10 Most Underrated Queen Songs
9. Is This The World We Created...? - The Works
It was not the best time to be Queen coming out of the early '80s. Even with the more adventurous turns they would take on albums like the Game, the disco style production had worn itself paper thin. Determined to give the fans the return the form they really wanted to hear, The Works was just the kind of music these guys thrive in, with roaring guitars and Freddie back to his strutting rock and roll self.
Aside from the massive singles like Hammer to Fall and I Want to Break Free, one of the greatest highlights of the record comes at the very end. Serving as a look back on the rest of the album, Is This the World We Created? is almost like one final glimpse of beauty from the band, with Brian May resorting to nothing more than an acoustic guitar to pad Mercury's melody.
The song may not have gotten released as a full-on single, but Mercury did think highly enough of the tune to play it as the encore at Live Aid, having already decimated the crowd earlier in the day with their original performance. Ending on one of the more ominous notes to be put on a Queen album, Is this the World we Created...? showed that even when rising back to full form, Queen were still unafraid to throw a few curveballs when they wanted to.