'39 (track)
by Queen
'39 appears on the following album(s) by Queen:
- A Night At The Opera (track #5) (this album) (1975)
- Live Killers (track #12) (1979)
- Forever (track #26) (compilation) (2014)
- Deep Cuts, Volume 1 1973-1976 (track #8) (compilation) (2011)
- Singles Collection 1 (track #12) (compilation) (2008)
- Greatest Hits In Japan (track #8) (compilation) (2020)
- The Best Of Queen (track #7) (compilation) (1980)
- Return Of The Champions (track #9) (2005)
- Live In Ukraine (track #11) (2009)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2026 21:59 |  DommeDamian | 79,229 | 51/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2026 15:05 |  HoldenM | 10,332 | 90/100 |
| ! | 04/17/2026 15:30 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
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jhuik TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/15/2015 21:56 | #136984
from songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2891:
Queen guitarist Brian May wrote this. The song is about an astronaut who travels to a distant place at near the speed of light. Because of the time dilation that takes place at these speeds, he and his crew return home 100 years later. He has aged only a year but sadly finds that his wife has long passed on and that he is about the same age as his grandchildren, with everyone he knew before being dead for many years. May describes it as a "sci-fi folk song."
... as if the song wasn`t entirely awesome on its own. (Edited)
Jasonconfused TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/07/2012 05:14 | #56978
A very underrated Queen track. It has a country type sound which might push some people away but the backing vocals I can only describe as majestic and who knew that Brian May was such a great lead singer!?
'39 is Brian May's sci-fi folk ballad. One of the strongest songs on an album full of great songs, it is an absolutely beautiful track, stunningly delivered in a camp country twang(at least in the chorus), although Brian's lead vocals are completely non ironic. The lovely but utterly sad story cannot fail to move the listener and it's another factor that helps to make '39 one of the greatest songs Brian ever contributed to Queen. By the way jhuik, that's Brian May on vocals, not Freddie Mercury.
Perhaps the most underrated Queen song.
One of the best Queen songs I've ever heard.
That was Brian May?
