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A Night at the Opera | 
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| Artist: Queen
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1306
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 094633847828
EAN: 0094633847828
ASIN: B000BEPLSQ
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Death On Two Legs | | • | Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon | | • | I'm In Love With My Car | | • | You're My Best Friend | | • | '39 | | • | Sweet Lady | | • | Seaside Rendezvous | | • | Prophet's Song | | • | Love Of My Life | | • | Good Company | | • | Bohemian Rhapsody | | • | God Save The Queen |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
one of the best rock albums ever queens sgt pepper!! August 12, 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,made in heaven,a day at the races happy listening!!
Over-rated masterpiece May 15, 2008
This is the album, that set Queen on their way to the big time and 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' April 10, 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 and reserved packaging, through the flowing and 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 and 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' and then it's antithesis - the incredible creation that is 'Bohemian Rhapsody.'
However, do not be mistaken - without reserve - this album contains all- great tracks and 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) and 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 and of course the unforgetables - The Prophets Song (the epic Noah's Ark story), Love of My Life (a fan-live favourite) and of course Bohemian Rhapsody.
This is an album best 'listened to' - not left on in the back-ground - Sit Down and 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 and under-musical Rap - listen to this classic, open your mind and 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. January 10, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I know, you get told a record is good by someone who you wouldn't normally trust to tie their own shoelaces, and guess what, it turns out that not only is their recommendation sound but that they wear shoes with a velcro fastening in to the bargain.
Michael Broadbent has a favourite on this album, Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon, and 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 December 5, 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 pulling in 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 vocal in the opening track, he playfully jollies it up with multiharmonies on Freddie's ditty - Lazing on a Sunday afternoon. Then comes the crunch - writhing in phasing and a 6/8 drum beat the most unlikely rock riff spins off I'm in 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 and with an impressive vocal and harmonies, the multitracks take nothing from the songs poignant (lump in the throat)lyrics and haunting melody.
Sweet Lady,another rocker in the improbable timing of 3/4 lifts off towards the end in a frenzy of overdubs and 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 and simple pop romance.
Lazing on a Sunday afternoon with its incomparable 'woodwind' solo reveals a band totally at one with itself and pushing the envelope with good humour and 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 and with Brian May's meticulously weird guitar jazz-band; we are listening to one of the finest moments of electric ever committed to tape - every one of those notes recorded one-by-one on electric guitar, you really have to wonder at its conception and 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 and marvel - betterstill, but the DVD with 5.1 dolby and you can marvel all around the room!
ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING - remember them this way!
And I didn't even mention Freddie's vocals.....
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