It's Late (with Freddy on Fire in the Choruses) Sheer Heart Attack (the song) Brighton Rock Stone Cold Crazy Flick of the Wrist Now I'm Here Get Down, Make Love Under Pressure Innuendo (the song) (Tie Your Mother Down) 10 Best heavy songs.
Father To Son, Brighton Rock, Now I'm Here, Flick of the Wrist, It's Late, If You Can't Beat Em, Dragon Attack, Rock It (Prime Jive), Hang On In There, Innuendo, I Can't Live Without You.
I absolutely love "The Prophet's Song" but I have to agree that it needed to be trimmed down. Also, "Was It All Worth It" just might be my favorite 80s Queen song.
Trim down the intro and trim down the middle part and then "The Prophet's song" could be Queen's greatest song that should've been all over FM radio in the 70's.
My Top 10 Heavy Queen songs are 1. Procession/Father To Son. 2. Liar. 3. Great King Rat. 4. March Of The Black Queen. 5. Stone Cold Crazy. 6. Modern Times Rock & Roll. 7. Ogre Battle 8. Son & Daughter. 9. We Will Rock You(Fast version) 10. Sheer Heart Attack. Honorable Mentions-1. Dragon Attack. 2. The Prophet Song.
Hi Pete, Stone Cild Crazy is great, but Fireball from Deep Purple can be seen as the first Thrash/Speed Metal song. Maybe even the one year earlier Speed King. Just my opinion, that’s all.
Best 10: 1.) Sheer Heart Attack 2.) Princes Of The Universe 3.) Hammer To Fall 4.) The Hero 5.) Death On Two Legs 6.) Stone Cold Crazy 7.) Ogre Battle 8.) The Hitman 9.) Tear It Up 10.) Brighton Rock Worst 10: NONE
Loved the last couple of episodes. Although I am fond of most of the picks, I wouldn’t argue with most of their listings here. I would add Great King Rat and Brighton Rock (particularly Roger’s drumming) on the best list. I keep banging the drum of the fast and live version of We Will Rock You. Also, listen to the 12” extended version of Hammer To Fall for a more a more rounded and shredding guitar solo… and the cutting-room floor oddity, Silver Salmon, which is Black Sabbath heavy (it can be found on UA-cam).
Great show Scott. I think about this all the time. Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On. Neal Morse - Broken Sky/ Long Day Rival Sons - Jordan Big Big Train - Love is the Light Vince Gill - Go Rest high on the Mountain Home Free - How Great Thou are
All Martin's "worst" picks would be ranked pretty high at my list except his no. 1. I Want It All and One Vision - love them a lot. I don't understand the dislike for I Want It All.
Synthesizer in 'Hammer to Fall?' I love that song. I listen to it all of the time. I've never heard a synth. And Martin, 'I'm in Love With My Car' is a MASTERPIECE.
Doing this exercise before watching the video, here are my picks 10 favorites: Great King Rat, Liar, Ogre Battle, March of the Black Queen, Stone Cold Crazy, The Prophet’s Song, Sheer Heart Attack, Fight from the Inside, It’s Late, and Dead on Time. I couldn’t decide if “The Show Must Go On” is heavy enough to make the list, but if it is then it definitely gets in, probably over Sheer Heart Attack. And while I’m sure both of these guys are going to have “Gimme the Prize” on their “worst” lists, that’s probably my favorite heavy Queen track from the 80’s; it just missed the cut. 10 least favorites: Sweet Lady, White Man, If You Can’t Beat Them, Need Your Loving Tonight, Rock It (Prime Jive), Coming Soon, Tear It Up, Hammer to Fall, Princes of the Universe, and Don’t Lose Your Head. There’s probably some track on the Miracle I’m forgetting that could go on this list (besides “I Want It All” which is ok), but TBH that’s the Queen album I remember the least and the only other one besides Hot Space that I don’t own. Now time to see what the guys have to say. Edit: Yep, not too many surprises, other than maybe the complete absence of The Game on either end. And The Hero, because I wasn’t even thinking about Flash. Kashoggi’s Ship was a good pick for the bad side, too; I’d totally forgotten about that one. Since y’all were talking about bands that did both goofy and heavy, I think Van Halen absolutely hits both ends. I mean, come on…Bottoms Up, Hot for Teacher, One Foot Out the Door, Happy Trails, Big Bad Bill, Inside? Those guys did plenty of goofing around, especially in Dave’s era.
Top 10 Queen heavy tunes: 10. I'm in love with my car 9. Sheer Heart Attack 8. Dead on time 7. If you can't beat them 6. Tie your Mother down 5. Let me entertain you 4. Stone Cold Crazy 3. White Man 2. Death on two legs 1. The Prophet's Song
I've had a soft spot for early Queen [up to 'One Vision] and I find it interesting that Roger Taylor said he initially considered Queen as a heavy-metal band. In the mid-70s they were ragged on as aping Led Zeppelin....... Anyway, I dig a few of their heavy numbers but the one that always gets me is the "Live Killers" version of "We Will Rock You," the opener not the "boof-boof-bap" popular version. Played as a straight 3-piece, it slams and whams and when Brian takes a solo, it gives me the chills how the rhythm guitar drops out and there's that space.
I saw them as a 13 year old kid in Houston touring the Game I think, they opened with sheer heart attack, it was very powerful, could have been judas priest, it was awesome.
The first Queen album was Brilliant at least with our local rock n rollers At the time we were listening to Sabbath Blue Oyster Cult Aerosmith But the first Queen was Hard Rocking with amazing vocals A perfect album IMHOThe best
Slightly off topic. When Freddie died, Queen died for me, not disrespect for Paul Rogers and Ahem Adam Lambert, but I wish Brian & Roger would have toured on a smaller venue setup doing only the songs they sang on throughout the bands back catalogue, one for the die hard fans. Most of my favourite Queen songs are the ones they sang on, so maybe I'm biased?
I mainly like the early hard rock songs of Queen on their early albums of the 1970's and early 1980's but the latter stuff while I don't hate them still I don't hate them but I do like Another one Bites the Dust and Flash Gordon however have a wonderful weekend Pete and Martin.🎶🎶🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁🎶🎶
Queen have been my favorite band since 1980. I can't decide best and worst,as the only songs I really don't like by them are; Friends WIll Be Friends,Pain Is So Close To Pleasure,One Year Of Love and Cool Cat(though i would rather hear Cool Cat than the other three I mentioned) But as for best of the heavy ones,the one that first came to mind is White Man.
I was surprised that there was no mention of Father To Son. That riff after the "take it sonny hold it high" still gives me goosebumps. Prophets song is a must choice. good call.
They were at their best back in their early "HEAVY" days. Stone Cold Crazy Liar Son and Daughter Father to Son Sheer Heart Attack Prophet Song Death on two legs It's Late Dead on Time Dragon Attack Rock It Tear it Up Coming Soon Dancer Was it All Worth It Princes of the Universe Innuendo
I never understood why "Sheer Heart Attack" was put on the NOTW album. Did they want to prove they could also make a "punk" song? It sounds like a garage recording from 1974. But then again, every Queen album is basically a collection of oddities and novelty songs (of the highest caliber, mind you). They could pull it off like no other band.
I've never really liked Tie Your Mother Down either and I think it was the one Queen song that heavy bands decided to cover because vocally and musically it's not too complicated
I think these are very interesting song choices for being the worst heavy Queen tracks. Interesting points! I think one of the reasons Queen never went back to riff oriented heavy songs like in their first 5 album "prog/art rock" era is because of how the songwriting evolved in the band. "The Prophet's Song" and "March Of The Black Queen" are my favorite heavy Queen songs.
Tie Your Mother Down is the one that I thought of immediatly for a worst heavy Queen song. I never understood why people raved about it. Why so many people covered it alludes me as well. I guess it was an easier song to play and they were Queen fans so they wanted to include something from Queen in their sets? My all-time favorite heavy Queen song is Dragon Attack. I was hooked from the first time I heard that riff! Now that's a song that should have gotten more love!
Hammer to Fall is about the only 80s Queen heavy song I like, although I admit I prefer the headbangers mix of it. At least on The Works they were still trying new sounds, by the next album they hit what all long lasting bands hit, the generic "our band sound" syndrome.
I was with you until you got to One Vision... That's an awesome riff and song! Oh and Princes of the Universe is one of my favorite Queen songs of a time, so to each their own! The Works and the Miracle are both major lowpoints for Queen, with all that disgusting 80's synthesizer noodling basically destroying every song on those albums... Which is ironic considering this was a band that once prided themselves in not using synthesizers!! (On A Night At the Opera back cover it states proudly "No synthesizers!". Dead On Time is their most underrated balls out metal song imo... Man that song scorches! Funny trivia: The lightning strike at the end was actually real, which if true means even the Gods were jamming out when they recorded it to tape!
Prophet song and death on 2 legs are my 2 all time favorites, also father to son , liar, dragon attack, stone cold, and Tie or mother down , are top of the list
White Man sounds like a rip or an extension of The Prophet Song. Same kind of riff. And Dead on Time sounds like Keep Yourself Alive Part 2. And i totally forgot about The Hero... (Martin stole the words right out of my mouth) The Hero is the last time Queen sounded like Queen...like it was their "last hurrah". Also Let Me Entertain You and Fight From The Inside i forgot to add to add to my list. Fight and Get Down Make Love is the beginning of Queen getting "Funky"
Agree about “Loser in the End.” The inevitable “Roger song” is always either my favorite, or most hated, song on every album. I’ve tried for years to force myself to like “Loser in the End” because I want to say Queen II is a perfect album, but I can’t quite get there. Seems shoehorned in to me.
I dont see how Hammer to fall and Tie your mother down can be on the worst list. Along with Its Late, stone cold crazy, now im here . They are in my top 5
Wow, I would have totally had it's late off News of the world up near the top of best heavy tunes, as well as now I'm here of sheer heart attack, and seven seas of rhye off of Queen 2
Top Ten in no particular order - Stone Cold Crazy, Ogre Battle, It's Late, Brighton Rock, Father to Son, Liar, Great King Rat, Tie Your Mother Down, Sweet Lady and I'm in Love with My Car - as my favorite heavy rockers
I like how you guys put in the 80s in the "worsts" as the 80s to me are so hard to evaluate positively as a Queen fan - the have token heavy songs and while do like most of them a lot, "Hammer to Fall" probably the most but they pale in comparison to the 70s
1. Tie Your Mother Down 2. Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll 3. Liar 4. I'm in Love with My Car 5. The Prophet's Song 6. Son and Daughter 7. White Man 8. Brighton Rock 9. Stone Cold Crazy 10. Innuendo (The 10 best heavy songs.)
I can't get away with much Queen after News Of The World, to be honest. After that they turned into a pop group with a few token rockier tracks to keep their older fans placated - but not me. As a result all of my choices would be from those first five or six albums, and especially the first three. Best: Liar, Ogre Battle, Stone Cold Crazy, Brighton Rock, Great King Rat. Worst: any of those awful one riff efforts from woeful 80s albums like The Works or A Kind Of Magic - ugh.
Great subject for a pod. Not a big fan of Queen partly due to many of their arrangements (agree on the Stone Cold Crazy track being partly ruined by the vocals set over the tap drum - great song albeit) I find often detract from what the song could of been but mainly, Queen fans you have every right to chastise me, because I find it hard to listen to Freddie's singing - good voice but stylistically, for me, overblown and bombastic. I just don't like it on many tracks (links into the arrangement issue I guess). It was his style I know but it 'jars' me. Saying all that I do really like White Man, More of That Jazz and Liar plus a few others
Best: The March of the Black Queen Death on Two Legs Headlong Hammer to Fall Dragon Attack Princes of the Universe Fat Bottomed Girls Was It All Worth It Keep Yourself Alive Ogre Battle Great King Rat Modern Times Rock and Roll Liar Sheer Heart Attack Stone Cold Crazy Can't think of many poor ones, although I don't love The Prophet's Song.
I get the impression they came up with a compromise regarding Brian‘s “heavy metal“ music. Freddie clearly lost interest in hard rock, but would play along as long as it was “fun“, rather than a brooding, heavy metal song. The results certainly weren’t great, but not terrible.
Father To Son....the middle section. Not a riff but what a heavy
monstrous jam. Love it.
It's Late (with Freddy on Fire in the Choruses)
Sheer Heart Attack (the song)
Brighton Rock
Stone Cold Crazy
Flick of the Wrist
Now I'm Here
Get Down, Make Love
Under Pressure
Innuendo (the song)
(Tie Your Mother Down)
10 Best heavy songs.
Under pressure,not a heavy song by queen standards,by the who and the doors standards absojutely
@NotGuilty2112 no it's not heavy,gets a bit loud in chorus,don't know why it wos mentioned in first place
Dead on time let me entertain you great king rat
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I had to choose 10 songs out of my head. A heavy song doesn't mean it must have the loudest guitars...
Love hero off Flash Gordon soundtrack also. Brilliant.
My favourite heavy song by queen is Ogre Battle. Queen 2 is also probably my favourite album by them
Queen II was my alltime favorite album until I discovered A Wizard/A True Star by Todd Rundgren. Still love Queen II though.
Freddie forgive them, for they know not what they say.
Father To Son, Brighton Rock, Now I'm Here, Flick of the Wrist, It's Late, If You Can't Beat Em, Dragon Attack, Rock It (Prime Jive), Hang On In There, Innuendo, I Can't Live Without You.
I love the idea of figuring out which bands have heavy songs and goofy songs. Seems like a great idea. Blue Oyster Cult and Alice Cooper come to mind.
I absolutely love "The Prophet's Song" but I have to agree that it needed to be trimmed down. Also, "Was It All Worth It" just might be my favorite 80s Queen song.
Thank you! Was It All Worth It is such a forgotten gem!
@@31-127 A great album closer!
Trim down the intro and trim down the middle part and then "The Prophet's song" could be Queen's greatest song that should've been all over FM radio in the 70's.
@@hardrockingtriviashow667 Agree. This song is so goddamn epic and heavy but it looses all steam when it gets to the middle part.
@@Land_Far_Away I wasn't sure about the middle part at first but "now I know".
Always loved Sheer Heart Attack from News Of The World.
Pete, have a safe, fun HEALTHY vacation my friend! 👍💯
Love the Headbangers mix of Hammer T Fall
Liar
Sheer Heart Attack
Gimme The Prize
Tear It Up
Can’t think of a bad one
My Top 10 Heavy Queen songs are 1. Procession/Father To Son. 2. Liar. 3. Great King Rat. 4. March Of The Black Queen. 5. Stone Cold Crazy. 6. Modern Times Rock & Roll. 7. Ogre Battle 8. Son & Daughter. 9. We Will Rock You(Fast version) 10. Sheer Heart Attack. Honorable Mentions-1. Dragon Attack. 2. The Prophet Song.
Dragon Attack is heavy???? I would never call it heavy
Brilliant choices. All gems.
There are no bad heavy songs from Queen
Truth!
Right! I even love the simple big dumb chord songs.
Love 70’s Queen!!! News of the World is one of my favorite albums of all time!!!
Hi Pete, Stone Cild Crazy is great, but Fireball from Deep Purple can be seen as the first Thrash/Speed Metal song. Maybe even the one year earlier Speed King. Just my opinion, that’s all.
Very true.
Best 10:
1.) Sheer Heart Attack
2.) Princes Of The Universe
3.) Hammer To Fall
4.) The Hero
5.) Death On Two Legs
6.) Stone Cold Crazy
7.) Ogre Battle
8.) The Hitman
9.) Tear It Up
10.) Brighton Rock
Worst 10:
NONE
Loved the last couple of episodes. Although I am fond of most of the picks, I wouldn’t argue with most of their listings here. I would add Great King Rat and Brighton Rock (particularly Roger’s drumming) on the best list. I keep banging the drum of the fast and live version of We Will Rock You. Also, listen to the 12” extended version of Hammer To Fall for a more a more rounded and shredding guitar solo… and the cutting-room floor oddity, Silver Salmon, which is Black Sabbath heavy (it can be found on UA-cam).
Great show Scott. I think about this all the time.
Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On.
Neal Morse - Broken Sky/ Long Day
Rival Sons - Jordan
Big Big Train - Love is the Light
Vince Gill - Go Rest high on the Mountain
Home Free - How Great Thou are
Favorite show of the week guys. Thanks so much 🙏 👍
All Martin's "worst" picks would be ranked pretty high at my list except his no. 1. I Want It All and One Vision - love them a lot.
I don't understand the dislike for I Want It All.
You guys are great!
Ogre Battle, Brighton Rock, Liar
Synthesizer in 'Hammer to Fall?' I love that song. I listen to it all of the time. I've never heard a synth. And Martin, 'I'm in Love With My Car' is a MASTERPIECE.
Great King Rat gets my tick of approval as a top heavy song by Queen. That first album.
Makes you realize how the best Heavy songs just truly AWESOME are! Nobody was writing songs like Stone Cold, Liar, Ogre Battle at that period in time.
Doing this exercise before watching the video, here are my picks
10 favorites: Great King Rat, Liar, Ogre Battle, March of the Black Queen, Stone Cold Crazy, The Prophet’s Song, Sheer Heart Attack, Fight from the Inside, It’s Late, and Dead on Time. I couldn’t decide if “The Show Must Go On” is heavy enough to make the list, but if it is then it definitely gets in, probably over Sheer Heart Attack. And while I’m sure both of these guys are going to have “Gimme the Prize” on their “worst” lists, that’s probably my favorite heavy Queen track from the 80’s; it just missed the cut.
10 least favorites: Sweet Lady, White Man, If You Can’t Beat Them, Need Your Loving Tonight, Rock It (Prime Jive), Coming Soon, Tear It Up, Hammer to Fall, Princes of the Universe, and Don’t Lose Your Head. There’s probably some track on the Miracle I’m forgetting that could go on this list (besides “I Want It All” which is ok), but TBH that’s the Queen album I remember the least and the only other one besides Hot Space that I don’t own.
Now time to see what the guys have to say.
Edit: Yep, not too many surprises, other than maybe the complete absence of The Game on either end. And The Hero, because I wasn’t even thinking about Flash. Kashoggi’s Ship was a good pick for the bad side, too; I’d totally forgotten about that one.
Since y’all were talking about bands that did both goofy and heavy, I think Van Halen absolutely hits both ends. I mean, come on…Bottoms Up, Hot for Teacher, One Foot Out the Door, Happy Trails, Big Bad Bill, Inside? Those guys did plenty of goofing around, especially in Dave’s era.
Funny enough, Queen's official channel just posted this highly relevant video this morning: ua-cam.com/video/W88qeJiLJuA/v-deo.html
Top 10 Queen heavy tunes:
10. I'm in love with my car
9. Sheer Heart Attack
8. Dead on time
7. If you can't beat them
6. Tie your Mother down
5. Let me entertain you
4. Stone Cold Crazy
3. White Man
2. Death on two legs
1. The Prophet's Song
I’ve often thought “Headlong” is a kind of 1990s homage to “Keep Yourself Alive.” The two songs are always linked for me.
I've had a soft spot for early Queen [up to 'One Vision] and I find it interesting that Roger Taylor said he initially considered Queen as a heavy-metal band. In the mid-70s they were ragged on as aping Led Zeppelin.......
Anyway, I dig a few of their heavy numbers but the one that always gets me is the "Live Killers" version of "We Will Rock You," the opener not the "boof-boof-bap" popular version. Played as a straight 3-piece, it slams and whams and when Brian takes a solo, it gives me the chills how the rhythm guitar drops out and there's that space.
The reality of all of your observations is very harsh. But you are correct, Sirs.
Long live the Queen!
I saw them as a 13 year old kid in Houston touring the Game I think, they opened with sheer heart attack, it was very powerful, could have been judas priest, it was awesome.
No flick of the wrist?
The first Queen album was
Brilliant at least with our local rock n rollers
At the time we were listening to Sabbath Blue Oyster Cult
Aerosmith
But the first Queen was
Hard Rocking with amazing vocals
A perfect album
IMHOThe best
Mustafa is my favourite heavy track of theirs. It hits really hard and is just fun.
Slightly off topic.
When Freddie died, Queen died for me, not disrespect for Paul Rogers and Ahem Adam Lambert, but I wish Brian & Roger would have toured on a smaller venue setup doing only the songs they sang on throughout the bands back catalogue, one for the die hard fans.
Most of my favourite Queen songs are the ones they sang on, so maybe I'm biased?
Surprised “Brighton Rock” didn’t make either list
We discussed that at the end.
All good points.... But live they are always amazing and heavy ❤
"Ogre Battle," "The Loser in the End," and "The March of the Black Queen" are the reasons why 'Queen II' is my favorite Queen album!
The whole album is the reason why it's my favourite. I love every song on it.
Not a huge Queen fan but enjoyed this! Greetings from the Finger Lakes area, Rochester!
Queen is my all-time favourite band, I couldn't be objective on a list like this.
The Finger Lake's are a national treasure! Spectacular in the fall.
The best two in the business. The words you guys use to describe music is priceless. Did you guys forget, Dragon Attack ?
Nope. Love it, but not nearly in the realm of being among their heaviest songs.
Good choices! I’m sure they were considered, but It’s Late and Dragon Attack are two more upper-echelon heavy tracks.
I mainly like the early hard rock songs of Queen on their early albums of the 1970's and early 1980's but the latter stuff while I don't hate them still I don't
hate them but I do like Another one Bites the Dust and Flash Gordon however
have a wonderful weekend Pete and Martin.🎶🎶🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁🎶🎶
Queen have been my favorite band since 1980.
I can't decide best and worst,as the only songs I really don't like by them are;
Friends WIll Be Friends,Pain Is So Close To Pleasure,One Year Of Love and Cool Cat(though i would rather hear Cool Cat than the other three I mentioned)
But as for best of the heavy ones,the one that first came to mind is White Man.
I was surprised that there was no mention of Father To Son. That riff after the "take it sonny hold it high" still gives me goosebumps. Prophets song is a must choice. good call.
They were at their best back in their early "HEAVY" days.
Stone Cold Crazy
Liar
Son and Daughter
Father to Son
Sheer Heart Attack
Prophet Song
Death on two legs
It's Late
Dead on Time
Dragon Attack
Rock It
Tear it Up
Coming Soon
Dancer
Was it All Worth It
Princes of the Universe
Innuendo
I never understood why "Sheer Heart Attack" was put on the NOTW album. Did they want to prove they could also make a "punk" song? It sounds like a garage recording from 1974. But then again, every Queen album is basically a collection of oddities and novelty songs (of the highest caliber, mind you). They could pull it off like no other band.
I've never really liked Tie Your Mother Down either and I think it was the one Queen song that heavy bands decided to cover because vocally and musically it's not too complicated
The riff is fun to play, which is why it might be popular.
Awww...no Brighton Rock???
Jazz is often overlooked as one of Queen's best albums. It's one of mine.
You could do Goofy & Heavy for Iron Maiden!😊
I think these are very interesting song choices for being the worst heavy Queen tracks. Interesting points!
I think one of the reasons Queen never went back to riff oriented heavy songs like in their first 5 album "prog/art rock" era is because of how the songwriting evolved in the band.
"The Prophet's Song" and "March Of The Black Queen" are my favorite heavy Queen songs.
Tie Your Mother Down is the one that I thought of immediatly for a worst heavy Queen song. I never understood why people raved about it. Why so many people covered it alludes me as well. I guess it was an easier song to play and they were Queen fans so they wanted to include something from Queen in their sets? My all-time favorite heavy Queen song is Dragon Attack. I was hooked from the first time I heard that riff! Now that's a song that should have gotten more love!
Always loved TYMD. Played it many times with my cover bands.
The theme of show works with the Zappa catalog.
And Brighton Rock ?
Hammer to Fall is about the only 80s Queen heavy song I like, although I admit I prefer the headbangers mix of it. At least on The Works they were still trying new sounds, by the next album they hit what all long lasting bands hit, the generic "our band sound" syndrome.
I was with you until you got to One Vision... That's an awesome riff and song! Oh and Princes of the Universe is one of my favorite Queen songs of a time, so to each their own! The Works and the Miracle are both major lowpoints for Queen, with all that disgusting 80's synthesizer noodling basically destroying every song on those albums... Which is ironic considering this was a band that once prided themselves in not using synthesizers!! (On A Night At the Opera back cover it states proudly "No synthesizers!".
Dead On Time is their most underrated balls out metal song imo... Man that song scorches! Funny trivia: The lightning strike at the end was actually real, which if true means even the Gods were jamming out when they recorded it to tape!
Show Must Go On & Innuendo
Prophet song and death on 2 legs are my 2 all time favorites, also father to son , liar, dragon attack, stone cold, and
Tie or mother down , are top of the list
White Man sounds like a rip or an extension of The Prophet Song. Same kind of riff.
And Dead on Time sounds like Keep Yourself Alive Part 2.
And i totally forgot about The Hero...
(Martin stole the words right out of my mouth)
The Hero is the last time Queen sounded like Queen...like it was their "last hurrah".
Also Let Me Entertain You and Fight From The Inside i forgot to add to add to my list. Fight and Get Down Make Love is the beginning of Queen getting "Funky"
I can't live without you
Agree about “Loser in the End.” The inevitable “Roger song” is always either my favorite, or most hated, song on every album. I’ve tried for years to force myself to like “Loser in the End” because I want to say Queen II is a perfect album, but I can’t quite get there. Seems shoehorned in to me.
Led Zep has The Crunge and D'yer Maker as silly songs and they're both on the same album!
I like everyone of those songs, I could make a playlist of the ones put forward as the worst and have fun with it...
Surprised no one picked "Great King Rat"
Great intro
@@rodneyprill4618 Always puts me in mind of a great Spaghetti Western.
I love Princess of the universe. Sheer hear attack is great.
My favorite heavy song is It’s Late. Love that riff.
I'm a fan of You Don't Fool Me from Made in Heaven. It would fit so well on Innuendo, in place of The Hitman.
In place of Delilah. The Hitman is great hard rock track in Queen catalogue.
I'd take Delilah off as well. In my ideal world, I'd replace that with A Winters Tale.
My suggestions for Friday Funhouse:
Bass. Drums. Hard or soft. Intricate or solid standard.
Son and Daughter, White Man, Stone Cold Crazy, Ogre Battle, Son and Daughter, Dead on Time, Princes of the Universe, Headlong, It’s Late, Liar
I dont see how Hammer to fall and Tie your mother down can be on the worst list. Along with Its Late, stone cold crazy, now im here . They are in my top 5
Great Category!
Great show but I think a bottom 5 and top 15 would have been warranted here.
Wow, I would have totally had it's late off News of the world up near the top of best heavy tunes, as well as now I'm here of sheer heart attack, and seven seas of rhye off of Queen 2
Top Ten in no particular order - Stone Cold Crazy, Ogre Battle, It's Late, Brighton Rock, Father to Son, Liar, Great King Rat, Tie Your Mother Down, Sweet Lady and I'm in Love with My Car - as my favorite heavy rockers
the mid section of Father to Son is the heaviest segment Queen ever did....and the best! strange it didn't get a mention here.
How come nobody mentioned I GO CRAZY, the B side of Radio Ga Ga? That is immense and was actually better than some of the songs on The Works album!
Great show. Love the Queen talk. I felt certain that "Now I'm Here" would make both best of lists. Ah well, just shows how many good ones there are.
If you want to you could do a Beatles goofy songs, there are plenty to choose from.
The Hitman wasn't Freddie singing about being a Hitman, it was a metaphor for the aids virus that was killing him.
I'm digging the Queen theme these two weeks. Thank you!
Hi Pete!!! how about Scorpions for goofy songs....??? cheers and be well
I would chose "Modern Time Rock'nRoll" short but so catchy and heavy
Obvious track famously heavy. Fat Bottom Girls 10/10 got me into Heavy Rock .
Best: It's Late
I like how you guys put in the 80s in the "worsts" as the 80s to me are so hard to evaluate positively as a Queen fan - the have token heavy songs and while do like most of them a lot, "Hammer to Fall" probably the most but they pale in comparison to the 70s
1. Tie Your Mother Down
2. Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
3. Liar
4. I'm in Love with My Car
5. The Prophet's Song
6. Son and Daughter
7. White Man
8. Brighton Rock
9. Stone Cold Crazy
10. Innuendo
(The 10 best heavy songs.)
I can't get away with much Queen after News Of The World, to be honest. After that they turned into a pop group with a few token rockier tracks to keep their older fans placated - but not me. As a result all of my choices would be from those first five or six albums, and especially the first three. Best: Liar, Ogre Battle, Stone Cold Crazy, Brighton Rock, Great King Rat. Worst: any of those awful one riff efforts from woeful 80s albums like The Works or A Kind Of Magic - ugh.
Great subject for a pod. Not a big fan of Queen partly due to many of their arrangements (agree on the Stone Cold Crazy track being partly ruined by the vocals set over the tap drum - great song albeit) I find often detract from what the song could of been but mainly, Queen fans you have every right to chastise me, because I find it hard to listen to Freddie's singing - good voice but stylistically, for me, overblown and bombastic. I just don't like it on many tracks (links into the arrangement issue I guess). It was his style I know but it 'jars' me. Saying all that I do really like White Man, More of That Jazz and Liar plus a few others
The first period was glam with heavy riffs
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This is the correct answer!
Surprised no It's Late or Was It All Worth It
White Man is my favorite, heavy song by Queen.
So you're happy with sinth-dance Queen?
Best:
The March of the Black Queen
Death on Two Legs
Headlong
Hammer to Fall
Dragon Attack
Princes of the Universe
Fat Bottomed Girls
Was It All Worth It
Keep Yourself Alive
Ogre Battle
Great King Rat
Modern Times Rock and Roll
Liar
Sheer Heart Attack
Stone Cold Crazy
Can't think of many poor ones, although I don't love The Prophet's Song.
Does nobody else like Sweet Lady?
I get the impression they came up with a compromise regarding Brian‘s “heavy metal“ music. Freddie clearly lost interest in hard rock, but would play along as long as it was “fun“, rather than a brooding, heavy metal song. The results certainly weren’t great, but not terrible.
Ogre battle is queens by tor and the snow dog 😊😊😊😊