Sheer Heart Attack
Sheer Heart Attack is the third studio album by Queen. It was released on 1974-11-01 on vinyl and produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker. The album uses strong glam rock and progressive rock themes with an over all hard rock sound. This is the last album to contain Freddie's mythical rock songs, all subsequent albums feature songs with more secular themes.
This is the very first album I ever bought for myself with my own money, and remains one of my favorite albums ever. When I bought this album, the only songs I knew from it were "Killer Queen," "Now I'm Here," and "Stone Cold Crazy," from their greatest hits albums and radio play. The first time I listened to this album, I thought it was a bad move to begin with "Brighton Rock," particularly with May's long guitar solo in it. Although I like both the song and the solo, I didn't feel like it properly set the pace or mood of the album.
This album, like A Night At the Opera, could also be separated into a white and black side with "Brighton Rock," "Killer Queen," "Lily of the Valley," "Dear Friends," "Leroy Brown," and "Misfire" being the flighty white side while "Tenement Funster," "Flick of the Wrist," "Now I'm Here," "In the Lap of Gods," "Stone Cold Crazy," "She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettos)," and "In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited" taking the brooding black side, although the tracks are pretty evenly dispersed.
Every time I hear songs off this album I think of playing the game Diablo and Doom II: Hell On Earth because I would listen to the album while playing those two games. While many of the songs make me think of various areas of each game, two songs in particular remind me of two specific areas of the game. "Now I'm Here" reminds me of level 12 in Doom II and "She Makes Me" reminds me of Tristram in Diablo.
Track Listing
Song Rank
The order in which I enjoy the songs from this album:
- She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettos)
- Killer Queen
- Now I'm Here
- In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited
- Bring Back That Leroy Brown
- Dear Friends
- Lily of the Valley
- Stone Cold Crazy
- Misfire
- Tenement Funster
- Brighton Rock
- In the Lap of Gods
- Flick of the Wrist
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheer_Heart_Attack - Wikipedia.
- discogs.com/Queen-Sheer-Heart-Attack/master/5303 - Discogs.