Sheer Heart Attack
by Queen
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Queen bestography
Sheer Heart Attack is ranked 2nd best out of 52 albums by Queen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Queen is A Night At The Opera which is ranked number 109 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,240.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Sheer Heart Attack track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Sheer Heart Attack rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 80 Music Albums of 1974 | 26/80 | 3 |
| 2026 | tim0505 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 84/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Pavloss | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 35 Music Albums of 1974 | 8/35 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Lieblingslieder - Favorite Songs | 32/100 | - |
| 2026 | Rivera | Best of Rest 2 | 27/100 | - |
| 2026 | leniad | Top 101-200 Greatest 1970s Albums | 54/73 | - |
| 2026 | BurndenAce | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 92/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | leniad | Top 15 Music Albums of 1974 | 12/15 | 1 |
| 2026 | dukeboxkool | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 12/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 517 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,640 | |||
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Sheer Heart Attack ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago |  UofTBlues | 3,656 | 71/100 |
| ! | 10/17/2026 18:13 | PMV | 43 | 97/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2026 12:27 | Artem | 872 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.2/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.
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Sheer Heart Attack forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/18/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5439): By joedecView latest topic →
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Sheer Heart Attack comments
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InsanityPrawnBoy 11/24/2020 23:06 | #261350 | TOP COMMENT
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I'm a Queen fan because of albums like this, and this truly is an excellent album, jam packed with great tracks and hidden gems.
It starts with Brighton Rock, which recently had renewed interest due to the Baby Driver movie. It's a top notch track that shows off just how great Brian May's guitar playing really is.
That's followed up by Killer Queen. Little needs to be said about this one. Everyone knows it.
Then comes the three songs that blend into one another - Tenement Funster, Flick of the Wrist, and Lily of the Valley - which is truly amazing, and those three tracks are some of my favourite that Queen's ever done.
Now I'm Here is a great catchy rock number. What an excellent first side to an album.
Then side two starts with In the Lap of the Gods. I particularly love the way this track starts. A strong opener for side two. Then comes Stone Cold Crazy, the track Q magazine described as "thrash metal before the term was invented". It's a great fun heavy rocker. Dear Friends gives us something more melodic and mellow, before we get onto a Deacon track, Misfire. Which is a decent pop-rock song. Bring Back That Leroy Brown is an incredibly clever track. It really shows just how diverse Queen were. She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettos) is both haunting and wonderful. Such an underrated gem. And then the album finishes perfectly with the anthemic In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited. All in all one of my favourite albums ever. Brilliant album.
It makes me so sad that this album is not in the top 500! Probably one of my favourite albums of all time. Queen is like Zeppelin if they had a sense of humour.
There were a couple of hints on the first two albums of how great Queen was going to be. Namely "Keep yourself Alive" and "Nevermore" When The Sheer Heart Attack album came out it was Queen finally mastering their style and sound. From heavy to campy, theres not a bad song on the record. My favorite release by them.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/01/2016 20:55 | #163116 | TOP COMMENT
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I totally agree with: "Queen was always a better at making hits than making albums."
And I mean this in a good way... their hits are absolutely amazing.
Highly underrated album. Brighton Rock has one of the best guitar solos ever, Killer Queen has THE best guitar tone ever, and the other songs are very good. Especially the little medley near the beginning.
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