Queen: Another Look

You can find prog moments in nearly every band out there if you look hard enough.. and sorry but I find a lot more prog moments in Radiohead's The Bends or Hail to the Thief.. than on any Queen album.  Queen were glam rock.. ans David Bowie was at one time.... seems pretty simple to me.  BTW.. I don't find Radiohead prog either....

Elements of prog... do not a prog band make.  Diluting the genre also isn't the politically correct thing to do... IMHO...

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Queen are not a progressive rock band.  They may have had some prog related moments.. but thats all there was.  For some reason here, we have the need to just make every band we like a prog band... that way it keeps are preferences all within a genre I guess... but claiming it to be does not make it so...

And I'll accept Radiohead eons ahead of Queen... thats just way off the mark.

Queen are a sort of unique case -- they've never done a "full-on" prog album, but almost always put several geniunely prog songs on every record.  Most of Queen II (esp. the black side), "Brighton Rock" off of Sheer Heart Attack, "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "The Prophet's Song" from A Night at the Opera, "The Millionnaire Waltz" off of A Day at the Races, "Mustafa" and "Bicycle Race" off of Jazz, "Princes of the Universe" off of A Kind of Magic, "Innuendo," "'Bijou," "Hitman" and "All God's People" off of Innuendo.  (I haven't listened to their debut album in years, but I remember at least "Jesus" as being pretty interesting).  So by the end of their 20-year career, they've made enough world-class prog to fill about 2 albums. 

Personally, I think the consistency of approach alone is enough to warrant their inclusion.

mmm, ok you're right. But since I have some difficulties considering art rock as a prog rock "sub genre" (see RUSH for example) I have some difficulties to consider Queen as a prog band, too.

porter wrote: Queen was definitely a POP BAND. But they did have elements of prog in their music. I just don't think of Bo Rap as an "ordinary" pop song, nor "Innuendo", nor many other songs in their catalog (I know Queen VERY WELL). Anyway, they' re not "straight prog".

I don't know what you mean by "straight prog". They are listed under Art Rock, which in itself is already implying that these bands are not as progressive as the Symphonic Prog Rock bands.

Dragon Phoenix wrote: Those opposed to Queen: what is your definition of Art Rock?

Rush

And why the f**k did you add greenday to a 10/10 song list?

Good reasoning:

I don't think Queen are prog, therefore they're not.

Deep.

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Now you`re talking.

Okay, I have done due my diligence and gone back and listened to just about every song on every album and I simply cannot come away thinking of Queen as progressive rock.  They are pop (and I mean pop) rock with a twist.  They are not a progressive rock band.   They were a great band but they are not progressive rock and they should be taken off this site.  IMO.