No one in the band takes anything too seriously, otherwise the arrangements wouldn't be as ludicrously exaggerated as they are. This LP reissue is pressed on 180-gram vinyl. It includes the iconic singles, 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' and 'Youre My Best Friend,' which reached 2 and 7 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at 4 on the Billboard Albums chart and was their first to be platinum-certified.
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. Queens fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera, was originally released in 1975. 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.
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