{"id":354,"date":"2012-06-29T14:47:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2012-06-29T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:47:57","slug":"songs-i-never-get-tired-of-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Songs I Never Get Tired Of #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JU5LMG3WFBw<\/p>\n

Hammer to Fall<\/em><\/p>\n

By: Queen<\/p>\n

What’s not to love about Queen? Freddie Mercury’s incredible voice and theatrical style, Brian May’s clean and wailing flanged guitar sounds,\u00a0a capella\u00a0<\/em>vocals, and a band that understands the\u00a0soul<\/em> of rock ‘n’ roll. I could go on for pages and pages and still not even scratch the surface of this band’s legacy.<\/p>\n

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Damn, but I want that jacket<\/p><\/div>\n

Everybody seems to know and love Queen; I’ve even seen self-professed homophobes disregard the knowledge of Freddie Mercury’s sexual preferences because the band rocks\u00a0that<\/em> hard. It’s the kind of music that transcends genre preferences. I’ve seen dyed-in-the-wool country music fans get up and sing along to\u00a0Bohemian Rhapsody\u00a0<\/em>at the karaoke bar.<\/p>\n

True to my generation, my first exposure to Queen was thanks to Mike Myers, despite the fact that my father had a couple of Queen albums on vinyl at home.<\/p>\n

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Party on<\/p><\/div>\n

We owned the album (pictured above), but probably only really paid attention to the first track. Further exposure to Queen was thanks to the Highlander movie, and once a band had its hooks in me like that, a quick trip to Napster often led to a download of a band’s discography.<\/p>\n

So why did I choose ‘Hammer to Fall’? There’s just something clever about using the cold war as a metaphor for the struggle of life and the inevitability of death. While not as innovative as many Queen songs, it still rocks, and to a writer like me, once in a while it inspires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JU5LMG3WFBw Hammer to Fall By: Queen What’s not to love about Queen? Freddie Mercury’s incredible voice and theatrical style, Brian May’s clean and wailing flanged guitar sounds,\u00a0a capella\u00a0vocals, and a band that understands the\u00a0soul of rock ‘n’ roll. I could go on for pages and pages and still not even scratch the surface of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-songs-i-never-get-tired-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}