best queen albums

mike hunt wrote: some are pretty much even...like Queen2 and opera are tied for first....and Queen 1 is as  good as races.  Innuendo, the Game and Jazz are very close.  The Game is my favorite of the 80's by far....
The Game is a spectacular album! One of their best I honestly think. True it doesn't match up to the classics, ANATO, ADATR etc, but imagine if a band came out with an album on par with the Game but reached nothing higher... that album is still pretty amazing!

Play The Game is simply a beautiful song, Freddie at his finest in terms of songwriting. Dragon Attack and AOBTD really show off the rhythm section without straying too far from rock roots IMO - Dragon Attack has some of Brian's heaviest sounding solos.

Need Your Loving Tonight is a joy. CLTCL is a great song too, nice new flavour with the acoustic guitars, doesn't stay around too long either. Rock It is pure rock, with the added synth flavour with does the song great credit, soaring Roger vocal too. Admittedly Don't Try Suicide is filler, but it does add another dimension to the album, a bit of light bluesy relief. 

Sail Away Sweet Sister is a gorgeous song, perfectly balanced lyrically, musically. Who doesn't love Freddie's middle 8? One of Brian's unsung beauties. Coming Soon... call it filler, who cares? More straight up rock music, that's for sure. It bridges a gap nicely too. Finally Save Me rounds the album off perfectly. 

As a last point the album sounds, even today amazing! It's beautifully recorded and produced. My point is, it lacks the 'classic' status of the early greats, but The Game is spectacular in it's own right. Who's with me?

Mean Mr. Ketchup wrote: mike hunt wrote: some are pretty much even...like Queen2 and opera are tied for first....and Queen 1 is as  good as races.  Innuendo, the Game and Jazz are very close.  The Game is my favorite of the 80's by far....
The Game is a spectacular album! One of their best I honestly think. True it doesn't match up to the classics, ANATO, ADATR etc, but imagine if a band came out with an album on par with the Game but reached nothing higher... that album is still pretty amazing!

Play The Game is simply a beautiful song, Freddie at his finest in terms of songwriting. Dragon Attack and AOBTD really show off the rhythm section without straying too far from rock roots IMO - Dragon Attack has some of Brian's heaviest sounding solos.

Need Your Loving Tonight is a joy. CLTCL is a great song too, nice new flavour with the acoustic guitars, doesn't stay around too long either. Rock It is pure rock, with the added synth flavour with does the song great credit, soaring Roger vocal too. Admittedly Don't Try Suicide is filler, but it does add another dimension to the album, a bit of light bluesy relief. 

Sail Away Sweet Sister is a gorgeous song, perfectly balanced lyrically, musically. Who doesn't love Freddie's middle 8? One of Brian's unsung beauties. Coming Soon... call it filler, who cares? More straight up rock music, that's for sure. It bridges a gap nicely too. Finally Save Me rounds the album off perfectly. 

As a last point the album sounds, even today amazing! It's beautifully recorded and produced. My point is, it lacks the 'classic' status of the early greats, but The Game is spectacular in it's own right. Who's with me?

I'm with you!......The game has gotten better over time for me.......i still rank the first 5 or 6 albums as the best,  but The Game is a very good record.....they blended the classic Queen sound and added funk to the mix.  what hot space should have been.....  Dragon Attack rules!...

wholeheartedly agree with Mike...the first five/six albums are brilliant....
my own personal fave has always been II, but sometimes I or Races edge it...depending on mood

In my opinion, the best Queen albums are in this order:
1. A Night At The Opera
2. Sheer Heart Attack
3. Queen II
4. A Day At The Races
5. Queen
6. Jazz
7. News of the World
8. Innuendo
9. The Game
10. A Kind of Magic

As along as we're trading opinions on best and worst albums around here (because it's turned into a best vs. worst discussion), I'll put forward an opinion of mine which has already got me grilled and caused a lot of backlash: The Game, as an album, is mostly horrible and the worst Queen album ever recorded, with three great hits, one good song, an OK song, and five filler tracks. Oddly enough, the 'good song' mentioned is Don't Try Suicide, which Queenzoners typically seem to degrade, while most QZ'ers hold The Game in high regard. Go figure.

Once when I was 27 I tripped down some stairs and dropped my infant son's carrier in the tumble onto a cement path far below.  He landed upside down, head to cement, and while in that position appeared to be attempting to right himself by frantically raising his tiny eyebrows and turning beet red.  And do you know what? Even he knows The Game is by far not Queen's worst album. :P

GratefulFan wrote: Once when I was 27 I tripped down some stairs and dropped my infant son's carrier in the tumble onto a cement path far below.  He landed upside down, head to cement, and while in that position appeared to be attempting to right himself by frantically raising his tiny eyebrows and turning beet red.  And do you know what? Even he knows The Game is by far not Queen's worst album. :P

wow...that's a HORRIFYING story!...

i hope it was ALL made up.

TCR is clearly the "worst" although it's a whole lot better than a typical MOR album

i'd rate the "worst" as the one that gets the fewest plays in my collection..... so that honor goes to THE WORKS.

i spin it if i wanna hear an unedited version of It's a Hard LIfe... or for "MACHINES" and "Keep Passing the Open Windows"