Queen Deep Dive: Come into my enclosure, and meet "My Melancholy Blues"
As we close out the angst and edge of News of the World with Freddie's stunningly jazzy and sweeping "My Melancholy Blues", I feel a touch of the blues myself. This number evokes that emotion effortle...
21 Nov 202130min
Queen Deep Dives: Special Double Episode Celebration
It's my 100th podcast episode! To celebrate, I'm breaking down two Queen songs, back-to-back; John Deacon's Latin-flare "Who Needs You" and Brian May's rockin' out "It's Late". NOTE: "It's Late" Dive ...
19 Nov 202153min
Queen Deep Dive: Been "Sleeping on the Sidewalk"
In a rare one-off, with the help of John on groovin' bass and Roger on shuffling drums, Brian jives on his guitar and all vocals to give us "Sleeping on the Sidewalk", a bluesy, breezy song with an in...
13 Nov 202122min
Queen Deep Dive: Everybody, "Get Down, Make Love"
Leave it to Freddie Mercury to bring the heat with Queen's first overtly sexual song, "Get Down, Make Love"; complete with a psychedelic interlude. It's polarized fans from the very beginning, and cri...
11 Nov 202128min
Alienation & Feeling Completely Outside Everything
Do you ever feel irrelevant, too? Yeah. I get you. In this episode, I dig into the digital world, social media, digital privacy, skepticism, trust (or lack of it, rather), and how all of that informs ...
7 Nov 202133min
Queen Deep Dive: Fight from the Inside", attack from the rear
When Roger Taylor brings it on an angry song, you better believe it's going to be feisty. And hot. "Fight from the Inside" is both, and is surprisingly, kind of sort of disco. In a way. It's that guit...
5 Nov 202125min
Queen Deep Dive: "Spread Your Wings" and fly away
John Deacon gives us his first of two tracks on News of the World, "Spread Your Wings". Many fans adore this, crowds always loved it, and I personally think it's one of John's best, if not his best. A...
31 Okt 202130min
Queen Deep Dive: "All Dead, All Dead" all the dreams we had
Partially inspired by the loss of his cat, Brian gives us one of Queen's darkest lyrical moments with "All Dead, All Dead". It's surprisingly jazzy and almost glittery with its piano arrangement; and ...
29 Okt 202123min
