Queen, 1975.
This album is special and good because...
It is Queen's 3rd album, and they had managed to iron out most excessively self-indulgent noodly guitar solos.
It is on the cusp of world domination and absolute stardom which would be lavished upon them with their next album (A Night At the Opera).
It has huge variety and an eclectic, questing spirit - honky-tonk, prog, nostalgia, glam, heavy rock, a cappella...
Killer Queen, Tenement Funster and Now I'm Here feature as wonderful representative singles.
Sure, Night At the Opera, released later in the same year, would perfect the style and, dare we say, formula developed on this album...but this one has the appeal of terra incognito, and is a quantum leap away from Queen II...
Definitely worth stashing in your collection.
9/10.
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