Queen Deep Dive: "Tie Your Mother Down", take your little brother swimming with a brick

The same elegant and thoughtful Brian May who brought us reflective pieces like "Some Day One Day" and "Good Company" gives us this raucous celebration, "Tie Your Mother Down". It's almost universally loved as one of Queen's hardest rockers, and was a mainstay on setlists. As the opening number for A Day at the Races, this song includes an intriguing intro of moody gong, a taste of guitar from a later album number, and an inspiring variation of the Shepard tone; which bookends the album to create a circle of sound. Sure, Brian penned the aggressive "Son and Daughter" previously, but something about this screams louder, in a sexier way, than just about anything else before it.