Dissect DJs - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

We dig up one of the all-time classics in the history of rock, and legendary inductees of the Karaoke Hall of Fame, when we attempt to break down the mysterious poetry of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

To see escape from his look up to the skies and see DJ Jack Castizi what's up dog Is it Dasak DJs and you know what it's about time we dug into a classic 70s jam Oh what of the best Because we haven't really hit that decade that much but I think it's about time that we visited Our friends from Queen in possibly I will say say the most popular group karaoke song of all time. If you can counter that.

You're a karaoke DJ, so you might have a more... You're talking about like the entire place. Everybody gets involved. Everybody sings in the whole place. No. No, if we're going to say people on group, because they've got to go with the boy band ones with everybody. Not that one, the other one.

What's the other one? You are my five. I don't think that's more popular in this. Everybody, all the guys sing that. the girls get all happy. No, because like every time. Karaoke and bars are a young person. I'll tell you which one that I've seen maybe trump that in terms of the group goes up on stage.

Because that's what I'm saying, basically. It's the song that when there's like a group of people that are like, let's go karaoke. They're like, we're all, I can't tell you how many times I've ever been on a group karaoke thing, where at some point everybody goes, we're all going to go up and do Bohemian Rhapsody. Like everybody loves to do this as a group. But the other one that I've seen probably. probably more is a group of girls all go up and do wannabe. That's probably the other one I'm saying.

But like this one battles it though. That's all I'm saying. Now with this one, what other memory does it bring to mind? Wainsworld. Immediately. Yeah. Immediately.

That's the reason I know of this song. This song, I mean, I would not know. As a matter of fact, I didn't know the name of this song was Bohemian Rhapsody. I just thought it was the entrance song for Wain's World. I actually did not know it was a queen's song. or anything because I had watched Wayne DeWroo so many times in my life and I see a little silhouetta

and then they all head bang at the crazy part that happens for me you know we're going to get to that but I mean Wayne's world yeah no and give Mike Myers credit for like giving the song a whole new rebirth because if you have the opportunity to make your own movie and you can put in a song that's a signature scene and you're like you know what song I used to jam to as a kid and I want the rest of the world the jam along with as I did that's a way to do it man

like if you're becoming a movie star and you're going to have your own movie or like let me shoehorn this song in there and yeah no good props of Wayne's World for bringing it because if it wasn't for Wayne's World I would have a completely different relationship with the song and I feel like most of us would have a different relationship with it. Shout to Austin Powers you're the man what does he say at the beginning of this

is this the real life is this just fantasy caught in the landslide no escape from reality And then he's just a poor boy Open your eyes Look up to the skies and see I'm just a poor boy

I need no sympathy Because I'm easy come Easy go A little high A little low Any way the wind blows Doesn't really matter to me To me

So he's just a very simple kid A little simple kid Just going out there Like trying to figure out the world He's like what is this This is like a real thing Is this life To which I'd be like

Yeah of course What are you doing It's, yeah, it's the real life. It's a step. Focus, son. Teachers doing problems on the board. Just called your name. Like, you know?

Yeah, this kid is way too free-spirited. I do care which way the wind is blowing. Because if I'm riding a skateboard or riding my bike, I would like to go with the wind. Have you ever ridden with the wind? Yeah, that's like it feels like you're flying with the fuck. Sh! You're flying with the wind. You're one with the wind.

I don't want to go against the wind. So I do care. where the wind blows. Kind of blew my mind right now because I was very ready to be like, I don't care where the wind's blowing, but actually whether or not the wind's blowing on my face or not,

the wind's heavy. Yeah, you're talking about a breeze. Yeah, if it's like a breeze, I don't care. If it's a wind, I definitely care. Yeah, I don't like that thing. Anywhere the wind blows, does it really matter to me? Especially if I'm on skateboard, you're right.

See, thank you. I knew I'd prove it to you really quickly because I could see the disbelief in your eyes immediately and you were about to come in with it, but I was like, I got you. And you let me get you, and I thank you. I called it. Did you realize this song was this dark?

I mean, it took a quick left turn. I did. Have you ever been driving down L.A.? You're like, LA is beautiful. You make a left turn down 7th Avenue on a certain twilight. Ah, where did I just end up? Why am I here? I got to take an awkward three-point turn in front of this group of men right here.

Yeah, I don't want to talk about where I'm at. But everybody knows what we're talking about. It's a guy kind of standing behind me while I'm trying to back up. Yeah. Get off the road. Again, it's weird. I've always known the words, but I didn't. Like, what?

Yeah, where did that come from? First of all, okay, he's talking to his mom. No, he's not talking to him. He's just talking about how his mom. He says, mama. I thought he just said mama just killed a man. I feel like he's like, he's like, mama, I just killed him in. He put a gun into his head.

Oh, then he does say pulled my trigger. Pulled my trigger now he's dead. He's like talking to his mom telling you just killed somebody. See, for some reason, when I'm first listening to the first part of the story, I feel like this is an eight-year-old kid. But then this happens. I'm like, wait, does that eight-year-old kid now have a Glock? Like Roddy Rich?

Yeah. And fucking the baby, you know what I mean? Or? Yeah, I guess. Yeah, no, because, uh... Just turn it up by that. Okay, you know what this is? This goes up in the category with pumped up kicks of, like, songs.

that like sound like really happy fun times and then you look at the words and you're like yo this fool just confessed to homicide in a what are you talking about in the second verse no no in like the third line like right away early in the track he's oh homicide yes homicide not suicide i said homicide you said homicide you said he said suicide the track shall tell the story As he's talking to his mom, right? What's the next part of the life? Life has just begun, but now I've thrown it all away because he killed somebody. And then he goes, and then again goes, Mama, and then for some reason, if I'm imagining this guy talking to his mom, right?

And he's just like, Mama put a gun to his head, put a trigger down his dead mama. And then... And then he walks her at the window, and he's just like... And imagine the mom right now, like, Anthony, what the fuck are you doing? We have to figure out what the... The cops are coming right now. There are sirens in the hood. This third thing he says.

We need to get you the fuck out of here. Stop singing out the window. God damn it. We have to fucking move. We have to change our names. You got to bleach off our fingertips. The visual gets funny very quickly. if you're imagining this man talking to his mom

and then out of nowhere this third line happens and he just goes Yeah, it's very gentle. He didn't mean to make her cry. Maybe don't go killing somebody and make your mom have to deal with you be in prison and tell all her friends at bingo and dominoes

that her son is a murderer. Maybe you don't do that. And then he says carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters. Kind of easy for you to say. say when you're the one just put her in that situation. Like, now she, her son is a murderer. Like, what?

Oh, no, but carry on as if nothing matter. Yeah. It's fine. You're good. No, you're good. Yo, whatever, whoever's singing this is heartless and doesn't care about his mom. Whatever way the wind blows. He's complaining to his mama.

He's telling her that he killed somebody. He's saying, just go on without me. And then midline and just starts, ooh. I didn't ever really realize that this whole song is about, like, murdering somebody. Yeah, he killed somebody. This man is talking to his mother. Nothing really matters.

You think this person is? The protagonist of this song? I don't know, like, maybe like 16. You're saying 16? He could be any age. It could be. It's vague. His mom could be 80 and he could be 65.

You know what I mean? Because she had it when she was 15. I just feel, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. There's no answer. I was going to give explanations as to why, but like, yeah. It's really up to you to decide. In my head, I always had them as a young kid, but as I'm thinking about it now, this could be any age.

It could be a 60-year-old man who's just like... Yeah, his mom might not even be alive, but she could be, like, dead. He could be talking to it like a gravestone, yeah. Right? Yeah, keep it running because this song goes long, so we can't break down every long. With that said, why is this song so fucking long? You guys could have cut out at least 16 lives. Yeah, we haven't got to that yet.

Let's hear you, Queen. Come on. Like a guitar set up. Slays though. Air cups, wades, well, probably not going to stop much. To walk the man. Scaramush, scaramush, will you do the bandango?

Thunderboats and lightning, very, very. What the fuck is he talking about? There's no reason to try to break this down as though he's, like, talking about something that makes it. He's literally just using different famous archetypes names. You know what this is? This is, like, the early, ironic industry right here. Like this is just like saying like names that you've heard in history class.

It's like the kid in the corner of your class who was just always like making goofy comments that made no sense. You know, making saying lines from movies and he's just in his own world. That's what Queen's doing right here. And it continues. It's talking about my boss. Like that kid is now my boss. What? The kid is now my boss.

I don't know. A kid that said all the lines. It was an erie kid in the corner. Now owns all the real estate. I don't know what you're talking about I thought you didn't have a boss But I don't know

I was just trying to I was playing figuratively I was son of a bitch I didn't get it Just a poor boy Nobody loves me All I do know is that this man is a poor boy And nobody loves him

He's big on that Yeah Thunderbolts of lightning Very very frightening me Actually No you're way past that over Very frightening me Right

That doesn't It should have said Frightening to me Whatever Can we just say That this whole fucking verse is ridiculous

and makes no sense but it fucking slays like you like to say and there's no reason to stop it again I'm not going to stop it again because there's no way of being able to describe

what the hell he's talking about although I would like to because I have no idea he's talking about but there's no way of being able to describe we're talking about because it's ridiculous

and he's making no sense so let's keep it rolling it's just a ball posa mama mia mama me let me go this whole time ever since I was a kid

this part made me feel like it's a kid to ask you to go out. And his mom would not let him go. And he's like, let me go. Will you not let you go? Let me go. Will I let you go?

Let me go. Every time I was a kid, I was like, this kid wants to go outside and go play. Let the fucking kid go outside. You know what it would have been fun to experience is experiencing this song when it was like fresh and new? Because I only know it as you do. of like you know there's kind of the waynes world thing that kind of brought it to the forefront and everything but like all these things

mama mea bis me lao no we will let a joke go galileo galileo mani no like all these things have kind of like been instilled in my brain as somewhat of like a cheesy played out concept but like still works an ironic kind of way but like can you imagine hearing this song for the first time in like 1970 when whatever the song actually first came out it's hard to imagine what this would have done to you if you had never heard this and you're going through it like wait what the fuck is this like i have a feeling there's a lot of people that probably took a second to get on board with it but again i don't know because i wasn't there so i don't i'm saying that right now as we're listening to it in 2020 what is the hell are they talking about he will not let you go let him go this guy wants to go out let him go the general chaos of what the lyrics are and like the score of it has this just sort of underlying genius to it that you're like I don't think I get this but I feel like there's something bigger at play that's beyond me right now

that I just need to get on board with because this is like a fucking orchestra piece right now that's like as you will see just continues to build are you ready to head bang that's head bang I don't know if we're supposed to hit a bang because I want to know that from Wayne's World I'm headburn. banging. The Algebra has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me. Last 45 seconds, or at least the beginning of that 45 seconds, you didn't do the song correctly.

There's really no way not to. I think literally the entire history of my existence. When it gets to that point, even if I'm like not invested in it, like there's been many times when people were singing on karaoke or whatever. Like there's a lot of parts of this song that I'm like, Yeah, it feels kind of played out to me. But... It's the head bang part.

Once it gets to that part, even if I'm not ready for it, like, get into it. You got to get into it. Everybody did it. You did it right now at home. You know, you did. You banged your head at least twice. Like, yeah. Which, and then again, I wonder, is that I know that was fostered by that Wayne's World

clip, but do you think people were head banging to that part naturally before? Yeah, I think it was probably. It was just a natural. I think he just like, I don't know, man. I'm sure people did. It's hard to imagine. It's hard to imagine what the song was like They weren't doing it

And then it was like And he just happened to Out of nowhere be like You know what? We should head bang at this point of the song If you were there when this song first came in Call in 555-381 2647

2-8-1 Changed our number from the last time So call that one Let us know what you felt When you first heard this in 1979 I would welcome a call-in 1980 Were you like this

song's weird or were you like this song's dope or were you like yeah i need to know initial reactions to what this happened because it was definitely unlike anything anybody else had ever say or heard exactly the last part of this we're going to let the last minute play out by the way uh no i do want to point out actually we've gotten far away from the whole i was a murderer thing like none of these like we're so happy we got all happy somebody yeah yeah Then he talked about Galileo and... Bismila. And Bismillah.

Figaro. Say you think you can stone me and spit in my eye. You can love me, leave me to die. Oh, baby. You can't do this. I'd be like, well, you murdered a person, so I can probably do all anything I want at this point. You're a murderer.

But yeah, the energy of this track shifted drastically. It's almost made you forget that in the second line of the song. He confessed to, like... He killed somebody. cap and somebody in the fucking down. Well, now it's about to be more dramatic and slow down, as only this song can do.

Yeah, clearly. You fucking just killed somebody. Yeah, nothing matters once you... You already said, Mom, don't worry about it. You killed somebody. And then... And then you said scatamush a bunch of times. And Galileo decided to make his way into the building.

This is definitely one of those instances where I would have to just give Freddie Mercury props on his voice carrying a track because if these lyrics were given to somebody who was not a genius songstress, it would sound all over the place and nobody would, like already we know

we don't know what the hell of queen's saying in this song. But like, but we all love it. If somebody that wasn't a great singer and began the song by just admitting to murdering a man and then like was like, no, no, no, but like I'm going to talk about Scott a move shit, Galileo.

I'll get you into this. Figaro, like, it's going to be fun, don't worry. We'd be like, what are you? No, I don't... You might slits your wrist at the end, but you'll enjoy doing it. You will headbang in the process. This is usually where I go, fuck, Freddie Mercury, but I can't. You can't.

This man kills the song. It's forever in my heart with the movie Wayne's World started with it, and then from there, as you said, many different karaoke instances. Married different times at parties. Oh, it's a karaoke staple. It's just, not even just karaoke, but any many different parties I've heard it, or car rides. I've been with people where this song just hits and everybody's like, I know this six minute random fucking song, which, why is the music song have to be six fucking minutes? Why? Is it only six minutes?

Six minutes? Only six minutes long. But it, everybody knows it and they're all okay with it, even though it's like, like Castle said, there's certain parts. Like, this part can go. This minute can go. But I like the next two minutes that's about to happen. I love this. It's a classic.

You ready for my clap? It's a super unique history of music. So, like, yeah, we can't ignore it. You got to let it be there. Let me hear your slaps. Well, do it with me. I think you're doing the same amount. All right.

I don't think we are. You want to give a five? You wanted to give a five. You look like you wanted to give five. Oh, four is it. We can't dance to it. I don't know. If you were able to dance to it, if you're able to get down and dance to it, then I would

do. I dropped out of three. I did. there's an element of played outness that has always existed in this song with me because it goes back to like when I was a kid I remember loving it from Waynes World when I was a kid

and then it being played out from that point but at that point when you're a kid it doesn't really matter nothing really matters and then you get older and you get into karaoke circles and you realize that it dominates there and the fact is like

I'm not if I'm sitting at home when I just want to play a jam. I'm never going to play this. You know, I'm not going to, like, just jammed of this. Stop texting while we're... Can you stop texting while we're in the mid show? I'm mad. I'm mad. Here we go.

You're mad texting right now? It keeps me hating on shit, even though I love this song. Oh, my God. It's good a song that I can hate on. Can we do something I can hate on next? I thought we just did. Most songs are songs that you hate on. The rock star.

All right. Fuck you, Roddy, Rich. All right. Well, then we'll... Whatever the next song is, Justin's going to hate on it. But, Queen, Bohemia Rhapsody, if you guys can spell that correctly. If you can spell that correctly. A little playoff.

On your first chance, you get extra credit for that, ladies and gentlemen. It's super easy word to spell. Both of those? Bohemian Rhapsody. Rhapsody is a little confusing. Thank you. It's, you had to have seen the word before to get it. If you just had it off the cuff and a spelling bee and you've never seen the word before, you're out for sure.

You don't know that sound an H's there. tell you something, I'm out already. You would suck at spelling bees for sure. 100%. I own that shit back in the day. All right, so. Hard fourth grade flex. You know what?

That actually went quicker than I thought it would. I remember that song being like 19 minutes. And we kind of flew through it. Six minutes. I don't know how long this episode is, but it's probably been long, though, actually. I shouldn't be saying that. Either way. Well, let's get the fuck out of here then.

Let's get the fuck out, all right? Next!