Queen- Seaside Rendezvous REACTION & REVIEW

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[@stephencolligan]

This whole album is a musical equivalent of a box of chocolates - every track is different ,style wise

[@maraboo72]

One thing I love about Queen is that they did not accept the limits of genres and that there very often is a sense of humour in their music. Wonderful.

[@ellet6560]

The "musical" bridge is Freddie and Roger using just their voices to mimic instruments. They tap danced on the mixing desk with thimbles on their fingers. Jollification!

[@RyanCMcD]

This is on the same album as Bohemian Rhapsody, I'm in Love With My Car, Death on Two Legs, The Prophet's Song, Love of My Life, and You're My Best Friend. And somehow that actually makes total sense. The band was operating on a completely different level. Genius.

[@dannylgriffin]

You are 100% correct IMO. Their creativity knew no bounds here. Although disparate, it all made sense.

[@jerkedevries]

@@dannylgriffinthey simply love making all kinds of music that are a pleasure to listen to imo

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

​@@jerkedevriesHow right you are! 😉

[@keymack2477]

You're totally right, and that list doesn't even include Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon or the brilliant '39!

[@devonvergiels5185]

50ish years of listening to this. Nope, never gets old.

[@sherryheim5504]

This is such a clever little song and the band delivers it with perfection.

[@brucer2152]

I just loved how Queen could come out with these songs and then have all their rockers...it was refreshing.

[@bensteckler6698]

Next song is Prophet's Song. A Mind-blowing epic anthem full of surprises.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Talk about extremes. 😉

[@hatsbo1]

Arguably in the Prog Top Ten

[@vinsgraphics]

JPs mind will be officially blown, again.

[@davidchaplain6748]

That is 2 minutes of pure fun. They pack SO MUCH into one tiny song.

[@Habichiwoowoo]

I remember the first time I listened to this album. Lying on the floor out in the den, headphones on, reading the liner notes, every few minutes saying right out loud to myself, "What the--what--...Okay. Okay..." That was a fun afternoon...

[@hatsbo1]

Lol

[@RickBenbow]

The musical detail in this track is astounding. Listen to it dozens of times and hear so much going on. Throw-away track it ain’t. Freddie was such a great musician.

[@copernichrisrush5082]

Only QUEEN can make a song like this accessible...love it!

[@XFLexiconMatt]

A very clever track especially with the vocalized horns, nice, thank you!

[@andreakormosnekacso4804]

This piece of music is like a good book, where you can SEE the story while reading it. Freddie was a great storyteller by his singing style, and musically as well, and the band members were able to fit into his sort of playful world.

[@deboraclark5791]

I love this song. So fun.

[@TONE11111]

1:43 the tap dancing audio was created by freddy tapping his finger on a thimble on the mixing desk.

[@ChataCovers]

Can't wait for side 2

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Specifically the next masterpiece. 💥

[@TheUpSpinPodcast]

This is one of my “stranded on a desert island” albums. It’s all so damn GOOD!

[@159awi]

I absolutely love this song! From the first time I heard it.

[@courtneywallace871]

Roaring 20’s anyone? Love it!

[@Habichiwoowoo]

Indeed! Giant mink coat and a megaphone...

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

One of Freddie's cheeky pastiches, a' la 'Good Company', which also features on this album of great extremes! 🍦

[@kuntumlaleanqueezer]

Loveee this song

[@bjw0515]

Your right, you can not have a smile when this plays! Light tune on an great album,

[@RogerAbbot-mq9ol]

I liked this, but never got around to smiling, however.

[@juliannetomlinson]

Just love this a real Queen gem.😊

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Agreed, although some have labelled it as filler! 🤔

[@nortski78]

Just in case you never noticed, Queen never took themselves too seriously.

[@radicaladz]

Always worth it to see your face when Queen goes full vaudeville. 😉

[@andrewouellette4998]

I always think of Oscar Wilde when listening to this song. It has tongue in cheek humor turn of the century vibe.

[@jaybird4093]

Gweat twack! So well witten and awanged. The horn parts were done by Roger’s voice. Listen again and you can tell. 1:23

[@RogerAbbot-mq9ol]

Twuly it is.

[@nealeger8154]

This album came out my junior year of high school, and it was BIG. No one ever heard anything like it.

[@davidmaholchic6146]

Pure fun here love it love you

[@-davidolivares]

Stage left… Not many or any bands could have pulled this off except in a different way of course, the Kinks, possibly. Really lifted my mood, tensed out on a deadline, we’ll see what happens.

[@lilaelsi5766]

Freddie once said that their previous albums were way too serious and they really wanted change it on the “Night at the Opera” 😅

[@peaceofiona9198]

The previous album had Misfire and Bring Back That Leroy Brown 😊 And Brightonin

[@paulqueripel3493]

People keep saying Dont stop me now is their happiest song, i think this is. Always makes me smile (and want to tap dance on the table. I cant dance).

[@frugalseverin2282]

This song came out 6 months after 'Holiday Romance' by The Kinks on their underrated "Soap Opera" album. Way similar music hall sound.

[@johnlewis734]

Thank you 👍🏻

[@roberttee9790]

Always felt like this was Queens "Beatles White Album". 👍 Good reaction JP. Your personality is contagious.

[@JustJP]

Ty Rob :)

[@GKViddingHD]

This and "lazing on a sunday afternoon" are my top carefree songs. Thanks for reacting to it :)

[@unichusettsofmassadversity9705]

So fun!

[@simonspeak9288]

Fweddie’s gweat beachtime bweak. I’d pair this one with Leroy Brown on Sheer Heart Attack. Similar swing and whimsical lyrics. They were so versatile and creative.

[@jamesadkisson7510]

The variety of music seems like magic now. A few years ago I was in a band that had a wide variety of interests and styles of songs. It caused some friction when trying to put together an album. I would say it shouldn’t matter. But consensus was the way people listen now if they hear a minute of a song and it’s trip hop or Shoegaze or whatever then they assume that’s what all your songs are. Unfortunately that’s probably true.

[@SpaceCattttt]

I'm pretty sure that Queen wouldn't have been able to write a song THIS campy if Freddie hadn't been "the way he was". Sure, you can copy the sounds of the roaring 20s, but it takes a certain amount of flamboyance to give it the oomph it needs, you know? Anyway, S-tier song. Fantastic.

[@jeffmartin1026]

Another song with this theme is "Holiday Romance" by The Kinks.

[@bensteckler6698]

Roger made the taps with metal thimbles on a desktop.

[@scunner6828]

What you wanted was : " a little runaway romance, RIVIERA rendezvous " to quickly quench your thoughtless thirst for alliteration

[@JustJP]

I love it! Ty Scunner :)

[@toddlandry5736]

Side one is a perfect album side. Hands down. Case closed.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Hi Justin. Dave from London. Enchante! Love this piece of vaudeville whimsy from Freddie and the boys, because they do it brilliantly. It's the variety that really makes it my favourite Queen album. P.S. my song ref Enchante (should be an accent on the e at the end) is a recent song by American duo Dirt Poor Robins from their 2022 album & silent movie (!) Queen of The Night. More vaudeville fun with a dash of French cheekiness.

[@stevedotwood]

adorable!

[@delorangeade]

I once asked someone who I thought would know, what the hardest Queen song would be to play on guitar. He told me this one, so I learned to play it. The joke is that there is no guitar on here. I like this one a lot and it certainly gets the bad taste of sweet lady cheese out of my mouth. Only Queen could have recorded something like this, and Queen were always best when they were being unique to themselves before they began chasing after genres and hits.

[@cosmiccat6708]

Apart from Queen, the only other band that I'm aware of being so eclectic and diverse in styles that is akin to Queen's aesthetic, is the British band 10cc. You really should check them out, perhaps with one of my personal faves and a single, though please react to the album version, "Art For Art's Sake", which is off the album, "How Dare You", released 1976 and an album definitely worthy of your attention, then you'll understand what I mean.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

I'm with you on 10cc. Some say that Bohemian Rhapsody was influenced by Queen hearing 10cc recording One Night In Paris for their Original Soundtrack album.

[@kenl2091]

Definitely, though One Night in Paris and the rest of The Original Soundtrack is their highest spot.

[@cosmiccat6708]

I agree with all your replies, good people. 10cc is a band that is woefully overlooked on reaction channels.

[@jornspirit]

if I remember right, Justin, you once did 'Somewhere in Hollywood' by 10cc?! I love that band, and felt, you started on the wrong foot with them (not your fault of course)... try 'One night in Paris, Part 1-3' (which inspired Bohemian Rhapsody); 'Feel the Benefit, Part 1-3' or 'Take these chains' 😎

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

​@@jornspiritQueen have mentioned the influence of 10cc have they?

[@stephendennis5911]

When you get to the prophets song you will need to continue to the next song love of my life

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Most definitely.

[@jfergs.3302]

If it's vaudville you're after, then revisiting The Dubious Brothers would be a welcome return. With such classics as: The Blue Whale, Inspector Lestrade, and/or You're Wernher Von Braun And I Claim My Five Pounds. Top tunes to a man. Oh, and re the blue whale... I've done the blue whale walk so beautifully sung of 🙂

[@Drummingvulture]

More delightful Queen filler. It'll never be my favorite Queen song, but that's fine. I still enjoy the hell out of it.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

I'd have to disagree with the term 'filler', but we all hear things differently!

[@sicko_the_ew]

Firstly, when this came up I immediately predicted that you'd like it, and I was right. So it's a funny old world, and sometimes we get it right, and I can be very proud of my own self, too, and not just of you for having such good taste. And then secondly, I think Freddy might've enjoyed something like the musical, _The Boyfriend_ , at some time and been inspired by this. (I think before the ragtime craze of the time there was a Roaring Twenties craze - and a good thing, that, too). Songs like *The Riviera* kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2baZYWPib-tpck are also much more recent than they sound. And then thirdly, (but you can go now if you find irrelevancies too irrelevant) I wonder if there isn't actually some kind of malicious deity in charge of everything, who punished Jon Ivar ("Yon Eye Vahr") for calling the current Twenties _The Boring Twenties_ by giving him a heart attack. Or maybe it was because there are possibly satanic images on the cover of the album containing *Bazooka Mirror* . Or maybe it was just because *Bazooka Mirror* is a bit loud, and the said deity didn't feel like listening to it again that night, so found it convenient to put a halt to proceedings by giving the Known Blasphemer, Jon Ivar, a heart attack. It really is quite loud, but judge for yourself if you doubt me: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g33ak6B5h7lkjrc Or maybe it was because the week before there's a slight possibility (taken out of thin air) that Jon Ivar was listening to Circus Devils (which has the word "d---ls" in its name). Maybe *Mother Skinny* kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHfUf42fmcach68 ... ? ... uh ... Where am I? Helloooooooo ... Sorry, does anyone remember my name. I need to know whether to answer this message, or whether it's for someone else.

[@dannylgriffin]

Who else could have written or thrown this original 1920's style song on a rock album? I think they were just having fun and bragging how good they were. Too bad it mostly lasted just one album. :)

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

One album? How you come to that conclusion is simply baffling!

[@Drummingvulture]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 I highly concur.

[@dannylgriffin]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 I listened to them. Okay, I've only listened to four albums. My bad. 😞 And I did say "mostly."

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

@dannylgriffin No problem mate. 😊

[@pseudoism]

sunshine in a song…

[@CCDzine]

More of a Rudy Valentino type song.

[@jimwilcox2964]

He does mention him in this song

[@brucer2152]

Beachside Ballyhoo

[@JustJP]

Coastal Connection

[@sagnyc]

A lot of viewers didn't care for the previous track, "Sweet Lady." Well, THIS is the one I don't care for. I do usually like pastiches. For instance, I like all the McCartney songs that Lennon derided as "granny music" - Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Ob-la-di Ob-la-da - though I make an exception for When I'm 64, which tries too hard to be cute. So does Seaside Rendezvous, in my view. WAY too hard. Moreover, why should there be three - THREE- old-timey pastiches on a single album? Isn't that overkill? Especially considering how broad your stylistic range is in the first place? At least Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon keeps it brief. The other pastiche, Good Company, is excellent. For one thing, it actually is ABOUT something, whereas Freddie's two are just frivolous exaltations of top-hat-and-tails high society. (See also Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, though I think that's a better bit of songwriting.) Also, May's manipulation of overdubbed guitars in Good Company to emulate the sound of a trad jazz band is nothing short of astonishing. The vocal emulations of wind instruments on Seaside Rendezvous are of course impressive as well, but they're literally the only thing I like about the song. I can't help thinking that Freddie's interest in this kind of thing might come from the intersection of race, colonialism, conflicted sexuality and identity, etc. that he had dealt with his whole life. Maybe he's actually mocking his own aspirations of social climbing. Anyway. Looking forward to the excellent Side Two!

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Kinda filler, but that's alright. I have more favourite Queen albums tbh.

[@keithbk]

Yet another example of a great song ruined by the production; this should have been sonically "wide" and feels compressed and unevenly balanced. I think this album musically was fabulous, but 3/4 of the production is inadequate to the music presented.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Part of the reason why 'A Day At The Races' is a better album, although that's taking nothing away from this one!