Well, I was really bored the other day, so I tried to come up with a list of Queen songs that could have been singles but weren't....this is what I came up with....
One single per album, and just for fun, I even put a b-side with them.....and I tried select no songs that were a or b sides somewhere, but I didnt quite make it....so here you go...album name followed by a-side then b-side....
Q: Doing All Right/Great King Rat
QII: White Queen/Ogre Battle
SHA: In The Lap Of The Gods...revisited/Stone Cold Crazy
ANATO: Death On Two Legs/Good Company
ADATR: You And I/You Take My Breath Away
NOTW: Sheer Heart Attack/Fight From The Inside
JAZZ: If You Cant Beat Them/Dead On Time
TG: Sail Away Sweet Sister/Rock It
HS: Put Out The Fire/Action This Day
TW: Keep Passing The Open Windows/Man On The Prowl
AKOM: Gimme The Prize/Dont Lose Your Head
TM: Was It All Worth It/My Baby Does Me
I: Hitman/Ride The Wild Wind
There you have it......just further proof that I have too much time on my hands I suppose :)
Q : no other singles.
QII : no other singles.This is no singles album.
SHA : Lap of the gods rivisited/ Stone cold grazy
ANATO : Death on two legs / Lazing on sunday ..
ADATR : You and I / Drowse
NOTW : Sheer heart attack / Sleeping on the ...
Jazz : Dead on time / Mustapha
The game : Dragon attack / Sail away sweet sister
Hot space : Put out the fire / action this day
The Works : no other singles
AKOM : no other singles
TM : Was it all worth it / Party
I : no other singles
MIH : no other singles
Q1 Great King Rat
QII White Queen
SHA Stone Cold Crazy
ANATO Death on two legs, I'm in Love With My Car, 39
ADATR White Man; The Millionaire Waltz
NOTW: Fight From the Inside, Sleeping On the Sidewalk
Jazz: Dead On Time, If you can't beat them, In Only 7 days
Game: Sail Away Sweet Sister, Dragon Attack
Hot Space: Put Out The Fire
The Works: Man on the prowl,
Magic: -
Miracle: Was It All Worth It
Innuendo: I can't live with you, Ride The Wild Wind, Don't Try So Hard
MIH: Mother Love
"Sail Away Sweet Sister" would have made a great single. I read once in an interview with Brian that they didn't release is as a single, because at that time they thought a Queen single with non-Freddie vocals wouldn't work that well.
Another one I think should have been a single is "Was It All Worth It?". It's a typical bombastic Queen song which the audience at large likes, and I think it would have done better as a single than "The Miracle" and "Scandal", which are fine songs, but weren't big hits.
keep passing the open windows and was it all worth it I agree with.
Scandal was a good choice of single, just a shame it was released 4th. its regrettable because so many casual queen fans will have missed out on it because it didnt make GH2
You and I
Death On Two Legs
If You Can't Beat Them
White Queen
Lily Of The Valley*
Loser In The End
*I wasn't sure if this had been released as a b-side or not but I put it in anyway, sorry if it has !!!
There's a difference between a song being good and a song being releasable as a single. Whenever this topic comes up someone just votes for something they like, like March of the Black Queen, but I can't see something like that working as a single!
Btw Flick of the Wrist was a actually an A side.. but got left of GH1 :(
Last Cyborg wrote: There's a difference between a song being good and a song being releasable as a single. Whenever this topic comes up someone just votes for something they like, like March of the Black Queen, but I can't see something like that working as a single!
Btw Flick of the Wrist was a actually an A side.. but got left of GH1 :(
I didn't knew that about Flick of the Wrist.
Nice to know!
Killer Queen/Flick Of The Wrist "Double A-Side" it was.....like Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race was later....(or was it BR/FBG?)