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

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

1. If "Killer Queen" does not win, you are all MENTALISTS.
2. I ticked "Innuendo" even though I cannot remember how it goes, but I liked it when I was 10 and that's surely good enough.
3. I don't hate Boh.Rap but I don't want it to win.
4. Having said all this, the best Queen single is not as good as most 5ive singles, and "We Will Rock You" is rub in both versions.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Right on all four. Except the Innuendo bit.

I hated Queen at 13 - when the Kind of Magic album came out - and it took me about 15 years to get any kind of appreciation back!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

It's probably ghastly isn't it? I remember the video. Not the song. At all. But! 10 year old me also hearted Roxette, Technotronic and Paula Abdul, SO HOW WRONG COULD HE BE if he liked "Innuendo"?

(Insert joke about how if Freddie hadn't been so into the old innuendo he might still be here amirite etc).

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

IGNORE TOM. "Innuendo" is GREBT and one day he will see the light.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

ha ha yes. i love Innuendo's batshit 'prog' overload.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

whereas this is when i RLY fell for them, it's quite possible that kind of magic was the first (cassette) alBUM i bought with my own money (from ASDA), althoguh i think greatest hits was already in our house by this point.