An Intriguing Fairytale in Rock-Opera
Gary Selikow | Great Kush | 09/01/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This album is a masterpiece, absolutely one of Queen's best. Together with Sheer Heart Attack it is among the most underrated album of the rocking 70's and for me the 70's rock!!
It is a ingenious blend of rock, opera and magnificent poetry. Study the lyrics. There is a wonderful journey into a Tolkienesque fantasy land. This is really a work of art -something like that sung by Mediaeval balladeers but its a mix of ballads and rock.
That fantastic hit 7 Seas of Rhye and songs like the full-of- action and energetic 'Ogre Battle,' the sad and beautiful 'White Queen,'the 'March Of The Black Queen' is a several song rock opera that's style seems to have preceeded 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. and the incredible 'Fairy Feller's Master Stroke' are like Tolkien and Lewis etc with a touch of Alice In Wonderland and Harry Potter in rock-opera mode. Then there are the wonderful melodies with a baroque flavour 'Father To Son,' the exquisite love song 'Nevermore' and the melodic and whimisical 'Funny How Love Is,' and Roger Taylor's classic 1970's hard rock 'The Loser In The End'.
Buy it, study it and let your imagination free."