A Day At The Races (studio album) by Queen
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A Day At The Races is ranked 5th best out of 47 albums by Queen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Queen is A Night At The Opera which is ranked number 93 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 16,970.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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80/100  | 10/16/2020 20:38 | fabm0 | | 61/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.
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I found this to be Queen's weakest album up to that point. Still a consistently good album though.
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.
InsanityPrawnBoy 08/30/2016 08:08
Often compared to A Night At The Opera, but stands up just fine on its own. An excellent album.
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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The follow up to, a night at the opera, and also it's companion album. It's similar in content to it's predecessor, in which it contains rockers, ballads, vaudeville and sweet pop. It opens with one of the band's finest rock anthems, tie your mother down. Brian May also contributes another rocker in, white man, which features some fantastic guitar. Freddie Mercury also contributes three of his best with, the glorious gospel rock of, somebody to love, the high camp of, good old fashioned lover boy, and his beautiful ballad, you take my breath away, which I think is even better than love of my life from the last album. Elsewhere Roger Taylor's, drowse, is an underrated gem. The closing, teo torriate, is a lovely singalong . I still feel that, the millionaire waltz, is a lesser version of bo rhap, and same goes for John Deacon's, you and I, in comparison with, you're my best friend. All in all, not quite as good as a night at the opera, but still a very good album.
Not as good as "ANATO", but worthy successor. It's still consistent as their early albums. Honourable songs:
the epic "Somebody to love", rock anthem "Tie your mother down", rock opera "Milionaire waltz (the Bonhemian Rapsody of "A day at the races") and their catchiest "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy".
Can't blame them for trying to repeat the trick of the blockbusting predecessor, but it can't really live up to 'Night at the Opera'. Which doesn't mean it's bad, just not as good.
One of their most consistent albums!
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