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Queen - A Night at the Opera Audio CD

A fair review of the Queen "A Night at the Opera" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Queen reviews here, or go back to the Queen tabs.

Queen Band: Queen
Title: A Night at the Opera
Rating:
Release Date: 1991-09-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...) 2: Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon 3: I'm in Love With My Car 4: You're My Best Friend 5: '39 6: Sweet Lady 7: Seaside Rendezvous 8: Prophet's Song 9: Love of My Life 10: Good Company 11: Bohemian Rhapsody 12: God Save the Queen 13: I'm in Love With My Car [Remix][#][*] 14: You're My Best Friend [Remix][#][*]

album changing the rock scene forever
Their hard rock and even metal movements all of a sudden were being listened to by ever growing crowd of people who would have not came near such music before.
Night At The Opera released by Queen in 1975 has contributed to changing the face of rock music for ever. On the other hand, the lovers of hard rocking sound started accepting softer rock, folk or even pop songs they would normally be running away from. Night At The Opera has mixed it all up which in itself was a bit of a gamble. However, that was an easy gamble to take considering how many great songs this album contains. I wonder if the band had any idea which song would become their ticket to riches, when they were working on their material. Bohemian Rhapsody by many called the best piece of rock music ever written became that breakthrough hit for the Queen. Considering how many bad songs become huge hits it was good that in this case the song was great. However, the fact that The Prophets' Song (which to me sounds like it could be dedicated to Robert Plant) went straight to oblivion and got very poorly rated by many is a mystery. You might want to listen to this song carefully. Following The Prophets' Song both Love Of My Life, a beautiful love song and Good Company, a melodic parody which sounded like it was written and sung by Paul McCartney took us all the way to the Bohemian Rhapsody. When we used to listen to records and not cds nor digital files back in the 1970s, putting side B of this album on was a great experience. Night At The Opera's side A starts with great Death On Two Legs (Freddie wanted to express his feelings towards their former manager right away), which after a funky and moody little filler Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon takes us back in time and. . . . roaring forward again I'm In Love With My Car, the best song ever sung and written by Roger Taylor, their drummer, which also happens to be the most beautiful car love song ever. The following song You're My Best Friend was composed by their bass player John Deacon and makes this album a true team effort. Following it is another great song by Brian May '39. The only song on this album that I could never get into was Sweet Lady, which was followed by Seaside Rendezvous, funky moody filler taking you back to the 20s or 30s again. These short fillers, because they are strong and stylistically so all over the place, work well with the complex structures of Bohemian Rhapsody and The Prophets' Song, and together with the remaining love and rock songs create quite an album. Queen's following album Day At The Races was very strong as well. Their following albums contained some great songs but my recommendation would be to turn to their earliest music first, if you like both Night At The Opera and Day AT the Races and you are thinking about exploring their music further.
I have compiled my favorite Queen songs, which include most of their emotional jewels, but which possibly omit some very good songs with heavy, hard or metal sounding loud parts (I need to do it so I can keep on playing music at our showroom/office nonstop and loud, without distracting our clients). My compilation starts with my favorite Queen song :

1. Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
2. White Queen
3. Love Of My Life
4. Nevermore
5. Jealousy
6. Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Forever
8. Dear Friends
9. Don't Try So Hard
10. The March Of The Black Queen
11. The Millionare Waltz
12. Killer Queen
13. Spread Your Wings
14. Who Wants To Live Forever
15. Las Palabras De Amor
16. You're My Best Friend
17. You Take My Breath Away
18. We Are The Champions
19. Bicycle Race
20. I'm In Love With My Car
21. Lilly Of The Valley
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Night Of the Opera review
From "Bohemian Rhaspody" to "The Prophet Song", it is just operatic. Queen's "A Night at the Opera" review is absolutely perfect.
I would definitely recommend this.


queen's masterpiece
while i always personaly liked news of the world best, this is the masterpiece. every queen album will always be measured by this one.


the most important rock opus of the 70s
It doesn't make fun so much as it becomes fun. If you wanted a powerfully insightful even compelling satire on the hypocrsy and outright banality of political, cultural even moral thinking in the modern west just at this period, this would be the album for you. The fact is it has only grown in merit over the decades to mature into a classic.


Perfect Integrating with Classics and Rocknroll
Perfect Integrating with Classics and Rocknroll, good sense and good test, each member had sing at least one song, very fresh experience and good for listen.


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