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If you can't beat them, join them.

"Flash".

― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't like Queen as much as I probably should. But I do like "Stone Cold Crazy."

― paul, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Oh I should say why "Flash". Because it's funny and exciting, because I think the film is excellent, because it uses film dialogue samples better than any other pre-rave track.

― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Innuendo

― Jeff W, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Under Pressure" -- Thank you, David Bowie.

― Tim DiGravina, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Jeff I demand a reason.

― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Wow -- good one. I'm going with "the Prophet's Song," but feel I should also mention "Dragon Attack," "Fight from the Inside," the live version of "Now I'm Here" on LIVE KILLERS and....uhhhh.....ah, shit, I have to: "Bohemian Rhapsody."

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"You're My Best Friend"

― Paul, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Because it's epic, in a way that Bohemian Rhapsody tries to be but fails (lots of brilliant bits, but doesn't add up to cohesive song). Because it's Mercury's best vocal performance. Because on the final chorus, even I might want to wave a lighter if I had one. Because it proved Queen could still be great after several crap albums in the 80s. Because I wanted to pick something no-one else would.

How's that?

― Jeff W, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think even Queen would pick "Bohemian Rhapsody", but in the spirit of not doing that, I will say, "Don't Stop Me Now".

― dleone, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Brighton Rock"-love that seaside holiday fairy tale vibe. A little people magic if you will. And Freddie's falsetto. And the always incredible Brian May.

― Arthur, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'll pick Under Pressure as well!

― jel --, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Death on Two Legs", for sure. That beginning, the "FEEEL GOOOOD/ I FEEEEEL GOOOOOOD" section, the "snarling" guitars...

― Clarke B., Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Seven Seas of Rye". It's Queen stripped of a lot of the bullshit that turned them into a crap Carry On version of the Beatles later in their career. Queen should have been so much better than they actually were.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Prophet's Song

It has everything. As far as Queen songs go, the more epic the better.

― Jeff, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions", of course. These two songs are forever linked in my mind because the classic rock station used to always play them back to back.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

haha dan your classic rock station must've really been something special

― Josh, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Clarke, Dom, and Jeff are very very close, but of course the correct answer is "March of the Black Queen".

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Josh: It was KQRS!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Seven Seas of Rye" (sic)

and there's Graham saying Rye isn't actually on the coast!

"39", maybe. I saw the "Innuendo" video on VH1 recently and I couldn't take more than 10 seconds in one go.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Josh: It was KQRS!

Wait a minute, I don't think I've ever heard these tunes not linked. Do other stations not do this?

― dleone, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

(Most likely every classic rock station does this and Josh is making fun of me. My comment to him was because KQRS now plays mostly alternative rock (at least they did three years ago) and has almost completely abandoned classic rock.)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Funny How Love Is

Seaside Rendezvous

You Take My Breath Away

You're My Best Friend

Bohemian Rhapsody

Innuendo

Sheer Heart Attack

The Night Comes Down

'39

Some day One Day

Long Away

Still amazes me how many great records they made, yet how wrong loving them seems to be.

― harveyw, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Someone to Love

― JM, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'll go with "'39" as a secret fave. But there are too many to choose from.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Fat Bottomed Girls" all the way

― J Blount, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Bohemian Rhapsody, you fucknuts.

― John Dahlem, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Funny How Love Is"

― Joe, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

killer queen, because i think it was my favourite when i was a kid and my dad would blast queen's greatest hits in the car.

― keith, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Killer Queen" is indeed a fine song, but it's all about the "Bicycle Race" for me. The interplay!

― Vinnie, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"My Melancholy Blues" or "Jesus"

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

under pressure

― queenoftheharpies, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Death on Two Legs" -- the opening squall is the best song-intro Sonic Youth never did. and i'm still juvenile and assholish enough to love the "you can kiss my ass goodbye" and "do you feel like suicide? i think you should!" lines for their sheer bitchiness.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

i changed my mind ... it's "ogre battle"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 22 November 2004 06:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

Somebody to Love

― Tape Store, Saturday, 19 April 2008 21:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

"I Want To Break Free"

― morb derp (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 5 September 2011 06:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

LMFAO

"We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions", of course. These two songs are forever linked in my mind because the classic rock station used to always play them back to back.
― Dan Perry, Sunday, June 23, 2002 8:00 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha dan your classic rock station must've really been something special
― Josh, Sunday, June 23, 2002 8:00 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― morb derp (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 5 September 2011 06:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Innuendo".

Although this could have been easily many tracks from the '70s, or the title track from "The Miracle", which I have a soft spot for.

― Turrican, Monday, 5 September 2011 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

google doodle today guys.

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Monday, 5 September 2011 14:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm assuming that was just a UK doodle?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Liar"

― big spiritual hat club (some dude), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

whiney otm that's pretty hilarious

― balls, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've actually remembered that zing since 2002. I often think about it when I hear Queen.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Somebody to Love"

― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

Don't Stop Me Now

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Now I'm Here. 7 Seas of Rhye and Brighton Rock a close second and third.

― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Bicycle Race", my favourite fusion of the grandiose and the trivial. ("Ogre Battle" and "Prophet's Song" come close)

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Play The Game," always.

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

Me on A Day At The Races: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/queen-day-at-races.html.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 8 July 2012 15:26 (10 months ago) Permalink

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy. seriously. it's the best of the Queen-trying-to-be-Sparks tracks. every second is amazing.

― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 16 July 2012 22:47 (10 months ago) Permalink

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