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Brian May has probably the most unique guitar tone - there's something about that guitar, and the fact that he plays with a coin of some kind (unless that's a myth?)
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I just can't decide where to rank The Miracle among my top Queen albums. It's definitely better than A Kind of Magic and all the records I have below that, but above it has to face off against the seventies legends, ADATR, SHA, NOTW, QII, and the unbeatable ANATO. I've had those seventies albums so much longer and have grown with them, whereas I just got The Miracle but have immediately loved it to death, unlike my first reactions to ADATR and QII (surprisingly). Decisions decisions.

 

Quoting myself here to say I think I've done it. I did some light mathematical examination and calculation comparing the tracks and the amounts of greatness between two albums at a time and stopped once The Miracle was found to contain any less greatness than the record it was matched up against. And my heart agrees with my head after looking at the albums this way, so its still quite subjective. My new ranking of the Queen albums I have obtained so far in my chronological approach to collecting their discography (minus Flash):

 

1. A Night At The Opera

2. Queen II

3. News Of The World

4. Sheer Heart Attack

5. The Miracle

6. A Day At The Races

7. A Kind Of Magic

8. Queen

9. The Works

10. Jazz

11. The Game

12. Hot Space (perhaps their least awesome, but still criminally underrated)

 

The Hot Space tunes they do live actually sound pretty good - Back Chat and one or two others.

 

Yeah, especially Staying Power.

 

I think I now have an idea of what DVD I'm going to watch tonight . . .

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Live Killers is my favorite Queen album. Side 2 is a great example of how well Freddie interacted with the crowd. The album also has a killer version of Spread Your Wings.

It's been an age since I listened to that album. I'll have to add it to the stack.

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Freddie embodied the collective magic of the band and presented it before the world

How true. He was a showman, AND a prodigious music talent. Queen's music defies category. It's everything, all at once.
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I don't know much about falsetto, but there are some musicians whose falsetto tone is just so irritating. Mercury's is just so . . . I don't know what the word is. Pure? And pitch perfect.
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Freddie embodied the collective magic of the band and presented it before the world

How true. He was a showman, AND a prodigious music talent. Queen's music defies category. It's everything, all at once.

 

When I watch his performances on DVD, I almost always laugh, but it's an impressed laugh, not a mocking laugh. An amazing presence on stage, for sure.

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Freddie embodied the collective magic of the band and presented it before the world

How true. He was a showman, AND a prodigious music talent. Queen's music defies category. It's everything, all at once.

 

When I watch his performances on DVD, I almost always laugh, but it's an impressed laugh, not a mocking laugh. An amazing presence on stage, for sure.

Something that really impressed me about the band is how they listen to one another. Like Rush, they laugh a lot, but are always focused on the work at hand.

 

Back to Freddie. He could do anything he wanted to musically. Everything he chose to do, he achieved something special.

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Brian May has probably the most unique guitar tone - there's something about that guitar, and the fact that he plays with a coin of some kind (unless that's a myth?)

 

No myth; he plays with a British sixpence. He mentioned it before. I actually play with a dime from time to time as emulation (though I suck at guitar).

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Brian May has probably the most unique guitar tone - there's something about that guitar, and the fact that he plays with a coin of some kind (unless that's a myth?)

 

No myth; he plays with a British sixpence. He mentioned it before. I actually play with a dime from time to time as emulation (though I suck at guitar).

And since they don't make the sixpence anymore, the Royal Mint make them just for him :cool:
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"Brian's rather unusual choice of guitar pick is a coin - an english sixpence, which is a small circular coin with a serrated edge. He chose to use the sixpence as a pick because he finds plastic plectrums too flexible. He holds the coin very lightly and occasionally uses its serrated edge against the strings to produce a rasp. For quiter sections, Brian will often pick the strings with his fingers and only use the coin for the louder sections where more attack is required. For his first solo tour, Brian actually had some sixpence sized coins specially minted and these were on sale during the tour".
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So what's everyone's favorite Queen song?

 

I'm gonna go ahead and be beyond predictable here, but nothing can top Bohemian Rhapsody for me, and I'll never get tired of it. However, I love to death almost everything they've ever recorded.

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I'm gonna with a few cause i can't pick 1, lol

 

Liar

The Lap of the God.......Revisited

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Spread your Wings

Bohemian Rhapsody

Hammer to Fall

kThe Dreamer's Ball

The Millionaire Waltz

All Dead All Dead

Somebody to Love

The Prophet Song

Teo Torriatte

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

Innuendo

The Show Must go On.

 

I could keep going really, lol

 

Mick

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I also can't pick just one :

 

Keep Yourself Alive

Liar

Son and Daughter

White Queen (As it Began) (particularly the Live at the Rainbow 74 version)

Ogre Battle

Brighton Rock

In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited

Death On Two Legs

The Prophet's Song

Bohemian Rhapsody

Tie Your Mother Down

The Millionaire Waltz

It's Late

Dragon Attack

Play the Game

Hammer to Fall

One Vision (played live)

 

probably loads more...

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As long as we're listing, here's my top ten (and FYI, it took me FOREVER to make a decision on this):

 

Bohemian Rhapsody

Killer Queen

My Melancholy Blues

You're My Best Friend

Nevermore (when I first heard it it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever directly experienced)

Somebody To Love (though this goes head to head with Boh-Rhap if you bring up the live bonus track from the deluxe version of ADATR)

The Show Must Go On

Breakthru

Don't Stop Me Now

Save Me

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I'm gonna with a few cause i can't pick 1, lol

 

Liar

The Lap of the God.......Revisited

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Spread your Wings

Bohemian Rhapsody

Hammer to Fall

kThe Dreamer's Ball

The Millionaire Waltz

All Dead All Dead

Somebody to Love

The Prophet Song

Teo Torriatte

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

Innuendo

The Show Must go On.

 

I could keep going really, lol

 

Mick

 

 

Great to see some love for "In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited." One of my favs definitely.

 

EDIT: imagine I quoted Your_Lion on this too.

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My three favorite Queen tracks are :

 

The Prophets song

All dead all dead (Brian wrote this for his cat who died a few weeks before thet started working on News of the World)

Long away

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Days of Our Lives (Queen's Time Stand Still)

Spread Your Wings

Fat Bottom Girls

Love of My Life (Live Killers)

Now I'm Here (Live Killers)

Let Me Entertain You

Death On Two Legs

I'm In Love With My Car

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Days of Our Lives (Queen's Time Stand Still)

Spread Your Wings

Fat Bottom Girls

Love of My Life (Live Killers)

Now I'm Here (Live Killers)

Let Me Entertain You

Death On Two Legs

I'm In Love With My Car

 

I love what you said about Days Of Our Lives. I'm a senior in high school and I've grown incredibly fond of so much here, so both of those songs mean a lot to me already, but will probably mean even more to me by the time it gets to the end of the year and a I finally purchase Innuendo in my chronological collection of Queen's discography. (That should make me like HYF a bit more too...maybe).

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Days of Our Lives (Queen's Time Stand Still)

Spread Your Wings

Fat Bottom Girls

Love of My Life (Live Killers)

Now I'm Here (Live Killers)

Let Me Entertain You

Death On Two Legs

I'm In Love With My Car

 

I love what you said about Days Of Our Lives. I'm a senior in high school and I've grown incredibly fond of so much here, so both of those songs mean a lot to me already, but will probably mean even more to me by the time it gets to the end of the year and a I finally purchase Innuendo in my chronological collection of Queen's discography. (That should make me like HYF a bit more too...maybe).

:cheers:

 

Days... Great sentiment to the song, and Brian pulls off the most beautiful solo...

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This is not strictly Queen but I saw this today and it reminded me of this thread. He does some Brian May about halfway through.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_5sUcMpFXk

 

Lol, awesome! He seems to just pick a certain recognizable solo/riff from each guitarist and play that, the one from Brian being from "A Kind Of Magic" (which works really well there).

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Queen was my favorite band before I found Rush.

 

Queen saved my life when I was in school. I had a hard time in school, so I was listening to Queen all the time. Whitout Queen I would probably not be alive today....

 

I saw Queen+ Paul Rodgers live 2005. It was awesome, even thou Freddie was not there. Brian May played some awesome guitar solos. Best day in my life...

 

Thou when I found Rush (2011) I kinda stopped listening to Queen. Because I started to listen to more Prog Rock music.

 

But when Queen released their latest live album, Live At The Rainbow ´74. I found Queen again. So now I am listening to them again, at least their early albums when they played a bit more Prog Rock / Rock.

 

My favorite Queen studio albums is:

 

1. Queen II

2. Queen

3. Sheer Heart Attack

4. A Day At The Races (I just love White Man!)

5. A Night At The Opera

6. News Of The World

7. Jazz

8. The Works

9. The Game

10. Innuendo

11. The Miracle

12. A Kind Of Magic

13. The Cosmos Rock (Queen+ Paul Rodgers)

14. Hot Space

15. Made In Heaven (Not a bad album, it´s beautiful. But it´s just pieces put together really....)

16. Pre Ordained (Not many people know about this album. But it´s a album with Smile songs) (Smile is the band May and Taylor was in before Queen)

17. Flash Gordon (Great movie thou!..... ok, maybe not that good...)

 

My favorite Queen live albums is:

1. Live At The Rainbow ´74 (One of the best live albums ever made, even better then any live album Rush have released!)

2. At The BBC (even known as At the Beeb)

3. Live Killers

4. Live At Wembley Stadium ´86

5. Live At The Bowl

 

My favorite Queen live bootlegs is:

1. Queen live 1975

2. In The Mirror

3. In The Mirror Again

4. Live In Tokyo 1981

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