Sheer Pod Attack: A Queen Song-By-Song Podcast
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Your weekly ten-minute trip through Queen’s back catalogue 💿
🎹 Episode 10 - Jesus - Is Out! 🎹 You guys were split on ‘Jesus’ (the Queen track, not the biblical figure!) 🎶 An almost 50-50 split on mid & lower tier 🗳️ Kudos to Maggie Sharp for bucking the trend and going top 🔝 Now, find out what Paul & I think of the song 🎸
about 24 hours ago
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It’s this week’s poll! 🗳️ Dearly beloved, is ‘Jesus’ top, middle, or lower tier Queen 👑?
4 days ago
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‘Jesus’ episode - Out Friday 🗓️ Probably regarded as the weakest song on the band’s debut - What do you think of it?
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Queen - Jesus (Official Lyric Video Remastered)
YouTube video by Queen Official
https://youtu.be/z0J_kuTib1w?si=_CL2uwExKDgqDq-5
5 days ago
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🎸 Episode 9 - Son & Daughter 🎸 Greetings from Rome 🇮🇹 First time here ✈️ What a beautiful place ❤️ Anyway, back to more important things - QUEEN! 👑 Our new episode; slightly delayed because of Spotify & my hotel’s WI-Fi 🛜 😤
7 days ago
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It’s SPA co-host Paul Nicholson’s birthday today 🎉 Happy 21st birthday, Paul 😜 Here’s an outtake from our Son & Daughter show (out tomorrow) 📆
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10 days ago
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We get our favourite song from the band’s debut on Friday - Son & Daughter 🎸 Here’s an excellent extended live version from 1974 🎤 What do you think of the song? 🎵
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Queen - Son And Daughter (Live at The Rainbow 1974) [HD 60fps]
YouTube video by the dream is gone
https://youtu.be/Bw9gO4cp-4g?si=3uFlomvez7eU9dUw
13 days ago
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Brian interview Anyone know the year? Interviewer says they’ve not toured for 3 years. Guessing ‘84 or ‘86?
#Queen
#brianmay
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13 days ago
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Paul’s added another song to his top-tier playlist 👑 🎶
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Sheer Pod Attack - Paul’s Top Tier Queen Songs
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ODtM00rkD2xE0bOcwJqbH?si=zYj6U3csRm2pP_x956mKmg&pi=CtMJH-K1RuSvX
14 days ago
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🎧 Episode 8 is out! - ‘Modern Times Rock N’ Roll’ 🎸🎧 It’s a song that’s split opinion among you (based on our poll) 🗳️ With the mid-tier votes just edging out the top ones 🥊 Now’s your chance to hear what we think of Roger’s Queen songwriting debut. An under 2-minute blast of Proto-punk energy 💥
15 days ago
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🚨 Episode delayed 🚨 Happy Good Friday! It would be an even better Friday if I’d found the time to edit the ‘Modern Times Rock N’ Roll’ pod for release today! Life gets in the way 😩 Anyway, look out for it tomorrow 🗓️
16 days ago
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Modern Times Rock ‘N Roll - Live Our next episode (out Friday) focusses on this punky heavy rocker, courtesy of Roger Taylor 🥁 The big difference between the live & recorded version is that Freddie sings it in concert 🎤
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Queen - Modern Times Rock 'N Roll (Live at The Rainbow 1974) [HD 60fps]
YouTube video by the dream is gone
https://youtu.be/VINmc1W2fpY?si=8BQc-1F_qKguq-Nr
19 days ago
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The infamous Queen & Paul Daniels TV-am interview (1991) Roger’s (correct) assessment of Daniels always gives me a chuckle 🤭 Who remembers watching this live? 🙋 📺
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20 days ago
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🌙 New episode - The Night Comes Down 🌒 Is the release of the new Queen II mix the most exciting band news of the day? No! 📰 What’s more exciting? Well, our brand new episode dedicated to ‘The Night Comes Down’ is 🎧 A song you guys ranked as mid-tier Queen 🗳️
23 days ago
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Preview Check out our ‘The Night Comes Down’ episode which is out tomorrow 🗓️ What do you think the answer is to the quiz question? 🙋♀️
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24 days ago
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‘The Night Comes Down’ 🗳️ We come to ‘The Night Comes Down’. Brian’s first track on the second side of ‘Queen’ / ‘Queen I’ 💿 Where do you rank it? Top, middle, or lower tier Queen? 🤔
25 days ago
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The Night Comes Down 🌒 This week’s show (out Friday) focusses on ‘The Night Comes Down’ (I better get editing it!) 🖱️ Here’s Brian talking about the track 🎶
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Queen The Greatest Special: The Night Comes Down (Episode 3)
YouTube video by Queen Official
https://youtu.be/yCB2wt71rSI?si=p1DjLFOZylrX4hHm
26 days ago
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Roger Taylor interview (1976)
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27 days ago
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How’s everyone doing? Listened to the Liar episode yet? As we wander through Queen’s illustrious back-catalogue together, we wanted to easily record and share which tunes we ranked as top-tier 🥇 To that end, we’ve created these two Spotify playlists which will be updated on a weekly basis 🎶
28 days ago
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Episode 6 - Liar 🤥 I hope you’ve had a good week 👍 It’s just got even better as the new episode of
#SPA
is out! 🎧 In this show, we focus on the first track of side B on the band’s debut - LIAR 🎶 Fact: This is one of only a handful of Queen songs to feature a Hammond organ 🎹
about 1 month ago
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Paul & I had a lovely chat tonight with fellow Queen fan Martin Quibell from Pods Like Us about the band’s debut album 💿 Look out for that show in May 🗓️
about 1 month ago
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Rank Liar 🗳️ Is Liar top, middle, or lower tier Queen? 🤔 🤥
about 1 month ago
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Liar Live 🎶 This week’s episode (out Friday) focuses on LIAR 🤥 Here’s the band performing it in Rio during 1985 🇧🇷 What’s your favourite version of it? 🤔
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Queen - Liar [Rock In Rio '85]
YouTube video by ovolollo91
https://youtu.be/6cVoV88Ku7U?si=usMeE27wxdWBON0J
about 1 month ago
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Whats the best opening track to a Queen album? 💿
about 1 month ago
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Episode 5 - My Fairy King 🤴 🧚 Happy Friday 🎉 Another quick week! 🗓️ Who’s getting up to something fun over the weekend? You’ve had your say & voted MFK top tier Queen (93%) 🗳️
about 1 month ago
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My Fairy King 👑 We come to the fifth track on Queen I: The fantastical ‘My Fairy King’ 🎶 Where would rank you rank it? Top, middle, or lower tier Queen?
about 1 month ago
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Queen II release gets closer ⏰
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Queen II - Brian May Unboxing
YouTube video by Queen Official
https://youtu.be/TV87x5k2fQ0?si=lz4yvgz1laXlpCpf
about 1 month ago
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🐷 Episode 4 - Mad The Swine 🐷 Well, our Facebook group have spoken and ranked Mad The Swine lower-tier Queen 🥉 Now’s your chance to find out what Paul & think 💭 And for once, we don’t agree on our rankings 😮
about 1 month ago
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It's astonishing that a song about chess could have such a profound impact on Side Brian of Queen 2, but here we are and there we go. As it began. So shall it be. Ever was it thus. And fuck my hat! ⚫️
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Seven Seas of Rhye (2026 Mix) So, our first proper listen to something from the 2026 mix of Queen II - ‘Seven Seas of Rhye’ 🎶 What do you think?
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Queen II (2026 Mix) by Queen on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 11 Songs
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/queen-ii-2026-mix/1877077598
about 2 months ago
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Brian May’s fave Queen song 🎵 What’s your favourite song written by Bri?
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about 2 months ago
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This week on Sheer Pod Attack, we’re unpacking “Great King Rat” — the wild, gritty, and wonderfully unhinged tale from Queen’s debut album 🐀 We break down the song’s origins, its place in early Queen mythology, and why it still hits so hard today 🥊 🟢
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3. Great King Rat (1973)
Spotify video
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qs2Z2jnYkC65v6FClAs9Y?si=1F16d2L5Qvmb5REjbpBDsA
about 2 months ago
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Would you rank the song ‘Great King Rat’ top, middle or lower tier Queen?
about 2 months ago
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Great King Rat 🐀 Evening all 👋 We move from ‘Doing All Right’ to ‘Great King Rat’ on Friday (27th) 🎙️ Before then, let’s enjoy this live version of the song from The Rainbow in 1974 🌈 What’s your favourite version of it❓
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Great King Rat (Concierto en Rainbow)
YouTube video by Death Lily
https://youtu.be/6ck-bqeT7I8?si=Yzcx6mr3QM2hhKZg
about 2 months ago
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🔥 New Episode Alert 🔥 Sheer Pod Attack is back, and this week we dive headfirst into track two of Queen’s debut album — “Doing All Right.” 💿 From the song’s early roots to its place in Queen’s evolving sound, we break down: 🎸 the track’s background 🎤 its many versions 🧠 the musical structure
about 2 months ago
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It’s a bright morning 🌞 The sun is out ☀️ The sky is blue 🔵 It’s not raining ❌ ☔️ 🎉 I am doing all right. Which, coincidentally, is the song we’ll be talking about on Friday (20th) 🗓️ What do you think of it? 🤔
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#Queen
#DoingAllRight
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Queen - Doing All Right (Official Lyric Video Remastered)
YouTube video by Queen Official
https://youtu.be/AqP8xLF3TE4?si=LhHw8-vCqJEN0FPL
2 months ago
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I hope everyone enjoyed, or is about to enjoy, Episode One - The Phantom Menace, whoops…Keep Yourself Alive 🎧 Talking of which: What’s your favourite version of the track? I think Paul & I went for the Long Lost Retake from 1975 🤔
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Keep Yourself Alive (Long Lost Retake / June 1975 / Remastered 2011)
YouTube video by Queen - Topic
https://youtu.be/ESbdZp_vG1I?si=2mYeBHMdk6snxPOi
2 months ago
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Sheeeeerrrrrrr…Pod Attack’s first episode is out!! 🎧 We kick off with track one on ‘Queen I’ - ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ 🎶 An early Queen Classic 🥇 🟢 Spotify:
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⚪️ Apple:
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🔴 YouTube:
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We’d love to know what you think of the song?📱 🤔 👇
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1. Keep Yourself Alive (1973)
Podcast Episode · Sheer Pod Attack: A Queen Song-By-Song Podcast · 13/02/2026 · 9m
https://tinyurl.com/bdh3cam3
2 months ago
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One week until episode one! 🎙️
#keepyourselfalive
#sheerpodattack
2 months ago
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Who else is excited for the Queen II re-release boxset? What’s going to be on it? 🤔
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Sir Brian May on Instagram: "YEEEEOW !!! The beautiful new BOX SET of the perfectly rebuilt Queen II album has arrived !! Watch out for unboxing !!! Released 27th March - watch out for presale announc...
32K likes, 892 comments - brianmayforreal on February 3, 2026: "YEEEEOW !!! The beautiful new BOX SET of the perfectly rebuilt Queen II album has arrived !! Watch out for unboxing !!! Released 27th Ma...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUTa4OQDIOz/?igsh=bnFtZzJoM3BtNXdj
2 months ago
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Roger’s new song 🎵 What do you think of ‘Chumps’? Pretty obvious who it’s about! Getting Pink Floyd The Wall vibes 🧱
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Roger Taylor - Chumps
YouTube video by Queen Official
https://youtu.be/nJuv-dzrpKw?si=wVqWz7FzZ8X2tAv4
2 months ago
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Keep Yourself Alive 🎶 Only eleven days until our first episode is released & it’s dedicated to Queen’s first single. Queen’s first album track - Keep Yourself Alive. In each show,we’ll rank the song top, middle or lower tier Queen 👑 Where would you rank it? 🤔
#keepyourselfalive
#Queen
#poll
3 months ago
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‘Jazz’ & ‘A Day at the Races’ 💿 💿 Filled the gaps in my Queen vinyl collection recently (just ‘Made in Heaven’ to go). And…I feel like I’ve under-appreciated
#jazz
and
#adayattheraces
for years. Brilliant albums 🤩 What’s your favourite track from each?
3 months ago
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Paul & I host another podcast - Trimming The Musical Fat 🎙️ A couple of years back, we got together with the guys from In The Lap of the Pods to do a show focussing on Queen’s recorded output from 1981 - 1984. Check it out below ⬇️
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Spotify – Web Player
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mU2WihOLh9EsvOtcaa6OU?si=q5gv2YNIQSiKUKbV9A0MrQ
3 months ago
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The very talented writer, music and film journalist, and author Eoghan Lyng is a member of our group ✍️ Not that I am in any way jealous, but Eoghan got to interview Brian 5 years ago 🎤 I share a link to that below ⬇️
faroutmagazine.co.uk/queen-guitar...
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An interview with Queen guitarist Brian May
Queen guitarist Brian May sits down Far Out Magazine to discuss music, Freddie Mercury, and more.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/queen-guitarist-brian-may-interview/
3 months ago
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We’re excited to be launching next month with Queen’s first ever track - ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ 👑
3 months ago
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