Top and Bottom 10 Queen Songs

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[b]br5946 wrote: [/b] BOTTOM 10

1. Save Me
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It is beyond me how can anyone rate this beautiful song as the worst from Queen catalogue. But everyone has a different taste :P

Best;

1. Stone Cold Crazy
2. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
3. Killer Queen
4. White Queen (Live)
5. White man
6. The Show Must Go On
7. You My Best Friend
8. You Don't Fool Me
9. Prophet's song
10. Good company

Bottom;

1. Coming Soon
2. Rock It (Prime Jive)
3. Staying Power
4. Tear It Up
5. Delilah
6. My Life Has Been Saved
7. Don't Try Suicide
8. Man on the Prowl
9. Dancer
10 Most of the album Flash Gordon

i like the fact that someone genuinely deemed "blurred vision" song enough to include in a worst list.

so now, we're basically including instrumental remixes of established songs...just to warrant a place on a list
that would barely have made "10" without it

Yeah brENsKi? Problem with that?

It's mine flop 10, so who are u to say something about it?

i don't understand how that many people dislike a song like "dancer". it's superb!

of course you cannot compare it with all those early beauties. and there's nothing like a "queen II" !

but the song itself -in spite of the context of its release (hot space, that is)- stands out for being a very well done experiment in the dance genre.
i like to play it every now and then. it's fun.

and i think it's more listenable and less conservative (!) than pop songs like "i want to break free" which i rather title... well, kind of boring. by todays standards...
...or radio ga ga. loved it back then... but cannot stand it anymore... environmentally played to death! every time i want to clap hands, i listen to tom waits... :-)
same to WWRY. yes nice treatments. but same old, same old. (except maybe for roger's interpretations 94/98. wish they would do something similar in their queen shows t'day!)
WATC. what a beautiful song originally. but i hardly can stand it listening from beginning till the end.
cannot talk about a concrete "worst song" list.. because there's so many originally beautiful songs of them that were played to death...

so i'll continue with a list which features the most beautiful, and imho. timeless songs (and most played by me) of their repertoire...

1. white queen (with piano of course)
2. millionaire waltz ("how we danced and played"... woooohaaaa!)
3. good company (nice treatment!)
4. hard life (as a crowning glory of the pop-era of queen's)
5. march of the black queen (who doesn't love THAT original version of BoRhap ? :-)
6. tenement funster (for offering a personal view of roger's!)
7. my fairy king
8. great king rat
9. scandal 12'' (another well done pop treatment!)
10. seaside rendezvous (dude... !)
(xx. warboys (! i really like it !) the samples in between make me shiver from time to time! )

(of course... this is a spontaneous list. may alter here and there by the ages of time :-)


worst...
hum. at least not played by me:
everything on flash gordon (you may chose yourself). except for "the kiss"(rules big time!) and "football...something".
don't get me wrong... it may be good music. but not casual listenable. is it ? furthermore most of "hot space"... c'mon... the money for the studio rent wasn't really worth their output in the early 80s, was it? not my favourite queen-era as you may notice.
on the other side... "the song for lennon" was great... and "put out the fire" would have been a great song if it had gotten a royal treatment... "back chat"... *wrrrr*. no thanks. "action this day". i wish it had some serious action. "staying power". not staying forever...

but as i said... "dancer"... welcome occasionally. funny little thing. and the sample never gets boring :-)

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I know many people like/love Sleeping on the sidewalk. I don't like the way it is recorded, it sounds messy, would fit better on the Jazz album. Also the lyrics...something about a trumpet...
Brian sings like he will record his voice later again, but then better.
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sleeping on the sidewalk is a most easy number to get on yourself. and it's really fun playing it! love it for that reason! and yes... it's about a musician being fooled by the business. and he doesn't care any way... thematically kind of reminds me on queen's 1975, doesn't it ? so legitimated. :-)

TOP:
March of the Black Queen
The Fairy Feller Masterstroke
Good Company
The Millionaire Waltz
Who Needs You
Action This Day
Breakthru
Rain Must Fall
These Are the Days of Our Lives
Made in Heaven

FLOP:
My Life Has Been Saved
All God's People
Scandal
One Year of Love
Back Chat
Jealousy
Sweet Lady
My Fairy King
Life Is Real
Now I'm Here

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[QUOTE] [b]MadTheSwine73 wrote:[/b]

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.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. But what makes a track enduring is its melody and accessibility, so what could be a more valid criteria for "best" than that?

My Fairy King is a great track. But what does it have that Bohemian Rhapsody or Killer Queen doesn't have, and better?
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True, true. When it comes down to it, you are right in saying that the songs that will last forever are tracks from the Greatest Hits albums (mainly GH1, I'd guess).

Okay, I'll take a stab at this just for the heck of it....

Top 10 in no particular order....(I can't rank em, its hard enuf limiting it to 10!)

White Queen (live, BBC, or studio!)
Under Pressure
Liar
Brighton Rock (studio version, believe it or not)
BoRhap (heard it too many times, but it's gotta be in there!)
WWRY (BBC)
Innuendo
Was It All Worth It
The Millionaire Waltz
Fairy Fellers Master Stroke

Bottom 10

Delilah
Rain Must Fall
Party
Who Needs You
Misfire
She Makes Me
One Year Of Love
Thank God It's Christmas
Don't Try Suicide
Pain Is So Close To Pleasure


Dang, the bottom 10 was hard.............

I just realized 2 of the songs in my bottom 10 were in Panchgani's top 10! LOL.....

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(xx. warboys (! i really like it !) the samples in between make me shiver from time to time! )


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Kinda off topic here, but Warboys freakin' rocks.....one of the highlights of TCR for me.....

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Yeah brENsKi? Problem with that?

It's mine flop 10, so who are u to say something about it?
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you miss my point - "Blurred" isn't really a song...it's a mish mash of samples and instrumental passages over a computer/dance loop...can't imagine anyone calling that an actual SONG

It's hard to choose!

Favorite songs:

01. Was It All Worth It
02. The Miracle (a beautiful ending, shame the horrible transition).
03. These Are the Days of Our Lives
04. Too Much Love Will Kill You
05. Bohemian Rhapsody
06. A Winter's Tale
07. Scandal
08. Spread Your Wings
09. Teo Torriatte
10. Innuendo
11. Dreamer's Ball
12. Radio Ga Ga
13. A Kind of Magic
14. Great King Rat
15. Seven Seas of Rhye


Songs that I skip and never ever listen to:

10. White Man
09. Don't Try Suicide
08. Tear It Up
07. Lily of the Valley
06. Rain Must Fall
05. If You Can't Beat Them
04. Jesus
03. Dear Friends
02. Fun It
01. More of That Jazz


Is it cheating put half GHIII into the worse songs top?

Lily of the valley???!!?? /\ /My god, the world is coming to an end.

Great to see

Was it all worth it

in many of the top lists! One of my faves!
Overall it is fantastic to see how different Queen's catalogue gets reviwed by all the people here.

You even can find

Rain must fall in one ot fhe top lists!