Favorite Queen b-side song

Yeah it's a good song isn't it! I think it was a toss up between this and Coming Soon to make The Game, and while I actually like Coming Soon, it certainly screams B-side.

'A Human Body' certainly is a nice track and a good non-album B-side.
The best non-album B-side however for me stays 'I Go Crazy'. I understand why it didn't make the album, but c'mon it rocks!

I think this is the order how I rate Queen's non-album B-sides... that is, at this moment, could be different tomorrow:
1. I Go Crazy
2. Hang On In There (technically a B-side, only bonus on the CD-version of the album)
3. A Human Body
4. Stealin'
5. Hijack My Heart
6. Soul Brother
7. See What A Fool I've Been
8. Lost Opportunity (technically a C-side?)
9. Mad The Swine (I rate this under B-sides, as it never was an official album track)
10. My Life Has Been Saved (original 1989 version is a B-side, only the 1995 version is an album track)
11. A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling

I think I agree with that ranking. How would you place them in track order for an album?

I'd forgotten Stealin' even existed, I'd have to give that a lower position on that basis alone! The recorded version of See What a Fool is only saved by Brian, Freddie's completely at sea and frankly, messes up the whole track. I like I Go Crazy but the self-referencing makes me cringe a bit in this instance.

If Freddie had sung all of Rock It, they might have put AHB on the album instead of Coming Soon. I bet that was a discussion had, given we know there's a Freddie vocal take of Rock It.

There were more tracks on Jazz, albeit perhaps shorter ones, so I guess there was more room for vocal swaps.

Do you know what, it's probably over 30 years since I've played Fun It, so I can't remember the 'duel' aspect. Apart from DSMN, Side 2 of Jazz doesn't feature in my playlists.

The Game is my favourite album and I would have loved to see A Human Body on there, but I think the struggle would be where to place it in the album. I would have looked at adding A Human Body over Coming Soon, but CS works because it separates the 2 ballads well and I don't think AHB would flow as well.

Soul Brother for me. It's the Queen equivalent of Glass Onion. Great groove, great playing, killer lead vocal, and is stronger than most of the album tracks from that period.

Totally I agree. I also like Mad the swine and I go crazy and sometimes I love listening a dozen red roses.

About soul brother I believe that, some chord progressions are similar to ITLOTG revisited.

I love Stealin', especially the extended version that was never originally released but floats around on YT. The band seems to have had so much fun recording it, and that is noticeable, I think!

It's a tie between I Go Crazy and A Human Body for me, and probably Hijack My Heart as a guilty-pleasure third. I really, really don't like Soul Brother. Sorry, The Real Wizard, but that's just not what I call good music

I agree that the vocals seem almost like a parody, but I don't hear much to appreciate in the music either - I just hear going-through-the-motions comping. The whole thing sounds to me almost as if they got drunk and decided to do a soul tune, but nobody in the band knew what soul was, so they had to go by a description given by a sarcastic detractor of the genre.

Maybe I'm missing something, but to me, Soul Brother is pretty near to the bottom of Queen's output. I'd love to hear some concrete points as to what there is to appreciate in the song, but I just don't hear anything worthwhile. In fact, I find it so annoying that I have a hard time listening to the whole thing - like "Don't Lose Your Head".

Really? I wouldn't say "Life Is Real" is a masterpiece, but I do think it's one of the better tracks on Hot Space (not a particularly high bar, I know...), and the only redeeming quality I can think of for "Don't Lose Your Head" is "at least it's over after four and a half minutes".