| littlebry84 14.04.2011 01:06 |
Sorry if this has been done to death, haven't been on in a while. I was making an itunes playlist of best queen ballads. I wanted to share it with everyone to see what they thought of it. here are the songs (not in order) You Take My Breath Away Somebody To Love Save Me Las Palabras De Amor The Show Must Go On These Are The Days Of Our Lives Jealousy One Year Of Love Who Wants To Live Forever Mother Love Too Much Love Will Kill You My Melancholy Blues Love Of My Life White Queen Lily Of The Valley It's A Hard Life Is This The World We Created total time is 1.1 hours. any songs that should be included that aren't or vice versa? |
| maxpower 14.04.2011 03:48 |
The Show Must Go On is not a ballad in my opinion |
| paulosham 14.04.2011 03:57 |
How long is .1 of an hour? Oh wait... it's 6 minutes. So 1 hour 6 minutes then. Hmmmm? |
| littlebry84 14.04.2011 04:42 |
why wouldn't you consider the show must go on a ballad? and yes 1.1 minutes according to my playlist on itunes. If you've ever burned a cd you would know you can put 80 minutes of music on it or approx. 1.2 hours worth |
| qrock 14.04.2011 06:40 |
littlebry84 wrote: Sorry if this has been done to death, haven't been on in a while. I was making an itunes playlist of best queen ballads. I wanted to share it with everyone to see what they thought of it. here are the songs (not in order) You Take My Breath Away Somebody To Love Save Me Las Palabras De Amor The Show Must Go On These Are The Days Of Our Lives Jealousy One Year Of Love Who Wants To Live Forever Mother Love Too Much Love Will Kill You My Melancholy Blues Love Of My Life White Queen Lily Of The Valley It's A Hard Life Is This The World We Created total time is 1.1 hours. any songs that should be included that aren't or vice versa? My Queen ballad CD would be: Las Palabras de Amor Save Me Somebody to Love You Take My Breath Away Mother Love White Queen Lily of the Valley Nevermore (Extended) It's a Hard Life Dear Friends My Life has Been Saved Too Much Love Will Kill You One Year of Love Life is Real Who Wants to Live Forever These are the Days of Our Lives Jealousy The Show Must Go On Love of My Life Is this the World we Created? |
| kruh 14.04.2011 06:51 |
In my opinion 4. songs do not belong here. These are Somebody to love, The Show must go on, My Melancoly blues and It is a hard life. Instead i would give Execution of Flash and The Kiss together like on Flash Gordon album. Then Nevermore from Queen II, Dear friands, All death All death and Sail away sweet sister. And live version of White queen from Hammersmith. |
| Silken 14.04.2011 08:14 |
Somebody To Love and The Show Must Go On are not ballads, in my opinion. I would add Nevermore, Dear Friends, Don't Try So Hard, Bijou, The Kiss and A Winter's Tale. |
| br5946 14.04.2011 17:17 |
Very interesting topic. My ballad collection would be something along the lines of: 1. Teo Torriatte (though an edit fading out at 4:40, cutting the Shepard tone. Nothing against it, it's just not 'ballad-y') 2. It's A Beautiful Day 3. Love of My Life 4. Face It Alone(!) - a weird choice, I know. Being a sucker for rareties, I'll include it. A trimmed 2:04 version, though. 5. Play the Game 6. It's A Hard Life 7. My Life Has Been Saved 8. Las Palabras de Amor 9. Friends Will Be Friends 10. TMLWKY (MiH version, not Brian's, or the 1989 Freddie demo for Queen) 11. Lost Opportunity 12. Doin' Alright (Queen version) 12. A Winter's Tale 13. ItLoG...Revisited 14. No-One But You [[And as an exclusive limited edition track]] 15. Polar Bear (Smile version) |
| paulosham 14.04.2011 18:55 |
kruh wrote: In my opinion 4. songs do not belong here. These are Somebody to love, The Show must go on, My Melancoly blues and It is a hard life. Instead i would give Execution of Flash and The Kiss together like on Flash Gordon album. Then Nevermore from Queen II, Dear friands, All death All death and Sail away sweet sister. And live version of White queen from Hammersmith. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All death All death is my favourite and it's only 3.166666667 minutes long |
| Pingfah 15.04.2011 08:33 |
I enjoy all of Queen's ballads, but I would not want to listen to them all in a row. |
| littlebry84 15.04.2011 09:33 |
Well who really knows what defines a ballad anyway. I was looking at the tracklisting for Aerosmith's ballad cd and it has "Love In An Elevator" and "Rag Doll" on it, which are obviously not ballads. Well to each his own I guess. Anyhow, I think an entire cd of ballads can be perfect for a melancholy (pun intended) day. But then I'd have to turn on something like Tear It Up or something just to get the blood pumping |
| ole-the-first 15.04.2011 11:44 |
This is the list of Queen ballads (IMHO): The Night Comes Down White Queen (As It Began)* Some Day One Day Nevermore* Lily of the Valley* Dear Friends She Makes Me (Stormtroopers in Stilettos) You're My Best Friend* Love of My Life* You Take My Breath Away* You and I* Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)* All Dead, All Dead Spread Your Wings* My Melancholy Blues Jealousy* In Only Seven Days Leaving Home Ain't Easy Play the Game Sail Away Sweet Sister (To the Sister I Never Had)* Save Me* Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)* Soul Brother Is This the World We Created...? One Year of Love* Friends Will Be Friends Who Wants to Live Forever* My Baby Does Me Don't Try So Hard These Are the Days of Our Lives* Bijou Mother Love Too Much Love Will Kill You* A Winter's Tale* I have noted the best of them with the 'star' symbol. It should be enough for one good compilation CD. |
| master marathon runner 15.04.2011 12:39 |
Pingfah wrote: I enjoy all of Queen's ballads, but I would not want to listen to them all in a row. Oh i disagree, i've had a 'quiet queen ' tape in my car for years, which has all the essential and definite ballads only. It is quite relaxing for driving, or should i say suited to driving. . . Master Marathon Runner |
| mike hunt 15.04.2011 13:56 |
ole-the-first wrote: This is the list of Queen ballads (IMHO): The Night Comes Down White Queen (As It Began)* Some Day One Day Nevermore* Lily of the Valley* Dear Friends She Makes Me (Stormtroopers in Stilettos) You're My Best Friend* Love of My Life* You Take My Breath Away* You and I* Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)* All Dead, All Dead Spread Your Wings* My Melancholy Blues Jealousy* In Only Seven Days Leaving Home Ain't Easy Play the Game Sail Away Sweet Sister (To the Sister I Never Had)* Save Me* Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)* Soul Brother Is This the World We Created...? One Year of Love* Friends Will Be Friends Who Wants to Live Forever* My Baby Does Me Don't Try So Hard These Are the Days of Our Lives* Bijou Mother Love Too Much Love Will Kill You* A Winter's Tale* I have noted the best of them with the 'star' symbol. It should be enough for one good compilation CD. that's a proper Ballads list....The Show must go on and Somebody To Love are not ballads. No but you ( only the good die young) could be added as well. Of course we're all gonna disagree on what the best ballads are....IMO My Melancholy Bues is one of the best. play the game is also one of my favorites....spread your wings is a borderline ballad i think. |
| The Fairy King 17.04.2011 04:08 |
borderline ballad? lol :') The Show Must Go On, Champions and TMLWKY(Queen version) are power ballads. |
| ole-the-first 17.04.2011 04:57 |
The Show Must Go On isn't a ballad, this is sympho/prog-rocker. WATC, as well as In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited, is a ballad, but they're much more like arena rock. I don't think so bombastic arena rockers would work well on a ballads CD. |
| pittrek 17.04.2011 05:39 |
In The Lap Of The Gods Death On Two Legs The Night Comes Down It's A Hard Life (extended version) Innuendo Who Wants To Live Forever (Highlander version) Too Much Love Will Kill You Heaven For Everyone White Queen (BBC version) The March Of The Black Queen (Deep Cuts version) Nevermore (BBC version) Spread Your Wings (BBC version) Sail Away Sweet Sister The Prophet's Song White Man Love Of My Life (Live At Rio) Somebody To Love (Live at Milton Keynes) Bohemian Rhapsody Teo Torriatte (HD remix) In The Lap Of The Gods ...revisited no idea how long would it be |
| br5946 17.04.2011 13:26 |
pittrek - Good choices, but you seem to be blurring the lines. I spot some stuff that I (and I'm sure quite a few others would do this too) put in the 'symphonic-proggish-power ballad' category, such as Heaven for Everyone, Innuendo and Bo Rhap. And Death on Two Legs as a ballad? With respect, truthfully I think that's hard rock, if not heavy metal, far from a ballad! Same decision, if not with more emphasis on the 'heavy metal' aspect, when it comes to White Man! I think Bo Rhap and It's A Hard Life get their own category (apart from being ultra-Queen classics until the end of time!!!) as 'rock-opera'. And what's with the HD remix of Teo Torriatte? Granted, I put that song in my ballad list, but why not use the 1976 originial, not the 2011 remix? Surely 'high-def' in musical terms doesn't mean much difference? And with MOTBQ Deep Cuts... is that version some kind of weird standalone edit? Just asking. |
| mooghead 17.04.2011 14:41 |
It seems for the purposes of this thread a ballad is a slow/love/sentimental song but looking at the definition on wikipedia its just about undefinable and can mean anything so.... nothing to add really... |
| paulosham 18.04.2011 02:31 |
mooghead wrote: It seems for the purposes of this thread a ballad is a slow/love/sentimental song but looking at the definition on wikipedia its just about undefinable and can mean anything so.... nothing to add really... ------------------------------------------------------------------- So with that being the case then my favourite ballad is Fun It. Which is 3.4833333343 minutes long. |
| mahlers.com 19.04.2011 08:34 |
Doing Alright My Fairy King The Night Comes Down White Queen (As It Began) Some Day One Day Nevermore Lily Of The Valley Dear Friends '39 Love Of My Life You Take My Breath Away The Millionaire Waltz Drowse Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together) All Dead All Dead Spread Your Wings My Melancholy Blues Jealousy Leaving Home Ain't Easy Sail Away Sweet Sister Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love) It's A Hard Life Is This The World We Created....? One Year Of Love Who Wants To Live Forever Don't Try So Hard These Are The Days Of Our Lives The Show Must Go On Mother Love My Life Has Been Saved A Winter's Tale |
| ronwoodh 19.04.2011 17:33 |
All brilliant songs, but I'd include :- Millionaire Waltz (ADATR) Who Needs You (NOTW) Love Of My Life (Live Killers) '39' (ANATO) There Must Be More To Life Than This (Mr Bad Guy) Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow (Mr Bad Guy) |