Oscar J
Yeah but favourite Queen song is an unusually high rank for it I think.
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dysan
I also rate Cool Cat quite highly so what do I know :)
mike hunt
Hot Space hasn't aged well for me, but I do like cool Cat and Back Chat. Cool Cat, his voice is at it's best. Sheer heart attack as a favorite Queen song is not nearly as strange as someone saying Drowse is the best song on A Day At The Races, like someone said on this thread. That one had me scratching my head.
Saint Jiub
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[b]dysan wrote: [/b] I also rate Cool Cat quite highly so what do I know :)[/QUOTE]
You "know" quite a bit more than I ... My Queen song opinions probably tend to be much more blasphemous ...
My "boring" songs at the moment (2 per album):
Son and Daughter & My Fairy King, Father to Son & White Queen (album version), She Makes Me & Now I'm Here, Sweet Lady & You're My Best Friend, Long Away & Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, We Are the Champions & Fight from the Inside, Jealousy & More of That Jazz, Save Me & Play the Game, Arboria & In the Death Cell, Back Chat & Life Is Real, Tear It Up & Man on the Prowl, One Year of Love & Princes of the Universe, Scandal & My Baby Does Me, All God's People & The Show Must Go On, and My Life Has Been Saved & Too Much Love Will Kill You.
My "special" songs at the moment (2 per album):
The Night Comes Down & Liar, The Fairy Feller Masterstroke & March of the Black Queen, Brighton Rock & Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Good Company & Bohemian Rhapsody, The Millionaire Waltz & Teo Torriate, Who Needs You & Spread Your Wings (BBC version), Dreamer's Ball & In Only 7 Days, Don't Try Suicide & Another One Bites the Dust, Football Fight & The Hero, Action This Day & Put Out the Fire, Hammer to Fall & Keep Passing the Open Windows, Pain Is So Close to Pleasure & A Kind of Magic (12" version), Breakthru & Rain Must Fall, These Are the Days of Our Lives & I Can't Live with You, and Made in Heaven & It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise).
[b]dysan wrote: [/b] I also rate Cool Cat quite highly so what do I know :)[/QUOTE]
You "know" quite a bit more than I ... My Queen song opinions probably tend to be much more blasphemous ...
My "boring" songs at the moment (2 per album):
Son and Daughter & My Fairy King, Father to Son & White Queen (album version), She Makes Me & Now I'm Here, Sweet Lady & You're My Best Friend, Long Away & Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, We Are the Champions & Fight from the Inside, Jealousy & More of That Jazz, Save Me & Play the Game, Arboria & In the Death Cell, Back Chat & Life Is Real, Tear It Up & Man on the Prowl, One Year of Love & Princes of the Universe, Scandal & My Baby Does Me, All God's People & The Show Must Go On, and My Life Has Been Saved & Too Much Love Will Kill You.
My "special" songs at the moment (2 per album):
The Night Comes Down & Liar, The Fairy Feller Masterstroke & March of the Black Queen, Brighton Rock & Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Good Company & Bohemian Rhapsody, The Millionaire Waltz & Teo Torriate, Who Needs You & Spread Your Wings (BBC version), Dreamer's Ball & In Only 7 Days, Don't Try Suicide & Another One Bites the Dust, Football Fight & The Hero, Action This Day & Put Out the Fire, Hammer to Fall & Keep Passing the Open Windows, Pain Is So Close to Pleasure & A Kind of Magic (12" version), Breakthru & Rain Must Fall, These Are the Days of Our Lives & I Can't Live with You, and Made in Heaven & It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise).
tomchristie22
I struggle to like Sheer Heart Attack hugely just because it's so un-Queen. Modern Times Rock and Roll is in a similar vein, but there's much more melody to it, and there's much more Queen-esque, richer sounding vocal harmonies.
dysan
I also love Modern Times. The end of TNCD into it is the most exciting part of any Queen album IMO. Good tracklisting.
Son & Daughter is a weird one. It was just a boring bluesy song on their first album (again, I was very little) and I think over the years I'd get so used to the many many live versions of it that it became a skipper for me. Then I heard the original album version again for the first time in years and the moment the harmonised guitar comes in, that weird, beautiful sound, it transported me right back to being little again hearing it for the first time with headphones on and going 'woooow'. So nostalgia score: 10, song interest score: 2
Son & Daughter is a weird one. It was just a boring bluesy song on their first album (again, I was very little) and I think over the years I'd get so used to the many many live versions of it that it became a skipper for me. Then I heard the original album version again for the first time in years and the moment the harmonised guitar comes in, that weird, beautiful sound, it transported me right back to being little again hearing it for the first time with headphones on and going 'woooow'. So nostalgia score: 10, song interest score: 2
Oscar J
For Son And Daughter, look no further than Rainbow (March 1974) or the BBC July 1973 version. Makes you wonder how they managed to make the album version sound so tame in comparison.
dysan
Waaaa?
Oscar J
Don't know how I'm supposed to interpret that.
mike hunt
My only complaint of the first album is the production, and it ends on a weak note. The last few songs are weaker than the earlier ones. The last month or so I been on a Queen 1 and Queen 2 kick. Those were the albums that got me into Queen way back in the day. I almost forgot how great Queen 1 was. Almost every song is solid. The studio version of son and Daughter was ok, but why did they cut out that drum solo at the end? The BBC version is much stronger.
7cees
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[b]mike hunt wrote: [/b] Hot Space hasn't aged well for me, but I do like cool Cat and Back Chat. Cool Cat, his voice is at it's best. Sheer heart attack as a favorite Queen song is not nearly as strange as someone saying Drowse is the best song on A Day At The Races, like someone said on this thread. That one had me scratching my head.[/QUOTE]
Drowse is my all time favourite Queen song.... Scratch away....
[b]mike hunt wrote: [/b] Hot Space hasn't aged well for me, but I do like cool Cat and Back Chat. Cool Cat, his voice is at it's best. Sheer heart attack as a favorite Queen song is not nearly as strange as someone saying Drowse is the best song on A Day At The Races, like someone said on this thread. That one had me scratching my head.[/QUOTE]
Drowse is my all time favourite Queen song.... Scratch away....
dysan
It's definitely up there for me too.A weird nostalgia vibe which really spoke to me before I knew what nostalgia was.
The Real Wizard
[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]
Son & Daughter is a weird one. It was just a boring bluesy song on their first album (again, I was very little) and I think over the years I'd get so used to the many many live versions of it that it became a skipper for me. Then I heard the original album version again for the first time in years and the moment the harmonised guitar comes in, that weird, beautiful sound, it transported me right back to being little again hearing it for the first time with headphones on and going 'woooow'. So nostalgia score: 10, song interest score: 2[/QUOTE]
You get the best of both worlds with the BBC session 2 version - the interlude plus the harmonies in the last verse.
Son & Daughter is a weird one. It was just a boring bluesy song on their first album (again, I was very little) and I think over the years I'd get so used to the many many live versions of it that it became a skipper for me. Then I heard the original album version again for the first time in years and the moment the harmonised guitar comes in, that weird, beautiful sound, it transported me right back to being little again hearing it for the first time with headphones on and going 'woooow'. So nostalgia score: 10, song interest score: 2[/QUOTE]
You get the best of both worlds with the BBC session 2 version - the interlude plus the harmonies in the last verse.
dysan
Yes - I should've said it was actually the BBC version 2 that reminded me (downloaded from here, ooo when was it? 2005?) rather than the album cut. Kept the story simple :)
Oscar J
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[b]The Real Wizard wrote: [/b] [QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]
Son & Daughter is a weird one. It was just a boring bluesy song on their first album (again, I was very little) and I think over the years I'd get so used to the many many live versions of it that it became a skipper for me. Then I heard the original album version again for the first time in years and the moment the harmonised guitar comes in, that weird, beautiful sound, it transported me right back to being little again hearing it for the first time with headphones on and going 'woooow'. So nostalgia score: 10, song interest score: 2[/QUOTE]
You get the best of both worlds with the BBC session 2 version - the interlude plus the harmonies in the last verse. [/QUOTE]
Complete with a super raw sound, a more to the point guitar solo, and with Taylor delivering thunderous drumming and a haunted head voice scream. Plus the "steel yourself, this is valid" bit. Gotta love it.
[b]The Real Wizard wrote: [/b] [QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]
Son & Daughter is a weird one. It was just a boring bluesy song on their first album (again, I was very little) and I think over the years I'd get so used to the many many live versions of it that it became a skipper for me. Then I heard the original album version again for the first time in years and the moment the harmonised guitar comes in, that weird, beautiful sound, it transported me right back to being little again hearing it for the first time with headphones on and going 'woooow'. So nostalgia score: 10, song interest score: 2[/QUOTE]
You get the best of both worlds with the BBC session 2 version - the interlude plus the harmonies in the last verse. [/QUOTE]
Complete with a super raw sound, a more to the point guitar solo, and with Taylor delivering thunderous drumming and a haunted head voice scream. Plus the "steel yourself, this is valid" bit. Gotta love it.