Classical Composer Reacts to QUEEN: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (Full Album) | The Daily Doug (Episode 805)
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In this special expanded #masterpiecefriday, I'm sharing one of our Extended Play Lounge episodes from my Patreon site. In this series, we listen to two full albums each month. And, in this video, I'm listening to the entire album, A Night at the Opera, from Queen. I recorded this one in July of 2023, and it was my first full album listen to a Queen record. Of course, I loved it! I hope you do as well!
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OMG you did it!
A respect to Roy Thomas Baker; as from Freddie himself: "a genius"
As a Queen fan. What made Freddie Mercury write Death On Two Legs was that John Deacon had just got married, and he asked for a deposit to put down to buy his own home and the Sheffield brothers who were Queen's manager at the time said no and the brothers had just brought a brand new Rolls-Royce car. So that's why they looked to get out of their management deal and went to Elton John's manager John Reid which help them to get out of the deal which the band had to pay a percentage of first 3 albums which was about £100,000 to get out of the deal.
I think John needing a deposit was the final straw
but Freddie was done Roger said Freddie said he refused to make any more music, they had no royalties for their albums and Freddie had no royalties for seven seas and killer queen
Roger said it was about the money but equally that Freddie felt disrespected
Freddie pretty much made them find a lawyer to get out of the deal, the found Jim Beach
also finding John Reed
not sure if one or both were responsible for getting EMI to sign them directly who also gave a huge advance for NATO album
The managers were rich while Queen still lived like they were still students despite being internationally famous
Extraordinary album. The Prophet's Song is my favorite of Queen's songs and what really turned me into a lifelong Queen fan about 49 years ago. Your analysis video of this song is how I found your channel. I always come away from this in awe of their superb talent and wide range of style. I last saw Brian and Roger in 2019, still vibrant, delightful, and truly enjoying their music. They are treasures.
BR is the classic Queen song but for me Prophet's Song is their best - shame most of the public have never heard of it.
@@hardboiledPhil Prophet's had the "bad" to be on same album of BR. A lot of people never heard of it. How absurd is that?
Queens harmonies are just the best, its like another instrument by its self, amazing. ❤
Delightful, dapper, dashing Doug, took his friends and fans down the river Queen, meandering, mesmerising, a kind of magical journey…
Thanks Doug
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Almost 50 years later and this album STILL blows my mind!
Fantastic! Queen have so many hidden gems on their albums, that rarely get reacted to. Thanks for checking out the whole album. Next a day at the races to see how their musicianship improves.
The smile that came across your face when Seaside Rondevue started is why Queen are the legendary band they are.
I was thinking the exact same thing. 😊
It is such a joy to watch you enjoying their music! 😊
They are so insanly talented and brave to experiment without care!
39 is brilliant both lyrically and overall.
So good to play guitar along with too.
One of my favorite queen songs (I don’t know them well aside from hits and this album).
@Scottlp2 it's a deep rabbit hole to explore. Their earlier stuff is amazing. Their later stuff, not so much. Still worth exploring.
Lilly of the Valley. Check it out.
@@robertkelsow-geall7395 Some of their later stuff is great especially Innuendo.
"I'm in Love with my Car" is one of my favourites. In any other Band Roger would have been the lead singer. Very underrated as a singer, but essentially important for Queen's harmonies.
Good Company - Brian also played the brass sounding instruments on his home made guitar mostly, using wah pedals, bottleneck slide, small speakers etc to similate each instrument. As a guitarist myself I am gobsmacked at his ability on not just his guitar playing but his inventiveness.
He also recorded each string one at a time on separate tracks, so that it wouldn’t have the distinct guitar-y sound of crossing strings, as part of the effect
Didn't they also place the speaker in a box to get the sound.
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon is written in the style of Noel Coward.
I saw them live 1985 No auto tune no synthesisers just talent
"make the best record you can" that's brilliant. Who would have thought of that?
Um, every band ever?
December 1975. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. My roommate, Eddie Levy, brings this album back to our dorm room from our local record store the Mushroom on Broad St. We must have listened to it a hundred times that weekend. that is why i got a C in organic chemistry.
"All my lovers asked me why they couldn’t replace Mary, but it’s simply impossible,” Mercury once said of Austin. “The only friend I’ve got is Mary, and I don’t want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage.”
Few People noted Death On To Legs is a tango played as a rock.
I remember the prophet song well. You recorded it on a Sunday what you don't normally do. I was homeless and living in my van at the time. That was 3 years ago Doug. I'm glad I could introduce you to Queen in such a way. Now you're wearing the jacket and doing whole albums I love it. I've been with you since the beginning and I'm still here. You're welcome.
I find myself eternally grateful that I saw Queen four times back in the 70´s when they performed all of these masterworks. Lucky boy indeed.....
9:28 Kenny Everett...God that takes me back. His show was mad.
Probably one of the most original broadcasters ever. When EMI refused to release Bo-Rhap as a single, he "purloined" a reel-to reel copy and played it 14 times on his Capital Radio show that weekend - the rest is history!
It is so much fun going through Queen with you. Thank you!
Cool that you are doing the whole album! Just want to point out that the youtube video you chose for the music is based on the 5.1 version (audio dvd) of the album and sounds quite different from the regular stereo version of the album.
I wondered why it sounded different!
I was wo dering that as well, more guitar licks in You're My Best Friend
Rough day Doug, thanks for uploading alternate content.
Hoping your weekend is better than today was for you. Sending good vibes.
@@Doug.HelveringThanks my friend, I’ve been here before with my channel content and can empathize, hope it was just blocked.
But, the holder may have acted themselves outside of content ID. A video that clears checks can be more risky than one that is flagged without deducing their unique permitted use cases.
“All through the years in the end it appears there was never really anyone but me” - I have a tattoo of that on my rib cage. Seriously.
Dude I just subscribed. You just brought such a huge smile to my face over the course of this hour.
You took me back to the time when I very first discovered Queen in 1978 with News of the World. I instantly became a Queen fan, (We will rock you, We are the champions, etc.) then I went backwards purchasing their first, second, and third albums before this one. The next one is Day at the Races which is phenomenal also. Freddie often quoted that we are not a band made up of singles, people needed to listen to their whole album to understand where they were coming from creatively and musically. Thanks so much for doing this, man. It's nice to see other people experience these albums the way we did when we were younger! Back when music was so exciting, experimental and truly creative!
I bought this on vinyl when it was released (I was 13). I haven't played it for ages and really enjoyed watching this with you. I'd forgotten some of the shorter tracks - what fun!
It was very warming to see you reacting to that legendary album. I only hope some day you will react to the eponymous debut album by Gentle Giant. It also ended with the rendition of British National Anthem, five years before Queen. While their debut was likely not characteristic of their classic eclectic progressive rock style, it was among their most versatile albums! The accompanying story called A Tall Tale, great mascot face album cover, fantastic tunes in various genres: from early 70s' King Crimson-inspired "Alucard" to vivid hard rocker "Why Not?" to mellow "Isn't It Quiet And Cold?" to Palestrina-inspired "Giant" to perfect prog-wise ballad "Funny Ways".
I think you may easily fruitfully joyfully react to, well, any of their studio album 1970 thru 1977 inclusive...
It was the early 80s and my dad would usually blast this LP off in his home stereo, from start to finish. To my mind, up to this day there is nothing that comes even close to how brilliant this album is; I just can’t believe how someone could come up with something as good and original as this, and the fact that it was made in 1975 (when everything was much more rudimentary) makes it even more incredible.
If there was a piece of music that humanity would have to send through space in hopes of reaching out to other beings in the universe, for me, A Night The Opera has to be it, quite simply because it has it all.
That koto is a minature which was given to Brian on their Japanese tour
Thanks, Doug, for this. I wore this album out back in the day. I haven't listened to this in a while. Loved your comments and options. I've seen Queen live nearly a dozen times. Queen is and will always be my favorite band!!! Also, saw Brian live as well. What a gentleman. Keep the reviews coming.
Queen is Thee band that expanded my musical horizons, Most specifically A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races.
My all time favourite Queen album which I heard for the first time in 1976 as a 15 year old when I moved from the north of England to the south. My new friend, Lisa, who lived in my road, invited me to her house and we listened to the whole album in her bedroom. I was hooked. All Queen members wrote different songs and were so different. First heard Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 which mesmerised me. Not enough superlatives to describe Queen to me as a 14 year old. Now I’m aged 62, this album invokes the same feelings, thoughts, passion and unending questioning interest as it did to my 14 year old self. Sublime.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s was queen as big as bands like led zeppelin and pink flyod in the uk??
39 was meant to be a sci-fi folk song according to Brian.
It was one he regretted not being released as a single.
Hi Doug. I'm enjoying the Queen experience again through your ears and eyes, '39 was the lullaby that I sang to my children in the early '80's. Beautiful song and memories. Thank You.
Hats off, this is great! Queen and Doug, in feelings, what sweetness!
The prophets song is my favorite queen song
A few comments on the BoRap video. You must try to put this into context. At this point, only die-hards had ever seen the Queen II cover which begins the video - for that matter, had ever actually seen Queen at all. Even those die-hards had likely never actually seen Queen live. This was a half-dozen years BEFORE MTV. Visually, this was jaw-dropping, breath-taking and countless other hyphenations! Those of us who were already on board at this point were elated and proud of what our discovery had produced. It literally surpassed EVERYTHING.
Seeing this on Midnight Special is one of those seminal moments. That show was the best and so gave me many great musical memories, including watching Prince's first TV performance (I Wanna Be Your Lover).
Man, the last chorus of Prophet goes. so. hard.
The Prophet’s Song AND Bohemian Rhapsody on the same record side…that simply can’t be topped !
@Doug.Helvering This sounds odd. I think this had the audio set to 5.1 instead of regular stereo. That would be why certain things sound oddly too loud, out of place, or completely disappears. These albums were originally mixed for stereo and (I think) how they should always be listened to.
Cool, it's not just me. Here I am thinking my speakers aren't functioning properly!
Brian's hepatitis episode was the reason the previous album was called Sheer Heart Attack and was a genuinely existential crisis for the band. At one point, serious consideration was given to moving forward without Brian, because his physical capacity to ever endure a demanding tour schedule was actually in grave question. Add to that extreme pressure from the "leaches" referenced in "Flick Of The Wrist" (from SHA) and "Death On Two Legs" (a double entendre considering the crisis Brian lived through - the phrase may have actually been a quote from management referencing Brian, making the case to replace him). But obviously, all ends well for the boys who made the decision that seems obvious in hindsight, but was not in real time.
Yes, I have it on vinyl, great album, probably one of my favorites from Queen.
Fabulous Album!
39, like a sea shanty.
It's the perfect album. From the songwriting to the in studio production to the instrumentation It's a masterpiece. Even the post production deciding the order the songs would run in. And they were definitely pushing the boundaries of what rock music should be. It'd almost 50 years old and still stands up.
Hot take maybe but I think Day At the Races is an overall better album. That being said, I love this album so much!
I totally agree. It’s one of their best
I agree A Day At The Races is a better overall album it has no weak songs and sounds more like a whole, and more mature.And I grew to loathe Bohemian Rhapsody being around when it first was released it was played too much and after all airplay after Freddy's death it for me became overrated. I rather listen to Innuendo which is in the same vein and has that beautiful acoustic guitar segment by Steve Howe .
The mix in this version seems totally different to the original. Vocals too loud in some places, some tracks missing. I wonder if it's something to do with the 'Play in 5.1' option at the start
yeah, and some of the stereo tricks i've grown to love so much are also not present. the original mix of this album for me is THE Queen sound and it's a shame, that Doug had to experience it in such a weird form
Made me sit up and look at my phone and say HUH?!?! Glad I haven’t lost my mind. I only own the old EMI cds, so I was guessing the differences were the newer releases.
Yes….very different…interesting
this will be a fun ride, thanks doug
What a beautiful album! I have loved it since just after a decade after it was made. I am jealous of the experience of anyone hearing it for the first time. At the risk of sacrilege, what a killer remaster, by the way!
Thank you for doing this! I love that you listened to the whole album and appreciate their music. I have been a Queen fan for many, many years There are so many hidden gems in their albums that are not played and well-known. Again sir, thank you thank you!
Thanks for reacting to this album. I was 13 when it was released. I consider this my generation's Sgt. Pepper, which is amazing when you realize that only 8 years separated these two albums.
Thank you for this video ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, Doug. Without you reacting to this in its entirety, I wouldn't ever listened to it again. So I did now after more than 3 decades of Queen silence. Queen with their albums Live Killers and Opera were my favourites at the age of 8 to 10. Thanks to my 10 years older brother. What a fantastic album this is. I still know every sound, note, and tweak. But my recollection of this thing as a whole was nearly gone. I recall that The Prophet Song was my favourite song then. It's been mind opening for me to listen this again, understanding better what has happened to my musical brain ending up in King Crimson or Soundgarden or Jinjer. Beautiful 😍. Always love your reactions when you go to bit of musical analysis and theory.
Thank you so much man! I had this album long ago and i forgotten how great it is. I have goosebumps listening right now.
I've loved this album since the first time I played the my aunt's LP on their stereo when I visited them when I was a teenager back in the 90s. My wife bought me the remastered CD in 2011. I love the ordering of the tracks and the transitions between the songs.
I really love how Queen And… handle ‘Love of my Life, letting the audience sing it.
Love your take on one of my favorite LPs. Love that you have the Beatles, Yes and Umphrey’s McGee behind you. If you had a Rush and Tull LP back there my life would be complete!😊
Lovely stuff Doug! This is one of those albums that's been with me my whole life, thanks to my parents, and it will never get old.
Classic album :) The song, Good Company, wow, Brian May plays like a full jazz band - on his guitar :) My first ever concert was Queen, Glasgow Apollo in 1979... (I'm not as old as you/me think I am. I was 14 years old/young). I was expecting a guy to come on stage and introduce Queen. Nope, lights went down, very loud rumble of thunder.. Then a blinding flash of light backed up by a ridiculously loud explosion of sound to expose the band onstage rocking ;) Can't ever forget my first ever live concert ✌ 😎
You will love "39" still one of my favorites on this album!
Brian wrote '39 as an attempt at "sci-fi skiffle" as he is also a big fan of Lonnie Donegan in addition to being an astrophysicist
We need a reaction to ‘My old man’s a Dustman’
Lobed this video Doug. I hope you get to do A Day At The Races sometime.
No matter how many times I hear Bohemian Rhapsody, I just can't get tired of it. Freddie's voice is straight-up perfection. Brian, Roger, & John are virtuosos. Every song is just amazing.
Thanks for listening your way through my favorite album of all time.
Now you could go to Sheer Heart Attack; Day At The Races or News of the World. Albums with very different sounds. Or Queen 1 or Innuendo.
About mimicking... Brian mimicks a cat, with his guitar, in "Delilah" (from Innuendo).
Complimenti Doug, è sempre piacevole seguire i tuoi video!
Masterpiece. Queen managed to combine opera and rock, in a spectacular fusion, never before seen in 1975, nor since. The choirs are spectacular, unique!
This album shows what great musicians they were. Brian learned to play the harp for Love Of My Life, and John learned to play the double bass for 39.
Night reminds me so much of Rush's 2112 in that (same general time frame) both bands were faced with extreme pressures to write hits and instead both bands doubled down on their weirdness/uniqueness and created two of the 70's most iconic albums
HE FALL AND EVENTUAL FINAL DEATH OF QUALITY ROCK MUSIC TIES IN DIRECTLY WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTINUED ADVANCEMENT OF TARGETED MARKETING ACROSS ALL METHODS OF MEDIA. I just thank the Good Lord Above that I grew up during the "classic rock" era, so I did get to see almost every band I wanted to see - some more than once - save for a very few. Best live band I've ever seen, bar none. I also thank The Lord that my 24yo son is mainly a classic rock fan!
One of the best albums ever for me! Simply amazing! 😭😭😭
I remember those great days as a kid in Blackpool for a seaside rendezvous. Donkey rides, ice cream, "Jugs of tea for the sands", and famous Oyster Bar. Wonderful memories in B&W.
I've listened to this song (Bohemian Rhapsody) for close to 50 years. Here is my latest theory. The first movement clearly explains the predicament of our protaganist. The acapella operatic chaos of the 2nd movement feels like the protagonist facing society and judicial judgment, and what better way to deal with all that than with the head bopping, hard-rocking final movement where the protaganist screams in defiance and fear. Then, final acceptance: "Nothing really matters"
For me, it's Freddies 'coming out' song. He was from a strict religious family and his mother did not approve of his lifestyle. The man Freddie shoots dead is his mother's notion of her straight son, he doesn't want to do it of course but can't help his sexuality so he feels guilt. The operatic section is heaven and hell fighting for his soul (it even mentions Besmilla , the devil)...let him go, we will not let him go....etc. By the end, theres nothing more can be said or done to change the situation, so nothing really matters any more.
@celt67 This sounds plausible. But as Freddie said himself. Half of the pleasure of a great song is the eternal pleasure of thinking about its meaning in your own experiences.
I think it's about Freddie killing Farrokh....
@@celt67 Freddie did not really write songs about sexuality in a direct or overt manner, that people would quickly understand it, the only example might be Liar (but it is not so easy to understand the meaning of Liar). I think Bohemian Rhapsody is about the entertainment industry. You have to kill a part of yourself to be successful (that is the Faustian deal).You are under constant judgement. One day everyone will love you and next day the public might hate you. 'Scaramouche will you do the fandango" is someone asking or instructing a clown to do a dance. Freddie Mercury had great affinity for this type of idea, the idea that an entertainer needs to set aside their emotions to entertain the crowd. The song It's A Hard Life (with some similar chords to Bohemian Rhapsody) beings with the opera aria Vesti La Giubba (put on your costume). It is the story of a clown that has to go and perform just after discovering his wife is cheating on him.
Freddie liked this idea of being "the great pretender" (which he also covered).
(I have version of Vesti La Giubba with English subtitles on my channel if anyone is interested to understand more of the context)
@celt67 Beelzebub is the reference to the devil. Bismillah is Arabic for "in the name of Allah".
1976 I bought sheer heart attack and a night at the opera and have been following Queen ever since
I always heard '39 as a triumphant sea shanty - the ship returned home. I missed the spaceship, and the time dilation, even as I puzzled over "in the land that our grandchildren knew" and the suddenly sad ending "For my life, Still ahead, Pity me." I'd never listened closely enough to correctly hear the other clues in the lyrics. Wow.
Another twist on the old saying that pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their backs. The arrow of time in this case.
As others have said, this sounds like a down-mixed version of the 5.1 surround sound version. A shame since, when played on a surround sound system, the 5.1 mix is a great listen. The Prophet's Song in particular makes great use of all corners of the room.
I was gunna ask why this sounded weird
Still got my record i bought when i was 11, it was my pride and joy😁
It's a ukulele banjo according to Brain in Good Company.
His father played it and taught Brian to play it.
You need to see the video from the Rio concert. There's nothing like seeing over a quarter of a million people singing along to "Love of My Life."
The perfect reaction from a perfect álbum !!
Fantastic.
Saw Bohemian Rhapsody live ('76 Night at the Opera tour) done in three sections with an interesting reprise. Amazing and Freddie had that same white jumpsuit. 😍
Thank you, Doug! Epic!
I'm a big Queen fan and found all of their music good. One of their albums I truly love is Jazz. The versatility of the music is amazing, some of which you would recognize.
Took me right back to when I was a teen listening to this album obsessively. Had the cassette to play in the car and the album. You had to get the album because the cassette didn't have lyrics! Can you imagine trying to figure out BoRap without the lyrics?🤣 Seeing the video was a revelation in 1975. It was an extension of their creativity. They wanted to be visually and musically different than any other band. I love this album to this day. Good Company was made with the Deacy Amp. The little amplifier John Deacon made and a volume pedal. Brian still uses it. Bohemian Rhapsody was 3 songs Freddie had been working on for years and he put them together. Still my favourite Queen album. Thanks Doug!
39 is my all time favourite song it’s on pretty much every playlist I have.
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I'm In Love With My Car is also in 6/8 waltz time. So funny! A hard rocking waltz to describe his love for his car...
In Seaside Rendezvous, I believe, if I recall from interviews on the "making of" A Night At The Opera, The band, sans Brian, used thimbles on the finger tips for the tap dancing parts, kazoos and mouths for the tooting noises and the whistle was one of those whistles that the harder you blow, the higher the pitch. They experimented a lot in the studio for that album.
The distance from the Sun to the Earth is 1 AU.
0.39 AU from the Sun is the planet - Mercury.
Coincidence?
One of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. Thank you!
Random thought: "Good Company" feels like a response to "When I'm 64"
What are the other four albums. ??
Probably heard bohemian rhapsody million times over and everytime I'm always hearing something different I hadn't heard before
I remember when this album was released. Didn't buy it then (too poor) but I had a friend who gladly lend it to me for a couple of days at a time (he got a hostage record). A part of my life. I grew up with this, probably why I'm so good at existing.
Seaside Rendezvous was Roger and Freddie in the studio making all the instrument noises. Roger said (in his very English way) "cod it was and cod it was meant to be."
This album only had 2 singles: Bohemian Rhapsody in Oct 75 and Best Friend in June 76 - that is quite a long break between singles, maybe single #1 had some special impact? Hehe.
Fabulous 👍 And Rush next, oh boy.
Brian is a very deep person and i think his songs are always romantic, deep, emotional .
Ay. Fucking. Amazing.
I love Queen so much.
So much talent there.
Not too many reactors taking on Queen, not sure why.
no one before, and no one after will be capable to do every type of music in just one album like Queen did.
Yeah 🎉what a night indeed 😍