Was It All Worth It -- Queen's last great song?

Was it all worth - Queens greatest last song??

It all depends on how you look at? In what I mean by this is the fact the song is typical Queen heavey rock, heavey lyrics, and even a middle instrumental part with violins in it type of song.
It is up there with the greatest Queen songs of the 80s..
Of course we have things like, Another 1 bits the dust, Radio ga ga, A kind of magic, Under Pressure, Las palabras de armor, Scandal, Hammer to fall, Who wants to live forever, All great songs of the 80s.

To me Was it all worth it is 1 of those songs I forget about unless I play through the mircale itself. It should of been released as single like all other great Queen album tracks.

As rating it I'd give it 10/10

'Was It All Worth It' was released as a Dutch single, same time as the Greatest Sh*ts III was released, with the Up rah rah crap mix included on it.

Graeme Arnott wrote: Blew my own trumpet is a saying we english use to mean sing my own praises Ie Freddie telling everybody how Good Queen were. Agreed, In America we say "Toot my own horn".

"Was It All Worth It"

Great song? Definately!

Last great song? No, others followed!

I'm sure there was a certain amount of autobiography in there, but I also think, like many of their songs, they were being somewhat tongue-in-cheek with it, poking a bit of fun at their legacy and experience as rock stars.

"Yes, it was a worthwhile experience!"  = awesome, hilarious understatement!

@Zebonka12 I'd go further than that... I reckon WIAWI was written with a fairly strong EXPECTATION it might be the closer on the last album. That Innuendo got made was probably not a given. They'd not have known how fast Freddie might fade.

As for the track itself I adore it - even the bits others don't like (including the "corporate jingle" / "iceskating music" piece.)

And I'm pleased others have highlighted Scandal - it's a tremendously powerful "from the heart" song.

Nobody's mentioned "Breakthru".

I used to be easily turned off Breakthru because of the 80's production values, but fuck it .... the song seriously is the whole package.  I'd take one Breakthru over 1000 songs like Party.

@Zebonka12 I agree about Party. It's about as poor an opener as Staying Power. (But again, like Staying Power, maybe it would've come to life played live...) :-(

Actually I never had a problem with Breakthru's production... It sounded like fun to make from start to finish.

I've always wondered if The Miracle was meant to be a live show of an album unto itself. When listened to as a song in its own merit, Party is miserable. If you picture the stage in your head and see Party being played over the PA when Roger, Brian and John coming onstage and taking over their parts as the song progresses, then the bang as Freddie appears to sing Khashoggi, you gain a new appreciation for the tune.

I have appreciation for the concept, but they had far superior songs with which to do that shtick.

Sorry to revive an old thread - but better than to start a new one. :-)

I wonder if others had the same reaction as I did when I first heard WIAWI in 1989, namely "why the past tense?" That worried me then and I didn't know why. Now, of course, we do.

"There are only two great songs on The Miracle, Scandal and this one."

I Want It All might've been overplayed to the point where you take it for granted, but I think it tops Scandal. It's a stronger track.

Was it all worth it certainly sounds like Freddie waving goodbye, and I think it has been regarded as his composition by the other members of the group now. Notice in recent years when referring to songs from the Miracle and Innuendo, the writing credits have gone back to the 'original' writers rather than Queen, with Roger being credited with Days of Our Lives, and Brian the Show Must Go On, for instance.

It's not the last great Queen song, because I think Innuendo, Show Must Go On, Days of Our Lives, Hitman, Headlong, Slightly Mad, are all good songs for example, but they are in a slightly different direction. It's certainly one of the heavier songs, and perhaps the last great heavy-metal styled track (heavy metal not quite the right phrase but certain hard rock).

Interestingly enough, Peter Freestone said that in 1989 the band were told to expect that Freddie wouldn't make it to Christmas that year, but it hadn't quite been put that way to Freddie at that point. Well, lucky for us it didn't turn out that way, but it certainly sounds retrospective and final in a way, but it's far more light-hearted (on the surface) than Show Must Go On.

Do not confuse opinion or taste with facts. If you like a song, it doesn't mean it's great.

Was it all worth it and Innuendo are both great songs, really hard to decide which one is better. No need to.

The last part of the riff vaguely reminds me of "Tear It Up"...

But overall the song doesn't resonate as much with me as say, "Scandal". I do think they intended it to be potentially the final song before Freddie's death, however.

I think it's an ok song but not one of my favourites. I'm not a fan of the orchestral middle section. It also feels as if they're trying too hard to write a classic song. I feel the same about Princes of the Universe: all the ingredients are there but there's something missing.