Queen - Great King Rat (Official Lyric Video) 

You really gotta look up the meaning of underrated, zoomer.

@@jondunmore4268 I mean compared to their later stuff, the early stuff is underrated. There aren’t any songs from Queen I or II in their top 20 most streamed

@@jondunmore4268 there earlier stuff is underrated compared to all there other work

@@jondunmore4268 thei first ever album didnt sell well. As brian may said, it wasnt very radio friendly as it took time for the song to hook you in and thats wherw Queen 2 came in, they made sure the songs were radio friendly with the hook coming in as early as possible

When Brian opens his wah.....it sounds as if the King Rat is throwing up......... brilliant!

Queen started very small, they once called the band Smile, and it wasn't till after Killer Queen the band became popular and only a year later they released what is considered their best song, Bohemian Rhapsody, but many devout Queen fans will tell you to listen to a different song they believe is underrated. Underrated is a term coined by Queen fans that wanna stay hip and seem cool by acting like they know every Queen song and will most likely say it is better than [insert any popular Queen song after 1975]. This song isn't underrated it was just in the earlier years of the band, when they were still in the discovery age, so this song isn't underrated it was just ignored for the most part, forgotten. This is a really long and rambling on comment, so the point is that just because something is popular it started from the top, it took many years for Queen to get as famous as it is now. Or maybe I misread your comment and you were right and I wrote this essay for nothing. Cheers mate

eBaka I think they were talking about quality of music. They didn’t need to learn. They started off as experts of music.

and could do many genres in one song(reference to the song Bohemian Rhapsody)

your damn raight

@@cokelackingice They became popular with the release of "Queen II" and "Seven Seas of Rhye"

Take the March of The Black Queen for example, I was majorly shocked when that countinued past that little piano fade

Queen songs are like marvel movies

Josh 'The True Master' yeah and innuendo too

@@lyingonthekitchenfloorasus608 don't disrespect Queen by comparing them to Marvel

@@alexharvey6522 I think he means because Marvel movies when everyone thought theyre done but they arent after they show the credits of names and its gonna have like a 10-15 seconds video and then it finally ends 😂

Ye man!!!

almost every queen song*

stuart morris ywas was the way I this can

@@Drsus-dg7jg i dont understand.

And we’re all like: 👁👄👁

Waw Brian May is a genius with his red guitar 🎸

Queen was just the best ever - what a repertoire!

Love this and 'Liar'.

Agree.

I agree!!! I guess, my 16 years old son can also confirm this.

+Miles Jolly and don't forget "Liar".

+Coen Ruijs never listened to that one mate but will seek it out, thanks for recommending it to me :)

+Miles Jolly and, what did you think of it?

+Coen Ruijs If he says that he didn't like it, he would be a LIAR

Nobody believes him! LIAR!

yes ahead! their stuff was more harmonic more agressive harder and softer at the same time.. never been done before and i didnt hear much like that since for some debut album it was the real deal

Actually it was right for its time. Their rock was very natural in the musical enviroment of that time. 10 years later everything already changed, and (sadly) so did Queen music.

Absolutely!!!!!! I totally agree!!! I am listening to this 2021 and last year too and enjoying so much!!! Love this so much!!!!! :-)

@@spionsilver9626 BAM!! ("Good on Ya" & See my above comments Spion!!)....

And the times still haven't caught up

well to be fair, they’re called *queen.*

@classygal Yea

Princes of the Universe

@Galileo Do Gods count???? Well some of the gods are royalty so that's why I'm asking

Don’t forget God Save The Queen

A Nail and Head moment, right there.

Yeah, I'm one of theme ❤️😂

Right! 70s Queen is betterrrrr

Yes

Let's be honest, their first album was weak.

That's funny

It is probably because it doesn't have that QUEEN SOUND YET , OR , AT LEAST , JUST SOME OF THE QUEEN SOUND , BUT STILL , MASTERPIECE

I knew someone would do that 😜.

Lmao puns should br illegal lmao

@@abandonedaccount8378 omg lmao

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@@fourondrugs9122 😳

@@bingusmybeloved1760 😳

@@valeriebarcenas5566 😳

@@bingusmybeloved1760 😳

John Deacon is quite the electronic engineer, as well as a kick ass bassist. The Deacy amp was a masterpiece, that Brian has spent years trying to reverse engineer with limited success.

You can't not like his playing. I do not allow such crime to happen.

May's sound is always determined by what the song needs (within the boundaries of the technology available) :)

ye people forget

Totally unique because literally nobody has a guitar even similar to his. He built it from scratch using wood and materials he found at his house when he was a teenager. It's truly a one of a kind instrument and it sounds great

Y Hot space? Bien gracias

Hot space? really you forgot it

Live killers is not an "official album"

No. Just Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, News Of The World, Live Killers, The Game, The Works, The Miracle, and Innuendo

@@shewolfcub3No. Just Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, News of the World, Jazz, The Game, The Works, A Kind of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo and Made in Heaven. (the only one I'd take out is A Kind of Magic, but it has Who Wants to Live Forever, so I'll keep it)

The most underrated guitarist of this era, or, any era.

@@stephenlisson1994 how is he underrated? He is one of the most well known guitarists ever

Absolutely legendary

No the guitar cloud slash is thr guitar beast

Buckethead is honestly the best guitarist who ever lived...

Yes

@@mrpatrick5366 well hello again lol

yasssssssss

+Octavio Cortex not true I no many that do and yes they will, many do

"I was born in the wrong generation" P.S. Nothing wrong with 14 year olds who listen to 70s music

+Octavio Cortex oh yes they do

+The Shadow Of Innocence and the next generations !!!

the best time to be born would be the the early to mid 50s. Because you could see Queen live in the 70s and 80s. And all the other great bands in their prime

IzzyTheInsane97 I think this is called Progressive Rock

@@fahrenberg3940 I think SOAD refrence

You don't know anything about progressive rock, right?

early 70s progressive

He said in an interview that he wanted to be able to sit everything. In the beginning, he died to fit it all into every song.

Your video sent me here!

Hey I just came here from your video! Thank you.

You're absolutely right, although I think this song makes a good object lesson in that idea because it's actually fairly straightforward: Mercury first describes King Rat as society saw him living in its streets, a rebel and a delinquent, with tense, angry music underlying this simmering conflict. Then after three times indicating that the implications haven't sunk in for the listener and that he's in need of a more direct way of showing us what Great King Rat was all about ("Now what did I tell you/Would you like to see?"), the tension gives way into a glorious exultant bridge in which Rat's philosophy and the freedom it entails is proclaimed by Mercury as from atop mountains. It's a song about the romance of rebellion, which comes on at first like it's about the grimness and grittiness of rebellion but keeps giving you clues until it finally admits what it's doing, leaving just enough time to reaffirm the bottled violence of the first section as the flipside of the bridge's liberating swell, returning to the street and its fights with the sacred revelation of Holy Mischief now burning in the heart and landing the punches even harder.

@@MagusMirificus Excellent reading right here

I usually give that title to Appetite For Destruction but this album is definitely worthy

Brighton Rock, Father to Son, Now I'm Here etc etc

Roger's best drumming performance is the career at Queen I think

5:38 is When Roger starts firing.

@@sloganreadersloganreader6736 YES OMG

@@sloganreadersloganreader6736 so cool

You can literally call every Queen song except a few exceptions, you can even say "Spread Your Wings" or "39" and "Love Kills (Ballad)" are all underrated songs, even though they each have over 1 million views on RU-vid

I want to like your comment, but there’s 39 likes lol

Maylor Deacury if there still was it would be a coincidence

Sweet Lady is the one and only Queen song I've heard that I simply cannot like. One of the few that really isn’t underrated.

Even bohemian Rhapsody is underrated...

Levon helm is better

​@@KentuckyBradNever heard of him

@@Theprophet3928A Drummer/Vocalist that worked with a couple different bands. Apparently he has a pretty damn good voice.

+Konrad Tarand Most Queen songs are "underrated", but that's a good thing. If they were popular/well known they would be (over)played at radio stations. Now, everytime I listen to Queen, it's special and it will cheer me up.

To be fair, Queen songs are at the inherent disadvantage of having to compete with other Queen songs.

Modern times rock n roll is underrated

By whom? I listen to it like 3x every week :) (Praying that Edguy will one day make a cover.... *sigh*)

I agree, to me this is one of the greatest Queen song ever... I don't get why people make most case of Queen II as a greater album, Queen I has at least 3 of Queen's greatest songs ever, "Keep Yourself Alive", "Great King Rat" and "Liar", I just don't hear anything that good in Queen II.

*Freddie*

I got this

No it was always there in their first album :)

i didn't mean left off.. i mean like this is a song off of their first album.. i meant was shocked at how good they are in the first go.

Ok

+fayenesse Talking of Jesus. Check that song out, if you liked this then "Jesus" will blow your socks off! Also from the first album. :)

+fayenesse :-)

Agree absolutely. 75 and listening from Australia

i love the first album very much (very underrated)

Mihai Mike Queen 1 and Queen 2 oh god

Queen, Queen 2 and Innuendo :D

No doubt. I have 3 different copies of the album on vinyl

It’s not the album sucks

Please stop using underrated until you understand what it means, zoomer.

@@jondunmore4268 ok... what does it mean then

@@jondunmore4268 it is underrated compared to their other albums,that's what he means

The best band of all time! 💜

​@@jondunmore4268and you shouldn't fuck at all what he wrote

Hey it’s Bohemian Submarine! I saw you in the comment section of “I Feel Fine”!

@@kosi684 Nice to know it haha :D

Da thing is Is I’m da rat queen tho 🐀

@@-kashik0-10 wow I already forgot about this comment LMAO

Happy anniversary. 21/5/22

Every queen song is underrated

VisualShock WorldWide no

The conclusion I came to after listening to every album in preparation for the Bohemian Rhapsody film is that damn near every song is fucking tremendous. Folks I work with have been asking me, "Whats your favorite Queen song?" and I want to give them a list.

Nepali films

Agree

LJsShiz can’t argue (listen to my fairy king)

unfortunately all songs before Bohemian Raphsody were forgotten :(

@@TheVoltrom killer queen was before bohemian rhapsody 😂

Well yes but YES.

N1

One of!

@@bryanmelanson4235Weird way to say you want to be impaled by a stake but okay. (Just kidding )

Geiner Elizondo Agree but "Liar" and "My Fairy King" are right there. 1a. and 1b. to this track. Of course this is Queen we are talking about ... it is all great. ;-)

Actually this is hard; I mean, I love all the freakin' album so much XD

Im marking the 21st of may on my calendar

@@MACCA757should be international queen day lol

you cant die though, queen said to keep yourself alive

Die syphilis?

@@jordan-gz7cp Point for this gentleman. Keep yourself alive, bro. Great King Rat is for other... Beings, not Queen fans ⚔️

But were you born on the 21st of May?

I’m not sure you want people knowing that you died of syphilis

My teacher with whom I start for an hour with and who I finish for two hours is absent, this gonna be a great day.

@@winniestreetzer1404 was it

@@user-cb2gu1sw9w it was

no, Zep did that in '68. Queen just perfected it :D

@@donwhite8636 What Zep song was power metal you fucking pleb?

@@drdead2006 Mind you manners, Dr DEAD.

A later track on this album-Son and Daughter-shows a strong Black Sabbath influence. Queen are great, but their early forays into metal owe a lot to the Sabs, Mssrs . Butler, Iommi, Osborne et al. Credit where credit's due!

Actually "Sweet" started it all off. Before Queen, Bowie, etc., there was Sweet. Their management had them doing pop stuff but let them have the B sides. And they rocked.

the sheer quality of albums back then were of the very highest level.that standard has never been reached since and the 60's/70's will go down in history as the best most creative period EVER for music.

Every time I think I can find common ground with hardcore Queen fans around their hard rock material, they have to go and praise Roger's terrible plodding sloppy "slow down guys, we are in danger of hitting a groove" drumming. He had other (vocal and image) qualities, and he definitely had his moments even when (as here) he didn't have Freddie's piano or a drum machine to keep him honest, but he was never very good, let alone perfect. And I love a lot of songs he nearly ruined!

I read this comment as a piece of RAT

@@emoedison Bro…

Just like Keep Yourself Alive also I wonder what Bohemian Rhapsody means

They incorporated more classical european musical styles into rock whereas American acts were still doing blues oriented rock. The result is way better music.

@@clarenceeugene9692 you are so right. And that's one reason (I speculate) that they never quite went over here as well as in the UK. There are 2 branches (to simplify). I LOVE that the Euros have the classical influence (but then I took piano/ballet for years).

@George Lincoln Rockwell Archive haha no George, just no.

Clarence Thompson Blues-oriented rock that, with a few notable exceptions, was lacking in the musical subtleties that made blues what it is.

@George Lincoln Rockwell Archive how wrong can you be.zappa is a fave of mine but Queen are iconic with a classic British sound.cant compare with Frank fucking Zappa ffs.and the states always ahead? not from about 1963 onwards.now what happened to change music and ultimately,THE WORLD in '63,erm,errrr,oh yeah.....The Beatles.never looked back from then on and the creative genius displayed by British bands and artists is incomparable,the standard was so high.

And that's why they are my two favorite albums you could literally write some sick ass fiction with that

I feel it was maybe TOO complex for some, considering the glam scene at the time.What a great rock song,and maybe Freddie's best work.

me rn, i finished night at opera and queen 2, got a lot left to go

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Christiane Moor ♥ :))

♥ :))

One of my all time favorite! ;-)

Elis Erlen ♥

I think it is because people tend to know the charting songs rather then the album exclusives, because of things like NTV and Top 40 radio

It doesn't get any airplay here in LA. As in, actually none. Zero times have I heard it on the radio.

Why do People prefere the Beatles?

QUEEN IS THE BEST FORGET ABOUT THE REST!!!!

where's the swearing?

@@rodrigosalinascorona not swearing exactly but the lyric "yes, he was the son of a whore". Obviously it was the 1970s, but I don't usually like songs with profanities in them, but if they're mild ones like the example I gave, I don't really mind.

@@rodrigosalinascorona "yes he was a son of a whore"

Same

And an astrophysicist :)

I know I wish they would have kept a little bit of it in there later work not to knock there later stuff or anything its great too but this it just sounds so idk hard seems like a good description of it.

DEAD right

True