Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along

[altoclarinets]

This thread will be a collection of Bohemian Rhapsody videos since we all love it so much. You may only post if you have found an original vdeo or have something to say about one! (No videos that are already on here)
So first, the mother video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI
Let the rhapsody randomness begin!

[altoclarinets]

Wow, ok, no one likes my idea. I feel so loved. (tear)

[eyeswithpride]

Oh, my band's had plenty of Bohemian Rhapsody sing-a-longs, but I've never got any on tape. Good times...good times...

[Schoolspirit]

Me and my friend were singing along to it on her ipod...so no one else could hear it, lol. No recording. I didn't even know half the words.

[bariclaribob]

The whole band bus sings it whenever we go somewhere, but we never record it. I'll try to get someone to videotape it during marching band, though. We're pretty wicked at it by now. Some of the notes are actually sung in the correct octave by nearly 10% of the singers now!

[altoclarinets]

Ohhhh
With band kids that's pretty amazing. To quote the director, there's a reason we're in band and not choir.

[friedrice2003]

youtube.com/watch?v=hYddxH1lnuY

win

[Lprdgecko]

^Wow.

[altoclarinets]

youtube.com/watch?v=cqtJDHNfvaw&feature=related
The one and only Weird Al and PPP cooperative effort...
Edit: Am I the only one whom this guy sounds like Oscar the Gouch to?
Edit part two: I would love to play this clarinet part!

[Deleted]

Want my overanalyzed take? It's pretentious, silly and yes, overanalyzed, and completely destroys the entire song! It turns a cool song into another piece of dirt and manages to be glaringly wrong in the way!

Okay, let's make it the classic stages of acceptance after a shock. He just killed someone. Duh. It's in the lyrics.

First comes shock. Note the 'is this the real life / is this just fantasy' it opens with and the dreamlike tune it's in.

(from this point on, it's all within his head. All of it.)

Note also the 'I need no sympathy' melodramatic nobleness he takes on in a play to get sympathy.

He comes back to the world, and immediately tries to turn to the childhood source of sympathy, his mother. He tries again to act like a hero, telling her 'nothing really matters' (in his mind, of course. it's all in his mind.)

The chill of what he has just done rips across him, and at the first glimpse of pain he immediately goes into the classic 'I wish I was never born!'-type complete theatrical show, hoping once again for sympathy.

Now comes the weird (albeit exceedingly cool) part.

The trial.

First his 'judges' (representing the severity and harsh reality of the consequences) come forth, half-threatening him with taunts of "scaramouche / scaramouche / will you do the Fandango" (it's defined above)

He crumples, first expressing shock. Then, he twists his earlier defeated hero's claims to say "I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me" in a direct appeal to reality.

His other side, however, rushes in to try to save him from himself, begging the judges to release him.

He appeals, and is rejected.

His consul appeals several times in turn to allow him to stay in his own dreamlike state of deconnectedness.

The judges continue to strike down his pleas, growing more and more forceful, until he finally realizes that he has lost. First is a generic "well, I lost. I'm going to hell, and I've got a demon with my name on it" first realization.

Then comes the anger phase. He strikes back at the world and himself with guitars in the background (note the playing of a much stronger version of the theme from the opening "mama" part) . He then tries to escape outright, claiming he's "just gotta get out / just gotta get right out of here".

However, after a crecendo, he realizes that he's not about to win anything or survive anything, so he simply resigns. It's very similar to the opening sequence--although instead of a dream, he seems much more lucid in this state. He repeats much of what he's said earlier, only now he either believes it or has no choice but to accept it.

There. I think it's an interpretation of the process gone through after a shock. It's quite obviously wrong, but I can't help but thinking it.

Besides, it's my favorite song. Let me warp it however I want

www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3187

[Lprdgecko]

Bringing this back from the dead.

WIN! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO_70TBTTiY&feature=related

[altoclarinets]

LOL

[altoclarinet123]

We played this in band in 7th grade... We would always sing along to it then, and I memorized all of the words, but I haven't listened to it in a while...