Queen - Tenement Funster/ Flick of the Wrist/ Lily of the Valley [Seamless]

From the 1974 Queen album Sheer Heart Attack.

[stevegorman]

This was the first song my brother Dan learned to play on a guitar. He died three days ago. He could play absolutely anything Brian May could play as well as anything Freddie could on a his baby grand piano. I will greatly miss my brother.

[hankjohnson]

Simply amazing. Not many people know about THIS Queen. It's a shame too.

[toxicradiation]

The transition between Tenement Funster and Flick of the Wrist is masterful. Genius music

[Klassiker-]

45 years later my sons listen to the same music I listened to in 1974

[Rickberg]

To think this was recorded in the early 1970's is mind blowing,

[simonhunter]

i was never a big queen fan, then i heard this!!!!

[feelsgoodman]

THE GREATEST band of all time, period

[jeffcampbell]

as a queen nut and amateur guitar player i must say Deacons bass playing on"Flick of the Wrist" is i don't know which word describes it best, wonderful, amazing, incredible, underrated, etc etc etc

[erinspross]

Tenement Funster:

My new purple shoes
Been amazin' the people next door
And my rock 'n roll forty fives
Been enragin' the folks on the lower floor

I got a way with the girls on my block
Try my best to be a real individual
And when we go down to smokies and rock
They line up like it's some kind of ritual
Oh give me a good guitar
And you can say that my hair's a disgrace
Or just find me an open car
I'll make the speed of light outta this place

I like the good things in life
But most of the best things ain't free
It's the same situation just cuts like a knife
When you're young and you're poor and you're crazy
Young and you're crazy...

Oh give me a good guitar
And you can say that my hair's a disgrace
Or just find me an open car
I'll make the speed of light outta this place


Flick of the Wrist:

Dislocate your spine if you don't sign he says
I'll have you seeing double (double)
Mesmerize you when he's tongue-tied
Simply with those eyes, ooh ooh ooh
Synchronize your minds and see
The beast within him rise

Don't look back
Don't look back
It's a rip-off
Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Flick of the wrist - he'll eat your heart out
A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head
He's taken an arm and taken a leg
All this time honey
Baby you've been had

Intoxicate your brain with what I'm saying
If not you'll lie in knee-deep trouble
Prostitute yourself he says
Castrate your human pride, ooh ooh ooh
Sacrifice your leisure days
Let me squeeze you till you've dried

Don't look back
Don't look back
It's a rip-off, aah, aah, aah

Work my fingers to my bones
I scream with pain
I still make no impression
Seduce you with his money-make machine
Cross-collateralize, (big-time money money)
Reduce you to a muzak-fake machine
Then the last goodbye
It's a rip-off

Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Flick of the wrist - he'll eat your heart out
A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head
He's taken an arm, and taken a leg
All this time honey
Baby you've been had


Lily of the Valley:

I am forever searching high and low
But why does everyone tell me 'no'?
Neptune of the seas, an answer for me please
The lily of the valley doesn't know

I lie in wait with open eyes
I carry on through stormy skies
I follow every course; my kingdom for a horse
But each time I grow old
Serpent of the Nile, relieve me for a while
And cast me from your spell, and let me go

Messenger from seven seas has flown
To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne
Wars will never cease
Is there time enough for peace?
The lily of the valley doesn't know

[simonward-horner]

Sublime. I always thought the best Queen albums were the first three, Queen, Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack.

[watcheroftheskies]

As a sixty something guy, believe you me this is the best queen.

[Phlebas]

This is perfect. It feels wrong to listen to any of these three songs individually. Back to back is the only way!

[lippelipinski]

I love their early years when they were a rock band.

[albertoportoalegre]

There are no words to describe this masterpiece !

[glennhecker]

The way these songs were MEANT to be heard!

[jimminystew]

Like great jazz it took me a while to appreciate this, but I'm now convinced that these three tracks together are the finest, most technically complex and thematically varied piece of music Queen has ever written. Just listen to Brian May's mesmerising guitar work on both Tenement Funster and Flick of the Wrist. Incredibly powerful. His work on Flick of the Wrist sounds almost random and meandering, but it ties the whole stretch of music together wonderfully. And then there's the beautiful and soothing Lily of the Valley to tie it up. Just sublime from start to finish.

[helgeellingsen]

for me ....sheer heart attack is the best queen album....pure worldclass.

[mikerieck]

I used to smoke a ton of anymore I listened to this through at my grandparents. They treated me so well after my mom died at 36 years old. They were the best miss them everyday.

[PaulThomas-ex]

The best band in music. Total perfection 🥰

[mariadanielaoliveracalvo]

0:00 Tenement Funster
2:48 Flick Of The Wrist
6:07 Lily Of The Valley