Early Queen

crimson thing wrote: (edit comment): I feel there's a good 2006 album there somewhere, with the best bits from Q, Q2, Sheer, Opera, Races & NotW....

That's a very good idea for a compilation!

Hmmm..... I think "A Night At The Opera" for me .

A Night at the Opera was the first album I ever bought (on cassette) - as opposed to copying from friends, or the radio  - so I still have a soft spot for it. I always liked the first 2 (Q & Q2) albums, although they both had a mixture of the very good & the twee...........that pattern continued, I think, with Races & NotW - then they got much worse!

Edited by crimson thing - June 21 2006 at 13:50

My favourite out of those is Sheer Heart Attack. I'm also into A Day at the Races and News of the World at the moment.

I already thought so but more in the way that it's known that I am an ardent keyboard aficionado  ..!

In the Seventies Freddie Mercury made the statement that Queen would never use synthesizers .. this turned out to be a false promise in The Eighties!

Winter Wine, what do you want to drink from me  .. (rhetorical question) ..!

I grew up with early Queen: in the early Seventies I listened to Radio Caroline and Radio Northsea International, lying in bed with my pocket radio, suddenly I heard Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive and Killer Queen, unforgettable art-rock! Their eponymous first album is still my favorite one: it rocks, the tension between the electric guitar and the piano, the great vocals, the wonderful arrangements ... SUPERB !

Blacksword wrote: Winter Wine wrote: Mongo wrote: They're all great, Queen II just edges our the rest. These 5 are the only essential Queen albums. I beg to differ, 'News of the World' has some of their finest songs. The amount of different styles on that album is shockin'. 'The Works' is a very good album too, Best album they had in the 80s. And of course 'Innuendo' is fantastic. Ha! I knew there was someone out there who liked The Works!! I'd agree that was there best 80's album. When it came out it was the album that inspired me to check out their earlier work. As for their early albums, My vote goes to Queen II. 'White Qeen: As it began' and 'March of the Black Queen' are two of their greatest songs IMO.

I think 'The Works' is a very good album, It has some excellent songs, (Don't mock me) 'Radio Ga Ga' (When I seen Queen with Paul Rodgers a while back this was an absolute stormer), 'Keep Passing the Open Windows', 'Hammer to Fall', 'Is This the World We Created?' and one song that's more of a wacky sci-fi experiment but has some very interesting vocals 'Machines (Or Back to Humans)'

Winter Wine wrote: Another album I love by Queen is 'News of the World', What an album

Agreed - One of my favorite Queen albums, and certainly not because of We Will Rock You or We Are the Champions.