Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Do talk back
User avatar
GoogaMooga
custodian of oldies
Posts: 30320
Joined: 28 Sep 2010, 05:23
Location: Denmark

Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby GoogaMooga » 14 Sep 2021, 17:55

Queen's "You're My Best Friend" is one of only two songs by them that I like. While "Under Pressure" has been easy to find isolated on CD, I had only ever seen "You're My Best Friend" on Queen comps. Now I have discovered that it appears on a VA OST of an old 90s film, "Peter's Friends", so I don't have to own a whole Queen album.

This:

Image

Instead of this:

Image
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck

User avatar
Deebank
Resonator
Posts: 24733
Joined: 10 Oct 2003, 13:47
Location: Ina beautiful place out in the country

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby Deebank » 14 Sep 2021, 20:01

I love the Wurlitzer piano at the start. It’s all done hill from there though.
I've been talking about writing a book - 25 years of TEFL - for a few years now. I've got it in me.

Paid anghofio fod dy galon yn y chwyldro

Brickyard Jack
Posts: 2340
Joined: 05 Jul 2017, 23:05

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby Brickyard Jack » 15 Sep 2021, 03:37

A classic.

User avatar
Charlie O.
Posts: 44848
Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby Charlie O. » 15 Sep 2021, 03:45

I always liked it (and its parent album A Night At The Opera).

Always thought "Under Pressure" was a bit of a mess, though.
Image

User avatar
trans-chigley express
Posts: 19238
Joined: 11 Nov 2003, 01:50
Location: Asia's WC

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby trans-chigley express » 15 Sep 2021, 06:01

GoogaMooga wrote:
Image

This is a fantastic Greatest Hits set. It cuts off at exactly the right place.

User avatar
GoogaMooga
custodian of oldies
Posts: 30320
Joined: 28 Sep 2010, 05:23
Location: Denmark

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby GoogaMooga » 15 Sep 2021, 06:36

trans-chigley express wrote:This is a fantastic Greatest Hits set. It cuts off at exactly the right place.


Well, yes. If you like Queen, it is perfect.
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck

User avatar
GoogaMooga
custodian of oldies
Posts: 30320
Joined: 28 Sep 2010, 05:23
Location: Denmark

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby GoogaMooga » 15 Sep 2021, 06:37

Charlie O. wrote:I always liked it (and its parent album A Night At The Opera).

Always thought "Under Pressure" was a bit of a mess, though.


Under Pressure has Bowie and some interesting production. The melody is slight, though.
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck

User avatar
Rorschach
Posts: 4118
Joined: 02 Jun 2008, 12:43
Location: The north side of my town faces east, and the east faces south

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby Rorschach » 15 Sep 2021, 08:47

Peter's Friends is the quintessential showcase for up and coming British talent of its time, and the epitome of smug.

The soundtrack's not bad though.
Bugger off.

User avatar
GoogaMooga
custodian of oldies
Posts: 30320
Joined: 28 Sep 2010, 05:23
Location: Denmark

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby GoogaMooga » 15 Sep 2021, 08:52

Rorschach wrote:Peter's Friends is the quintessential showcase for up and coming British talent of its time, and the epitome of smug.

The soundtrack's not bad though.


Oh, I wouldn't bother with the film itself. There are many such cases where I just enjoy the soundtrack and ignore the film.
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck

User avatar
robertff
Posts: 12074
Joined: 20 Jul 2003, 06:59

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby robertff » 15 Sep 2021, 11:02

trans-chigley express wrote:
GoogaMooga wrote:
Image

This is a fantastic Greatest Hits set. It cuts off at exactly the right place.




Agree about the first but the second Greatest Hits is pretty good too.


.

User avatar
Rorschach
Posts: 4118
Joined: 02 Jun 2008, 12:43
Location: The north side of my town faces east, and the east faces south

Re: Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

Postby Rorschach » 15 Sep 2021, 12:16

GoogaMooga wrote:
Rorschach wrote:Peter's Friends is the quintessential showcase for up and coming British talent of its time, and the epitome of smug.

The soundtrack's not bad though.


Oh, I wouldn't bother with the film itself. There are many such cases where I just enjoy the soundtrack and ignore the film.


If you find it in a thrift shop it might be worth 50 cents of your money. I suspect it's very dated but it's pleasant enough and has some good moments.
Bugger off.


Return to “Yakety Yak”