We Are The Isolated Champions

This isn’t exactly a music blog, but I found these interesting… isolated audio tracks from Queen’s 1977 “We Are The Champions.” Note I said “interesting,” not “great listening.” Stripped from the rest of the music in the song, the individual tracks show how they *need* each other. The a-Capella version *almost* works, but even then, not really.

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And all put together:

Let’s face it: the 70’s sucked. Viet Nam. Watergate. The end of Apollo, the rise of anti-nuclear knuckleheads, OPEC, Iran, Carter, inflation, stagflation, malaise, disco. But ya gotta admit, “We Are The Champions” was a bit of a bright spot. Nearly forty years later, it’s still hanging on, still a way to pump up a crowd.