Reviews (page 12 of 13)
good but the opener and closer we’re kinda meh which are like the most important. highlights: Killer Queen and in the lap of the gods (og not reprise)
Muutama oikein hyvä biisi ja osa ei jaksanut suuremmin kovettaa. Silti perushyvä ja helppo heittää soimaan vielä uudestaan.
Kyllä Queen on enemmän ns. hittibändi ja paljon biiseistä tuntuu täytteeltä levyltä toiselle. Mieluummin greatest hitsit pyörimään ja niiden ansiosta bändi onkin top tieriä kaikesta huolimatta. Tää levy kuitenkin kokonaisuudessaan kuunneltava ja sekä Killer Queen että Stone Cold Crazy varsinkin nostaa levyn tason kolmoseen
Starting to sound like the classic Queen. Killer Queen is great, of course, and you can hear the origins of Bohemian Rhapsody in Flick of the Wrist/Lily of the Valley. The rest is OK
Good, but not great album. Dabbling with different songwriters brings a bit of diversity but perhaps at the expense of quality.
Wow, most of these songs are completely unfamiliar to me. Very enjoyable!
Killer Queen is great, and Stone Cold Crazy stands out. However, the album is just pretty good. It's not as good as Night At The Opera.
Okay
This was a fun one! Brighton Rock was a good little noodle. The flow between the albums was great and the range was awesome, but glam rock isn't really my cup of tea.
fairly good.
While Queen has a great sound going on this album, I don't think they ever got beyond the impressive 1-2 punch that was "Brighton Rock" and "Killer Queen". "In the Lap of the Gods" and "Misfire" were other stand out tracks for me, but the album lacked cohesion and anything as memorable as "Killer Queen". If I could give half stars, this would be a 3.5 for me.
Somewhat over-the-top, like the coked-out orgy in the cover photo.
Didn’t move it.
4/13, 31%
3 Don’t want to listen on a headphone.
Playing was great so I wanted to like more. Songs just felt like (good!) incomplete snippets so I didn’t know when one ended and the next started…a bit too incomplete feeling.
Me encanta escuchar discos de mi año de nacimiento! Es un disco que cambia bastante de estilos, mucho del rock lírico característico de ellos, algunos coritos al mejor estilo The Beach Boys, momentos muy heavies y hasta un ragtime en "Bring Back that Leroy Brown". Pero este disco por algo los consagra al estrellato, y seguramente el punto principal sea "Killer Queen".
12 - 09 - 2022 3½
great sound and very much of it's time.
3.8
If I listened to this without knowing the artist, I’d say it was someone making a parody of a Queen album. Still not bad though.
It’s Queen.
It's alright, probably not their best album but interesting to see an early one
Filler, Queen.
sweaty cover, sweaty record
Good album, but much of it seemed very forgettable. Aside from songs like, Killer Queen and In the Lap of the Gods, I don't think I could name a single tune from this album. Best Songs: Killer Queen, In the Lap of the Gods Worst Songs: Bring Back that Leroy Brown
It’s dated. Sounds a bit like it’s from the 60s.
Decent because it’s queen
Sounds like Queen, but not the ‘best’ Queen
I'm a republican, in terms of anti-monarchistic sensibilities and not Trumpian nutjobbery about George Soros putting microchips in vaccines so as to make everyone Mexican. As a poor, grubby British kid, I couldn't fathom the logic of such ridiculous privilege falling onto such inadequates, and if anything my contempt for the monarchy has strengthened, has become as rigid as bone. Somewhere right now, Prince Edward is sitting down, thinking he's inevitably better than you. With that thought, you're seething. As a 2000-era teenager into 70s punk, I didn't rate Queen either. Not to the same extent, but more a surly resentment at the overarching position Queen had across the airwaves: lazy sound editors plomping Don't Stop Me Now or We Are the Champions over footage of sport I cared naught about only reduced the band to the level of soundbite. I couldn't tell if it were possible to like Queen unironically, and I still can't. Can anyone really have Bohemian Rhapsody as their favourite song? Isn't it just buried under the baggage of a million impressions? Anyway, Bohemian Rhapsody is not on this. But what is on this? Some stuff of interest, some stuff not. Stone Cold Crazy successfully presages thrash metal, but any such premonition of thrash metal really would just be a curio. And it's that word "curio" that encapsulates my wariness for Queen. We have here an album comprised entirely of novelty songs, an odd result for such a bunch of noted brainboxes (that said, it is rather in keeping with Freddie's theatricality). Now, you may defend Queen as the Fortnum and Mason of novelty bands, but that's a highly loaded superlative, like tallest dwarf or most literate policeman. Yes, if you want a tribute band at a student ball, a Queen sort is clearly the best option, but who would kick back of an evening and unwind to this with a glass of claret? There are three Queen albums on the list, so I'll save some of my Queen musings for later. But if you want the worst example of a band soldiering on after the lead singer's death, it's not the Doors. After Freddie's passing, the rest of the band recruited Paul Rodgers as Freddie's replacement. It's akin to following Queen Elizabeth with Prince Andrew.
Queen's a great band, but we don't need to put all of their albums on this list. This one is okay in the grand scheme of things.
Killer Queen a classic probably the only stand out tune on this album for me
Decent sound. Unique and creative. Just personally not a huge fan of Queen. But an objectively good sound
Aight
Bien.
Never listened myself before. Rick anthem opera.
Está "Killer Queen" y tiene bastante ritmo, pero los discos de Queen así al completo no me suelen convencer.
6/10 Best Song - Killer Queen
Classic rock is classic, and though Killer Queen is a great song, the rest of the album seems to not yet be as regal as this band would become. Musicality is amazing, however.
Liked it but wasn’t blown away or anything
More glam and heavy than I was expecting. I'd only listened to Queen's later albums in full before and had only heard a few tracks off this previously. I don't think that they hit their stride until the next album but this lays down so pretty nice groundwork for what was to come
Queen always grabs you with the melody and vocals, then a secret earthquake comes rumbles through Brian May’s guitar. This was ok, I only knew Killer Queen and I’d need another listen for anything else to stick
The popular conception of this band over time has become more 'Freddie Mercury and the Queens' than just 'Queen.' This album is a good reminder of how integral Brian May and co. were to making the band's catchy formula work, supporting Freddie's sky-high vocal range with solid backing instrumentals that excel in their own regard. Not every track here is a winner (outside of 'We Are the Champions,' I don't think this band has done well at downtempo tracks, with most being snoozers), but those that shine do so brightly and are memorable to a fault. I will die on the hill that 'Killer Queen' is the best track this band has made, the subtle touch of phaser on the chorus vox is a sign of a band that knows exactly how to make interesting, fun music.
rocking and a rolling
This record continues the overall musical motif for which Queen had become known. Orchestral arrangements, falsetto singing, “royal” subject matter. Not every song is a hit, but the hits do hit well. I am giving this one an extra star exclusively for Brian May’s guitar work, which is once again masterful.
Mixture of Glam Rock and Hard Rock. Lap of the Gods sounds like a Beach Boys song on acid.
Tout un band qui sait jouer ensemble. Heureuse découverte pour moi, hors des sentiers habituels de ce groupe classique.
A significant departure as far as Queen's sound goes, and yet it presents a wholy uninspired and unremarkable collection of tracks. Nothing much to say about it, not great not terrible, the definition of average
High 3. Certainly top 5 Queen album but, maybe not top 3.
i thought i had listened to a lot of queen, but literally had not heard any songs on this album but one. it's okay, not their best. definitely early work.
A couple rock gems with the tight harmonies that define Queen and (now) classic Brian May guitar sonics. But overall too many songs that sound like show tunes or novelties.
I like Queen's greatest hits a lot. But their other stuff just doesn't do it for me. Killer Queen is good enough to bump up the album for me.
3.5
Standout tracks: Brighton Rock Killer Queen Stone Cold Crazy
Faster-paced songs are very good, struggles to be consistent with the slower ballads.
I own this already but had forgotten that it is far more rockin' than their later work. Far better in my opinion.
First song on the album was p good
I thought it was ok. Not their best album by a long shot.
pretty good, like his voice and the energy, album doesn't flow well but each song is good.
Great fun! Not full of smash hits, but plenty to enjoy.
Le lien spoty est un remaster 2011 et j'ai fait le saut qque fois, c'est très bright ou c'est moi? J'ai pas pu m'empêcher de penser à Guy a lepage dans in the lap of the gods😅 C'est Queen, je connaisais que 2 tounes au plus sur cet album. Ça a le mérite de bouger pas mal harmoniquement mais ça va souvent aux même places. Ya plein de bonnes affaires et plein d'affaires qui me gosse😂 Mention spéciale au boutte de contrebasse!
C’est la première fois que j’écoute ce disque en entier. C’est pas mal ce que Queen a fait de plus rock. Stone cold crazy a toujours été ma toune favorite de Queen. Brian May est vraiment solide sur cet album.
Fun, lots of guitar.
This is a very mediocre album to me. I just am not much of a Queen fan. It is certainly a listenable album but not necessarily one I'll come back to. It didn't have any bad tracks but certainly some mid tracks. Killer Queen is a fantastic song and obviously the best one on the album.
Great lyrics and guitar solos.
Honestly, Killer Queen is a great song but I wasn't crazy about the rest of the album. It wasn't bad by any means but there are plenty of other Queen albums I'd go back to before this one.
Really good, but not their best.
Queen is notable for being a singles band. The singles, Killer Queen, Brighton Rock, and the album's namesake are fantastic spectacles of songwriting that stand on their own for years to come. For the rest of the album, it's pretty good! Not nearly as great but I enjoyed the listen for the most part. It's a fun, hard-rockin' album that's simply here for a good time.
Die erste hälfte war sogar ganz in ordnung, aber spätestens in der mitte fing es dann an, dass diese bestimmte energie, die queen mitbringt, sehr nervtötend wird. Spätestens die reihe an kürzeren songs mit den ständigen sprach harmonien gaben mir dann etwas den rest zur bestätigung meiner vorurteile. Einzelne songs machen aber schon durchaus was her. 6/10
Wenn sie dieses verspielte Queen-Ding machen klingen sie schnell ziemlich kindisch und affig. Die besten Stellen sind hier die, die sich in richtung Prog und Thrash Metal (?) bewegen, vielleicht gerade weil sie *nicht* nach Radio-Queen klingen. Ich würde lügen wenn ich sagen würde ich hatte überhaupt keinen Spaß mit dem Teil.
also folgendes ich hab wirklich versucht unvoreingenommen ranzugehen und ich muss sagen es ist "ok" also ne 3 (hehe). Ich war überrascht wie vielfältig das album so ist und teilweise auch wie rough. es hat ja mitunter wirklich schon sehr geile heavy riffs - wie zb der anfang von stone cold crazy. Aber sobald die galileo figaro stimme dann kommt gehts mir wieder aufn sack, vorallem die hohen gitarren soli sind einfach für mich generell nicht gut gealtert in >rock musik<. Diese quietsche nummer "bring back that leroy brown" auch komplette musical scheiße. Dann aber wieder "she makes me" was ne richtig schöne ruhige nummer ist, wo ich auch nicht direkt auf queen getippt hätte, das ist ja fast schon velvet underground style. Unterm strich viele coole, viele egale und viele nervige momente deswegen ne 3. (so wie ich gelesen hab ist das aber auch so das roughste von denen was mir jetzt eher bedingt bock auf den rest der diskografie macht)
1974. Killer Queen, Flick of The Wrist
6/10
3/5 good album but not enough to buy.
A bit of a mixed bag. Queen has always been a singles band to me, not meaning that as any shade (cos their singles are great). A few hits, but the songs that flow together do so in such a jumpy, weird way that it's somewhere between glam camp and a poorly-run stage show. Also, if Freddie Mercury is your lead vocalist, you let Freddie Mercury do lead vocals. No one else. Favorite tracks: "Stone Cold Crazy", "Dear Friends", "Killer Queen", "In The Lap Of the Gods (Revisited)"
Good music.
Truly the only not-totally-positive Queen experience I can remember. It just doesn't feel fully realized? Like the musicality is there and some songs are great (Killer Queen most notably), but I can't get behind the whole thing.
Hyvää queeniä. En ollu aiemmin kuullu tältä levyltä varmaan yhtään biisiä aiemmin, mutta menee kyllä jatkoon.
Muutama tykki biisi ja salee Queenin paras levy
Expected to like this more than I did. Granted it all was fine and I didn't dislike anything, but a lot of the tracks were just ok to me. Killer Queen rules though.
Solid Queen album. Already has that rock-opera sound. Not incredibly outstanding compared to other Queen records.
Yup. That was Queen.
Not my favorite Queen album, but still good.
As innovative and quirky Queen is, nothing beyond the hits caught my attention on this one. Killer Queen and Stone Cold Crazy are awesome but some of the others got a little too whispy for my taste when I listen to Queen I'm more on the rock side than the roll side but again, doesn't make it a bad album, just not one of my favs.
This is pretty decent, has some really good songs on it too Now I’m Here and Stone Cold Crazy are brilliant rock songs in themselves An easy and fair ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cool hard rock with some psych elements (swear those Freddie screams were inspiration for Pink Floyd's The Wall) but nothing that blew me out the water Already Saved: Killer Queen Saved After Listening: Flick Of The Wrist*, Now I'm Here
I like Queen but probably wouldnt listen again.
Quuen
3.5 | Creo que mi opinión no va a ser la más popular, pero durante mucho tiempo intenté adentrarme en Queen como discografía y siempre siempre caigo en el mismo tope... Sus discos completos como albumes en general no me cuadran. Jamás quitaría la importancia o calidad de muchísima de su música, pero siempre se me ha hecho una banda de éxitos y sencillos (muchísimos y excelentes) y muchas canciones que se sienten medio de paja; quizá por esa democracia de terminar con canciones que son escritas por cada miembro y terminando con albumes que se sienten un poco sin cohesión. Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy, Flick of the Wrist... Excelentes canciones, pero el disco completo sigue sin agarrarme completo como para decir que con gusto lo vuelvo a poner todo. ¿Es un álbum que deberían escuchar todos? No estoy seguro... Estoy seguro que todos DEBEN escuchar mucho Queen y entender su importancia. Mi problema es que quizá no se DEBA escuchar la discografía de Queen, sino un disco (o varios) de éxitos.
De este disco sólo conocía Stone Cold Crazy y Killer Queen, que en mi opinión es una canción que representa muy bien la esencia de Queen. Fue interesante escuchar estas canciones que son muy del principio de la carrera del grupo, pero no fui tan fa del álbum en sí.
Good album great theatrics
she makes me is really nice. freddie is such a good singer.
Although I have heard many tracks from Queen, "Killer Queen" might be the only track I was familiar with prior to listening to this album. This album is a reminder that Brian May (lead guitar) is worth listening to. With some of the vocals given to others besides Mercury and allowing for solo work from May, this album has music that is not easily identified as music from Queen (e.g. "Tenement Funster"). I would be tempted to skip the last two tracks of this album, but they don't reduce my rating below 3 stars. No new favorites from this album, but I enjoyed listening.
Leuke band, en ook leuke liedjes zoals Killer Queen. Maar de rest ging toch wat aan me voorbij.
Hier en daar vliegen de heren een beetje uit de bocht, maar over all vind ik dit best leuk.
Hier wird groß gedacht: Rock Oper ist das Stichwort. Die Songs gehen nach „Killer Queen“ für eine Weile nahtlos ineinander über und dieser Part ist auch die große herausragende Stärke des Albums, was unter anderem daran liegen kann, dass hier der Gesang nicht ausschließlich von Mercury sondern auch von Taylor („Tenement Funster“) sowie später in „She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettos)“ von May beigesteuert wird. Ganz klar wird hier eine Menge Potenzial angedeutet, aber ehe sie ihre Grenzen zu sprengen beginnen, sind Queen ein recht mitreißendes, aber doch eindimensionales Rock Outfit. Gimme a good guitar and I‘ll give 3.3
Joah, Queen: bin ich jetzt kein Experte für, aber auf dem Album haben sie langsam ihren Sound gefunden, kann das sein? Satter Hardrock, Freddies Powermoves, endlich auch in Richtung schrill und Operette (ich bin von sowas ja eigentlich gar kein Fan, aber …) Werd ich mir wahrscheinlich nicht mehr so oft anhören, aber: gefällt schon. Favourite Song: In The Lap Of The Gods. 3.4
One of my favourite Queen songs on this album - Brighton Rock and I am a Queen fan to. Great album. 3 stars
Un bon albu. Rock avecdes classiquemais qui ne m’a pas jeter par terre. 3.75
fun
Bit of it all, got the slow ballads, the fast rock, a lullaby, Leroy Brown is a ragtime tune, and some rock jams; Stone Cold Crazy is a great high-tempo tune which is then followed by a lullaby. Album really bounces back and forth with the styles and they have a lot of different ideas going on. Still it's all Queen so it works.
Fun listen. Queen never quite hits home perfectly with me, but you can't deny that this is a solid album with some really fun tracks.
Brighton Rock is a guitar masterpiece
Not much in typical Queen music I’m familiar with so I only enjoyed a few songs. Bring back Leroy brown and tenement funster were my favorite.
Enjoyed it, nice queen album you can instantly hear it’s them
Certainly not the greatest album by Queen, in my opinion, but a solid guitar-heavy record that brought the band to popularity in the USA. You can really tell the band stretched themselves to make this a very "in your face" and technically complex album. Mercury's range really stays in the upper register throughout the majority of this record, but most the studio tracks will never hold up sonically to the live renditions.
Some ok songs, musical theater, Proto punk drug infused rambling
Eh
Super fun. Sexy. Sassy. Pumping guitar solos. Some weaker tracks in there let’s it down but it sure passes the time eh???
Good songs, though they tend to overdo the theatrics.
Queen para empezar, casi nada.
This record is the most consistent fun I've had with a Queen record. They've always been a bit of a singles band for me, so Sheer Heart Attack is a nice surprise. The arrangements are more complex and explosive than their older material, and doesn't suffer from some of the more egregious experimentation of their 80s material. Fav Tracks: Brighton Rock, Killer Queen and Bring Back That Leroy Brown.
This was a really varied and fun album that bridges Queen's glam rock/live band chops and some inventive studio trickery. I was taken aback when someone other than Freddie Mercury started singing on "Tenement Funster"! Some of the transitions are pretty remarkable. While a few songs are a little indulgent, I enjoyed the overall experience of this record. Rating 3.5/5 Favourite tracks: "Killer Queen", "Now I'm Here", "She Makes Me"
It’s Queen, it’s pop/rock, it’s non offensive & pleasantly welcoming...but it’s safe and run o’the mill. In other words a bit boring. You can drive around in your car listening to it and by the time the last track finishes you could be fooled into believing you just listened to one very long song instead of the full 13 or so on the album. They all kinda sound alike and none really stand out. I’m giving it a rather bland 3 stars.
Never heard this one but seems like a transitional album for them, moving on from their prog roots (e.g. "Ogre Battle" from their previous record) to big arena rock and their anthemic destiny. The vocal harmonies really do it for me. Four voices in concise, majestic arrangements, fit into a compressed metal tube. The Queen sound is born. Brian May seems to be enjoying playing around with heavy delay, and the guitar solos sound rad repeating onto itself and creating percussion. For the first time realizing Queen probably had a big influence on 80s glam rock. I bet Eddie Van Halen loved Brian May. Bigger picture question - when is arrogance welcome in music? People like Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger (and even Boston bad boy Steven Tyler) can strut and pomp all over a stage and I love it. Their inflated egos can blow up a stadium and it's fantastic. But why is it such a turn off when a Johnny Rotten or a Bono put their arrogance on display? Maybe it's an authenticity thing. Anyhow, in the end, this album is the soundtrack to a Broadway musical about an elf queen (chaotic good) and a lightning dragon. B
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Not bad.
I thought I had listened to this album. Guess not! Knew only the two hit singles (Killer Queen, Now I'm Here).
I know it was Queen but I only really liked the commercial tracks. Consequently ***
Too complex for me, I just like Killer Queen
Not classic queen yet
Enjoyed it. It was fun.
Bang average
Gives a really good feel of them right on the edge of superstardom... but not my favorite.
Queen was my favourite group when I was in High School. They certainly had style and flair, plus some pretty darned good musicmanship and of course the inimitable Freddie.
Misfire was a track I never heard before that I liked. But please no more Queen.
Never been the biggest fan of Queen, but it was interesting to hear how their operatic influences developed in the early years. top 3 Killer Queen, Flick of the Wrist, Lily of the Valley
Classic Queen
Didn't enjoy this as much as I expected to. Quite a few samey ones.. and weird ones that I wasn't into. Was a bit much at times - but I know that is Queen
Decent.
Pretty good. One of the better Queen albums as a whole. 7/10
Killer Queen is clearly the standout, but the album has enough interesting bites to keep it interesting.
Pretty good, not something I’d likely play again other than the hits. 3,5
not the best Queen album but still good
Obviously everyone knows the classic Queen songs, but the songs on this album surprised me quite a bit. Queen with Guitar solos and constant drumming was a pleasant change from Bohemian Rhapsody.
I don’t think I’ve heard this album before. The radio plays Queen way to much but was good to hear some different Queen songs
great sound but definitely not queen's best outside killer queen
Pretty good, but later Queen albums are better
Eh s' kay
7/10 склоняющееся к 6
A bit uneven. Some Killer and some filler. A thirteen track album shouldn't have three sub-2 minute tracks. Best track: Killer Queen
Solid but still feels like they’re finding their footing. Killer Queen is a top 10 track tho
Definitely some of the rawest Queen tracks I've ever heard and prob the best moments of this style of glam rock. Still can't get as enthusiastic about the record's theatrical flourishes as it sounds like the band is performing them but there are some great riffs and I love riffs. Also "Stone Cold Crazy" is thrash as hell and goes extremely hard.
4/10
I do not like the genre called rock and roll
Queen on legenda mutta uskallan sanoa, että ei osu makuuni kovinkaan hyvin. Taidokkaasti tehty albumi, jonka tunnistaa Queenin musiikiksi heti. Ja siinä se ongelma ehkä onkin; soundissa ja harmonioissa (kuorolaulu rockbiiseissä) on jotain, joka ei iske vaan se alkaa ärsyttää aika pian. Samoin kuin Mercuryn ääni, vaikka kiistämättä kova laulaja onkin. Ja tämä jatkuu koko albumin läpi. Stone cold crazy on hyvä biisi. Tekotaiteellista paskaa ja yliarvostettua kamaa mielestäni. En pidän. Ammattitaidosta ja pieteetistä 2/5.
7/15/26. Outside of Killer Queen, I thought this album was all over the place and inconsistent. I know this was early in Queen's career so they were not close to their creative peak. I still applaud the risks they took, just didn't hit with me.
Mostly unremarkable unfortunately
Pas client mais ça reste intéressant
It’s fine, just not what I go to music for.
I was surprised at how heavy some of the songs on Queen II were, and I'm still surprised that some of this goes pretty hard, but Sheer Heart Attack is a lot more of the over the top, dramatic, and theatrical Queen sound that I expect from them, and I just don't really like it. I'm just not a fan of Queen. They have my full respect for what they were able to achieve, and Freddie Mercury is a phenomenal singer, but this just isn't for me.
Not for me
Is this a safe space for disliking Queen?
Some good some pretty rough
Far too operatic, dramatic, and vocally pretty for more liking. The music is great (usually) but then Freddy's gotta sing the hell out of the songs or make some ditty thingy. Boring and not to my tastes. Not ABBA/ELO horrid though. 2 "give me more Minor Threat" stars.
Was mid. Didn't hate any part of it and there was a couple of cool guitary bits, but I really wouldn't listen again.
This seems a bit better than other Queen albums I've heard. A little more proggy and they were really into fading the sound between left and right.
killer queen is great but the rest of the album was kinda. not the best. 2 me. even the songs i really really tried to enjoy were just. meh. like idk maybe it’s just bc i have high expectations bc it’s literally queen but it was not what i was expecting or wanting really
first time listening to a full album of Queen. it was nowhere near as bad as i feared. but it was still Queen.
I love queen, but I didn’t know many songs from this album so I was excited !! Fav song is ‘Killer Queen’.
killer queen and lily of the valley were good but the rest were not my cup of tea
boring
Oh wow, a Queen album!
Annoyingly unfocused - when they got it together, it sounds great (Killer Queen), otherwise it's a bunch of pompous noise
I don't know what to say, exactly. Sheer Heart Attack is the album that queen released between my two favorite queen albums. Queen 2, my favorite, and a night at the opera, an undisputed classic. This one find them in a bit of a weird place. Feels like they move back to their hard/glam rock origins in the first album, abandoning the prog rock of queen 2, and not yet arriving to the blend of a night at the opera. Well, I don't really like this place. It's a middle ground that doesn't live them with much material, "meat", to this record. I don't want to be to harsh with it, it still has quality in it. Killer Queen of course, the opener is very good, and other than that I particularly loved "She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes)", a great brian may ballad. I was thinking of a 2.8, if it's fine with you.
Could have used a bit more time between Queen albums on this project, to be honest. But I’m also not sure if I would have gelled with this even in the best mindset. It feels like the pieces of this band haven’t quite locked together yet, so it ends up sounding closer to other, more generic hard rock albums from the time. Standout moment: For good reasons, Killer Queen is the one song here that’s lingered in the culture and it still holds up.
It's like if a Led Zeppelin tribute band and Paul McCartney had a gay baby with a learning disability.
Sure, Killer Queen isn't bad. The following 25 minutes are boring Queen stuff before they fuck about, and then it's over. 2.45 so that I can round down.
overrated, poor vocal mixing, good instrumentals, freddie mercury jolly ahh goofy ahh lyrics and rhythms merchant
favs: killer queen lily of the valley in the lap of the gods in the lap of the gods... revisited rating 1.5/5
Not my favorite of Queen, overall good.
This is my third Queen album in this project. The other two were pretty early on, and I was writing shorter comments at the time. When I listened to A Night at the Opera I gushed about how it was one of the first real "rock" albums I ever bought when it came out. When I listened to Queen II I commented about how I thought Night at the Opera might be the only Queen album I really liked. Listening to Sheer Heart Attack today I had that same thought. I think Queen was a band that was in search of itself for the first three albums, and then once they found out who they were they just expanded on the theme, and IMO never as good after that. The only song I truly enjoyed on this album was Killer Queen, which I've heard thousands of times before. The rest was either uninteresting to me, or kinda silly. Songs I thought I might like, and want to save, went places that I ended up not liking and not wanting to save. I do think the production was very good, for what it's worth.
Killer queen on its own makes this at least 2 stars, the rest is very skipable
I think I've been finding that my status as a Queen fan is 'Fairweather fan', as in I enjoy the hits and the rest just kinda miss.
Proud to be a Queen hater. 4/10
Good album. Certainly not their best, but good stuff. This is a the first Queen album on this list which I did not realize until this popped up. That is surprising given the love of British bands by the author.
I never considered Queen something special and this album didn't change my mind. Very mediocre and forgettable.
tbh more boring than the coldplay album; not terrible, but sooo boring
Очень странный альбом Queen. Никогда не был фанатом их оперного рока, но здесь даже ни одного хита нет.
Only 1 good song, Killer Queen
Obvious tracks stand out, stormtrooper in stilettos good, little theatrical to my taste at poibtw
I got bored.
This is my third Queen album on this list. A lot more meat and potatoes than the other two, well executed in every department but still not for me. Hopefully there aren’t any more.
Brought up on Queen. Don’t mind listening but wouldn’t be my go to
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1. rock - 1 2. killer - 2 3. fun - 1 4. uurizt - 1 5. lilly - 2 6. here -2 7. lap - 1 8. cold - 2 9. friendz - 0 10. fire - 1 11. brouun - 1 12. makez - 1
By the standards of these absolute cretins, this wasn't that bad I suppose. There was only about six instances of me wanting to pull out my own teeth in frustration at this talented people failing to take themselves or their audience seriously, and there were some good guitar parts and reasonable melodies. It was still a fairly painful listen, but maybe their best yet.
A decent number of Queen classics but overall just kinda blah as an album
Early album with a couple of good songs. You can see where others songs have evolved from this. Also one or two really sound like The Who were an influence.
Dit album vond ik niet heel leuk om te luisteren. Het is me vaak iets te theatraal. Alsof alles met jazz hands word gezongen. Natuurlijk zing freddie fantastisch, maar de muziek word bij elk nummer opgeblazen en de momenten dat de muziek klein en kwetsbaar word is dat alleen maar bedoeld om de muziek later weer uit proportie op te blazen. Now i’m here vind ik wel leuk. Nog een kleine disclaimer: marie antoinette zou nooit gezegd hebben “ let them have cake”
Ongelofelijke zanger, ongelofelijke gitarist, ongelooflijke kutmuziek. Zonde van het talent. Stel je voor dat ze leuke muziek zouden maken. Geloof wel in de muzikaliteit etc maar het is te theatraal en glam voor mij. Als je streng naar het album gaat kijken zitten er ook een hoop matige fillers op. Maar goed, heb niet genoeg passie om er veel over te zeggen.
maybe I am not a queen person 2
Unfortunately, Killer Queen will ALWAYS be a hymn for me. Still, Queen will never be my cup of tea entirely. Definitely more original than some other of their albums (does not mean I think it's good, I said original)
I was disappointed with this album. I was expecting powerful and bombastic music from this band. The album was really boring.
Always been a fan of Queens Greatest Hits so this is my first full album! Pretty forgetful record with nothing really standing out to make me want to listen again!
Man, I like queen but there's a reason only like two of these have survived the cultural zeitgeist
I've only ever really heard nothing but the most overplayed hits from Queen, but people have said their albums as a whole are a lot better. Well, there's a couple of pretty good songs here but otherwise... eh, it's still mostly just what I expected and that's not for me at all.
Ich verteidige ja Queen gerne mal, aber irgendwie ging das wirklich nur schwer rein.
Es schwankt zwischen recht beliebig und unfassbar nervig - Queen halt. Wobei hier beliebig gegenüber nervig überwiegt, weshalb es noch zu soliden zwei Sternen reicht.
Ich habe Schlimmes erwartet und war am Ende positiv überrascht. Nach den ersten 3 Songs dachte ich sogar, dass das hier eine richtig gute Platte werden könnte. Spannendes Songwriting, spannende musikalische Ideen, aber noch nicht zu sehr auf anstrengende Rock-Oper und "Theater Kid"-Attitüde getrimmt. Tja, danach wars auch schon wieder schnell vorbei mit diesem Eindruck, wobei hier und da nochmal okaye Tracks auftauchen ("Stone Cold Crazy" ist ja fast schon lupenreiner Heavy Metal). Ich schwanke zwischen 2 und 3, weil man sich die knappe Hälfte hier schon noch gut geben kann, aber da ich Rest wirklich furchtbar anstrengend finde, wird es dann doch die niedrigere Punktzahl. Aber dennoch: Besser als erwartet.
I’m sorry. I hate Queen. I know I’m wrong but I just cannot STAND them. It’s too theatrical and over-the-top in the same way hair metal is.
4/10 - pretty mediocre, no standout songs
I forgot it was on; nothing special here Low 2
Never listened to Queen by choice but this was cool, nothing that gagged me or made me run to Spotify to add it to a playlist, but it was a fun listening experience. They look cunty as fuck on this cover too. Top songs Misfire (turns out this is a song about erm sex) Stone cold crazy (trasher metal- which makes me feel like a white girl in doc martens with micro bangs but not in the modern age in like the early 80s)
I appreciated the structure of this album, all the songs flowing into each other smoothly…but I did not like said songs. I could’ve gone my life only hearing the Best Of Queen & be happier for it. That Bohemian Rhapsody movie was so bad that it actually did ruin the band for me. People are always like “well if they remake such & such you’d still have the original film to go back to” … doesn’t apply to biopics apparently.
I don’t know how to judge Queen. They are so wildly overplayed that I go in with a mindset of “ugh” even if there is only one song I’ve heard before. So far, I’m not sure they have an album that needs to be on this list even though their absence would be weird.
Guitar does undeniably rip on brighton rock. Rest is forgettable, mid band honestly. Brian May is an astrophysicist! YAY SCIENCE! fuckin normie nerd music
Okay so I’m a renowned queen hater and this didn’t change my mind but there were a couple of tracks I enjoyed and hadn’t heard before plus pfc the well known single. I’m hoping more Queen albums will appear and will test my long held opinion of them, we shall see!
de er teatralsk, det er dramatisk og det er gøy! killer queen er overraskende nok en av de svakere sporene på denne, men lite jeg er stor fan av høydepunkt: Misfire, Dear Friends
This was a strange experience. Queen the band and the singles of Queen are writ large on my cultural heritage. I could sing every word of maybe 10 if their best songs and i think Freddie was a genius. They have produced some of the best, most fun, undefinable music in my child hood. However, this album fucking sucked. Horrible proggy, silly, badly dated music and an album that had some much shite in it i dont think i finished it. The quality control is not present and this was so all over the place it hurt.
One of these days people are going to wise up and realise Queen aren’t all that
ovom albumu objektivno nemam što zamjeriti. neupitan je talent fredija merkurija, vanredan glasovni raspon itd., ni ostali dečki ne pjevaju loše, a svi itekako znaju svirati. i sve je ovo pristojno izvedeno. ali meni se NIJEDAN jedini element ovog albuma ne sviđa. sve mi je ili bleh ili blago nepodnošljivo. jednostavno uopće ne volim ovakav tip glazbe, kako god ga nazvali (glem rok?). teška srca dajem dvojku jer stvarno objektivno zaslužuje više, al jebiga, nije mi se ni najmanje svidio
Not a big fan
2.5
Not their best.
Queen is what I would call a "Singles band." They are best listened to one song at a time, or in a Playlist with their "greatest of." Doing that, you get nothing but arena rock hit after arena rock hit, guitar rifts and Mercury's charisma paving the way for a good time. If you don't, though, you're set to listen to a lot of fluff. Case in point, Sheer Heart Attack. The best song off this album, Killer Queen, may be my favourite Queen song outside of Bohemian Rhapsody, and it's absolutely fantastic. There are other songs that are fun, like Brighton Rock and Now I'm Here, but I wouldn't say you have to listen to them. The rest of the songs are glam/arena rock that isn't particularly interesting to me. Arena rock really only works for me when it's at its best, and a lot of these songs are not. May's guitar rifts are great, but they aren't attached to anything I'd like to listen to again. And while Queen's audacity and pretention started on this album, it's ironic that I could have done with a little more. The sheer bombasity that Mercury and co are known for is missing from this album l, or rather wasn't developed fully until later. Also there are just some bad songs on here. In the Lap of the Gods is eyerolling, pretentious without the fun, and Bring Back Leroy Brown is actually funny in how bad it is. That all being said, it is impressive how fun this is to listen to. I wouldn't say it's good, but I can understand why people enjoy it even if it wasn't for me. Also, an album that's about 30 minutes long should be commended whenever the chance arises. Not a good album, but one I don't regret listening to. Highlights are Killer Queen.
It's sad to say, but I'm stunned at how mediocre this album is. I find Night at the Opera to be one of the greatest albums ever produced. And it's striking how much this sounds like that next album (from the styles of the songs right down to specific riffs). But what's missing is the most important element - well written songs. With the exception of Killer Queen, I'm hearing nothing memorable here. On top of that, it doesn't flow. Freddie and Brian have each figured out how to sound amazing. They just haven't figured out how to meld their soundd into a unity. On top of that, the engineering is pretty poor. It sounds thin compared to other recordings of the day. To think they fixed it all so completely in a single year is astonishing. If I want to hear this era of Queen, I'm reaching for NATO 99 times out of 100. As an aside, I have to lament Roger Taylor's contributions to this band. His drumming is plodding. The guy could keep time, but his drums sound awful (tuned poorly and too low), his feel is stiff, and he's always playing behind the beat - which sounds great in a soul band, but works like a parachute on the energy of a rock band. As for his pen, I always thought I'm in Love with My Car was wholly tongue in cheek. But after hearing Tenement Funster, I'm not so sure. And finally, his audacity is breathtaking. You have Freddie Fucking Mercury in your band and YOU'RE going to sing lead on your songs???!!!?!? I mean, Roger's voice is pretty damned good. But Freddie Fucking Mercury is in the band. It's bewildering.
Shite
not my fave
Uninspiring for me personally, not my favorite style, kind of felt like generic classic rock. Brian May is an absolute stud guitar player though and he demonstrated abilities that I was previously unaware of. The harmony stacking and 4 part vocals are fascinating especially thinking of what they had at the time.
Some Killer, some filler.
Not a queen fan
I love Queen...but I didn't love this album.
I don’t love multiple movements in a song, overproduction, or layered harmonies so this is very much not for me
I actually don't much like Queen. Sorry.
not my thing I like killa queen doe
It was ok not a queen fan though
Є певні хороші пісні, вокал Фреді неймовірний але музика не зачепила
This album confirmed for me that I like the hits from Queen but I don’t really like Queen….sorry but prob wouldn’t return to this
I have almost nothing to say. I liked Killer Queen, which I knew before. I’m sure there are other Queen albums I would like more and be more engaged with.
Killer Queen was the only track I knew. Caro has Bowie, I have Queen. On paper they should be one of my favourite bands, but outside of the singles I just don’t get them. Outstanding musicians? Yes. Freddie one of the greatest showmen? Yes. I just don’t love the album tracks :-(
Not my favorite queen music but some parts I kinda liked. I dont think ima add any of the songs tho
I knew Queen played. Still don't understand the cult obsession with Bohemian Rhapsody. Feels like music from theater. This is for fans of hamilton (derogatory).
I assume there will be better queen albums
Don't get me wrong, I love Queen, especially their big songs, and their process, but I much rather prefer the music from Hot Space, than Sheer Heart Attack
Better than the last one. Just when they get going they change into something ridiculous.
i'm sooooo sick of queen im skipping through this
There are signs here of the eclectic band that Queen would become, but the majority of this is hard rock with a bit of a theatrical feel. The first side is the harder side, with the unpredictable "Brighton Rock" and a set of songs that all flow into one another. I like the idea, but each of the songs are so similar that they just all kind of blur together. The second side contains a lot more variety, with a couple slow dramatic songs ("Dear Friends" and "She Makes Me") and a couple quick frantic ones ("Stone Cold Crazy" and "Leroy Brown"). Neither sound works for me; they all lean too far in either direction and just end up sounding boring or silly. There's some enjoyable stuff here, but I don't find it memorable and often find it annoying. The band would do better when they took bigger swings.
Queen and Freddy Mercury are incredibly talented but if I never hear this album again it will be way too soon
This was not great, very disjointed and kinda random
i didn't like it very much. not weird enough for the freaks and not poppy enough for the sugar rush. freddie not yet a true powerhouse vocalist brighton rock unreal tho
I obviously known Queen but can’t say I ever listened to this album and it’s definitely… unexpected. I expected it to be good. It wasn’t. A couple of very good songs (Stone Cold Crazy and Killer Queen) and a lot of not amazing songwriting. I was actually surprised at how much of it was very heavy metal sounding. It’s just that it felt aimless and the songs didn’t amount to much. It’s actually striking how short Queen’s creative peak was. Maybe 2-3 albums. Anyways let’s say two stars I guess.
Muito mais do mesmo de Queen. Não me prendeu a atenção o álbum.
352/1089 - I don't like Queen very much but I think this is the one with "Stone Cold Crazy" which is the only song I like from them. I haven't listened in a while so I'm interested to see if I'm gonna re-evaluate them: I still only like Stone Cold Crazy and don't really care about much of their other stuff. I'm not a fan of the theatrical and choral style of Queen's harmony but they're very good at what they do and were pretty influential. Going down a star from a 3 for the police sirens in that one song, I hate listening to that shit when I'm driving.
Sheer Heart Attack - Freddie wrote this after going on one of Len Houmous’ infamous acid trips. 2.3 6/13 Now I’m Here
Meh
I think i prefer greatest hits compilations for Queen...
A couple of good songs don’t make a good album
Barely survivable, just like the albums namesake condition.
Just can’t stand this band, singer or guitar tone. Not my thing.
Queen albums cover to cover are torturous. This is a greatest hits band
Strong start, a little bit self indulgent
-rock album, dont really enjoy rock -dont really have any stand out tracks that i’d go back to except “killer queen” and “she makes me”
first few songs are pretty boring, except for killer queen. album starts actually picking up at lily of the valley, but doesn't really get much higher the next couple songs. in the lap of the gods so far is pretty good, but only being on track 9 this album isn't really for me. Peak of this album was lily of the valley or killer queen, but other than that it was not for me. I can't really see people liking it either, probably like 4.5 to 5 out of 10.
I really like one song from this album but the rest I didn’t love them ..
2 Stars (5/15)
Brighton Rock is horrible. The chorus gimmick is overdone. The rock parts range from mid to decent. The soft vocal sections are lame.
Really trying to find something about it Queen to like, but they just sound so boring. I really don’t get why they got massive.
queen? more like mid
Kansas, but British
Too posh
Bad band
Too all over the place for me, I’ll stick to the best of.
Hot take: Queen have like 3 good songs and none of them are on Sheer Heart Attack. Not absolutely awful but there's nothing on here that'll bring me back. Imagine devoting your life to this and rabbits like. NEXT!
'It would be of small avail / To talk of magic in the air'; 'Gunpowder, gelatine / Dynamite w/ a laser beam'; 'Synchronize your minds and see / The beast within him rise.' The once progers are now wannabe showstoppers, but the prog in them won't die, as those snatches of lyricism illustrate. It's a shame b/c Freddie Mercury has one of the great voices in rock history, and yet I can't claim to be moved by something this repetitively crescendoing and theatrical. At their rare tolerable ('Killer Queen'), they're a somewhat fresh amalgam of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, w/ harmonies inspired by The Beach Boys. Mostly tho, they're lost not knowing what to do or where to go: technically proficient, the band however never dramatizes w/ a soul.
Sorry, couldn’t get through this. Got as far as “In the lap of the gods” which I was particularly not enjoying. First track I thought was ok as was Killer Queen. But can’t do Queen anymore. Life’s too short.
Quietly quitting Queen qus quite qwrap
I'm sure these are musically difficult, but I can't work out what they are trying to do with these songs. I don't get anything out of this. It's all too polished and sterile with a few exceptions.
Grossly over-rated pop band with catchy tunes and empty lyrics. Fairy floss pop.
theater kids of the world unite!
I’m a casual fan of Queen. I like their hits - Killer Queen is one of my favorites - but the rest of the album didn’t do it for me, especially if Freddie wasn’t singing. I’m sure they’ll be more Queen albums coming, maybe others will be better.
Do you know what I hate about Queen? Pretty much all of this. I like that it rocks and that it is whimsical, but those never really come together well. It’s a buffet of bold choices that don’t blend. When it aligns, it’s transcendent. But it doesn’t really happen much on this album. If you love Queen, you’ll love this. But if your indifferent, as I am, there is much more that you’ll be looking for from the overall experience.
Probably as far from cool as you can get, but they are objectively good at what they do, and what they do is not always as great as their legendary status suggests... all of which makes this really hard to rate. I've definitely got a soft spot for certain bits of Queen, and some of those bits are on this album, but there is also some filler on here (Filler Queen - haha). I dunno - as a general listening experience, it's all a bit dated and naff, but In The Lap Of The Gods (Revisited) and Killer Queen are irresistably catchy, well-crafted examples of what Queen do.
forgot to rate this one when i listened — not my favorite queen album, idk. mostly made me wanna listen to other queen
No me hizo ilusión, me pilló fuera del mood. Intenté hacer esfuerzos de que me gustase pensando que era glam británico de los 70 igual que Roxy Music, pero me entró fatal. Muy guitarrero y primera “decepción”.
It does suck, i find my self defending Queen a lot, and i don't even like them that much. Killer Queen is good, but this isn't a good album. Its very OTT and the music is a bit cheesy, its just not really for me.
Not for me. Their sound grates on me and I think the theatricality masks a lack of good songs. The reason it wasn’t a one is that it wasn’t quite as bad as I was expecting.
I really dislike Queen. I can see how the theatricality and, to a cremation amount, tongue in cheek sleaze might appeal to some, but I absolutely hate the vocal harmonies used in it and doubling of vocals and guitars that is something of a hallmark of their sound. Although this particular album seems to have less of it, and is a bit more glam rock influenced, I’m still not keen on it at all.
Worst Queen album, way overrated
boringg
I tried to go into this with an open mind, as I do not enjoy Queen's music very much. They've got some hits that I enjoy in the right setting, but their whole style of rock has never appealed to me. Sheer Heart Attack has not changed this view. This has all the Queen stuff, theatrical, bombastic arrangements. It's all very dramatic, tightly wound. Freddie Mercury is an incredible vocalist; Brian May, an incredible guitarist. Still, it just doesn't connect with me. Over-produced, and technically proficient. They're all tremendous musicians, but the sum of the parts consistently falls short for me and this album was no exception.
Too theatrical for my taste. I appreciate some of Queen’s work, but this record is much of what I don’t like about them.
Queen and I never really got on. Good, I guess, but meh.
Queen is one of those bands where I feel that if you're overly critical of them the fans are going to come out of the woodworks and give you 1000 lashes of the cane. Discogs wants to classify this as 'prog rock' but I think that might be pushing it a bit. This is a decent album by a good band, and while most people remember Queen for their hits only one on this album "Killer Queen". I think that most people (me included) know any of these other songs and just know the hits. Which makes me think is a band great when they only have about 1 hit song off each record. For those that love Queen I'm sure that this is a great album but 1 good song out of 13 on the record classic does not make. 2/5
One good track
Even if its not for me, I can at least respect the talent and recognize the blueprint it was drawing out. That being said, it's really not for me. Calmer songs like She Makes Me were enjoyable to listen to - and that's what made me realize I'm just not a fan of the theatrical crooning in combination with the bombastic riffs. It executes what it tries to do well, very in-your-face. I just really want it to get out of my face. They aren't a bad band whatsoever, I just cannot get with the program and have 0 desire to try. If I'm rating this on pure artistic quality: It's a strong 4. the album knows its campy and leans into it heavily without coming across as kitsch. The skill does not take a backseat to the concept. However, if I'm rating this purely on personal taste? a 2.5
Other than Killer Queen this was a little dull and forgettable.
i had my bohemian rhapsody phase too but i outgrew it and now queen just sounds like a bunch of bad bull shit to me
Pompous shite. Seven Sea was great, but they went rapidly downhill.
60
Rokkimeiningillä mentiin. Kovaa tilutusta.
at least it’s got stone cold crazy! (queen blows)
Sheer Fart attack: Killer Queen carries the whole thing, I like the mix of the album overall, something that queen always has under control, but idk why is want to listen to any songs before or after KQ.
Enjoyed more than I thought. At its best when it's Dollar Store Quadrophenia. Queen is a classic "great musicians with very few good songs".
Queen aren't really an album band in general. This albums no exception. It's all fine, not great. Killer Queen is clearly the hit of the album and I probably won't ever revisit any of the rest The 5est of 5/10s
They begin to grow into their famous sound, ditching (some) prog for harder, faster, glammier guitar-and-drum rock. Still, the irreplaceable part of Queen is Freddie Mercury, but the band’s identity in prog-ness means they have to defy expectations by inserting unstrategic weirdness, so Mercury is frequently sidelined for blah compositional arty tracks. You can still feel the foundations for their next few albums, when they figured out how to stop chopping off their feet for effect, but it doesn’t feel fully realized yet. Peaks: Brighton Rock, Killer Queen, In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited Valleys: Tenement Fuster, Bring Back Leroy Brown, She Makes Me,
Not "classic" Queen but not bad
Nope
Like I've said in other reviews I do not like queen and once again no difference here. Its just sounds too annoying to me. Another one bites the dust is probably a contender for the most annoying radio hit I've ever heard. 4/10 Favourite: Brighton Rock Least Favourite: Bring Back That Leroy Brown
What do you wnat me to say? I like "Killer Queen" and that's about it. Nothing else stood out as particularly memorable or exciting, and it's certainly nothing groundbreaking. Is one song good enough to carry this to 3 or 4 stars? I think not
one star for the effort and one star for my dad but really mostly i did not find it enjoyable.