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Zargus 
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 Topic: Which is Queen’s best studio Album?
Posted: February 26 2008 at 08:19 |
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Queen II
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Draconis
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Posted: February 26 2008 at 02:46 |
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Any album that doesn't start with "The"! LOL. I went with News of the World. I may be partial to it because it was my first Queen album, but for a band with varied styles, this may be their most varied album. There's not a song here I dislike.
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Posted: July 18 2005 at 20:38 |
My favorites in order are:
Queen II
Night at the Opera
News of the World
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen I
The Game
Innuendo
Flash
The Works
Jazz
A Kind of Magic
Day at the Races
Then in No Particular Order (Made in Heaven, Miracle, Hot Space). I agree with whoever said that Queen II was a prog album. I also think that Night at the Opera is pretty proggy.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Posted: July 18 2005 at 16:07 |
 Empathy wrote:
Guests wrote:
Possessed wrote:
News Of The World is a strong album. |
again drop the tracks:
'We will rock you' & 'we are the champions'
you got a super album
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Keep those tracks, and it's still a brilliant album from beginning to end.
I personally don't understand why their early work doesn't qualify as
Prog. Their early compositions integrated classical elements just as
much as ELP, or Wakeman. 
I do agree that they went quite poppy in the 80's, but who didn't really? 
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Queen were prog in their first albums...they had so many changes during
their songs and were one of the few groups that played almost
everything from pop to prog rock with excellent results.
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Empathy
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Posted: July 18 2005 at 16:05 |
Guests wrote:
Possessed wrote:
News Of The World is a strong album. |
again drop the tracks:
'We will rock you' & 'we are the champions'
you got a super album
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Keep those tracks, and it's still a brilliant album from beginning to end.
I personally don't understand why their early work doesn't qualify as
Prog. Their early compositions integrated classical elements just as
much as ELP, or Wakeman.
I do agree that they went quite poppy in the 80's, but who didn't really?
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Hammill
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Posted: July 18 2005 at 15:37 |
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a day at the races, a night at the opera, sheer heart attack, queen1
and queen2 are just great....they are masterpieces and PROG 100%
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Posted: July 18 2005 at 12:36 |
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"A Night At The Opera" is definitely THE masterpiece by Queen. One of the most brilliant records in history, I think it's perfect, with the best progressive hard rock epic ever: A PROPHET'S SONG!
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Cygnus
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Posted: July 18 2005 at 04:32 |
THEY SHOULD BE IN THE ARCHIVES FOR SURE.
A GREAT PROG BAND FOR ME ALTHOUGH WITH A POP TOUCH.
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straystonedog
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 20:21 |
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I just wanted to say thankyou for taking the time to vote, and i apologise for missing the first Queen album. I thought i added it to the list. Anyway thank you
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John Gargo
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 14:01 |
I'm a bit partial to Jazz, but truthfully I love all of their albums.
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Kotro
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 10:14 |
Swinton MCR wrote:
Never really thought of Queen as prog - Then again I've not listened to them because I thought they were POP ! - I liked killer queen/bohemian rhapsody as a nipper...what is their 20 minute epic ??? (which album) |
Made in Heaven contains a 22:32 min. track that could make bands like G!YBE and Sygur Ros weap.
Also, it contains "You don't fool me", one of my favorite Brian's solos.
As for an album, the first 4 are awsome. I mean, getting those sounds without the aid of synthetizers....
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 09:16 |
In the spirit of this thread I rescue from the chest of oblivion my own copy of Jazz, and I must say that it has aged well. Even the song Bicycle race, the weackier in my memory, has interesting changes of tempo, operatic arrengements and nice cycle bells...
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Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 08:08 |
Possessed wrote:
News Of The World is a strong album. |
Strongly disagree!!!
Jazz is their last classic album , IMHO. Queen II is the only one I rebought in CD format!
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Jools
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Posted: April 23 2005 at 06:44 |
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I like at least something from all of them but I always said in a car you always need a jack, a spare tyre, a torch, a shovel and Queens Greatest Hits (1).
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Ridicule is the burden of genius.
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Posted: April 22 2005 at 18:46 |
Possessed wrote:
News Of The World is a strong album. |
again drop the tracks:
'We will rock you' & 'we are the champions'
you got a super album
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Possessed
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Posted: April 22 2005 at 18:40 |
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News Of The World is a strong album.
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Posted: April 22 2005 at 18:36 |
Definatly 'Queen 11'.
'Queen' debut & 'Sheer heart attack' are extremely good too.
If 'A Night at the opera' didn't have the well over exposed ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' on it,i'd rate the album equally as good.
Edited by Karnevil9
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Posted: April 22 2005 at 14:58 |
Blacksword wrote:
With regard to Clapton and Knopfler, I think Knopfler has a brilliant sound and a good finger picking technique, but for me his music is generally dull as ditch water, and Clapton as a songwriter in overated to say the least. IMO. |
Well, I wasn't talk about their compositions skills but their playing abilities. IMO, those two guys are great great guitar players. And kinda like their music (well, Clapton first years, Cream et allia, after that his music becomes unpleasant, for me).
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Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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yarstruly
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Posted: April 22 2005 at 13:42 |
Hmm....
Night At the Opera
followed by
Sheer Heart Attack
A Day At The Races
The Game
News of the World
Jazz
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Paradox
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Posted: April 22 2005 at 10:05 |
Queen 1 deffinently. Their most raw sounding recording, hits the right spot.
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