A few times I’ve been asked who my all time favourite band is. That’s hard to answer too as it changes. If I was asked last week I would have said Creedence Clearwater Revival, this week I would say Hüsker Dü.
For as many bands as I really like there are as many who I can’t stand. Bands like Creed and Nickel back -who’s song Rock Star might well be my all time worst song.
Another band that I really can’t stand but who are widely regarded are Queen. When I’ve mentioned this to people the response has often been “how can you not like Queen?“ Well I don’t and I don’t believe that anyone who’s said that to me actually owns any of their records and if they do it’s more than likely The Greatest Hits (that seems to be repackaged and re-released every other Christmas) and I doubt they ever play it.
Kurt Kobain would always champion little known punk bands like Flipper and Bad Brains but would just as regularly mention his love of Queen. I don’t get it, I’ve never heard a Queen song I like. Does anyone really play We Are The Champions outside the realms of a sporting final anymore? Its terrible. Then there’s another sporting events favourite We Will Rock You with the big drum beat, nonsense lyrics and Brian May’s solo that he plays on the guitar he built from a fireplace, motorbike springs and scrap metal. An Argos catalogue guitar would sound better.
Then there’s the Flash Gordon theme song (it fit’s the film well enough, but that’s not a compliment), Fat Bottom Girls and a song about how much fun it is to ride a bicycle. What about Don’t Stop Me Now, everybody likes that song. Non it reminds me of very drunk men dancing at a wedding where one of them has his tie tied around his head.
And as for Bohemian Rhapsody. That opera bit with all the Mama Mia let’s do the fandango with thunderbolts very very frightening. Its just another novelty song from a novelty band.
I can hear Queen fans saying “Fuck off with your Hüsker fucking Dü.”
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