The Most Underrated Albums of All Time: Queen

Dance music is a genre in which the bass can be more prominent than the guitar. Enter John Deacon, who had already had success with “Another One Bites The Dust” in 1980 and now composed another brilliantly simple bass line for “Under Pressure”.

Brian May was angry because his rock guitar had never seemed less important; the fans too. They still haven’t forgiven the band for the funk of the album – and of course Queen were still stuck in the late 70s with that Munich sound.

Freddie Mercury – the hedonistic nightclubber

But for Freddie Mercury, the physically dismantling disco must have been a liberation; his styling had been that of the hedonistic nightclubber for years. His lack of operetta and May’s accompanying rather than leading instrument made “Hot Space” an enormously homogeneous record, but also one that was largely devoid of Queen-typical pathos.

And the falsetto dub of “Cool Cat” belongs in their all-time top three. It’s about a seducer with ever-new finesse. It’s about Mercury.

The most underrated albums of all time

Without concerts and festivals, we suddenly found ourselves looking back at our record collections in the evenings and realized: Often it’s not the canonized classics that people particularly enjoy playing.

Instead, they are albums in the catalog of a beloved artist that you seem to have all to yourself because the rest of the world has spurned them or even forgotten them – misunderstood strokes of genius, overlooked masterpieces, neglected key works and records that are simply much better than their reputation and deserve a reevaluation.

Queen currently:

Queen are back in the States! The American part of their Rhapsody Tour started on October 4th. The first stops were the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore (Maryland) on Wednesday and Thursday.

In front of 14,000, the band played many of their biggest hits together with singer Adam Lambert. There were also surprises: “Stone Cold Crazy” was heard for the first time since 2018 at a May, Taylor, Lambert gig. And the singer tried his hand at “Is This The World We Created…?” for the first time.

Little unpleasant incident for Brian May: During the performance on Thursday, he broke a guitar string during the guitar solo on “Fat Bottomed Girls”.

Next up for Queen and Adam Lambert is Toronto, Canada, followed by Detroit and two definitely spectacular shows at Madison Square Garden in New York. The band’s North American tour ends November 12th in Los Angeles.

Queen live Fall 2023: Rhapsody Tour Setlist

1. Machines (Or ‘Back to Humans’) / Radio Ga Ga
2. Hammer to fall
3. Stone Cold Crazy
4. Another One Bites the Dust
5. I’m in Love With My Car
6. Bicycle Race
7. Fat Bottomed Girls
8. I want it all
9. A Kind of Magic
10. Killer Queen
11. Don’t Stop Me Now
12. Somebody to Love
13. Love of My Life
14. ’39
15. Under pressure
16. Tie Your Mother Down
17. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
18. I want to break free
19. You Take My Breath Away
20. Who Wants to Live Forever
21. Is This the World We Created…?
22. The Show Must Go On
23. Bohemian Rhapsody
24. We Will Rock You (encore)
25. Radio Ga Ga (encore)
26. We Are the Champions (encore)