Sheer Pod Attack: A Queen Song-By-Song Podcast
Jul 24, 2026 · 12 min · 10 segments
Step into the twilight of Queen’s early years as Sheer Pod Attack unearths the haunted blues roots behind “See What a Fool I’ve Been.” Inspired by a forgotten gospel tune and reborn through Brian…
Steven NicholsonHost
Paul NicholsonHost
So, See What I Feel I've Been is a non-album track and it was the B-side to Queen's first top ten single, 1974's Seven Seas of Rye.
The song was written by the band's guitarist, Brian May, produced by Roy Thomas Baker and the band.
May was inspired by a 1958 blues song, That's How I Feel, by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee.
There are multiple versions of the song available, including a BBC session from July 1973, an alternate studio version from February 1974.
You've got live versions on A Night at the Odeon and Live at the Rainbow, and a Day Len Lee test recording session from 1973, which is on Queen 1 Collector's Edition.
It just doesn't tie in with the overall feel and sound of the album at all, does it? No.
It was a very underwhelming experience the very first time because there was a strike on at the BBC.
So it was shot in the weather studio.
It was great fun to be at Top of the Pops because it was sort of all happening.
You felt like, you know, you were, in a sense, becoming part of public consciousness.
Top of the Pops was incredibly uncool.
It was rubbish because nobody was actually playing.
There was about 75 teenagers which were herded about the studio and a bunch of aging disc jockeys presenting it.
Pans people were there, these very glamorous girls dancing, you know, it was a lot of fun.
The BBC actually had a set of plastic cymbals that went doop when you hit them, so it didn't make any noise.
I think that sort of set it all, really.
I suppose it's true to say we had slightly mixed feelings about Top of the Pops, because it wasn't very cool, but it was the great vehicle for selling records, so what can you say?
So, See What I Feel I've Been is a non-album track and it was the B-side to Queen's first top ten single, 1974's Seven Seas of Rye.
The song was written by the band's guitarist, Brian May, produced by Roy Thomas Baker and the band.
May was inspired by a 1958 blues song, That's How I Feel, by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee.
There are multiple versions of the song available, including a BBC session from July 1973, an alternate studio version from February 1974.
You've got live versions on A Night at the Odeon and Live at the Rainbow, and a Day Len Lee test recording session from 1973, which is on Queen 1 Collector's Edition.
It just doesn't tie in with the overall feel and sound of the album at all, does it? No.
It was a very underwhelming experience the very first time because there was a strike on at the BBC.
So it was shot in the weather studio.
It was great fun to be at Top of the Pops because it was sort of all happening.
You felt like, you know, you were, in a sense, becoming part of public consciousness.
Top of the Pops was incredibly uncool.
It was rubbish because nobody was actually playing.
There was about 75 teenagers which were herded about the studio and a bunch of aging disc jockeys presenting it.
Pans people were there, these very glamorous girls dancing, you know, it was a lot of fun.
The BBC actually had a set of plastic cymbals that went doop when you hit them, so it didn't make any noise.
I think that sort of set it all, really.
I suppose it's true to say we had slightly mixed feelings about Top of the Pops, because it wasn't very cool, but it was the great vehicle for selling records, so what can you say?
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