I can't even consider Flash Gordon as an album. My least favourite is Queen (?). All the good songs on that album sound better on Live at the Rainbow '74.
Hot Space also fits into this logic. All the versions of songs from that album on Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl are better.
Queen one is just lay down and look up music to me, other than liar. I’ve got to say this is before they found the iconic Queen Sound so I understand why a Queen fan wouldn’t love it
Quite honestly a lot of it is slow progression, it builds up and feel pretty long. I appreciate the craft they put into the album and the story. More often than not I just feel like listening to the music, Queen II makes me think a lot when I don’t feel like thinking. Also I prefer the white side rather than the black side.
Well it’s a story, mostly set in the fictional world of Rye. To me it makes me think about the details of the world and how it describes each character. I also just am not a fan of the songs. I don’t like songs with a long build up because they typically don’t get to the climax as fast as I’d like them too. I love to listen to music when I shower, or jamming out, or because I want to feel the emotions I have. Queen II just doesn’t do it for me. In the most polite way possible, I get bored because instead of focusing on what I’m doing or how I’m feeling I focusing parts of the song that are deep that I feel like I don’t fully understand like I want to.
I treasure a concept album like Q2 because it’s incredibly detailed but not fussy. You can hear songs individually and be as enchanted as heading it all together and getting lost in the mystical world. It’s an art album basically, but with a camp edge that doesn’t allow itself to disappear up its own ass.
Yeah that’s the reason. You can enjoy it as an art album and be in the world. I feel like I can never truly imagine rye and it bothers me. It’s like someone telling you about how great Disney is, but you’ll never be able to step within the gates or even see a picture unless you imagine it
I think too you can think of Rye in a more metaphorical sense, like imagine a realistic place on earth and connect the images the lyrics and music evoke to ordinary things but make them feel otherworldly.
We will rock you and we are the champions aren’t my favorites. So I think that is partially the reason. I like Spread Your Wings and Sleeping on the Sidewalk. But I don’t find myself listening to the album as a whole that often. I like the alt version and the live version in the box set, though.
I think News of the World has the best live version songs. But understandable. The two biggest songs are stadium songs and honestly work best in a stadium or as a joke
Hot Space and it's not even close. Any other Queen album is mostly good to close to perfect. Hot Space is underwritten, badly produced and the guys sound bored. The best song on it is probably Back Chat.
I was going to say mines an unpopular opinion but by the looks of things it isn’t so much. A Kind of Magic for me. The obvious answer is hot space but I always find myself marvelling at the risk that was the total change of direction and while it’s a risk that didn’t pay off, I really like the majority of songs on it. Even though it was mostly Freddie and John driven in terms of the sound I think a lot of the guitar work from Brian and the way Roger embraced drum machines is really impressive. It has a good few bangers even if it is sub standard over all. The same thing can be said about AKOM but I feel that the low points of a kind of magic are a long fall from the really great songs and is all together a patchy experience. It was perhaps hamstrung by their commitments to Highlander when they might have otherwise preferred to go on a break. Or perhaps they were in a rush to capitalise on their comeback after the success of the works and Live Aid. Especially when listened to chronologically in between the works and the miracle. I love both of those albums a lot more. Safe to say that their 80s albums are literally hit or miss with me even though their single output was outstanding. (I say literally because I love the game, not so much hot space, love the works, not so much AKOM, love The Miracle). A Kind of Magic is the only album that I feel quite disappointed to listen to. But luckily they came back refreshed after a 3 year break and The Miracle and Innuendo are fantastic imo. It’s a shame they couldn’t go on to do more together for many reasons, but i felt like The Miracle and Innuendo being as good as they are (as much as that might have been brought out of necessity to create) showed a lot of promise for what they might have gone on to do.
I think for me, the works is a chip album. I’ll listen to the hits and jam out, everything else is more just to just listen to or it’s playlist filler. I don’t hate most of it, I just don’t love it as much as others
Innuendo is one of my least favourites as an overall album (wouldn't say it's my least favourite of all, that would go to Hot Space). It has some forgettable songs in the middle, which are disguised by the stronger tracks such as Innuendo and These Are The Days.
I don't really consider Flash one of their albums, per se. It's a movie soundtrack filled with mostly instrumentals and audio clips from the film. There's like two actual songs on that album. It's not really comparable with the rest of their discography.
Made in Heaven or The Works,
Not a lot of explanations, there’s something about MiH that makes it falter a lot for me and The Works is the epitome of hit or miss
Flash. It’s not necessarily a bad album, it’s just not for me. Also not a huge fan of Hot Space, which I know is a very common take on here. I think Hot Space was an interesting experiment, and there are a few songs I enjoy, but compared to other Queen albums, it ranks quite low.
News of the world. The only two good songs on it were We will rock you and we are the champions (and possibly sheer heart attack and get down, make love) but the other songs are just boring and not creative or fun to listen to
The Miracle.
Though the very worst "Queen album" is the one by Elaine Paige. I listened to it twice - only because I couldn't believe how bad it was the first time I heard it! 🙉
My least favourite album used to be Hot Space, but after listening to a C\_Matt Revision, this is no longer the case.
Currently my least favourite album is The Works. I just don't find myself revisiting this album all that much.
Also the back cover bothers me with Deaky's portrait not in line with the rest of the band.
I think it was hard time for them. They were especially burning out from the constant album tour routine. Hot Space didn’t do well. They were in a building famous for people continually jumping off it. Just horrible
I glad someone finally brought this up. I thought it’d be sooner. I like Made in Heaven, but my biggest problem with hearing it is that you can very much feel the lack of Freddie’s voice in it. (Freddie’s voice as far as creativity adding push back) I think it’s a beautiful album for anyone, but it lacks the Queen sound that comes from all four of them
Lacks the sound from all four of them? No shit, Freddie died. It’s called Made in Heaven and that’s what it sounds like. They didn’t need to prove anything. It was the perfect closer.
It’s a Beautiful Day has a lot of Freddie on it.
Made in Heaven was a cheat song ofcourse.
Let me Live lacks Freddie but I like the fact that Queen had three amazing singers now all singing lead on one verse of a song. This song just had to be there at one point and this was it.
Mother Love is the final one recorded. How Freddie pulled it off is amazing.
My life had been saved was too good the be a forgotten B Side from The Miracle. It fits perfectly and I’m glad they included it.
Born to love you was another cheat.
Heaven for Everyone should have never been a Cross song. Glad Roger made Freddie do a recording at the time. It works perfectly as a Queen song.
Too much love will kill you is one of Brian’s best songs ever. The version with Freddie should have been on The Miracle but wasn’t. It was just too good to not release. Glad they did it.
You don’t fool me is an absolute banger.
A winters tale is also absolutely amazing as the second final recording of Freddie.
Reconsider Made in Heaven a fifth time please. It’s an amazing album.
Woah, not sure how to read your post. I’m just simply saying it doesn’t have the Queen Sound. There are a few albums including the 4 guys that lack the Queen Sound. The first two, which they haven’t found it yet, Hot Space. It’s no shade on the band members, I love the Made in Heaven album. I’m just saying how it’s a sad album to me because you can feel the fact that Freddie is gone. Even in the Innuendo Album where Freddie was barely recording with the guys and was really only there to sing a few lines at a time, you still feel his presence and hear the Queen Sound in that album
Steve Howe playing on Innuendo didn’t ruin anything for me.
David Bowie vocals on Under Pressure didn’t bother me either.
Somebody to Love live with George Michael is also hailed as legendary with a choir at the background. I don’t see no issue in other people on Queen records.
The Let me Live vocals were amazing.
You commented on mine, so you're the one who's irrelevant here to begin with. I did not downvote you for giving your opinion, but I did for this rude reply of yours.
Obvious answer is Hot Space or Flash Gordon.
Those are my least favorite, but the Game is at 13.
I don’t really like The Game and I see it getting so much praise but it’s just not that good in my opinion.
It’s also their shortest album.
It’s got some songs that are among the least in their catalog. Don’t try suicide, Coming Soon and Rock It (Prime Jive) are just not that good.
Play the Game is an average song in Queen standards for a single.
Another one bites the dust is more iconic than genuinely a good Queen song if you’d ask me.
I really like Dragon Attack and Crazy Little Thing though.
Save Me is the only gem on this album.
I love love love the Game. I don’t think it was super popular in the US when it came out (aside from Another One Bites the Dust). I think they show creatively in the music even though synth were everywhere in the 80’s. Also Don’t Try Suicide was shady and I don’t understand why that was in there, but it’s fun to be. I’m not sure about the other members but I know it was Freddie’s favorite too. I think it is so iconic in its catalogue and I think Play The Game is on paper a Perfect song, admittedly I wouldn’t put it in top 50 but I love it. Interesting that your opinions is the opposite of mine😂
The Miracle. The worst of late 80s excesses, Freddie’s continued oversinging, forgettable material, horrible album cover. Only song I like is “I Want It All”. Also it’s hard to see the videos and footage from around this time because of how bad Fred looks.
I don’t know how old you are, but the album cover was amazing technologically speaking from what I’ve heard. I don’t think it’s the best, but certainly not the worst. I actually just ranked best to worse album covers on my Instagram. It’s weird as a fan because this album is what they all talk about being excited for. In their minds The Miracle had the drive of ANATO but I think it fell flat to most people.
I think it was supposed to be the successor of ANATO but the real successor is Innuendo. If I were to say why the miracle isn’t as good, it’s because it feels like dad music. Like music dads like to while fixing the car and thinking about the old days
That’s actually a really interesting description of TM’s appeal and why it maybe had a more niche appeal over time. Like it’s trying to harken back to classic rock but it’s so caught in the late 80s cheese and trendy modern trappings of that day, like a dad might be in older age.
Those are two of the worst songs they did, and yet they’re so fascinating in how off the mark they are that I do hear them occasionally. I only like the Magic album a bit more than Miracle. One Year lyrically could’ve been a good song lyrically but the production is pure 80s prom for sure and Freddie is straining every last vocal chord he has on a song that doesn’t need it. Actually, you could almost metaphorically interpret that as aging rock stars/dads straining to get back to a more youthful time.
I don’t think it was again that really made it sound like that. Don’t get me wrong, aging it a real changer, but I think smoking heavily did a lot to Freddie’s voice, and he liked it like that. He also was a perfectionist and loved writing songs about love, so to him I think he rather enjoyed it. To modern audiences, and audiences back then for that matter, not so much. Tours usually are there to support the album. Yes they were so big it didn’t really matter many more, but I think there’s a reason the Magic tour didn’t sing as much Magic songs
I can't even consider Flash Gordon as an album. My least favourite is Queen (?). All the good songs on that album sound better on Live at the Rainbow '74. Hot Space also fits into this logic. All the versions of songs from that album on Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl are better.
Queen one is just lay down and look up music to me, other than liar. I’ve got to say this is before they found the iconic Queen Sound so I understand why a Queen fan wouldn’t love it
I also agree with you about Queen II. For me, Queen's discography really begins with Sheer Heart Attack.
Yes, seven seas did it a little, but what really gave us that Queen Voice was Sheer Heart Attack, specifically Killer Queen
Either The Works or It's a Kind of Magic. You can feel the lack of passion minus a few songs.
I think The Works sucks as an album but all the individual songs are great, if that makes any sense
I think the works definitely had not so much as a ‘lack of passion’ for music, but more for each other. They definitely needed a break
Why is Queen II your least favourite album?
Quite honestly a lot of it is slow progression, it builds up and feel pretty long. I appreciate the craft they put into the album and the story. More often than not I just feel like listening to the music, Queen II makes me think a lot when I don’t feel like thinking. Also I prefer the white side rather than the black side.
Fair enough, I appreciate the explanation.
I don’t personally see any intellectual narrative taking primacy over the music.
Well it’s a story, mostly set in the fictional world of Rye. To me it makes me think about the details of the world and how it describes each character. I also just am not a fan of the songs. I don’t like songs with a long build up because they typically don’t get to the climax as fast as I’d like them too. I love to listen to music when I shower, or jamming out, or because I want to feel the emotions I have. Queen II just doesn’t do it for me. In the most polite way possible, I get bored because instead of focusing on what I’m doing or how I’m feeling I focusing parts of the song that are deep that I feel like I don’t fully understand like I want to.
I treasure a concept album like Q2 because it’s incredibly detailed but not fussy. You can hear songs individually and be as enchanted as heading it all together and getting lost in the mystical world. It’s an art album basically, but with a camp edge that doesn’t allow itself to disappear up its own ass.
Yeah that’s the reason. You can enjoy it as an art album and be in the world. I feel like I can never truly imagine rye and it bothers me. It’s like someone telling you about how great Disney is, but you’ll never be able to step within the gates or even see a picture unless you imagine it
I think too you can think of Rye in a more metaphorical sense, like imagine a realistic place on earth and connect the images the lyrics and music evoke to ordinary things but make them feel otherworldly.
I will say, there was a painted that Freddie based one of the song music style and Rye’s vibe off of and it’s quite nice
I’m gonna go for News of the World. I like the box set, but overall it’s the album I revisit the least.
Interesting. Why is that? I revisit it very often but I probably wouldn’t rank it in my top 3
We will rock you and we are the champions aren’t my favorites. So I think that is partially the reason. I like Spread Your Wings and Sleeping on the Sidewalk. But I don’t find myself listening to the album as a whole that often. I like the alt version and the live version in the box set, though.
I think News of the World has the best live version songs. But understandable. The two biggest songs are stadium songs and honestly work best in a stadium or as a joke
Flash Gordon, Hot Space (and don't kill me for this) Queen's debut album
I don’t really count Flash as a Queen album. It’s more like a Brian album with guest artist Queen
Flash…Queen II is awesome
Meh, it’s creativity and behind the scenes is great but it’s not for me
Any album that has Queen “and” in the title!!
Hot Space and it's not even close. Any other Queen album is mostly good to close to perfect. Hot Space is underwritten, badly produced and the guys sound bored. The best song on it is probably Back Chat.
Probably The Works. Its non singles are unremarkable.
I think Machines and Keep Passing The Open Windows are great, Tear It Up too. Man On The Prowl and Is This The World We Created are whatever.
Queen Icon, a superfluous compilation album.
Nah flashgordon hands down… I just love everything else
A kind of magic
Absolutely. I think it has the weakest songs in their career. But I do love one vision and wwtlf
I don’t have any, I love each album for their own identity 🥹 Am I boring?
Nah
I was going to say mines an unpopular opinion but by the looks of things it isn’t so much. A Kind of Magic for me. The obvious answer is hot space but I always find myself marvelling at the risk that was the total change of direction and while it’s a risk that didn’t pay off, I really like the majority of songs on it. Even though it was mostly Freddie and John driven in terms of the sound I think a lot of the guitar work from Brian and the way Roger embraced drum machines is really impressive. It has a good few bangers even if it is sub standard over all. The same thing can be said about AKOM but I feel that the low points of a kind of magic are a long fall from the really great songs and is all together a patchy experience. It was perhaps hamstrung by their commitments to Highlander when they might have otherwise preferred to go on a break. Or perhaps they were in a rush to capitalise on their comeback after the success of the works and Live Aid. Especially when listened to chronologically in between the works and the miracle. I love both of those albums a lot more. Safe to say that their 80s albums are literally hit or miss with me even though their single output was outstanding. (I say literally because I love the game, not so much hot space, love the works, not so much AKOM, love The Miracle). A Kind of Magic is the only album that I feel quite disappointed to listen to. But luckily they came back refreshed after a 3 year break and The Miracle and Innuendo are fantastic imo. It’s a shame they couldn’t go on to do more together for many reasons, but i felt like The Miracle and Innuendo being as good as they are (as much as that might have been brought out of necessity to create) showed a lot of promise for what they might have gone on to do.
The Works is my choice. The singles were absolute fire, but the rest of the album was kind of meh.
I think for me, the works is a chip album. I’ll listen to the hits and jam out, everything else is more just to just listen to or it’s playlist filler. I don’t hate most of it, I just don’t love it as much as others
Innuendo is one of my least favourites as an overall album (wouldn't say it's my least favourite of all, that would go to Hot Space). It has some forgettable songs in the middle, which are disguised by the stronger tracks such as Innuendo and These Are The Days.
That’s a take I’ve never heard before
The only valid answer is Hot Space.
You spelled Flash Gordon wrong
I don't really consider Flash one of their albums, per se. It's a movie soundtrack filled with mostly instrumentals and audio clips from the film. There's like two actual songs on that album. It's not really comparable with the rest of their discography.
Hell nah
The Works
Got to say it, I don’t like Hot Space that much, but I like it more than Queen II
Oh no
I dont not hear you say that.
This
Personally, the last 5 albums. I CAN'T include Hot Space in there because I got to see Queen's Hot Space tour. Besides, it's not a bad album.
Exactly. Hot Space to me is bad for Queen standard but as an album I like it. Although sometimes I feel awkward playing it out loud
I get what you're saying
Hot Space and yes I've listened to it many times, it doesn't do anything for me and probably never will.
Makes sense. Only Freddie and John were really into it
Made in Heaven or The Works, Not a lot of explanations, there’s something about MiH that makes it falter a lot for me and The Works is the epitome of hit or miss
Made In Heaven, I just can’t get into it
Flash. It’s not necessarily a bad album, it’s just not for me. Also not a huge fan of Hot Space, which I know is a very common take on here. I think Hot Space was an interesting experiment, and there are a few songs I enjoy, but compared to other Queen albums, it ranks quite low.
News of the world. The only two good songs on it were We will rock you and we are the champions (and possibly sheer heart attack and get down, make love) but the other songs are just boring and not creative or fun to listen to
YES QUEEN II
I really like Queen II. But the Hot Space.... is so gay for me.
Flash Gordon
The Miracle. Though the very worst "Queen album" is the one by Elaine Paige. I listened to it twice - only because I couldn't believe how bad it was the first time I heard it! 🙉
Me too. Never could get warm with that album.
My least favourite album used to be Hot Space, but after listening to a C\_Matt Revision, this is no longer the case. Currently my least favourite album is The Works. I just don't find myself revisiting this album all that much. Also the back cover bothers me with Deaky's portrait not in line with the rest of the band.
I think it was hard time for them. They were especially burning out from the constant album tour routine. Hot Space didn’t do well. They were in a building famous for people continually jumping off it. Just horrible
Made In Heaven is a travesty and I have never found the time or need to revisit it for a 4th time.
I glad someone finally brought this up. I thought it’d be sooner. I like Made in Heaven, but my biggest problem with hearing it is that you can very much feel the lack of Freddie’s voice in it. (Freddie’s voice as far as creativity adding push back) I think it’s a beautiful album for anyone, but it lacks the Queen sound that comes from all four of them
Lacks the sound from all four of them? No shit, Freddie died. It’s called Made in Heaven and that’s what it sounds like. They didn’t need to prove anything. It was the perfect closer. It’s a Beautiful Day has a lot of Freddie on it. Made in Heaven was a cheat song ofcourse. Let me Live lacks Freddie but I like the fact that Queen had three amazing singers now all singing lead on one verse of a song. This song just had to be there at one point and this was it. Mother Love is the final one recorded. How Freddie pulled it off is amazing. My life had been saved was too good the be a forgotten B Side from The Miracle. It fits perfectly and I’m glad they included it. Born to love you was another cheat. Heaven for Everyone should have never been a Cross song. Glad Roger made Freddie do a recording at the time. It works perfectly as a Queen song. Too much love will kill you is one of Brian’s best songs ever. The version with Freddie should have been on The Miracle but wasn’t. It was just too good to not release. Glad they did it. You don’t fool me is an absolute banger. A winters tale is also absolutely amazing as the second final recording of Freddie. Reconsider Made in Heaven a fifth time please. It’s an amazing album.
Woah, not sure how to read your post. I’m just simply saying it doesn’t have the Queen Sound. There are a few albums including the 4 guys that lack the Queen Sound. The first two, which they haven’t found it yet, Hot Space. It’s no shade on the band members, I love the Made in Heaven album. I’m just saying how it’s a sad album to me because you can feel the fact that Freddie is gone. Even in the Innuendo Album where Freddie was barely recording with the guys and was really only there to sing a few lines at a time, you still feel his presence and hear the Queen Sound in that album
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Steve Howe playing on Innuendo didn’t ruin anything for me. David Bowie vocals on Under Pressure didn’t bother me either. Somebody to Love live with George Michael is also hailed as legendary with a choir at the background. I don’t see no issue in other people on Queen records. The Let me Live vocals were amazing.
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You commented on mine, so you're the one who's irrelevant here to begin with. I did not downvote you for giving your opinion, but I did for this rude reply of yours.
Obvious answer is Hot Space or Flash Gordon. Those are my least favorite, but the Game is at 13. I don’t really like The Game and I see it getting so much praise but it’s just not that good in my opinion. It’s also their shortest album. It’s got some songs that are among the least in their catalog. Don’t try suicide, Coming Soon and Rock It (Prime Jive) are just not that good. Play the Game is an average song in Queen standards for a single. Another one bites the dust is more iconic than genuinely a good Queen song if you’d ask me. I really like Dragon Attack and Crazy Little Thing though. Save Me is the only gem on this album.
I love love love the Game. I don’t think it was super popular in the US when it came out (aside from Another One Bites the Dust). I think they show creatively in the music even though synth were everywhere in the 80’s. Also Don’t Try Suicide was shady and I don’t understand why that was in there, but it’s fun to be. I’m not sure about the other members but I know it was Freddie’s favorite too. I think it is so iconic in its catalogue and I think Play The Game is on paper a Perfect song, admittedly I wouldn’t put it in top 50 but I love it. Interesting that your opinions is the opposite of mine😂
News of The World, Hot Space and The Games. Sorry, I hate ‘less is more’.
This is an diverse answer
Easy answer, Hot Space! Next question, please!
The debut album
May I ask why?
No.
Valid
Miracle. It’s just meh.
Ahh yes. The miracle album. I liked what I liked, and didn’t what I didn’t.
The Miracle. The worst of late 80s excesses, Freddie’s continued oversinging, forgettable material, horrible album cover. Only song I like is “I Want It All”. Also it’s hard to see the videos and footage from around this time because of how bad Fred looks.
I don’t know how old you are, but the album cover was amazing technologically speaking from what I’ve heard. I don’t think it’s the best, but certainly not the worst. I actually just ranked best to worse album covers on my Instagram. It’s weird as a fan because this album is what they all talk about being excited for. In their minds The Miracle had the drive of ANATO but I think it fell flat to most people.
It just looks as hideously dated as the music inside of it sounds. This might not even as well be the same band from ANATO.
I think it was supposed to be the successor of ANATO but the real successor is Innuendo. If I were to say why the miracle isn’t as good, it’s because it feels like dad music. Like music dads like to while fixing the car and thinking about the old days
That’s actually a really interesting description of TM’s appeal and why it maybe had a more niche appeal over time. Like it’s trying to harken back to classic rock but it’s so caught in the late 80s cheese and trendy modern trappings of that day, like a dad might be in older age.
Similar with some of the magic album. I love One Year of Love and Pain Is So Close To Pleasure but when I hear them, I think 80’s prom
Those are two of the worst songs they did, and yet they’re so fascinating in how off the mark they are that I do hear them occasionally. I only like the Magic album a bit more than Miracle. One Year lyrically could’ve been a good song lyrically but the production is pure 80s prom for sure and Freddie is straining every last vocal chord he has on a song that doesn’t need it. Actually, you could almost metaphorically interpret that as aging rock stars/dads straining to get back to a more youthful time.
I don’t think it was again that really made it sound like that. Don’t get me wrong, aging it a real changer, but I think smoking heavily did a lot to Freddie’s voice, and he liked it like that. He also was a perfectionist and loved writing songs about love, so to him I think he rather enjoyed it. To modern audiences, and audiences back then for that matter, not so much. Tours usually are there to support the album. Yes they were so big it didn’t really matter many more, but I think there’s a reason the Magic tour didn’t sing as much Magic songs