10 Weirdest Songs By Legendary Artists

There was a never a moment of Queen's career where they tried to take themselves too seriously. Even the songs that have held up as classics like Bohemian Rhapsody often have their over the top side, like the operatic section where Roger Taylor practically sounds like he's high on helium in the studio. Subtlety isn't really a sentiment that suits someone like Freddie Mercury, and some of the more charming moments of their career come when he's aloud to do whatever he wants in the studio.

While most Queen fans had gotten used to the more show tune sounds of something like Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Seaside Rendezvous could practically be an old relic from the '20s, complete with a big band arrangement and Freddie at the piano, getting his schtick on like some sideshow performer that you'd see when taking a holiday to the beach. Though the whole songs feels like it could have been just an odd jazz record, most of what you're hearing is the product of Roger Taylor and Freddie going nutty in the studio one day, with the middle section having a 'tap dance' routine coming from Roger playing thimbles on the recording console.

There isn't even any added instrumentation here either, with the brass sections coming from Freddie and Roger just making different brass like noises with their mouths to make it sound like the whole song was being played out of some dingy radio speaker. Queen may have been geniuses when it came to pure rock and roll, but there's no shame in having a bit of nostalgia every now and again, and Seaside Rendezvous is a trip down memory lane to a version of England that has long since been forgotten.