Top and Bottom 10 Queen Songs

We already have one like this, but it died, so here is a new one!

Here is mine...

Best
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Somebody to Love
3. Under Pressure (possibly the only good thing to come out of Hot Space)
4. I Want to Break Free
5. Bicycle Race
6. Fat Bottomed Girls
7. We Will Rock You
8. We Are the Champions
9. You're My Best Friend
10. No One But You (Despite the Absence of Freddie)

Worst
1. Delilah
2. I'm In Love With My Car
3. Back Chat
4. Jesus
5. Dancer
6. Teo Torriatte
7. Don't Try Suicide
8. All God's People
9. Get Down Make Love
10. Body Language

Best
1. Bohemian Rhapsody: Just pure greatness. Nothing more.
2. The Show Must Go On: So amazing,Especially the guitar solos.
3. Somebody To Love: Very pretty and beautiful. I especially like how the song has 2 false endings.
4.Under Pressure: Best of Hot Space,the high note in the middle...Just wow.
5.Bicycle Race:Always a favorite,very catchy,like the bike bell solo.
6.Radio Ga Ga: Just very nice,the synths sound very cool!
7 Your'e My Best Friend: Just very good.
8: I Want To Break Free: Nothing to say.
9.We Will Rock You and We Will Rock You (Fast):Love this,especially the fast version. Live versions good too!.
10:I Want It All:Just so rockin'.
honorable mentions:Fat Bottomed Girls,Killer Queen,No One But You.
Worst
1.Delilah:The lyrics are sweet and so cute(It's about a cat),but this song sucks.
2.Get Down Make Love:Especially the middle.
3.Body Language:just so bad.
4.My Baby Does Me:Crap,Crap,Crap.
5.Staying Power:Just some cheesy disco. It might have worked for the Bee Gees,but they ain't queen.
6.Action This Day:crap,the lyrics in Roger's parts are too quiet.
7.Don't Try Suicide:Even though it's anti-suicide,the melody is utter crapola.
8.I'm In Love With My Car:Hate it.
9:Dancer:More Crap.
10:Back Chat:Crap.

I just popped in to defend My Baby Does Me.

Sorry, I like it.

2. I'm In Love With My Car
3. Back Chat
4. Jesus
6. Teo Torriatte

Just happen to be four of my favourite Queen songs. IILWMC has awful lyrics but has a great rhythm and gnarly guitar. Back Chat has one of Brian;s best solos -- very sharp and tight. Jesus resolves into one of Queen's heaviest instrumental sections. Teo is beautiful from start to finish.

(off-topic)My Baby Does Me is not a filler. Its a "breather" as Freddie quoted it in "Queen for an hour".
It does indeed provide some space to the album. Used to like it. Nowdays it just... passes by.
Guess it didnt age that well.

My top 10, in no particular order:

Father To Son
Innuendo
It's Late
Life is Real
A Winter's Tale
Somebody to Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Show Must Go On
Was It All Worth It
My Melancholy Blues

My "worst 10", in no particular order.

Don't Lose Your Head
Gimme The Prize
Pain Is So Close To Pleasure
More of That Jazz
Dancer
Rain Must Fall
Delilah
My Baby Does Me
Cool Cat
Fight From The Inside

However, Don't Lose Your Head is the only song there that I actually dislike. All the others I don't really mind, but I don't think I've ever finished listening to Don't Lose Your Head.

baxter1999 wrote:

Worst
2. I'm In Love With My Car
6. Teo Torriatte

Genuinely surprised to see these excellent tracks on a shit-list. But again, we've seen people prefer The Works and A Kind Of Magic to Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack. Bizarre. It'd be like saying What Goes On is better than All My Loving.


As for the original question - the best ten Queen tracks are on any Greatest Hits compilation. Anything to the contrary is fan worship borne out of over-listening to the hits.

Killer Queen, BoRhap, Somebody To Love, Rock You, Champions, Don't Stop Me Now, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Under Pressure, and The Show Must Go On are indisputable, plus a wild card of your choice. I'll pick Innuendo.

Of course there are superb album tracks, but it's the hits that made Queen who they are. And, for the record, most of them were written by Mercury.

"the best ten Queen tracks are on any Greatest Hits compilation. Anything to the contrary is fan worship borne out of over-listening to the hits. "
I saw a list like this before,and The March Of The Black Queen was consistently in the top,but is not a very popular song,Death on 2 legs and The Prophets Song were up there a lot as well. So there ARE some good songs that aren't as popular as their hits.

There are actually A BUNCH of songs that were not popualr that I saw up there.

Caviar and Cigarettes wrote:

I saw a list like this before,and The March Of The Black Queen was consistently in the top,but is not a very popular song,Death on 2 legs and The Prophets Song were up there a lot as well. So there ARE some good songs that aren't as popular as their hits.

As brilliant as they are, they still come in second place to the tracks that will endure for centuries.

The Real Wizard wrote:

Caviar and Cigarettes wrote:

I saw a list like this before,and The March Of The Black Queen was consistently in the top,but is not a very popular song,Death on 2 legs and The Prophets Song were up there a lot as well. So there ARE some good songs that aren't as popular as their hits.

As brilliant as they are, they still come in second place to the tracks that will endure for centuries.

Well if you want songs that will endure for centuries, that's a different list. Tracks that made people famous are not necessarily the best.

I see what you're saying, but this asked for the "best'. Mind you, best is more or less subjective.

10 best:
1. innuendo
2. Was it all worth it
3. In the lap of the Gods...revisited
4. Drowse
5. I'm in love with my car
6. White queen
7. The show must go on
8. Don't try so hard
9. '39
10. Who wants to live forever

worst 10.
1. Fun it
2. More of that jazz
3. Leaving home aint easy
4. Sleeping on the sidewalk
5. Son & daughter
6. Misfire
7. Keep passing the open windows
8. Staying power
9. My life has been saved
10. Sweet lady

Well, I know this is about personal taste...but...

Sleeping on the Sidewalk

on the bottom list...that is hard.

Best
1. My Fairy King
2. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
3. Flick of the Wrist
4. The March of the Black Queen
5. Another One Bites the Dust
6. I'm Going Slightly Mad
7. The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke
8. Great King Rat
9. These are the Days of Our Lives
10. It's a Hard Life


Worst
1. Coming Soon
2. One Year of Love
3. Some Day One Day
4. The Invisible Man
5. I Want It All
6. The Hitman
7. Funny How Love Is
8. Bad Company
9. Tie Your Mother Down
10. Friends Will Be Friends