Queen's (other) Operatic Masterpiece 

That is a mood

Beatles too

Doctor Alto Clef having opera is variety?

Doctor Alto Clef no

@@Meatle. the songs of the beatles have very much variation and they always experimented with different instruments, but their songs weren't really hard if you look at the chords they used, those were very basic. They were also in the same genre a lot. Queen did a way better job of going into other keys and had very much variation in musical genres, but they would have the same instruments most of the time; guitar, bass, drums and ocassionaly a piano or synth. So both bands were really great at different elements of music.

Same for me

I love innuendo, is one of my favorite songs by Queen.

Me too, Innuendo is my absolute favorite Queen song

These are the days of our lives is one of my favorites

Well , uk no. one hit, so not entirely overlooked :-)

Masterful piece of work.

Hell yeah!!!

100% agree

And album

@@emitwilson8906 If Innuendo is your favorite album, then what do you think about Made in Heaven?

so is their earlier stuff, their first two albums are great.

their early works too, Queen 1 and Queen 2 can easily be one of Queen's album. Keep yourself alive, father to son, ogre battle and seven seas of rhye

@@ricimercury9490 The March of the Black Queen

@Toxic Potato March of the Black Queen is a total masterpiece, so is The Prophet's Song, '39, Death on Two Legs, and so many others

I thought most of their songs on "The Works" are fabulous --- shame America turned it's back on Queen after '84

me too!!

Yep! They sure have everything from Thrash Metal to Opera :)

I've the same problem with David bowie but queen does it too

Yes, it was the perfect moment. Robert Plant was singing Inuendo at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and he hadn't learned all the lyrics to Inuendo, so he threw in some Kashmir lyrics to make up for it - and they were amazing - way better than the lyrics he was trying to read off the paper on the floor. LOL Thanks for reminding me of that. 🙃 I'd been listening to so much Queen n I'd never heard Kashmir, so I looked it up. What a great (and heavy) song!

Not really - Bohemian Rhapsody's oper section is playful and shapeshifting. The Prophet's Song just repeats the same gimmick for a way too long time, to the degree that the guitars crashing in feel like a relief, unlike BR which makes one want revisit the a cappella part over and over again.

Herr Schmidt I’m not saying Prophets Song is totally on the level of BR. I’m just saying it’s one of Brian’s most interesting creations which i believe is underrated in the grand scheme of Queen’s discography. And I personally think Freddie’s echoing harmonies are quite haunting and beautiful rather than a gimmick. But that’s just my personal opinion

It is certainly unique.

Wyatt Brownell yep PS is brilliant.

A lot of songs on A Night At The Opera are overshadowed by bohemian rhapsody unfortunately.

u can literally see the growth from liar > march of the black queen > bohemian rhapsody its crazy

So true! Especially Nevermore might be the most beautiful piece I've ever heard

exactly! Innuendo song stands in this line! typicall Freddies masterpiece. here he brings his education in classical music to rock. song is 90% written by Freddie.

Why drag Mr. Mercury down by comparing him to small fry?

@@Kowasi pure truth

According to a documental, the lyrics were made it by Roger Taylor

Innuendo is easily1 of queens worst songs. Amazing craftsman ship and lyrical/ sonic prowess aside. In the grander scheme of queens career and being a good song to throw on, the song fails miserably. The song sports a lot of great ideas all held back by 1 thing... the original idea was terrible. To make a song like that... clouded in synths that would soon sound dated and to have it build around more circus sounding music instead of operatic... these were some of its downfalls. The song just sounds like a giant mess whereas bohemian sounds like everything perfectly falls together. Bohemian was built off of an amazing idea... to bring the opera to rock and roll, make a multi part song (something only played around with by bands like the Beatles and yes and king crimson.... but never really used in a more pop oriented in your face way) that was worthy of its parts, to make a triumphant stage worthy tragedy unfold in front of the audiences eyes... bohemian was built on all of these amazing ideas while innuendo was built on nothing "let's rip off led zeppelin, let's try and repeat the succsess of bohemian rhapsody ect. Ect.

Kowasi so you are saying freddie>beethoven? ur out of ur god damn mind

March of the black queen is amazing, one of my favorites hands down

Seconded on "March of the Black Queen" Great song!

I assumed this was going to be about Queen II - easily one of my favorite Queen albums. Brian's guitar playing and Freddie's vocals are killer on this album.

Just listen Queen II, sheer heart attack, day at the races, and many more. Highkey underrated albums that no one ever talks about

Good ole fashioned lover boy is GREAT

Sounds like he was a great brother --- his spirit lives on when you listen to Queen !!

Well, here's a thought that may help. Your brother's probably in heaven now meeting Freddie.

Because Freddie didn't get to perform it live and show/guide the world through this album.

That whole album is EPIC....

Esther L. Yes! like a trifecta or something; a great career-spanning trio!

Freddie got a n-word pass and didn't know what song to put it in.

Yasss

Yes listen to it with headphones!

Many Queen songs are masterpieces

My thoughts where ‘March of the Black Queen’ as well. My favorite Queen track btw.

Same here dude, it was pretty much a proto Bohemian Rhapsody. My Fairy King is also amazing.

Motbq is better imo, but innuendo is amazing as well

Yeah, same here. I'd also love to see a video on March Of The Black Queen.

Same, but with The Prophet's Song

mojorisen74 the other 2 recorded before he died was You Don’t Fool Me and A Winter’s Tale

True but Innuendo was the last album Freddie completed and MIH while nice is not on the same level.

It's important to remember that Mr. Taylor and Mr. May taking lead vocals on Queen songs wasn't unheard of on the 70s Queen albums. I miss that a little on the later albums. The circumstances on Made In Heaven were tragic, and that Mr. Mercury's health deteiorated so much that he couldn't finish his own song is hard to hear. However, if he hadn't been the sole vocalist for such a long time, then perhaps there would have been more stomach within the band to create more Queen albums after he passed away...

Just listened to it MIH. A fine effort. Like!

MIH is the only "nice" album Queen ever did. Their b-song selections done without Freddie in the production room.

"Now I'm Here" is an excellent song! One of my favorites from Queen.

The sleeve of the original Queen II has a picture from the Bohemian Rhapsody music video.

@@tjs2014 it's the other way around

Tech Innuendo where did you get from that it’s underrated.. Get your facts straight ... I was and never will be underrated lol

Or father to son!

My Fairy King ?

Cool!

I'd throw "Cool Cat" into the ring for the most underrated piece. It falls into the time between Queen being good rock and Queen being good pop and is lost on an entirely insignificant album, which is entirely overshadowed by one of their greatest singles.

ayy that's what i thought it was gonna be too

I wouldn't describe The Prophets Song as operatic (at least not like MOTBQ, BR, Innuendo), it's just super long.

My fave Queen song.

Thank you!

The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke - there is something epic and playful about the song describing that painting.

The Prophet´s Song is a masterpiece.

I think "was it all worth it" is also a underrated song

Those two are above Bohemian Rhapsody for me now.

Woow. Can we get twelvetone here to complete the triumviate?

Hey, Lie! Love the videos

Ha, my music RU-vidrs collide, awesome!.

I love bohemian rhapsody but I love this one better.

I thought you guys were the same channel

AMAZING ALBUM . I opened the CD on my way to work and had to stop to listen to it . Freddy was in RARE form!

he sure was :)

No, his last words were on Made in Heaven. And they weren't nearly as compelling as this. Perhaps understandably.

True, those are his last recorded songs, but i meant the last album released while still alive, he knew that the next album would be more than likely after his unfortunate demise.

Innuendo is pretty good but not that Underrated, I was honestly hoping this would be another Night at the Oprea song called the prophets song if you haven’t heard it listen to it.

Same!

I saw Queen Extravaganza play It's Late last month. Another under-rated Queen song

@@johnnymegabyte That's awesome!!! Love that song!!

@VarXi - Adolescente Hipster/Poser omg, you are so right!!!! Where is my head!!! Thank you for pointing that out, I should know better.

"It's Late"--my favorite Queen song!! Finally someone mentions it!! Thank you BohemianPrincess!!

@@michaelhalas4287 YESSS!! Love that song so much 😁😁😁😉😉❤

They sang that song for 4 years.

Especially the recording on “At the Beeb”

"Jesus" rocks too… that primal, first album stuff when every door was open and they could have gone anywhere they wanted...

Seconded. My Melancholy Blues shpuld be played at the end of every party as people start going home.

@@Billy219 If you really dislike post-1930s music what are you doing watching a video like this?

*"IS"

Yeah... You already said what i was thinking. A day at the races always is overlooked along side of night at opera and news of the world. The two albums always lost is the inbetweeners. Day at races and my opinion the best queen album... Jazz. Innuendo is pretty awesome. So is made in heaven for what it is

I like the songs in ADATR than ANATO

@Nothing is Real - Millionaire Waltz is perfection. The complex bass accompaniment with the simple piano chords that form the intro is stunning. The tempo changes, waltz played on a guitar, Freddie's vocal modulations from growling rock to breathy softness....all of it!

that is the definitive "other Bohemian Rhapsody" and much as I love Queen, nothing in the 80s or beyond came close to their brilliance in the 70s

@@robingentleman2574 I would disagree. Hammer to Fall, Save Me, Innuendo, Scandal, Made In Heaven, Let Me Live, The Show Must Go On, Miracle, It's a Hard Life are all songs I would consider as on par with 1970s Queen.

I really hope someone says “it’s out tomorrow stupid” so I can so epically whoosh them.

The ending is Shit

it’s out tomorrow stupid

Fergus Rhodes r/whooooosh

Now we just need a movie about Rush where it just shows Geddy Lee screaming for 2 hours

It's finally happened…

I fuckin love that song!

I did as well!

Imagine if it wasn't on the same album as Bohemian Rhapsody! I thought this vid was going to be March of the black queen though.

I thought so too! That is a GREAT song! I love the vocal Cannon and May's guitar work throughout...

Amazing, but not enough... he should probably fix this problem :P

Jason Cromwell My 2nd Favorite Song From them. this being my 1st

Which also accomplished the wonder of making May's voice sound less boring.

@@Schmidtelpunkt fuck you! May's voice is far far far from boring. You on the other hand, will sound like a dying strangled cat, in comparison.

I didn't actually realise Dr. May sings on that track. Apparently it's a shared lead vocal.… This idea that his voice is boring is just jive...

May starts, which then allows the song to take it up one notch by allowing Mercury to take over. Afterwards May just has single lines, which gives a nuance to the song and in a way anchors Mercury to keep him from getting too theatrical. May's voice is very much in tune, but unlike his guitar, it does not add character. Even a worse voice (and mine is certainly worse) would have more edge. '39 must be the most skippable song on A Night At The Opera. But, well, fanboys... if you liked music more than a specific band, it would open up whole worlds to you.

Great… Hot Space doesn't much love. It's good to hear that they killed it live. Actually, I like that album. Dancer and Put Out The Fire are my favourites.