Is The Show Must Go On particularly well liked?

To me, it is Freddie's real final personal and creative statement. A brilliant song.

In my country we call it "da variker rado terran" or "the destroyer of worlds" ...

I don't understand why people ask questions for which the answers are obvious. Waste of time.

I personally like the song a lot. I think it's one of those cases where everything is up to a very high standard. Some songs have relatively awful lyrics but they make up for that with a great performance; others have just average performance but they've got great production, and so on.

This one has very nice lyrics (quite poignant), the chord progression's catchy, the melody's beautiful and memorable, the drumming is excellent, the bass is magnificent, the guitar-playing is May-estic, backing vocals are fantastic, lead vocals are phenomenal, it's very well mixed, well produced and it sounds really nice. One of their best.

^yes Rafael. Fantastic song. I've had a stoner friend call it predictable (it repeats after all) but he totally didn't get the soul of the song.

It's mastering is unusual like much of innuendo ... it's very trebly and boxey. Almost like everything was somehow shelved to a constant frequency/volume level.

Something doubtless to do with mastering/creative decisions/David Richards.

Still, the entire album is fucking phenomenal.

Great song. Really really great, but I just can't listen to it. Too much of 1991 in it. Bad Times, man.

RafaelSomma wrote:

I don't understand why people as questions for which the answers are obvious. Waste of time.

Well you didn't have to make it a waste of time for you personally by clicking it and posting, did you? By all means, post something of greater substance - it'd be a nice change from your usual cynicism.

I wouldn't have asked if I thought the answer obvious. I've genuinely never seen many people on here discuss it, so I thought it might've been viewed as fairly unexceptional. Certainly, I feel it's overshadowed by the title track, but that's cos the title track's amazing, the best thing they produced since 1980 in my opinion.

It's a marvelous song! Just love it! Top vocals and guitars! A perfect track! I wouldn't change a thing on it! Better, just WATC, but that's my opinion.

tomchristie22 wrote:

RafaelSomma wrote:

I don't understand why people as questions for which the answers are obvious. Waste of time.

Well you didn't have to make it a waste of time for you personally by clicking it and posting, did you? By all means, post something of greater substance - it'd be a nice change from your usual cynicism.

I wouldn't have asked if I thought the answer obvious. I've genuinely never seen many people on here discuss it, so I thought it might've been viewed as fairly unexceptional. Certainly, I feel it's overshadowed by the title track, but that's cos the title track's amazing, the best thing they produced since 1980 in my opinion.

Listen, I just said that people ask questions they know the answers to. Of course TSMGO is liked! It's one of the best if not the best Queen song ever written...

Supersonic_Man89 wrote: I think it's very underrated in the UK and rarely considered one of Queen's classics. It only got 16 in the charts and doesn't recieve any airplay (I've haven't heard it once in the past 10 years being a Queen fan...yet i've heard 'Invisible Man').

Maybe the real question is why UK and US don't like the song?

Well it WASN'T the lead single.

Not only does it contain some of the most strongest vocals of Freddie, Brians brilliant and somewhat emotional guitar solos and some very heavy hitting drum parts as mentioned... It also contains some lovely bass lines from deaky!!! Those opening bass lines with the synths are a simply "only john deacon" trade market bass lines.. Gives that whole "unsure if this song will be the end of queen?" uncertainty sound in the beginning of the song.. You know.
Beautiful song love 70s early 80s... Well flash/the game.. queen and love the 90s sounding queen!!

Agreed on the bass line; I was just going to remark on it.

Listening to it LOUD in my car yesterday the ending is interesting. The fade out DOESN'T go on forever*. I wonder what they thought of that. Maybe that's the point. Maybe I'm over-analysing. :-)

* I never thought it did, in case you were wondering. :-)

As bucsateflon wrote : Maybe the real question is why UK and US don't like the song?

Thats the true paradox indeed!

Without a doubt, one of my all-time favorite Queen songs.

Freddie's vocal is simply ridiculous.. unfair... amazing... hell, pick a word.