Difficult Queen Poll
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Topic: Difficult Queen Poll
Posted By: WaywardSon
Subject: Difficult Queen Poll
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 18:37
| From Queen´s debut up until Jazz, excluding Queen 2 and ANATO Sheer Heart Attack gets my vote. |
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 18:42
The debut album!  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: I|I|I|I|I
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 18:51
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Sheer Heart Attack... but I would have voted for Night at the Opera if it were up there.
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Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 23:06
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News of the World. No, it's not all prog, but so what? "It's Late" is one of my favorite Queen tracks ever.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 03:55
| the debut for me. 70s Queen is AMAZING anyway, all of them are great. IMHO. |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 05:05
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Queen's debut is amongst my fav Queen albums.
hard choice between that and ADATR, but any album with My Fairy King on it will always be special. ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 05:41
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Sheer Heart Attack.
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 08:52
| IMO, 'Sheer Heart Attack' is the best here. There was, however, a definite decline after 'Jazz'. It switched to disappointingly bland and non creative AOR. I blame the synths which they had vetoed up until then. All of these are quite good albums, otherwise. 'A Day At The Races' is a bit of a weaker clone of ANATO though. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 12:10
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I won't vote. I can't make up my mind between SHA and ADATR  ------------- |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: November 14 2006 at 16:16
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Killer Queen got me interested in Queen... and then there's Brighton Rock ... and Now I'm Here .... Sheer Heart Attack, although the debut is great and Queen II isn't boring at all. ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 15 2006 at 13:24
| I had to vote for Jazz since it didn't have any votes. A wonderful album. |
Posted By: yarstruly
Date Posted: November 16 2006 at 13:26
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Sheer Heart Attack out of those... ------------- Facebook hashtags: #100greatestprogrockchallenge #scottssongbysong #scottsspotlight |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 16 2006 at 14:55
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Sheer Heart Attack ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: November 17 2006 at 00:48
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I don't feel qualified to vote since I haven't heard enough of these, but I really love ADATR.  -------------  
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Posted By: Peter
Date 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!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 17 2006 at 12:22
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! ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: November 17 2006 at 12:47
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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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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: November 17 2006 at 14:29
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.
 ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 17 2006 at 14:55
Commercial isn't necessarily bad. Why does everyone use it as an insult? |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 07:18
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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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Kaztor
Date 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. |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: November 24 2006 at 19:32
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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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Posted By: toolis
Date 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... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: December 01 2006 at 21:20
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Sheer Heart Attack!! ------------- 
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Posted By: Howe Protege
Date 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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Posted By: Howe Protege
Date Posted: December 13 2006 at 14:52
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: December 21 2006 at 04:53
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Sheer heart attack, easily.
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Posted By: silversaw
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 02:06
| 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. |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 02:52
 ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: SilverEclipse
Date Posted: February 12 2008 at 13:50
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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. ------------- "and if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" |
Posted By: khammer99
Date 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. ------------- Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. - Terry Pratchett |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: February 14 2008 at 23:19
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Jazz, for the poster that comes with it.
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date 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! |