A Day at the Races
A Day at the Races | ||||||||||
Vinyl - USA - first edition. |
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A Day at the Races is the fifth studio album by Queen. It was released on 1976-12-10 on vinyl and produced by Queen themselves without the help of Roy Thomas Baker. While the has a couple hard rock and progressive rock songs, it focuses much more on soft rock romance and relationships ballads than previous albums. Like A Night At the Opera before it, this album has a Marx Brothers title and uses a monochromatic motif, only black instead of white.
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Personal
Own? | Yes. Two US vinyl, Hollywood Records CD, original master in the Crown Jewels. |
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Despite being my fourth favorite Queen album, this was one of the last Queen albums I bought, though, I'm not sure why. My first copy came from the Crown Jewels box set my high school girlfriend bought me, but I later bought an individual CD for the bonus tracks. Before I got the album, I only knew the songs Tie Your Mother Down, Somebody to Love, and Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy from compilation albums, but I quickly began enjoying the other songs that were new to me.
Track Listing
Track | Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | Rank | Rating |
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A1 | Tie Your Mother Down | Brian May | Freddie Mercury | 8 | |
A2 | You Take My Breath Away | Freddie Mercury | Freddie Mercury | 9 | |
A3 | Long Away | Brian May | Brian May | 1 | |
A4 | The Millionaire Waltz | Freddie Mercury | Freddie Mercury | 7 | |
A5 | You and I | John Deacon | Freddie Mercury | 5 | |
B1 | Somebody to Love | Freddie Mercury | Freddie Mercury | 3 | |
B2 | White Man | Brian May | Freddie Mercury | 10 | |
B3 | Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy | Freddie Mercury | Freddie Mercury | 4 | |
B4 | Drowse | Roger Taylor | Roger Taylor | 6 | |
B5 | Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) | Brian May | Freddie Mercury | 2 |
The album's total score is 1,217.