# David Bowie vs Queen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-queen/646092>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 4, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-queen/646092 "2013-01-04T18:49:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-queen/646092/81 "2013-01-09T04:19:26Z")

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> [@bienville](#):
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> [. . . and here is the music video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOyDTy9DtHQ)  
> Remind me, what’s Queen done recently?

Decomposing.

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**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-queen/646092/82 "2013-01-09T05:47:34Z")

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> [@](#):
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> The Beatles are almost comparable to Queen.No other act comes close.

It’s early yet, but in the race for the Most Nonsensical Post of 2013, we’ve got a front runner that’s going to be very hard to overtake.

And being as the mixing of Rock and Opera has yielded results that vary only in their degree of relative suckitude, Bowie gets the nod on GP.

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