{"id":2112,"date":"2009-04-09T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-09T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T10:21:24","slug":"huge-rock-songs-that-were-in-no-way-infl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/huge-rock-songs-that-were-in-no-way-infl\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Rock Songs That Were in No Way &#8220;Influential&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtrhcECdItk&amp;feature?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn our recent investigation of rock&#8217;s most pompous singer, Townsman and major <strong>Queen<\/strong> fan <strong>2000 Man<\/strong> directed us to this delusional video clip on <em>The Story of &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody.&#8221;<\/em> Already-forgotten bands like <strong>The Darkness<\/strong> proclaim the song as &#8220;the Holy Grail,&#8221; then go on to say that if anyone says they don&#8217;t like &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221; they&#8217;re lying!<\/p>\n<p>Well, call me a liar. I&#8217;ll argue that not only do I not like the song but that <em>the song itself<\/em> has almost no influence on anything that came after it. You could argue that the joy and flamboyance of <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong> was inspiring to some future gay (and straight) frontmen. You could argue that the band&#8217;s production techniques were influential on &#8217;80s hair metal bands. But I don&#8217;t see how you can argue that &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221; was influential on any song that would follow in the history of rock to date. <\/p>\n<p>I could argue that the song completed work started by <strong>Paul McCartney and Wings<\/strong> through various cut-and-paste songs, from &#8220;Uncle Albert\/Uncle Halsey&#8221; through &#8220;Band on the Run&#8221; and &#8220;Live and Let Die,&#8221; but once Queen so perfectly completed McCartney&#8217;s artistically suspect efforts, no band had a chance of following in <em>&#8220;Bo Rhap&#8221;<\/em>&#8216;s footsteps. Queen was too good at that shit! Despite the fact that I can&#8217;t stand &#8220;Bo Rhap,&#8221; it&#8217;s a masterpiece of execution. But it&#8217;s not influential.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are there other huge rock songs that would be, for whatever reasons, in no way &#8220;influential?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our recent investigation of rock&#8217;s most pompous singer, Townsman and major Queen fan 2000 Man directed us to this delusional video clip on The Story of &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody.&#8221; Already-forgotten bands like The Darkness proclaim the song as &#8220;the Holy Grail,&#8221; then go on to say that if anyone says they don&#8217;t like &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/huge-rock-songs-that-were-in-no-way-infl\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}