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Queen By-Tor 
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 23:24 |
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I've always had a thing for Day at the Races.
Tie Your Mother Down, Long Away, Millionaire Waltz, You and I, Somebody To Love, Drowse...
Maybe not that progressive, but it's great rock!
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King Crimson776
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 23:19 |
Jazz, for the poster that comes with it. 
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Posted: February 12 2008 at 16:29 |
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It's a tough choice, but with this list it's a tie between Jazz and A Day at the Races, with "Day", well, carrying the day. I also like A Night at the Opera, dispite the objections of others.
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SilverEclipse
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Posted: February 12 2008 at 13:50 |
Honestly, between the debut, A Day at the Races, and News of the World.... I can't decide. Queen II and ANATO are obviously the best though, and by best I don't mean "most progressive"... Queen II and ANATO are rock masterpieces.... they have a few albums I would call great after those two but it's hard to order them in terms of favorite to least favorite.
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"and if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 02:52 |
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Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
Never give a day away.
Always live for today.
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silversaw
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 02:06 |
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I had to go with A Day At The Races...something about that disc just screams at me. I also think that this is the last "grand" Queen album! Later albums still rocked but this was the last of their true royal albums IMHO. Their first album gets a close second with Jazz an honorable mention.
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: December 21 2006 at 04:53 |
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Sheer heart attack, easily.
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Blog this:
http://artrock2006.blogspot.com
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Howe Protege
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Posted: December 13 2006 at 14:52 |
 toolis wrote:
ADATR is their best album ever...
and Queen should be under the Art Rock genre... |
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Howe Protege
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Posted: December 13 2006 at 14:52 |
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I like how you exculded the best ones to make it harder
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My favorite pasty faced British pal.
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Arrrghus
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Posted: December 01 2006 at 21:20 |
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Sheer Heart Attack!!
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toolis
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Posted: November 28 2006 at 08:38 |
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ADATR is their best album ever...
and Queen should be under the Art Rock genre...
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-music is like pornography...
sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...
-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...
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1800iareyay
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Posted: November 24 2006 at 19:32 |
Sheer Heart Attack
News of the World conatined We Will Rock YOu, We Are The Champions and some other good tarcks. Day at the Races contains Tie Your Mother Down and Somebody to Love (IMO his best vox), but Sheer Heart Attack is the best consistently from this group.
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Kaztor
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Posted: November 22 2006 at 17:59 |
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Sheer Heart Attack.
It's odd to see how everyone 'forgot' the recurring quality that started with A Kind Of Magic and resulted into Innuendo, which by no means cannot be called 'bad' by any stretch of the imagination. I see the early 80's as their weakest period, however, The Game still offered a selection of good tracks, like Play The Game, Dragon Attack and Save Me, one of their very best singles.
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Posted: November 20 2006 at 07:18 |
salmacis wrote:
I'd say they got progressively weaker after ANATO, but to these ears, it's easily the best album they've ever recorded. I've always felt that. I feel their 80s output actually gets worse on repeated airings!  |
Which is why I've always seen 'Live Killers' as their last great album; a stormer of a set (just don't mention the overdubs  ) and the swansong of Queen as a hard rock band.
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Philéas
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Posted: November 17 2006 at 14:55 |
Peter Rideout wrote:
They go ever deeper down the commercial toilet after ANATO -- and they're circling the bowl on that one!  |
Commercial isn't necessarily bad. Why does everyone use it as an insult?
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Peter
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Posted: November 17 2006 at 14:29 |
Jim Garten wrote:
Peter Rideout wrote:
They go ever deeper down the commercial toilet after ANATO -- and they're circling the bowl on that one |
Shame on you - their finest, most varied and certainly most progressive (no, I'm not referring to that track ) album - sir, you have no taste whatsoever; further, I'd go so far to say that ANATO pwns all those in the above poll!
Ahem -
As far as the poll goes, though, my vote has to go for the debut album - if for nothing else, Great King Rat! |
Geez -- talk about yer difficult queens....
Okay then, not yet "circling the bowl," but preparing to flush, in any case. 
Radio success ruined them, it seems. 
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Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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salmacis
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Posted: November 17 2006 at 12:47 |
I'd say they got progressively weaker after ANATO, but to these ears, it's easily the best album they've ever recorded. I've always felt that. I feel their 80s output actually gets worse on repeated airings!
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Jim Garten
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Posted: November 17 2006 at 12:22 |
Peter Rideout wrote:
They go ever deeper down the commercial toilet after ANATO -- and they're circling the bowl on that one |
Shame on you - their finest, most varied and certainly most progressive (no, I'm not referring to that track ) album - sir, you have no taste whatsoever; further, I'd go so far to say that ANATO pwns all those in the above poll!
Ahem -
As far as the poll goes, though, my vote has to go for the debut album - if for nothing else, Great King Rat!
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Peter
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Posted: November 17 2006 at 09:51 |
Sheer Heart Attack -- the only Queen album I consistently liked. 
They go ever deeper down the commercial toilet after ANATO -- and they're circling the bowl on that one!
Edited by Peter Rideout - November 17 2006 at 09:52
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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SolariS
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Posted: November 17 2006 at 00:48 |
I don't feel qualified to vote since I haven't heard enough of these, but I really love ADATR. 
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