Friday Canon: QUEEN

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Live Aid wouldn't have been the same without them! Cocaine dwarves, white vests and operatics worthy of Pavarotti have all made Queen legendary in UK pop history. Everyone's Dad loves Queen, but which of their staggering 48 UK charting singles do poptimists heart the most? You get SIXTEEN ticks across all the boxes to denote your Queen love.

Re-issues are not listed unless it is a remixed version. I've also left off the two EPs (Queen's First EP and the George Michael/Lisa Stansfield thing) just because it fits better in the poll that way!

[Poll #832892]

Comments

Curmudgeon

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

OK: I will fess up. I have never enjoyed a Queen record, and although I can boggle at the daftness of Bo-Rhap, it's surely responsible for more evil than good. Queen used to support Mott the Hoople, in the old days, and I would take any of Mott's silliest panto-rock tracks over a Queen album.

Re: Curmudgeon

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Strictly: I did quite like 'It's a Kind of Magic' when it came out. But I liked EVERYTHING at that point.

Re: Curmudgeon

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

what evil is bo rhap responsible for? it is suey generis

Re: Curmudgeon

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Waynes World and much poor karaoke. I am just feeling grumpy about hearty singalonga everybody-must-love-it Brit culture today. Possibly due to being woken up twice in the night by revellers out the back of the flats.

Re: Curmudgeon

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

it is suet general ha ha

Re: Curmudgeon

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Don't Stop Me Now is GREBT though! I declare people who don't like that one: FUN H8TAS.

Re: Curmudgeon

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I can sort of see why ppl might dislike it. Killer Queen, otoh...

Re: Curmudgeon

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Well, no-one's come up with a crushing argument to persuade me to change my opinion!

Re: Curmudgeon

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Also, yes yes I hate fun this has been proven a million times over and look at my day job -- (well today at least) feeding unreadable 1920s Marxist essays to impressionable youngsters. I am the grinch who stole fun and possibly also a groke of some sort!

Re: Curmudgeon

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

Well said. Queen are vile on both a musical and moral level: the worst group of all time. Mott are a billion times better, but at least we've been spared a Ben Elton musical called (inevitably) All the Young Dudes.

Ppl who don't like Alexander Von Schlippenbach = fun hatas