What One Song Mars An Otherwise Perfect Album

Queen - Seven seas of rhye
Queen 2 - Some day one day
Sheer heart attack - Misfire
A night at the opera - God save the queen
A day at the races - Drowse (hard to choose)
News of the world - Get down make love (i hate the sexy interlude in the middle)
Jazz - Leaving home aint easy
The game - Dont try suicide (but great solo)
Hot space - Body language
The works - Tear it up
A kind of magic - One year of love
The miracle - My baby does me
Innuendo - All gods people
Made in heaven - Track 13

It must be "Sweet Lady" - tuneless nightmare right in the middle of one of the best albums ever.

Not saying Sweet Lady is the greatest song ever, but it features some of the best musicianship and creativity on any song in the catalogue.

Jazz: Mustapha - WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? SINCE WHEN DID FREDDIE WORSHIP ALLAH!?

"Jazz: Mustapha - WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? SINCE WHEN DID FREDDIE WORSHIP ALLAH!"

Shit.. I hate agreeing with you but it is by far the worst opening song of any Queen album. Sheer Heart Attack must have turned 10 million people off Queen who bought the record for Champions And We Will Rock You then heard dirge...

I meant the track and not the album bye the way...............

Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye (instrumental)
Queen II - The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke
Sheer Heart Attack - I love everything
A Night At The Opera - I love everything
A Day At The Races - Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
News Of THe World - Get Down Make Love
Jazz - Fun It
The Game - too many to chose, probably Play The Game
Flash Gordon - I like it all
Hot Space - drop everything except Dancer
The Works - Man On The Prowl or Keep Passing The Open Windows
A Kind Of Magic - drop everything except Who Wants To Live Forever
The Miracle - Rain Must Fall
Innuendo - Delilah
Made In Heaven - A Winter's Tale / It's A Beautiful Day

ANATO - I'm in love with my car

Silken wrote: ANATO - I'm in love with my car
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I recall you persecuting this song in another thread about silly or dumb songs or some such thing. :)  I LOVE this song.  I think it's almost perfect.  I can't wrap my head around how anybody, particularly a woman, could actually appear to hate it! Self evident, but funny how people are so different.  I've long been curious about how we develop our musical taste and what it says about us, about personality etc.

That's a cool question. I like many albums just the way they are, but let me see what I would remove from each:

Queen I - SSoR (intro)
Queen II - that's a difficult one. I am keeping it all. What about SSoR, which would fit better as a stand-alone single?
SHA - Dear Friends
ANATO - Sweet Lady - though I like the ending, but if one has to go.
ADATR - You and I
News of the World - Sheer heart Attack, terrible.
Jazz - In Only Seven Days and (maybe) Fun It, simply because I find their first funky tune should be AOBTD. Hey, Mustapha is cool, what's wrong with the tune?
The Game - I actually like both tunes, but it would be Don't Try Suicide or Coming Soon.
Hot Space -  Body Language. I think that tune - while good to great in its own terms - did a lot of damage to their career in the USA. Many hard rock fans absolutely abandoned the band after that one. Many for the wrong reasons, I am sure, but in any case the very decision of recording the tune was a risky career move. I liked it more when the gamble was issuing BoRap as a single.
The Works - I like this album. Man on the Prowl? Simply because they already had CLTCL.
AKOM - Either Gimme the Prize or Don't Lose your head. I like Gimme... but they could have come with a much better heavy tune... I guess they had it with Princes...
Miracle - I actually enjoy all tunes on this album. Rain Must Fall but I still find it fun, cheesy synth and all.
Innuendo - Delilah - though hey, I would grant Freddie any thing he wanted at that point. There is some great stuff on the album.
Made in heaven - I have to hear it more. I would say "I was born to love you". I like the tune but it was already well recorded on Mr. bad Guy.

Thanks! Remember, it is just opinions, folks.  ;-)

GratefulFan wrote:

I recall you persecuting this song in another thread about silly or dumb songs or some such thing. :)  I LOVE this song.  I think it's almost perfect.  I can't wrap my head around how anybody, particularly a woman, could actually appear to hate it! Self evident, but funny how people are so different.  I've long been curious about how we develop our musical taste and what it says about us, about personality etc. ===========================

It was the "embarrassing songs" thread :) I don't like the lyrics, I don't like Roger's voice, and the music is... meh. Maybe it's not that bad, but the rest of ANATO is superb.

I found interesting that Thistleboy 1980 chose The Prophet's Song and Seaside Rendezvous. In what universe these two songs could mar an album??

Silken wrote:

I found interesting that Thistleboy 1980 chose The Prophet's Song and Seaside Rendezvous. In what universe these two songs could mar an album??
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In my universe :)

I just don't like em.  Seemples xx

As an old bastard who was in high school when Killer Queen hit the radio, I was immediately taken with Queen's over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek "music hall" blend of lyrics and musical styles.  Their peers, 10cc, were also very much following the same path, writing an epic Gilbert & Sullivan parody about a french brothel at the same time as BoRap. 

IMHO, some replies are picking songs that are a part of this trend that runs through most of their middle period (ANATO to Game) when they seemed to be having the most fun.  Well that's my POV and I'll give it a go of almost perfect albums from what I consider their most creative period:

ANATO - The perfect album.  Enough said.
ADATR - Some weak points but not enough to mar another perfect album
NOTW - My Melancholy Blues ("It's Late" should have closed that album)
Jazz - Between Bicycle Race and More Of That Jazz, I'd give the nod to MOTJ which feels like it was stuck on the end for no real creative reason; Bicycle seemed too precious but I give Queen a big thumbs up for the promotional poster, video and auction!
The Game - Play The Game (I always felt this was a limp way to start an otherwise terrific album)

Crap, this is certainly about personal opinion....and it is all so difficult

Mine are:

Miracle: Rain Must Fall
Jazz: Mustapha
News Of the World: Get down make love
Queen II: Funny how Love is
Night at the Opera: Good company
The game: Sail away sweet sister
Works: man on the Prowl
Magic: Don't lose your head
Hot Space: Body Language
Innuendo: All Gods People
Made in Heaven: That long instumental bit at the end!!!!

I'm sure there might be a few more I skip over too. But this is the best I can do.
I remember when me and my mate first played the single Champions/rock you, my
mate after playing We will rock you said " well, I spose someone must like It"" the understatement of the century!!!
My dad liked Jazz when I first bought it aged 16, which was a boost to me at the time.....but he thought Mustapha was rubbish , but then he liked Glenn Miller!!!!  But he loved fat Bottomed Girls.......There you go!!!!   
I also remember trying to share Roger's Loser in the End with my Mum, who got offended by the lyrics about 
losing her son etc......I can see why now!!!!

I also hate "Don't try Suicide" off the game....forgot that one........
I think they lost the plot a bit when that album was released,,,,I was 
quite depressed upon hearing it. But it did grow on me. Strangely I think that the songs are often better live off that album
and "another on e Bites Dust" ended up as one of my favorites.  Probably because I got a lot of credit from my friends who were all into dance/soul music at the time!!!!