Customer Reviews
one of the best rock albums ever queens sgt pepper!! - By: Mr. S. L. Smith, 12 Aug 2008 
love this album freddie mercury what a voice one of the best rock singer ever buy this you wont regret it a deserveing addition to any collection aswell as darkside of the moon ,the wall by pink floyd or led zeppelin 4 symbols album buy it also recommend sheer heart attack,innuendo,madein heaven,a day at the races happy listening!!
Over-rated masterpiece - By: Graham Hill, 15 May 2008 This is the album, that set Queen on their way to the big time & you can see why. It is terribly over rated....though only when you compare it against their other ablums many of which are just as excellent.
Queen's 'Sgt Pepper' and 'Pet Sounds' - By: Mitch, 10 Apr 2008 Queen's A Night At The Opera is undoubtedly one of the most inspiring musical products of the 1970's. Everything about the album screams 'Quality' from the extremely classy & reserved packaging, through the flowing & purposeful arrangement of songs. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker - for anyone listening to it now - it should be obvious that he inspired the care / attention to detail & available technology of the 1980's producer Trevor Horn.
Again Queen chose to release only 2 singles from this album - the remarkably soft simple pop number 'You're My Best Friend' & then it's antithesis - the incredible creation that is 'Bohemian Rhapsody.'
However, do not be mistaken - without reserve - this album contains all- great tracks & opens with 'Death On Two Legs' which sets the tone for a night of classical indulgence. What particularly marks the album is the way that each song seems so appropriately followed or complimented by the next. Move from 4 minute of immense classical inspired cutting edge rock to 60 seconds of charming nineteen 30's pastiche (Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon) & then into 4 minutes of pounding raw emotion that is Roger Taylor's 'I'm In Love With My Car' before slipping into John Deacons pop master-piece 'You're My Best Friend.'
The quality continues through (quantum-physics inspired acoustic classic) fan favourite '39 - includes further pastiche numbers & of course the unforgetables - The Prophets Song (the epic Noah's Ark story), Love of My Life (a fan-live favourite) & of course Bohemian Rhapsody.
This is an album best 'listened to' - not left onin the back-ground - Sit Down & LISTEN - whether to the perfect, sprawling multi-layered stereo of the original mix - or the 5.1 Surround which followed 30 years later (my preference is the original - but the 5.1 mix remains one of the best remixed classics on the market).
I listen to all-sorts of material - but if there is one album everyone should try at least once - it is Queen's 'A Night At The Opera'
I will never understand the propensity for current music enthusiasts to praise under-produced thrash, under-written punk & under-musical Rap - listen to this classic, open your mind & find a new world of long-overlooked music.
'Never Mind The B**locks' indeed - take substance from 'A Night At The Opera' - A true classic.
Michael Broadbent told me about this. - By: Mr. N. J. B., 10 Jan 2008 I know, you get told a record is good by someone who you wouldn't normally trust to tie their own shoelaces, & guess what, it turns out that not only is their recommendation sound but that they wear shoes with a velcro fasteningin to the bargain.
Michael Broadbent has a favourite on this album, Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon, & although my favourite is another choice, I have to say that the porky old work colleague has not led me astray with this record.
Im waiting now for another choice from Mickey Shrek Broadbent.
Genius - By: JJ, 05 Dec 2007 From the opening bars of Death on Two Legs to the final strains of the national anthem, this is the PERFECT Queen album. With all four members pullingin the same direction, the album as a whole is an absolute peach but there are a few standout moments that do deserve attention.
May's guitar playing has never been better, or bettered - from the snake wrapping itself round Mercury's vocalin the opening track, he playfully jollies it up with multiharmonies on Freddie's ditty - Lazing on a Sunday afternoon. Then comes the crunch - writhingin phasing & a 6/8 drum beat the most unlikely rock riff spins off I'min love with my car - special mention to R Taylors quite superb vocal.
Now the genius really starts - a folk-rock science fiction song! - shouldn't work, but '39 does & with an impressive vocal & harmonies, the multitracks take nothing from the songs poignant (lumpin the throat)lyrics & haunting melody.
Sweet Lady,another rockerin the improbable timing of 3/4 lifts off towards the endin a frenzy of overdubs & thrash-out drumming heaven!
John Deacon is also well represented with probably his best-ever composition; You're my Best Friend - listen closely to the musicianship from the bass lines to the broken drum patterns, this truly is a work of genuine genius guising & simple pop romance.
Lazing on a Sunday afternoon with its incomparable 'woodwind' solo reveals a band totally at one with its genuis & pushing the envelope with good humour & oodles of style.
A very special mention must be made of the unlikely standout track on this album (yes, we know Bohemian Rhapsody's there!) but, the overlooked Good Company holds its own against its big brother & with Brian May's meticulously weird guitar jazz-band; we are listening to one of the finest moments of guitar genius ever committed to tape - every one of those notes recorded one-by-one on electric guitar, you really have to wonder at the genius of its conception & marvel at its immaculate delivery - try that EC, JB or JP - not a chance! - it really is a pity that Dr May went 'off the boil' after this, his only truly great recorded performance
Buy this & marvel - betterstill, but the DVD with 5.1 dolby & you can marvel all around the room!
ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING - remember them this way!
And I didn't even mention Freddie's vocals.....
