1. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
2. The March of the Black Queen
3. My Fairy King
4. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
5. I'm Going Slightly Mad
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rhyeking
I love how a thread proposing fans offer their opinion of the best Queen recordings the band made results in the addition of people's least favourites. That so totally sums up many aspects of this forum, that we can't even praise the band with critisizing it in the same breath.
Anyway, how do we even define what Queen songs best represent them? Do we look at their so-called 'trademarks,' like Freddie's voice or Brian's guitar? Do we consider their willingness to explore musical directions new to them, which for me is certainly a defining feature of the band, that they took risks? Is commercial success or fandom popularity the yardstick by which we gauge The Greatest? How can we truly be objective?
MY approach was to think, "what collection would I give to a friend that I felt covered Queen's career in it's entirety?" Here's my list, filling a single CD. I don't expect everyone to agree with it, but I tried to cover their rockers, their funk and '80s pop numbers, films, their novelty/period experiments, anthems, duets and their epics. I also took at least one track from each studio album, Flash Gordon and The Cosmos Rocks included. Lastly, I wanted the list to reflect their talents, humour and camp.
01) Liar
02) The Seven Seas Of Rhye
03) White Queen (As It Began) (BBC Version)
04) Killer Queen
05) Bohemian Rhapsody
06) Somebody To Love
07) We Are The Champions
08) Spread Your Wings
09) Fat Bottomed Girls (Single Version)
10) Crazy Little Thing Called Love
11) Another One Bites The Dust
12) Flash
13) Under Pressure (With David Bowie)
14) Radio Ga Ga (US Single Version)
15) A Kind Of Magic
16) I Want It All (Single Version)
17) Innuendo
18) Let Me Live (Original Version)
19) C-Lebrity (With Paul Rodgers)
Anyway, how do we even define what Queen songs best represent them? Do we look at their so-called 'trademarks,' like Freddie's voice or Brian's guitar? Do we consider their willingness to explore musical directions new to them, which for me is certainly a defining feature of the band, that they took risks? Is commercial success or fandom popularity the yardstick by which we gauge The Greatest? How can we truly be objective?
MY approach was to think, "what collection would I give to a friend that I felt covered Queen's career in it's entirety?" Here's my list, filling a single CD. I don't expect everyone to agree with it, but I tried to cover their rockers, their funk and '80s pop numbers, films, their novelty/period experiments, anthems, duets and their epics. I also took at least one track from each studio album, Flash Gordon and The Cosmos Rocks included. Lastly, I wanted the list to reflect their talents, humour and camp.
01) Liar
02) The Seven Seas Of Rhye
03) White Queen (As It Began) (BBC Version)
04) Killer Queen
05) Bohemian Rhapsody
06) Somebody To Love
07) We Are The Champions
08) Spread Your Wings
09) Fat Bottomed Girls (Single Version)
10) Crazy Little Thing Called Love
11) Another One Bites The Dust
12) Flash
13) Under Pressure (With David Bowie)
14) Radio Ga Ga (US Single Version)
15) A Kind Of Magic
16) I Want It All (Single Version)
17) Innuendo
18) Let Me Live (Original Version)
19) C-Lebrity (With Paul Rodgers)
pjAngel
Even those songs listed as "worst" are Queen classics, I think. There isn't one Queen song, imo, can be considered bad. I classify Queen songs one of two ways: Fantastic or Less-Fantastic. Saw Q in Houston late 1970s and have, for the most part, listened to nothing else since. That's either very cool or truly pathetic. I lean toward very cool.
My Top-10 Favorites:
BO RHAP
ACTION THIS DAY
DRAGON ATTACK
SOMEBODY TO LOVE
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
SAVE ME
I WANT TO BREAK FREE
THE MILLIONAIRE WALTZ
INNUENDO
DEATH ON 2 LEGS
My Top-10 Favorites:
BO RHAP
ACTION THIS DAY
DRAGON ATTACK
SOMEBODY TO LOVE
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
SAVE ME
I WANT TO BREAK FREE
THE MILLIONAIRE WALTZ
INNUENDO
DEATH ON 2 LEGS
Amazon
mike hunt wrote:""Amazon wrote: Josh Henson wrote:"Because Jealousy is horrible - to whiney"
"Really? I love it. :D I think it's one of Queen's most underrated songs, and a really gorgeous ballad."
Agreed!"
Great! :D
"Really? I love it. :D I think it's one of Queen's most underrated songs, and a really gorgeous ballad."
Agreed!"
Great! :D
mike hunt
Death on two legs has to be in there...........