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Not my favorite Queen album by a long shot. Good songs, a bit of a departure from their earlier stuff, but the production is total shit. It’s their first one produced by Mack (I think) - drums sound like an assortment of trash cans, the rest sounds like it was recorded in a shower stall. Too bad because I love Queen. I just can’t figure why they ditched Roy Thomas Baker for this garbage. Nothing can stack up to the masterpiece that was A Night At the Opera. But anyway … can’t change it now.

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Music from the ceremony honoring the victims of the November 13th attacks in Paris.

Lives cut short, families shattered, all because madmen wanted to separate us and inject poison into our hearts.

I cried 10 years ago, and I cried again yesterday. I could have been at the France/Germany match at the Stade de France, or at the Bataclan concert, or even sitting on a terrace having a drink that balmy November evening.

Ten years later, we are still standing.

We still live as we choose.

France is proud, and we will continue to welcome people of goodwill, regardless of their gender, color, nationality, or religion.

They will not have our anger.

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Eddie Spaghetti said:
Not my favorite Queen album by a long shot. Good songs, a bit of a departure from their earlier stuff, but the production is total shit. It’s their first one produced by Mack (I think) - drums sound like an assortment of trash cans, the rest sounds like it was recorded in a shower stall. Too bad because I love Queen. I just can’t figure why they ditched Roy Thomas Baker for this garbage. Nothing can stack up to the masterpiece that was A Night At the Opera. But anyway … can’t change it now.

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In addition, this album marked a change in musical direction... It was no longer the Queen I liked (my opinion at the time). It was only with “The Miracle” that they managed to rekindle my interest.

From today's perspective, they remain one of my favorite bands, and every album has its merits.
 
FuckaZip said:
In addition, this album marked a change in musical direction... It was no longer the Queen I liked (my opinion at the time). It was only with “The Miracle” that they managed to rekindle my interest.

From today's perspective, they remain one of my favorite bands, and every album has its merits.
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Yeah, definitely the start of a big change in direction, which I guess had everything to do with changing producers. News Of the World had some great songs, but again I hated the production, and I always wonder how that album would have come out following their older approach. It’s Late is one of my favorite tracks, and I can’t help but fantasize about how it would have sounded being as over-produced as anything on Night At the Opera. But I agree, every album had something to love as a Queen fan.
 
Eddie Spaghetti said:
Yeah, definitely the start of a big change in direction, which I guess had everything to do with changing producers. News Of the World had some great songs, but again I hated the production, and I always wonder how that album would have come out following their older approach. It’s Late is one of my favorite tracks, and I can’t help but fantasize about how it would have sounded being as over-produced as anything on Night At the Opera. But I agree, every album had something to love as a Queen fan.
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Apart from Live Killers I didn't buy any queen albums after A Day at the Races. I can't remember why but it may have been because I felt A Day at the Races was a bit of a letdown after A Night at the Opera.
 
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