10 Songs That Are Meant To Confuse You

Not all bands have the kind of chops to make something like Bohemian Rhapsody work. Spanning nearly 6 minutes, Freddie Mercury's epic masterpiece is pretty much the epitome of rock at its finest, pitting different genres against one another and making them work flawlessly, with no single note being wasted. If you're an experienced songwriter though, this looks like a car crash of an arrangement from the minute it starts.

While it starts off well enough with the acapella opening and the ballad section about killing a man, the logic of song structure is thrown out the window once we hit the operatic section, as Mercury stacks layers upon layers of voices on top of each other before giving way to the mammoth guitar riff towards the end. Also good luck to those who try to make sense of the lyrics, which are borderline incoherent with references to Galileo and a poor man who isn't looking for sympathy.

Then again, this is not the kind of song that warrants that kind of technical analysis. After all, Mercury admitted that the genesis of this song came from him having different song fragments and stringing them together because he couldn't find a way to make them work on their own. As much as this might seem like a trainwreck on the page, the song is so epic that you hardly question it. Don't question how it works...it just does.