Every Queen Album Opening Song Ranked From Worst To Best

15. Procession - Queen II

Thankfully, the near-impossible task of choosing a bottom-placed Queen song is made much easier by the fact that their second album opens with a 72-second instrumental.

Queen II from March 1974 kicks off with Procession, a short funeral march composed and performed by Lord of the Badgers, Brian May. It showcases May's signature overlapping guitar sound, with the only other instrumentalist present being Roger Taylor on the bass drum before leading into the song Father to Son.

There isn't a great deal to say about Procession; it's not bad in the traditional sense, it's just a bit pointless. Opening albums with instrumentals is a tried and tested technique that doesn't always hurt the record, but they do single out the specific tracks as lesser than.

Thankfully, this is the only time Queen would pull this stunt.