Queen

[B-P-B]

I was just wondering what was eveybody's thoughts were on my favourite band, Queen?

My favourite(s) song on each album...

Queen - Lair
Queen II - Seven Seas of Rhye
Sheer Heart Attack - In The Lap Of The Gods ... Revisited
A Night At The Opera - The Prophet's Song / Bohemian Rhapsody
A Day At The Races - Somebody To Love / Tie Your Mother Down
News Of The World - We Are The Champions / Spread Your Wings
Jazz - Fat Bottomed Girls
The Game - Play The Game / Save Me
Flash Gordan - I have only heard Flash...
Hot Space - Under Pressure
The Works - I Want To Break Free / Hammer To Fall
A Kind Of Magic - One Vision / Who Wants To Live Forever
The Miracle - I Want It All
Innuendo - Innuendo

Favourite Song - Innuendo
Favourite Album - Innuendo (Consistantly strong effort throughout, espiecally considering Freddie's health)

 

[Mr Wong]

Quality band, never really got into them though besides the hit songs

 

[SonOfScray]

Just watched the Live from Wemberly DVD, what an awesome gig. One Vision probably tops the list as my favourite Queen track, with Somebody to Love a close second.

 

[Contra Mundum]

There set on the original LiveAid was truly awesome - the version they did of "Hammer to Fall' kicked out the Jams!

They where only topped by the unassuming Status Quo who totally blew everyone else away... U2 were totally crap in comparison!

 

[Falchoon]

My favourite band by a long long way

Favourites

Queen - Keep Yourself Alive / Liar
Queen II - Seven Seas of Rhye
Sheer Heart Attack - Flick of the Wrist/ Killer Queen
A Night At The Opera - You're my best friend is not the second best track on this album, Love of my life is magical live,/ '39/In love with my car but probably Death on Two Legs, oh and Bo rap
A Day At The Races - Somebody To Love/ Millionaire Waltz
News Of The World - 2 obvious ones but It's late and Spread your wings are underrated
Jazz - Weaker Album, Mustapha is not my taste FBG rocks / Jealousy
The Game - 2 obvious ones again Sail away sweet sister/save me
Flash Gordan - the wedding march goes alright
Hot Space - worst album Le parablas de amour/ Put out the fire and UP
The Works - It's a hard life underrated/Ga Ga, but I want to break free is a good song
A Kind Of Magic - Good album, Who wants to live forever/one vision/Princes
The Miracle - poorer again, I want it all/Scandal/was it all worth it
Innuendo - Delilah? Show must go on the standout
Made iIn Heaven - Mother Love/ too much love will kill you/ I was born to love you
Hot Rocks-No one but you is a decent underrated/underplayed song

I'd probably go

A Night At The Opera
A Day At The Races
A Kind Of Magic
Sheer Heart Attack
News Of The World
The Works
The Game
Queen
Queen II
Jazz
Made In Heaven
The Miracle
Innuendo
Hot Space


Favourite Song - Somebody To Love
Favourite Album - A Night at The Opera

 

[Darky]

Spread Your Wings, Mustapha, Dead on Time, Hammer to Fall

 

[B-P-B]

Ah yeah, forgot Made In Heaven... I have to say I Like You Don't Fool Me. How that didn't get on Hot Space I'll never know...

Worst Song: Body Language (Hot Space)
Saddest Song: These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Innuendo)
Underrated: Tie Your Mother Down (A Day At The Races), The Prophet's Song (A Night At The Opera) Innuendo (Innuendo - #1 at the time, never hear it now though )

 

[bobbity2]

Here's my faves- with certain albums (eg. SHA) it's hard to limit to one or two tracks!

Queen- Doing Alright/Great King Rat
Queen 2- Father To Son/Seven Seas Of Rhye
Sheer Heart Attack- Brighton Rock/Tenement Funster/Flick Of The Wrist/Now I'm Here
A Night At The Opera- Sweet Lady/The Prophet's Song
A Day At The Races- Tie Your Mother Down/You Take My Breath Away
News Of The World- Fight From The Inside
Jazz- Jealousy/If You Can't Beat Them/Dead On Time
The Game- Dragon Attack
Flash Gordon- The Kiss/Battle Theme/The Hero
Hot Space- Put Out The Fire/Life Is Real/Calling All Girls/Las Palabras De Amor
The Works- Keep Passing The Open Windows/Is This The World We Created?
A Kind Of Magic- Gimme The Prize/Princes Of The Universe
The Miracle- Khashoggi's Ship/Was It All Worth It?
Innuendo- Innuendo/Don't Try So Hard/All God's People
Made In Heaven- Made In Heaven/Let Me Live/You Don't Fool Me

My five favourite albums? Hmmm... I'll go with:

1. Sheer Heart Attack- (multi-layered harmonies and devastating heavy rock in one accessible package!)

2. A Day At The Races- (beautiful, classy, 'romantic' feel...prefer it to ANATO, in fact)

3. Queen 2- (as gloriously over the top as Queen gets, layer upon layer of harmonies, big production, and Brian's guitar)

4. Flash Gordon- (this is one criminally underrated album. Maybe the fact that there is a lot of incidental film dialogue on the album clouds peoples' perceptions...but I think there is some inspired stuff on it!)

5. Queen (1)- (I tossed up between this one and Innuendo...in the end the S/T album won out, just by sheer weight of songs I enjoy- Doing Alright, Great King Rat, My Fairy King, Liar, The Night Comes Down etc. A lot rawer than the sound that came to represent classic Queen, but a damn good heavy rock listen. As for Innuendo, an album that for me at the time represented a return to the Queen sound I love. Mighty fine production, still really like the album).

 

[B-P-B]

Worst Song: Body Language (Hot Space)

Ah yeah, forgot the Wyclef Jean remix of 'Another One Bites The Dust'. Disgusting. God I hate rap music.

 

[robbieando]

Queen - Keep Yourself Alive
Queen II - Seven Seas of Rhye
Sheer Heart Attack - Killer Queen
A Night At The Opera - Bohemian Rhapsody
A Day At The Races - Tie Your Mother Down
News Of The World - We Are The Champions
Jazz - Fat Bottomed Girls
The Game - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Flash Gordan - Flash
Hot Space - Under Pressure
The Works - Radio Ga Ga/I Want To Brake Free
A Kind Of Magic - One Vision
The Miracle - I Want It All
Innuendo - The Show Must Go On
Made In Heaven - It's A Beautiful Day

 

[Mint Condition]

Queen - Keep Yourself Alive, Liar
Queen II - The March of the Black Queen, Seven Seas of Rhye
Sheer Heart Attack - Flick of the wrist, Tenement Funster, Killer Queen
A Night At The Opera - Bohemian Rhapsody, '39, Death on two legs, Prophet's song
A Day At The Races - Somebody to love, Tie Your Mother Down
News Of The World - We Are The Champions, Spread your wings
Jazz - Fat Bottomed Girls
The Game - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Flash Gordan - Flash
Hot Space - Under Pressure
The Works - Radio Ga Ga/I Want To Brake Free
A Kind Of Magic - One Vision
The Miracle - I Want It All
Innuendo - The Show Must Go On, Innuendo
Made In Heaven - Too much love will kill you (though Brian's later solo version is better)

BTW, everyone who has the Queen live at the bowl DVD or cd would have heard it, but if you haven't just click on the link below and have a listen to Freddie's vocal performance on Somebody to love at that concert. ******** his voice had some power behind it!

http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1MXS0WTJDZ4600I2X593DS68EQ

 

[- PC -]

Gee where does one start. Let me say I dont have all the albums ( I have a few) so wont go through the OT, but all the ''greatest hits'' songs are great.I must admit I like the frenetic pace of ''Dont Stop Me Now'' and the slower songs eg Seven Seas of Rhye, Who Wants To Live Forever is haunting, 39 , The Prophet Song are all fine

Everything on Night of the Opera I really enjoy and yes Death on Two Legs is fantastic.

 

[OldLion]

Got into Queen with Sheer Heart Attack - unique layered sound, lots of hooks and over the top. Confirmed when I saw them at Festival Hall when touring Night at the Opera. One of those great live bands with a terrific set and a showbiz sense. Freddy was one out of the box .. fortunate to co-incide with the explosion of video. Now a bit like the Doors - fantastic catalogue looking for a live performance.

Fave. songs - Now I'm Here, Hammer to Fall, Crazy Little Thing..

A guilty pleasure.

 

[B-P-B]

BTW, everyone who has the Queen live at the bowl DVD or cd would have heard it, but if you haven't just click on the link below and have a listen to Freddie's vocal performance on Somebody to love at that concert. ******** his voice had some power behind it!

http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1MXS0WTJDZ4600I2X593DS68EQ

Wow, that's awesome stuff ... might have to go and get that. How does Live At The Bowl compare to Live At Wembley?

 

[Mint Condition]

Wow, that's awesome stuff ... might have to go and get that. How does Live At The Bowl compare to Live At Wembley?

I'd say that Wembley's better overall. The live at the bowl DVD's from Queen's Hot Space tour so you have to put up with a couple of fizzers from that album like staying power and especially back chat (though the live versions are given a harder rock edge live at least)! Other than that though you get some great songs like Play the game, Save me, obviously Somebody to love, Dragon Attack and Sheer Heart Attack that weren't played at the Wembley gig so I dunno you may want to get it. If you had someone you could borrow it off maybe that'd be a better idea.

I reckon you should wait for them to release a DVD of one of their mid 70's shows which everyone says were their best - that's what I'm doing. Apparently the next one they release is going to be a gig they did at Hammersmith Odeon in London, December 1975, which in this Queen magazine I have is rated their 3rd best ever concert. The Wembley 86 gig in comparison is ranked 10.

 

[B-P-B]

I'd say that Wembley's better overall. The live at the bowl DVD's from Queen's Hot Space tour so you have to put up with a couple of fizzers from that album like staying power and especially back chat (though the live versions are given a harder rock edge live at least)! Other than that though you get some great songs like Play the game, Save me, obviously Somebody to love, Dragon Attack and Sheer Heart Attack that weren't played at the Wembley gig so I dunno you may want to get it. If you had someone you could borrow it off maybe that'd be a better idea.

I reckon you should wait for them to release a DVD of one of their mid 70's shows which everyone says were their best - that's what I'm doing. Apparently the next one they release is going to be a gig they did at Hammersmith Odeon in London, December 1975, which in this Queen magazine I have is rated their 3rd best ever concert. The Wembley 86 gig in comparison is ranked 10.

Sounds good.

 

[SNIPER_]

BTW, everyone who has the Queen live at the bowl DVD or cd would have heard it, but if you haven't just click on the link below and have a listen to Freddie's vocal performance on Somebody to love at that concert. ******** his voice had some power behind it!

http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=...600I2X593DS68EQ

I also like the version of Fat Bottomed Girls from that particular show.

I have both the Wembley and Live at the Bowl DVD's.. I prefer the bowl show. But Wembley was just huge, the stage was as wide as the bloody stadium. How many were at that show I wonder, It would have to be close 90 - 100 thousand people I'd think, awesome stuff.

 

[Falchoon]

BTW, everyone who has the Queen live at the bowl DVD or cd would have heard it, but if you haven't just click on the link below and have a listen to Freddie's vocal performance on Somebody to love at that concert. ******** his voice had some power behind it!

George Michael has to be congatulated on his effort at the Queen tribute concert too.

 

[bobbity2]

Great to see all the replies to this thread. I must say that I prefer the MK Bowl DVD rather than the Wembley one. Just think that the bowl DVD has a harder, rockier edge...the opener, WWRY (fast), is just blistering! Certainly, the Wembley gig was an awesome occasion, but I must say that the material/performances from that tour in '86 are not among my favourites... just a tad too commercial, and if you've heard one show from '86, you've heard 'em all. Certainly looking forward to release of Hammersmith Odeon Xmas '75 show on DVD! Would love to see Hyde Park from '76 released on DVD also!

 

[B-P-B]

George Michael has to be congatulated on his effort at the Queen tribute concert too.

Yeh, I've got that on Greatest Hits III, top performance. However Greatest Hits III is a bit weak compared to I and II, due to the fact that Queen only released one album after II (Made In Heaven) and much of the tracks were solo projects and dodgy remixes (e.g. the AOBTD Wyclef Jean remix i've already mentioned). Would have been far better if they had included some of the lesser hits that didn't make I or II, such as great efforts like Tie Your Mother Down, Spread Your Wings and Scandal.

I'm looking forward to Greatest Video Hits 3 though... I've never seen the Innuendo videos.

Does anyone happen to know where I could find a setlist for the Hammersmith Odeon Xmas '75 show?

 

[robbieando]

Does anyone happen to know where I could find a setlist for the Hammersmith Odeon Xmas '75 show?

Now I'm Here
Ogre Battle
White Queen
Medley (Bohemian Rhapsody/Killer Queen/The March Of The Black Queen/Bohemian Rhapsody(Reprise))
Brighton Rock
Son and Daughter
Keep Yourself Alive
Liar
In The Lap Of The Gods (Revisited)
Encore Medley (Big Spender/Jailhouse Rock/Stupid Cupid/Be Bop A Lula/Shake Rattle and Roll/Jailhouse Rock (Reprise)
Seven Seas Of Rhye
See What A Fool I've Been
God Save The Queen

 

[robbieando]

George Michael has to be congatulated on his effort at the Queen tribute concert too.

So close to spot on you wouldn't now it was not Freddie singing

Still a great send off for Freddie and three other stand performances on the night beside George Michael with Somebody to Love were Davie Bowie and Annie Lennox with Under Pressure, Lisa Stansfield (Rollers and all) with I Want to Brake Free and Elton John with The Show Must Go On.

DVD worth getting.

Also who else has heard the rumors of Queen including John Deacon reforming for the LIVE 8 concert in a fortnight with Robbie Williams heading them up??? Would be interesting to see if true thats for sure.

 

[B-P-B]

I would have thought they would perform with Paul Rodgers if they're going to be at Live 8.

Cheers for the set list.

 

[robbieando]

I would have thought they would perform with Paul Rodgers if they're going to be at Live 8.

They might just do that, but I would think the three surviving members of Queen joining forces with Robbie Williams would be a "bigger" draw that if they were fronted by Paul Rodges who from what I've heard of the European Tour didn't sound suitable of the role.

 

[CursoryMercenary]

Downloaded The March Of The Black Queen recently... great song. A predessor to Bohemian Rhapsody.