. Just listen to the song


EDIT: But I agree with you guys. They can call it whatever they want, It can't be queen.
VerseD
10-03-2008, 03:56 PM
Queen is not the same without Freddie Mercury. I do like Bad Company, so I'll probably check this out. But it won't be Queen.