10 Amazing Rock Songs That Are Ridiculously Short

There was never a moment in Queen's entire career where you thought they were taking themselves all that seriously. For as groundbreaking as a song like Bohemian Rhapsody is, it was always coming from a place of fun for the band rather than intentionally trying to write a career defining rock tune. And if you look on the same record as their masterpiece, you also have one of the campiest songs that Freddie Mercury ever put to tape.

After getting salty on Death on Two Legs, Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon is so chipper it could practically be used in a commercial, as Freddie greets the day with a spring in his step and promising to be back before sunny down hits. As prim and proper as Freddie liked to conduct himself in interviews, there's almost a tongue in cheek humor in this entire song, down to actually using bike horns after the line about bicycling on every Wednesday evening.

This may have been a long time ago by today's standards, but this feels like a callback to the days before rock and roll was even a thing, going back to the traditional pop music that came out of the jazz world. Capping things off with a delightful little guitar solo, this song practically crams a sunny day in England into just over a minute.