QUEEN A Night At The Opera 30th ANNIVERSARY 180g HALF SPEED Audiophile SEALED
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QUEEN A Night At The Opera (30th Anniversary Edition)
New And sealed Audiophile Vinyl Record
Record Label: Parlophone 847811 (UK)
Deluxe 180 Gram, half-speed mastered 30th Anniversary Edition of the classic 1975 Queen release. Long out of print and nearly impossible to find UK Import.
Record is new and still sealed in it's original tight shrink wrap. LP is packaged in an over-sized printed envelope which has dull corners due to the shrink. Otherwise everything is new and in Mint condition
Side One
1. Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)
2. Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
3. I'm in Love with My Car
4. You're My Best Friend
5. '39
6. Sweet Lady
7. Seaside Rendezvous
Side Two
8. The Prophet's Song
9. Love of My Life
10. Good Company
11. Bohemian Rhapsody
12. God Save the Queen
Review: 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.
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