Queen did a lot of work in many, many different genres, from heavy metal to love ballads. What songs and albums do you feel showcase Queen at their best in a given genre?
Some of my choices:
Best psychadelic rock songs:
-Jesus
-The Night Comes Down
-March of the Black Queen
Best psychadelic rock album:
Queen II
Best hard rock/heavy metal songs:
-Ogre Battle
-Stone Cold Crazy
-It's Late
Best hard rock/heavy metal album:
News of the World
Of course, I could go on and on, considering how large Queen's library of work is...What would your list look like?
Oh and by the way, while we talk about Metal. In and after the 80's, when Ozzy was metal, Accept or Judas Priest and even Skid Row or Mötley Crüe, Poison or Halloween...wouldn't you say Gimme The Prize, Princes Of The Universe or The Hitman was metal?
Jan
Gimmie the Prize, after Stone Cold Crazy is probably the most metal song they ever did...Princes of the Universe isn't metal, it's glam rock. The Hitman is just hard rock, not metal.
Depends on how you define metal. In the 80's with Spandex, hair spray, Van Halen or Bon Jovi on the scene, the general public obviously accepted a lot as heavy music or metal (I don't though). Have a look at who played at festivals like Donington back then. But there was Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, even Guns N' Roses, who blew those bands away...
However, having a look at Queen again, I think for them and for us it was just about making good music. Rockabilly like Man on the Prowl and hard rock like Tear it up on one album, that was nice. And in the past, you had Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon, Seaside Rendezvous or Bring Back That Leroy Brown. You had a band playing Sheer Heart Attack, the same band that wrote and released Pain is so close to Pleasure... But I dare to say, Freddie's voice could make any song sound good or at least listenable. Imagine I Want To Break Free by Lisa Stansfield or Radio GaGa by Paul Young...they would not have been hits, I'm sure. It's the whole package that counts.
Jan