Queen Albums - Best To Worst
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Topic: Queen Albums - Best To Worst
Posted By: Woon Deadn
Subject: Queen Albums - Best To Worst
Date Posted: January 09 2017 at 11:52
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As a big fan of diversity, unique melodies and untrivial guitar solos (so, certainly, not a big fan of metal), I don't dislike Queen. And the winners are: 1. A night at the opera 2. Sheer heart attack 3. Innuendo 4. II 5. Made in heaven 6. News of the world 7. A day at the races 8. I 9. Jazz 10. Hot space 11. A kind of magic 12. The works 13. The game 14. The miracle What I agree with my hands upon is that The Miracle was definitely the worst one.
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 09 2017 at 12:25
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My truncated top 8. I haven't heard them all 1. Night at the Opera 2. Queen 2 3. Shear Heart Attack 4. News of the World 5. Queen 1 6. Day at the Races 7. Jazz 8. Innuendo
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: January 09 2017 at 14:01
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A Night At The Opera II News Of The World Sheer Heart Attack s/t Jazz The Game Day At The Races ...the rest ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Terrapin Station
Date Posted: January 09 2017 at 14:08
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It's been awhile since I've listened to some of these, and my order would likely change a bit if I were to listen to them all again right now with the purpose of ranking them in mind, but by memory, my order would probably go something like this: Jazz A Night at the Opera A Day at the Races Queen (I) Sheer Heart Attack The Miracle News of the World Innuendo The Game Queen II The Works Made in Heaven Hot Space A Kind of Magic I'm a big Queen fan, by the way. Everything would get a 10/10 through at least Innuendo, and even A Kind of Magic I like quite a bit. |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: January 10 2017 at 01:46
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Queen II Queen I A Day at the Races Sheer Heart Attack News of the World Innuendo Miracle A Night at the Opera The Works Jazz Flash Gordon Made in Heaven A Kind of Magic The Game Hot Space Never understood the hate for their post-The Game albums. Never understood the hate for the discofunk of Hot Space. I kinda understand why people think The Works and Kind of Magic lack coherency. They sound like best-of albums. But if the two were combined, and some songs were left out, it would've been a great hardrock album. Miracle and Innuendo are two of the best hardrock albums I grew up with. Really, really stellar production and great songs. Never understood the hate for Flash Gordon either. Great spacerock album. Queen just showed they could do anything. I like The Game the least, mainly because it's so short. Also Hot Space is at the bottom of the list. Not because it's bad, but because the rest is so much better. No Queen album in the universe is bad to me.
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Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 10 2017 at 03:17
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Queen 2 Sheer Heart Attack Hot Space A Night at the Opera Queen News of the World Flash Gordon A Day at the Races The Works The Game Jazz A Kind of Magic Innuendo Made in Heaven The Miracle The Cosmos Rocks A Kind of Magic |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 10 2017 at 03:21
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ignore the second mention of A kind of Magic. Not sure what happened there |
Posted By: Woon Deadn
Date Posted: January 10 2017 at 12:33
No Queen album is bad or average - I agree (Cosmos is not Queen, I mean). Hot Space is really excellent, except for the first track. However, to me there are two hard rock hits in Miracle, the rest is mediocre pop cheese. "I want it all" and "Was it all worth it" are timeless. But two mid-size songs cannot save the whole LP.
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Kingsnake wrote:Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: January 10 2017 at 13:42
Wow. Queen were excellent pop artists. And there's more than just 2 hardrock songs on Miracle. Breathru and the opening duo. And then there's the wonderous r&b/soul/calypso of My Baby Does Me and Rain Must Fall. And the proggish Scandal and the titletrack. The only song that I find kinda annoying sometimes is Invisible Man, but that's still a stellar song. Love the bassriff and the guitarsolo. Maybe I'm just a sucker for pop. But I love weird music aswell. Maybe I just like all kinds of music. Maybe that's why Queen is so dear to me. They actually pulled off every genre in the book. Except Jazz and reggae, but they named a record Jazz, so that's a point.
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Posted By: Woon Deadn
Date Posted: January 10 2017 at 18:11
I am not a musician myself, I don't hear, I can't hear notes, bass playing, etc. It explains my comprehension of musical works. I bought Queen's albums one by one, once in two-three months, usually. The Miracle was one of the last ones. I thought it would be grandiose. I was disappointed.
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Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 11 2017 at 04:06
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I think Hot Space is an excellent album. There is only two songs on it I'm not keen on ie Staying Power and Body Language |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: January 11 2017 at 04:29
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hmmm strange question in a weird sort of way due to don't totally understanding it! there aren't many groups whom record albums to which all will be perfect one or two album fillers on. I`ll need to give this some serious thinking!!!! ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Woon Deadn
Date Posted: January 11 2017 at 06:46
Exactly my impression.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 11 2017 at 11:33
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Queen II A night at the opera Sheer heart attack Day at the races Queen 1 News of thw world Jazz Hot Space The Works A kind of magic Innuendo Haven't heart anything after that... ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Woon Deadn
Date Posted: January 11 2017 at 13:58
"Made in heaven" was perhaps not very inventive, not very progressive - yet it was really versatile Queen-style. The songs while being mainly ballads, do not sound like the ones on JT's Too Old. Every ballad is an individuality here
 . The Cosmos Rocks, of course, sucks, then: not an average banal hard-rock recording, some twists and smartees - but it is cosmos distances far away downwards from anything Queen created before. |
Posted By: efoman2
Date Posted: January 13 2017 at 11:18
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A Night at the Opera Sheer Heart Attack Queen 2 Innuendo A Day at the Races News of the World Jazz The Game Works A Kind of Magic Queen The Miracle Hot Space Made In Heaven Flash Gordon Soundtrack |
Posted By: Enchlore
Date Posted: January 13 2017 at 13:08
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1. Queen II 2. A Day at the Races 3. Sheer Heart Attack 4. A Night at the Opera 5. News of the World 6. Queen 7. The Works 8. Innuendo 9. Flash Gordon 10. The Miracle 11. Jazz 12. Made in Heaven 13. A Kind of Magic 14. The Game 15. Hot Space ------------- If you like King Crimson, come over to the KC Discord server! https://discord.gg/6AYBxBD |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 13 2017 at 18:30
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A Night at the Opera Queen II Sheer Heart Attack Queen News of the World That's it. That's all you get. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: January 16 2017 at 14:08
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1) A Night AT The Opera 2) Sheer Heart Attack 3) II 4) All the rest...
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Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: January 16 2017 at 15:11
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I don't think Hot Space is their worst album ever. I think that's "A Kind Of Magic" hands down. Take away the singles and what are you left with?... I think Innuendo is my favourite album. I bought it at the time. No wait, it's Sheer Heart Attack. I loved Queen II more than A Night.. or A Day... And I really wish I had grown up with Jazz and not News Of The World. I stopped listening when Freddie died and even then haven't heard Made In Heaven. EDIT: ARGH! How amazing is "Flash"?!! That's another reason "A Kind Of Magic" is my hated. They could do soundtracks! |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 16 2017 at 16:26
A Kind of Magic side 2 is brilliant Who Wants to Live Forever flows then Gimmie the Prize Don't Lose Your Head Princes of the Universe are all excellent songs One Vision is an excellent track. But there is also some dross ie; Friends Will be Friends, Pain is so Close to Pleasure, One Year of Love
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Posted By: Enchlore
Date Posted: January 16 2017 at 20:20
The Flash Gordon soundtrack is knocked down a lot by Queen fans. I personally like it a lot. ------------- If you like King Crimson, come over to the KC Discord server! https://discord.gg/6AYBxBD |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 16 2017 at 20:40
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^ So do I Flash -- a-ahhh -- Savior of the Universe ! ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 17 2017 at 02:01
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Yes side 1 of Flash Gordon is dull, but Side 2 has some great tracks on it, Flash to the Rescue Vultan's Theme Battle Theme Wedding March The Hero
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