Saturday, April 7, 2012

Bohemian Rhapsody, the most amazing powerful and sentimental song, truly!

By James Albert


Queen's most popular and legendary track, Bohemian Rhapsody is definitely played at virtually all parties and is one of the English rock band's most popular melodies. Released in 1975 and topping the singles chart in the united kingdom for many weeks, this epic rock song is a mixed audible satisfaction of ballad, hard rock, awesome vocals and incredible musicianship.

Today, the buzz of the Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics has not decreased - in truth, this 6 minute long invention is played at most weddings, birthday celebrations, discos and is normally the final tune played in many 70s period clubs across the world.
The relaxing introductory vocals, followed by the ballad section, then acoustic guitar solo, opera, heavy metal then outro all put together to generate one of the finest rock masterpieces of all time.

Introductory Vocals - The Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics are exactly what make it so special. The haunting opening with impressive male harmonised vocals performing the enigmatic words "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?" is one of the most symbolic intros to any kind of rock tune of virtually any kind of time period.

Ballad - Freddie Mercury's vocals and piano solo ballad at the beginning of the track is the 2nd "layer" which usually produces the impressive build-up for the rest of the record. In fact, the song is made up of quite a few tiers and musical styles, and it is this consumption of levels which makes the record amazing.

Guitar - Brian May's effective electric guitar solo bridge progressively boosts the powerful sense of the song, and further emphasises Bohemian Rhapsody's lyrics, particularly strong ones such as "Sometimes I wish I'd never been born at all". The paralyzing desparation and passion of the electric guitar solo adds gravitas to the words even more.

Heavy Metal - Quick, staccato piano chords interlinked with minor and major choral vocals, with "Galileo" repeats provide the record a weird and all round two-minded sense to it. The rapid lyrics, harmonies and vocals rapidly build to a hard rock segment which is the crescendo of this kind of dynamic song.

Outro - The outro echoes the introduction and provides the song to a nice close, with the lyrics "Nothing really matters to me" hauntingly ending the master piece.

The song is an amazingly powerful and sentimental record of the 70s rock time period and is one of the ultimate rock tunes of the time, if not of all time. Whether you're a Queen fan or not, you can't help but love this multi layered powerful piece of music.




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