Every Queen Album Ranked Worst To Best

2nd studio album (1974); UK #5; US #49

A controversial placement for the most die-hard of Queen fans, but this album is a bit of a dreg.

The magic and magnetism of Queen will forever be associated with Freddie Mercury's legendary pipes, but what few people know is that the other bandmembers had some killer vocals too. Brian May and Roger Taylor each have a go at the mic here, and their songs are among the best tracks in the record, ones that could easily blend in with the soft-rock staples of the '70s. But that's not saying much about the album as a whole.

Unlike its predecessor, Queen II's songs seem to blur together, even though they are split into two sides: a 'white' side (with lighter songs) and a 'black' one (with heavier bangers, weirdly inspired by fairytales). But with the disparity in the lenghths of the tunes - some are little over a minute long, others exceed six minutes of runtime - it's easy to lose track of where one song ends and the next one begins.

Key Tracks: Father To Son; Some Day One Day (sung by Brian May); The Loser In The End (sung by Roger Taylor)

Fun Fact: Seven Seas Of Rhye was included in its unfishined, instrumental version on Queen's debut album, as an outro. The idea was to start off Queen II with the rest of the song; though that plan was scrapped, the sung version still made this tracklist, and became the band's first top 10 single in the UK.