What makes the perfect QUEEN soundtrack?
What Are the Top 10 Queen Songs and what order would should they be played. Some of the staff from That Nerd Show made a lost and below are our picks. We all have our favorites and certain songs will be on everybody’s list. But what would be on your Top 10 List…what order would you put them in on how they should be played.
Here are the 3 Songs that end up on everybody’s list
STAFF TOP 10 LISTS
Marcus Blake
We Will Rock You
Hammer to Fall
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Under Pressure
Bohemian Rhapsody
Radio Ga Ga
Somebody to Love
I want it All
Show Must Go On
We Are the Champions
Author’s Note: If you are going to make the ultimate QUEEN…where do you start? Where do you end? There are so many great songs by Queen, but for me, If I could only hear 10 Queen Songs in a huge stadium with thousands of fans just like the Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium in 1985. Every one of these songs I think are perfect for a 10 Set. And if I am going to book end the concert, then I would start with We Will Rock You, the perfect song to get the blood pumping at a concert. I would end with We Are the Champions because when you’ve done something great, that’s the song to end with. Everything else is a melody of emotion in music that only Queen could properly deliver with the audience singing every word and hanging on every note.
Ashley Horne
10) I Want to Break Free
9) You’re My Best Friend
8) Crazy Little Thing Called Love
7) Killer Queen
6) Fat-Bottomed Girls
5) Somebody to Love
4) Another One Bites the Dust
3) We Are the Champions
2) We Will Rock You
1) Bohemian Rhapsody
Author’s Note: My top 10 songs are Played in this order… best to bestest! LOL
Alex Moore
I Want to Break Free
Don’t Stop Me Now
Killer Queen
Under Pressure
Another One Bites the Dust
Somebody to Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
Bohemian Rhapsody
Author’s Note: I decided to make the order into a story, of sorts, while still opening and closing with the proper styles. Making this list made me realize how much of Queen I actually knew and, also, how much I still did not know. Hopefully, the new film will not only galvanize those who are already fans, but usher in many, new fans, as well.
Violet Ravotti
Killer Queen
Radio Ga-Ga
Bohemian Rhapsody
Somebody To Love
We Are The Champions
Another One Bites the Dust
Fat Bottom Girls
Don’t Stop Me Now
Under Pressure
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
You’re My Best Friend
Brendan Smith
We Are The Champions
Princes of the Universe
Author’s Note: The Highlander Theme!
Who Wants to Live Forever
Author’s Note: Yes, Also FROM Highlander!
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Author’s Note: Even Queen has to respect the King
Somebody to Love
One Vision
Author’s Note: Iron Eagle! 80’s guilty pleasure
We Will Rock You
Bohemian Rhapsody
Author’s Note: radio still overplays it to this day
Another One Bites the Dust
Author’s Note: best base riff ever
Fat Bottomed Girls
Author’s Note: even Freddy knew they make the world go round
Sean Firth
(1) Somebody to Love
Author’s Note: My personal favorite Queen song and the perfect opener. The first thing we hear is Freddie Mercury’s voice welcoming us in. It’s a gorgeous song that doesn’t forget it’s rock ‘n’ roll. A song for the lovelorn without ever getting schmaltzy. And it’s a lot of fun to sing the backing vocals.
2) Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Author’s Note: I love songs in which somebody’s baby knows how to rock ‘n’ roll. Just some great rock-a-billy about the joys of being in love. A perfect summer song.
3) Stone Cold Crazy
Author’s Note: Following Queen’s look back at rock ‘n’ roll comes them looking too the future. Stone Cold Crazy predates speed metal by a few years. It’s wild, urgent, and it’ll make you bang your head more than Bohemian Rhapsody will.
4) Tie Your Mother Down
Author’s Note: More great rock ‘n’ roll.
5) Bicycle Race
Author’s Note: This is usually paired with Fat Bottomed Girls when played on the radio. I think it holds up just fine on its own. It’s a silly song that shows Freddie being Freddie. This one is just too much fun.
6) I’m Going Slightly Mad
Author’s Note: Freddie Mercury at his cheekiest. He sings a list of metaphors to describe going mad, resulting in an oddly enrapturing, but silly song. Of course, he was also coming to terms with his deteriorating mental capacities due to the AIDS that would take his life less than a year after this song’s release. Maybe Mercury’s most honest song.
7) Flash
– Author’s Note: Second coolest movie theme song ever written.
8) I’m in Love With My Car
Author’s Note: All great rock ‘n’ roll groups should have at least one song about a car. Roger Taylor came up with a great one about his unnatural attachment to his car.
9) Under Pressure
Author’s Note: Queen joined David Bowie in the studio and the results were pure magic. Mercury takes us to the heights of what he could do with his voice, and Bowie’s deep baritone is the perfect counter. One of rock’s great recordings.
10) Bohemian Rhapsody
Author’s Note: Yes, it’s obvious and overplayed, but it’s Mercury’s masterpiece and it’s brilliant. I can’t deny it a spot on any list of Queen’s best. And that gong at the end makes it the ideal set closer.
Julie Jones
Bohemian Rhapsody
Someone to Love
Under Pressure
We Will Rock You
Another Bites the Dust
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
We Are the Champions
Killer Queen
You’re My Best Friend
God Save the Queen
Author’s Note: No surprise here, Popular songs, but great songs by Queen
