20 Most Underrated Classic Rock Songs Of All Time
6. Seaside Rendezvous - Queen
Queen were one of the few rock bands that dipped their toes in every single genre they could. No matter what kind of music suited you, the entire band had you covered, with songs that could switch from opera to disco to hard rock to rockabilly on a dime. Out of all the more outlandish tunes in the band's catalog, it doesn't get any more fun than the song "Seaside Rendezvous."
When working on their masterpiece a Night At the Opera, Freddie Mercury got the idea of making a song that would evoke the nostalgia of pre-War England. With a piano skeleton, Mercury made an entire track that revolved around a rolling tune that sounds like it could be played on a crowded boardwalk in the early 1920's. To add even more musical whimsy to the track, Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor spent an afternoon adding nothing but sound effects, from thimble tap dancing to brass and woodwind sections created from Mercury and Taylor's mouths.
With the jawdropping "Bohemian Rhapsody" soon to follow, this song pumps the brakes by treating us to joyous music that wouldn't be too out of place in a Charlie Chaplin film. This might not have been what anyone necessarily expected from this band, but if you know anything about Queen, it's that they live to surprise the listener.