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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Hollywood Records
Salesrank: 2007
Released: September 3, 1991 |
| Our Price: $9.43 |
| Used Price: $5.73 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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A Night at the Opera Track Listing:
1. Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)
2. Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
3. I'm in Love With My Car
4. You're My Best Friend
5. '39
6. Sweet Lady
7. Seaside Rendezvous
8. Prophet's Song
9. Love of My Life
10. Good Company
11. Bohemian Rhapsody
12. God Save the Queen
13. I'm in Love With My Car [Remix][#][*]
14. You're My Best Friend [Remix][#][*]
Editorial Review:
Japanese Version featuring a Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.
Description of A Night at the Opera:
Nothing succeeds like excess--at least that's the case with Queen's breakthrough classic, A Night at the Opera. On one level, the title is a reference to the band's operatic pretensions, best in evidence here on the classic "Bohemian Rhapsody," which was championed by headbangers a generation before being revived by the Wayne's World set. Of course, A Night at the Opera was also the title of a Marx Brothers movie, and the reference isn't lost on Queen, who seldom scaled the heights of pomprock without a knowing wink. The album is remembered for its meticulously produced bombast, but the truth is that there's a wide variety of material here, from the gorgeous piano-based "You're My Best Friend" and the McCartneyesque "39" to the music-hall-style "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" and the pedal-to-the-metal rockers "Death on Two Legs" and "I'm in Love with My Car." A Night at the Opera is viewed by most as the quintessential Queen album, and justifiably so. --Daniel Durchholz
A Night at the Opera Reviews:
A Night at the Opera 
2009-11-13 - A Night at the Opera being Queens 4th studio album and their 1975 release is best known for having the track "Bohemian Rhapsody". However, other tracks that are great are "Death on Two Legs" and "Love Óf My Life" and "You're My Best Friend". The album is a mix of different musical styles and can be said to contain rock, heavy metal, and progressive rock. The album was met with positive reviews and Allmusic, Mojo and Q. The booklet has all the lyrics and great photos of the band from the time of the record. 5/5.
album changing the rock scene forever
2009-10-25 -
Night At The Opera released by Queen in 1975 has contributed to changing the face of rock music for ever. Their hard rock and even metal movements all of a sudden were being listened to by ever growing crowd of people who would have not came near such music before. On the other hand, the lovers of hard rocking sound started accepting softer rock, folk or even pop songs they would normally be running away from. Night At The Opera has mixed it all up which in itself was a bit of a gamble. However, that was an easy gamble to take considering how many great songs this album contains. I wonder if the band had any idea which song would become their ticket to riches, when they were working on their material. Bohemian Rhapsody by many called the best piece of rock music ever written became that breakthrough hit for the Queen. Considering how many bad songs become huge hits it was good that in this case the song was great. However, the fact that The Prophets' Song (which to me sounds like it could be dedicated to Robert Plant) went straight to oblivion and got very poorly rated by many is a mystery. You might want to listen to this song carefully. Following The Prophets' Song both Love Of My Life, a beautiful love song and Good Company, a melodic parody which sounded like it was written and sung by Paul McCartney took us all the way to the Bohemian Rhapsody. When we used to listen to records and not cds nor digital files back in the 1970s, putting side B of this album on was a great experience. Night At The Opera's side A starts with great Death On Two Legs (Freddie wanted to express his feelings towards their former manager right away), which after a funky and moody little filler Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon takes us back in time and....roaring forward again I'm In Love With My Car, the best song ever sung and written by Roger Taylor, their drummer, which also happens to be the most beautiful car love song ever. The following song You're My Best Friend was composed by their bass player John Deacon and makes this album a true team effort. Following it is another great song by Brian May '39. The only song on this album that I could never get into was Sweet Lady, which was followed by Seaside Rendezvous, funky moody filler taking you back to the 20s or 30s again. These short fillers, because they are strong and stylistically so all over the place, work well with the complex structures of Bohemian Rhapsody and The Prophets' Song, and together with the remaining love and rock songs create quite an album. Queen's following album Day At The Races was very strong as well. Their following albums contained some great songs but my recommendation would be to turn to their earliest music first, if you like both Night At The Opera and Day AT the Races and you are thinking about exploring their music further.
I have compiled my favorite Queen songs, which include most of their emotional jewels, but which possibly omit some very good songs with heavy, hard or metal sounding loud parts (I need to do it so I can keep on playing music at our showroom/office nonstop and loud, without distracting our clients). My compilation starts with my favorite Queen song :
1. Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
2. White Queen
3. Love Of My Life
4. Nevermore
5. Jealousy
6. Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Forever
8. Dear Friends
9. Don't Try So Hard
10. The March Of The Black Queen
11. The Millionare Waltz
12. Killer Queen
13. Spread Your Wings
14. Who Wants To Live Forever
15. Las Palabras De Amor
16. You're My Best Friend
17. You Take My Breath Away
18. We Are The Champions
19. Bicycle Race
20. I'm In Love With My Car
21. Lilly Of The Valley
Night Of the Opera review
2009-09-08 - Queen's "A Night at the Opera" review is absolutely perfect. From "Bohemian Rhaspody" to "The Prophet Song", it is just operatic.
I would definitely recommend this.
queen's masterpiece
2009-06-16 - every queen album will always be measured by this one.while i always personaly liked news of the world best, this is the masterpiece
the most important rock opus of the 70s 
2009-03-05 - If you wanted a powerfully insightful even compelling satire on the hypocrsy and outright banality of political, cultural even moral thinking in the modern west just at this period, this would be the album for you.It doesn't make fun so much as it becomes fun. The fact is it has only grown in merit over the decades to mature into a classic.
