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Best (ones I listen to most)

Sheer Heart Attack
Jazz
The Game
Hot Space
Queen 2


Worst (ones I listen to least)

The Works
Flash
A Kind of Magic
Live Magic
Queen
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Best

1. Queen II
2. A Night at the Opera
3. Queen
4. A Day at the Races
5. A Kind of Magic

Worst (From Least Worst to Ultimate Worst)

1. The Game
2. News of the World
3. Hot Space
4. The Miracle
5. Jazz
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Favorites: Night at the Opera, Queen II, Queen, Innuendo and Races.

Worst: Flash, Miracle, and Hot Space probably.

Unsure why Magic is so unpopular for it had many great songs on the album, however it is short. I suppose it should have been the Highlander soundtrack.
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Best:
1. Queen II
2. ANATO
3. ADATR
4. Queen + TG
5. Innuendo + NOTW

Worst
1. Queen Forever
2. Hot Space (1/4 good and 3/4 bad)
3. Miracle (1/3 good and 2/3 bad)
4. Live Magic
5. A Kind of Magic
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It's interesting that the debut album is so polarising - it's in many best lists, and many worst lists.
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Best: Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, The Works, Innuendo, Made In Heaven.

Worst: Queen, News Of The World, Jazz, Flash Gordon, Hot Space.

Note: Only the studio albuns in chronological order.

Just MHO.
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I love all the albums, but...
(In no particular order)

Best:
Queen II
A Day at the Races
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
A Night at the Opera

Worst:
Flash Gordon (The songs are just not my style. Except for Flash's Theme.)
A King of Magic (Some of the songs are kinda boring)
The Works (I had to pick something)
The Game (Same as The Works)
Hot Space ( I actually like all the songs except Body Language.)
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best
ANATO
Queen II
Innuendo
ADATR
Jazz

worst
Flash Gordon (good sountrack, as a album, is not good)
Hot Space (good songs, terrible mixing)
Queen (same of HS, but perhaps this is the first album, ok...)
A Kind Of Magic (this album, or soundtrack, what is it!!)
Made In Heaven (They have many rarities to work, but no, used Freddie, Brian and Cross songs to rework!)
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Best:

- Queen
- Queen II
- A Night at The Opera
- News of the World
- Made in Heaven

Worst:

- Hot Space
- Flash
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Check my post below.
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Best

Sheer Heart Attack
A Night At The Opera
The Game
Innuendo

As for the last entry into the best list, I'm too indecisive to choose between Queen II, A Day At The Races or The Works.

Worst

The Cosmos Rocks - (I know, it's not really really a Queen album, which comes in handy for worst lists).
Flash - (The Hero sounded far better live anyway)

*The following three aren't ones I really think deserve to be in a worst list - but I've gotta choose something*

News of The World - (I like it, but It's not one I listen to so much).
Hot Space - (Again, I like it, but the production puts me off a bit. And Body Language).
A Kind of Magic.

If it wasn't cheating putting Greatest Hits albums on lists, Greatest Hits 1 would probably be my top choice for the best list.
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Ha. I just realised that I entered two Best and Worst lists on this thread (one lot on the previous page). And what I said at the start of my comment on the previous page only proved to be true with my next entry: "Okay, well... This can change from week to week, but this is generally how it goes for me...."
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Socialism: There's one for you, nineteen for me Should five per cent appear too small Be thankful I don't take it all
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best:

1-Innuendo
2-A Night At The Opera
3-A Day At The Races
4-Queen II
5-Queen + The Miracle

not bad but least favourites of mine:

1-Jazz
2-Sheer Heart Attack
3-Hot Space
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No one care.

I generally like everything from the 'No Synths!' period a lot more.

Best

1. Sheer Heart Attack - At the moment I think this is their best one: they really got their own distinctive sound going on Queen II but they made it a lot more diverse here and even though every song is something completely different, I like them all a lot. Great songwriting, fantastic performance.
2. A Night At The Opera - I had Made in Heaven and Greatest Hits before this one but this was what really turned me into a big fan. I had a tape a friend of mine recorded from his father's ANATO LP which I played endlessly. I think there was a point in Good Company the needle was stuck in a groove and repeated that groove 3 times but it went with the right tempo so I always thought it was supposed to be like that. Until I bought the CD. Also I think this opened my eyes to music in a broader way in general, a lot of the album's ingredients are still what i search for in a good album. I just overplayed it a bit.
3. Queen II - Used to be my favourite for a very long time.
4. News Of The World - I just love this album. I really like the sound and basically all the songs. Gotta love that they start the thing with We Will Rock You AND We Are The Champions.
5. A Day At The Races - If I need to practice my bass playing every now and then, I put on The Millionaire Waltz and try to play along. I can play the thing but it's always a challenge after a longer period of not having played it.

Worst

1. The Works. Like someone here said, it's just the hits and some filler. And I don't even like half of the hits that much. Apart from that: production is not very good. Good songs: Hammer to Fall, It's A Hard Life, Keep Passing The Open Windows.
2. Made In Heaven - I never liked I Was Born To Love You and the overproduced Queen reworking of it didn't make it any better. Then there's some mediocre songs. Funnily enough I liked the three post-Innuendo songs the best.
3. The Miracle - I still enjoy most of it.
4. The Game - Not a bad album at all but side B has more misses than hits if you ask me.
5. Flash Gordon - I never play this album but I do like most of it. It just doesn't really play like a Queen album.