Well, we have to start somewhere—and this seems like the perfect place. Unless you’re a serious Queen fan, you may know “I’m in Love with My Car” mainly as the song mocked in Bohemian Rhapsody. That joke undersells it.
Written and sung by drummer Roger Taylor, the song takes an absolutely ridiculous premise and attacks it with complete sincerity. Taylor delivers one of his fiercest vocals over a heavy, muscular arrangement that sounds built for speeding down an empty highway. A line like “Cars don’t talk back, they’re just four-wheeled friends now” shouldn’t work nearly as well as it does.
Funny, forceful and impossible to dislodge from your head, this overlooked Queen song is exactly the kind of selection Wayne’s 500 was created to celebrate. What better way to begin?