coverQueen (1973)

Track List:

  1. *Keep Yourself Alive 3.47 (May)
  2. Doing All Right 4.09 (May & Timothy Staffel)
  3. Great King Rat 5.43 (Mercury)
  4. My Fairy King 4.08 (Mercury)
  5. *Liar 6.25 (Mercury)
  6. The Night Comes Down 4.23 (May)
  7. Modern Times Rock & Roll 1.48 (Taylor)
  8. *Son & Daughter 3.20 (May)
  9. Jesus 3.44 (Mercury)
  10. Seven Seas of Rhye 1.15 (instrumental version) (Mercury)

Additional songs on the 1991 Hollywood Records re-release:
  1. Mad the Swine 3.20 (previously unreleased) (Mercury)
  2. Keep Yourself Alive 4.04 (different version)
  3. Liar 6.25 (remix)

Produced by John Anthony, Roy Thomas Baker, and Queen.
Deacon: vocal on Modern Times Rock & Roll
Note for #12: This is a complete re-make of "Keep Yourself Alive." This version never surfaced anywhere. It contains many new ideas and quirks, as well as reproductions of some of the old ones. --Brian May

Notes: Queen's first album is one of their best. Taylor's vocals on Modern Times Rock N Roll aren't so hot. Mercury & May are right on musically. There isn't a lot of experimentation on this album; it's more straight-ahead rock. The Hollywood re-issue (1991) has an unreleased song, Mad the Swine, and it's pretty good. Very typical of later Mercury songs. Doing All Right is one of few songs to be co-written by a non-member, in this case Timothy Staffel, who played with May before Queen.

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