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"Flash".

― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

Innuendo

― Jeff W, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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

― Tim DiGravina, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeff I demand a reason.

― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

"You're My Best Friend"

― Paul, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

"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 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll pick Under Pressure as well!

― jel --, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"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 (twenty-three years ago)

"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 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

"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 (twenty-three years ago)

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

― Josh, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

Josh: It was KQRS!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"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 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

(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 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone to Love

― JM, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

"Fat Bottomed Girls" all the way

― J Blount, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bohemian Rhapsody, you fucknuts.

― John Dahlem, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Funny How Love Is"

― Joe, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

"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 (twenty-three years ago)

"My Melancholy Blues" or "Jesus"

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

under pressure

― queenoftheharpies, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"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 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

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

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 22 November 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Somebody to Love

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

three years pass...

"I Want To Break Free"

― morb derp (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 5 September 2011 06:08 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

"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 (fourteen years ago)

google doodle today guys.

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Monday, 5 September 2011 14:08 (fourteen years ago)

I'm assuming that was just a UK doodle?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:53 (fourteen years ago)

"Liar"

― big spiritual hat club (some dude), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:16 (fourteen years ago)

whiney otm that's pretty hilarious

― balls, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:43 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

"Somebody to Love"

― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 14:48 (fourteen years ago)

Don't Stop Me Now

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

"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 (fourteen years ago)

"Play The Game," always.

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

ten 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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

seven years pass...

new contender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVWCpC-Ihs

― sleeve, Sunday, 14 June 2020 03:06 (five years ago)

damn thats killer

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 June 2020 04:37 (five years ago)

it feels a bit like Judas Priest

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 June 2020 04:39 (five years ago)

one year passes...

This is good, though it hammers the point a bit.

On Freddie Mercury, and how his sex life has been portrayed in the three decades since his deathhttps://t.co/nheAvpdURI pic.twitter.com/NHiw3MLbgM
— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) October 6, 2021

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 17:50 (four years ago)

seven months pass...

All I can think about when I hear “don’t stop me now” is how much coke they were doing

― calstars, Friday, 20 May 2022 20:05 (four years ago)

Somebody to Love, damn it.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 20 May 2022 21:21 (four years ago)

I can't hear DSMN without thinking of Brian in a massive huff over most of the guitars being mixed out

― PaulTMA, Friday, 20 May 2022 21:26 (four years ago)

It's p wild that I can remember a time when Led Zep/Doors/Floyd/Aerosmith loomed larger in the classic rock pantheon than Queen

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 20 May 2022 21:34 (four years ago)

Just incredible legs on this band

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 20 May 2022 21:34 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1oxQh8Z04

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 21 May 2022 23:32 (four years ago)

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

This is a really good review.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 22 May 2022 00:12 (four years ago)

Hard for me to pick between From Father to Son or Who Wants to Live Forever... Maybe that "one" really is Under Pressure, argh

― octobeard, Sunday, 22 May 2022 02:34 (four years ago)

"Bicycle Race", my favourite fusion of the grandiose and the trivial.

..although if I picked a Brian May song, it would be "Long Away".

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 May 2022 02:46 (four years ago)

Is it weird my favorite Brian May song is '39?

― octobeard, Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:49 (four years ago)

That one Brian May wrote about his childhood cat 'All Dead, All Dead', makes me blub every time.

― Maresn3st, Sunday, 22 May 2022 09:44 (four years ago)

Just incredible legs on this band

― Whiney G. Weingarten,

ehhh have you seen Freddie in shorts

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 May 2022 10:01 (four years ago)

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article25451413.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/0_Queen-I-want-to-break-free-Video.jpg

― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 May 2022 10:05 (four years ago)

Long Away is a good one for tricking a hater in to enjoying a Queen song

― PaulTMA, Sunday, 22 May 2022 12:53 (four years ago)

The thing I don’t like about them is that they seem so perfectionist / overstudied. Things like “fat bottom” and “crazy little thing” ..it’s like that turned rockabilly / 70s rock into something that would feel most at home in sheet music in a library rather than something with variables and imperfections

― calstars, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:59 (four years ago)

It works for some things but sometimes just comes across as lifeless and overly calculated

― calstars, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:59 (four years ago)

Even the eagles seem to have more swing than queen to me

― calstars, Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:10 (four years ago)

I'm going to copy & paste my comment from the rolling TOTP thread: BoRhap sums up my feelings about Queen - when they put energy, enthusiasm, intelligence, and humour into their music, they were amazing. Without those ingredients, the same band produced songs that were empty scaffolding.

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:10 (four years ago)

Even the eagles seem to have more swing than queen to me

Now that's just cruel.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 22 May 2022 19:45 (four years ago)

"The Disco Strangler" vs. "Another One Bites the Dust"

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 May 2022 20:20 (four years ago)

i think Queen’s studied perfection is part of what makes them great. It’s like the oldschool drag ethos, you’re putting on a fucking SHOW for the children you HAVE to flawless or what are you doing. In that worldview , Imperfection = laziness.

like, they get kinda overlooked bc they were so prepackaged and ubiquitous and inescapable but the whole point of them is anyone can’t just roll out of bed & do what they do. it’s aspirational in an unattainable way, you can’t just do that in your garage. that’s why i love them

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 May 2022 21:12 (four years ago)

Otm. Plus, the band was unquestionably, supremely talented. Not just Freddie, who arguably was the best frontman ever, but the rest of the band too. Brian gets overlooked too often in discussions of great guitarists.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 22 May 2022 21:47 (four years ago)

Yeah May is awesome. His solos are the best part of so many of their songs and he actually has the most swing out of any of them…

― calstars, Sunday, 22 May 2022 22:00 (four years ago)

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