Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
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Music Reviews of Sheer Heart Attack
Music Review: Yes it's THAT good
Rating: 5 Stars
I first heard this on a used LP years ago but I'll spare you the history lesson. This is a fantastic collection of tunes where heavy metal and cabaret collide with Beatle-type song structures and - somehow - it all holds together perfectly. The musicianship is amazing and, perhaps because none of the songs here were played to death on the radio, virtually all of this CD sounds as fresh as it did years ago. Even if you're sick of the few Queen songs that are still in heavy radio rotation, you will find much to cheer about here. The production is sleek, the riffs are furious, and the harmonies are stellar.
Highlights? "Brighton Rock" is an incredible guitar workout (including multiple overdubbed guitar harmonies) but has enough signature and tempo changes to have done most prog bands proud. "Stone Cold Crazy" is speed metal years before anyone could imagine such a thing, with heavy fleet fingered riffs that owe nothing to blues rock. And then there's the pop perfection of "Killer Queen," the alienated balladry of "Tenement Funster" and the operatic strangeness of "In the Lap of the Gods."
Music Review: Seamless and Excellent
Rating: 5 Stars
This album plays like a tape you mixed yourself. I think it's Queen's most thorough and it's also my favorite. Sheer Heart Attack is one of those rare albums that is actually an ALBUM, not just a bunch of songs. It's completely cohesive and can be listened-to straight through. From song to song, it never drops a beat, but has the best flow of any Queen album I own. There's not one song on here that ever gets "skipped" in continuous play, except perhaps "She Makes Me", which I find in certain moods to lack enough energy to make me listen to it. "Brighton Rock" is a masterpiece, and I know that is a superlative often used when referring to "Bohemian Rhapsody" or others, but I'd put this track very high on my list of Queen's best, though it never made it to a Greatest Hits album. "Killer Queen" is the most famous, but for deserved reason. It's rhythm is infectious and the song is the best example of lyric writing genius in the history of rock. "Lily of the Valley" is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, Queen or otherwise. The sincerety in Freddie's voice and the movement of the melody are amazing.Music Review: Almost there
Rating: 3 Stars
Moving away from the fantasy so prevalent on their first two albums, "Sheer Heart Attack" definitely sounds like a band in transition. A few of the numbers sound like they're designed for live shows like, "Brighton Rock" with its prolonged guitar solo, including feedback, and "Now I'm Here," a song that begs for an audience response. Deacon makes his first appearance as songwriter with two numbers that, despite their brevity, give an idea of what type of songs he'll bring to the group later on. "Bring Back Leroy that Leroy Brown" touches on the British music hall sound that will be put to better use on A NIGHT AT THE OPERA and the general sound is one of a band reaching for a sound but not quite getting there. Two stand outs make you feel that Queen is pretty close to finding their sound, "Killer Queen, which sounds like a trial run for "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Stone Cold Crazy," filled with an antic energy that Queen has shown earlier, but this time with a bit more focus. I don't find as many memorable songs on this one, but it seems a needed step in the band's development.
Music Review: DON'T YOU MISFIRE
Rating: 5 Stars
Not many other groups can get away with covering so many styles of music with such grace as Queen. A great album.Brighton Rock is a fast paced rock song with some high pitched vocals from the amazing Mercury interluded with some brilliant guitar work from may. 'Killer Queen' is probably one of Queen's best ever songs. 'Tenement Funster' brings in Roger Taylors vocals and is a slow but well produced piece of work. 'Flick of the Wrist' and 'Lily of the Valley' are both excellent songs which merge into each other as we go from rock to a ballad. ' Now I'm Here' is a classic rock song and 'In the Lap of the Gods' uses more vocal disturbance to produce a wonderfully diverse song. 'Stone Cold Crazy' is the 'hardest' song on the album and is actually a very early Queen song as it was often performed years before it appeared on this album. 'Dear Friends' is a slow interlude before the Deacon number 'Misfire'. 'Bring back Leroy Brown' is a very diverse song and is continued by 'She Makes Me' with May on Vocals. 'In The Lap of the Gods revisited' we have a wonderful end to a great album.Music Review: No words to describe this baby!
Rating: 5 Stars
So I was stuck in a five hour traffic jam in St.Louis. It's just me, my boyfriend, and two of his co-workers. I'm stuck in the backseat with my CD player and my new Queen album. I pop the CD in. The first thing I hear is...CARNIVAL MUSIC?! What the...but then I hear Freddie's amazing falsetto and his rumbling mid-range and I'm hooked to the CD already! The song was "Brighton Rock", one of my favorite Queen songs (although the guitar solo which is the bulk of the song is sorta monotonous). This album packs a big punch of memorable Queen songs. "Brighton Rock", "Killer Queen", "Lily of the Valley, "Misfire" (my happy song and one of my favorite Deacon's), "Bring Back Leroy Brown" and "In the Lap of the Gods (Revisited)" are the highlights of this CD. Also on this CD is "Stone Cold Crazy", a song that most think was written by Metallica. But when one hears this song, it's unmistakably Queen. I garuntee all who listen to this CD will be hooked to Queen and want to buy more. I know I was!