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WaywardSon 
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 14:00 |
The first four Queen albums IMO were great, but after A night at the opera things started to slowly go wrong, so my vote is for Night at the opera.
Which would you say was their last great album before going slowly downhill.
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salmacis
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 16:38 |
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To be honest, I'd say they never, ever recorded an album as brilliant as 'Night At The Opera' again. 'Day At The Races' has a very tired feel to it to these ears, but 'News Of The World' shows a more consistent and re-energised band; the only draw back is that they lost the sense of experiment...'Jazz' set a template that all their other albums over the next decade had- inconsistency. I like 'Innuendo' the best after 'Night...', and sections of 'The Miracle', but most other albums after 'Jazz' have only good singles and pretty weak album tracks, mostly. So I'll go for 'Night'...
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 17:16 |
Why can't I vote in this poll?
Anways, I would have chosen other ... A Kind of Magic was a really tremendously well done album. Not prog though!
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 18:58 |
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They never went downhill as such, just moved on. So my vote is for Innuendo.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:24 |
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Yeah had some subpar albums inbetween but Innuendo was just genuis.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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memowakeman
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:37 |
mmm... why i cannot vote in this poll??
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Follow me on twitter @memowakeman
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 11:05 |
I set the fine line at Jazz
Never liked News of The World, but jazz is as good as Races or Opera
then comes the garbage 80's album
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 11:23 |
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Why do you guys hate A Kind of Magic so much? It's perfect IMO. Pop music, not prog ... that's obvious. But does that make it less good?
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 11:27 |
 MikeEnRegalia wrote:
Why do you guys hate A Kind of Magic so much? It's perfect IMO. Pop music, not prog ... that's obvious. But does that make it less good? |
I like it Mike...it has some of my favourite songs.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 11:34 |
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I really loved it when I was a little boy ... I must have been 12 when I bought it, and I did not yet play the guitar. But Gimme the Prize and Masters of the Universe surely inspired me to want to become a guitar hero!
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 11:35 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
I really loved it when I was a little boy ... I must have been 12 when I bought it, and I did not yet play the guitar. But Gimme the Prize and Masters of the Universe surely inspired me to want to become a guitar hero! |
Yes.....I love "Princes of the Universe too"!
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tdreamer
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 16:19 |
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There posthumous album Made in Heaven is a classic.
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The Wizard
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 16:25 |
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A day at the races.
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Posted: April 25 2006 at 00:13 |
A Day at the Races for me, it's almost as the logical sequence for the brilliant A Night at the Opera.
Iván
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: April 25 2006 at 02:50 |
Snow Dog wrote:
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
I really loved it when I was a little boy ... I must have been 12 when I bought it, and I did not yet play the guitar. But Gimme the Prize and Masters of the Universe surely inspired me to want to become a guitar hero! |
Yes.....I love "Princes of the Universe too"! |
Yes - I haven't listened to it in ages. 
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pechu prog 730
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Posted: April 25 2006 at 05:09 |
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HOW ABOUT INNUENDO?THATS A GREAT ALBUM.
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IT'S RAINING ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
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NotAProghead
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Posted: April 25 2006 at 11:20 |
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Obviously, "Innuendo".
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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salmacis
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Posted: April 25 2006 at 15:15 |
I don't hate 'A Kind Of Magic'- it has some of the best 80s Queen songs in the excellent title track (harking back to days of 'Seven Seas Of Rhye' imo), 'One Vision'(one of their heaviest), 'Who Wants To Live Forever' and 'Princes Of The Universe'. However, the album has two of the most teeth grindingly awful (imo) songs they ever did in 'One Year Of Love' and 'Pain Is So Close To Pleasure'.
All of their albums more or less has some saving graces; they never really did a truly horrendous album, but only cut a few consistently excellent ones, imo. Even a big fan like myself would have to admit that really, from 'The Game' onwards (and 'Innuendo' aside) the best songs they made were released as singles.
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wolf0621
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Posted: April 25 2006 at 18:59 |
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My vote goes to Sheer Heart Attack (1974 & their 3rd album), possibly their heaviest record...Brighton Rock & Tenement Funster rule! News Of The World would be my #2...
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Posted: April 26 2006 at 03:43 |
NotAProghead wrote:
Obviously, "Innuendo". |
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