Aug 12 2021
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Queen is absolutely my favorite band of all time. I think their worst album probably still gets 4 stars from me.
SHA is by no means their worst, though.
Brighton Rock - I loved this song before Baby Driver made it cool. The chord progression through the chorus always gives me the goosebumps, and May's guitar solo here, finally perfected from Queen II, is one of the top five solos HISTORY.
Killer Queen - Their biggest "hit" from the album. Probably my least favorite track because of its ubiquitousness. How many times have I heard it? 10,000 at least. Still, it slaps.
Tenement Funster - Roger Taylor tracks always get short shrift from Queen fans, but I have a soft spot for him. I love the youthful rebelliousness. The transition from this into Flick of the Wrist into Lily of the Valley is the best thing Queen *ever* did.
Flick of the Wrist - Shades of their later Death on Two Legs piece. Angry, but still playful. The drums and, again, the guitar solo here really stand out.
Lily of the Valley - A bold operatic piece that nearly always brings me to tears. Freddie shows off his vocals for truly the first time on the album. Tingly piano throughout.
Now I'm Here - A song that cannot truly be appreciated without listening on headphones. Queen does a bunch of goofy name dropping here that is always funny.
In the Lap of the Gods - Another headphone essential. Taylor shows off his insanely high range here. Kind of a Pink Floydy song.
Stone Cold Crazy - I have heard this getting more radio play in the last few years, which I find interesting. It's a great, quick rocker that doesn't overstay its welcome.
Dear Friends - A sad, mournful little piece that is gorgeous
Misfire - A Middle-of-the-road Queen track. Its worst sin is being forgettable.
Bring Back That Leroy Brown - A goofy, good-time skiffle song. All the different voices and rhythms make this one a real treat.
She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettos) - The harmonies here are just perfection. The most underrated song on the album.
In the Lap of the Gods Revisited - The better Lap song. Really shows off their arena sound a few years early. You can just hear audiences of thousands singing along.
Love love love this album.
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May 26 2021
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5
This is the album The Darkness wish they wrote
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Jan 26 2021
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1/25
Incredible album from four guys who look straight out of JoJo's.
Standout Tracks: Brighton Rock, Tenement Funster, Flick Of The Wrist, In The Lap Of The Gods, Stone Cold Crazy
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Apr 08 2021
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Probably a 2.5. Rounded up because it's opened these mouldy cabbage ears to Queen as album-worthy. I'd say I hadn't considered that possibility before because they're victims of an enduringly popular greatest hits collection excpet no band with these sales can be called a victim. Find a better word and let me know. Killer Queen is still my favourite of all their songs, Bring Back That Leroy Brown is a hoot and the "Don't look back" but in Flick of the Wrist (about wanking, I hope) gets me pumped every time. Prog - pfft. This is just good ol' gay as fuck rock 'n' roll!
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Jan 13 2021
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5
Lovely to see more of Queen than just their greatest hits. This feels like an insight into their more casual work, but it's still a stunning range of music.
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Jan 28 2021
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I cannot believe I've never listened to this album and have always loved Queen. It's true rock and roll, with enchanting, rolling diddies. I can hear inspiration for other bands decades after them to come. Great job Queen.
I love how each song has a different musical theme. That is SO my style. Some of the songs are just SILLY and I love it.
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Dec 06 2020
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5
Probably Queens best album. Full of different styles, dramatic vocals and searing guitar. Would listen to this every day.
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Sep 29 2023
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Queen is possibly the most overrated and overplayed band in history
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Nov 24 2021
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Behold a band with no soul. For Queen, showcasing a technical guitar solo or vocal gymnastics matters more than writing entertaining or moving songs. Beware a band having more fun playing than you are listening. It’s lifeless drivel.
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Jul 14 2021
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Queen has such a diverse sound, and they don't really sound like anyone else either. A lot of the songs on this album presage what would come on their next album, A Night at the Opera.
4/5
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Jun 10 2023
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Lmao, i keep forgetting that Queen was pretty much a wizard rock band in the early days.
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Sep 07 2021
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It's crazy that these four guys all jizzed into the Queen's hole and 9 months later produced a royal, sweat-free, pizza hut dwelling definite non-nonce.
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Apr 01 2024
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One sound. Over and over again in different forms. Freddie harmonizing. Brian May twerdling up and down the fretboard. More harmonizing. A lyric about some imagined tragedy or yearning. A reference to a poem or historical event, or something vaguely satanic. And that sound again. Repeat.
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Oct 26 2021
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It was good revisiting Sheer Heart Attack again. I used to listen to this regularly as a teen on the way to and back from High School. There isn't much enthusiasm for Queen as there was back then but still can't fault a near-perfect album. I must say though that re-listenting to this after a few years has gained me a new love for the deeper cuts like Lily in the Valley and Bring Back That Leroy Brown.
It's got two fantastic singles, a great guitar solo in a quirky opening number, a couple of song suites that go well and a perfectly fitting closer. None of the 13 songs overstay their welcome here. Behind A Night At The Opera, this is their best album.
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Oct 20 2021
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This album is a whole ass fucking MOOD and I am loving every minute of it!!
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Oct 01 2021
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Ahhhh Queen, always a delight. This is a solid collection of tunes that is so much *fun* to listen to, something I think is lacking even from better albums. Did you have a good time, and did it rock? Yes and YES. Stylistically the album is kind of all over the place, but the band makes it work for them. It has all the touches you expect from Queen, the sense of grandeur delivered with masterful musicianship, ethereal vocals and a bit of cheeky humor. The band moves rather effortlessly from full throated rockers like “Brighton Rock” and “Stone Cold Crazy” to delicate ballads like “Lily of the Valley” and “Dear Friends.” The perfect, hooky pop confection that is “Killer Queen” stands above them all. It’s a perfect song and there really isn’t another song like it, by any artist.
The quality of the music is undeniable. Brian May's guitar is brilliant, existing on a technical level that few guitarists will ever approach. John Deacon and Roger Taylor are also in top form. The vocal arrangements are stunning, functioning as an instrument in their own right. Freddie Mercury is, of course, a force of nature. His charisma just crackles, elevating even the less interesting songs to a higher level. I also think the songs improve on repeated listening. I like the album better today than I did last night.
Fave Songs: Killer Queen, In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited, Now I'm Here, Stone Cold Crazy, Lily of the Valley, Brighton Rock
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Jan 13 2021
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I would buy this, no song that stood out as bad. Favorite songs were killer queen, stone cold crazy, now I’m here, flick of the wrist, and in the lap of the gods
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Jan 13 2021
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5
One of my faves. I know it well but Nice to listen again
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Jan 27 2021
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5
What can I say, it’s Queen 😊
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Sep 15 2020
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5
One of my favourite albums ever!
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Nov 27 2024
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I had a long review that the system has taken off me. In brief:
This is sheer bloody magic. My second favourite Queen album, and on some days it’s no 1.
As great as Freddie Roger and Brian are, John Deacon is the one who makes the album and the band great. His bass in killer queen is - just listen to the fastidious and precise bass line at the appropriate moment. Or the high slides in ‘In the lap of the gods (revisited.). Not that the others are lumps. Freddie’s singing in Brighton rock, where he goes from falsetto to chest voice seamlessly. Brian also knocks a note or two together in one of the great guitar solos of the rock era. Roger shows that in any other band he’d be the lead singer but his fills in now I’m here show just how brilliant he is as a drummer.
The band basically invent thrash metal in stone cold crazy. Then give us music hall in bring back that Leroy brown.
Maybe the greatest ending track in in the lap of the gods.
I could go on for hours. Just listen to this.
It is a major part of my musical dna.
6666666600000000 stars.
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Dec 04 2021
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Queen needs no introduction, being one of the most popular pioneers of hard/glam rock. In 'Sheer Heart Attack', Queen enlists both uptempo and downtempo elements in its tracks, demonstrating their dynamic ability through intimate piano ballads like 'Lily Of The Valley' or anthem-worthy guitar arrangements and solos in 'Brighton Rock'. The proficiency and understanding of musical direction is highly apparent, with the album never losing its step lead by Freddie Mercury's energetic vocals.
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Dec 04 2021
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5
One of Queen's greatest albums.
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Dec 04 2021
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5
Queen! Not every song is a 5 but Queen is hard to beat.
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Aug 19 2024
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props to this project for showing me how good Queen's non-Greatest Hits catalog is.
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Apr 10 2025
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As with all Queen albums, there is genuine talent hidden under layers of fucking around and daft novelty songs. Frustrating band.
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Apr 28 2024
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Always find Queen a bit too operatic and even though this album had nice tinges of heavy metal, it still suffered from the same thing most of Queens music suffers from. Nothing special other than the songs i already recognised.
2.5*
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May 31 2024
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Freddie Mercury's voice is unlistenable. Brian May's beta vibes are rancid. I wish I could score it lower and tank the global rating
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Feb 11 2024
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Can't be doing with it, respect for all the hard work and talent but all the musical theatrics are not my cup of tea.
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Apr 08 2025
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This was the album where I first fell in forever love with Queen. Majestic and masterful, they will always be my favorite band.
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Feb 04 2025
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Queen don't get the credit they deserve as an album band. And I can understand why. Their greatest hits collection is pure gold and many fans are content to stop there. But there's a lot going on besides the hits. "Sheer Heart Attack" is a great example. Aside from "Killer Queen", these are pretty much all deep cuts. But it's an incredible collection, particularly noteworthy as it marks a transition for the band from fantasy-influenced prog rock to larger than life stadium rock band. The early prog stuff is sometimes dismissed for not sounding very Queen-like but it clearly laid a foundation for their later and it's clearly present here, among the poppier stuff. "Pop" here is no dirty word. Queen understood the best parts of pop music without falling into the pitfalls of formulaic, mass-produced, easily marketable content. They're clearly pushing boundaries here and having an amazing time doing it.
The thing about "Sheer Heart Attack" is that jt sounds best listened to as a whole. As great as "Flick of the Wrist" is, it works best between "Tenement Funster" and "Lily of the Valley". It keeps this album as something of a hidden secret, because they also offer you loads of very easily accessible singles, mostly found elsewhere. But given the chance, there's absolutely nothing to dislike about this album. It sounds effortlessly great from start to finish.
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Nov 20 2021
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This Queen album was new to me. The only song I knew was “Killer Queen” (a classic!).
I loved it. Really nice early Queen that has a strong rock edge in the guitar solos (“Brighton Rock”) mixed in with some very prog-rock sounds all mixed together with Queen’s pure glam!
“Killer Queen” is easy to identify as the big single off the album - it’s arrangements, little sound effect touches, and the way the instruments and the bands voices play together make it a no-brainer hit record.
The big surprise was how much great Queen I have yet to discover.
I loved the rock sound of “Tenement Funster” - this is a great song that joins with the two songs that follow into an incredible song trilogy. It has a more straight rock sound. Then it blends seamlessly into “Flick of the Wrist” that starts with a great piano interlude and takes things in a darker direction. This feels like more of a prog-rock song that blends seamlessly into “Lily of the Valley” which begins with ‘baby you’ve been had,’ a line from “Flick of the Wrist” that starts the third movement of this trio. This song is piano driven and a beautiful ending to this song trilogy. These three songs need to be listened to as a group to really appreciate, reminding us that there will always be a place for albums even in our digital future as the three songs are so much more when listened to together than they are as separate pieces.
“Dear Friends” is a really sweet song of hope (in the best way).
“Misfire” and its rhythm is so great! I love this song. Wow Wow Wow.
And a love song subtitled “Stormtrooper in Stilettos”? I LOVE QUEEN!
This album is spectacular Queen that brings me a lot of much needed joy and hope. Listening to it made me feel like I was listening to Queen for the first time again. So amazing! I will be coming back to this often!!!
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Sep 30 2021
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5
A classic, with lovely less well known tracks like Tenement Funster.
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Jun 22 2021
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I'm not entirely sure if this is the first (non-compilation) Queen album I've listened to in full. That said, I've listened to multiple Queen compilations up and down and there are a couple of their songs that I really love (none of them included here though).
The majority of songs on this album are versatile, very good & interesting and the guitars as well as the singing of course are frequently fantastic. Some of the songs seem a bit overly dramatic. But it's well-executed enough to contribute to Queen's charm.
Also, this album doesn't contain any of their really annoying and uninteresting/cheesy hits (which Queen also have a couple of... the horrendous We Are The Champions, Another One Bites The Dust and We Will Rock You come to mind... urgh). Instead, this album is straight-up quality - only In The Lap Of The Gods was sort of, uh, weird.
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Apr 08 2021
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5
Queen is always great.
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May 05 2021
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5
Obviously I love Queen so in my eyes every album is a 10
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Mar 04 2021
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5
I think my favorite Queen album so far. I’m a sucker for good medleys. I really did enjoy it end to end.
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Jan 21 2021
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5
Great album
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Apr 18 2021
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5
Uno de los grandes de Queen, una maravilla.
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Mar 31 2021
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5
Queen!
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Jan 26 2021
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5
Very fun to listen to. A good mixture of high energy and interesting melodies. Lots of fun guitar solos. Only one traditionally popular song on here (Killer Queen), the rest were new to me but very good. Very solid album!
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Mar 22 2021
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5
TOP
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Jan 21 2021
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5
Always amazing.
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Jul 12 2021
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5
Easy 5, every time.
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May 18 2021
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5
First time hearing the whole album. Queen is undisputable.
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Apr 30 2025
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Killer Queen is the only big hit here, but there's a lot to like. Full of short songs with catchy riffs. First song had ms thinking this would be much like any rock album of its era, but improves greatly from the middle onwards.
Despite having listened to the 3 greatest hits selections many many times, this might be the first I've listened to one of their studio albums all the way through.
Highlights: Lily of the Valley, Misfire
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Apr 14 2025
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I’m more of a Queen’s Greatest Hits guy, so a lot of this album was new to me. The only songs I knew were “Killer Queen” and “Flick of the Wrist.”
I forget that their earlier work was much more progressive-influenced before they became pop area glam rockers. Really enjoyed this and don’t think there was a bad song!
4⭐️
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Jan 13 2025
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By the time I got around to listening to music, the greatest hits had already come out and it seemed like all you needed. Boy oh boy was I wrong! I hadn’t heard most of this before and it definitely rips!
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Dec 31 2024
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I am biased as Queen are one of my childhood favourite bands.
Its brave to start an album with an instrumental but Brighton Rock is a masterpiece. Then being followed by Killer Queen which could be Queens greatest song ever is a strong start.
In summary this is not the best Queen album but it is a very good one. It works very well as a piece and shows Queen in a very different light to the over played greatest hits by show casing hidden gems like flick of the wrist and lily off the valley.
Favourite song: Killer Queen is one of the best songs of all time.
Least favourite: Tenemant funster. Awful
Album artwork: Superb cover
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Nov 05 2024
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First Queen album I've listened to that wasn't a greatest hits. So many great tracks I didn't recognise. Campy and goofy in places in all the good ways. Great harmonies, loved the Roger Taylor led song. Brian May saucey boy
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Oct 27 2024
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Queen may be the best example of a band where you need to listen to greatest hits.
Each album has a few 5/5 songs and then a ton of chaff.
Now I'm here, Stone Cold Crazy, and Killer Queen are all great. Brighton Rock is strong.
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Oct 26 2024
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It’s always nice to hear Queen stuff that isn’t from their greatest hits, and definitely an album to listen to before you die just for the education. The singles did stand out for me, but while nothing was particularly bad, nothing was particularly great either. Just a solid good album.
4/5
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Aug 18 2024
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I've never listened to this album before. It was interesting to get away from the greatest hits and hear the deep cuts.
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Jul 13 2024
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Classic Queen!
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Feb 12 2024
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i think if you listen to a 'Greatest Hits' album for Queen, it tends to have more of their songs that were revolutionary for the genre. Bohemian Rhapsody, Bicycle Race, Seven Seas of Rhye, etc.
but an album like this reminds us that Queen can absolutely rock, and they rock HARD. Brian May is a freaking animal on the guitar.
this album is also home to my favorite Queen song, 'Killer Queen', which I have always loved. this album is fun, and really shows how well they can play the conventional pop and rock side.
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May 09 2024
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I like Queen, hell, I have a deep seated nostalgia for this band. Queen's greatest hits might've been the first album I ever truly owned, on casette no less. This is my second or third time listening to a full length LP and I must say I'm not that big of a fan of the deeper cuts. This album, much like the others I've listened to, is full of songs I don't connect to. I like a few songs a lot but most just don't hit that high I'm looking for when listening to Queen. The musicianship is definitely there but the songs aren't grabbing me.
Favorites: killer queen, Now I'm here, Stone cold crazy, flick of the wrist
3.5/5
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Jul 13 2025
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First Queen album! Love the band, but usually listen to the greatest hits. This was good, I just felt like most songs just ended and the transitions weren’t really there. It didn’t really flow for me despite loving the band and the sound.
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Apr 12 2025
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It's a good album, don't get me wrong, but it's coated in a thick, sticky layer of 70s excess and heavy guitars. Sometimes, it leaves me feeling a little sick by the end. With that said, I can see myself enjoying a lot of these songs individually in the future.
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Feb 01 2025
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Another one that I wanted to rate higher but just couldnt. A compilation of all of Queens greatest hits would easily score a four or a five, but there's some tough stuff on this album. Killer Queen is obviously an amazing song, as are many other songs not on this album (if you can transport yourself back to a time when you hadn't heard We Will Rock you 6,000 times). Queen is a great band but, unless you're some kind of super duper fan, raw dogging this album top to bottom is brutal. It's too proggy, weird, and homogenous. Anybody who gives this a 5 is just trying too hard.
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Dec 11 2024
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Is it sacrilege to not like Queen?
I don’t need my music to sound like it’s part of some big stage epic event. I recognize their originality and maybe will bump the rating up a star for that, but honestly it feels like giving in to pressure. Look how big our sound is! Look at how different we are! You HAVE to love us!
No I don’t.
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Apr 15 2024
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Queen ain't ever been my cuppa. Little bit too theatrical and self indulgent for me.
In saying that, I'd say I enjoyed 75% of every song in this. There are some brilliant passages in every song, but they are often let down by the guitar solo's or just plain silly moments.
3.5/5
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Jan 10 2024
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Never cared for Queen's Musical music. Not going to start now.
(There's going to be more Queen, isn't there?)
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Apr 05 2022
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I rather enjoy Queen, but feel this album is a bit on the overrated side. Killer Queen is a banger, but the rest I could potentially pass on. 3/5
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Jan 28 2022
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A really solid Queen album. I definitely prefer the following 2 albums, but there are some belters here. It lacks cohesion and feels like a collection of songs rather than an album.
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Nov 28 2021
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Brighton Rock and Killer Queen is a pretty great opening for the album! It's then followed by the incredibly bland Tenement Funster, sadly (while it's great the group operated quite democratically regards songwriting, it did mean some rubbish slipped through!) Flick of the Wrist is another song, and I didn't realise this, which is pretty damning. It's 50/50 so far.
Lily of the Valley is camp as balls, and therefore ace. Then Now I'm Here is great fun too. Very Queen, and I think the variable quality is part and parcel.
It's an album of brilliant ups and mediocre downs, which makes sense of Queen's reputation as a 'Best of' band.
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Nov 02 2021
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Some absolute bangers on here and a bunch of hidden gems.
Production seems a little thin but I guess that could be down to being exposed to much richer mixes in more recent times.
Still a lot of fun!
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Mar 14 2021
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I listened to my original vinyl copy of this album. I didn’t have Queen’s earlier stuff but recall this album had a new sound - glam rock as it’s called. We now know they still had another gear or two to ramp up the glam. The liner notes give Freddie the credits for “vocal extravaganzas”. How 1974 is that? I don’t recall Killer Queen being in the recent(ish) Boh Rap movie which surprised me since it was a big hit. While I had this LP for 45 years, the vinyl is in great shape which means I didn’t play it much. Aside from Killer Q and Now I’m Here, I don’t really remember the other songs. I thought "Flick of the Wrist" was a vg song but it was like today was the first time I heard it. I appreciate the historical and transitional significance of this LP for Queen but the fact I can’t remember 11 of the 13 tracks means I can’t justify a rating north of 3.
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Mar 04 2021
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Freddy's tone on Brighton Rock isnt great. Killer queen is incredibly, duh. Stone Cold Crazy is a cool thrash piece. Bring Back Leroy Brown is wacky. some good tracks but it didnt really leave me with much as a whole
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Jun 05 2025
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There are some albums that are 3 stars because they're just pretty good the whole way through. There are other albums that are 3 stars because for every great song it has there's a bad one. Sheer heart attack, and really Queen's whole discography is the latter. I've always considered queen to have one of the strongest greatest hits albums of all time but they could never really keep it together for a whole album. The great songs on this album (Brighton rock, killer queen and now i'm here) are fun pop rock tracks you could show your little cousin. The other tracks range from inoffensive to overindulgent noodling.
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Dec 07 2024
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I can tell this is good, it just is not for me. It's not bad by any means. Just not for me.
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Nov 05 2024
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Sheer Heart Attack
I’ve always struggled with Queen, I periodically try but they just never click for me. I don’t mind them in small doses, and I like many of their big songs, myself drifting off when listening to them for any period of time, a bit like when you read a book that's hard going and realise you can’t recall the last 3 pages you’ve read.
Maybe it’s the vaudevillian musical theatre aspect that I don’t like, but then there are other bands doing similar stuff that I do like, and generally I do appreciate a bit of kitchen sink over the topness. I think part of it is that I’m not that keen on Freddie’s voice, even though I know it’s technically very good, and that I find it hard to connect with their melodic style, but overall I get a sense of prissiness and fussiness from their music, particularly May’s guitar. Again I know it’s technically great but I really struggle to connect with it.
Because of all that I didn’t find much of this particularly memorable or engaging. Killer Queen is obviously a very good song, and I quite liked Flick of the Wrist, Misfire and She Makes Me. Stone Cold Crazy and Bring back that Leroy Brown are not very good though.
I can appreciate though that this must have sounded pretty different and exciting when it came out, but I think it and Queen are just not for me. Boring is perhaps too strong a word, I think it’s more that it’s just uninspiring and unengaging. 2 may be to harsh, but I can’t really imagine listening again.
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Playlist submission: Killer Queen
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Mar 06 2024
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Yeah this was quite bad. Queen very much just a hits band, and even the big ones on this aren't all that...
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Jan 15 2024
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Eh
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Jan 09 2024
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Not so good
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Jan 03 2024
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Yeah, prejudices reinforced. There's something about Queen's music, despite the talent involved, that leaves me totally cold, and apparently that's not going to change. I tried!
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Dec 21 2023
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The earworms are the singles, the non-singles are not earworms. I don't like the earworms, though can concede their immaculate craft. Elsewhere it's all a bit hairy blokes in drag.
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Nov 17 2023
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it's not bad, but i have a bit of a natural dislike for queen, imagine thinking this was cool during the time of punk
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Oct 26 2021
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Ich mag Musicals nicht besonders
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May 03 2024
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Never a huge fan of Queen.
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Mar 18 2024
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What a shit album!
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Nov 21 2023
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Don't get the fuss for Queen. Apart from one or two songs, they are seriously overrated.
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Nov 14 2023
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Should have saved time and money by putting killer queen on a 7”
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Nov 13 2023
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No matter what the album is, Queen is still a bunch of tedious old arse.
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Oct 29 2021
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Unbearable
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Oct 29 2021
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Hates it, dull and overly glam at the same time.
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Sep 07 2021
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not even queen killer could save this shite.
Who knew photoshop existed in 1974, the glistening hunks on the cover of this album look nothing like the disfigured beasts that are in queen.
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Jun 01 2021
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Unbearable
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Apr 03 2021
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I guess the purpose of the album and by extension the band itself is to provide aural and operatic pop rock experiences. Unfortunately this ain't my thing and found little to no enjoyment here.
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Jul 15 2025
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Having only listened to the Queen’s greatest hits cds, I lacked the idea that Queen was a capitol B Band, and not just Freddie Mercury and the gang. The ideas spread across these 40 minutes can only be achieved be the varied writing style of the four of them. Killer Queen is the big hit of this album, and for good reason. But the other songs on here deserve as much respect. The three-peat of Tenement Funster-Flick of the Wrist-Lily of the Valley is so well produced and cohesive that I failed to realize it was three separate songs at first. The absolutely blast that is Stone Cold Crazy, the slower songs like Dear Friends. Hell there’s even like a reprise or a reimagining of a song that came 5 songs before. And it works!
God I have been missing out on Queen albums.
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Jul 14 2025
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I've given a lot of 5s recently but this is gonna be another! Never listened to any of Queen's albums before doing this list, and had Queen II already, so this was a real evolution of their sound from prog to glam. It absolutely rocks, right from the insane solo of Brighton Rock, and Stone Cold Crazy is an especially fun song. The complexity of the arrangements (especially vocals) give a good indicator of where they would go on A Night At The Opera, but this is a belter in its own right. Just a really fun time
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Jul 14 2025
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Excellent
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Jul 08 2025
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5
Amazing album, one of queen's best.
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Jul 08 2025
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5
God damn.
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Jul 06 2025
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5
So many memories from this.
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Jul 03 2025
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5
On first glance, this doesn't seem like it would be much of anything, and to anyone other than a Queen fan, there's only one recognizable song on here with "Killer Queen". Listening to this entire collection reveals a whole treasure trove of some of their best deep cuts, including "Now I'm Here", "Stone Cold Crazy", and the absolute best on the album, the opener, "Brighton Rock". Each song flows into the other and is perfectly placed in a harmonious progression. The flaws may be a couple of lackluster tracks, but the positives are numerous. The guitar solos are insatiable, the harmonies blend together wonderfully, and Freddie's voice is impeccably outstanding. Words cannot even describe how perfect his voice was for rock music. All in all, this is a really neat look into their catalogue as a whole that demonstrates both variety and quality. This is one of the most overlooked works that glam rock had to offer.
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Jul 01 2025
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5
dal profondo del cuore e in modo forse non totalmente imparziale, ma chissenefrega <3
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Jul 01 2025
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5
I LOVE QUEEN!! I let out the biggest hell yeah seeing this was my album for today. Some songs are rockin and fun while others are deeper and softer but all are creative and masterfully done. The vocals go crazy as always. Queen is what got little me into music so I might be a little biased this has gotta be a five.
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Jun 27 2025
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5
Not a lot of hits on this album (apart from Killer Queen) but it's Classic Queen and really good (glam) rock. Maybe not their absolute best album but still worth a 5 to me.
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Jun 24 2025
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5
The Good: If you’re going to have one…
The Bad: Who wants to have one?
The Ugly: Imagining being found on the floor, after having had one, and maybe having soiled one’s undies…
What have I been smoking? Nothing…
What a lovely album! My mother’s favorite! And though not my favorite Queen album, it was such a pleasure to listen to that I’ve been humming Leroy Brown all day!
Obviously, this album is getting the highest mark… nothing else to mention...
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Jun 24 2025
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5
Such an amazing band.
Queen brings a lot of history to the table for me, as I was a fan for a long time when I was younger.
If there were a sixth star, this band would get it for all their early albums
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