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b_olariu
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Topic: Four First Queen Albums Poll Posted: November 01 2016 at 02:23 |
Sheer Heart Attack
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Intruder
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Posted: October 31 2016 at 15:41 |
Never was a Queen fan as a kid.....too much pound-pound-clap at sporting events. I'd heard and liked a lot of the radio gaga but never dug much deeper. I snagged a Chinese bootleg of their entire discography for a couple of bucks about a year back and decided to finally give the first five albums a closer look. Pleasantly surprised.....some great stuff (some not so but they were very rarely boring). I love the ballsyness of the first album - derivative but fun; the second is a hard rock classic, but I'm not much of a hard rock fan; the third is where it all came together.....love the variety and freakin' Brian May - love that sustain he gets on that fat body guitar......Brighton Rock! The fourth was more of the same - a bit more polished and deliberate; the fifth repeats the formula but is still highly listenable.
Never thought I'd become a Queen supporter (won't go as far as calling myself a fan.....more of a casual acquaintance that I'm on good terms with)
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Kingsnake
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Posted: October 31 2016 at 06:33 |
In my opinion the Queen albums can be paired accordingly: 1. Queen I / Queen II (progrock/hardrock perdiod) 2. Sheer Heart Attack / Night at the Opera / Day at the Races (bombastic operatic extravanganza period) 3. News of the World / Jazz (more straightforward hardrock/pop period) 4. The Game / Flash Gordon / Hot Space (transitional period) 5. The Works / A Kind of Magic (synthdriven pop/rock) 6. Miracle / Innuendo (back to the hardrock and operatic roots) 7. Made in Heaven (leftovers)
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Prog Sothoth
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Posted: October 31 2016 at 06:31 |
I'll give it to Sheer Heart Attack. "Brighton Rock" is such an immense opening.
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ColonelClaypool
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Posted: October 31 2016 at 06:27 |
Icarium wrote:
Reviews states these to be the perfect quadruple of albums, of the more obscue Queen uptil they hit huge with the last track on A Night. |
The last track on A Night at the Opera is God Save The Queen, not Bohemian Rhapsody
Anyway, I voted for Sheer Heart Attack.
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Icarium
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Posted: October 31 2016 at 04:31 |
Kingsnake wrote:
The hit it big with Killer Queen, wich was from their third.And I wonder why Day at the Races is not in the poll. It's Always paired with Night at the Opera. Black and White, Day and Night. |
i thought about it but desided to pair it with the next three albums
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Kingsnake
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Posted: October 31 2016 at 02:30 |
The hit it big with Killer Queen, wich was from their third. And I wonder why Day at the Races is not in the poll. It's Always paired with Night at the Opera. Black and White, Day and Night.
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KingCrInuYasha
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 21:41 |
Opera > II > Heart > I
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Barbu
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 18:49 |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 13:00 |
Although I really love Queen II, I think Night at the Opera is their best album from start to finish.
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 10:03 |
Queen II
All excellent albums though.
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Icarium
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 07:26 |
I love the brutal and complex mix of heavy stomping rock and theatre/opera they got going, some songs prooves my point though, of Procol Harums influence on cabaret rock, cause some songs got that Procol cabaret/theatre vibe
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 06:47 |
agreed all greats... Queen II gets my vote... the one I listen to most so I suppose it makes it the best one
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Cambus741
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 06:45 |
All four are great albums. Anyone else think that killer Queen sticks out like a sore thumb on the first three because it is so much more commercial than anything else they had done up to that point. The first album was recorded in snippets during the middle of the night when no-one else was using the studio which was a contributary factor in why it sounds less polished that the others.
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 05:25 |
`Queen II' was the first `prog' (ish?!) album I ever heard, so I have a lot of love and fond memories of it, but I think `Sheer Heart Attack' had the most variety and diverse range of styles out of that group, so it gets my vote. But if you like the early period of the band, there's not a bad album in that lot, with many standout tracks on each one.
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Icarium
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Posted: October 30 2016 at 05:20 |
Reviews states these to be the perfect quadruple of albums, of the more obscue Queen uptil they hit huge with the last track on A Night. Which of these releases grabs you still with vissues force.
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