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Rage: There is an intricacy that can’t be absorbed in just one listen. What were your first these musical arrangements. In a sense, it’s kind of an opus but it didn’t really start
impressions listening to the whole album once it was done? out that way.
CC: There are two things that happen. One is, if you are the person who went in and
made the album, even with an album like this that is a continuous hour of music Rage: What would you compare it to musically?
where there are no breaks between songs, still I lived with the songs individually. CC: Timbaland made comments about it, reminding him of The Wall (Pink Floyd)
I lived with the songs as a group on a CD or a laptop to listen to. Then, I lived with or being inspired by The Wall. To me, it’s more like Night at the Opera (Queen). If
the entire album where all the songs were tied together by musical interludes. you sit and listen to that now and you put it under the same microscope that you
I would sit down and listen to it and just get absorbed in the music, kind of put this album under, people would think, “People are crazy. What are they doing?
knowing what it is and where it’s going. The other experience was the first time What are they thinking?” If you think about the first single, which was “Bohemian
I listened to it with other people. The first time I remember actually playing the Rhapsody” which I think, is like eleven minutes long, which is insane. Radio would
first four songs, the person listening didn’t really know that the second song had rarely play any song that was over four minutes. That song did get a lot of radio
started! Then I realized, people are actually going to have to listen to this album airplay. They [Queen] just went in and did whatever they wanted musically in
a couple of times before they understand what it really is. I noticed that a lot. I’ve whatever way they felt like! They seemed to give no credence or concern to genre
performed it 12 times now from beginning to end live and it would be around or who they thought maybe their fanbase was or anything. It was just a complete
song number four that the audience would start to figure it out. It was like, “Oh… creative outpouring at a critical moment in their career. It stands out now as being
the music is never going to stop.” You have the songs that are tied together by this incredible classic album that was an incredible moment in history. These guys
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