Son and daughter or Liar?

My Fairy King is a wonderful, wonderful song. As beautiful today as when it was created by Queen.

In 2011, the song was hand selected by the band for the Deep Cuts releases - songs considered to be hidden gems in the catalog.
We will never see the likes of song lyrics such as these written ever again, nor song stylings such as these either. A sad reality. They were unique to Queen.

But at least we do have My Fairy King and other songs like The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke. Some misunderstand the songs or are too immature to appreciate their worth and beauty.

These songs are priceless.

Keep Yourself Alive. I have to think this is the band's favorite too, it seems to be on almost every compilation and deep cuts volume 1! I've always found it interesting how Queen always seemed to have an affection towards KYA.

Son or Daughter over Liar. But it's close.

[QUOTE] [b]LordOfAllDarkness wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
Hands down, the best song on the album is My Fairy King. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it.
It is the beginning of Mercury's progression to creating Bohemian Rhapsody.[/QUOTE]
such a gay song. The best song is undoubtedly Great King Rat.[/QUOTE]
@#lordofallhomophobia

do you even know anything about the song? clearly not...to you it's just a song about a sad fairy?

the first verse is a lift from an excellent folk tale from the 13th century, later made famous by Robert Browning, The Brothers Grimm and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Also, it gave birth to the modern day saying "pay the piper" - meaning to face the consequences of your actions....

yeah, you're right it's a really gay song - you fuckwit

Well just going soley between Liar and Son & Daughter.... It was nearly hard to pick ... But then I had a breakthrough and it became very easy.

My answer is Liar.

While both songs are pleasingly heavy, Liar covers more ground and I feel is more complex as a result.

But my ultimate reasoning is as follows:

Liar 6:26
Son & Daughter 3:19

That's 3 more minutes of Queen in Liar and that's a lot, especially in concert.

So for me Liar all the way ... all the way from Mars to Mercury in fact!

My Fairy King

Out of the two... - Son and Daughter.

The debut album has to be one of my favourites - it's one Queen album that I can listen to all the way through without skipping a track. If I were to arrange the ten songs on there in terms of greatness, it would probably be this (and just because the Queen I version of SSOR is 10th, doesn't mean I don't like it).

10. Seven Seas of Rhye...
  9. Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll  
  8. Son and Daughter*
  7. Great King Rat
  6. Jesus
  5. My Fairy King
  4. The Night Comes Down
  3. Keep Yourself Alive
  2. Liar
  1. Doin' Alright

* When it comes to Son and Daughter, I prefer the At the Beeb version. Freddie just sounds so raw and Brian's seguing into a proto-Brighton solo in that long version is brill!

Meh, Liar only covers more ground so to speak because it constantly switches into entirely different sections and doesn't have any consistent structure (like MOTBQ). Also, the Q1 drums can't be fixed, as the drums were physically made to sound that way, not mixed to sound dull.

[QUOTE] [b]LordOfAllDarkness wrote:[/b]
such a gay song. The best song is undoubtedly Great King Rat.[/QUOTE]

I know everyone's all replied to this already... Nonetheless. What exactly renders it 'gay' for you? Is it the fairy-tale based stuff? The high pitched backing vocals? Or the fact that it has the word fairy in it's title? Either way, The March Of The Black Queen, which judging by your username I'm assuming you're fond of, is equally if not more gay by that logic. But neither are gay, so I don't know what your point is.

I've got a bunch of favourites on Queen 1, but neither Liar or Son and Daughter are amongst them. They're not bad those two, but I haven't got an obvious favourite between them.

But my favourites are King Rat, Doin' Alright, My Fairy King, Jesus and Keep Yourself Alive. My favourite has changed over the years, but these days its Jesus. Love the verses, the chorus and Brian's monstrous guitar solo. Nice and heavy.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
Using the word "gay" to describe a song that has nothing to do with homosexuality [/QUOTE]

Don't say, Freddie never told us what he wrote his songs about, this one might have something to do with homosexuality even if it is unlikely

Heeeeyy guys.

I really like this album, of course, so stuff that's low on the list isn't bad, just not as good.

Not a big fan of Mad the Swine (sorry MadtheSwine73) but it's catchy.

10. Seven Seas of Rhye--too short, but it's an interesting twist on the song that would come a little bit later. I also like its inclusion on It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise).

9. The Night Comes Down--I don't think people would like this being ranked so low. I used to kind of hate it, but it's grown on me. The guitar intro/outro is awesome, but I've always found the vocal part a little bit boring. I don't know, that's just my opinion.

8. Modern Times Rock N' Roll--It could have been better.

7. Doing All Right--Good song. Like how the mood changes are sudden, yet flow very well. The really heavy sections are brutal.

6. My Fairy King--I really like it, but it just feels to me like something's missing. If it were just a little bit longer it would probably be a few spots higher on the list.

5. Son and Daughter--Loooooove that riff, and the guitar solo live is amazing.

4. Jesus--Some people don't like it because it's "too religious." (Politely) screw those people. Actually, I don't really care much about that lyrics; I could listen to that guitar section all day long. Also, I've seen someone on this site point out that it sounds like a spoof of Black Sabbath, which amuses me.

3. Great King Rat--Sweet drums and two of my favorite Brian May guitar solos.

2. Keep Yourself Alive--Nothing more needs to be said about how great this song is. Also, the OP seems to think that every critic thinks Liar is the best song on the album, though from what I've seen they actually think this is it.

1. Liar--Speaking of Liar, that's currently my favorite song on the album, though that could change, of course. I agree with QueenUSA that this covers more ground (the more Queen packed into one song the better), and @ Tom Christie, I don't really care if that's only because it doesn't have a coherent song structure. When I first listened to the song and heard the guitar solo interrupted suddenly by "Listen!" and suddenly it was completely different, I was thinking "Holy shit, did they seriously just do that?" It's even more abrupt than the guitar solo into the "I see a silluhetto..." in Bo Rhap. Anyway, I really like it, so that's that.

And the winner between Son and Daughter and Liar is...

Liar!

My favourite would be Mad the Swine.

Out of the two: Liar (I always liked the B3 organ bit!)