What's your opinion on the song Sweet Lady?

To start something fresh between the huge amount of threads about Greg Brooks:

What's your opinion on the song Sweet Lady?

Do you think it's underrated or is it indeed one of Queen's weaker songs as I think many people would say.

I agree that it's absolutely no match for songs like The Prophet's Song or Bohemian Rhpasody on the A Night At The Opera album but I don't think it's the weakest song in their entire catalogue. It doesn't have that much depth, on the other hand it did pretty well when played live I must say.

Any thoughts?

Great question, Jay. To tell you the truth, I hated it at first; it sounded like they'd just written any old rocker to keep the album in the heavy category- perhaps to please the metal fans because of all the music hall jazz that was on ANATO. Now, I rather like it- it's quite ascerbic and the riff, though basic is very catchy- it improves as it goes along with a great fast rock ending. yes, it's a good, solid hard rocker which improved as a live piece and would have been geat at Wembley.

See, I have recently changed my attitude about this track. It used to be a bit boring, but I started to really like it. Not like it was a crap song before, but I just never connected to it. But now, well, I think it's a cool one.

Peace,
Adam.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]the_hero wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The live version is alright... I stil can't stand the lyrics though.

"you make me feel like some kind of a cheese" I mean come on now...[/QUOTE]

Brian may have found Stilton erotic, who knows?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]the_hero wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The live version is alright... I stil can't stand the lyrics though.

"you make me feel like some kind of a cheese" I mean come on now...[/QUOTE]

The whole sentence is less lame. ;)

"you make me feel like some kind of a cheese waiting on a shelf"

Nice work by Rog, poor lyrics, but unusual track a little bit...

It's a good rocker, with okay lyrics and absolutely brilliant harmony guitars. I listened to it in 5.1 and it smokes. The line for the record is "you call me sweet like I'm some kind of cheese", and it is the most misunderstood lyric in the Queen catalogue. The song is a converstion, with "the woman" answering "the man", and saying he treats her like a product to be put on a shelf when finished. Cheese can be sweet BTW, but it's whooly tongue in cheek and not meant to be taken literally like cheese is sweet like a lollipop or cotton candy.

Great track. Especially the bridge is awesome.

The one thing that spoils it a bit for me is the poor chorus.

I agree that the riff is pretty cool. Still I think they should have added some more harmonic vocals to the whole thing.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]the_hero wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The live version is alright... I stil can't stand the lyrics though.

"you make me feel like some kind of a cheese" I mean come on now...[/QUOTE]

That lyric is as... cheesy... as they get! :)

Anyway, since when is cheese sweet?

A dire song. I wouldn't give it a second listen if it wasn't on ANATO.

V.

Sweet Lady is filler. It's the weak link of a classic album. If only Tie Your Mother Down could have replaced it.

I always liked the song, but it always struck me that the song was a bit of a rush job. Parts of it are great (the main riff in particular), but the transition parts of the song just don't sound right to me (main part to bridge to chorus and back etc.). I do really like the "though it seems like we wait forever..." vocal, a real nice job by Freddie.

I think that the last part of Sweet Lady is one of the best collaborations, musical wise, by John, Brian and Roger on a record. It's simply stunning. It has everything. It really shows how much talent they had as a band.

I only hate the way Freddie sings the words "Sweet Lady".

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]the_hero wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The live version is alright... I stil can't stand the lyrics though.

"you make me feel like some kind of a cheese" I mean come on now...[/QUOTE]

Yeah that is a candidate for worst Queen lyric ever :-)

As a song.. IT SUCKS BIG TIME! Bad lyrics, boring, filler, almost sounds unfinished...
Makes you wonder, if Sweet Lady was on ANATO, how bad were some of the discarded songs? :)

Live, however, had few very good rock moments between roger, john and brian.

I remind you Brian's original's idea to make ANATO a double-album with its material plus the songs for ADATR.

I'm quite sure that, even the critics would place it as the best rock album ever...