Editorial Review:

Amazon.com essential recording:
Nothing succeeds like excess--at least that's the case with Queen's breakthrough classic, A Night at the Opera. On one level, the title is a reference to the band's operatic pretensions, best in evidence here on the classic "Bohemian Rhapsody," which was championed by headbangers a generation before being revived by the Wayne's World set. Of course, A Night at the Opera was also the title of a Marx Brothers movie, and the reference isn't lost on Queen, who seldom scaled the heights of pomprock without a knowing wink. The album is remembered for its meticulously produced bombast, but the truth is that there's a wide variety of material here, from the gorgeous piano-based "You're My Best Friend" and the McCartneyesque "39" to the music-hall-style "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" and the pedal-to-the-metal rockers "Death on Two Legs" and "I'm in Love with My Car." A Night at the Opera is viewed by most as the quintessential Queen album, and justifiably so. --Daniel Durchholz

Album Details:
Japanese Version featuring a Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.

Rating: - Perfect Integrating with Classics and Rocknroll
Perfect Integrating with Classics and Rocknroll, good sense and good test, each member had sing at least one song, very fresh experience and good for listen.

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Rating: - The Album ROCK"S
Well I am first gonna say that I am not your normal Queen fan, in fact in my younger years I pretty much hated them. I don;t have a good reason for it, it's just that I didn't car for their kind of music, but as I got older I have found some of their songs aren't really that bad. Sot I just bought the album for a few of the song's on it, the rest of them well grow on me in time I guess. The one song I wanted wasn't on this album, that song is " We Are The Champions "

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Rating: - Gourmet Rock & Roll!
Listening to this great CD today, I can remember why it was one of my favorite albums in my senior year in HS. Queen really knew how to produce a cohesive album. This album is so eclectic in styles and yet somehow it all fits together so well I can't imagine the album without all of the songs and in the order they were placed. Now this CD offers alternative versions of two of the songs, well I wouldn't have done that, but in the wonderful digital age we can make the albums we own into any order of ... Read More

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Rating: - Why 14 instead of 12???
I just finished downloading this album, one of my all time favorites, and I noticed that there are 14 tracks instead of 12. The Queen discography states 12. Amazon has included a repeat of I'm in love with my car @ 3:28 and You're my best friend @2:51. One is a second shorter and one is a second longer? Any idea why they would add tracks to this album?

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Rating: - A Complete Team Effort by Queen
Looking back at the 1970s, sometimes many forget how big the band Queen was. Even as Queen moved into the 1980s, while their popularity did slightly decline in the United States, it continued to be very high in Europe. Their performance at Live Aid is widely considered one of the greatest of all-time and their subsequent "Magic" tour is considered one of the all-time greatest concert tours. If it weren't for Freddie Mercury's death in 1992, we might still be talking about Queen being as big a band ... Read More