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January 25, 2013

Go ahead, spend 25 minutes watching this and regretting that you were not at Wembley Stadium on July 13, 1985

Posted by S. Abbas Raza at 05:50 PM | Permalink

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Or 1986!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIdKrSJ6270

Posted by: Louise Gordon | Jan 25, 2013 7:53:32 PM

wow amazing! thank you!

Posted by: Max | Jan 25, 2013 8:10:25 PM

how is this video relevant to your Blog ? Great band, but really people visit your blog to links to posts on politics philosophy etc and uploading this video is putting too much of your personal tastes into a bigger ideal.

Posted by: IH | Jan 25, 2013 10:06:27 PM

I saw Queen in Fort Worth, TX (of all places) in December 1977. It was my first concert, and it set the bar unreachably high for every concert I've attended since.

Posted by: Keith | Jan 25, 2013 10:41:08 PM

"shivers down my spine"

Posted by: juju | Jan 25, 2013 11:01:54 PM

I WAS there!

Posted by: VM | Jan 25, 2013 11:07:05 PM

Hey IH, It's HIS blog.
Also, if this doesn't seem cultural enough or something, then you just aren't paying attention.
Personally I have been enjoying Abbas' Freddie bender and judging by the comments I ain't the only one.
Sometimes it's important to just relax and dance instead of constantly fretting about current events (*Picture Noam Chomsky watching the superbowl; could you imagine a crappier guest? Actually you don't have to http://www.theonion.com/articles/exhausted-noam-chomsky-just-going-to-try-and-enjoy,17404/)
Point being, it would be good for folks like presumably you and presumably me that actively try to educate ourselves about the world to take a deep breath once in a while and enjoy some Queen.
That is all
DtD
P.S. You kinda have a point

Posted by: DrunktankDan | Jan 26, 2013 2:04:23 AM

Also, Homie, is there really not enough content on here for you to go through?
I usually only have time for a few articles a day. Def don't got time for 25 minutes of queen on my quick work break. . .sadly.
But yeah dude, there is plenty of heavy stuff to click through around here.

Posted by: DrunktankDan | Jan 26, 2013 2:14:21 AM

Sublime. Masters of their craft doing the job to perfection.

Posted by: ♪ Kompani ♪ | Jan 26, 2013 3:48:54 AM

i see "arts" right there in the top banner. it even comes before "politics" or "philosophy".

and there really is no bigger ideal than queen.

Posted by: chris | Jan 26, 2013 4:07:36 AM

IH--

I suggest not clicking the red box with the white arrow there in the center. This should remedy the problem.

Posted by: Jim | Jan 26, 2013 10:06:11 AM

I appreciate your musical and video posts, even though I'm not a Queen fan and don't like some of the other music you post. I watch some of as much as I can find time for, often learn something, and am quite happy to move on to another one of the many, many posts on so many many different and wonderful topics. You do a great job, and your tastes are fascinating and discerning--who cares that we don't always agree?! Thank you.

Posted by: brad | Jan 26, 2013 2:27:21 PM

re IH
Personally…I like the music posts here. It's one of the better aspects of the blog.

I never would have understood what Gangnam Style or Psy was all about without finding it here. (Don't get old.)

The Adam Fulara video is a recent gem. (Thanks for that.)

I know where to go find music I like. It's fun when I find music here I never would have found around my usual haunts. And I think it's totally consistent with the whole spirit of the place.

Posted by: leftover | Jan 26, 2013 4:19:51 PM

No reason why all of us should like the same music, (or the same humor), but I dare say I would never have experienced the (definitive!) Disco Chicken but for this website! Nor would I have had the very best, most productive Easter in many years sharing, and replicating, the marvelous Peep research with my grandkids.

This blog always shares delightful and amazing stuff - long may it wave!

Posted by: Alice de Tocqueville | Jan 26, 2013 5:11:14 PM

IH,

You've already been told most of what I would want to say, but I wanted to hone in on one particular point. A blog is not necessarily a consensus building machine. You're not paying for the content, and Abbas isn't coercing anyone into watching anything. Abbas may choose to take your opinion for what it's worth, but it only has worth in this context based on his taking it. You don't like Queen, great. You like Queen but you don't think it's somehow "relevant" to the blog, great. Either way, you're the one assuming that there is a proper theme for this blog that does not include Youtube posts of Queen's live performances. I would offer that it is this assumption that is more irrelevant, rather than the idiosyncratic tastes curated by the site's owner.

Posted by: Ben Schwartz | Jan 29, 2013 3:08:49 PM

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