Panic! At The Disco has been playing Bohemian Rhapsody on their The Gospel Tour, and I gotta say, this is hands down the best version ever of this song (apart from the original, of course…). Check them out and tell me if you’ve ever heard a better one… Good job you guys!
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That was way better than I expected it to be.
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Sounds just like Styx did when they played it in the 70s
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Styx?
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Styx? Do you mean Queen?
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Fantastic 😊
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Without a doubt. Best version I have ever heard. And it stays true to the original.
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THAT was amazing! <3'd it!
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Beautiful……………….but what’s with the no shirt?
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Just his personal preference of presenting himself to blend with the music.
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Freddy also often did not wear a shirt with his tight white jeans while performing this…
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Awesome!!!!
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A minus on the smoke and lights – the tech toys package & production. C+ on the vocal talent and D minus on their musicianship.
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Muito bom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I heard this done by another band some years ago. They did it far better. I think they were called Queen ?
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best rendition meaning other than the original………
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Shut up William, they are awesome.
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Why do people rave about a band that does a cover song ? This vid shows a band doing a Queen song quite well, but, do you know what, they don’t do it as well as Queen did it, they didn’t write it, and most of the good feelings people get listening to the song are there because people know the song … because they heard Queen do it.
Praising a band for doing a cover, no matter how well, is akin to praising the bloke that carries away the paperwork of the bestest ever peace deal.
Praise the people that made it all happen, not the copycats.
Sheesh.
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So then do you say that an instrumentalist doesn’t deserve praise when they play a piece of music well that they did not write? Obviously they are not the composer, they most likely weren’t who the composer wrote the piece for. But they learned it and mastered it. Do you tell them “the original was better.” No, you congratulate them on a job well done. How then is this group of musicians any different? They performed a well known piece by a well known group and they performed well. They brought back to life a song that can no longer be performed by its creators. In fact, by your logic every musician could be considered a copycat. The majority of musicians play music written by someone else. Berating a performance because they aren’t the “original” is idiotic. Judge a performance by the quality. Panic! At the Disco moved that audience by more than just a cover song, they moved them with their performance. That’s all a musician can ask for.
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Every classical pianist or high school choir are performing a “cover” of and original piece written up to centuries ago.. They key here is this is a complicated musical number and they did it well and without tainting the mastery of Queen and their original music. I first saw this performed by Queen on a late-night TV show around 1975, I loved it then and love it now. this young group has done justice to the music. I wish them well in future performances and hope they do bring life to the old such as Zeppelin, Heart, Styx and Pink Floyd would be Great!
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William. You are a retard
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I really enjoyed it was excellent thanks for sharing it with us.
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reminiscing Freddie Mercury’s band called Queen, Brian May’s Lead Guitar is much better.
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Good Job covering a great song. 😀
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Sweet sweet memories… very good performance, and such a pretty young man playing and singing. Liked the guitarist too.
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Fantastic. .. Thank god for cover bands they keep the brilliance of bands and songs like this in the here and now… really enjoyed it and I could picture the queen video playing in my mind.
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Hey Nancy, Panic! At the Disco isn’t a cover band, but close enough.
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Why a cover? Fk u !! Queen with Freddy Mercury r Uniq’s. Long life 2 Queen !! (Y)
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Great job, they used some of the original vocal tracks. Check out P!nk’s version, live from the Funhouse tour, my personal favorite.
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I remember the original, this gave me chills also. Jcs
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Big deal. Just doing something that’s already been done and didn’t like the original either.
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Yea..This was good. But I think Pink did better…matter of opinion I suppose.
Check it out:
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Chris, I thought Panic did a great job, but I agree with you Pink had much better instrumental and her vocals were strong.
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You guys obviously havent seen these guys!!
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as of the saying, ‘ The original is the Best’ BUT…., this is slightly good than the original.
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Reblogged this on The Communication Coach in 7 Words and commented:
I love the original and I love this. Having performed this number myself I know just how hard it is to pull off, great modern interpretation of a classic. Enjoy!
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Yeah, for me, Panic’s singer does not nail the falsetto parts, and there is something wierd going on with the background vocals (parts definitely sound like they are going through harmonizers to add more voices, and look at the last few bars of the middle section where no one is singing into a mic but there is a huge background chorus). Also, guitar player isn’t really up to the task of doing Brian May, BUT, they do a pretty good job for a young band covering a very difficult piece of music on stage.
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