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Poll Question: Which is your favourite Queen album?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [3.64%]
35 [31.82%]
19 [17.27%]
32 [29.09%]
2 [1.82%]
2 [1.82%]
3 [2.73%]
3 [2.73%]
2 [1.82%]
3 [2.73%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [0.91%]
4 [3.64%]
0 [0.00%]
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I'd be curious to hear from the folks to voted for Hot Space.  Please enlighten me.  Was it the single Under Pressure that swayed your vote?   Did the immediacy of the disco energy convince you?
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Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

I'd be curious to hear from the folks to voted for Hot Space.  Please enlighten me.  Was it the single Under Pressure that swayed your vote?   Did the immediacy of the disco energy convince you?
 
I like Disco too and I like the single "Under Pressure", but I couldn't possibly consider "Hot Space" to be a better Queen album than the classics, "Queen II" and "A Night at the Opera. Although "Hot Space" is certainly a listenable album, it would be at the bottom of my favourites list if I ranked all of the Queen albums in order. Smile
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:



 
I didn't include the Paul Rodgers albums in the poll, because as far as I'm aware, Queen haven't recorded any studio albums with Paul Rodgers. The only Paul Rodgers & Queen albums I know of are the Live albums. Smile


Queen II.

Also, Queen did record a studio album with Paul Rodgers:



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Originally posted by Morningrise Morningrise wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:



 
I didn't include the Paul Rodgers albums in the poll, because as far as I'm aware, Queen haven't recorded any studio albums with Paul Rodgers. The only Paul Rodgers & Queen albums I know of are the Live albums. Smile


Queen II.

Also, Queen did record a studio album with Paul Rodgers:

 
Thanks! That's the first time I've come across that album. It has to be worth a listen, bearing in mind just how good the Live "Return of the Champions" DVD is with Queen + Paul Rodgers. Thumbs Up
 


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I never caught the Queen bug. My friends in school were all into them (and Kiss...yes, I'm old) but I was all about Yes, ELP and Pink Floyd back then.  

Still am.
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

I never caught the Queen bug. My friends in school were all into them (and Kiss...yes, I'm old) but I was all about Yes, ELP and Pink Floyd back then.  

Still am.
The only band I couldn't get into out of the five bands you mentioned were ELP. They'd lost me after the first album. It was the "Seven Seas of Rhye" that really got me hooked onto Queen.
 


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Queen II, closely followed by Hot Space. (yes really)

least favourites are The Cosmos Rocks and Jazz
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Originally posted by Cambus741 Cambus741 wrote:

Queen II, closely followed by Hot Space. (yes really)

least favourites are The Cosmos Rocks and Jazz

Well, at least you confessed to liking Queen's "Hot Space" album. The two PA members who voted for it apparently prefer to remain anonymous. Tongue
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A Nithe at the Opera > Queen II > Innuendo
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I am tempted to say A Night at the Opera, because it really is the culmination of all the great and interesting things Queen did leading up to that album, and they would never reach that height again. Death on Two Legs, '39, Bohemian Rhapsody, Good Company -- just brilliant. But sentimentally speaking, I'll have to go with the off-kilter and completely spastic Queen II, which is the album that I first fell in love with. Just on the strength of Ogre Battle and March of the Black Queen, there is a level of crazy there that really no other band comes close to.
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Skip the first few tracks and Hot Space actually isn't that bad as collected musical knowledge dictates.
A Kind Of Magic, a few singles aside was the weakest album for me until The Cosmos- Well you'll find out when you get to listen to it.
Although the film still gets shown on UK television, Flash is an amazing soundtrack album.
It dwarfs even Pink Floyd's two soundtrack albums! Maybe that's why I'm so down on A Kind Of Magic? It just doesn't seem as cinematic as the Flash soundtrack. Or anywhere near as fun!

EDIT: And I find The Works to be Queen's most underrated album. People only remember the massive singles instead of "Keep Passing The Open Windows".

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Well, for me is Queen II clear choice. Amazing album. Queen at their best (and this one could be called progressive album for sure!). In fact I love it for sooo long... and it remains as good as I've heard it 35 years before. Procession (great Brian May guitars orchestration), Father To Son or charming White Queen are on the white side of the LP and they all are superb, but when starts black side, then it's the real proper ride - from Ogre Battle to 2,5 minutes long progressive music heaven of The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, the short beautiful rest with Nevermore and at last the best song Queen ever did - The March Of The Black Queen. Funny How Love is there only to calm down before final Seven Seas Of Rhye (probably the first Queen big success).

Yes, I know  A Night At The Opera is their opus magnum (and yeah, it's really good), but for me Queen's peak is on Queen II. BTW even as I like Queen's 70's records the most, I have nothing against poor little Hot Space. In fact it was almost pure disco, but they could do it with success too. And as the years go by it is maybe even better it was in 1982. Comparing to some so called music done today I'm tempted to say it shines brightly :-)
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Sheer Heart Attack has always been my personal Queen favorite.  My second favorite is News of the World.  It's kind of sad to see NotW hasn't got any votes, but the reason I prefer those two is that I think they are the albums with the most variety on them, and that is always why I loved Queen's music so much, that is up to and including Jazz, and to a lesser extent, The Game.  After that, I lost interest because there was less variety on the albums.  That might seem like a strange reason to love a band, because they can write in so many different styles, and some people think that makes an album lose cohesiveness, but I was always amazed at Queen's ability to move so easily from one style to another.

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Queen used to be one of my absolute favorite bands, I guess they still are. Sheer Heart Attack is really good, so is News of the World. Very eclectic and just good albums. Voted for The Game though... Such a monster album in the early 80's and what got me into the band to start with.
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For me it is between Night at the Opera, and Innuendo.  I went with NatO 
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Sheer Heart Attack although Innuendo deserves a special mention and was a brilliant last 'Hurrah' for Freddie. Queen II is vastly overrated although I do love Seven Seas Of Rye.
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Sheer Heart Attack (1974) and Jazz 1978
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Sheer Heart Attack although Innuendo deserves a special mention and was a brilliant last 'Hurrah' for Freddie. Queen II is vastly overrated although I do love Seven Seas Of Rye.


Queen II overrated!!? Each to his own, I guess. If I had to pick one Queen album that was slightly overrated I would say Night at the Opera (but not by much!) and one underrated album would be News of the World.
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