i just picked up the “Queen’s Greatest Hits Vol. I II and III, Platinum”
and i have to say it is the greatest 3 cds ive owned in my life! any one else like queen?
ya queens awesome. my brother has the greatest hits cd (i think its greatest hits) that i listen to alot.
Queen is definitely one of the best. Too bad Freddy Mercury was a flaming homosexual, or maybe we could’ve been treated to his incredible voice just a bit longer.
We weren’t deprived of his music because he was a flaming homosexual. We were deprived of his music because he died of AIDS. There are a lot of flaming homosexuals who don’t have AIDS, and there are a lot of people who have died of AIDS who are not flaming homosexuals.
Back in the days of vinyl (they used to press music onto it, believe it or not), I had all of the first eight albums that Queen recorded. Great stuff!
Rich
Rich, I realize that - my post was more of a mockery of the typical gay = AIDS stereotype.
I actually like flaming homosexuals - they’re pretty funny, and can help me pick out what to wear. 
Sorry, missed the mocking.
Mercury was awfully creative, that’s for sure! Too bad he never updated one of the songs on “Jazz”: seems to me like “I want to ride my unicycle” would have been great lyrics. 
Rich
A real fan would own the full albums and not a greatest hits compliation.
Queen is one of my favorite bands. They made some unique music. I have a bunch of their albums on CD. The first ever vinyl LP album that I ever bought was Queen’s News Of The World with We Will Rock You on it. I still have that album and still own a turntable so I can play it.
Their final album, Made In Heaven, is a very nice tribute to Freddie. It’s one of my favorite albums.
The one thing I don’t like about Queen is that they panned some of their music to the left and right which makes it a strange sensation when listening with headphones.
I used to love listening to “The Prophet’s Song” in headphones! What a trip!
Rich
well sorry john but im 14 with no job and my christmas money is running low. if i had a few hundred dollars to spend on something i would, but i dont so i wont.
It was a completely tongue in cheek comment, thus the smiley. I should have put the winking smiley there, but I like that cute pink one.
I read a newspaper article a year or two ago about how the young folks are discovering Queen and other classic rock in part due to the dearth of creativity in current contemporary music and also because they need to fill up their MP3 player. I remember that article because it had a picture of a young teen specifically mentioning Queen and mentioning that they filled their MP3 player with Queen. Not sure if they were legal downloads or not, but no bother to me. They’re listening to Queen and better for it.
yeah mine was too, but i didnt discover queen due to the death of creativity, ive always liked the style and ever since i was a wee young lad ive loved it when bohemian rhapsody came on the radio it made me want to cry it was sooo beautiful(? 
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Queen are awesome. My father used to love them, and we’d listen to them all the time. But then thigns changed, and he stopped listening to it. But I still isten to it. That was how I was introduced to it. I have a few songs by them. I love them a lot. But they aren’t my favourite band or anything.
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Er… is that you in your avatar? If so, they’re not helping…
I like flaming homosexuals, but I prefer them grilled over a low light, and served with a nice Chianti.
I read some figures yesterday. There are more heterosexuals with HIV/AIDS than homosexuals with HIV/AIDS in the UK. On the other hand, there are more heterosexuals to catch it.
All the best rock and rollers die tragically. Buddy Holly - plane crash; Eddie Cochran - taxi crash (cheapskate!); Sid Vicious - suicide after murdering his girlfriend; Bon Scott - not taking enough water with it; Elvis, er… died on the toilet… Roy Orbison, died in his mother’s arms, and never sold another record.
When someone widely loved and admired, like Freddie, dies of AIDS, it does a little bit to break down the barriers of prejudice.
I, too, love Queen. I saw them on the Bohemian Rhapsody tour at the Beacon Theater in NYC. I had a thing for this girl, Riley K, who wrote a ballad called The Genius Behind the Eyes - or something like that, about Brian May. I dig the song Tenement Funster, mostly because it’s a cool title.
yeah but whats the ratio of homos to heteros
Depends whom you believe, and what you mean by the two terms.
It seems likely that the ratio is something like 1 person in 100 in this country is actively homosexual, but the figure could be somewhat higher or lower for all I know.
In some times and places, it has been a fashionable option rather than a personal sexuality issue. In ancient Greece, the middle and upper classes engaged in heterosexual activity for breeding purposes, and homosexual activity “by preference”. It was learned and accepted behaviour. On the other hand, in modern Britain, it is still stigmatised behaviour, yet some individuals find that they are naturaly inclined to homosexuality. Complex issues there. The nature/nurture debate rages among those who care too much about what other people get up to in private.
But I think your question was related to the maths. Yes, the percentage of homosexual people with HIV/AIDS is very substantially higher than the percentage of heterosexual people with HIV/AIDS - in the UK.
In some African countries, where homosexuality is stigmatised (sometimes to the point of imprisonment or murder of homosexuals) the disease is endemic in the heterosexual population.
Worldwide, it is not “the queers’ disease” or the “gay plague” that the tabloid papers would have us believe. When Freddie died, it was still very much seen in those simplistic terms.
interesting and kind of odd stories mike.
I’m not quite sure how the maths feature in all of this, but when visiting South Africa, try not to need a blood transfusion. It seems we can’t guaranteee it’s safety anymore and we’re trying to score cheap political points in the process.
I have not been allowed to donate blood since I had my first piercing. Body Piercing and tattooing are considered to be ‘high risk behaviour’ and when you go to donate, they ask you if you’ve have any done in the preceding year.
If you have, they tell you that they can’t use your blood.
It made sense to me and somehow it’s never seemed important enough to make me want to lie when answering the question.
Bizarre. Very bizarre.
Or just donate a pint of your own blood when you visit and have them keep it in storage for the duration of your visit. Heck, they’d probably be happy to get all the clean blood they can from visitors as long as they can verify that the visitors are clean.