[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]bitesthedust<br><h6> The QZ gentleman... wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sheer Heart Attack.[/QUOTE]
I'll second that.
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My answer to this, as usually, is -- Queen II.
Sheer Heart Attack
A Night At The Opera
A Day At The Races
A News Of The World
Jazz
The Game
All albums I love but these 6 are perfect.
A Night At The Opera
A Day At The Races
A News Of The World
Jazz
The Game
All albums I love but these 6 are perfect.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=blue>Rick wrote: [/QUOTENAME]No. There is no such thing. It all depends on personal taste.
It isn't a fact that a Queen album is perfect. You may find it, but that doesn't mean it IS perfect. It's relative. [/QUOTE]
Good point. Still, if an album goes gold for so many times (like A Night At The Opera) doesn't that kinda make it perfect in a way?
It isn't a fact that a Queen album is perfect. You may find it, but that doesn't mean it IS perfect. It's relative. [/QUOTE]
Good point. Still, if an album goes gold for so many times (like A Night At The Opera) doesn't that kinda make it perfect in a way?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]« Jay » wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=blue>Rick wrote: [/QUOTENAME]No. There is no such thing. It all depends on personal taste.
It isn't a fact that a Queen album is perfect. You may find it, but that doesn't mean it IS perfect. It's relative. [/QUOTE]
Good point. Still, if an album goes gold for so many times (like A Night At The Opera) doesn't that kinda make it perfect in a way?[/QUOTE]
Yes in a way. But still it's a matter of taste, really. ;-)
It isn't a fact that a Queen album is perfect. You may find it, but that doesn't mean it IS perfect. It's relative. [/QUOTE]
Good point. Still, if an album goes gold for so many times (like A Night At The Opera) doesn't that kinda make it perfect in a way?[/QUOTE]
Yes in a way. But still it's a matter of taste, really. ;-)
A Day At The Races. By a country mile.
Also happens to contain the perfect Queen track.
The Millionaire Waltz.
Also happens to contain the perfect Queen track.
The Millionaire Waltz.
anato or news of the world
Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack are as close as Queen comes to "perfection"...while I wouldn't consider either the best album Queen ever did (I think Opera and Innuendo are both superior), neither album has any glaring weakness; Opera suffers from Good Company, which doesn't fit thematically or musically with the rest of the album (and has no business being after Love of My Life and before Bohemian Rhapsody). Likewise, Delilah is a terrible track and drags Innuendo down.
Queen II works because of the flow of the album. Both the White and Black sides flow brilliantly; the way Procession moves into Father to Son (maybe the only album Queen did in which the opening tracks were the best tracks), while Ogre Battle/Fairy Feller/Nevermore all, of course, flow seamlessly and are followed up by the thematically similar March of the Black Queen, which in turn flows right into Funny How Love Is.
Sheer Heart Attack works because of the way the music is so varied without being too disjointing. I can't explain it, but following Stone Cold Crazy with Dear Friends WORKS...I like the way the album goes from hard rock to glam to hard rock to glam. Brighton Rock to Killer Queen to Tenement Funster to Flick of the Wrist, Lily of the Valley to Now I'm Here to In the Lap of the Gods to Stone Cold Crazy. The rest of the songs alternate, too - a piano ballad in Dear Friends to upbeat Carribean in Misfire to ragtime in Leeroy Brown, then onto the bizarre and unclassifiable She Makes Me, and finally to glam rock in Lap of the Gods....Revisited. The fact that they managed to combine so many styles and still create a listenable album is brilliant. It is also one of the few albums by Queen I can put on and never want to skip a track.
Queen II works because of the flow of the album. Both the White and Black sides flow brilliantly; the way Procession moves into Father to Son (maybe the only album Queen did in which the opening tracks were the best tracks), while Ogre Battle/Fairy Feller/Nevermore all, of course, flow seamlessly and are followed up by the thematically similar March of the Black Queen, which in turn flows right into Funny How Love Is.
Sheer Heart Attack works because of the way the music is so varied without being too disjointing. I can't explain it, but following Stone Cold Crazy with Dear Friends WORKS...I like the way the album goes from hard rock to glam to hard rock to glam. Brighton Rock to Killer Queen to Tenement Funster to Flick of the Wrist, Lily of the Valley to Now I'm Here to In the Lap of the Gods to Stone Cold Crazy. The rest of the songs alternate, too - a piano ballad in Dear Friends to upbeat Carribean in Misfire to ragtime in Leeroy Brown, then onto the bizarre and unclassifiable She Makes Me, and finally to glam rock in Lap of the Gods....Revisited. The fact that they managed to combine so many styles and still create a listenable album is brilliant. It is also one of the few albums by Queen I can put on and never want to skip a track.
yes there is...
it's called Queen II
it's called Queen II
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]« Jay » wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=blue>Rick wrote: [/QUOTENAME]No. There is no such thing. It all depends on personal taste.
It isn't a fact that a Queen album is perfect. You may find it, but that doesn't mean it IS perfect. It's relative. [/QUOTE]
Good point. Still, if an album goes gold for so many times (like A Night At The Opera) doesn't that kinda make it perfect in a way?[/QUOTE]
No it makes it a commercial succes.
Britney Spears' albums went platinum as well. That doesn't make them perfect at all.
It isn't a fact that a Queen album is perfect. You may find it, but that doesn't mean it IS perfect. It's relative. [/QUOTE]
Good point. Still, if an album goes gold for so many times (like A Night At The Opera) doesn't that kinda make it perfect in a way?[/QUOTE]
No it makes it a commercial succes.
Britney Spears' albums went platinum as well. That doesn't make them perfect at all.
It all depends on how you define perfect.
IMO ANATO doesn't have a bad song on it....yep, even Sweet Lady. About as close as you're gonna get.
IMO ANATO doesn't have a bad song on it....yep, even Sweet Lady. About as close as you're gonna get.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Anto1 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]It all depends on how you define perfect.
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indeed
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indeed
A Night At The Opera/A Day At The Races
Just TOO perfect.
Just TOO perfect.
Hot Space
Yes, ANATO seems quite perfect to me. All the songs on the album are absolutely stunning.