Loser in the End wouldn't be that bad if not for one thing...

...The terrible note choices at the end of the middle eight, for the phrase, 'It's not so long since you were young'. It falls over completely flat (not as in out of key, as in kills momentum and interest).

I have no problem with the remainder of the song, but that anticlimax just dampens the whole thing in my opinion. Sure, the lyrics are bad at points, but so are those to I'm In Love With My Car, and that's still a really enjoyable listen.

Very awkward indeed. The song just doesn't know where to go anymore, all of a sudden. Actually I think the whole song is very mediocre compared to the rest of the album. That and Some Day One Day, just can't stand May's shaky vocals there. It's like he sings with a gun pointed at his head.

I hate that song. Everything about it.

This song, basically, is the black cow (YES; BECAUSE IF I WANT COWS IN MY ARGUMENT, I PUT THEM THERE) of the flock.

like most of the Roger Taylor songs in the 70s, it is the weakest part in the album. It's been maybe 10 years now I haven't been listening to that song and I can go 10 more years without it.

I kinda like the song, at least the "strange drums" at the beginning. But it's probably the weakest song on Queen II - along with Some Day One Day - but the rest of the album is so good, so it must have been hard for Taylor to slip one in there.

Tenement Funster is very good. It is a really standout track from SHA with an amazing feel to it and there's some really nice delayed guitar solo.

And the irony is that I love the song but have a problem with Brian's whiney song that precedes it!

but surely it's redeemed from: "so listen mothers everywhere, to just one mother's son".............
What the heck, its just a teenage angst warble, I was never ever aware of any negativity about it, 'til I found QZ.- fits in on Q2 ok to me.
There 's weaker tracks in their canon

I have some affection for Some Day, One Day. It's just soft and easeful to listen to, and the guitar work is nice, different melodies in counterpoint not unlike the start of The Night Comes Down. Of course, Brian's voice in it is pretty weak (he wouldn't reach his strongest and most confident vocal ability until the 90s).

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Of course, Brian's voice in it is pretty weak (he wouldn't reach his strongest and most confident vocal ability until the 90s). [/QUOTE]

Certainly, but some of his lead vocals in the 70's and 80's were excellent ('39, Sail Away Sweet Sister, Who Wants to Live Forever). I agree Some Day One Day isn't one of his best, neither as a composer nor as singer.

I think he does a fine job singing on the Smile tracks Polar Bear and April Lady; he sounds shaky like on Some Day, One Day, but that vulnerability is a defining aspect of his vocals on many Queen tracks. His lines on Who Wants to Live Forever are a good example of that - he's not as shaky, but still soft and endearing.

I like the track, but is the weakest part of queen II, but i can't take off this track of the album!

I've never had a problem with the song, it's a good closer to side 1 (Side White).
I would never argue it's a classic, but only in terms of being on a very good album, it's far from the worst thing Queen ever did.
I wonder if it suffers a little from being on cd.
On vinyl, it would close out side 1, most lps had a quieter more sparse track as the last one, it made mastering much easier because of the tighter groove at the middle.
Then there was a gap as the needle hit the run off groove and the excitement of turning the lp over before the magnificence of side 2.
On cd it finishes then straight into Ogre battle and it suffers from the sonic boom that is the start of Ogre battle coming immediately afterwards instead of having 30 seconds to a minute of silence first.

It's hard to imagine, but if Queen II was written and recorded exactly the same way now, the track order would likely be very different. It would be front loaded with the strongest songs, there is no way in heck there wouldn't be one of the tracks from Freddie in the first 20 minutes.

Not much related to the topic maybe, but any song sung by Roger or Brian sounds much much better when sung by Freddie. I'm glad they left lead vocals (or at least most of them) to Freddie on all the songs after 1980.