Queen - A Night at the Opera (EAC.FLAC) ResourceRG

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Queen - A Night at the Opera
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Artist...............: Queen
Album................: A Night at the Opera
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1975
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 77 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Ripped by............: tequila-bob on 11/5/2009
Posted by............: tequila-bob on 1/17/2010
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Included.............: NFO, SFV, M3U, LOG, CUE
Covers...............: Front Back CD

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Tracklisting
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1. (00:03:44) Queen - Death on Two Legs
2. (00:01:07) Queen - Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
3. (00:03:05) Queen - I'm in Love with My Car
4. (00:02:52) Queen - You're My Best Friend
5. (00:03:31) Queen - '39
6. (00:04:04) Queen - Sweet Lady
7. (00:02:16) Queen - Seaside Rendezvous
8. (00:08:20) Queen - The Prophet's Song
9. (00:03:39) Queen - Love of My Life
10. (00:03:18) Queen - Good Company
11. (00:06:00) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
12. (00:01:13) Queen - God Save the Queen

Playing Time.........: 02:13:52
Total Size...........: 250.37 MB

NFO generated on.....: 1/17/2010 5:57:06 PM


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Category Rock, Rock/Pop, Hard Rock, Art Rock
Label Hollywood
Orig Year 1975
All Time Sales Rank 345
CD Universe Part number 1026371
Catalog number 161065
Discs 1
Release Date Sep 03, 1991
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Queen; Roy Thomas Baker
Engineer Mike Stone; Gary Lyons
Recording Time 48 minutes
Personnel Roger Taylor - vocals, drums, percussion
Brian May - vocals, guitar, banjo, koto, ukulele, harmonica, keyboards
Brian May - vocals, guitar, banjo, koto, ukulele, harmonica, keyboards
Freddie Mercury - vocals, piano
John Deacon - guitar, electric piano, double bass, electric bass

Though they began their career practicing an artier, more theatrical variant on Led Zeppelin's heavy rock sound, Queen was always capable of much more. Ultimately, Freddie and the boys were popsters at heart, and capable ones to boot. A NIGHT ... Full DescriptionAT THE OPERA is where they begin to show their eclecticism and compositional facility. The album title is probably a reference to the FM rock anthem "Bohemian Rhapsody," which begins as an existential ballad before moving into a mock-operatic section featuring scores of overdubbed Freddie Mercurys.

"Rhapsody" is just the tip of the iceberg here. "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" is a music-hall ditty that owes a debt to the Kinks. "'39" is a surprisingly poignant folk-rocker written and sung by Brian May. "You're My Best Friend" is pure '70s AM melodic pop. Queen even ventures into vaudeville territory (given Mercury's show-biz leanings, not as much of a stretch as one might think) on the fatalistic, old-timey "Good Company." There are several souped-up rockers here as well, but it's A NIGHT AT THE OPERA's winning stylistic experimentation that makes it a milestone in Queen history.

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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Recorded at Sarm Studios, Roundhouse Studios, Olympic Studios, Scorpio Studios, Landsdowne Studios, London, England and Rockfield Studios, Wales.



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