At trivia, my 25-yr-old could not correctly identify a particular Queen song. He assured me that he knew half a dozen Queen songs, and no way should I have expected him to know the one he missed.
The others, he insisted, are way better known. So please help settle this argument:
Without looking up sales numbers or Billboard charts, intuitively which five Queen songs would you most expect a non-Queen fan to know? Let's take it as read that Bohemian Rhapsody is #1
Thanks
With a dozen answers offered already, I'm clearly on the losing side of this argument. He knows :
We Will Rock You / We are the Champions (counts as one song)
Another One Bites the Dust
Under Pressure
Fat Bottomed Girls
Killer Queen
Don't Stop Me Now
Somebody to Love
The song he missed—which I would have put between UP and FBG—has yet to be listed as an answer.
What's with Killer Queen being listed above CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE?
If you need me, I'll be walking into the sea
Not only was Crazy Little Thing Called Love their FIRST US #1 hit (despite coming out after Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, and Killer Queen), it held the spot even longer than Another One Bites the Dust.
Maybe the trick to this question was you had to be a 12-year-old in 1979 who spent a lot of time in cars with the radio on.
Like Savoir Faire, CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE was *everywhere*
@kims Gen X knows this song but Gen Y does not! The only reason I even know crazy little thing called love exists is Gen X'ers make jokes about it. I don't think I've even heard it.
Gen Y'ers would even be more likely to know Bicycle Race (because of Fenslerfilm)
@mcc
Kid insists it doesn't even sound like Queen. There's no way for me to hear it with virgin ears to understand why he thinks that, but maybe I'm missing something.
Seeing as you don't think you've ever heard it, I'd be curious if you give it a listen whether you recognize it as a Queen song before it hits the bridge.
[I'm not quite as slack-jawed or heartbroken over this as I am about him not recognizing _Paradise by the Dashboard Light_ or _Two Out of Three Ain't Bad_ but...]
@kims @mcc I grew up with Queen, but I agree with the Youngs: Crazy Little Thing Called Love sounds more like the Stray Cats than Queen. (And since the Stay Cats were founded in 1979, the same year Freddie wrote Crazy Little Thing, it's understandable that many of us attributed it to the band better known for that rockabilly sound.)
@kims @mcc I'm a latter-day Xer (born late 1978), and I had to google this song, only to discover that I did know it, but never thought it was a Queen song. In fact, I sort of assumed it was an Elvis song...
(extenuating circumstance: not at all a Queen fan, and grew up in a non-English speaking country)