A new version of an Old Favorite Bohemian Rhapsody

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Check out this remake of Bohemian Rhapsody. It's not quite Queen but....

http://io9.com/so-this-physics-grad-student-made-a-mindblowi...

Paula

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His lyrics make a lot more

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His lyrics make a lot more sense than they did in the original.

Ban nothing. Question everything.

Credit

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I hope he does get some kind of of official acknowledgment. This is good! And yes, the lyrics does make more sense than the original, but you have to consider the sources. Freddy Mercury versus a Physics Masters student.

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Grover

It's about time...

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.... Relatively.

advanced physics is DULL, now it's not so DULL

I suspect one Dr. of Astrophysics and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society will appreciate his cover version.

I never had read before tonight at the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody shame on me, they were enlightening to say the least.


"REMEMBER, No matter where you go, There you are."

Sammi xxx

WOW -- Very

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WOW -- Very impressive.

Thanks for the link!

Hugs, Kristy

Wow!

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I'd forgotten how great that video is! I'd also forgetten how cute Freddie was in it!

"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

First video

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Actually, I've seen what was supposedly the first music video wherein Ozzie Nelson filmed his son Ricky Nelson singing Traveling Man in a double exposure that included various cities around the globe. That was back in 1961 and can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Zkg45pwnA

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Erica

Jump Blues and Music Videos of the 40s

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First music videos were done in the 40s and were called "soundies." They were distributed in jukebox type machines in bars and dance halls. Louis Jordan and his Tympany Band made several of them in his jump blues style, the direct musical ancestor of rock-and-roll.

Like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-QWtdd_nwM

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Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Sense?

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The lyrics aren't supposed to make any sense! Part of what made it so much fun! When the club we were in played it on the sound system (did I mention I made all the mix tapes for the club!) the rest of the girls and I would sing along with it really loudly! Whoever screwed up the worst had to buy a round of shots! Freddie Mercury FTW!!! Nobody can sing like him and do justice to the song and nobody else should even try. IMHO

Can you picture a table of half-drunk college girls singing "I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me (He's just a poor boy looking for a family!)" Ahhhhh, those were days, my friend! We thought they'd never end. (Another fun to sing song!)

"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

Sense!

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While the original is complex and a lot of additional elements were added for fun, there are a couple of readings of the lyrics that do make some sort of sense. I've always interpreted it as the narrator's thoughts and feelings in the aftermath of killing a man (reason unknown): he realises he's likely to face the death penalty, so explains to his mum what he's done, his regrets, and he may never come back. Skip forward in time to the second verse, and evidently he's already been tried and he's visibly nervous as he's about to be led away. Then we cut to vivid imaginings of a trial in hell, before he resigns himself to his fate and nothing really matters (cue tam-tam).

As for this string theory version, while the lyrics are comprehensible, the underlying theory remains as baffling as ever: vibrations turning into particles, needing to have ten dimensions to solve some equations then having to somehow condense them into the four we know (x, y, z, time).

Meanwhile, he recorded another sciency acapella tune a year ago: Rolling in the Higgs (There's a collider under Geneva / Reaching new energies that we've never achieved before).

As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!

I don't analyze

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I hardly, if ever, analyze the music I listen to. "I've always interpreted it . . ." is the kiss of death to me. My last English class was when I was a senior in high school. Since then I read books and listen to music for enjoyment, not to interpret. Bohemian Rhapsody is a fun song to listen too, with all the quirky phrasing. There are plenty of "art" musicians out there to analyze if one so desires. Me, I want music that lifts me up on soaring notes, or expresses my feelings. If I have to "interpret" it, you'll find me next aisle over looking at the Rebecca Black album.

True story: There is an author on here that once posted a comment on one of her stories telling her readers that giving praise wasn't acceptable, she wanted people to analyze the story and post comments on the way the protagonist dealt with things, etc. She said if all the readers could do was post comments like 'Great Story' or 'I love this' then they shouldn't even bother. I PM'd her and said that was all she was going to get from me and likely most of the readers on here, so hence forth I would say nothing at all. Just not my thing. We had an interesting exchange of PMs on that. (Note: my memory is not be exact, and even if you think you know who it was you are likely wrong. All comments are loosely phrased and are not intended to be accurate quotes. Both of us have moved on and are friends.)

"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

Over-produced, over-rated and

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Over-produced, over-rated and over none too quickly.

Torture, 1976 style. You heard it everywhere you went, it lasted for nearly 7 minutes and you couldn't ignore it.

It's actually quite a good song, I just didn't want to hear it 15 times a night!

Imagine if THIS had been number 1 and on every pub juke box.

http://youtu.be/Qz7TkvXRabA

Ban nothing. Question everything.

For a physics student...

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...this guy was a pretty fair singer but he could not hit and hold his notes like Freddie Mercury. Amazing performance though and as a very quick run through of some of the problems encountered in string theory, it was hilarious. My major was math with minors in physics and English and this song demonstrated one thing very well:

"String theory is to particle theory as bluegrass is to billiards." You may sometimes find them in the same bar but they don't describe the same universe. :)

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Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Capella Science

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He should give up his day job and do this full time. Stupendous!!

Eliza


ELIZA

Awesome song, he definitely

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Awesome song, he definitely deserves extra credit.

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Lizzie :)

Yule

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This is simply fantastic !

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This is simply fantastic ! Better by far than Queen ever was.

More seriously, I should like to point out a couple of things that physicists have wrong:

1) The idea that c the speed of light, is a constant - it varies according to the medium it is in, and it has even been slowed to a standstill. It is most probably a speed that depends upon the dimensions of the Universe, ie the bigger it gets, the faster it goes. That removes the need for imagining an undemonstrated thing called "dark energy", which just does not feel right.

2) Entropy - the idea that with time everything gets cooler and less organized.
Entropy does occur, but another force, called Life, works against it. Life-forms collect energy and with time become more complex and organized.

So as the Cosmos expands, anti-entropic forces start to slow it down, and heat it up, and make it more compact, until it sinks back into the black hole of the big bang and it starts all over again. Which eliminates any need for a Beginning or an End, and as it does all this all by its self no need for a creator either.

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