I missed the Queen one, so I'll address that one by bringing up its place in Revenge of the Nerds. We Are the Champions has a great effect in that scene. The song starts all meek and quiet when Betty runs from the rest of the cheerleaders and joins Lewis on the field. Think about it for a second - We Are the Champions starts with a display that Lewis just stole the quarterback's cheerleader girlfriend. Champion, indeed. Then Judy comes to join Gilbert. Then as the short verse continues and starts to build, the rest of the nerds come join them. Then it happens.
RIGHT when the rest of the band kicks in, in bombastic contrast to the soft verse, everybody starts pouring out of the bleachers to join the nerds on the field. It's a hair raiser for me every single time I see it. The very dramatic effect that it creates right at that moment is just amazing.
As far as it back to back with We Will Rock You, yeah, cool, but I can leave WWRY, honestly. Then guitar tone on that one is awesome, but it's Brian May. Expect nothing less than the greatest guitar tones ever.
Speacking of guitar tones, VH1 had some of the greatest tones ever commited to tape. For me it hardly gets better than the guitar tone on Runnin' With the Devil. Eruption and You Really Got Me are no different. Ridiculous tone. Eruption is excellent, and I'll still break out the ending tapped part at a gig, if someone's yelling for it (which
does sometimes happen). I love You Really Got Me though. Now when I hear the Kinks' version I'm like "Yeah, it's good, but it isn't VH".
Orbert, that's interesting, because I'd read in a guitar magazine that Eddie was listening to Zep's Heartbreaker and wanted to see if he could recreate those opening pull-offs in the solo elsewhere on the guitar. It's a pull-off from 5th fret to 2nd fret to open string on the G. So he says if I move that down to the D string, it's 10th fret-7th fret-5th fret. Given that it's too far of a strech for one hand to do that, he figured out to fret the 7th and 5th frets, then use his right hand to "fret" the 10th fret. Maybe he saw Steve Hackett do it, then tried to replicate that same thing on the Heartbreaker lick. Interesting.