Reaction: Ogre Battle/Ferry Feller/Nevermore by Queen

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[@barbarjinx3802]

Glad I have a fresh stash for this and MotBQ.

[@GetSidewaysReacts]

Did you see this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIekn516pJ11rdU

[@barbarjinx3802]

@@GetSidewaysReacts yup. Even commented on it.

[@stuartmclaughlin2594]

Just listen to the whole album from start to finish. It is a true work of art. Queens finest album.

[@glyngasson8450]

I saw Queen perform Ogre Battle live. It was an outdoor concert in Cardiff Castle. Listening to this song with the backdrop of a castle was unbelievable.

[@JANI1980.]

Nice 👍😎

[@BostonBobby1961]

I’m amazed to see so many young people reacting to this great Queen music when us old timers were listening to this in our youth when it came out. Glad they’re discovering it and enjoying this great classic Queen music.

[@BlackCat0315]

Queen II Queen at its best, Mercury at his best and Nevermore is one of the great performances in the history of music. Nuff said.

[@sergionoah3635]

neverforever, that song is for aall of us forever

[@Katehowe3010]

Not only is 'Ogre Battle' one of my all time favourite Queen songs, i also believe they never got quite that heavy again! It's no wonder all the metal big boys love their early stuff.

[@bluebell3720]

Freddie wrote ogre battle on guitar Brian was surprised that Freddie wrote a metal riff

[@nickwall2497]

Hit Man from innuendo is full on heavy and White Man from ADATR. Not to mention Stone Cold Crazy, Sheer Heart Attack, Princes Of The Universe, Gimmie The Prize, Was It All Worth it all heavier than OB

[@matthewfinger2381]

@@nickwall2497 Don't forget Brighton Rock, basically thrash metal with lots of chugging from May.

[@greenogre22]

well, they‘ve got many more heavy songs like „stone cold crazy“ (used by metallica) or „gimme the prize“ (much later) and on and on. their catalogue is immensely huge and diverse.

[@deboraclark5791]

Ferry fellow was written by Freddie, he was inspired by a painting he love, all the characters in the song are in the painting. Great reaction.

[@Katehowe3010]

The artist was Richard Dadd.

[@JoaoGabriel-em1vn]

ok

[@davidbaker8483]

@@Katehowe3010 Painted while he was a patient in Bethlem Hospital for the insane from which the name Bedlam is derived.

[@bluebell3720]

Nevermore" The previous track ends with a three-part vocal harmony from Mercury, May, and Taylor which flows into Mercury playing the piano. This piano carries on to open this track making "Ogre Battle", "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" and the current track, into a medley. All the vocal parts were performed by Mercury, who added some contemporary piano "ring" effects as well. These effects were widely suspected to be synthesisers; however, they were created by someone plucking the piano strings while Mercury played the notes. "Nevermore" is a short ballad written by Mercury about the feelings after a heartbreak.

[@debramoore7513]

Awwww love these three songs!

[@MrEightiesvintage]

The best rock group of all the time

[@sharonallforloveandpositiv5497]

You can find all the characters in The Fairy Fellow Masterstroke painting if you look...Freddie was so imaginative...imagine, Freddie looking at this painting in the Tate Modern Gallery and this song came to his head..

[@i8granola]

You have now started the Black side of the album. Or the side that Freddie wrote. The White side is all written by Brian with the last song being Rogers. I think the black cat making an appearance on the black side of the album would of made Freddie happy. He was very much a cat lover.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Lyrics from other bands are mostly like: "Yes! Yes! Here we go! Yes! Yes Yes! Here we go! Welcome to the Show! Yes! Yes! Yes! Don't stop! Don't stop! Yes! Yes! Here we go!" Queen lyrics like: "Ploughman, waggoner Will and types Politician with senatorial pipe, he's a dilly-dally-o! Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown and a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow! What a dirty laddio!" Spot the difference! *lol ... and yes! "The Fairy Feller Masterstroke" is a painting by Richard Dadd. It think it took him like 9 years (or so) to paint it. As Freddie was an art-student and the paiting is in a museum in London ... perfect! :-) The painting is actutally very "small" ... I saw it once! It's like 50 x 40 cm or something!? o_O But damn! It has some details! ^^+gg Check out the video of a cover-version of an italien design-artist named "Oniric". He highlights every charakter in the painting in a 3D style while the song is playing for a better understanding what's going on! Than you'll notice how epic this song (and painting) really is! I mean: there is a lot going on in this paiting!!! And if you look at every detail, there is an easter-egg hidden in his video! He draw me playing flute in this painting, so actually I attend the master stroke as well!? ^^+gg

[@TheMiseryIndex]

You could live for another 1000 years and still not hear anything so expertly written and sung

[@janettesinclair6279]

No wonder the music papers (NME and/or Rolling Stone) couldn't put Queen into a genre! Unbelievably diverse song writing which is what keeps them always fresh and timeless. As current today as they were then.

[@mori1bund]

@K R The Rolling Stone *hated* Queen. Their reviews and articles about the band were full of hate, vitirol and ridiculously unfair criticism towards them.

[@p.p.8022]

I didn't know that part about hate. How they could perhaps some different bend was their favourite. Queen wrote songs in 16 different genres🤘🤪. No wonder that they don't know where to put them, because they are unique different ❤ Maiden has same formula songs on each album, Metallica same AC/DC you name them. They saund all like 1 long song

[@mori1bund]

@@p.p.8022 About the "hate" part: I tried to post a link to a Rolling Stone article here but KZbin won't let me, so I just post the whole damn review!! 😅😅🤣 This one is from 1979, to Queen's Jazz album, but pretty much all RS reviews to Queen albums sound like that! -> "There’s no Jazz on Queen’s new record, in case fans of either were worried about the defilement of an icon. Queen hasn’t the imagination to play jazz-Queen hasn’t the imagination, for that matter, to play rock & roll. Jazz is just more of the same dull pastiche that’s dominated all of this British supergroup’s work: tight guitar/bass/drums heavy-metal clichés, light-classical pianistics, four-part harmonies that make the Four Freshmen sound funky and Freddie Mercury’s throat-scratching lead vocals. Anyway, it shouldn’t be surprising that Queen calls its album “jazz.” The guiding principle of these arrogant brats seems to be that anything Freddie & Company want, Freddie & Company get. What’s most disconcerting about their arrogance is that it’s so unfounded: Led Zeppelin may be as ruthless as medieval aristocrats, but at least Jimmy Page has an original electronic approach that earns his band some of its elitist notions. The only thing Queen does better than anyone else is express contempt. Take the LP’s opening song, “Mustapha.” It begins with a parody of a muezzin’s shriek and dissolves into an approximation of Arabic music. This is part of Queen’s grand design. Freddie Mercury is worldly and sophisticated, a man who knows what the muezzin sounds like. More to the point, you don’t. What trips the group up, as usual, is the music. “Mustapha” is merely a clumsy and pretentious rewrite of “Hernando’s Hideaway,” which has about as much to do with Middle Eastern culture as street-corner souvlaki. But it’s easy to ascribe too much ambition to Queen. “Fat Bottomed Girls” isn’t sexist-it regards women not as sex objects but as objects, period (the way the band regards people in general). When Mercury chants, in “Let Me Entertain You,” about selling his body and his willingness to use any device to thrill an audience, he isn’t talking about a sacrifice for his art. He’s just confessing his shamelessness, mostly because he’s too much of a boor to feel stupid about it. Whatever its claims, Queen isn’t here just to entertain. This group has come to make it clear exactly who is superior and who is inferior. Its anthem, “We Will Rock You,” is a marching order: you will not rock us, we will rock you. Indeed, Queen may be the first truly fascist rock band. The whole thing makes me wonder why anyone would indulge these creeps and their polluting ideas." (Rolling Stone, Issue 284)

[@dianecourtney2724]

Rolling Stone all group think . Scared to not be “ in”. 😂

[@p.p.8022]

@@mori1bund this is unbelievable! Who ever wrote this how they dare to call We Will Rock You a fascist song!!! I would punch that person in the face. Freddie was a gentle kind man with best vocals and performance. F... that magazine people think differently.

[@Mark28644]

"Queen II" is a real beast of an album. Their best album...EVER!!

[@queenmiriam3058]

Yessss, amazing!!!! This was 🔥 Thankyou guys, I just love Queen. Great to see their legacy still lives on. Timeless!! Much bless and keep up the good work.

[@SuperDancingdevil]

The Master Stroke a painting by Richard Dadd is one of Freddie’s favourite paintings it’s described in the song with added flourish by Freddie.

[@mrvlsmrv]

Saw them in January of 1977. They opened with Tie Your Mother Down. WOW! Then more pyro with Ogre Battle. It looked as though Freddie was throwing exploding lightning bolts. And the music was spot on and with quad speakers. Two songs in and I knew I was experiencing something special.

[@chrisstones1249]

My goodness .you two guys are hitting the ball out of the park.to coin an American phrase, fabulous choices and even more fabulous reactions . keep it going guys .👌👌👌💎💎💎👍👍👍🇬🇧

[@debbiecook8777]

Great reaction to wonderful songs! I’m glad you saved the cat. They all get into trouble and they all have to be the star of videos and ZOOM meetings. Freddie was a cat lover and would have approved.

[@dianecourtney2724]

Maybe cat was Freddie

[@ZENOBlAmusic]

Great reaction, it is nice that you allowed these song to transition into each other. The Fairy Feller Master-Stroke actually features a polka, how many rock artist have added a polka into their music? Freddie Mercury was a great composer. You guys should check out Ogre Battle live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1975. The live version is great.

[@sherryheim5504]

A triad of greatness, I love this album.

[@stephenmcgreevy9650]

The best Queen album

[@pouirritado9443]

The best live is the live at the rainbow🌈👏

[@vovindequasahi]

This album kicks ass! Fun fact: The riff for Ogre Battle is Freddies!

[@giovannitudisco4907]

Great album! Queen the bests of the Universe!

[@shanecopner7827]

On march the 8th,my favourite queen album by miles,is 50 years old,and this came out when i was 3 years old😁😁

[@debramoore7513]

OMG - FANTASTIC!! You should check out OGRE BATTLE live!! And, there was never a more beautiful song than NEVERMORE. 🍃🌸🍃🌼🍃🌺🍃🌟⭐️💫 Great reactions!!! I just purchased a vintage QUEEN II album. Yay!!

[@kuntumhapsari5364]

Masterpiece !!!

[@dianecourtney2724]

Yes!

[@user-jw2ru9ho9l]

What a wonderful band formed by 4 perfect musicians. Freddie’s extraordinary amazing musical abilities in every aspect is totally out of this world!!

[@bmarrello1]

Queen's BEST album ever! I'm 64 and saw them live several times in the 70's and 80's

[@bmarrello1]

new subscriber also

[@trudehunnicutt8214]

Freddie was the master story teller. 🥰

[@mariammm4928]

This album was my first time to listen to Queen in 1992) I was 12 and got this tape. I was impressed! Since then I love Queen, I listen to Queen, I watch concerts) and never get boring ❤

[@Dimentius1]

The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke is the best song!!!!

[@cathyshaw-kalloo237]

yessss, my favorite Queen song. for 49 years, lol, it never gets old

[@bluebell3720]

all the tracks on the black side are freddies Brian plays guitar on the album but freddie wrote the full song on guitar Brian said if you want to try and play that on acustic be my guest! he was surprised freddie wrote quite a metal riff for it

[@bluebell3720]

Ogre battle!

[@ornitorrinkko]

At last!!!! Thnaks. Queen II is the best of the Queen records!

[@debramoore7513]

Okay you guys had me at NEVERMORE & now the March Of The Black Queen! One of my favs. Just subbed … Hey I had a thought NEVERMORE is a break up song, so to speak. About the same time period as this album Freddie & Mary Austin were breaking up! Any thoughts?

[@ninagray4441]

Queen II is at least a year before he and Mary broke up. From what I understood it was between Shear Heart and Night at, or even during the making of Night at...

[@Lynn-qv2xj]

Three wonderful songs.

[@Semajsenrab72]

Nevermore is a beautiful, clever song, needs to be more widely known

[@pabloarias1229]

Uno de los mejores discos de Queen!

[@ledzeppacker]

roger sings all the super high notes.

[@ZENOBlAmusic]

Not always in ogre Battle Freddie sang the highest note C#6.

[@cjwebber8236]

Hey don’t apologize for the cat 🐈‍⬛ black cats are 😎. Also Freddie had like a dozen living with him near the end of his life

[@martin-sandoval11]

Una buena canción de heavy metal

[@islandhorizonvideos8230]

True Greatness!

[@aut0maniak]

Yes!

[@shubono3186]

I love QUEEN II.

[@hellsbells8689]

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, not ferry feller.

[@ledzeppacker]

know any rappers this creative? i doubt it. theyd have to learn how to play an instrument.

[@mariacandelariacabrerapere1392]

Reacción a Cristina ramos en got telen British alucinaras ella canta ópera rock desdé Tenerife

[@timmebee6097]

The unholy trinity!

[@carloscarlesijara]

Lo mejor que existe en el rock nivel Mozart

[@kentnottingham9635]

Another one that needs to be in stereo!!!!

[@anamarquez4939]

Perfect album

[@ludofuzz3012]

The march of the black queen is the hors d œuvre after all this

[@badhabitz69]

Absolutely!!!

[@andreaferraris5277]

Guys, it's Fairy Feller, fairy! :D

[@estebanrucereto]

Queen ll is all a masterpiece

[@kissesfromcoco]

No audio?

[@ludofuzz3012]

What a surprise when i discovered the fairy Feller panting when i bought the rare bird coffret

[@nykterion7]

AMEN 🙏🏼 ❤❤❤