# Anyone think Queen is the best rock band of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156 "2008-08-15T23:21:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/41 "2008-08-18T01:18:51Z")
[QUOTE=HoboStew] **Fat Bottomed Girls** is a classic too, dunno how I missed that. Gonna have to check my computer for rollbacks! =D OK, I revise my original statement from “6-10” to “10-15”. I still think my original point stands. [/QUOTE] Do you know I’m in Love with My Car? Tie Your Mother Down? Prophet Song? Death on Two Legs? Sheer Heart Attack? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/42 "2008-08-18T02:01:09Z")
“Tie Your Mother Down” is fanTASTIC. “Keep Yourself Alive” is another rocker. What about “Radio Ga Ga” or “You’re My Best Friend” (hey, John Deacon!)? No love? “Flash”? “Who Wants to Live Forever”? “The Show Must Go On”? “I Want It All”? ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/43 "2008-08-18T02:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Ah. Well see I think Queen’s greatest strength is (was) their inventiveness; originality. So I a lot of my favorite songs are pretty original? Like Bicycle Race. [/QUOTE] What about “Bicycle Race” is original? I find it pretty derivitive, “Bike” by Pink Floyd with a gospel take. To me it is a dull, boring song that no one but a true Queen fan would list as a favorite. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/44 "2008-08-18T02:27:12Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Do you know I’m in Love with My Car? Tie Your Mother Down? Prophet Song? Death on Two Legs? Sheer Heart Attack? [/QUOTE] Don’t have any of these songs. I’ll get back to you. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/45 "2008-08-18T02:47:06Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] I’ve been listening to a lot of Queen lately. They are the best live band I’ve ever heard. Queen performs songs that I don’t like and they make them great when they perform them live. [/QUOTE] They put on a **great** show. Queen’s reputation has as much to do with their fantastic, bombastic performances as it does with “hit” records. The current incarnation with Paul Rogers up front continues to rock fans around the world. I wouldn’t call them the best of all time, but they deserve to be mentioned as one of rock’s top acts. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/46 "2008-08-18T02:51:31Z")
I lost a chunk of my hearing to Queen. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/47 "2008-08-18T07:45:00Z")
[QUOTE=HoboStew] What about “Bicycle Race” is original? I find it pretty derivitive, “Bike” by Pink Floyd with a gospel take. To me it is a dull, boring song that no one but a true Queen fan would list as a favorite. [/QUOTE] Gospel? WTF? You’ve never heard that song in your life, have you? Also, if you have to ask what’s original about a song with a bicycle bell solo (and declare it derivative on the basis of someone else writing a radically different song that happens to be about the same object), then I really don’t know what to tell you. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/48 "2008-08-18T09:21:41Z")
[QUOTE=HoboStew] Don’t have any of these songs. I’ll get back to you. [/QUOTE] You don’t even have the A Night at the Opera album, and still you claim to know how many good songs they have made? I don’t understand? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/49 "2008-08-18T13:41:38Z")
You’re missing pretty much all of I & II. And to not mention Tie Your Mother Down kinda questions whether you are actually talking about rock. _(Take your little brother swimming with a brick -that’s all right!)_😃 Yeah, live they were hard to beat. And, add in the fact that they did everything w/o synths. Sounds like you just started getting into Queen around the time I was tiring of them. I believe NotW was the last album of theirs I bought, and following my roomie’s subsequent purchase I remember being quite disappointed at Bicycle/Fat Bottom. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/50 "2008-08-18T15:16:29Z")
I love Queen muchly. Freddie’s vocals were just…whoa. And Brian May…erm, excuse me, DOCTOR Brian May 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/51 "2008-08-18T15:57:52Z")
[QUOTE=BaneSidhe] I love Queen muchly. Freddie’s vocals were just…whoa. And Brian May…erm, excuse me, DOCTOR Brian May 🙂 [/QUOTE] That’s [**Chancellor** May](http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/NewsCentre/94778.htm) to you. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/52 "2008-08-18T16:24:00Z")
[QUOTE=Terminus Est] That’s [**Chancellor** May](http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/NewsCentre/94778.htm) to you. [/QUOTE] :smack: I stand corrected. I’m so proud of him no matter what. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/53 "2008-08-18T16:47:09Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] Gospel? WTF? You’ve never heard that song in your life, have you? Also, if you have to ask what’s original about a song with a bicycle bell solo (and declare it derivative on the basis of someone else writing a radically different song that happens to be about the same object), then I really don’t know what to tell you. [/QUOTE] {shrug} The chorus sounds gospel-ly to me. I’ve heard it dozens of times. I’ll grant it some originality I guess, but it is still an awful song. [QUOTE=mr. jp] You don’t even have the A Night at the Opera album, and still you claim to know how many good songs they have made? I don’t understand? [/QUOTE] I have the stuff that I got based on recommendations from Queen fans. Clearly they are all not in agreement. It’s covered all of their more popular songs so I assumed it was a representive sample. They have like 20 albums, I’m not buying them all. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156/54 "2008-08-18T22:59:45Z")
[QUOTE=HoboStew] What about “Bicycle Race” is original? I find it pretty derivitive, “Bike” by Pink Floyd with a gospel take. To me it is a dull, boring song that no one but a true Queen fan would list as a favorite. [/QUOTE] Bicycle Race was the first Queen song I ever heard and was an immediate fan of the group,within months of hearing it I had bought all their albums and became a life long fan,I even have a tattoo of some of the artwork from A Night at the Opera album and am planning on getting a Freddie silhouette tattoo on my wrist.So yeah, to answer the OP, I think they are the greatest band ever,but y’all figured that out by now probably. [QUOTE=lissener] Mad the Swine [/QUOTE] Nice choice 🙂 Great King Rat and Long Away are great songs also. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-think-queen-is-the-best-rock-band-of-all-time/460156.md?page=2)