Title: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 03:36:11 AM
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 03:36:11 AM
Hi ho, me again, ejaculating about useless stuff I want to know about. I'm listening to the music from Ben Elton's Queen musical We Will Rock You, and it's all surprisingly good, with lyrics altered to fit it perfectly, and most of my faves are on there and very well performed. Just wondered if anyone has seen it/wants to see it/ is going to see it, and what it's actually like....
Bony
Bony
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Art on 29 December, 2003, 04:00:20 AM
Post by: Art on 29 December, 2003, 04:00:20 AM
That sculpture of Freddie Mercury looks really awful, like a child made it and then it melted a bit. I suspect that the bloke who did the awful looking learning difficulties Mel Gibson statue at the Wallace Monument may have had a hand in it.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 05:16:26 AM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 05:16:26 AM
I would rather pour molten lead into my ears than listen to a Ben Elton musical...
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 05:56:59 AM
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 05:56:59 AM
Well the songs aren't by him, they're Queen songs.... which is why I like them (even includes a version of that live track queen did but didn't release: the ultra fast version of we will rock you) and I'm assuming that the jokes and plot are either entirely cruddy or really good. The plot sounds fun enough, set in the far future, the charts dominated by computer generated pop idols - it is the age of Ga Ga. Time for the ancient promise of We Will Rock You to be fulfilled. Or something. Anyone seen it?
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 29 December, 2003, 06:36:34 AM
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 29 December, 2003, 06:36:34 AM
It's rubbish. I haven't seen it.
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Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Devons Daddy on 29 December, 2003, 07:30:56 AM
Post by: Devons Daddy on 29 December, 2003, 07:30:56 AM
we will rock you and the madness one (our house?) are both good.
i like musicals and enjoyed these 80s music based ones.i have heard bootleg sound recordings of both.
if its your first musical you its a great introduction to the whole genre of what it supposed to be.
thats not meant as put down.
musicals are either something you love or hate.
i like musicals and enjoyed these 80s music based ones.i have heard bootleg sound recordings of both.
if its your first musical you its a great introduction to the whole genre of what it supposed to be.
thats not meant as put down.
musicals are either something you love or hate.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 06:29:14 PM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 06:29:14 PM
Of course it's no where near as bad as the 'slove the Irish troubles via football' that Ben Elton did the lyrics for that sank like a stone from what I've seen of it.
And I notice that none of them got into the top 100 musicals prog... (I'm not proud, family Crimbo - mother wanted to watch it)
And I notice that none of them got into the top 100 musicals prog... (I'm not proud, family Crimbo - mother wanted to watch it)
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 06:31:10 PM
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 06:31:10 PM
I liked the 100 greatest musicals.... felt so bad... but so good.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Art on 29 December, 2003, 06:42:39 PM
Post by: Art on 29 December, 2003, 06:42:39 PM
But surely if it's not been done as a film, s it couldn't be in the list. I wouldn't expect to see Starlight Express* or Cats in there either.
* I have a brilliant idea for updating this and resetting it in a turkish prison, if any wets end muscial producers are reading this.
* I have a brilliant idea for updating this and resetting it in a turkish prison, if any wets end muscial producers are reading this.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 06:48:56 PM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 06:48:56 PM
There were musicals on the list that I'm sure have not been made into films yet ... Les Mis, Phantom and Starlight express. There has been a film of Cats. Not that I'm and expert or gay or anything.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: paulvonscott on 29 December, 2003, 06:50:20 PM
Post by: paulvonscott on 29 December, 2003, 06:50:20 PM
I've grown to really dislike the man who killed Benny Hill over the years. I genuinely loathe him and all his works, excepting Blackadder, but then I liked Blackadder before he turned up and repeated the same three jokes. As the Time Travel one showed, he's no longer capable of doing that even if he wanted to.
He's working on a Rod Stewart musical now I hear.
He's working on a Rod Stewart musical now I hear.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 06:54:16 PM
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 06:54:16 PM
Art - it was greatest musicals, not musical films - Starlight Express was there. Mostly films though!
PVS - I know what you mean, I really do. I always assumed he was a funny guy, what with Blackadder and all, but The Thin Blue Line, all his books, his DIRE standup, nothing works! I'm leaning towards the impression that it was Richard Curtis' involvement that made Blackadder great... but I couldn't say, I know nothing beyond 'he was involved'... anyone know for certain?
PVS - I know what you mean, I really do. I always assumed he was a funny guy, what with Blackadder and all, but The Thin Blue Line, all his books, his DIRE standup, nothing works! I'm leaning towards the impression that it was Richard Curtis' involvement that made Blackadder great... but I couldn't say, I know nothing beyond 'he was involved'... anyone know for certain?
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 07:00:19 PM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 07:00:19 PM
From what I know of Blackadder a lot of the jokes were added by the cast during rehersals...
And as anything that Elton has written alone is just rubbish I have my doubts of how much of his work reached the screens in Blackadder and the Young Ones
And as anything that Elton has written alone is just rubbish I have my doubts of how much of his work reached the screens in Blackadder and the Young Ones
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 07:03:14 PM
Post by: Bony Fella on 29 December, 2003, 07:03:14 PM
I can believe that... fantastic cast really. Feel sure that Curtis would have helped loads too though! Another talented writer dude, probably hired to contrast Elton's lack of talent...
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: GordonR on 29 December, 2003, 07:29:00 PM
Post by: GordonR on 29 December, 2003, 07:29:00 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that Ben Elton + West End musical + the Queen back catalogue = shittest, naffest-sounding thing ever.
I used to really like Ben Elton, back in the mid-late 1980s spangly suit Friday Night Live days, but, having seen him on a few chat shows recently, talking about what an honour it is to work with Andrew Lloyd Webber etc, I now realise he's a creep of the highest order.
I used to really like Ben Elton, back in the mid-late 1980s spangly suit Friday Night Live days, but, having seen him on a few chat shows recently, talking about what an honour it is to work with Andrew Lloyd Webber etc, I now realise he's a creep of the highest order.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: paulvonscott on 29 December, 2003, 07:33:37 PM
Post by: paulvonscott on 29 December, 2003, 07:33:37 PM
Well, I'm glad I'm not alone on that, obviously I'm not looking to join in with the same sort of character assasination that Elton himself used, when it seemed a great idea to expose old british comics as somehow the most evil men in history, that deserved to be shamed off the TV screens.
He's not a farty, just a twat.
I can't say I'm really bothered by his musicals (though they sound fucking awful) as I'll never get any closer than walking past the theatres.
He's not a farty, just a twat.
I can't say I'm really bothered by his musicals (though they sound fucking awful) as I'll never get any closer than walking past the theatres.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Art on 29 December, 2003, 07:39:57 PM
Post by: Art on 29 December, 2003, 07:39:57 PM
Yeah, I think I'll add anyone who found Elton's use of the word "farty" amusing to the list of people who will be sent to the Gulag once my Stalinist takeover is complete.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Capt.Zeep on 29 December, 2003, 07:47:01 PM
Post by: Capt.Zeep on 29 December, 2003, 07:47:01 PM
I heard Elton saying recently "I've never been political..." WHAAAAT? So all that left-wing stuff was a cynical grab at what was popular at the time, and now he seeks to remake himself as an establishment figure in the guise of a humble "apolitical" entertainer?
What a twat!
What a twat!
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: paulvonscott on 29 December, 2003, 07:53:18 PM
Post by: paulvonscott on 29 December, 2003, 07:53:18 PM
Hey, not that I'm enjoying this, but the man whose TV show's (the Man From Auntie) funniest bit was the unfunniest bit from the Two Ronnies.
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Art on 29 December, 2003, 07:55:44 PM
Post by: Art on 29 December, 2003, 07:55:44 PM
"I've always wanted to suck up to the Queen"
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 08:59:35 PM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 29 December, 2003, 08:59:35 PM
He's also such a rapacious gong hunter he makes Billy Connolly look positively modest
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: Richmond Clements on 29 December, 2003, 11:23:55 PM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 29 December, 2003, 11:23:55 PM
But the final nail in his coffin surely had to be hosting the royal garden party!?
Title: Re: We Will ROCK YOU
Post by: JimBob on 30 December, 2003, 02:07:43 AM
Post by: JimBob on 30 December, 2003, 02:07:43 AM
Quite liked the stage show of Popcorn.
Sorry.
But I'll join in the three minute hate based solely on the Blackadder millenium "special".
Sorry.
But I'll join in the three minute hate based solely on the Blackadder millenium "special".