Album Tracks That Could Have Made Singles

I Have been thinking that some Album tracks could have made some good singles and might have been better choices than some that Queen put out,1]Liar/Great King Rat, 2]Funny How Love Is 3]Tenement Funster 4] Long Away . 5]You And I 6]Who Needs You.7Dead On Time .8]Fun It 9] Rock It .10]Dancer.I'm sure you have your own choices and some of the albums I have not looked at yet.

Queen (Doing All Right), Queen II (Father To Son), Sheer Heart Attack (In The Lap Of The Gods), A Night At The Opera (Sweet Lady), A Day At The Races (You Take My Breath Away), News Of The World (My Melancholy Blues), Jazz (Jealousy), The Game (Sail Away Sweet Sister), Hot Space (Life Is Real), The Works (Keep Passing The Open Windows), A Kind Of Magic (Princess Of The Universe), The Miracle (Was It All Worth It), Innuendo (I Can't Live With You),
Made In Heaven (Mother Love)
Bear in mind that in some parts of the world some titles above were released as singles.
Liar was released as a single in the US but oh my god, what they've done with that... don't get me started.

I always thought Ride the Wild Wind was a missed opportunity. I think it would have been big in the U.S..

Also, Who Wants to Live Forever should have been released as the single in America and would have changed the fortunes for AKOM.

I can't think of any track that should have been a single. But I can think of tracks that were not suited as a single (in my opinion): Long away, it's late, mustapha, jealousy, need your loving tonight, staying power, back chat, one year of love PISCTP.

They should have released "Fat Bottomed Girls" in 1974 instead of waiting until 1978. They were already playing it live and according to the movie it got a good reception.

Agree with Dave until ADATR -HS.

Those tracks are def B- Sides

ADATR : You And I, b: Millionaire
NOTW : It's Late/GDML
Jazz: ....none of em that weren't already done
THE GAME: Dragon Attack, b: SASS (just shift it to the b side)

And gotta agree on AKOM singles.... U.S. choices were retarded.

no idea about the commercial appeal of Ride The Wild Wind, but it IS a fantastic driven song

You And I is the main one that comes to mind.

[QUOTE] [b]PrimeJiveUSA wrote:[/b]

I always thought Ride the Wild Wind was a missed opportunity. I think it would have been big in the U.S..

Also, Who Wants to Live Forever should have been released as the single in America and would have changed the fortunes for AKOM.[/QUOTE]

It was released in Poland and went to Number 1.

I think Hot Space could have done better if they had replaced "Body Language" and "Back Chat" with "Dancer" and "Action This Day." As for "Calling All Girls" I would have gone for "Life Is Real."That track very much reminds me of "It's A Hard Life."

Agreed PrimeJive, I think Ride The Wild Wind is a great song, it would have done well in the US.

Anything off of Hot Space, other than Body Language. Freddie shitting in an empty Sprite can while combing his hair with astroturf would have been a better choice. So, in other words, anything off of Hot Space, or Whitesnake's1982 Saints and Sinners album(which I've never heard) would have been a better single to release. How the fuck did that single happen?

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]

They should have released "Fat Bottomed Girls" in 1974 instead of waiting until 1978. They were already playing it live and according to the movie it got a good reception.[/QUOTE]

Bravo! :-)

I was going to say 'Father to Son', but, oh gawd, I would have hated to hear a four minute butchered version.

Obvious choice: Stone Cold Crazy

damn all the double posts................

You And I in my opinion is the most commercial album track Queen never released as a single. I'm guessing the reason why they didn't release it was because it would've been deemed too similar to You're My Best Friend - especially if they released the song after Somebody To Love, the press would've rotten Queen because they would've accused them of using a formula which they knew produces hit singles; in terms of technicality, Somebody To Love sounds similar to Bohemian Rhapsody and YAI sounds like the follow-up to YMBF.

I personally rather YAI to YMBF - and Freddie said that he thought John's songwriting was getting a lot better by that point. I think that Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy should've been the b-side to Tie Your Mother Down and YAI the lead track on the EP as it slightly edges GOFLB on commerabilty (a dramatic intro and outro, and catchy, singalong lyrics) plus it would've meant an equal share of writing credits on the EP too.

I sometimes forget that GOFLB exists. Technically its a great song but slips under the radar. If (when) Queen re re re release A Day at the Races and Greatest Hits would anyone notice if it wasn't there?