But I digress.Īfter the minute-long "Procession," the album gets going with "Father to Son," a multi-parted monster from May with some great Freddie singing and some monstrous heavy riffing by Brian in the middle section, the song doesn't get boring at all despite lasting over six minutes. If only they'd covered "Bicycle Race" or something, now THAT would've been amusing. In fact, Queen were actually pioneers of that particular genre weird as that might sound, but consider the fact that Dream Theater has covered some of their early songs and it doesn't sound all that different. Hell, this stuff could be considered prog metal, if such a term had existed in 1974. Like the debut, it's unmistakably Queen, but it's darker, heavier, and proggier than the Queen many are used to. For Queen, a group where every album from their third on has contributed a number of radio standards that have infiltrated the public conscious, that album is Queen II, and, true to form for such albums, it's one of their best.
Just to throw out some random examples, for Pink Floyd, it's Animals, for Dire Straits it's Love Over Gold, for Genesis it could be basically any album from their first decade. Every band has that album that, although it's one of the least known by the general public, is revered by a segment of fans, usually due to a combination of a small difference from a band's established sound (while still unmistakably them) and lack of radio hits.
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