++ [ originally posted by swag
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I've actually been a fan of a lot of Queen's back-catalog and more obscure songs (up until about 1980) for a while. "March of the Black Queen" off their second album (what's an album?

) pretty much laid the foundations for what they eventually did on "Bohemian Rhapsody" later on ... and it's a really good, though less popular song.
What's interesting about Queen is that they managed to become quite popular writing pop/rock music that was rather unorthodox -- even now as much as back in their day. I mean, who else could sell a #1 hit on a 6-minute long, part-operatic opus?