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

I'm not a big fan of the verses in Was It All Worth It. The melody is so unoriginal. It's like they had that awesome riff, and then realised they had to write a song to go with it and suddenly lost inspiration. Happens with me all the time.

I did wonder if it was going to be the last ever Queen song when I first heard it.
It had been three years since the last album, they weren't touring, rumours of Freddies ill health had started though pre internet it was difficult to find out anything, even rumours...
If it was the last ever Queen song, it would have been a wonderful epitaph...

But The Show Must Go On came along two years later and that worked as an even better epitaph for me.
Structurally and lyrically not as complex as WIAWI but heck that song has so much power and emotion..

My make up may be flaking... heartbreaking and wonderful...

So NO, if they didn't make the Innuendo album I would have said yes... but they did, so it's a no.
Bloody good song though.

As an addendum, I guess Im saying there are no GREAT songs on Made In Heaven. An album I really like.

Actually I think Mother Love is a great song, and A Winter's Tale is a beautiful song - especially as you know it's en exceptionally frail man near the end, still finding so much joy in his world. It's not a young man's song at all.

I was born to love you, the Queen version, is a glorious track. So in my opinion I'd disagree with the opinion that MIH has no great songs, but I appreciate all points of view.

Agree about Mother Love, though it didn't get to you immediately the first time.

For me I think Too Much LWKY is a great song in MIH, but seems like not many people here love it...?
It may not sound too rock-ish but it has some very nice guitar, and heart-wrenching lyrics.

Same opinion with Day dop about I Want It All: it's a powerful song, May absolutely killed it.

I Want It All was the obvious choice for leading single. I don't think any of the other tracks would've been such a good choice (Was It All Worth It, although superb, wasn't single material).

I love Made in Heaven. The Queen versions of Freddie tracks are brilliant and I think Too Much Love.. Is sublime. For some reason I can't really get into A Winter's Tale. I like the sentiment behind the song i.e. the lyrics but Freddie's vocal is very strained. It reminds me if how he misread One Year of Love by straining rather than using his more mellow voice.

[QUOTE] [b]Mercurydoc wrote:[/b]

I love Made in Heaven. The Queen versions of Freddie tracks are brilliant and I think Too Much Love.. Is sublime. For some reason I can't really get into A Winter's Tale. I like the sentiment behind the song i.e. the lyrics but Freddie's vocal is very strained. It reminds me if how he misread One Year of Love by straining rather than using his more mellow voice. [/QUOTE]

Might sound like strain to you but I think he just used this effect on his voice sometimes to give that certain gritty sound. He used it in many songs and recordings throughout his carreer.

You might be right about OYOL though but for A Winter's Tale I don't think so. How can he sound 'strained' on "magnificent view" and a second later sing "A breathtaking scene" perfectly clean? Same with "Gentle rain beatin' on my face" and then he sings a higher note on "What an *extraordinary* place!" perfectly clean.

By this time in his life he was able to sing really high without any strain. Just listen to those notes in TSMGO or I Can't Live With You - http://youtu.be/DKtpSIRDeKI?t=3m44s

Freddie used distortion and the overdrive vocal mode on recordings like "One Year Of Love" and the tracks that Chief mentioned.

[QUOTE] [b]Mercurydoc wrote:[/b]

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. [/QUOTE]

There are not many of us, but I'm not a fan of WIWI either. Not much of a fan of Scandal or Breakthru either. It's the maligned Party combined with Khashoggi's Ship that pops my cork! I also really like The Miracle (the song) and I Want It All off The Miracle album. That's why I reckon they are the first four tracks.

It has struck me that "Hang On In There" is a bit of a counterpoint (at least lyrically) to WIAWI.

I love that sony, but i think it was apin a way over produced. I don't like the arrangment and the orchestral section.
It would had been great to listen to the band play it live.

I love that song but i think it was in a way over produced. I don't like the arrangment and the orchestral section.
It would had been great to listen to the band play it live.

The OTT production works for me, particularly as it could've been the swansong. Just like TSMGO is overproduced but all the better for it. And TSMGO WAS in a way the swansong.

I know lots of people think Queen is pretentious and overblown, but for me they never were those things. Except possibly for WIWI. TSMGO deserves that sort of production whereas for me WIWI is a bit forced, especially that middle bit, I simply didn't buy into it. I was so glad when Innuendo came out, as I completely bought into those big songs this time around.