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This is a huge masterpiece. One out of a million or trillion albums. The album begins with the frustrated and intense "Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to __)" with incredible vocal harmonies to hug Freddie's tenor voice. The song is followed by the small british country rock mix break "Lazing On a Sunday Afternoon" just to get harder with "I'm In Love With My Car" one of the most important Taylor's songs in Queen history, that just suits his bass voice and gives the audience a small break of the audacious Mercury voice. Deacon's "You're my Best Friend" gives the necessairy pop tune in the album and "'39" which follows is a beautiful british rock contribution in the album by May with beautiful allegoric and poetic lyrics sang by himself. "Sweet Lady" could be the only exorbitant part of this piece of art but you can soon pretend you never heard it by listening to the next british country "Seaside Rendez-vouz" break. So silly those songs that you just can't avoid to love them. "The Prophet's Song" is maybe the greatest surprise of this album. Written by May, this flamboyant, glam, kitch epic metal piece of art just keeps me stunned every time i listen to it. The 2.30' multi tracked freddie mercury a capella in the middle of this 8.30 poem is just amazing. "Love of My Life" is on of the most sensitive songs of Queen and "Good Company" is another little silly but yet adorable break from all these hard tunes that precedeed. And of course "Bohemian Rhapsody", the again and again voted as the song of the 20th century, one of the most beautiful and successful experiments in the musical history, so sensitive, so intense, so bizzare but yet so hard to ever be considered as boring or outdated. Queen never managed to do better that this work.

One of the best by Queen. They put a lot of soul into this album. Everything on it was good.

Pompous, pretentious, overblown, overproduced, oversung, juvenile, excessive, self-indulgent, tawdry, retarded. One of the crappiest bands ever, stroking themselves off into the faces of mindless douchebags having all the cultural discernment of a gnat. This album is probably one of the worst rock albums (if one can call it that) ever recorded. Total vomit from first note to last. A prime example of the self-impressed glam rock that became immediately declasse and outmoded when records like "My Aim Is True," "Howlin' Wind," and "Talking Heads 77" were released just a short time later. Dinosaur music. This is because Queen is unadulterated barf. Just listen to it today and you should, given that you're not a total clown or nozzle, feel shamefacedly embarassed for anyone even remotely associated with this cultural abomination. This is the kind of crap that gave rock and roll a bad name, an unsavory connotation, and heralded the end of the flatulent Big Hair music of the mid 1970s. Furthermore, Freddy Mercury sucked as a singer. Maudlin, whiney, overdramatic, wimpy, obnoxious.

Overblown and has dated badly.

A Very good album.It deserves a top spot. Mercury is the best singer!!!!

A night at the opera is a famous of many Queen's album.In this album there is a famous song,too.They are:Bohemian Rhapsody and Love Of My Life.I amazed to Freddie Mercury.Because he can write song very good.Because that,They got a Platinum award

Being a vocalist myself I immediately loved this album. The meaty guitar with the 4-5 part harmonies really rocked me. What I always snicker about now it the fact that the year that record broke (I think it was 75-76, I was 15-16)none of us even remotely considered the gay thing. The band was called Queen and we were just oblivious. It was some different world back then.

While there were one or two songs on this record worth having back in the day-it didn't age well and the sheer pretentiousness of Bohemian Rhapsody is justification enough for using it as a frisbee against a brick wall.

one of the best rock albums ever. queen will be legendary

Superb album... And I rate the top three songs (in order) as The Prohpets song, Death on Two Legs and 39 - Bohemian Raphsody was obviously the popular choice, but I remember as a kid thinking it was over the top and kind of stupid. Saying that, it's also a good song, just not my fave on this LP.

Queen...yeah pretty cool i guess. haha. I heart queen theyre awesome. This album will rock your world. haha

Ho hum. Not my idea of music I want to spend much time with.

watch what you suck freddie

Great! Very fun and catchy album. The best album Queen ever did.

One of the best albums ever made. And it includes the best song ever made Bohemian Rhapsody!

An extremely versatile album. Aside from the epic "Bohemian Rhapsody" is another amazing, yet overlooked track "The Prophet's Song".

When it comes to being ecletic and great at the same time. This album is the best! Queen pulled this album off with a vengeance.

My favorite Queen album.

Well, the Queen fans are out in force on this list, aren't they? Freddy Mercury was brilliant and this is a very good album...Of course top ten of all time is a bit high, but all in all not a bad choice.

Yo! Det on two legs.. ids tearin me apart.

A Night at the Opera is by far Queen's greatest album. Coupled with A Day at the Races, it has about everything you could want in music on one album. I'm in Love With My Car, Good Company, The Prophet's Song (a great classic that's barely ever recognized), and ending with the masterpiece Bohemian Rhapsody. This is definitely in the top 10 or 15 albums ever. I can't believe it didn't even make vh1's list.

39...Goooood!!!!!

GREAT ALBUM....I DID A LAP DANCE TO LAZING ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT WORK

Possibly the best Lp Queen has ever put out. It's also one of the best albums ever made. Queen's songwriting abilities (individually or as one group) is just astonishing. They can go from simple little diddies (Lazing on A Sunday Sfternoon, Seaside Rondezvous) to theatrical epics (The Prophet's Song, Bohemian Rhapsidy). The mood the music takes on varies as well from soft emmotional melodies (Love of My Life, Good Company) to strait up hard rocking classics (Death on two legs (dedicated to....), I'm In Love With My Car). A perfectly pieced 45 minute presentation that will leave everyone's jaw dropping in amazement).

magnificent album!!

THIS ALBUM IS A MASTERPIECE!

How could anyone in their right mind give this album LESS than five stars? Truly, positively amazing. Queen has named two of their albums after Marx brothers films: A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races. The reason is unknown. This has to be one of their two best albums (the other is "The Works"---has my favorite Queen song, Radio Ga Ga, on it.). Bohemian Rhapsody has to be the all-time most complex song ever done---and Freddie Mercury, the greatest genius in the history of rock music, wrote it ALL BY HIMSELF! And the others played it PERFECTLY!!! Now, how many of todays crappy excuses for bands could do that? I am thinking of *NSANE, the Backstreet Toys, and B(ull)ritney S(***)pears in particular. Someday, I am confident that most of you will realize this. And the other songs on here, like "You're My Best Friend" are also amazing. No Queen fan (REAL Queen fan, not "Freddie is so hot" girl) could dislike this album, and personally, I would be shocked if anyone else did not, either. I totally agree with Killerqueen's comment on the Queen page. No one should BE ALLOWED to degrade Freddie OR Brian OR John OR Roger. This is all I have to say. See you in heaven (whatever that is), Freddie. XOX.