Queen II

For me, this is a fight between "White Queen" and "March Of The Black Queen", which is ultimately one by the latter.

White side or black side?

White queen is wondeful. So is Seven Seas but, in the end, I have to go for the former.

Ogre Battle all day

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Some Day One Day. For me, so much of this album is underrated, but not exactly in the populist vein of the later and less obscure stuff...

the last four tracks on this are totally amazing. i think i have to pick "seven seas of rhye" as my favourite, it's one of those "when i listen to this i am invincible!!!" songs. but "nevermore" seems to be quite underrated. i actually don't really dig the first half of this record too much, it's so restrained. "father to son" is lovely though.

great great record

The guitar riff on Ogre Battle is a freakin' epic.

I voted for Funny How Love Is

Man - I hope I hope - all just give the album a good re-listen - it's so fun.
That said - 'Ogre Battle' slays ... they sound like they are having so much fun in any Queen boot I have when they play 'it ...

Love the album, but March of the Black Queen is clearly the best.

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Not voting in this series, 1) dont like 'em 2) don't know the albums

Having said that, my guess is that the first album will get as many votes as this one. Maybe more...

Geir, it was some bullshit to skip past the first Queen album, if you're not gonna poll it I will.

Maybe in the end. It is a better album than "Hot Space" at least. But not much more. :)

I missed this, but would have voted "Fairy Feller" without a second thought.

(xpost) FFS "Queen" is way better than "Hot Space"!

I missed this poll too, but "Seven Seas of Rhye", because as aaron said upthread, it's one of those "I am invincible!" (Boris pose) songs that Queen did so well, at least in the early 70's.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Ogre_Battle.jpg

FFS "Queen" is way better than "Hot Space"!

Maybe "Queen" is mainly a collection of "glam" hard rock while "Hot Space" is mainly a collection of funk songs. Neither of them representative of Queen :)

I missed it, but I'd go something like this, with an album that I listened to often when I was 17...

1. Some Day One Day
2. Seven Seas Of Rhye
3. Father To Son
4. Ogre Battle
5. The Fairy Fellow's Master-Stroke

I hate when I miss these polls. Would've put Black Queen over the top, easy. (Though what is with the awkward racial epithet in that song?)

you mean the "nigger sugar" part?

Yeah, is there some reason for that? An old turn of phrase or something?

fucking love this album so much. "Procession" into "Father to Son" into "White Queen" is a flawless 1-2-3 even as resolute and moody the pieces are as opposed to intense attacking songs to begin the album

My favourite stretch is the last three songs. "Some Day One Day" might be the best Brian May song/vocal, too.

"Loser in the End" is a joke I don't quite get.