Queen - Great King Rat (Official Lyric Video)

Taken from The Debut Album, 1973.
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Queen - Great King Rat (Official Lyric Video)
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[@nicholasperl1484]

Never trust a Queen song when it sounds like it's over.

[@Josh-os7vn]

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

[@lyingonthekitchenfloorasus608]

Queen songs are like marvel movies

[@xiosponge8774]

Josh 'The True Master' yeah and innuendo too

[@alexharvey6522]

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

[@jimevans2579]

@@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 😂

[@monke2282]

This song is the definition of “but wait there’s more”

[@stuartmorris2803]

Ye man!!!

[@m0zz4re11a1]

almost every queen song*

[@Drsus-dg7jg]

stuart morris ywas was the way I this can

[@stuartmorris2803]

@@Drsus-dg7jg i dont understand.

[@saraa136]

And we’re all like: 👁👄👁

[@m3rcmusic]

Early Queen is so underrated. A perfect blend of progressive rock and heavy metal.

[@jondunmore4268]

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

[@m3rcmusic]

@@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

[@Kashmiror4044]

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

[@goukenslay7555]

@@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

[@markt4815]

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

[@jamie6506]

Some bands start small. Queen? No, they started at the very top and proceeded to break the scale of musical excellence. What a band.

[@cokelackingice]

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

[@Sofia-nu4qt]

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

[@wilbursmoonwater]

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

[@benjaminwolff3935]

your damn raight

[@evyakoyg718]

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

[@npc-1436]

This song is so underRATed..

[@kc-zk1wr]

That's funny

[@josetomasdonoso5053]

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

[@michaelrusso996]

I knew someone would do that 😜.

[@dory4008]

Lmao puns should br illegal lmao

[@dory4008]

@@abandonedaccount8378 omg lmao

[@AlexAngel]

I think, this is one of the best Queen songs ever!

[@mathildesautin8560]

Waw Brian May is a genius with his red guitar 🎸

[@aprilmoore2917]

Queen was just the best ever - what a repertoire!

[@kirksav]

Love this and 'Liar'.

[@elVILLANOstalgia]

Agree.

[@oczlik4]

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

[@milesjolly6173]

If you like this, you may want to look for "The Prophet's Song", "The March of the Black Queen", "Ogre Battle" and "Brighton Rock".

[@coenruijs7140]

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

[@milesjolly6173]

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

[@coenruijs7140]

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

[@winando12]

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

[@coenruijs7140]

Nobody believes him! LIAR!

[@HarekaTysiri]

so this is why a lot of people like the 70's queen better

[@paulr2540]

A Nail and Head moment, right there.

[@reiackerman3681]

Yeah, I'm one of theme ❤️😂

[@lunacxx1330]

Right! 70s Queen is betterrrrr

[@dory4008]

Yes

[@braydenj1327]

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

[@jirem4820]

Man, queen has a thing for royalty: Killer Queen March of the Black Queen White Queen My Fairy King Great King Rat Edit: I forgot Princess of the Universe

[@coainc]

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

[@whatamidoing5836]

@classygal Yea

[@ironinthesoul9680]

Princes of the Universe

[@whatamidoing5836]

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

[@allison2671]

Don’t forget God Save The Queen

[@slomojoe9395]

That whole album so ahead of its time.

[@spionsilver9626]

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

[@edanlaron5552]

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.

[@nesimusic9153]

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

[@Slamit88]

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

[@NuIIname]

And the times still haven't caught up

[@darqv9358]

Everybody gangsta till Brian May's guitar goes wowowowowowowow

[@fourondrugs9122]

😳

[@bingusmybeloved1760]

@@fourondrugs9122 😳

[@valeriebarcenas5566]

@@bingusmybeloved1760 😳

[@bingusmybeloved1760]

@@valeriebarcenas5566 😳

[@valeriebarcenas5566]

@@bingusmybeloved1760 😳

[@user-17su-aj282aui]

Happy birthday, Great King Rat! (21.05.24y.)

[@hernandezs5024]

Brian "The Guitar Beast" May

[@stephenlisson1994]

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

[@renzo3939]

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

[@arkantika6881]

Absolutely legendary

[@dory4008]

No the guitar cloud slash is thr guitar beast

[@KidaMilo89]

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

[@IzzyTheInsane97]

damn this song features like 30 different genres it's mesmerizing

[@fahrenberg3940]

IzzyTheInsane97 I think this is called Progressive Rock

[@samstaton530]

@@fahrenberg3940 I think SOAD refrence

[@PepeLuguillo]

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

[@owenf2835]

early 70s progressive

[@tima9790]

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.

[@MissyFaye]

This was off their first album? Are you kidding me? I came here to be like "see everyone starts small".. well eff me right? jesus..

[@Credin84]

No it was always there in their first album :)

[@MissyFaye]

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.

[@Credin84]

Ok

[@count69]

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

[@ultrasynthax3046]

+fayenesse :-)

[@saraa136]

This song is a pure masterpiece

[@mrpatrick5366]

Yes

[@saraa136]

@@mrpatrick5366 well hello again lol

[@obama_sussy_amongus1571]

yasssssssss

[@joaquinlezcano2372]

I never realized before until I started playing guitar and "training" my musical ear with different artists... that Brian May's guitar tone is truly UNIQUE!. You can either like or dislike his playing or tone, but that specific tone is up there with guys like David Gilmour, Jimi Hendrix and Robert Fripp

[@samsowden]

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.

[@danielfelipe1606]

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

[@kitko33]

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

[@confusedmango6557]

ye people forget

[@Cincinnatus1869]

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

[@margauxcarizo4539]

Literally every queen song is underrated

[@cokelackingice]

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 KZbin

[@bracketsbiscuits4734]

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

[@Nichtbinjkjjjjjj]

Maylor Deacury if there still was it would be a coincidence

[@jamie6506]

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.

[@hassanabolhassani5501]

Even bohemian Rhapsody is underrated...

[@avpaavcomics1299]

Queen, Queen 2, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, News Of The World, Jazz, Live Killers, Flash Gordon, The Game, Hot Space, The Works, A Kind Of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo, Made In Heaven. All of these albums are treasures. The songs they have are priceless.

[@karoll287]

Y Hot space? Bien gracias

[@arifdanial647]

Hot space? really you forgot it

[@petergriffin1409]

Live killers is not an "official album"

[@shewolfcub3]

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

[@refugiocinefilo887]

@@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)

[@daisy-ww4bi]

Most bands start small. Small songs. Small quality. Queen? No Never. Have always had the best quality ever, WAY ahead of their time

[@minecartbeast7354]

Queen's debut was, quite possibly, the best debut of history. Props to Mr. Fahrenheit and the rest of the band!!

[@idorion9096]

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

[@VoyagersRevenge]

This song has an outlaw/western feel... I LOVE IT DEARLY.

[@graysonbottoms3931]

Your video sent me here!

[@necrotiicc3993]

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

[@sign543]

I’m as fascinated by this kind of epic composing just as I am with the classical composers, because I have no idea how they do this...how do they come up with these intricate compositions...they seem so random, but I know they’re not. Freddie had some kind of image in his mind...some message, but how they come to express it in rock composition like this just boggles my brain. The drumming is perfect...the guitar work is perfect, and Freddie’s vocals are pristine. It seems they came from the egg fully formed.

[@MagusMirificus]

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.

[@mikishomeonyoutube2116]

@@MagusMirificus Excellent reading right here

[@bludrugo29]

I think this is the best drumming performance in Roger's career

[@darmap8489]

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

[@augustocondor5714]

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

[@sloganreadersloganreader6736]

5:38 is When Roger starts firing.

[@mahogani564]

@@sloganreadersloganreader6736 YES OMG

[@Greenballoffire]

@@sloganreadersloganreader6736 so cool

[@TheShadowOfInnocence]

Even in death, Freddie and his bands music still rock this generation! 😍

[@TheShadowOfInnocence]

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

[@buckloski9522]

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

[@jgperfater]

+Octavio Cortex oh yes they do

[@Destruction-1990]

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

[@Destruction-1990]

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

[@Greatkingrat68]

Queen has a lot of great albums but the first will always has a special place in my heart

[@salvarod9043]

This song deserves a minimum of 20 millon views

[@Lara-fn2tm]

I got this

[@gothenix]

Wouldn’t you like to know? Wouldn’t you like to know? Weather Boy?

[@stephenbiggins9114]

Greatest rock band ever!

[@bryanmelanson4235]

One of!

[@NA-AN]

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

[@Stickmanisthecool]

Bought my first album 35 years ago when I was 12 years old.That album was greatest hits, it led me on a journey of discovery of all Queen,Freddies vocals,Brian’s brilliant playing , Rogers falsetto and Johns riffs have shaped my life as it is now

[@TheCplHicks]

This song is a f*****g masterpiece!!!!!!

[@user-rg5yn7lt9o]

Never have I heard so much.heavy rock, electric sounding, harmonizing, accoutic mixing , drum pounding . music with a voice for the ages behind this, backed up by geniuses, EVER !

[@gloriapascoe2614]

Agree absolutely. 75 and listening from Australia

[@stevephillips6309]

Brilliant debut album. You can tell form this that they were going to become legends.

[@factoriz]

If I die 44, I want this played at my funeral.

[@jordan-gz7cp]

you cant die though, queen said to keep yourself alive

[@Вихнажд]

Die syphilis?

[@Naileira]

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

[@fruitchewx127]

But were you born on the 21st of May?

[@crazy4gta1]

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

[@Galron1979]

Happy b&d-day, great king.

[@konradtarand4429]

this song is underrated

[@winando12]

+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.

[@twilightwyrm]

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

[@magicmike6961]

Modern times rock n roll is underrated

[@Csoery]

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

[@debiruman9200]

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.

[@zwxndlr-9091]

freddie is the best singer with the voice of an angel

[@KentuckyBrad]

Levon helm is better

[@Theprophet3928]

​@@KentuckyBradNever heard of him

[@NA-AN]

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

[@0mik3mik3]

Why on earth is this album so very underrated? It's certainly in my top 4 Queen albums. And this album is my personal favourite.

[@hermanjanssens9550]

i love the first album very much (very underrated)

[@tortadeaguacate24]

Mihai Mike Queen 1 and Queen 2 oh god

[@gipsnadel6418]

Queen, Queen 2 and Innuendo :D

[@crawnation]

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

[@KentuckyBrad]

It’s not the album sucks

[@bonhamcymbal]

Completely underrated album

[@jondunmore4268]

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

[@bonhamcymbal]

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

[@AndrewLovesQueen]

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

[@garyolson3597]

The best band of all time! 💜

[@user-17su-aj282aui]

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

[@1v966]

Happy birthday Great King Rat. May you rest in peace

[@MACCA757]

Im marking the 21st of may on my calendar

[@The_legobrick]

@@MACCA757should be international queen day lol

[@geinerelizondo2019]

The best song of the album!

[@melleaphart8910]

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. ;-)

[@geinerelizondo2019]

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

[@chseontst4758]

05/21/19 Happy Birthday Great King Rat!

[@hulahop28]

just listen to Freddie's amazing falsetto at about 05.09' ..it compliments guitar solo perfectly..i love this song so much..music, sound, vocals rule..one 9f the best of Freddie imo.

[@winniestreetzer1404]

Start the day with Queen's songs and see a ranbow, this gonna be a great day.

[@winniestreetzer1404]

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.

[@user-cb2gu1sw9w]

@@winniestreetzer1404 was it

[@winniestreetzer1404]

@@user-cb2gu1sw9w it was

[@Shelly_95]

21st of may. Happy birthday great king rat, and album hot space!

[@aeb1885]

Man, Queen Freddie's songs are incredible.

[@josetomasdonoso5053]

THE DRUMS ARE EXQUISITLY PERFECT AND A PIECE OF ART

[@emoedison]

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!

[@jamespendergast3998]

I read this comment as a piece of RAT

[@mahogani564]

@@emoedison Bro…

[@aviliverpoolfan]

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

[@SP-yl1qz]

You have to admit that the Brits do rock music better than anyone else, it may have started here in the states, but it took the British to show us how to do it properly.

[@clarenceeugene9692]

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

[@12Zenyatta]

@@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).

[@emobloom]

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

[@berachtdorian6191]

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

[@TheCornishCockney]

@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.

[@cia898]

This is one of the best songs ever made by Queen

[@leon.bzlpkn]

One of their best debut songs!!! Actually, I like their whole debut album!!Thank you Freddy for music which we delight in until now.

[@Get-BackBowie]

*Freddie*

[@user-rw9ju2zy5u]

The mixture of Jimi Hendrix and Genesis. I think it's miracle that Queen succeeded at the difficult attempt on this Great King Rat. Their deed when they were young proves Queen's talent and greatness.

[@iielysiumx5811]

another very underrated queen song there are so many songs by queen that are great and there so underrated

[@visualkeiworldwide]

Every queen song is underrated

[@anobano8331]

VisualShock WorldWide no

[@aquariusburke7989]

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.

[@kumarnepal1763]

Nepali films

[@love2beamom]

Agree

[@wheatleymf]

It is May 21st today, good timing to listen to the song.

[@recklesscherry3802]

Great King Rat was born today, on 21st of may 2019💕 0:36

[@kosi684]

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

[@recklesscherry3802]

@@kosi684 Nice to know it haha :D

[@-kashik0-10]

Da thing is Is I’m da rat queen tho 🐀

[@recklesscherry3802]

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

[@1v966]

Happy anniversary. 21/5/22

[@wanawana7245]

you could come up with an entire fantasy plot using only songs from Queen and Queen II...

[@Manny29]

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

[@QueenLiveConcerts-dv6mz]

Still miss you every day Freddie! After all those years there is still nobody coming even close, you are still the greatest! ❤

[@johntowers5231]

One of my favorites Queen songs. Very interesting and strong.

[@b..e9431]

Every time I listen to this album, I fall in love with it again

[@LJsShiz]

Great song, under-rated as hell though.

[@hi-yi9gc]

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

[@TheVoltrom]

unfortunately all songs before Bohemian Raphsody were forgotten :(

[@jpbdude4223]

@@TheVoltrom killer queen was before bohemian rhapsody 😂

[@TheRealGamada]

Well yes but YES.

[@goldbrickstudios6903]

Every single Queen song is underrated in one sense or another.

[@medd0ws]

I'm making a plan to listen to every single Queen song by album

[@jordan-gz7cp]

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

[@therebelliousdreamer215]

This song is hitting ne hard ! What a composition , " you're a legend Fred ! "

[@robgeorge4581]

Did Queen invent Power Metal? And in their debut album??? Damn.

[@donwhite8636]

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

[@drdead2006]

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

[@Kowasi]

@@drdead2006 Mind you manners, Dr DEAD.

[@Kowasi]

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!

[@linsioux217]

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.

[@BlazingSkull561]

And again a very underrated song by the best band QUEEN

[@arceptor]

now this is what queen is

[@claralara4532]

N1

[@relaxandrefocuswithmegan]

Freddie isn't dead cos legends never die.

[@keephiding9548]

This song is a masterpiece.

[@sputumtube]

The sound track of my youth - miss the thrill so very much...

[@TheCornishCockney]

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.

[@patriciakent6728]

Freddie proves he can make rock and roll from any lyric, no kidding😀😀😀😀

[@HuongVuOfTheValley]

Those Queen songs are just soo (yeah you've heard it so many times) underrated :( They just sound too good for my ears I just can't--

[@maenastevenson5776]

They started their careers so well, I do not even feel it’s their first album, God I love Queen.

[@anavadyashibu4805]

This song is underrated as HELLLL!!!!

[@elliottvaughn700]

SO hungry in their early albums... I love every album, but as Brian would put it about the first two "the excesses of youth", the first two albums are my favorite because they're so show offey "HERE IS EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE!!!" amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Ta2dlam]

I've had the greatest hits and classic queen albums for some time and listen to them periodically. The movie gave me the impetus to start at the beginning and go whole albums in chronological order. I've never heard of this song and damn it's freaking magnificent.

[@carloseugeniosantosgomes1808]

Underrated masterpiece what a brilhant voice Freddie have!

[@user-jw2ru9ho9l]

Freddie’s voice is amazing! The 4 genius = Queen forever

[@chrisdrummond8893]

This song could have been a musical on Broadway it's so good.

[@Naltrex]

i'm here once again to wish a happy birthday to mr. great king rat

[@user-gv2mc3db8v]

Queen's songs should be more popular, people are missing soooo much

[@finaldestination5847]

For me this song is one of their best ever made !!

[@Gago300]

This guitarist is a legend. 😳

[@The_legobrick]

And an astrophysicist :)

[@AlbumSea]

Happy birthday, and happy death day to Great King Rat! He died today, born on the 21st of may, died syphilis 44 on his birthday!

[@liv4815]

Why is this so underrated?! This is a bop!

[@focks703]

Every time I listen to Queen, it's like a beautiful poem just twice as better

[@TheKeenTribe]

This is their first album? For their first, this is an above and beyond masterpiece!

[@greghansell5115]

I have vague recollections that when I was a teenager way back in the early 80's, this was my favourite song off the album...

[@TheKlmfg]

Roger's drumming on the chorus ( I think its Cowbells hes using??) compliments Freddie's rhythm and voice so so so much its one of my favourite combos!!!

[@fdo958]

Oh God, this song is totally underrated.

[@RC-zf7hp]

Queen has lot of royalty or majestic songs like this one, The March of the Black Queen, White Queen, and others. Indeed, Queen is a gift from God above. I'm an Asian born in 1994 and yet I started to marathon Queen's song after the Bohemian Rhapsody movie. Who else are listening here and can't get enough of Queen?

[@ouvrelechien]

This song is my favorite among the songs not cut in this album.(If include a single cut, "Keep yourself alive".)

[@PartyDude_19]

I like to believe this song was what birthed Queen's distinctive style. I mean, you could hear echoes of what Queen's style would become in earlier songs but, this in my opinion was the first Queen song in which their distinctive style was in full effect.

[@15gilsonrd]

Intoxicating and intriguing vocals, lyrics, and instrumentals - Where art thou Queen in 2019!?! 🙏🏻👑💜🤩🎶

[@scotstevens5263]

I used to air guitar and sing this entire album, now I’m 64 and doing’s it in my head. Ha. Love it❤🎸🎶

[@johndeaconsfavcheeseslice8979]

Okay I just can't express how much I love this song it's just a masterpiece and so underrated!♥

[@johnventer4815]

Brian's guitar work is outstanding

[@1v966]

Happy birthday, Great King Rat. May you rest in peace

[@suede7799]

One of the underrated masterpice

[@SolidAsianGold]

I always come here looking back, because there's simply nothing forward, musically speaking.

[@amantedaarte2447]

A lot of people think this is the best song in the album (including me). And I wonder... why this is so underrated? I mean, I know it's their first album and whatever, but this song is so magical. This song's really appreciated among the true Queen fans.

[@JohnnyLaps]

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.

[@freddiesfanclub1018]

This is one of my Favorite QUEEN Songs :)