| Scott_Mercury 26.04.2005 08:35 |
We are ranking songs from each album from our favorite to our least favorite... In this topic, we will be ranking NEWS OF THE WORLD. Here's how my list go's: 1) We are the champions 2) Spread your wings 3) My Melancholy Blues 4) Its Late 5) We will Rock you 6) Fight From the Inside 7) Sleeping in the Sidewalk (would like this better if Freddie would have sang it..or even Roger.. I don't care for Brian as a lead vocalist) 8) Sheer Heart Attack 9) Get Down Make Love 10) All Dead, All dead 11) Who needs you NEWS OF TE WORLD is a strange album for me...it contains some of my favorite Queen songs there is, Champions, Wings, Melancholy Blues.... but it also has what I feel are some of their weakest songs. In my opinion, if anyone in this band is going to sing lead on a song besides Fred, it obviously should be Roger. I love Roger's "Fight from the inside", and I think it fit his voice perfect. But 2 points- 1) I don't think any Queen album should feature Brian singing lead more than Roger.... 2) I would have like the 2 tracks that Brian sang (All dead, all dead, and Sleeping on the sidewalk) much better had Fred sang them. |
| written_in_the_stars 26.04.2005 08:43 |
Here's my list: 1.Spread Your Wings 2.My Melancholy Blues 3.It's Late 4.All Dead All Dead 5.We Will Rock You 6.We are the Champions 7.Who needs you 8.Sheer Heart Attack 9.Sleeping on the sidewalk 10.Fight from the inside 11.Get down make love |
| Lord Blackadder 26.04.2005 11:31 |
I disagree with Scott's comments on brian's singing. All Dead All Dead should be sung by Brian. It needs a very soft, quiet voice. And Sidewalk is great to. I think Brian does a great job on it. Freddie would aswell but I don't mind. 1. Spread Your Wings 2. It's Late 3. My Melancholy Blues 4. We Are The Champions 5. Sheer Heart Attack 6. We Will Rock You 7. All Dead All Dead 8. Sleeping On The Sidewalk 9. Get Down, Make Love 10. Fight From The Inside 11. Who Needs You? |
| Scott_Mercury 26.04.2005 12:04 |
Lord- Its ok to disagree with me :-> And I appreciate the honesty. To me, Brian has a very "background vocals" type voice to me... Brian singing the beginning of "Who wants to live forever", and his part in "I want it all" are perfect.... but I am not much for Brian singing a whole song. |
| Knute 26.04.2005 12:05 |
One of my faves. The first album where they made a conscious desicion to simplify things a bit and I think they did a wonderful job. Brings to me a lot of memories of my youth. I saw this concert when I was 7 years old. 1. It's Late 2. Spread Your Wings(Deacon's best tune) 3. All Dead All Dead(Brian's best song that he sings IMO. Beautiful tune. Especially that middle section. Chills!) 4. Sleeping On The Sidewalk 5. My Meloncholy Blues 6. Fight From The Inside 7. Get Down Make Love(Don't know why this one is slagged so much.Great song to test your stereo's fidelity) 8. Sheer Heart Attack 9. We Are The Champions 10. Who Needs You 11. We Will Rock You Now 9 and 11 would've been higher if I weren't so burnt out on them. |
| Last Cyborg 26.04.2005 12:22 |
Brian's voice suits some songs perfectly.. Freddie's powerful voice would be complete overkill on Someday Oneday or She Makes Me. And I don't like the live '39 with Freddie singing nearly as much as the album version. Also, Brian's naive, vunerable voice suited the theme of Too Much Love perfectly (all that I'm so confused my, life's a tangled mess boo hoo stuff).. Freddie just sounds too confident on that track. My list anyway- 1. Spread Your Wings 2. It's late 3. Fight From the Inside 4. Who Needs You? 5. Sheer Heart Attack 6. We Will Rock You 7. We Are the Champions. 8. Sleeping on the sidewalk 9. All Dead, All Dead 10. My Melancholy Blues 11. Get Down Make Love like a lot of people, I probably only rank the singles low because I'm bored of them |
| Negative Creep 26.04.2005 13:22 |
1. Sheer Heart Attack 2. It's Late 3. Fight From The Inside 4. Spread Your Wings 5. Get Down Make Love 6. My Melancholy Blues 7. All Dead, All Dead 8. Sleep On The Sidewalk 9. Who Needs You 10. We Will Rock You 11. We Are The Champions |
| deleted user 26.04.2005 17:12 |
1.We are the Champions 2.Spread Your Wings 3.It's Late 4.My Melancholy Blues 5.We Will Rock You 6.Sheer Heart Attack 7.All dead, all dead 8.Fight From the Inside 9.Sleeping on the Sidewalk 10.Who needs you 11.Get down make love |
| brENsKi 26.04.2005 17:32 |
but you're tourquoise |
| deleted user 26.04.2005 18:00 |
In order of my favorites: My Melancholy Blues (1) Its Late (2) Fight From The Inside (3) Sheer Heart Attack (4) Spread Your Wings (5) All Dead All Dead (6) We Are The Champions (7) Sleeping On The Sidewalk (8) Who Needs You (9) Get Down Make Love (10) We Will Rock You (11) |
| Gunpowder Gelatine 26.04.2005 19:11 |
1. It's Late 2. Spread Your Wings 3. All Dead, All Dead 4. Sheer Heart Attack 5. My Melancholy Blues 6. Who Needs You 7. Sleeping On The Sidewalk 8. We Are The Champions 9. We Will Rock You 10. Get Down, Make Love 11. Fight From The Inside |
| Fenderek 27.04.2005 06:08 |
1. It's Late 2. spread Your wings 3. My Melancholy Blues 4. Fight From The Inside 5. Get Down Make Love 6. We Will Rock You 7. Sleeping On The Sidelwalk 8. All Dead All Dead 9. Sheer Heart Attack 10. We Are The Champions 11. Who Needs You I heard WATC too many times, sorry. I really love very underrated tracks like Late, Get down... or Fight From The Inside. Different album, but I love it- for being raw, to the point... Some great moments are here- the only track that doesn't do this to me is WNY- sorry. nice, but nothing special (IMO!). Oh- and I prefer BBC versions- all 4 tracks sound better than album cuts! Fast WWRY is one of the ebst thing they ever recorded, same goes for longer SYW... |
| neodave 27.04.2005 06:42 |
01. spread your wings 02. we will rock you 03. my melancholy blues 04. get down make love 05. sheer heart attack 06. we are the champions 07. all dead all dead 08. it's Late 09. fight from the inside 10. sleeping on the sidewalk 11. who needs you |
| Jaywilliams 27.04.2005 06:51 |
My top three would be Melancholy Blues Spread Your Wings Sleeping On The Side Walk They're all so different, yet so obviously Queen. . . I like Brian's voice, but to say he sings Too Much Love... better that Freddie, is absurd! Jay |
| Last Cyborg 27.04.2005 09:19 |
Jaywilliams wrote: I like Brian's voice, but to say he sings Too Much Love... better that Freddie, is absurd! -------------------------------------------- Not that he sings it better, but that it sounds better. If that makes sense. Tecnically speaking, Vai or Satriani play guitar much much better than Brian, but Brian's playing is, for many, far more enjoyable to listen to. For this one particular track (Too much love), I think the less technically perfect approach is the best. |
| Lord Blackadder 27.04.2005 12:40 |
Come on. Next album Scotty... |
| My Melancholy Blues 27.04.2005 12:48 |
here's my list... 1. My Melancholy Blues 2. It's Late 3. We Are The Champions 4. Spread Your Wings 5. Sheer Heart Attack 6. All Dead, All Dead 7. We Will Rock You 8. Sleeping On The Sidewalk 9. Get Down Make Love 10. Who Needs You 11. Fight From The Inside Due to last three ones I mention above, NOTW is weak for me. |
| Leppar 27.04.2005 13:13 |
1. Sheer Heart Attack 2. We Will Rock You 3. Sleeping On The Sidewalk 4. Spread Your Wings 5. It's Late 6. All Dead, All Dead 7. Fight From The Inside 8. We Are The Champions 9. Get Down Make Love 10. Who Needs You 11. My Melancholy Blues The last three songs (In my list) are pisswank but the rest of the songs are good. Therefore NOTW recieves a Leppar rating of 8/10. |
| Last Cyborg 27.04.2005 13:29 |
Surely Brian's excellent flamenco guitar work in Who Needs You? redeems that song?? |
| Leppar 27.04.2005 13:33 |
No, tis clickpiss. |
| Last Cyborg 27.04.2005 18:40 |
BTW does anyone else find the high pitched noises near the end of sheer heart attack damn annoying? |
| Jaywilliams 28.04.2005 05:15 |
Last Cyborg - I see your point - probably not absurd, but more like a matter of opinion. . . |
| GreatKingSam 28.04.2005 11:54 |
Surely "Get Down, Make Love" wins for possibly one of the most different guitar solo's ever? |
| Knute 28.04.2005 14:18 |
GreatKingSam wrote: Surely "Get Down, Make Love" wins for possibly one of the most different guitar solo's ever?I agree, I think it's a great song. |
| Jaywilliams 28.04.2005 15:06 |
nice bass line too - he always seemed a little more reserved , live. Prob just to leave a little more space. |
| NJQueenFan 28.04.2005 15:29 |
1) It's Late - incredible, one of their Top 5. This song is Queen at their hard rock best(10/10) 2) Who Needs You - love the guitar in this song (10/10) 3) Spread Your Wings - awesome, go to sing along to (10/10) 4) All Dead, All Dead - one of their best slow songs (10/10) 5) We Will Rock You - a classic, guitar solo at the end is pure rock (9.5/10) 6) Fight From the Inside - Roger's best song IMO (9.5/10) 7) We are the Champions - Freddie's at his best here (9/10) 8) Sheer Heart Attack - Cool song, it's saying a lot about this album that S.H.A. is only 8th (8.5/10) 9) Sleeping on the Sidewalk - I like the rawness of it, fun song (7.5/10) 10) Get Down, Make Love - some cool parts, but most of it is bland and whatever that sound is at the end, it just doesn't work (6.5/10) 11) My Melancholy Blues - doesn't have much of a direction to it, average at best (6/10) Overall, I'd say it's my 3rd favorite album, behind ANATO and QII. Most of the songs are great, Get Down Make Love and My Melancholy Blues being the low points for me (the latter I can just turn off the CD and end with the incredible It's Late anyway). WE've all heard WWRY and WATC way too many ties, but I think it's amazing that they hold up after all these years and after hearing them 10,000 times. It's, IMO, the most "rock" of any of their albums and I have no idea why they didn't continue the trend with Jazz (one of their worst). It's definetely unique from anything they did before it, so its really stands out as being one of their greatest in my mind. |
| oasis_muse 29.04.2005 05:03 |
1. We Are The Champions 2. Spread Your Wings 3. It's Late 4. My Melancholy Blues 5. We Will Rock You 6. Who Needs You? 7. Sheer Heart Attack 8. Fight From The Inside 9. All Dead All Dead 10. Sleeping On The Sidewalk 11. Get Down, Make Love |
| bitesthedust 29.04.2005 13:46 |
Scott_Mercury wrote: We are ranking songs from each album from our favorite to our least favorite... In this topic, we will be ranking NEWS OF THE WORLD. Here's how my list go's: 1) We are the champions 2) Spread your wings 3) My Melancholy Blues 4) Its Late 5) We will Rock you 6) Fight From the Inside 7) Sleeping in the Sidewalk (would like this better if Freddie would have sang it..or even Roger.. I don't care for Brian as a lead vocalist) 8) Sheer Heart Attack 9) Get Down Make Love 10) All Dead, All dead 11) Who needs you1) We Will Rock You 2) Spread Your Wings 3) It's Late 4) My Melancholy Blues 5) Fight From The Inside 6) Sheer Heart Attack 7) We Are The Champions 8) Who Needs You 9) Sleeping On The Sidewalk 10) All Dead, All Dead 11) Get Down, Make Love |