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They are like the best band ever.

damn straight!

damn straight!

:)

*Bows*

They are like the best band ever.

uhhh...I disagree. Not that I don't like Queen. I jsut don't think they're the bestest band ever. they are up there though...

Vanilla Ice stole one of their beats. And thought he could get away with it.

Thanks for re-reporting the obvious.

Damn...I was listening to "Under Pressure" right when I noticed that last message. Creepy non?

uhhh...I disagree. Not that I don't like Queen. I jsut don't think they're the bestest band ever. they are up there though...

Vanilla Ice stole one of their beats. And thought he could get away with it.

Which song?

Queen are my favourite band of all time...

and freddie mercury is the best frontman to ever live. i know i shouldnt say this but - no denying that!
let battle commence...

Which song?

Under Pressure -> Ice Ice Baby.
The most obvious sampling ever, and - if he didnt get permission - the utterly silliest.

I wouldn't say Queen is the best band ever, although I might just have to give Freddy Mercury the frontman prize. They're good, damn good and made some of the best songs, but there are a few bands that I prefer. Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and the Clash come to mind. But Freddy Mercury is a better frontman than Robert Plant, John Lennon or McCartney (but not as good a songwriter) or Joe Strummer. Wonderful showmanship. Campy as hell, but so was the music. And it rocks anyway ... actually, no, oddly enough, it's so great BECAUSE it's so campy.

They are withouta doubt one of my fave bands, but being an oldie most of my albums (OK ALL) are on record...

I need a new player, so I don't hear much queen these days (I have most their old stuff on CD, but all there stuff before from the 80s is on vinyl).

brilliant wit, brilliant lyrics, and a brilliant voice.

best ever? others might disagree beatles, rolling stones, etc amidst others may also claim, but queen are MY favourites, and one of the greatest of all time, and thats good enough for me.

I wouldn't say Queen is the best band ever, although I might just have to give Freddy Mercury the frontman prize. They're good, damn good and made some of the best songs, but there are a few bands that I prefer. Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and the Clash come to mind. But Freddy Mercury is a better frontman than Robert Plant, John Lennon or McCartney (but not as good a songwriter) or Joe Strummer. Wonderful showmanship. Campy as hell, but so was the music. And it rocks anyway ... actually, no, oddly enough, it's so great BECAUSE it's so campy.

Extremely well said - although personally I'd take Queen over the clash etc., I can see how most wouldn't. But Freddie is showmanship.
Camp is cool!

Which song?

I can't remember the name of the Queen song. But "Ice Ice Baby" is only half original material. The beat is a sample that Ice didn't give Queen cred for.

DONT STOP ME NOW is in the top 5 ever written. and queen is top 15

The song in question is 'Under Pressure' and it's pretty damn obvious. Also, Under Pressure is a much, much better song than 'Ice Ice Baby'. It's probably my second or third favorite Queen song, along with 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (how stereotypical, but it really is an all-time classic of music, not just rock) and 'Another One Bites The Dust'.

Theres a really cool one called "You're my best friend"

Does anyone know the song 'Love of my Life'? Cause the live verison of that is utterly fantastic, the best Queen song ever, and deserves more recognition.

I wouldn't say Queen is the best band ever, although I might just have to give Freddy Mercury the frontman prize. They're good, damn good and made some of the best songs, but there are a few bands that I prefer. Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and the Clash come to mind. But Freddy Mercury is a better frontman than Robert Plant, John Lennon or McCartney (but not as good a songwriter) or Joe Strummer. Wonderful showmanship. Campy as hell, but so was the music. And it rocks anyway ... actually, no, oddly enough, it's so great BECAUSE it's so campy.

I know I'll be alone in this one, but I think that Thome Yorke from Radiohead is the best one. HEAR ME OUT! I had the privelege of seeing a Radiohead performance, in concert, and it's the only time I've ever gone too a concert and was actually moved to tears, at times, and other times dancing around like a madman. Seeing that man go crazy onstange, throwing the mic stand was just...how you say...AMAZING!

Does anyone know the song 'Love of my Life'? Cause the live verison of that is utterly fantastic, the best Queen song ever, and deserves more recognition.

I loooooooove that song to death

I loooooooove that song to death

Ah, thank God! One more I dont need to convert, out of the 6 billion or whatever in the world...

The only band Queen should ever be even thought about as being seen second to is The Beatles and thats almost comparing apples and oranges.

Freddy Mercury - Best Frontman of all time
Brian May - One of the best if not the best guitarists in this genre
John Deacon - C'mon the man wrote classics like "another one bites the dust"
Roger Taylor - hehe nothing real specific here.. good drummer though

Led Zeppelin is the best band ever, but Freddie Mercury was the best frontman, bar none.

I love you guys.

I'll give ya' Freddie as the best frontman, but not Queen as the best band ever. Though Queen does rank in the top 5 in my book. I have to agree with those who have already nominated Led Zepplin as the best band ever. In fact, here is my top 5 list:

Best Band Ever:

1. Led Zepplin
2. The Beatles
3. Pink Floyd
4. Queen
5. Aerosmith

Best Frontmen Ever:

1. Freddie Mercury
2. Elvis Presley (yeah, I know he's fronting for himself, but F'in-A, what a showman!)
3. Elton John (same comment as Elvis)
4. Steven Tyler
5. Ted Nugent

EDIT: sorry I forgot to name my Queen songs: Their best album IMHO is Queen II - "Mother's Got a Problem" rocks, but the album is outstanding as a whole and is better enjoyed as a "themed album" As for straight songs, I love "The Prophet's Song," "Death on Two Legs," "Great King "Rat," "Liar," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "White Man," "Good Ole' Fashioned Lover Boy," "Tie Your Mother Down" and "Funny How Love."

I'm having trouble believing what i'm seeing ... don't get me wrong now Pink Floyd and Aerosmith are great bands but I really don't think they're the same calliber as Queen, The Beatles, and Led Zeppelin (in that order :p )

Queen was that band everyone listened to in the late 70s while waiting for the next albums by the Stones or the Who to come out. They were always second string at best, until 70s retro made them out to be rock giants of some sort. Don't believe the hype.

Mediocre and overwrought, cliched and self-important, perhaps Queen's createst contribution to the medium was to so irritate listeners as to help spur on the punk/DIY backlash that dragged rock out of the glam/prog-rock quagmire it had slipped into years before.

Christ! you could get a job tearing down acts as a real critic! One of the ways I can tell that is that I almost always disagree with critics.

Heres the deal on yours truly.. I like punk.. I Don't like the bands coming around that are trying to sound like 70s glam or 70s 'Gritty hard rock'..and i think unless the retro 70s thing started in the early 80s then Queen has always been 'Rock Giants'. I however won't argue that Waynes World really helped when it introduced a whole new generation to Queen.

(and i Don't know if its true for sure but i've heard that Groucho actually sent a letter to Queen thanking them for naming their albums "A Day at the Races" and "A Night at the Opera" both the names of Marx Brothers movies.. like i say dunno how true it is just something i heard and don't doubt, hell i don't even know when Groucho died)

I'm having trouble believing what i'm seeing ... don't get me wrong now Pink Floyd and Aerosmith are great bands but I really don't think they're the same calliber as Queen, The Beatles, and Led Zeppelin (in that order :p )

We could argue about Aerosmith, I'll admit, But Pink Floyd!? Come on (not the "new" Pink Floyd, but the original with Roger Waters and even Sid Barret -Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, to a a great extent, Atom Heart Mother, Ummagumma and Set Your Controls for the Heart of the Sun - these are groundbreaking, classic rock albums. I could live without News of the World, I couldn't without Dark Side of the Moon. :)

EDIT: At least my frontmen list stands :rolleyes:

hehe Ok Ok I see what your saying I'll also admit that my taste for both Pink Floyd and Zeppelin have been nearly ruined by a) being overplayed on classic rock stations, and b) being consumed by the 'stoner' drug culture.

lol i keep losing copies of Dark side of the moon i think i've owned like 4 or 5 and i've lost all of them to date :shrugs:

and yes the frontman list is very cool ..might think of squeezing that guy from Gwar in there though :p

Sad Jugglers, the 80s Queen gave us songs like, 'Radio Ga-Ga', 'Starfleet', 'I've Got To Break Free', and 'Another One Bites The Dust'. Throw in 'Under Pressure' and your list is nearly complete. 'Under Pressure' works best when Bowie is doing the singing, but founders whenever Mercury swaggers up to the mike.

Of the others on my short list, perhaps the catchiest ditty is 'Dust', though that was considered in its' day to have been a disco crossover number, much in the way that KISS's 'I Was Made For Loving You' was also considered a disco crossover. 'Radio Ga-Ga' was quirky the first time out, but suffered from repeat airplay - it became first cloying, later obnoxious, and lastly, unrequested - the fate of most mediocre radio fare. 'Starfleet' worked well enough, except for Mercury's ill-fitted vocals. 'I've got To Break Free?' *sigh* it's more cutesy than anything, and stands better as the audio component of a music video than as a bona fide song.

Yes, there were other 80s songs for Queen, including soundtrack work, but most of that came in under the radar. Do I seem particularly nasty toward Queen? Maybe - but there's one thing you must bear in mind: for a great many of you, all Queen is are a series of CDs you can listen to at will. I, on the other hand, had to listen to it in high rotation when it was on radio waaaay back when. Back before portable stereo audiocassette decks, man, let alone CD players.

Trust me when I tell you it got awfully tired hearing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' eight or nine times daily for eight or nine months, only to have it linger on 'classic rock' stations for twenty years after the fact, where you could look forward to hearing it as much as two or three times a day. I thought those fuckers had been lain to rest only to have Mike Meyers decide that 'Rhapsody' was somehow overlooked, with the net result being another ten or fifteen-year lease on life.

Do us all a favour, let it die already.

Alright Dobbs understood.. I didn't realize that you had to endure the same songs on heavy rotation all the time.. I can now see where your coming from seeing as how I would say the same things about the crap on the radio (most stations) today. I mean nowadays I can indeed just pop in a CD but I do vaguely remember way back when listening to Another one bites the dust on the radio constantly, I used to love that song (hey i was only a kid). but anyway I understand why you think that way.. its similar to why I don't like to listen to too much Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.

But Queen is still among the greatest bands in my book ;)

Do us all a favour, let it die already.


It will never die. It has a life of it's own.

Well, not if it became a jingle for chocolate bars or something...it'd get old even for the diehards...(wow, I can't believe I'm saying that, I hate it when that shit happens. I must REALLY not like that tune anymore...damn you, top-40 radio of the '70s and '80s! Daaaaamn yoouuuuuu...!)

Well, not if it became a jingle for chocolate bars or something...it'd get old even for the diehards...(wow, I can't believe I'm saying that, I hate it when that shit happens. I must REALLY not like that tune anymore...damn you, top-40 radio of the '70s and '80s! Daaaaamn yoouuuuuu...!)

Have you noticed how the madison avenue freaks are shitting all over the who these days. Every other fucking commercial it seems.

Queen if an kick-ass band, in my top five list, a great honor, also included are: The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, and The black Keys.
And though I think i have to concede that Freddy Mercury was probably the best front man, my heart will be, always and forever, with John (lennon, that is, for those of you who need the obvious stated). He's basically my rightful husband. ;-)
But yeah, they're fricken awesome. I think Night at the Opera is my favorite album

haha yeah ..You beleive the first time I heard that new U2 song it was as a song for some kind of mp3 player and i think it was like a week before the album even came out.. U2 has really lost it I think but hey I guess Bono can use all the royalties to donate to all of his causes <shrugs>

for some reason selling out to a mp3 player isn't a big problem for me. It's supporting the future of music, unlike "We are the Champions" now used for Viagra, and "I want to break free" for coke.

i don't know if its because im young or what, but Queen just don't do it for me. I much much prefer ACDC and INXS. Michael Hutchence appeals to me as a frontman, although Ozzy Osbourne had his whacky charm.

for some reason selling out to a mp3 player isn't a big problem for me. It's supporting the future of music, unlike "We are the Champions" now used for Viagra, and "I want to break free" for coke.

holy crap i haven't seen either of those commercials lol ..pretty funny choices though...here's the difference though everytime i hear that new U2 "vertigo" I'm expecting it to only be about 15-20 seconds long and all i think about is the commercial. do you remember in Demolition man where their popular music was old Jingles? I don't want that even if the commercials were " for the future of music" like you say. At least when i hear a previouslly established song in a commercial i can think of the song intead of whatever some company is trying to sell me.

Agreed.

for some reason selling out to a mp3 player isn't a big problem for me. It's supporting the future of music, unlike "We are the Champions" now used for Viagra, and "I want to break free" for coke.

I was bugged when "I'm in Love With My Car" was used to sell Cadillacs. Corvettes, Porsche's maybe, but Caddies? gimme a break. :D

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Does anyone know the song 'Love of my Life'? Cause the live verison of that is utterly fantastic, the best Queen song ever, and deserves more recognition.

Thats from "a Night at the Opera" and I think (though I may be wrong) it was one of the very few tracks written by John Deacon (bassist with Queen), another one he wrote which is one of my favs was "your my best friend".

Queen will always rock.

I love Queen, but I couldn't say they were the best band ever. I like their 70s stuff mostly. My fave is a release called At The Beeb, early recordings done at the BBC. I love Queen I & II, A Day At The Races, A Night At The Opera & News Of The World. Sheer Heart Attack is probably my fave Queen song.

I still love I'm Going Slightly Mad. :D In the middle of expanding my Queen collection - did anyone else see the musical We Will Rock You?

They are like the best band ever.


Queen kicked ass, definatly up there with the top rock and roll bands of all time.

The only band Queen should ever be even thought about as being seen second to is The Beatles and thats almost comparing apples and oranges.
Have to disagree with you there...
But the rest...

Freddy Mercury - Best Frontman of all time
Brian May - One of the best if not the best guitarists in this genre
John Deacon - C'mon the man wrote classics like "another one bites the dust"
Roger Taylor - hehe nothing real specific here.. good drummer though
I agree all the way!
Brian May writes great stuff too...
and Roger Taylor makes a very good girl - see "I want to break free" music video. :)

They are like the best band ever.

Not best ever. But good.

You know everybody has a favorite Queen tune, I certainly do.

But why do I get the feeling that a lot of you are gay guys with mullets. :D