Ranking The QUEEN Studio Albums
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Queen are an institution. And one of the greatest bands ever - regardless of their actual Prog status. Today we take a look at all 14 studio albums and rank them from worst to first. #progrock #prog #queen
Can't miss your video man always full of joy and interesting as well ...hats off
Olivier!!! How are you???
Queen is my favorite band ever!~~ I have been a fan since the 80s as a child. I love your videos and your energy!!
Awesome!!! Thanks!!!
Awesome seeing your ranking, My #1 pick is personally News of The World! Great ranking by the way though I got to say that News of the World does rank highly usually and a lot of people love it alongside it being considered one of their best
It’s Late might be my all time favorite Queen song!!! A fantastic album!!!
Heck yeah! Thats my second favorite on it actually, my #1 is also my #1 song overall, My Melancholy Blues. Love the emotion in Freddie's voice and it reminds me of old jazz music which I also love.
My ten favorite Queen songs are:
1. My Melancholy Blues/Seven Seas of Rhye (tie)
2. It's Late
3. Stone Cold Crazy
4. '39
5. Now I'm Here
6. The Prophets Song
7. Bohemian Rhapsody
8. Spread Your Wings
9. The March Of The Black Queen
10. The Millionaire Waltz
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Fantastic list!!!
Queen 2 is one of my favorite albums of all time. white Queen is such a masterpiece
Fantastic!!!
@smios Here here! 👍
Jazz is my sentimental #1, but Night at the Opera is the correct #1. Queen always had a bit of prog in them, and their willingness to be different/try different things is definitely a prog idea. Brian May adores Kansas (he appeared in the Kansas documentary " Miracles out Of Nowhere "), of course they should be recognized in the prog world
That was a great documentary!!!
Ending needed a GONG 😂
Good call.
Night at the Opera was my introduction to Queen, at age six, from my older sister. She played this for me, going over the lyrics to the Prophet's song and painting a picture of the scene. She did the same with Rush 2112. And she gave me my first Zeppelin album (4). That's probably why these are my favorite bands. RIP, Melissa.
Melissa sounds amazing!!! Sorry for your loss. 🙏🙏
Really enjoyed this, can't wait to watch more fo your videos. Excellent reasoning behind the rankings, and I concur with just about all of it. Might have bumped Innuendo up a couple of spots and put Queen II at #1. Glad that you're not swept up in the sentimentality behind Made in Heaven. They did the best they could, but its just a forced collection of fragments, and the resulting songs are underwhelming for a rock fan. The 80s output is pretty patchy, with some great singles in amongst some dross. My list:
1. Queen II
2. Sheer Heart Attack
3. A Night at the Opera
4. Queen
5. A Day at the Races
6. The Game
7. Jazz
8. Innuendo
9. News of the World
10. A Kind of Magic
11. The Miracle
12. Flash Gordon
13. The Works
14. Hot Space
(big gap)
15. Made in Heaven
Yeah, Innuendo was a little low but I didn’t want my Steve Howe fandom to show!!!
Woo hoo! You mentioned Sparks! 😊
I did.
I’m a big Sparks fan too. I’m can’t wait for the new album. Love the video with Cate.
Sparks are so cool. Their last album was incredible.
@@TheProgCorner An up and down career makes for an interesting band. They do their own thing and if you’re along for the ride all the better I suppose. I started back in the late 70’s with Indiscreet and I’ve been a fan ever since. I’m super impressed with the stuff they’ve released in the 21st century. They’re like a fine wine. Also seriously fun to see live. They exceeded my expectations by far.
01. Queen II
02. A Day at the races
03. A night at the opera
04. Sheer heart attack
05. Jazz
06. Queen I
07. News of the world
The rest doesn't bother me much. Just 2 or 3 likeable songs.
I’m late to the party here, but I love Queen, so it’s nice to see you did a video about them. I remember when I first heard Freddie’s voice and Brian’s guitar, I was gobsmacked. I agree with you about Bohemian Rhapsody. Some of the best lyrics ever written. Their earliest stuff was definitely proggy. They were always innovative and original, and they still don’t sound like anyone else. Their greatness lives on!
Yes, it does!!!!!
Another great video. I LOVE the Jazz album. Such a underappreciated gem.
It really is!!!
Great stuff Scot. Fully agree with all that. Especially Jazz. I like it more and more over the years. What teenage boy didn't have that poster on their wall!! Bought them all at the time. Is Death on 2 legs the most vitriolic opener you have ever heard? Thanks mate
Absolutely amazing.
A great idea to do Queen, prog or not they are certainly prog friendly and what a quality top 5 albums.
Indeed!!!👍👍👍
Nice show Scot. Actually Innuendo is my number 2 album. It's almost as good as A Night At The Opera. The Show Must Go On is a popular funeral song. In The Netherlands they are still extremely popular. At the end of the year we have the Top 2000 on the radio. Queen has 32 songs in there! Bohemian Rhapsody is almost every year at number 1.
I love the title track, obviously!!!
I'm a fan of "I'm going slightly mad," among others.
Hey Scot! Comment #963! Running late today. Recovering from a nasty burn to my hands. Boiling maple syrup! Don't ask! QUEEN!!! One of my regrets in life that I never saw them in concert. Big mistake on my part. Great vid Scot, wasn't expecting this one. Saw your comment on Billy's vid. Sounds like he pushed the ideas for the new album. That is VERY promising! Peace my friend.☮️✌️😎
Very promising indeed!!! Counting the minutes until I receive my advance copy…
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Thanks for the post! Queen II gets my vote for number one.
Queen was one of the favorite bands of my childhood. I love the debut, but it really has a different sound than the rest of their discography. My sweet spot is Queen II through A Night at the Opera. I really don't like their last 3 or 4 releases except for a few songs. I love Under Pressure with Bowie. Queens diversity is astounding. You are right Scott, Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the greatest rock songs of all time! And I really hate that Radio Ga Ga song.
I never liked it…
Heart Attack and Opera. ! Those two were great. After those it it got a bit spotty. Great video. 👋
Exactly!!! 👍
Saw Queen I believe in '74 with Kansas at a theater in Milwaukee,saw them two more times by '77 got to see them do all the hard rockers
Nice!!! I never got to see them…
One of the perks of being old lol
1. Jazz
2. Sheer Heart Attack
3. A Day at the Races
4. News of the World
5. Queen II
6. Hot Space
7. The Miracle
8. The Works
9. A Night at the Opera
10. The Game
11. Queen
12. Innuendo
13. A Kind of Magic
14. Flash Gordon
15. Made in Heaven
Wow!!! Jazz at number one!!!
@@TheProgCorner Easily my favorite although my number one for a while was Sheer Heart Attack
Yeah let’s go Queen!
Honestly, the song Innuendo itself makes that album above almost all of their 80s albums. I love that song sooo much, and not even just because Steve Howe is on it
Queen is one of my favorite bands! I would say that they were semi-prog in the early 70s but besides that they aren’t
Also Sheer Heart Attack is my favorite!!
Yeah, that title track is so killer!!! And Steve does a great job.
Just finished listening to all of their studio albums. I still have News Of The World at the 🔝.
But I enjoyed them all and I enjoyed your rankings Scot!
Scheduled to watch Bohemian Rhapsody movie tonight because I just watched Rocketman last night.
🌃 🌉 I'm on a roll! 🥐
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Queen rules. Simple as that!!!
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love Queen, especially those 1st 4 records. My ranking is pretty similar.
A Night at the Opera is an absolute classic.
Top 2 tracks: The Prophet's Song and March of the Black Queen.
also I happen do really enjoy the Flash Gordon soundtrack, lol.
Yes sir!!!
Great Queen Video ! Some of the songs on a Night At The Opera sound like "Honey Pie" by The Beatles ! So it is A Day At The Races for me ! Good Band Live ! Grear Queen Video !
Your top four is fantastic, and basically their four progiest. The debut is so underrated ....
Amazing record!!! Those first four. Yeah.
All the songs off A Kind of Magic were *perfect* fit for the Highlander movie.
Hey Scot! 964! Album wall looks great!👍😎
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Great list brother! Not mine mind you, but great reasonings nevertheless!😉❤👌
But of course!!!
“Innuendo” is my favourite Queen album, I love every song and it’s a masterpiece in my opinion. 😌👍
I probably ranked it a bit too low!!!
@@TheProgCorner Don’t worry it’s your opinion Scot, I’m a huge defender for tracks such as “Delilah” and “The Hitman”. I can understand why people don’t like “Delilah” as the lyrics are quite silly but it was about Freddie’s favourite cat, Freddie thought he didn’t have long left so he wrote it as quickly as possible and I like the synths used throughout. I’ve never understood why people don’t like “The Hitman”, it is nearly 5 minutes but it’s got some great Brian May riffs and solos and it’s probably Queen’s heaviest song. 😊👍
Wow Scot. A walk through the regality that is Queen. Unquestionably one of the greatest bands in the world, I was fortunate to see them twice (76,77) in central England as a youth and man those concerts are still at the forefront of my memory. Freddie was unique in as much as he knew the limitations of his voice ‘live’ so switched octaves with ease. Brian May and his amazing home built guitar did things that electronic music could only dream about, Roger Taylor played and sang like a man possessed and John Deacon…. Well John was John.
Some great albums there and a very fair ranking indeed. There was some cr*p but not much over the years thank the lord.
A great, great ranking from God Save The King…. The King of Prog. King Scot man!!
I lot less crap than I remembered. A surprisingly solid catalog…
"I never liked QUEEN very much. I just can not stand his voice.. (And i like Geddy Lee, Hehe), BUT I Respct QUEEN and I think that Freddie Mercury is the Greatest Frontman for a group EVER!! He was Awesome for this band! Do not get me wrong, Some of their songs are GREAT!.. Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the greatest hard rock songs of all time! But most of their stuff is just Bleh for me, IMHO. Their early stuff is the Good songs, when they were kind of proggy! The rest is just kind of Pop Blah.. QUEEN went down hill faster than Genesis in POP Blah shit"!
Thank You for this video as Always! This band is Royalty in music, and should always be respected, as they are QUEEN & Freddie!
Well said!!!
Queen is one of those bands that, to me, always resonates more for me in a live setting. I was of course weened at the teat of The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, Live at Wembley and the use of One Vision in Iron Eagle, and We are the Champions in Revenge of the Nerds #JohnnyLawrencePlayList lol
Witnessing Freddy sway the emotions of a 40k plus fans with a fist pump as opposed to the albums is, to me, is like the difference between Zappa's studio leads and live leads. The live leads always resonate.
Iron Eagle!!!
I see nothing lame about A Night at the Opera being #1. It's a perfect album. The put their #1 song of all time essentially last on the album, and I'm perfectly content waiting for it.
Absolutely!!! Great song sequence. It flows really well and has definitely stood the test of time!!!
First concert I went to.
I was 13 years old.
Qieen.. January 13th 1977.
Milwaukee Auditorium.
Opening band- Cheap Trick
Why didn’t I go to that? I was living in Milwaukee in 1977. What an idiot I was…
Queen reviewed by the King ! This is the real thing, not just fantasy !
Life is good!!!!👍
I adore Sir Brian May, Ph.D.'s '39! I'm a fan of folky-style tracks anyway, and then throw in science fiction themed lyrics and I'm sold.
...leave it to an Astro-physicist to put lyrics about time dilation into a love song. 💖
Exactly right!!! What a song!!!
I also really like May's Prophet Song. The lyrics are fantastic and Mercury's canon-like vocal looping is stunning.
May’s songwriting on fleek…
1. A Night at the Opera (1975)
2. Queen II (1974)
3. Innuendo (1991)
4. Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
5. News of the World (1977)
6. Queen (1973)
7. A Day at the Races (1976)
8. Jazz (1978)
9. The Works (1984)
10. The Game (1980)
11. The Miracle (1989)
12. A Kind of Magic (1986)
13. Hot Space (1982)
14. Made in Heaven (1995)
15. Flash Gordon (1980)
I need to listen to Innuendo some more!!!
Wow, almost exactly my list too!
Live Aid saved Queen. Freddie had 100000 people in the staduim and .illions watching g on TV in the palm of his hands. Momentous.
God Save the Queen!
I was mesmerized.
Innuendo should be a few spots higher in my opinion, but I agree with your bottom and top picks though.
Same top 4 as me Scot. Those first 4 albums are fantastic. Innuendo is my favourite of the albums after Jazz
I was maybe a bit too hard on Innuendo…
Right??? 👍
Where do I even begin!? Queen were the first classic rock band I ever liked. I wouldn't consider them prog but rather prog influenced. And even though I HATED the bo rhap movie, I do still have a long history with them.
2015 was my first phase. I hardly remember anything that wasn't Queen/Queen related I listened to that year. I got into them by sheer chance and my favorite album at the time was Innuendo. I was obsessed with the flamenco part on the title track. In hindsight with YES being my current #1, I feel like my ignorance of Howe has come back to haunt me. I chose to believe Brian did that guitar part! My brain hadn't yet developed then, so I was such a purist....(add to that, remembering instances when I came in contact with things that I would eventually love later in life fascinates me)
2021 was my 2nd phase (brought about by nostalgia reasons). I connected with other queenies online and at the time some of them were getting into a little band called GENESIS....eventually I joined their number, and that is when I finally gave prog a chance.
So not only do Queen continue to define my 7th and 8th grade years but they were the indirect gateway to the prog that has encapsulated me for the past year and a half!
At the time Genesis took over, my Queen top 3 was the last 3: The Miracle, Innuendo, and Made in Heaven. Rounding out the top 5 were Sheer Heart Attack and Jazz. And strangely enough I only had one favorite member the whole time: ROGER!
I feel the urge to talk now about my history with prog.....even though its short but I do have the memory of a tarkus
Queen is the perfect gateway drug!!! I had a friend in school who was a big Queen fan. We would have arguments all the time: Yes Vs Queen. He was the reason I got into them after hearing Killer Queen on the radio. He was already into them so I had an easy way to hear the first couple albums!!!
Imho Queen are so entry level compared to YES it is no argument. Those debates must have been very wild then
@@Sammeep02 They were but we're still friends!!!
Before I watch this my favorite Queen albums are Jazz, Innuendo and Sheer Heart Attack. I"m sure your list will be a bit different.
Ha ha!!! I was just watching “Bad Grammar 61.” Weird.
are they prog?, hell yeah, they're also glam, hard rock, metal, funk, disco and many other genres, i owe my musical taste to this band, God save the Queen!
I love Queen. They did what they wanted.
I didn't liked Queen 2 after first listen. But then I listened to it on repeat while doing homework. It did grow on me but very slowly.
Same here. It took a minute to sink in…
Queen II
Queen
A Night At The Opera
Sheer Heart Attack
Jazz
News Of The World
A Day At The Races
The Game
A Kind Of Magic
Innuendo
The Works
The Miracle
Hot Space
Flash Gordon
Made In Heaven
Excellent list!!!
Queen is a fantastic band, my favourite album is Queen II. I also adore Caligonaut album behind you 👍👍👍.
You noticed!!! 👍
@@TheProgCorner Of course, I also think there is a Shamblemaths album there. 👌👍👍
Don't like to contradict you, Scott, but Queen were highly rated in the UK even in the 90s. On the prestigious and credible 'Record Collector' magazine 'Top 500 Collectable Artists' Readers Poll, Queen came in at no. 2 (The Beatles were no. 1 natch) in 1997. I do suspect they'd struggle to make the top 100 in the US at the time though. No complaints about your ranking.
That’s probably right. My US centric worldview can get in the way…
@@TheProgCorner Nah, that's OK. I'm just as UK centric (though we do produce the best prog! Actually, that's an interesting and highly contentious ranking list - 1. UK 2. Italy 3. Sweden 4. Canada 5. USA. Ooh! The arguments!)
I would switch the US and Canada (and perhaps include Norway) but I think that’s about right. I love RPI.
@@TheProgCorner I was awarding double points to Rush! but yeah, 6.Norway, 7. Japan 8. France 9. Germany and 10. about a dozen countries tied.
That sounds about right!!!
I see no reason why Queen couldn't be considered prog. They pushed the boundaries of rock by combining it with opera and classical music, and the production techniques they used for vocal layering were way ahead of their time. They also managed to do something that many "official" prog bands didn't, in that they got one of their proggiest pieces (Bohemian Rhapsody) to become a hit single without editing it to death.
Thank you. I couldn’t agree more!!! What an amazing band.
The Miracle and The Works above Innuendo? To me the latter has much more depth and would be much higher in my ranking.
"He says he know you." I predicted your top 7 ranking perfectly. My wife and I played a game. "Let's guess Scott's ranking." She owes me my pick of any 2023 prog album.
I was 11 for 14. She went 8 for 14.
That’s awesome!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Queen is one of those bands with no real bad albums... they are all great.
Yes sir. Even Made In Heaven and Hot Space. Even the Flash Gordon soundtrack is fun.
@@TheProgCorner fourteen year old me listening to the lp News of the World in my friends tiny room…✅
It’s Late blasting into the rest of the house…
Sheer Heart Attack is Queen at their very best.
Queen 2 a close second.
Night at the opera
The game
News of the world
Sheer Heart Attack is getting major love here in the comments!!! And why not?! It’s amazing.
Black Seminole by Lil Yachty. Is it prog?
An excellent question. Why not? Prog is about pushing the envelope…
QUEEN II IS VERY PROG AMAZING ALBUM
Yes!!!
Did you know that critics accused Queen of using synthesisers on their first album? Stupid critics, it was actually Brian's guitar 😂
Until they released the game, they made sure to put "nobody played synthesiser" on the albums.
I know, right? That’s why it was such a big deal when they gave in…
"I hate this album. hot space but tracks 1,2,3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are prettty good."
Exactly.
Their worst album is the Flash Gordon soundtrack - Other than that, they don't really have a bad album...
That is a fact!!!
11 Innuendo? My top 5
I love the title track. The rest is good but not great to me. #11 does sound really low, doesn’t it? What do I know!!!
Queen II hasn’t been bettered by anyone.
Great album!!!!
I thought I was the only one who felt A Day at the races was a HUGE let down. It's too soft. Too much filler.
I was so excited when it came out. Felt like a rush job follow up to a surprise hit. Maybe that’s why News Of The World sounded so good to me - my expectations were quite low at that point…
Made in Hell
Hey man...are you holding out on us?
You keep sniffing *sniff *sniff
Sniffing is the international language of holding something "of substance"
So...what u got?
I must have a Death Wish!!!
Ending needed a GONG 😂