A Day At The Races (studio album)
by Queen
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A Day At The Races is ranked 4th 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 113 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,643.
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A Day At The Races track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 3 days ago | Olli | 6,672 | 64/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 11:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,230 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/04/2025 21:07 | IkoIko6 | 107 | 83/100 |
| ! | 11/22/2025 08:08 | robertoveltri | 776 | 79/100 |
| ! | 11/13/2025 00:03 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
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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 77.0/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.
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While definitely not the greatest album, but easily my favorite album ever. It doesn’t rank as high on this website, but among Queen fans it’s one of their best. Somebody To Love is one of the most beautiful songs ever, and the rest of the album is almost as good. It always brings me back to when I first discovered music, as this was one of the first albums I listened to. Makes me tear up almost every time.
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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Absolute classic
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.
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.
dihansse 03/09/2021 20:50 | #267144
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.
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 | #173793
Often compared to A Night At The Opera, but stands up just fine on its own. An excellent album.
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