March Of The Black Queen - Queen's Real Masterpiece?

It's weird to  think of masterpieces when talking about Queen's music. A large part of their musical output is a whole masterpiece in my opinion. Personally I think  The March of the Black Queen is a MASTER  PIECE, I mean it is the musical piece of a great master of music as Mercury was, an artist who was able to create something beyond the skills of the majority of his contemporary collegues.  The work of a genius blessed with powerful imagination and almost divine musical inspiration.
Too groundbreaking too be fully appreciated  by everybody...

mike hunt wrote:

Micrówave wrote:















Someone called "November Rain" a masterpiece.

At first I started laughing uncontrollably.  Then I realized in one sense of the word, he's right.

So I'm voting Queen's Radio Gaga as their masterpiece.

I'm guessing that by "Masterpiece" we mean the song that signalled the end of the band, even if they don't know it.

Other famous masterpieces:

Overkill - Men At Work
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
Raised On Radio (Album) - Journey
Lick It Up - Kiss
This Love - Maroon 5
Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston
Victory - The Jacksons
Invisible Touch - Genesis 

GNR doesn't have a masterpiece.....Grossly overated.....

I think that they do (probably Sweet Child 'o Mine) but I don't think that November Rain is it. It's a very good song, but I don't think it showcases the strength of the group in the same way that their Appetite for Destruction stuff, or some of the songs from Use Your Illusion II, do. While Use Your Illusion I is a good album I don't think it's as sharp or as impressive as UYI II.

Regarding The March of the Black Queen, I've always regarded it as Queen's first masterpiece, with the Prophet's Song and Bo Rhap following a year later. In the Lap of the Gods may be significant, but IMO it was the weakest song off SHA; probably the only Freddie song which I would describe as boring. I don't think it was a particularly good song, and nowhere near as good as TMOTBQ/Bo Rhap/TPS.

'March' is definitely one of my all-time favorite Queen songs and even though I've heard it hundreds of times, there's one lyric, not printed anywhere, that I've yet to figure out. I think I posted a topic about it a few years back.  The line comes right after Freddie sings "She boils and she bakes and she never dots her i's"..it's that sing-songy bit...'she will lead you onnnn' or something like that...anyone want to venture their best guesses?

Kamenliter wrote:

'March' is definitely one of my all-time favorite Queen songs and even though I've heard it hundreds of times, there's one lyric, not printed anywhere, that I've yet to figure out. I think I posted a topic about it a few years back.  The line comes right after Freddie sings "She boils and she bakes and she never dots her i's"..it's that sing-songy bit...'she will lead you onnnn' or something like that...anyone want to venture their best guesses?

ACCORDING TO ULTIMATEQUEEN.CO.UK IT'S

"Look what we've done "

They're both epic masterpieces.  But I never fell in love with 'March' quite as much as some of the others on this forum.

Thanks, Holly, but listening to it, it surely doesn't sound like that would be correct.

Kamenliter wrote:

Thanks, Holly, but listening to it, it surely doesn't sound like that would be correct.

I think you're right. I can hear the word "lead" or "lead on" , as you say, but I could be wrong.

Good question btw. Something genuinely new, but right in front of our faces all this time. A mystery . 

I wonder if Brian, Roger or John would even remember. It's something that's perplexed me for years...I suppose even the guy that transposed the lyrics couldn't figure it out!

Nice thread.

Old thread :P

I'm almost certain the mystery line is 'She's our leader', with the 'er' drawn out. It's very difficult to say though, as the first word is buried underneath the tail end of 'Never dots her I's'.

Why are you playing resurrection man on ancient topics, Sebastian?

I enjoy it.

Jesus. I thought Micrówave had risen from the dead.


Way to spoil that possibility, man.

Have to say imo, that Estranged is far better than November Rain... and also the song structure sounds slightly more complex to my ear... Just that the video to it is just a little.... over the top...
GNR has to be a perfect example of the different sound between the guitarist that helped wrote the song and someone who played the song... inrg to Izzy Stradlin and Gilbert Clark.. Its true what Slash said about how Izzy had a very particular way and feel to how he played rhythm guitar and how it fitted perfectly to the chemistry of the band, something that was missing when Gliby played Izzys parts live after Izzy had left the band... and something that was a key part to GNR sound that is missing today.. Have to say that Izzy was the key part to the sound of GNR "that ringing sound he had" something that can not be truly replicated by anyone where as Slash.... Buckethead sounded almost spot on to Slash particularly in the November Rain solo

I like these threads that add some nice trivia I didn't know, or accurate info.

But when it's about tastes and the answers are filled with nitpick and truth ownership.... ugh

This has both.


The problem with Bo Rhap is that we have listened it too many damn times!.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who skips those segments from every documentary released.


We appretiate it again when we let years go by without listening Anato.. and we re discover it.


The March of the Black Queen it's a wonderful epic song. Didn't work very well live. It loses a lot of his magic.

I wonder if "Surrender to the city" was more than the snippet we all know at the end of the song. It makes my mind go wild...