louvox 12.07.2007 16:27 |
I came across a list that listed the worst songs by Queen. To my amazement “All dead, all dead” was number one. I totally disagree, although not one their greatest it is certainly not one of their worst. Below are what I feel are far worse and down right terrible songs by Queen. She makes me (A long boring song that goes nowhere) More of that jazz (A ridiculous song that sums up their most unfocused album) Body language (In any language this a horrible song. Its’ hard to believe the same person who gave us “Bo Rap” gave this disaster) Cool cat (A dead cat would have sounded better. It’s little wonder why David Bowie asked to have is vocal removed from this piece of shit) It’s a hard life (There is nothing worse than when an artist rips them self off. “Play the game” reworked) Man on the prowl (I stand corrected. There nothing worse that when an artist rips them self off twice! “Crazy little thing” reworked) Machines or back to humans (How about going back to being Queen? It sounds as though some machine came up with this mess) One year of love (Michael Bolton would be proud of this piece of muzak) Pain is so close to pleasure (Same shit, different dog) Rain must fall (Boy George must have been smiling from ear to rear when he heard this. I stand corrected again. Nothing worse than when artist rips of Culture Club) My baby does me (Yuck! Nobody’s baby would do anybody after hearing this tripe.) Delilah (This song is just plain embarrassing on an otherwise great album) You don’t fool me (Neither does this song. You’d think by now they would have realized “disco” sucks!!! Lost opportunity (A boring blues song that goes nowhere. Wait didn’t Brian already write one of these back in 1974?) |
Adam Baboolal 12.07.2007 17:02 |
I never understand why Hard Life is anything like Play The Game. If anything, Hard Life is more like a slightly mini borhap ballad-y section. Also, YDFM may not be to your taste but at the time of its release it was a BIG club hit. And while it's a bare bones song, it has that awesome solo from Brian in it! There are other songs in that list which I think have plenty merit, but then, there's no point going over this. I guess some people love something like Body Language (not me) and some hate it. Same with the other songs on this...list. Adam. |
vinny2256_ 12.07.2007 17:34 |
louvox wrote: My baby does me (Yuck! Nobody’s baby would do anybody after hearing this tripe.)That was funny. |
louvox 12.07.2007 17:56 |
Adam Baboolal wrote: I never understand why Hard Life is anything like Play The Game. If anything, Hard Life is more like a slightly mini borhap ballad-y section. Also, YDFM may not be to your taste but at the time of its release it was a BIG club hit. And while it's a bare bones song, it has that awesome solo from Brian in it! There are other songs in that list which I think have plenty merit, but then, there's no point going over this. I guess some people love something like Body Language (not me) and some hate it. Same with the other songs on this...list. Adam.This list is not meant to put anybody's taste down. What ever floats your boat, more power to you. "It's hard life" sounds very simular to "Play the game" The chorus is almost an exact match melody wise. Just because a song is a "big hit" either on the charts or club scene doesn't make it a good song. |
Sebastian 12.07.2007 18:02 |
I hadn't noticed the similarity, but indeed, it's there: "it's so ea-SY" and "it's a hard LIFE". You DO learn new things everyday. But I still agree with Adam, 'Hard Life' is more 'Rhapsody-esque' than anything else. |
Wiley 12.07.2007 19:38 |
The comment on both choruses' melodies was brought up ages ago in this forum and somebody mentioned something about there only being 12 notes or something like that. Either way, I like both tracks. I love the crescendo in the piano interlude just before the guitar bit on It's a Hard Life. And then the solo. Any other pop band would have gone back to the chorus after that guitar bit. I think that instrumental bit is the closest that 80's Queen got to 70's Queen in terms of greatness. |
Josh Henson 12.07.2007 21:38 |
Never thought that Hard Life reminded me of Play The Game. I actually like both. I would have to say the worst were in my opinion: 1 Delilah 2 My Baby Does Me 3 Cool Cat 4 Body Language 5 Pain Is So Close to Pleasure Alot of Mercury there, eh? Amazing that the writer of Black Queen, Killer Queen, Bo Rhap, Innuendo, etc could write this crap. |
DavidRFuller 12.07.2007 22:34 |
I wonder how many Queen fans would think differently of Body Language if the lyrics were different? |
pittrek 13.07.2007 01:52 |
DavidRFuller wrote: I wonder how many Queen fans would think differently of Body Language if the lyrics were different?I hated this song long before I could speak english. It's terribly bad, just the live versions are listenable. |
Lester Burnham 13.07.2007 01:57 |
Hadrian wrote: Never thought that Hard Life reminded me of Play The Game. I actually like both. I would have to say the worst were in my opinion: 1 Delilah 2 My Baby Does Me 3 Cool Cat 4 Body Language 5 Pain Is So Close to Pleasure Alot of Mercury there, eh? Amazing that the writer of Black Queen, Killer Queen, Bo Rhap, Innuendo, etc could write this crap.Where the hell is 'Party'?!?!?! |
Sport_billy 13.07.2007 05:40 |
My top 5 worst would certainly feature in no particular order 1:Body Language - Pants 2:Don't try suicide - This has to be one of the WORST songs ever, it makes me wonder what songs were discarded to put this piece of cak on the album. 3:Hitman -Its just heavy for the sake of it, I find it embarrassing to listen to 4:Machines (back to humans) 5:Man on the prowl - Freddie at his worst |
pittrek 13.07.2007 06:19 |
My top 5 (or maybe 10 ??? ): 1. Body Language / Under Pressure 2. Pain Is So Close To Pleasure / Party 3. Delilah / Jesus 4. I'm Going Slightly Mad / A Winter's Tale 5. Cool Cat / A Beautifull Day |
MyRotation 13.07.2007 10:27 |
DavidRFuller wrote: I wonder how many Queen fans would think differently of Body Language if the lyrics were different? I hated this song long before I could speak english. It's terribly bad, just the live versions are listenable. Body Languae is a dump song, exept the finger-snapping part (or whatever), which saves the song from being the worst Queen song. I truly hate the follows: Get Down, Make Love The Hitman Headlong Life Is Real They are not annoying or horrible, just boring. |
Raf 13.07.2007 11:35 |
I also see Hard Life as something more like BoRhap than Play The Game. It's also a lot better than Play The Game, in my opinion. I love it, but I don't care much about Play The Game (except for good live versions, maybe). |
louvox 13.07.2007 11:45 |
ThomasQu?nn wrote:It's natural to defend something you like. I don't know why most on this site want to make things personal. If that's where you want to take this, fine. Your entitled to your opinion, but I don't have bad taste in music as much as you bad grammar and writing skills.louvox wrote: I came across a list that listed the worst songs by Queen. To my amazement “All dead, all dead” was number one. I totally disagree, although not one their greatest it is certainly not one of their worst. Below are what I feel are far worse and down right terrible songs by Queen. She makes me (A long boring song that goes nowhere) More of that jazz (A ridiculous song that sums up their most unfocused album) Body language (In any language this a horrible song. Its’ hard to believe the same person who gave us “Bo Rap” gave this disaster) Cool cat (A dead cat would have sounded better. It’s little wonder why David Bowie asked to have is vocal removed from this piece of shit) It’s a hard life (There is nothing worse than when an artist rips them self off. “Play the game” reworked) Man on the prowl (I stand corrected. There nothing worse that when an artist rips them self off twice! “Crazy little thing” reworked) Machines or back to humans (How about going back to being Queen? It sounds as though some machine came up with this mess) One year of love (Michael Bolton would be proud of this piece of muzak) Pain is so close to pleasure (Same shit, different dog) Rain must fall (Boy George must have been smiling from ear to rear when he heard this. I stand corrected again. Nothing worse than when artist rips of Culture Club) My baby does me (Yuck! Nobody’s baby would do anybody after hearing this tripe.) Delilah (This song is just plain embarrassing on an otherwise great album) You don’t fool me (Neither does this song. You’d think by now they would have realized “disco” sucks!!! Lost opportunity (A boring blues song that goes nowhere. Wait didn’t Brian already write one of these back in 1974?)I agree with you on all dead all dead - its a good song with strong piano on it. However some of your choices are really really bad - it's a hard life sounds like play the game??No! Sounds like Bo Rap, even brian said that. Man on the prowl - listen to it aroun the 1.30 -2 min mark, its actually quite good. Cool cat is really a good song if u listen to it Rain must fall and My baby does me are 2 of my fav songs on the Miracle! How cud you be so wrong You don’t fool me - class Delilah - even better I really thing u got bad taste in music... |
Erin 13.07.2007 12:22 |
I love Man On The Prowl..especially the extended version. :-P |
The King Of Rhye 13.07.2007 12:42 |
I dont even see HOW Machines can be on anyones list of 'worst Queen songs'.........I love that song (especially the instrumental version) |
john bodega 13.07.2007 14:15 |
"I never understand why Hard Life is anything like Play The Game. If anything, Hard Life is more like a slightly mini borhap ballad-y section." THANKYOU!! Someone sees sense!! Did I not say this in another thread the other day and get shot down for it?? People usually liken the two songs simply because, in the chorus, it sounds similar to "This is yoooooour life" when he says "It's a haaaaaaard life". All Dead, All Dead is a great song. That guitar orchestration is probably the most amazing thing I'd heard up till that point ( and there's not been much competition since ). |
Donna13 13.07.2007 14:32 |
I like All Dead, All Dead. It sounds very "Brian" to me. It should not be on the list of bad songs! |
little.queenie 37630 13.07.2007 16:00 |
louvox wrote: Delilah (This song is just plain embarrassing on an otherwise great album)Why Does no-one like this song???? I think its ever so sweet and simple, and the Brian's giutar solo is ingenious,meowling like a cat!! |
louvox 13.07.2007 17:15 |
little.queenie wrote:If you like that song, then I applaud you. For me, I just find that song silly & embarrassing. When Freddie “meows” on that he sounds ridiculous.louvox wrote: Delilah (This song is just plain embarrassing on an otherwise great album)Why Does no-one like this song???? I think its ever so sweet and simple, and the Brian's giutar solo is ingenious,meowling like a cat!! It is completely out of place on an otherwise fine album. It should have been a b-side. |
FreddiesGhettoTrench 13.07.2007 18:45 |
louvox wrote: It’s a hard life (There is nothing worse than when an artist rips them self off. “Play the game” reworked)I don't know many of the other songs on the list, but I have to defend my song here!!! I LOVE It's a Hard Life. Although I like Play the Game a good deal as well, I think IAHL is even better. Great piano work, great vocal, love the lyrics, beautiful song! Not bad at all IMHO! |
The King Of Rhye 14.07.2007 00:20 |
about the alleged (or not) resemblance of It's a Hard Life and BoRhap..........arent they even both in the same key??.......or at least the same key as the ballad section of BoRhap.......hell tho, I love both songs....it brings to mind the old story about John Fogerty getting sued for plagiarizing himself......well of course youre going to sound like yourself, right???? |
Jay Mantis 14.07.2007 04:16 |
louvox wrote: It’s a hard life (There is nothing worse than when an artist rips them self off. “Play the game” reworked) One year of love (Michael Bolton would be proud of this piece of muzak) You don’t fool me (Neither does this song. You’d think by now they would have realized “disco” sucks!!!Nothing wrong with these songs, just my opinion of course. |
August R. 14.07.2007 10:38 |
louvox wrote: Machines or back to humans (How about going back to being Queen? It sounds as though some machine came up with this mess)Many fans seem to hate this song, and I really can't understand why. It's one of my favourites from their 80's efforts. And I think, it also reflects very well the situation where Queen were at the time of recording the Works. The machines were taking over in the music business, and Queen were losing their rock roots (remember Hot Space?). I'm not saying that's what this song is all about but you can read it that way, as well. It's a great battle between machines and rock music, IMO. Love the song! Plus, it's one of the rare May/Taylor collaborations. Only the two sci-fi geeks can come up with lyrics like that :D |
Cedric6014 16.07.2007 04:54 |
Collectively you guys have done an excellent job of collecting Queen's worst songs. Except I am quite fond of Headlong and It's a Hard life. My bottom 20 are (does not include MIH or Flash): Scandal Teo Torriate Pain Is So Close To Pleasure Don’t Try So Hard Dreamer's Ball Las Palabras Del Amor Body Language Who Needs You Man on the Prowl Machines Jealousy Melancholy Blues One Year of Love My Baby Does Me Rain Must Fall Life Is Real Back Chat Dancer Cool Cat Don’t Try Suicide |
FreddiesGhettoTrench 16.07.2007 07:32 |
Yeah, I have to agree on One Year of Love. Though I wouldn't say it's a bad SONG so much as just incredibly dull. Sorry, Deaky. Body Language has a certain charm to me. Obviously it's not a good song, but I do find it amusing. Back when I first really got into Queen (at nine) and heard that song, I was just like "what the hell?". Since I had GH on tape, I got very use to the sound of the end of Seven Seas of Rhye, then fastforwardfastforwardfastforward beginning of Save Me. :P LOL Worst Queen song? Damn, it's hard to say, because with my personality I'll probably get into that song tomorrow. Body Language IS pretty bad. Hmmm... I do, on the other hand, like Delilah. Sure, it's cutesy and sappy, but I think Freddie can do cutesy and sappy right :) |
Cedric6014 16.07.2007 16:13 |
As for It's a Hard Life being a rip off Play or the Game or Bo Rhap, I never saw that. I think of them as being compltely different songs - all likeable. I find the songs on Made In Heaven to bear more simlarity with one another, which is why I never got round to adding them to my super list. And Man on the Prowl, I don;t think thats a rip-off of CLTCL, its definitely sung in that same Elvis style, but that would be like saying all Elvis's songs are the same. |
mike hunt 17.07.2007 00:05 |
It's a hard life is a great song, one of their all time best. It's also one of brian's favorites. |
Cedric6014 17.07.2007 01:18 |
I can't think of a band LESS guilty of ripping itself off than Queen. The diversity in their catalogue is unparalelled surely. Name any other band and I'm sire you can think of songs of theirs which sound influenced by their own. It's A Hard Life shared a similar chorus melody to Play the Game but so what? 3 or 4 words! "it's yoouuuuur life" "its a haaaaard life" meh! That's it! |
mike hunt 17.07.2007 01:48 |
Cedric6014 wrote: I can't think of a band LESS guilty of ripping itself off than Queen. The diversity in their catalogue is unparalelled surely. Name any other band and I'm sire you can think of songs of theirs which sound influenced by their own. It's A Hard Life shared a similar chorus melody to Play the Game but so what? 3 or 4 words! "it's yoouuuuur life" "its a haaaaard life" meh! That's it!Even their own fans tend to underate them. Some fans say "the works" was playing it safe, but let's look at the different styles. Radio ga ga was pop/diso. Tear it up was hard rock. It's a Hard life was operatic Rock, Man on the prowl was rock n roll. Four different styles to start the album. How many bands can do that?....Rush?...Iron maiden?...judas priest?...I don't think so. |
Asterik 25.07.2007 06:21 |
I'm not sure if louvox, given his inherent prejudice towards anything with a beat, is the correct person to judge here. Five bad ones stand out for me; Don't Try Suicide- Awful nonsense, tuneless, directionless. Prime Jive- Terrible new wave synths and guitar. It's far too dry. She Makes Me- It goes nowhere, it drones on and on. Long Away- weak, boring folk-rock. Don't Lose Your Head- This is bad eighties music. Queen rose above msot of it but not here. To call IHL and MOTP bad songs is not a sound argument. From the mere fact that they vaguely remind him of other songs, Louvox is reaching the inductive conclusion that they are poor. I somehow don't think that reasoning is very convincing. As a final thought, it's very interesting that most of the songs he doesn't like come from the era when Queen no longer toured America. Just a mischevious little thought there hehe. |
The Real Wizard 25.07.2007 11:39 |
mike hunt wrote: Some fans say "the works" was playing it safe, but let's look at the different styles. Radio ga ga was pop/diso. Tear it up was hard rock. It's a Hard life was operatic Rock, Man on the prowl was rock n roll. Four different styles to start the album. How many bands can do that?....Rush?...Iron maiden?...judas priest?...I don't think so.Right, but if that's a negative thing, then you're going by the assumption that stylistic diversity is what automatically makes one artist better than another. But for the record, in the 80s, Rush tried out plenty of styles of music - just not as obviously as Queen did. But if we're rating artists by how many musical styles they've tried, then we definitely need to bring Neil Young into the discussion. |
louvox 25.07.2007 14:31 |
Asterik wrote: I'm not sure if louvox, given his inherent prejudice towards anything with a beat, is the correct person to judge here. Five bad ones stand out for me; Don't Try Suicide- Awful nonsense, tuneless, directionless. Prime Jive- Terrible new wave synths and guitar. It's far too dry. She Makes Me- It goes nowhere, it drones on and on. Long Away- weak, boring folk-rock. Don't Lose Your Head- This is bad eighties music. Queen rose above msot of it but not here. To call IHL and MOTP bad songs is not a sound argument. From the mere fact that they vaguely remind him of other songs, Louvox is reaching the inductive conclusion that they are poor. I somehow don't think that reasoning is very convincing. As a final thought, it's very interesting that most of the songs he doesn't like come from the era when Queen no longer toured America. Just a mischevious little thought there hehe.I have no inherit prejudice against anything or anyone. Including music with a “beat”. My argument is a sound one for calling some of those songs weak or inferior because they are very reminiscent of pervious songs. Not just vaguely. Queen said many times in various interviews that they don’t repeat them selves. Not true, case in point. They are not the only artists that have done this sort of thing. (The Beatles & Led Zeppelin) are also guilty of this. People like you always seem to use the argument that the reason some fans don’t like the later songs is because Queen was not touring in the US anymore or because of the “I want to break free” video, Rubbish! I don’t like them because they are crapy songs. That simple. If you enjoy them, more power to you. I am not saying that I have a better taste than you or anyone else. Queen song quality in the 80’s in general was very sub-par at best. |
Cedric6014 26.07.2007 02:21 |
louvox wrote:That's a bit silly. Little Richard's songs all sound the same and yet he's quite likeable. You're on your own here louvox. Every single band in the universe writes songs that sound like other songs of their's. That's the deal when you have your own "sound". Why on earth would you single Queen out for special attention when they are the LEAST 'guilty' of this. And why on earth would you even suggest it's a bad thing? And why on earth would you suggest PTG and IAHL are the same song - sheesh!Asterik wrote: I'm not sure if louvox, given his inherent prejudice towards anything with a beat, is the correct person to judge here. Five bad ones stand out for me; Don't Try Suicide- Awful nonsense, tuneless, directionless. Prime Jive- Terrible new wave synths and guitar. It's far too dry. She Makes Me- It goes nowhere, it drones on and on. Long Away- weak, boring folk-rock. Don't Lose Your Head- This is bad eighties music. Queen rose above msot of it but not here. To call IHL and MOTP bad songs is not a sound argument. From the mere fact that they vaguely remind him of other songs, Louvox is reaching the inductive conclusion that they are poor. I somehow don't think that reasoning is very convincing. As a final thought, it's very interesting that most of the songs he doesn't like come from the era when Queen no longer toured America. Just a mischevious little thought there hehe.I have no inherit prejudice against anything or anyone. Including music with a “beat”. My argument is a sound one for calling some of those songs weak or inferior because they are very reminiscent of pervious songs. Not just vaguely. Queen said many times in various interviews that they don’t repeat them selves. Not true, case in point. They are not the only artists that have done this sort of thing. (The Beatles & Led Zeppelin) are also guilty of this. People like you always seem to use the argument that the reason some fans don’t like the later songs is because Queen was not touring in the US anymore or because of the “I want to break free” video, Rubbish! I don’t like them because they are crapy songs. That simple. If you enjoy them, more power to you. I am not saying that I have a better taste than you or anyone else. Queen song quality in the 80’s in general was very sub-par at best. If you must pick more holes in queen (which it seems you like to do) can you at least focus on Hot Space. (which, incidentally is the most diverse of the lot - but still an abomination). |