Queen - A Day At The Races
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Artist: QueenEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
Published: 1991
CD Release Date: 1991-03-05
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
- Tie Your Mother Down
- You Take My Breath Away
- Long Away
- The Millionaire Waltz
- You & I
- Somebody To Love
- White Man
- Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
- Drowse
- Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
- Tie Your Mother Down (1991 Remix By Matt Wallace)
- Somebody To Love (1991 Remix By Randy Badazz)
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Free Music Review: My personal favorite
Hit: 5 Stars
Although it stands in the shadow of "A night at the opera" this offering by Queen is every bit as good and better in some ways. There is not a weak song on this entire CD. Everything is meticulously recorded, thought out & performed. You almost get the feeling that this could have been a concept album. The eight tracks by Freddie & Brian are flawless and dripping with inspiration. They were certainly firing on all cylinders here.
1. "Tie you mother down" rocks with sheer brilliance
2. "You take my breath away" is absolutely beautiful and haunting
3. "Long away" easily could have been a single
4. "Millionaire waltz" is campy and powerful
5. "You and I" proved John Deacon was no fluke as a songwriter
6. "Somebody to love" is the true jewel here. The best song about longing ever written
7. "White man" rocks with dark overtones and profound lyrics
8. "Good old fashion lover boy" is catchy, bouncy & delightful
9. "Drowse" is hypnotic and subtle
10. "Teo toriate" is alluring and mysterious
The bonus tracks are pretty much worthless remixes.
Queen reached its creative and artistic peak with this album. The album shines like a crown jewel.
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Both regal and raunchy, Queen was at the height of its powers in the mid-70s, riding the soaring vocals of Freddie Mercury, the ringing guitar crunch of Brian May and the band's shameless theatrical flourishes. Coming so quickly after the band's A Night At the Opera opus, this 1976 album works hard at repeating the same hit-making elements, down to the matching cover art. If A Day At the Races lacks the same level of pop tunesmanship, there is still energy in these tracks, particularly in the rocking "Tie Your Mother Down" and the emotional "Somebody to Love," which set a blueprint for future ballads by the band. --Steve ApplefordPop Music CDs
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