10 Weirdest Rock Songs Ever Made

Throughout the majority of Queen's career, you never get the impression that these guys were taking themselves all that seriously. For as much as songs like Killer Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody may have blown your mind from an instrumental point of view, there was always a certain theatrical element that was a lot more tongue in cheek than most people probably realized. If those were the height of Queen's chops, Seaside Rendezvous may be the height of Freddie Mercury's personality.

Written as a playful homage to the retro sound of music from the 1920's, this short snippet from a Night At the Opera has some of the strangest twists and turns found on a Queen song. Almost playing out like a strange sort of cabaret beat, Mercury is hamming it up with every single line, especially when he gets to the chorus parts as he talks about dancing in the rain.

If you aren't sold by the first verses, the entire solo section piles on the charm even more with a mock brass section overdubbed by Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, along with a tap dance section played by Taylor on thimbles across the recording console. As much as Queen can seem complicated for your average rock band, this was a great sense of fun that creeped up every so often. Forget the opera...this is a night on the town circa 1929.