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Queen - A Night at the Opera results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
FoolFantastic (14)
BlueCrystalTear (16)
MaxGalactica (18)
Johnbobb (24)
Seanchan (24)
firefdr (26)
Raetsel_Lapin (28)
HBJDubs (30)
NFUN (30)
SeabassDebeste (30)
RuneterranSnap (38)
MargaretAnnMid (52)

General Album Comments

HBJDubs: This is a bit of a weird album for me; lots of songs have both good and bad segments that tend to alternate back and forth throughout the track. The Prophet's Song was the most volatile...I can't tell you how many times it went to and from like top 2 to the bottom over the course of the song. Only the top 4 are consistently good the whole time, but those four are really great.

BlueCrystalTear: I nominated this because Queen was absolutely a band we needed to cover at some point, despite the unevenness of this album. There's some good shit on this album - the really good shit - but also some songs that feel more like filler than they should. Even so, the album weaves together nicely, through various styles without anything feeling jarring. And that's what makes it enjoyable. That and, well, Freddie Mercury was a demigod.

RuneterranSnap: One of my favorite albums of all time, with a LOT of nostalgia for me since it's my first Queen album.

SeabassDebeste: I love Queen's style - they're just so goddamn extra and melodramatic and campy and of course Freddie Mercury has one of the GOAT singing voices.

MaxGalactica: Kind of mixed feelings on this one. The top 4 on my list are all really, really good. But the rest range from decent to boring. Freddie Mercury's vocals are stellar as always though. Decent album.

Seanchan: An interesting album but not a favorite of mine. Obviously Bohemian Rhapsody is a stone cold classic. There's other good songs as well but it's not a consistently great album. More variety and weirdness than I expected, but that's probably mostly on me; I'd not heard a full Queen album before this, outside of some greatest hits compilations.

NFUN: Death on Two Legs was for a moment my favorite song, probably between Bohemian Rhapsody and an endless rotation of System of a Down songs. It's a neat trick hearing this angry and vengeful track in Queen's operatic style, especially as the intro is so cool and the next song is a complete tonal shift. Nobody else knows what to expect from it either; try playing it without context to somebody who hadn't heard it before

FoolFantastic: My general opinion on Queen is they make an excellent song here and there but were never able to make a consistently great album; A Night at the Opera has always felt to me more like the best of a big name band than a genuine classic in its own right. One of the rare major acts where I truly would prefer to just listen to their singles.