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Was just chatting with someone about this the other day....

When you think of Queen, which track immediately springs to mind ?

We reduced down to We will rock you, We are the Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody to Love, Under Pressure, and Another one bites the dust.

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Stone Cold Crazy, Tie Your Mother Down, and Innuendo are my favourites. As a band I can just about tolerate them.
 

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Anything after Freddie doesn't count as Queen to me.
I liked Another One Bites The Dust, Fat Bottomed Girls, Flash, We Will Rock You, I Want It All, Stone Cold Crazy, One Vision.
Radio Ga Ga too, always remember my dad playing that a lot when I was little.
 

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I'm not a huge Queen fan but the bit in Under Pressure starting from "insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking" is one of the best parts of any song ever.
 

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Queen
Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
Guns and Roses.
U2

The most over rated bands known to man. Freddie has a hell of a voice though to be fair to him.
 

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I actually don't know the name of the song that did come to mind when I saw this thread, but Don't Stop Me Now is one that usually does.
 

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For the music, Highlander film always comes to mind, it was a perfect soundtrack

As performers, their shows at Live Aid or in Montreal - they are timeless
 

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Greatest vocalist of all time by a very clear margin.
 

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Pexbo said:
Greatest vocalist of all time by a very clear margin.
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His voice annoys me a bit. Good showman, instantly identifiable like all good vocalists, but not the greatest for me.
 

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2 Man Midfield said:
His voice annoys me a bit. Good showman, instantly identifiable like all good vocalists, but not the greatest for me.
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Fair enough and it's very commendable to admit that you are wrong in this case even if you didn't say as much.
 

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Lots of great Queen songs mentioned here, but the one track which immediately popped into my mind reading the op, was 'the show must go on'.
 

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'Somebody to love' as it was the first record I ever bought. It was about 5p from Mazel Radio near Piccadilly station.

The owner of one of my favourite curry shops over here looks a bit like him, so I always think 'I want some cur-ry!' when I go.
 

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As a kid, I owned all Queen LPs up to Greatest Hits and the Game. Never really got into their mid 80s stuff.
 

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Red Dreams said:
Have everything by Led Zeppelin and then some.
Have albums by the rest.

If I had to rank them.

Led Zeppelin



U2
AC/DC






Guns and Roses.

EDIT:
I would put Queen after U2
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If only you could've edited them into your original list somehow.
 

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I love Queen but at the same time its really easy to see how they divide opinion.

Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night At The Opera is a great run of albums. After that the albums got to be a bit of a mixed bag but I think has at least 1 track that is very well known by even casual music fans (only including albums that were released with Freddie alive)

A Day At the Races: Somebody To love
News of the World: We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions
Jazz: Fat Bottomed Girls, Bicycle race
The Game: Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy little Thing Called Love
Flash Gordon: Flash's Theme
Hot Space: Under Pressure
The Works: Radio Gaga, I Want To Break Free
A Kind of Magic: A Kind of Magic, Who Wants To Live Forever
The Miracle: I Want it All, The Miracle
Innuendo: Innuendo, The Show Must Go On
 

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Stobzilla said:
Queen
Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
Guns and Roses.
U2

The most over rated bands known to man. Freddie has a hell of a voice though to be fair to him.
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Blasphemy putting LZ and Queen in the same shit list as U2. Queen is the ultimate road trip band. Put on a best of and you are good to go for a few hours.

U2 is the most overrated band ever. I hate every song, I hate Bono, I hate everyone who likes U2. Kill it with fire!
 
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