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I'm not and have never been a classic-rock kind of person, though I had my phases with The Beatles and Pink Floyd. The only Queen album that I spent any serious time with was A Night at the Opera, and while its having "Bohemian Rhapsody" was probably part of why, I think the cotton-candy-frothy "Seaside Rendezvous" (along with the half-as-long and even-more-insubstantial "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon") felt like the key to the album. If you just listen to "Bohemian Rhapsody" (or, so help you, "The Prophet's Song") you might be led to believe that this is a pretentious band that takes itself very seriously. But if you listen to even five seconds of "Seaside Rendezvous" you will understand that is not the case.

I like a band with serious chops that is willing to employ those chops in service of a song as absolutely asinine as "Seaside Rendezvous." But, I mean, I also like the song, is the thing. It's not like Freddie Mercury's voice is less amazing just because he's singing the most vapid himbo shit imaginable! It's not like Queen's legendary harmonies are less legendary here just because they're being used on a song with goofy ass sound effects and is that a fucking kazoo or what?! God damnit, yes!! More bands need to let their dumbass flag fly like this!!