Saddest Queen song(s)?

It tends to be the earlier material for me. Nevermore, love of my life, '39, long away, some day one day.
Later stuff probably mother love, too much love will kill you, these are the days of our lives (always gets to me) and maybe even is this the world we created!

The Night Comes Down always makes me kind of emotional, I don't know if i would really call it sad though...it's also in my top 3 Queen songs... I felt obligated to mention it.

I guess I would go with Nevermore, such an amazing song, and so sad. I wish it was longer! But i suppose it's perfect as it is...

Other songs: Save Me, Who Wants To Live Forever, The Show Must Go On, It's Late (kind of an aggressive sad), White Queen, Some Day One Day... Going Back always makes me really sad, even though it's not really a Queen song... just the context of it i guess. Mother Love is also sad in the context.

I agree with Holly that there are some good thoughts here, but I STRONGLY disagree with splicksplack. YTMBA absolutely mesmerized me the first time I heard it, and I still get a bit breathtaken at its beauty. Definitely could cause a lip quiver or two in me if I'm caught in a certain mood.

Someone mentioned These Are The Days Of Our Lives. And that last "I still love you" into the camera cut me up more than any other moment in the Queen catalogue. Although that's a lot to do with the visuals as well I guess.

I don't know why Brian's singing of Love of My Life gets to me, but it is not because the song itself is very sad to me (the record version doesn't make me cry), but I think it is that the song was very personally meaningful to Freddie. And it is a way that Brian is communicating that because this song was important to Freddie, it is also important to Brian. And that touches me deeply. So I guess I am crying because I am touched by Brian's gesture, rather than because of the music. It is probably a combination: being stirred by the personal sentiments coming from Freddie (in the past), and mix that with, or add to that, Brian, and the audience, and the music and beautiful performance. And the sadness that Freddie is not here "by your side to remind you" but the song is here and the song is Freddie reminding whoever he wrote the song for (Brian assumes it is Mary).

[QUOTE] [b]splicksplack wrote:[/b]

I appreciate You Take My Breath Away on a purely technical level. Other than that I can not listen to it.[/QUOTE]

I can sort of see where you're coming from. Try the amended live versions, the Hyde Park recording that was officially released recently is excellent, and what I feel is a more concise rearrangement of the original song. And Freddie's voice is absolutely beautiful.

On the topic of Brian singing songs alone, I was recently watching audience recordings of the Hammersmith shows, and him singing Somebody To Love while the whole audience sings back the choir part was very bittersweet to me.

I agree with the sentiments expressed by most people here. It's Late gets me, it's a very sort of bitter and desperate sadness that it's conveying. Who Wants To Live Forever can get to me as well, or at least the first half of it, after which it sounds more triumphant. White Queen is pretty melancholy as well. Splicksplack and Grateful Fan both make excellent points. Tracks like '39, while inherently sad, they're in a more melodramatic, disconnected way.

Brian's solo version of Too Much Love Will Kill you, on the other hand, while perhaps overly sad and self pitying, is very depressing to me, with a distinct air of brokenness and defeat.

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Interesting points above about different emotional styles of Freddie and Brian. Brian likes to talk about how Freddie "had the audience in the palm of his hand" but maybe it is Brian that connects more intimately with the audience, especially now that he has their full attention.

Freddie was also protective of others, by nature, so maybe he never wanted to pull anyone's emotions too low, including the audience.

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[b]tomchristie22 wrote: [/b]

Brian's solo version of Too Much Love Will Kill you, on the other hand, while perhaps overly sad and self pitying, is very depressing to me, with a distinct air of brokenness and defeat.[/b]

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Teo Torriatte
Nevermore
Mother Love
Love of my Life
These Are The Days of Our Lives


Teo Torriatte gets to me, but then as someone mentioned, it depends on my mood and whats going on. Quite a few of Queens songs have brought me to tears, that voice of Freddies is very moving. I never saw him live, but feel loss. I find it fascinating how a person can literally love a person they've never met ..love them through their art and expression of it. Brians LOML gets to me too. But then honestly, watching some of the Freddie interviews move me too....lol...I'm a sap.

I must say I'm rather surprised that there are people who can't hear the sadness in "Bijou." That guitar just sends chills down my spine. I can't help but hear it as a song of sadness and hope.

Also I now have David Bowie if he said something that foolish.

Ugh... Hate not have

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