Queen Top Ten Bonus: Another One Bites the Dust

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With only four songs to go, two of which are album cuts, I thought I’d better throw in another bonus song in my list of Queen favorites. Yes, I do like this, but it didn’t make the cut. No reason to not list it as a bonus song, though. BONUS: Another One Bites the Dust Freddie, you need a song the cats can dance to. — Michael Jackson to Freddie Mercury Check. John Deacon is a big fan of R&B, so he decided to go all left field on Queen. Of course, The Game had more than one surprise up its vinyl sleeve for fans: the nod to 50s rockabilly, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” is on this album as well. Deacon was inspired by the song “Good Times” by Chic to come up with the bass line that carries the song. The lyrics are quite clever, too, equating a hit man (“machine guns ready to go”) in the underworld with the hit-and-run lovers in life (“you took me for everything that I had and kicked me out on my own”). It became a #1 hit for Queen in 1980. It’s also significant in that it helped launch the career of one Alfred Matthew Yankovic. “Another One Rides the Bus” was Weird Al’s second hit (after “My Bologna,” the spoof of “My Sharona”). Another One Bites the Dust Written by John Deacon From The Game, 1980 There are plenty of ways that you can hurt a man: