| Jake12 25.05.2018 14:57 |
Was listing to the radio the other day here in Chicago and normally they play the hits of Queen which usually is AOBTD, BohRhap, Under Pressure, WATC, WWRY etc... but the other night I heard Keep Yourself Alive, The Show Must Go On, Play The Game, Tie Your Mother Down & Stone Cold Crazy! Was pretty cool hearing those since I’ve never heard them play on the radio! Just curious to hear what you guys have heard on the radio as well |
| Bul 25.05.2018 15:09 |
''You Had to Be There'' by Roger on Russian Radio |
| Jimmy Dean 25.05.2018 16:41 |
Heard dragon attack in Montreal once. Definitely a rarity for radio. Also heard ‘39 play while I was at the gap getting clothes for my kid. Pretty sure that was internet radio so less of a surprise. |
| andres_clip 25.05.2018 17:32 |
I wants it all with the hard guitar in the middle on a rock station in Stockholm. |
| pietrek 25.05.2018 17:33 |
Heard I'm Going Slightly Mad on Polish Commercial Radio as well as Ride The Wild Wind on "Jedynka". |
| andres_clip 25.05.2018 17:35 |
And another time I was working as a truck driver when I made a delivery I came into a big warehouse and they were blasting Barcelona allover. That was epic, had to stay around a bit longer. |
| Jake12 25.05.2018 17:38 |
Andres: you just reminded me that they played that at ikea along with the show must go on |
| cobohall 25.05.2018 18:25 |
Without a doubt, the oddest song I heard played on the radio was Fun It. It was around the time of the Jazz release. DJ's had more control on slipping in songs they liked back then, I believe. It was on a Detroit station. Maybe not as surprising, this happened in the summer of 1980. The Game had just come out and AOBTD wasn't huge yet. A guy had pulled up in front of the ice cream shop my sister and I were entering(Baskin and Robbins). His car stereo was blaring and I heard "Now, a new one from Queen!" Dragon Attack started and the guy said to his girl, something like, "Be quiet, this song is awesome." I was pretty happy about that. They were still listening when we walked out with our ice cream. |
| JeroenG 25.05.2018 18:37 |
I heard 'Nevermore' on Dutch Radio 3 once somewhere in the 90's. |
| space cow 25.05.2018 18:39 |
It was about a month ago and I heard Jealousy on a local radio station here in Croatia.. I almost spilled my beer.. |
| John Lemon 25.05.2018 20:08 |
Good old fashioned lover boy on a German radio station. Sadly, they only played the song until the guitar solo come up :( |
| queenfanbg 25.05.2018 21:01 |
The Millionaire Waltz. This song aired every day on the Bulgarian National Radio 15-20 years ago for at least one year.I guess the song was very special for some radio host. |
| Jekaling 25.05.2018 21:19 |
This morning ‘Love of my Life’ was played on Dutch radio. |
| Iron Butterfly 25.05.2018 22:39 |
Liar and Doing Alright. This was over twenty years ago on Q107 in Toronto. |
| Saint Jiub 26.05.2018 01:07 |
Jake12 wrote: Was listing to the radio the other day here in Chicago and normally they play the hits of Queen which usually is AOBTD, BohRhap, Under Pressure, WATC, WWRY etc... but the other night I heard Keep Yourself Alive, The Show Must Go On, Play The Game, Tie Your Mother Down & Stone Cold Crazy! Was pretty cool hearing those since I’ve never heard them play on the radio! Just curious to hear what you guys have heard on the radio as wellWhat Chicago radio station? Why did they play all the songs in the same night? |
| Nick Browning 26.05.2018 02:53 |
a kind of magic would get some airtime here and there on Australian radio |
| OhioMustapha 26.05.2018 03:20 |
Fat Bottomed Girls |
| FlorianS 26.05.2018 04:53 |
Man in the Prowl |
| bucsateflon 26.05.2018 07:17 |
Flash |
| junketerQ2 26.05.2018 08:53 |
Rain Must Fall - back in '89 in NZ. Not sure why it was played but the DJ's mics were left on mistakenly while it was playing & one of them said he hated it!! |
| Makka 26.05.2018 09:34 |
Nick Browning wrote: a kind of magic would get some airtime here and there on Australian radioYeah here in Perth we get it heaps. Don't really hear any besides there hits over here. |
| Vali 26.05.2018 09:46 |
10 years ago or so. Was driving back home from work and a spanish radio station played the studio version of White Queen. |
| Chopin1995 26.05.2018 19:23 |
'A Winter's Tale' on Polish radio in Christmas 2016. Although it's not that surprising because 'Made In Heaven' won an award for the best foreign album of the 1995 year and Queen members were for the first time in Poland (at least officially) to receive a statuette: link As a result 5 songs from that album can be heard on commercial radio stations here: 1. Heaven For Everyone - very often 2. You Don't Fool Me - very often 3. A Winter's Tale - I have heard it that one time 4. I Was Born To Love - my mum said to me a few months ago they played a live version of this song which obviously turned out to be a MiH version. But Freddie's version can be heard almost everyday. 5. Too Much Love Will Kill You - I have heard it one time about 2 years ago |
| Secretfantasy 26.05.2018 22:59 |
In 1991. The radio DJ of my local radio station played the flip side of Headlong by mistake... All gods people. |
| The Real Wizard 27.05.2018 03:27 |
Bullub wrote: ''You Had to Be There'' by Roger on Russian RadioFirst response to the thread, and the grand champion. Nothing can top that. |
| The Real Wizard 27.05.2018 03:28 |
Iron Butterfly wrote: Liar and Doing Alright. This was over twenty years ago on Q107 in Toronto.Psychedelic Sunday ! I remember that very well. |
| oligneisti 27.05.2018 07:07 |
Drowse on Radio 2 (the pop oriented national radio station) Iceland. It was 2002 or 2003. The guy I was working with wasn't impressed and said it didn't even sound like Freddie ;) |
| dysan 27.05.2018 07:35 |
Brighton Rock on BBC Radio 2 |
| ANAGRAMER 27.05.2018 07:45 |
The day after Freddie dies, Simon Bates played a whole morining of Queen and "Drowse" popped up..always thought he meant to play something else |
| Invisible Woman 27.05.2018 10:45 |
In Serbia on radio stations often playing Queen. Mostly their bigest hits but also Love Of My Life, Man On The Prowl, Tie Your Mother Down, Brian's version of Too Much Love Will Kill You, some live versions (often I Want To Break Free, with Paul Rodgers) etc. I heard once Rain Must Fall. I recently heard Freddie's Your Kind Of Lover. Once I heard Man Made Paradise. |
| Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira 27.05.2018 11:22 |
I convinced a local station to let me play 4 hours of Queen 'deep cuts" in 1991. In 1991, right after Freddie died, virtually every radio station in Brazil aired a greatest hits tribute. I thought that was not fair, because their catalogue deserved much more. I grabbed my complete vinyl collection and took it to our top "alternative" station here in Brasilia, Brazil. I asked the person in charge to let me choose the songs for a Queen tribute show and he asked me if I had information enough to also write something down, so that the DJ could read in between songs. Mind you, this is before the internet and information did not flow that easy and also getting access to a whole collection of records from a band was a real challenge. Long story short, they were astounded with what I could offer and suggested that we produced a two parts special, 2 hours each. I can remember playing Ogre Battle, Stone Cold Crazy, The Prophet's Song, the original Love of My Life, Spread Your Wings, Dragon Attack, I Go Crazy, Machines, Keep Passing the Open Windows, Man on the Prowl, Love Kills, Don't Lose Your Head and Was it All Worth It. They also had me interviewed by the DJ during the shows. For many years to come they have also let me play a whole bootleg Queen concert every November to celebrate Freddie. Cheers, Ogre- |
| dysan 27.05.2018 11:37 |
^^ wins the thread |
| beemack74 27.05.2018 13:01 |
Just a few weeks ago, I walked into the local shopping centre (which normally pipes only well-known, classic pop through its PA) and I was surprised and indeed delighted to hear Death On Two Legs in all its glory. |
| ITSM 27.05.2018 18:13 |
Tenement Funster |
| OhioMustapha 27.05.2018 21:04 |
Back in 1957 I surprisingly heard Loser In The End somewhere in North Korea. |
| Iron Butterfly 27.05.2018 21:17 |
Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote: I convinced a local station to let me play 4 hours of Queen 'deep cuts" in 1991. In 1991, right after Freddie died, virtually every radio station in Brazil aired a greatest hits tribute. I thought that was not fair, because their catalogue deserved much more. I grabbed my complete vinyl collection and took it to our top "alternative" station here in Brasilia, Brazil. I asked the person in charge to let me choose the songs for a Queen tribute show and he asked me if I had information enough to also write something down, so that the DJ could read in between songs. Mind you, this is before the internet and information did not flow that easy and also getting access to a whole collection of records from a band was a real challenge. Long story short, they were astounded with what I could offer and suggested that we produced a two parts special, 2 hours each. I can remember playing Ogre Battle, Stone Cold Crazy, The Prophet's Song, the original Love of My Life, Spread Your Wings, Dragon Attack, I Go Crazy, Machines, Keep Passing the Open Windows, Man on the Prowl, Love Kills, Don't Lose Your Head and Was it All Worth It. They also had me interviewed by the DJ during the shows. For many years to come they have also let me play a whole bootleg Queen concert every November to celebrate Freddie. Cheers, Ogre-Now, that is cool! Good for you and the fans. |
| kosimodo 28.05.2018 18:03 |
Radio gaga first time... still havent heard anything nearly like it.. |
| jozef 29.05.2018 09:47 |
So 8 - 10 years ago. here in Slovakia on the main radio station "Radio Slovensko" ... "Leaving Home Ain't Easy" ... |
| Golden Salmon 29.05.2018 11:56 |
I think it was back in 1999, some Queen fans prepared a number of rarities for a one hour special on Spanish radio. This was a huge deal to me back then because I still didn't have any decent Internet connection and I pretty much only owned my original CD albums, and these guys played b-sides (Soul Brother, My Life Has Been Saved 1989), Stone Cold Crazy (Trent Reznor remix), Heaven For Everyone (Shove It version) and a few more, all of which were new to me. I still have it on minidisc. Funny enough, I remember a friend of mine said the next day: "I never knew Queen had so many cool tracks", haha. But yeah, that was on purpose rather than a casual deep cut out of the blue. |
| ActionThisDay 30.05.2018 15:37 |
Not on the radio, but last December I was shopping in a mall in Bournemouth when "I can hear music" (Larry Lurex) was playing over the tannoy. |
| Mustafa IbraGame 01.06.2018 18:27 |
Not on the Radio, perhaps but on the movie. It was russian film "V Polose Priboya" (At the Line of the Tide / In The Surfline): link average crime-detective-procedural movie with some teddious action parts. but in the middle of it there's a scene where "good cops" are havin' recreation on the flat with some girls. It's was totally surprisin for me, when Seaside Rendezvous started playin throughout this episode! It was unusually loud perhaps for background theme, so my private thanks to a composer of this movie. |
| mooghead 01.06.2018 19:15 |
What was the song? |
| matt z 02.06.2018 00:21 |
Actually. ..KLOS played SINT repeatedly prior to the QPR tour. I guess that might count Aside from that. ....none have been surprising |
| dysan 02.06.2018 06:28 |
@Mustafa IbraGame: the few times I played in Moscow the DJ in the club kept playing Seaside Rendezvous too. There must be a connection! |
| Nathan H 03.06.2018 11:46 |
My Fairy King was on the radio the other day on BBC Radio 2! Listen from about 14:30 link. Dragon Attack is heard quite a bit on the station thanks to the one presenter, more often than Play The Game, Breakthru and Save Me put together! |
| Nathan H 03.06.2018 11:46 |
My Fairy King was on the radio the other day on BBC Radio 2! Listen from about 14:30 link. Dragon Attack is heard quite a bit on the station thanks to the one presenter, more often than Play The Game, Breakthru and Save Me put together! |
| jazzrazzmatazz 11.06.2018 00:38 |
one local radio station in Croatia plays Jealousy a lot and the other day they played Love Of My Life. also a few years ago I was in a beauty store where I Was Born To Love You was playing. and that was the original '85 solo Freddie version! |
| OhioMustapha 11.06.2018 03:18 |
I heard Queen in Montreal 81 on the radio today, pleasantly suprised! |
| FunLovinCriminal 15.06.2018 23:47 |
Why would any radio station play anything at all by Queen these days? If you want to listen to Queen load your mp3-players or put on your remastered albums and fire away. But don't expect any music being sandwiched in between commercials, cause that is why any radio station exists these days. |
| dysan 17.06.2018 09:18 |
Pretty sure an instrumental of Pain Is So Close... was played on the BBC World Cup coverage |
| ParisNair 17.06.2018 18:09 |
I think I've said this story before. In 2005 there was a FM Radio station here (in Mumbai) which played local music through the day but starting 10-11 pm western rock music would be aired, through 7 am or so. No RJ, no introductions, no conversations. Just one song after another. I was a Queen fan already, but thanks to that station I also discovered a number of other bands. I'd be sleeping with my headphones on, and would suddenly wake up to something new that I liked. I'd have to then memorize some of the lines (such as "First We take Manhattan"and then search for the song the next day online (if I recall correctly Youtube was yet to be launched, but Google was there). Then try to get that song and more of that artist off of Limeshare/Gnutella or some such. The songs were usually only the hits and this included standard Queen fare like AKOM, Radio Gaga, Bohemian Rhapsody etc. So, imagine my surprise and delight when I heard "Mad the Swine" that one time. |
| Maineroad86 21.06.2018 14:21 |
Hearing body language while shopping at 9 am in a local supermarket gave me a brief chuckle! |
| emrabt 21.06.2018 15:25 |
[Quote]don't expect any music being sandwiched in between commercials, cause that is why any radio station exists these days.[/Quote] In your country, in other countries the commercial culture is slightly different (or behind the times at cashing in, i guess) and still has a large amount of stations which are owned by the public through either Tax or Licence fee, which mean there are no commercials. |
| Hangman_96 21.06.2018 23:26 |
Mustafa IbraGame wrote: Not on the Radio, perhaps but on the movie. It was russian film "V Polose Priboya" (At the Line of the Tide / In The Surfline): link average crime-detective-procedural movie with some teddious action parts. but in the middle of it there's a scene where "good cops" are havin' recreation on the flat with some girls. It's was totally surprisin for me, when Seaside Rendezvous started playin throughout this episode! It was unusually loud perhaps for background theme, so my private thanks to a composer of this movie.It's worth noting that this same song was used in an episode of the Soviet/Russian TV show "Yeralash" around this time in the 90s. On a side note, an A Day At The Races LP can be seen playing in the Soviet film "Colonel Zorin Version" from 1978, however the music being played in the scene with the LP has nothing to do with Queen or even rock in general. Nothing to do with the radio, though, but it's funny nonetheless. |
| Chopin1995 11.07.2018 11:40 |
Yesterday I was in Slovakia and while being in a cafe in the mountains Brian's Driven By You was played. Totally unexpected. |
| Thistle 12.07.2018 02:21 |
Okay, not the radio but "Fun It" was playing on the jukebox at a pub I was in not so long ago. I don't listen to a lot of radio tbh, but thought this was a strange selection, even for someone in the pub. |
| Saint Jiub 28.07.2018 05:07 |
Over the years at a local fast food diner called Munchie P's in Geneva IL USA, I have heard "I Wanna Testify", "Lucille", and "Only Make Believe" but these song versions were not solo or Queen covers. On my way to Munchie P's today, I just happened to be listening to Roger's version of "I Wanna Testify" blasting in my car. Upon my request, the owner of the shop played Parliament's version of "I Wanna Testify" while I enjoyed my burger during a lunch break from work. I also heard "I Want to Break Free" while eating there today, but the owner said it was just a coincidence. |
| dysan 28.07.2018 07:30 |
Munchie P's sounds delightful. I'm a huge Americana fan and I can imagine exactly what it's like. |
| dysan 28.07.2018 07:31 |
Just googled it. Brilliant. |
| Daniel Nester 28.07.2018 15:48 |
WMMR in Philadelphia would play "I Go Crazy" when "Radio Ga Ga" came out and before The Works was released. |
| AlexRocks 01.08.2018 04:03 |
OhioMustapha wrote: Back in 1957 I surprisingly heard Loser In The End somewhere in North Korea.:) AWESOME! You are a GOD! |
| vonkeil 02.08.2018 04:38 |
See What A Fool I've Been - a few years ago on radioeins in Berlin ;-) |
| Dr Magus 02.08.2018 09:17 |
'Yeah' from Made In Heaven was played on Classic FM a few months ago. |
| jazzrazzmatazz 02.08.2018 19:55 |
Las Palabras de Amor played on German 80s radio today... |
| leia 03.08.2018 13:29 |
Way back around late 89 early 90 I recall I was learning to drive and my dad sat in the car as I wanted some practice with my test due soon. Annie Nightingale played Dead On Time on Radio 1, during her request show. That was a bolt from the blue if ever I'd heard one. |
| Nick Browning 09.08.2018 09:28 |
I had recently went on a trip to Macedonia and I heard It's A Hard Life blasting from a radio in a cafe in Ohrid. |
| Silken 09.08.2018 18:27 |
Yesterday I heard "Cool Cat" on a French radio |
| Chopin1995 10.08.2018 18:18 |
Nick Browning wrote: I had recently went on a trip to Macedonia and I heard It's A Hard Life blasting from a radio in a cafe in Ohrid. Silken wrote: Yesterday I heard "Cool Cat" on a French radioThat's awesome! |
| Dane 27.10.2018 07:23 |
This week I heard quite a bit of 'State of Shock' with Freddie. They played it after the original version to compare to what might have been. |
| Lamebert whoehahaha 19.11.2018 22:24 |
Silver Salmon & Hangman ???? |
| Lamebert whoehahaha 19.11.2018 22:24 |
WHOEHAHAHAHA |
| invicibleman 20.11.2018 10:52 |
Good Company in Mexico in september of this year |
| Nathan H 24.11.2019 21:41 |
Teo Torriatte was played on BBC Radio this afternoon: link |
| dysan 25.11.2019 09:46 |
I thought I mentioned it earlier but I remember in 1989 hearing One Year Of Love playing from a shop or taxi in a small French town while sitting outside a cafe. I never liked the song, but it fitted in so perfectly on that beautiful afternoon. The smooth Euro pop ballad always seemed as alien to me as the other French language songs surrounding it. It really made me appreciate it, and be able to consider other tier 3 or 4 songs from the Queen catalogue afresh. |
| miraclesteinway 25.11.2019 11:12 |
I heard Keep Yourself Alive in Barnes and Noble (that very day I saw the Queen vinyls for sale), but I think they were playing the Bohemian Rhapsody OST. I went across the road to the Chipotle and they were playing Cool Cat. |
| BradMay 25.11.2019 14:03 |
About 10 years ago on Radio 1 "Het oog op morgen" i heard The Night Comes Down around 4:30 when i had just woken up to pee, so that was a pretty nice thing! I woke up right before the chorus, don't know why i remember that. |
| freddies bell end 25.11.2019 15:29 |
I heard Keep Yourself Alive at Trader Joe’s. |
| Dane 27.11.2019 09:51 |
And back in the early nineties i heard a splice of Smile's and Queen's Doing All Right. It was part of a Queen radio documentary here in Holland. |
| katman 29.11.2019 04:44 |
Hearing snippets of Backchat and Keep Yourself Alive between interview segments in 1986, I was transfixed - I was in my teens and just about to explore the band beyond Greatest Hits :D |
| AngelR 30.11.2019 18:46 |
Death on Two Legs and You don't Fool Me! |
| Stick 30.11.2019 20:42 |
You dont fool me is played pretty often on Dutch radio. A lot of Queen songs actually. Mostly the singles but sometimes something different. |
| AngelR 01.12.2019 01:39 |
Interesting...I never hear You Don't Fool Me in the UK. I think it's been popular in Europe but not over here? |
| Metropolis 05.12.2019 22:39 |
They played innuendo from start to finish Didn’t really expect that |
| Nathan H 07.12.2019 19:59 |
Is This The World We Created was played on Graham Norton's BBC Radio 2 show today: link |
| Stick 07.12.2019 21:38 |
Why wouldn't they play Innuendo from start to finish? Never heard it edited. Also heard A Winter's Tale again today. |
| matt z 07.12.2019 22:15 |
I'd like to hear what the bot has to say. But as for me, ...i don't listen to real radio anymore. Now it's internet radio or spotify that's taken that place. (I listen to neither, Just search out my favorites on YouTube since my laptop is dead) And as such they're inclined to play virtually anything. As for the days of radio....eh.... never really heard a deep cut, But in the 90's on a late night pirate tv show I'd seen I WANT IT ALL as a kid and was like HOLY SHIT! WHAT WAS THAT!??! The high bluish lighting has stuck in my impressionable mind |
| Chopin1995 08.12.2019 15:47 |
AngelR wrote: Interesting...I never hear You Don't Fool Me in the UK. I think it's been popular in Europe but not over here?I can confirm it's popular in Poland. I've heard it many times over the years. |