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I don't if this has been posted before. But anyhow they pretty much challenged BB's Harmony style In There early days I Believe...

I really dig most of what they did up until The Works, even Hot Spaces which I think is misunderstood. It was pretty much downhill from there.
Sheer Heart Attack and Night At The Opera are 2 of my all-time favorite albums- just perfect albums. Killer Queen knocked me for a loop the first time I heard it on the radio.

We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions and Bohemian Rhapsody were the only songs I appreciated by them until recently. But I think pretty much every song on one of their Greatest Hits comps is great. And they had a few good albums, namely A Night At The Opera

Queen II is a very fine prog album. Night at the Opera mixes rock, pop and music hall to great effect. Most of their 70's albums are very good. They sucked on record for much of the 80's but became the best live band on the planet around the same time.

Queen in the 70's? More like  :rock

Can't appreciate their albums so I consider them a singles band.

For the second time in a few days I get to say one of the most important bands in my life. Queen changed everything for me for the better. I don't love everything they did, but I sure love a lot of it, and even what I don't love, I can usually appreciate. Brilliant group of people.

I want to speak up for Innuendo. Excellect late period album.

OK, now I'm going to blab.

Innuendo is the first new Queen album I ever noticed. I was 15 or so.

At this point, I suddenly became aware of this band. I'm not entirely sure how or why, in that they weren't onb heavy MTV rotation or anything, but all of a sudden this band existed, and I realized all these songs I'd always known (We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions, Bicycle Race, Another One Bites the Dust, etc) weren't Beatles songs, which my childhood self assumed they might be.

I was a confused young lad.

So it turns out Queen exists. And it turns out Queen is the best thing going on, suddenly making a near-mockery of the pop-metal that dominated my life at the time. And then somehow--Metal Edge? Circus? How?--I am hearing these things that are insane for a 15-year-old, small-town, midwestern (USA) boy. I'm hearing this singer is gay. Or more specifically, I'm hearing he's a fag. And then I'm hearing he's dead. And I'm hearing about AIDS.

What. The. f***.

And all of a sudden my brain collapses and blows up all at once, because the world in which I live is nonsensical. Freddie Mercury matters more than this sh*t. And what he did romantically, physically, sexually, was so unbelievably irrelevant to me, other than that whatever it was, it helped inspire him to make the best music I could imagine at that time. I'm a kid who was raised on musicals and the Beatles, who is hugely receptive to this ... and frankly, suddenly, I'm just different. Whatever love or lust inspired this guy, it's fine because of the result. It's not different than the love or lust that inspires everything else I listen to.

So almost overnight, it just clicks with me and my attitude is different. And then there's Wayne's World and the reissues and everything else and f*** you all (I'm thinking), this is the best. And, said 15-year-old me, if you don't get it, f*** you. Freddie was the best. And right when I knew him, he died.

That's a wonderful little essay, Luther. Thank you!

I should probably stop telling you that you rock on this messageboard Luther, as people will talk. But I admire that post.

Thanks.

Freddies Barcelona is one of my favs, he was cutting that we he discovered that he was dying. On Innuendo he was very weak but still sang like a trooper.

I'll second that Wirestone. Freddie never sounded better to my ears than on that album, some of the notes he hits on The Show Must Go On are insane and the title track is up there with anything they did in the 70's IMO.

Agreed. Innuendo and to a lesser degree The Miracle and Made in Heaven contain some of the band's best material and definitely some of Freddie's best vocals ever. IMO, Innuendo is a borderline classic album and definitely a classic Queen album, up there with Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera.

Freddie's work on the last three Queen albums is inspirational, when you consider how ill he was through much of the writing and recording process.