Title: Excellent album, but maybe a bit overrated...
Review: While I agree ANATO was a breakthrough album in showing that good music has no boundaries, I sometimes wonder if it is overrated once I look at the actual songs here. For all of its influence on the 70s rock scene, I found the actual album didnt flow very well at all. The subject matter is all over the map, as Queen goes from singing about love affairs with cars and lovely ladies to a madman's apocylptic visions in "The Prophet's Song" (without a doubt the best piece of work on this album). The longer, "5-star" songs are broken up by songs that are often heavy on filler (see the tedious "sweet lady")To its credit though, the production is outstanding, Freddie Mercury sounds positvely angelic (of course) and the musical performances are stellar. For more consistency, see Queen's next effort, A Day at the Races. To hear the album that everyone talks about when Queen is discussed, pick up a Night at the Opera...
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