Tuesday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Hammer To Fall" by Queen, from 1984's The Works. 

Live Aid Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985.

What makes Queen's 1985 Live Aid performance so amazing? 

Monday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Tie Your Mother Down" by Queen, from 1976's A Day at the Races. 

Comments at the video: 

@yarslf 6 years ago

This bass...

This voice...

This drums...

This guitar...

It's Queen...

@JohnvanCapel 5 years ago (edited)

Brian May: Astrophysicist, animal welfare activist, all around gentleman.

Also Brian May: Writes this and Fat Bottomed Girls.

Monday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)" by Queen, from 1982's Hot Space. 

* Lyrics by Brian May. (I bet, like me, you're first guess was Freddie.)

Monday's Friday Morning Music Video

NSFW (Lyrics)

 

This tune is incredible. 

"Death on Two Legs" by Queen, from 1975's A Night at the Opera.

Brian May and John Deacon redefine Guitar Greatness.

You have to listen closely, but Roger Taylor's drumming is almost non-stop the entire song.

Freddie's vocals never grittier or more brutal; lyrics spitting fire.

Wiki: "Death on Two Legs" is considered to be Mercury's hate letter to Queen's first manager, Norman Sheffield, who for some years was reputed to have mistreated the band and abused his role as their manager from 1972 to 1975. The lyrics refer to "blood-sucking leeches" and "decaying sewer rats".

Hit the Comments at the video:

"Only Freddie could record a song in which he is spitting venomous hatred toward someone, and still make it sound beautiful and uplifting. A perfect album opener for one of the most perfect albums ever made!"

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"Queen made disstracks before it was cool y’all." 👍

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"Boy freddie mercury sounds like hes legit pissed in this song."

"And rightfully so. That manager was sucking them dry."

"This ain’t just a diss track... this is a full on assault!" 👍

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"The complexity of this song, and it's brilliance.....is INSANE! Masterpiece!"

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"The way it transitions to the piano gets me every time."

More after the Pagebreak:

Friday Morning Music Video

Advisory: Video contains some (basically inoffensive) glimpses of (slight) nudity.

"Bicycle Race" by Queen, from 1978's Jazz.

Fun Fact: "Bicycle Race" is a complex composition by Mercury. It features several modulations, unusual chord functions, a meter change (4/4 to 6/8 and back), and a programmatic section (a race of guitars emulating the bicycle race).

Fun Fact #2: Filmed by Denis de Vallance, the promotional video featured 65 nude women, all professional models, bicycle racing at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, southwest London. The group rented the stadium and several dozen bicycles for one day for filming the scene; however, when the renting company became aware of the way their bikes were used, they requested that the group purchase all the bicycle seats. 🤣 

Thursday's Friday Morning Music Video

Depending how you want to count the number of preceding bands, in groupings or count each band individually, at Wembley it was ~19 individual solo bands had played their sets. ~25 solos bands had played at John F. Kennedy Stadium. Those attending were tired and sluggish. It was a great but long day, even if you only had Farm Aid on in the background for the music and acts you didn't want to miss. People watching it at home were yawning.

And then...Queen hit the stage like mainlining adrenaline into the heart, re-energizing everyone. 

"Radio Ga Ga" by Queen, from 1984's The Works. (Live Aid Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985).

 

Oregon Bicycle Tax...I Want To Ride My Bicycle...Bicycle...Bicycle!

Advisory: Video contains some (inoffensive) glimpses of (slight) nudity.

This is as good as it gets. This is the kind of story for which I live. This is a story about Full Circle Liberalism, because it's funny when Liberals are TAXED and assessed FEES!

In the past, it was those who engaged in "vices" that were hit hard with taxes. Mostly, users of tobacco and those who enjoy a cocktail took the hit.

Could it be that because so many people quit smoking that Oregon state revenue also dropped and now the time has come to tax the bikers? Full Circle Liberalism...how can you not just love this type of story?

Oregon will tax bicyclists.  The Washington Times:

...the state Legislature’s approval of the first statewide bike tax in the nation has fallen flat with riders.

Democratic Gov. Kate Brown is expected to sign the sweeping $5.3 billion transportation package, which includes a $15 excise tax on the sale of bicycles costing more than $200 with a wheel diameter of at least 26 inches.

Even though the funding has been earmarked for improvements that will benefit cyclists, the tax has managed to irk both anti-tax Republicans and environmentally conscious bikers.

Ahhhhhh, da poor widdle environmentally (un)conscious bikers and the sound of their communal Liberal Whining. (Sniff, sniff..) it's just...so movingly touching.

Dear Whining Oregon Bicyclists, if you can pay over $200 for  a bike, you can afford another $15 for "the state".

Continued from the same linked story above:

BikePortland publisher Jonathan Maus called it “an unprecedented step in the wrong direction.”

“We are taxing the healthiest, most inexpensive, most environmentally friendly, most efficient and most economically sustainable form of transportation ever devised by the human species,” Mr. Maus said.

Wrong, Mr. Maus. The most inexpensive, most environmentally friendly, most efficient and most economical sustainable form of transportation EVER - is WALKING. Besides, what adult makes a statement that will be published, saying, "[INSERT TOPIC] is the best thing EVER"?  Are you in middle school, Mr. Maus?

It might take you a few hours or more to walk the 5 or 25 miles to work, but don't you feel better about not using a bicycle, which takes natural resources, steel, labor, rubber, plastic and a bunch of other stuff. Plus the retail mark-up; 'ho, we can't forget the greedy, money and soul-sucking, bastard corporatists.  They're making a profit...how dare they!

And let's not forget, the bike is not going to drive itself to your local bike shop. No, it will probably get there by being transported in a large semi-truck. And if your precious bike is made in overseas, then it spent some time on a cargo ship. My God, think of the carbon footprint. How dare you own a bicycle, you aristocratic elite bastards!

But it takes natural resources and stuff to make shoes and hiking boots too! Yeah, but still not as much as a bicycle.

More from the same story:

Oregon Republican Party Chairman Bill Currier blasted what he described as Ms. Brown’s “endless obsession with finding new and innovative ways to take money out of the pockets of Oregon taxpayers.”

This Libertarian (that would be me) is MORE than joyous to see a Democrat governor in a deeply imbued Blue state, find "new and innovative ways to take money [from taxpayers]." Especially the taxpayer tri  bicycle riders.

More, from the same story:

The Street Trust, a Portland pro-bike group, praised the overall transportation package while saying that the bike tax “sends the wrong message to those trying to help.”

“Let’s be frank: This bike tax is very disappointing,” said The Street Trust’s Romain Bonilla.

Oh, Romain, that's so sad. Yes, it is so very disappointing, eh Romain?

Liberal Whining...The Best Ever. EVER!

And this nugget, from the same story.

Bikers cheered last year when Portland passed a four-year, 10-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline aimed at improving roads[.]

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh...typical Liberal refrain; "tax thee but not me."

On a different issue, Gov. Brown has decreed "free abortions for all."  The Washington Times:

“The ability to control our bodies and make informed decisions about health are critical to providing all Oregonians the opportunity to achieve our full potential and live productive, thriving lives,” the Democratic chief executive said in an email. “Attempts to deny access to contraceptives and family planning are an attack on all Oregonians, particularly women of color, low-income and young women.”

Yes, I guess in order to achieve full potential, living productive and BEST EVER  THRIVING lives, a free abortion is an inalienable right. And so is a bicycle. Maybe?
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Spelling/Punctuation correction(s) 8/10/2017