QUEEN A Night At The Opera LP+ DIE-CUT INNER UK 1975 1stP GF EMI EMTC103 NM
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LP
ARTIST: QUEEN
TITLE: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
LABEL + YEAR: EMI EMTC 103; UK 1st PRESS 1975
MATRIX SIDE 1: YAX 5063-3
MATRIX SIDE 2: YAX 5064-3 (BLAIR’S IN THE DEAD WAX)
CONDITION VINYL: NEAR-MINT
CONDITION SLEEVE: EX EMBOSSED GATEFOLD SLEEVE + DIE-CUT CARD PICTURE INNER SLEEVE MINT
DESCRIPTION: All Music Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Queen were straining at the boundaries of hard rock and heavy metal on Sheer Heart Attack, but they broke down all the barricades on A Night at the Opera, a self-consciously ridiculous and overblown hard rock masterpiece.
Using the multi-layered guitars of its predecessor as a foundation, A Night at the Opera encompasses metal ("Death on Two Legs," "Sweet Lady"), pop (the lovely, shimmering "You're My Best Friend"), campy British music hall ("Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon," "Seaside Rendezvous"), and mystical prog rock ("'39," "The Prophet's Song"), eventually bringing it all together on the pseudo-operatic "Bohemian Rhapsody."
In short, it's a lot like Queen's own version of Led Zeppelin IV, but where Zep find dark menace in bombast, Queen celebrate their own pomposity. No one in the band takes anything too seriously, otherwise the arrangements wouldn't be as ludicrously exaggerated as they are. But the appeal -- and the influence -- of A Night at the Opera is in its detailed, meticulous productions.
It's prog rock with a sense of humor as well as dynamics, and Queen never bettered their approach anywhere else.
Side 1:
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
Side 2:
THE PROPHET’S SONG
LOVE OF MY LIFE
GOOD COMPANY
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
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