Since I’ve been having a Queen week, and listening to Queen songs while sketching, I thought we could rate some of your favourite second-best Queen songs. If they’re in the list below they’re banned because they are the classics and that would be too easy.
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Killer Queen |
| Don’t Stop Me Now | A Kind of Magic |
| Another One Bites the Dust | Fat Bottomed Girls |
| Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Hammer to Fall |
| We Will Rock You | The Show Must Go On |
| We are the Champions | One Vision |
| Under Pressure | You’re my Best Friend |
| Radio Ga Ga | Seven Seas of Rhye |
| Somebody to Love | Flash |
| I Want to Break Free | Who Wants to Live Forever |
So if you have a hidden gem you want to reveal, or you can think of anything from Hot Space that you vaguely like (expect Under Pressure (it’s on the list)), I would be interested to know.
The voting is closed now, thanks for taking part. The results are below.
I’ve created a Spotify Playlist of all these songs, which I thought I’d share here:
Second Best Queen Songs – Spotify
The Top Ten Second Best Queen Songs
| Song | Votes |
| 1. Tie Your Mother Down | 15 |
| 2. It’s Late | 14 |
| 2. Love of my Life | 14 |
| 4. The Prophet Song | 13 |
| 4. These Are The Days of Our Lives | 13 |
| 6. Brighton Rock | 12 |
| 6. Now I’m Here | 12 |
| 8. Breakthru | 11 |
| 8. I’m Going Slightly Mad | 11 |
| 8. Spread Your Wings | 11 |
Other Songs Voted for:
| Song | Votes |
| Headlong | 10 |
| The Invisible Man | 10 |
| In Only Seven Days | 10 |
| Innuendo | 10 |
| Keep yourself alive | 9 |
| Liar | 9 |
| March of the Black Queen | 9 |
| Ogre battle | 9 |
| Sheer Heart Attack | 9 |
| 39 | 8 |
| Death on Two Legs | 8 |
| I’m in love with my car | 8 |
| Bicycle Race | 7 |
| Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke | 7 |
| I want it all | 7 |
| It’s A Hard Life | 7 |
| Las Palabras De Amor | 7 |
| Save Me | 7 |
| Father to Son | 6 |
| Flick of the Wrist | 5 |
| In the Lap of the Gods Revisited | 4 |
| Let Me Live | 4 |
| Modern Times Rock ‘N’ Roll | 4 |
| Princes of the Universe | 4 |
| Scandal | 3 |
| Stone Cold Crazy | 3 |
| Tenement Funster | 3 |
| The Miracle | 3 |
| White Queen (As It Began) | 3 |
| You Don’t Fool Me | 3 |
| Put Out The Fire | 2 |
| You`re my Best Friend | 2 |
| A Winter’s Tale | 1 |
| Bijou | 1 |
| Dancer | 1 |
| Dead On Time | 1 |
| Delilah | 1 |
| Doing Alright | 1 |
| Dragon Attack | 1 |
| Dreamer’s Ball | 1 |
| Drowse | 1 |
| Friends Will Be Friends, | 1 |
| Funny How Love Is | 1 |
| Good company | 1 |
| Heaven for Everyone | 1 |
| I Go Crazy | 1 |
| I was Born To Love You | 1 |
| Is this the World We Created? | 1 |
| It’s a Beautiful Day | 1 |
| Jealousy | 1 |
| Keep Passing The Open Windows | 1 |
| Leaving Home Ain’t Easy | 1 |
| Let Me Entertain You | 1 |
| Lily Of The Valley | 1 |
| Long Away | 1 |
| Melancholy blues | 1 |
| Millionaire Waltz | 1 |
| Mother Love | 1 |
| My Fairy King | 1 |
| No More Of That Jazz | 1 |
| No one but you | 1 |
| Play the Game | 1 |
| Ride The Wild Wind | 1 |
| Sail away Sweet Sister | 1 |
| See what a fool i’ve been | 1 |
| She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes) | 1 |
| Sleeping on the Sidewalk | 1 |
| Son & Daughter | 1 |
| Sweet Lady | 1 |
| Teo Torriatte | 1 |
| Too much love will kill you | 1 |
| Was It All Worth It | 1 |
| White Man | 1 |
| Who needs you | 1 |
| You Take My Breath Away | 1 |
If you want to leave a comment below about the list, or any Queen song, or any you think should’ve made the list, then please do.
Thank you for taking part in the survey, and I’ve been playing the playlist all week, it’s brill.
Have a great weekend.
Take care and all the best,
Ian
One of the best bands I never saw live
Definitely one of the best 🙂
First time I saw Queen was in 1975. The venue had a stage and standing room only. No seats. They were doing there black and white attire. Was fortunate to see every U.S. tour they did. I agree with one of the earlier comments that I wish Brian and Roger would have persued solo careers only instead of moving forward with Paul Rogers and Adam Lambert. Both fine musicians in their own right but the “Queen” I feel in love with is gone and have no interest in trying to find a replacement.
Brilliant that you’ve seen them so many times, Sam. And I know what you mean about leving it after Freddie. Haven’t seen them myself since 1986.
That was really difficult as a life long fan. My father was a percussionist and would always drum the rhythms when ever I played my vinyl records. Which I still have.
Yes, there’s a lot to choose from. I’ve also got quite a few on vinyl, haven’t played them for ages because of the ease ofroge Spotify, but when you do it’s more of an experience. Your father sounds a big Roger Taylor fan 🙂
Love your Frank shirt will be ordering one later.
Ah Ho
Thanks Mick, glad you like it
“Death on Two Legs” is a great song from
“A Night At The Opera” and references
the bands “tensions” with their Manager at the time !
Yes, great song, I’ll add that to the list 🙂
Quick comment. Queen were a fine band, made out of 4 marvellous characters each playing vital component parts, each of them great songwriters and musicians. As you suggest. They were far more than a GH’s band, and it will be sad if future generations rely on the GH (3 instalments of) rather than explore the majesty of their albums (Hot Space excluded).
For me , it was a shame they did not do a ‘Led Zep’ and call it a day on the “loss of a dear friend etc”. RIP Freddie (the finest performer I have every have the privilege of seeing).
Absolutley Dave, I agree. There’s far more to Queen than the greatest hits. Maybe John did the right thing calling it a day after Freddie. I haven’t seen Adam live but he seems to be doing a good job, but Freddie was Freddie
Would have loved to have seen Queen with Freddie!! Greatest singer/frontman ever!!
They have plenty of ‘hidden gems’ ..
They definitely have loads of hidden gems, I’ll let you know what the faves are next week 🙂
Further to my Earlier Comment, showed myself up a bit by getting the title wrong, :-0 I obviously meant OGRE Battle, (thanks to my Queen devoted mate Gareth). Although I don’t really class myself as A FAN, I do agree with some of what Dave Brown (Above) said, but haven’t heard any of their stuff with either Paul Rogers or Adam Lambert, so don’t really feel qualified enough to agree or disagree. Was it Freddie’s dying wish that the band carry on? Maybe there was some kind of legal obligation in place whereby the band were contracted to a couple more albums & tours? Or perhaps the band themselves, after careful consideration , felt that it was a good way to keep the name going, as it worked for AC/DC, and then maybe just as quickly they realised it wasn’t as clever an idea in reality as it seemed in discussion
Brian and Roger have done amazing, no one thought they could carry on without Freddie, they must just love it too much (and that Sony deal might have proven them right) 🙂
I had the privilege of seeing Queen with Freddie 5 times and to this day they are still my favorite band . I did see them in October and Brian and Roger still rock !!!!
Seeing them 5 times must’ve been great, only seen them once with Freddie and it was an absolutley great night
Love that my suggestions made the top 10 second best! So many to choose from. We have a lot on vinyl & cd, hardly ever played but can’t part with them!
Sadly I never got to see them with Freddie but have seen them with Adam Lambert a few years ago. He’s not trying to be Freddie & has an amazing voice. Roger & Brian obviously still love performing & the drum off with Rogers son was brilliant. A fantastic evening I won’t forget in a hurry!
You have good second best taste, Debra 🙂 There is a lot to choose from, but I’ve enjoyed listening to the playlist this week, because some of them I haven’t played for ages. Adam’s doing a great job, I think.
First saw Queen in Nov 75 and then the free gig in Hyde Park Sept 76. Crackin gigs !
It would have been great to see them back them, I only saw them in the 80s, but they were brilliant
Saw them at the NEC when it was still a big shed on the Crazy Little Thing tour. Absolutely brilliant!
Bet that was good, I didn’t get to see them until Works and Magic and they were brilliant then as well
One of the biggest disappointments on my live show resume is never seeing Queen live. I had tickets when their were still doing small shows with Mott The Hoople but they canceled due to illness.
That’s a shame about the cancellation. Adam’s doing a good job though, hopefully they’ll tour again soon