A Day At The Races (studio album) by Queen

A Day At The Races by Queen
Year: 1976
Overall rank: 982nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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77/100 (from 641 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1976 (15th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (205th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (982nd)
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Queen bestography

A Day At The Races is ranked 4th best out of 51 albums by Queen on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Queen is A Night At The Opera which is ranked number 102 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 13,408.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.

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60/100
From 03/17/2023 21:17
For a band portrayed as rock I was unaware of just how much focus was on piano led tracks until getting this. Couple of fantastic songs but overall too many piano led ballads with harmonies for my liking.
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From 03/14/2023 07:59
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90/100
From 09/06/2022 15:49
Absolute classic
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35/100
From 01/25/2022 21:22
Yet again, some great songs but too much of the album is filler. Highlights are Teo Torriate and Somebody To Love. There's not too much else to shout about unfortunately.
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65/100
From 01/03/2022 10:25
I do love Queen and enjoy the odd mix of songs that they throw into their albums but those wee dafties also stop the individuals albums from excelling. Think what a single album you could have gotten from this and A Night At The Opera combined without the dafties? Somebody To Love the standout here for me.
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80/100
From 03/09/2021 20:50
My favorite Queen album because to me it's the most consistent (A Night At The Opera has in my opinion more filler) and of course also because it has my favorite Queen track: Somebody To Love. It's theatrical as hell but I adore this song. And next to this there's of course also Tie Your Mother Down. Some of the tracks are coming close to vaudeville theatre (The Millionaire Waltz, Good Old Fashion Lover Boy) but they also stay on the right side of the schmalz, something that would become their downside on their later records.
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95/100
From 07/13/2019 17:44
I found this to be Queen's weakest album up to that point. Still a consistently good album though.
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70/100
From 01/25/2017 00:00
A Night At The Opera was a difficult act to follow, and Queen returned with the more direct and less ambitious A Day At The Races.
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90/100
From 08/30/2016 08:08
Often compared to A Night At The Opera, but stands up just fine on its own. An excellent album.
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From 08/14/2016 01:11
Overall I find it way more consistent than ANATO. Ok Bohemian and Best Friend could be way better than the best songs here but IMO the lesser tracks here are still good and enjoyable while there were not.
A less pretensious work but I think this one is the most listeneable from start to finish Queen album in the catalog.
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Best Albums of 1976
1. Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder
2. Station To Station by David Bowie
3. Ramones by Ramones
4. Hotel California by Eagles
5. Boston by Boston
6. 2112 by Rush
7. Desire by Bob Dylan
8. The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
9. Hejira by Joni Mitchell
10. A Trick Of The Tail by Genesis
11. A New World Record by Electric Light Orchestra
12. Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy
13. Rising by Rainbow (UK)
14. The Royal Scam by Steely Dan
15. A Day At The Races by Queen
16. Oxygène by Jean Michel Jarre
17. Rocks by Aerosmith
18. África Brasil by Jorge Ben
19. Moonmadness by Camel
20. Wind & Wuthering by Genesis
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