Queen: A Night At The Opera
Queen: A Night At The Opera
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Queen
Label: Hollywood Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 050087512194
Genre: Rock
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in embossed gatefold jacket. Half-Speed Master. A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by Queen, originally released in 1975. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of it's release. Queen was 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 it's predecessor as a foundation, A Night at the Opera encompasses hard rock ("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 it's detailed, meticulous productions. It's prog rock with a sense of humor as well as dynamics, and Queen never bettered their approach anywhere else.
Tracks:
1.1 Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To ...)
1.2 Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
1.3 I'm In Love With My Car
1.4 You're My Best Friend
1.5 '39
1.6 Sweet Lady
1.7 Seaside Rendezvous
1.8 The Prophet's Song
1.9 Love Of My Life
1.10 Good Company
1.11 Bohemian Rhapsody
1.12 God Save The Queen
