Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "Queen - Gimme The Prize [Kurgan's Theme] (Official Lyric Video)" video.

@briansteele5959 I love Friends will be Friends. The fact they could record this and that song around the same time shows versatility.
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@MIMALECKIPL It is heavier than a lot of mainstream metal at the time. (Not thrash and death, but those weren't completely mainstream yet.)
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It sounds very similar to Stuart Adamson of the Skids and Big Country.
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@MushroomVortex Rap/Hip hop was big in the eighties.
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@briansteele5959 If you go back to the 70s and 80s, you didn't have to be that heavy to be described as metal. Groups like Def Leppard, Atomic Rooster, Bon Jovi, the Scorpions, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple etc were all described as metal, and Queen was regularly heavier than those were. In fact, Steppenwolf appear to have coined the term in "Born to be Wild". Things changed a bit around 1990 when Grunge and Thrash went mainstream.
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@briansteele5959 Laibach's version of One Vision is legendary!
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@briansteele5959 It's one of the most bizarre Queen covers out there.
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@hombrerusode40anos72 Queen did a number of metal songs including a thrash song. This is metal by virtue of its subject matter and style.
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@hombrerusode40anos72 Sort of...
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