Carrying on from post from other day about tracks that should have been singles etc, i thought id put together my own Alternative Hits Album.
1. Liar
2. White Queen
3. Its Late
4. Death on two legs.
5. Im in love with my car
6. Need your loving tonight
7. Tenement funster
8. Flick of the wrist
9. Love of my life
10. 39
11. Dragon attack
12. Tie your mother down
13. Teo torriate
All the above are on this album(can you tell me the connections)
And btw Ride the wild wind should defo have been a single.
Well firstly, Liar, It's Late and Need Your Loving Tonight WERE singles - in the States, at least, NYLT being released in lieu of Flash. I believe '39 would have made an excellent single - Brian wishes the song has a bigger rep, and so do I! Flick of the Wrist was a double A-side with Killer Queen... so technically it got to #2, and as for your after-note of Ride the Wild Wind, it WAS released as a single in either Poland or Austria (I THINK Poland) and hit the top spot. Love of My Life, incidentally, is probably (tied with Stone Cold Crazy for joint position here) the most famous Queen album track, because most people don't tend to count the Live Killers renedition being released as a single - it did get the lowest rank for any Queen single ever in Britain at #63. If you're wondering about my 'alternative hits', I think it would be something like this:
1. Long Away
2. Mad the Swine
3. The Night Comes Down
4. Brighton Rock
5. Rain Must Fall
6. Stone Cold Crazy
7. Doin' Alright
8. The Millionaire Waltz
9. My Fairy King
10. '39
11. Keep Yourself Alive
12. Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
13. Was It All Worth It
14. Sweet Lady
15. It's A Beautiful Day (Reprise)
As you can probably tell, I'm biased towards Queen I and ANATO. The former because I've been playing that album a lot lately and it could very well become one of my favourite Queen records. The latter... well, just because of the simple reason it probably is, well, the best album of all time.