personally i would say freddie
very emotional :-)
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Freddie Mercury wrote the best lyrics, for example A Winters Tale.
Well I really can't choose, but
Freddie-March of the Black Queen, Love of My Life, Bohemian Rhapsody, Funny How Love Is, ...
Roger-Tenement Funster, More of That Jazz, Fun It, Action This Day, Radio Ga Ga, Fight From the Inside...
Brian-Save Me, Sail Away Sweet Sister, Dragon Attack, Hammer to Fall...
John-One Year of Love, You're My Best Friend, Misfire, Back Chat.....
All really good song writing on their part!! I think all of them had their own way and produced a variety of different songs!
Freddie-March of the Black Queen, Love of My Life, Bohemian Rhapsody, Funny How Love Is, ...
Roger-Tenement Funster, More of That Jazz, Fun It, Action This Day, Radio Ga Ga, Fight From the Inside...
Brian-Save Me, Sail Away Sweet Sister, Dragon Attack, Hammer to Fall...
John-One Year of Love, You're My Best Friend, Misfire, Back Chat.....
All really good song writing on their part!! I think all of them had their own way and produced a variety of different songs!
in the early days freddie, later on brian...infact was freddie even in the band in the later days
I would say Deacon, he has very romantic lyrics (you and I), but didnt seem to provide such a variety as the others. Therefore I'd say Freddie was the best, but only because the volcabulary is so varied (Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, I spent a long time with a dictionary with that one). But overall, lyrics and music, Brian was better as he could fit in guitar solos that worked very well with lyrics, one the most emotional parts of No One But You is the guitar in the middle, it really brings out the emotions of the song. It depends what you enjoy most really:
Roger- to be listened to when fed up with modern society, or something that is a bit more interllectual
Deacon - to be listened to when wishing you had a girlfriend
Brian - to be listened to for good music
Freddie - to boost your volcabulary, but also for something completely different.
However if you look at Queen's biggest hits, most were writen by Brian though.
Roger- to be listened to when fed up with modern society, or something that is a bit more interllectual
Deacon - to be listened to when wishing you had a girlfriend
Brian - to be listened to for good music
Freddie - to boost your volcabulary, but also for something completely different.
However if you look at Queen's biggest hits, most were writen by Brian though.
Actually most of the hits are Freddie's: 'Bo Rhap', 'Champions', 'Crazy', 'Under Pressure'... Brian's only mega-hit is 'Rock You'.
As for poems, my favourite remains outside Queen, in Rog's solo career: 'Foreign Sand'. So bloody beautiful!
As for poems, my favourite remains outside Queen, in Rog's solo career: 'Foreign Sand'. So bloody beautiful!
brian: lonely as a whisper on a starchase, love it!
also from that song;
take care my friend we love you
though i seems like you're alone
a million lights above you
smile down upon your home
love it, love it, love it!
also from that song;
take care my friend we love you
though i seems like you're alone
a million lights above you
smile down upon your home
love it, love it, love it!
Roger Taylor
Wow, I was ready to say Brian but you all raised some really good points. Towards the end of Queen's career with Freddie Roger became the best lyricist. TATOOL is just wonderful, but other than that Brian and Freddie together but for different reasons. Early Freddie's lyrics were fun, quirky and very daring and clever whereas Brians were beautifully poetic (not to say Freddie's weren't) and gentle.
But later on in the Eighties I believe that their lyrics started to sound similar in terms of emotion, that's Bri and Fred. I mean look at 'It's A Hard Life' full of emotion and then 'Who Wants to Live Forever' and they wrote Is This The World We Created together right? which I think symbolised a fusion in their styles in some way.
But later on in the Eighties I believe that their lyrics started to sound similar in terms of emotion, that's Bri and Fred. I mean look at 'It's A Hard Life' full of emotion and then 'Who Wants to Live Forever' and they wrote Is This The World We Created together right? which I think symbolised a fusion in their styles in some way.
To be honest with you Freddie started off as good writer of mystical and obscure lyrics, but then he started writing some stuff that was utterly ridiculous to the point where it wasn't even funny enough to find it tongue in cheek.
John's lyrics were quite sappy, but not too bad.
Roger was rather weak when it came to writing lyrics in the beginning, but he certainly improved.
Brian is definitely the one who has been the most consistent writing the good lyrics out of the 4 of them.
John's lyrics were quite sappy, but not too bad.
Roger was rather weak when it came to writing lyrics in the beginning, but he certainly improved.
Brian is definitely the one who has been the most consistent writing the good lyrics out of the 4 of them.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]chazz12345 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]in the early days freddie, later on brian...infact was freddie even in the band in the later days[/QUOTE]
Yep, he sure was... as a matter of fact he wrote 7 of Innuendo's 12 songs.
6 or 7 of The Miracle's songs...plus the "new day is born" beginning to Roger's Breakthru.
And correct me if I am wrong,Sebastian? ...but isn't 40-45% of Made in Heaven said to be Fred's as well??
In conclusion, Freddie ill with a terminal disease still = Queen's chief songwriter.
Yep, he sure was... as a matter of fact he wrote 7 of Innuendo's 12 songs.
6 or 7 of The Miracle's songs...plus the "new day is born" beginning to Roger's Breakthru.
And correct me if I am wrong,Sebastian? ...but isn't 40-45% of Made in Heaven said to be Fred's as well??
In conclusion, Freddie ill with a terminal disease still = Queen's chief songwriter.
so far it's evenly split between the four and for good reason. Roger I thought was great in the later days, but for most of his queen career he was pretty horrid. "Loser in end" "Prime jive" "coming soon" "fun it" "more of that jazz" these lyrics arn't exactly dylan material. "Love with my car" good song, but silly lryics. I'm also surprised no one mentioned "I'm going slightly mad" great lryics and "somebody to love" "love of my life" I would vote for freddie personally for those songs alone. and then brian. "the show must go on" john is third with "spread your wings" and roger last. "you take my breath away" is another freddie gem.
so far it's evenly split between the four and for good reason. Roger I thought was great in the later days, but for most of his queen career he was pretty horrid. "Loser in end" "Prime jive" "coming soon" "fun it" "more of that jazz" these lyrics arn't exactly dylan material. "Love with my car" good song, but silly lryics. I'm also surprised no one mentioned "I'm going slightly mad" great lryics and "somebody to love" "love of my life" I would vote for freddie personally for those songs alone. and then brian. "the show must go on" john is third with "spread your wings" and roger last. "you take my breath away" is another freddie gem.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Scott_Mercury wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]chazz12345 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]in the early days freddie, later on brian...infact was freddie even in the band in the later days[/QUOTE]
Yep, he sure was... as a matter of fact he wrote 7 of Innuendo's 12 songs.
6 or 7 of The Miracle's songs...plus the "new day is born" beginning to Roger's Breakthru.
And correct me if I am wrong,Sebastian? ...but isn't 40-45% of Made in Heaven said to be Fred's as well??
In conclusion, Freddie ill with a terminal disease still = Queen's chief songwriter.[/QUOTE]
SCOTT, can you please tell me which seven songs Brian wrote off of Innuendo. And which six or seven songs off of The Miracle? Or do you mean Freddie?
The person you replied to said it like this "in fact, was Freddie even in the band in the later days?" ... acting as if Freddie didn't write any songs on Innuendo or The Miracle.
Yep, he sure was... as a matter of fact he wrote 7 of Innuendo's 12 songs.
6 or 7 of The Miracle's songs...plus the "new day is born" beginning to Roger's Breakthru.
And correct me if I am wrong,Sebastian? ...but isn't 40-45% of Made in Heaven said to be Fred's as well??
In conclusion, Freddie ill with a terminal disease still = Queen's chief songwriter.[/QUOTE]
SCOTT, can you please tell me which seven songs Brian wrote off of Innuendo. And which six or seven songs off of The Miracle? Or do you mean Freddie?
The person you replied to said it like this "in fact, was Freddie even in the band in the later days?" ... acting as if Freddie didn't write any songs on Innuendo or The Miracle.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME].*.Messenger Of Leah.*. wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Scott_Mercury wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]chazz12345 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]in the early days freddie, later on brian...infact was freddie even in the band in the later days[/QUOTE]
Yep, he sure was... as a matter of fact he wrote 7 of Innuendo's 12 songs.
6 or 7 of The Miracle's songs...plus the "new day is born" beginning to Roger's Breakthru.
And correct me if I am wrong,Sebastian? ...but isn't 40-45% of Made in Heaven said to be Fred's as well??
In conclusion, Freddie ill with a terminal disease still = Queen's chief songwriter.[/QUOTE]
SCOTT, can you please tell me which seven songs Brian wrote off of Innuendo. And which six or seven songs off of The Miracle? Or do you mean Freddie?
The person you replied to said it like this "in fact, was Freddie even in the band in the later days?" ... acting as if Freddie didn't write any songs on Innuendo or The Miracle.[/QUOTE] I'm sure scott meant freddie wrote 6 or 7 songs on Innuendo and the miracle.
Yep, he sure was... as a matter of fact he wrote 7 of Innuendo's 12 songs.
6 or 7 of The Miracle's songs...plus the "new day is born" beginning to Roger's Breakthru.
And correct me if I am wrong,Sebastian? ...but isn't 40-45% of Made in Heaven said to be Fred's as well??
In conclusion, Freddie ill with a terminal disease still = Queen's chief songwriter.[/QUOTE]
SCOTT, can you please tell me which seven songs Brian wrote off of Innuendo. And which six or seven songs off of The Miracle? Or do you mean Freddie?
The person you replied to said it like this "in fact, was Freddie even in the band in the later days?" ... acting as if Freddie didn't write any songs on Innuendo or The Miracle.[/QUOTE] I'm sure scott meant freddie wrote 6 or 7 songs on Innuendo and the miracle.