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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is one of the few canons where I've had real trouble whittling down my choices - I ticked 20 to start off with! I blame Wayne's World.

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.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

In fact I am gutted I had to untick 5ive.

Also do not underestimate the role of TV's Gladiators in propelling Queen's longevity well into the mid-90s.

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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Well I thought I loved all Queen ever but actually I think a couple of their songs are spectacularly wonderful like Seven Seas of Rye and I want to Break Free and the rest are a bit pants. I'm not neutral about any of their songs.

[graciousviv.livejournal.com]

Under Pressure my favourite purely for its use in Grosse Pointe Blank - scene with cute baby in.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Barcelona >>> all of these except Bo-Rhap

Re: Curmudgeon

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

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

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Cor, was Boh.Rap. only their fourth hit? Admittedly their first two were utter stormers, but I'd always assumed it was only released after a run of enormo-hits.

Re: Curmudgeon

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

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

IMPORTANT FACT RE: KILLER QUEEN

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/essex/monster_memories.shtml) is who the song is about!!

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I only found half a dozen I wanted to tick, which quite surprised me - I've never been a big fan, but I sort of thought there were more I liked than that.

[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!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What are Queen's best alBUM tracks?

[jinty]

A month or two ago I went to a birthday party for one of the musos here in Oxford - it was a Queen special theme, with all the gathered rest-of-Oxford's-young-musos singing Queen songs till closing time. Utterly fab and silly, and I was surprised by how many of the songs I knew & loved.

[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).

Re: IMPORTANT FACT RE: KILLER QUEEN

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

STOP IT! i haven't even clicked on the link, but i assume you haven't changed your story ;)

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I managed 16 in the end but it was much harder than I expected.

Re: IMPORTANT FACT RE: KILLER QUEEN

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it's TRUE it was on channel 5 and everything

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I know! I think it's the fact that Queen contained 3 very talented songwriters (if not perhaps the same number of great lyricists!). And even Roger Taylor did "Kind Of Magic"!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Death on Two Legs is good

um, oh, what else... most of Night at the Opera TBH, although its all a bit mental.

STEER WELL CLEAR of taylor-penned and sung "i'm in love with my car" which is possibly even worse than it sounds...

Reasonably comprehensive answer, by album:

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Queen:
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Keep Yourself Alive (was actually their first single I think, but didn't chart.)
My Fairy King

Queen II:
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White Queen
Fairy Feller's Master Stroke
The March of the Black Queen

Sheer Heart Attack:
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Lily of the Valley
Stone Cold Crazy
Bring Back That Leroy Brown

A Night At The Opera:
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I'm in Love With my Car
'39
Seaside Rendezvous
Prophet's Song
Love of my Life
Good Company

A Day At The Races:
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Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
Teo Torriate

News of the World:
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Sheer Heart Attack
All Dead, All Dead
Spread Your Wings
My Melancholy Blues

Jazz:
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Dreamer's Ball

The Game:
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Dragon Attack

The Miracle:
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Rain Must Fall