| j tucker 04.01.2007 00:24 |
What's the best song Roger ever wrote???? In my opinion it's Sheer Heart Attack. It still blows me away. Radio Ga Ga is also one of my favourite Queen tracks. Don't forget Tenement Funster either. |
| mike hunt 04.01.2007 01:24 |
roger is probably my least fav songwriter in queen, but he has a fair share of gems. My favorites in the 70's are tenament funster and sheer heart attack, maybe I'm in love with my car. I should say Modern times rock and roll is not bad either. I also think roger went about 7 years between 1978 (jazz) to 1984 (the works) without writing a good song and then finally nailed one with the overated but still good "radio Ga Ga." The song "a kind of magic" continued his Songwriting comeback. "Breakthru" and "these are the days of our lives/heaven for everyone" cemented rogers legacy as a fine songwriter. Never been a fan Of "the invisible man" loved the video, but the song doesn't work for me. |
| All I Hear Is Radio Gaga 04.01.2007 02:11 |
In the 70's I'd have to say either Tenement Funster or Sheer Heart Attack. In the 80's definately Breakthru or Radio Gaga. 90's would be These Are The Days of Our Lives for sure. |
| Serry... 04.01.2007 02:31 |
I'm In Love With My Car and Heaven For Everyone |
| Jjeroen 04.01.2007 04:35 |
Drowse I'm in love with my car Tenement Funster |
| Aquillas 04.01.2007 05:14 |
I'm In Love With My Car A Kind Of Magic Fight From The Inside Radio Ga Ga Rock It |
| thomasquinn 32989 04.01.2007 06:37 |
j tucker wrote: What's the best song Roger ever wrote????That would be impossible to say. Your phrasing implies objective truth, which there can never be in art. Thus, it is simply in the ear of the beholder. |
| brENsKi 04.01.2007 07:31 |
mike hunt wrote: roger is probably my least fav songwriter in queen, but he has a fair share of gems. My favorites in the 70's are tenament funster and sheer heart attack, maybe I'm in love with my car. I should say Modern times rock and roll is not bad either. I also think roger went about 7 years between 1978 (jazz) to 1984 (the works) without writing a good song and then finally nailed one with the overated but still good "radio Ga Ga." The song "a kind of magic" continued his Songwriting comeback. "Breakthru" and "these are the days of our lives/heaven for everyone" cemented rogers legacy as a fine songwriter. Never been a fan Of "the invisible man" loved the video, but the song doesn't work for me.that's a pretty good summary - i agree mate...but i would add One Vision to the good list...and of his solo stuff Old Friends stands out well with anything queen did in later years |
| john bodega 04.01.2007 07:45 |
Hahah, no one's talking about "Man on Fire" yet? What a video! |
| August R. 04.01.2007 07:56 |
Ride The Wil Wind is way underrated IMO. I also like More of That Jazz, Drowse and Machines, though many fans seem to ignore them. Roger wrote (& co-wrote) many good songs. Hard to pick just one... Outside Queen, my favourites are: Pressure On, Where Are You Now?, Dear Mr. Murdoch, Celebration, New Dark Ages and Final Destination. |
| 7Innuendo7 04.01.2007 08:13 |
similar faves to previous posts... 70s -- Modern Times RnR, I'm in Love With My Car, Sheer Heart Attack, Fight From the Inside 80s -- Radio GaGa, Machines, One Vision, A Dozen Red Roses for My Darling 90s -- These Are the Days of Our Lives, Heaven for Everyone (Queen version) solo -- Man on Fire, We Gotta Stop Those F*cking Nazis, Nation of Haircuts (haha) |
| boca 04.01.2007 08:27 |
Hm...I'm In Love With My Car from 70-s, Radio Ga Ga, A Kind Of Magic and Heaven For Everyone from 80-s, These Are The Days, Ride The Wild Wind and Nazis from 90-s... |
| Daniel vZ 04.01.2007 10:39 |
Hard to choose, but now it would be Tenement Funster or I'm In Love With My Car. |
| louvox 04.01.2007 10:50 |
I'm in love with may car Tentement Funster Comming soon |
| its_a_hard_life 26994 04.01.2007 10:56 |
Daniel vZ wrote: Hard to choose, but now it would be Tenement Funster or I'm In Love With My Car.And to add to that I'd go for... These Are The Days. :) |
| Rick 04.01.2007 11:14 |
Action This Day. Even better live. |
| Drowse1 04.01.2007 11:48 |
It has to be Drowse of course! |
| Shane Jazz 04.01.2007 12:17 |
Besides the usual candidates, I simply love the Fun in Space album. As for later solo songs, I like Touch the Sky and Nation of Haircuts. Surrender is a top song, too. |
| masterstroke_84 04.01.2007 13:47 |
INNUENDO |
| deleted user 04.01.2007 14:41 |
1. Radio Ga Ga 2. Sheer Heart Attack 3. A Kind Of Magic 4. I'm In Love With My Car Tenement Funster, Loser In The End and Modern Times Rock N Roll aren't bad at all either. It's just they have more limited appeal than any of the others' songs. Mind you, you could say that songs like March of the Black Queen has limited appeal. I love it but all non-Queen fans and semi-Queen fans I know go 'WTF?' at that song, they having only had access to 'Greatest Hits'. Oh I also love TATDOOL of course. And Old Friends. And Innuendo, I don't care what y'all say. I know Roger wasn't responsible for the whole song, but there was some input as far as lyrics are concerned. Quite a lot I'm guessing as the lyrics are very Roger-ish...I might say One Vision too. |
| Nevermind 04.01.2007 15:44 |
Roger has to be my favourite for some reason I love most of his ones. These are my favourites: Modern Time Rock n Roll Loser in the End I'm in love with my car Radio Ga Ga A Kind of Magic Breakthru Invisible Man (I swear he wrote this one, sorry if I'm wrong) These are the days of our lives I read someone said Innuendo I never knew he wrote that until then but I really love that song one of my favourites. |
| JoxerTheDeityPirate 04.01.2007 18:14 |
its hard to pick one outright but heaven for everyone would be there or there abouts along with ride the wild wind,but i do have a fondness for hijack my heart |
| deleted user 04.01.2007 20:23 |
Much like with Brian, the songs Roger sang were much better than the songs he wrote that he didn't sing in my opinion. Sheer Heart Attack and Action This Day are the two biggest exceptions. Though songs like Tenement Funster and Loser In The End have never really been my favorites, other songs he sang like Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll and Drowse I never really get tired of. And, like I said before, Action This Day is one of my favorites on Hot Space and one of the best Queen songs. Fun It is very catchy, and Fight From The Inside is great as well. I'd have to say his worst composition would be More Of That Jazz. I guess overall his best composition is Breakthru (which I forgot to mention earlier is another one of the best Freddie-sung Roger compositions). |
| DEAKYRULES 04.01.2007 21:21 |
DROWSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| deleted user 04.01.2007 21:22 |
Drowse, More Of That Jazz, Believe In Yourself, Beautiful Dreams, Man On Fire... I could go on and on.... |
| Queen-Obsessed 04.01.2007 21:26 |
Sorry random but I think roger sounds hot in I'm in love with my car. I'd say it is a well written song. I personally don't like Radio GaGa (please don't hang me for that but I just don't) |
| queen mercury 33542 05.01.2007 00:43 |
I like sheear heart attack and a kind of magic. I also like I'm in love with my car and calling all girls. |
| akindofmagic 05.01.2007 01:20 |
Future Management, Foreign Sand, New dark Ages, Final Destination, Man On Fire. From Queen: These are The Days, Drowse, Radio GaGa, A Kind Of Magic, Heaven For Everyone ,BreakThru and Thank God It's Christmas |
| deleted user 05.01.2007 08:43 |
Nevermind wrote: I read someone said Innuendo I never knew he wrote that until then but I really love that song one of my favourites.That may have been me. I say that because although the song was credited to Queen, I read somewhere that Roger was responsible for at least some of the lyrics of Innuendo. However some people on here object strongly and even get slightly annoyed when Innuendo is discussed as a 'Roger Taylor penned composition' but, as I say the lyrics have a definite Roger feel to them. He surely had some input although the music is almost definitely Freddie. I forgot about 'Heaven for Everyone', Jeez how could I forget that little gem. |
| Scott_Mercury 05.01.2007 08:52 |
masterstroke_84 wrote: INNUENDOInnuendo is about as much Roger's as BoRhap and March of the Black Queen. Besides the fact that Phobe, Hutton, and M. Austin all remember Freddie writing Innuendo.... lets use common since...How many other 6+ minute epic songs did Roggie have in Queen before Innuendo? What about Freddie?? And let's quote Steve Howe from GFTPM 1993 "Working with Queen was a true pleasure, they are all consumate professionals. I was really suprised by Freddie, as he had this reputation of being a frantic songwriter of doing it on the spot, my experience was quite the contrary, on Innuendo he knew exactly what he wanted played and where, I just had to transpose on guitar what he had already written on piano, and Brian of course is in a lead of his own, it was a great time working that closely with him." Anyway.... Roger's best for me: I still can't understand why noone likes "Loser in the End" I'm in Love with my car Drowse Action this Day (live especially) Breakthru (but I like Freddie's intro alot) Ga Ga (Roger himself will tell you that it should have been a co-write with Fred, as he took over the song) One Vision- Brian has said lyrics are mainly Roger with some Fred input....the riff is Brian's. Days of Our Lives |
| mike hunt 07.01.2007 03:21 |
<font color=brianJM>RollingBowieQueen wrote:yes, Iunnendo's music was all freddie, and the lryics were started by freddie and finished by roger, so it would be wrong to credit roger for Innuendo. It's a freddie song, but maybe roger did enough to get a co. credit.... One vision was truly all four members. I forgot to mention Another underated song from roger "fight from the inside" was a good rocker.Nevermind wrote: I read someone said Innuendo I never knew he wrote that until then but I really love that song one of my favourites.That may have been me. I say that because although the song was credited to Queen, I read somewhere that Roger was responsible for at least some of the lyrics of Innuendo. However some people on here object strongly and even get slightly annoyed when Innuendo is discussed as a 'Roger Taylor penned composition' but, as I say the lyrics have a definite Roger feel to them. He surely had some input although the music is almost definitely Freddie. I forgot about 'Heaven for Everyone', Jeez how could I forget that little gem. |
| Freya is quietly judging you. 07.01.2007 09:06 |
Well, I guess my favourite Roger song would be 'These Are The Days Of Our Lives' but I also like 'Drowse,' 'Rock It (Prime Jive)' and 'Breakthru.' |
| boca 09.01.2007 10:36 |
How much are all of you sure "Breakthru" is Roger's song? |
| Scott_Mercury 09.01.2007 11:15 |
boca wrote: How much are all of you sure "Breakthru" is Roger's song?Obviously the beginning is all Freddie, it was a song he had started, but not finished called "A new life is born" But... the rest lyrics and strong usauge of major chords have Roger written all over it. Roger has always has a flirtation with the "religion" thing.... so as soon as you a hear a lyric like "I get religion quick" that screams signature Roger writing style. There are some Freddie-ism's in some of the lyrics... and the bassline sounds like something Deacon would have contrived for the Hot Space album. I would assume the skeleton of the song was done by Roger, with it being pretty much there....that's when Fred came in and said "why don't we put my unfinished song at the beginning of this?".... Brian said Freddie came up with the train video shoot... I would imaging thats what started the pulsating bass groove. Breakthru= more than likely mainly Roger's. |
| deleted user 09.01.2007 12:03 |
Hmm... and I thought I was the only one who liked 'Fight From the Inside':P. |
| Gratzi 09.01.2007 12:39 |
Heaven For Everyone - very sweet! :-) |
| Aquillas 09.01.2007 14:42 |
<font color=brianJM>RollingBowieQueen wrote: Hmm... and I thought I was the only one who liked 'Fight From the Inside':P.Fight From The Inside ROCKS :D |