Heaviest Queen song?

When I play The Prophet's Song to a noob who has never heard it, they think its the heaviest song they ever heard.

[QUOTE] [b]Michael Scapp wrote:[/b]

When I play The Prophet's Song to a noob who has never heard it, they think its the heaviest song they ever heard.[/QUOTE]

it IS massive.



but. ... even the la la laaaas?

What about "White Man"...?

[QUOTE] [b]cmi wrote:[/b]

What about "White Man"...?[/QUOTE]

Comparing White Man to the Prophet's Song, I find White Man is quite a bit weaker in melodic content. There's nothing in White Man that comes close to the strength of the "oh, people of the earth" hook.

I think White Man feels heavier because it's fairly unmelodic - it gives it a drier and more grim feel to it. I'd take Prophet's Song any day if I was made to choose.

Mike Hunt:
One of my great personal Queen mysteries - why oh why don't folk like 'Dont Lose Your Head' - love it, always have.

With the Queen albums of the 80's they reassured their status as a legendary immortal band, the music really transcends time, unlike many of the 70's bands which died in the 80's and never can achieve the "forever relevant" status.
Led Zeppelin benefits from the pioneering fact, and the cool image. as The Beatles does too.
Rolling Stones achieved this endurance status in the 90's with relevant good albums.

^Very good.

[QUOTE] [b]master marathon runner wrote:[/b]

Mike Hunt:
One of my great personal Queen mysteries - why oh why don't folk like 'Dont Lose Your Head' - love it, always have.[/QUOTE]

Strong vocals from Freddie, but not much else I like about. It's personal taste, we could never like the same some songs all the time. A lot of people, at least on Queenzone don't like One Year Of Love. I personally like it.

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Michael Scapp wrote:[/b]

When I play The Prophet's Song to a noob who has never heard it, they think its the heaviest song they ever heard.[/QUOTE]

it IS massive.



but. ... even the la la laaaas?[/QUOTE]

La laaa is my favorite part, especially with head phones on, or surround sound. Amazing piece of work. Everytime I put this song on for people. Their blown away by the song and the middle section. Those are the big music fans, the fans of typical radio music politely asks me too turn it off, lol.

RE Don't Lose Your Head: I loved A Dozen Red Roses on the flip of AKOM 7" - it was such a weird song and really futuristic and mysterious. I was massively disappointed to see it missing from the AKOM album tracklist. When I finally heard the album cut I was mortified. All the mystery gone as it was over normalised. As the album is only 9 tracks, would've been nice to stick it on as a kind of reprise to DLYH or even as an extra magical ingredient. I'd go so far as to say that Forever should've been on the album proper too as final track. Would've brought some symmetry to the record, as much as I dislike Forever and WWTLF.

The question of heaviest does not have a straight forward answer. People's perception of heavy differed with what you're listening too. A heavy production (treatment) is not the same as musically heavy, chord voicings and melodic structure can often be heavier than something that sounds feta you because of an over driven or distorted guitar sound.

Wagner wrote some incredibly heavy pieces of music. As for the subject and an answer. . . I'm undecided however all the posts so far could be contenders!

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[b]dysan wrote: [/b] ... as much as I dislike Forever and WWTLF.[/QUOTE]

Oh? Care to elaborate? WWTLF is one of like three songs I actually like on that album (the other ones being POTU and One Vision).

It's just a bit dreary and obvious. I know a few people have said it, but Adam Lambert doing it live is amazing and theatrical which I think the Queen version isn't. Perhaps mid 80s production values didn't do justice to the rock ballad format?

The hitman Not heavy? Incorrect. Iplayed that years ago to guys who like death metal and alt rock and they were surprised Queen played "heavy metal" especially that late in their career. If you blast songs of theirs I think the hardest and loudest you can hear is Liar.

Hitman is Heavy, I give you that, but it's not a good song IMO.