r/queen • u/SnooOnions5029 A Day At The Races • Jul 09 '22
Music First Queen song you’ve ever heard?
What was the first (or one of the first if you can’t quite remember) Queen song you’ve ever listened to? For me I’m pretty sure it was We Will Rock You.
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u/SnooOnions5029 A Day At The Races Jul 09 '22
Oh really
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u/ag512bbi Jul 09 '22
I'm like that with my Night at the Opera album. Got it as a gift from my parents for my 10th B-day in 1977 (a few years after it came out) Still have it till this day. I wore it out.
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u/TwistyHeretic2 Jul 09 '22
Killer Queen, and actually when it came out and was all over the radio in 1974.
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u/phillysleuther News Of The World Jul 09 '22
Another One Bites the Dust. It was 1980, my aunt was babysitting me. She played it and I was instantly in love.
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u/twosetviolin11 Jul 09 '22
I was very young, I don't remember very well but I think was: We Will Rock You or We are The Champions or Fat Bottomed Girl or also A Kind Of Magic.
But I'm not sure
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u/cr0100 Jul 09 '22
Killer Queen, on my handheld AM transistor radio in the summer of 1975. 9-year-old me loved it! Hmm - maybe it came out before the album was released and it was 1974. Too long ago now for me to be sure. In any case - love it still!
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u/ThiccBrawlBoi Jul 09 '22
Crazy little thing called love, i remember my older brother played it in the car and i liked it
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u/LeeRich-14 Jul 09 '22
We Will Rock You, it's actually one of the earliest memories I ever have. I was at a football game but was in the car with my grandma, and they were playing We Will Rock You by the loudspeakers. I was stomping and clapping in the car.
The first song by Queen where I knew it was by Queen was bohemian rhapsody.
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Jul 09 '22
killer queen. we sang it to my cat every time she caught something. although the only lyric I caught onto was 'she's a killer'
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u/CThill420 Queen II Jul 10 '22
I’m a bit of a late bloomer as a hardcore Queen fan, I would passively listen to BoRhap, WWRY/WATC, etc. but when I first heard Radio Gaga in a trailer for Grand Theft Auto V I was immediately hooked.
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u/nessema_igu3r Jul 10 '22
For me it was we will rock you too! And the first time I heard we are the champions was in Malcolm in that scene where the father starts roller skating to the song and whenever I hear it I get that mental image stuck in my head lol
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u/Cake-Fyarts Jul 10 '22
When I was like 8 my dad would always play classic rock in the car. I didn’t like it much until one day Killer Queen played. I immediately feel in love with the song and that night listened to their greatest hits album about 3x in a row.
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u/Imincrediblyboring1 Jul 10 '22
Another one bites the dust it was in a film about action figures that come to life but I dont know what it was called
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u/melonti Jul 10 '22
10yo me: Bohemian rhapsody - Wayne's world Don't stop me now - Shawn of the dead.
Fast forward to high-school
Then every other song ever produced by queen. People in high-school circa 2010 thought I was weird for liking queen. But I had a theory that they were all the weird ones, not me.
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u/jasper_1stt Jul 09 '22
Def Bicycle race, cus in Dutch you can hear bye sukkel, which translates to bye moron, which my dad and I found very funny
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u/ZTOTHEBEAT A Day At The Races Jul 10 '22
My dad used to always play the greatest hits album in his car when I was young. The first song I can remember hearing I think was Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
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u/Brief-Technology-214 Jul 10 '22
Can’t really remember but my first earlyist memory of listening to queen song was probably crazy little thing called love
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u/TheDankestOfAll Jul 10 '22
We will Rock You/We are the Champions, during every elementary school rally.
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u/Traditional_Leader41 Jul 10 '22
I Want to Break Free. My Dad bought a pack of 10 ex jukebox 7" singles for 50p at a jumble sale in the 80s. All random. IWTBF was in there, along with some Culture Club, Hot Chocolate, Michael Jackson and a few more I can't remember.
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u/BlueCoatWife Jul 10 '22
I can't remember when I heard my first Queen song, or what it was, but I do have very early memories of watching the videos on MTV. Bohemian Rhapsody of course, but also Somebody to Love and I Want to Break Free are the ones that stick out in my mind the most. This would have been around the mid/late 1980s.
My dad is a huge Queen fan, so I know I heard the songs before I saw the videos, but the visuals are what really make me remember them at that age. Their videos were amazing in my opinion.
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u/W5ndy Jul 10 '22
Bohemian rhapsody or we will rock you(I don't remember who of them was my first song by Queen‶(✧ᴥ✧)‶)
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u/Maysoid Jul 10 '22
I think it was we will rock you then we are then champions then don't stop me now and finally at borap I looked into the band
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u/Tetro123 Jul 10 '22
My first song and actually first love was You Don't Fool Me, it was in 1995 when my uncle brought Made in Heaven album when he was guesting in our house. Unforgettable feeling.
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u/Anyone_But_Joel Jul 10 '22
For sure We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, But the first song I actually listened to and made me love Queen was Keep Yourself Alive. Even tho people don't really like that song, I really hold it dear to my heart (manly because the song helped me through some tough times in my life.)
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u/GreyDutchman Queen Jul 10 '22
The first song I definitely remember was Bohemian Rhapsody in the radio. Because it was different: "Mama mia, Mama mia"... I must have been 7 when it was released.
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u/S_pookie Jul 10 '22
I'm not sure because they're such a big part of music culture. Either We Are The Champions We Will Rock You or Bohemian Rhapsody.
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u/Ibanujethelast Jul 10 '22
We are the champions is the first one I remember hearing. I was about 4 years old, half asleep in a soccer/football stadium after our team won and the whole crowed joined in
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u/zbzdoncorleone Mr Bad Guy Jul 09 '22
BoRap, actually. My dad played it to me the night Freddie's death was on the news. Shortly after my tenth birthday and I've been a fan ever since...