Wanted, Opinions on where "Queen" Rates?

[3LB]

I dunno Smokes, Radio CaCa?

Yes, that review from Creem circa '75 is typical media elitism of the day. It was prolly cut and paste of their Relayer review from a year before. If you weren't Dylanesque or Lou Reedish or The Rolling Stones you didn't matter. I'm surprised that RS or Creem could make the time actually listen to other albums the same year Blood On The Tracks and Born To Run came out. Notice too, that while he's criticing an album he may or may not have actually listen he takes a swipe at progressive rock as well any form of music he disapproves. Freddy Mercury was no less manly or more outlandish than Mick Jagger or the frail Robert Plant, but when Mercury did rock he was aping Cabaret, which the "reviewer" intimates was the wrong way to do rock-n-roll. Did this reviewer have as big a problem with T-Rex's Bang A Gong or The Who's Squeeze Box as he did Fat Bottom Girls?

Of well, it was 1975. These rags didn't realize that a wave of leather-clad Monkees were on their way to save rock-n-roll within another year or so.

[rakeford]

I enjoy them partly because... they're just fun. Nay, they are not my favorite, but I do have several CD's. I may even get more of their material, but they are not my top priority. Perhaps a field of naked women riding bicycles is immature, but for some, it sure is fun!

I found myself perusing some of their youtube videos. That was entertaining, and enhanced my respect for them.

Perhaps most folks know Queen via Bohemian Rhapsody, in itself a unique piece in the realm of Rock-n-Roll. That is unfortunate because they have done so much more.