Prog87

I hope you meant something else by "decent"... I probably misunderstood, especially because you gave a good rating to the album. I ask for forgiveness, oops, sorry :-) You know, I have the flaw of getting a bit carried away when it comes to Queen. I grew up with Queen.
P.S. I love your nickname, great artist Fripp, I adore In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard, Larks' Tongues in Aspic... But the best remains always In the Court. I truly adore King Crimson... Sorry again, this time the paladin of Queen made a blunder!! Hehehe! But do me a favor: explain to me what this "decent" is all about.

@ Robert Fripp: "Discreet group," we have another blowhard among us. Enlighten us with your pearls of truth as well. Because anyone who considers Queen to be Great doesn't understand a damn thing about music, RIGHT? You really are something, "DISCREET" group!! Look, you're even worse than those who tear them apart in every way.

For the First comment: let the concept of love be taught to you.

Well, the audience also plays an important role in the history of Rock, since if no one pays attention to a band, nothing happens. Queen have influenced a ton of bands across a variety of genres. A few months ago, for instance, I was surprised to see a member of Domine wearing a Queen II T-shirt on the cover of a metal magazine; I read an interview where he even mentioned Brian May. The same Rob Halford, the incredible singer of Judas (another band I love), has never hidden his appreciation for the group, acknowledging that they broadened the horizons of hard rock. Just look at it: in the '70s, Queen were a band that wasn't exactly light in some aspects. I mean, songs like "Tie Your Mother Down" and "Death on Two Legs" were much harder than anything that sounds today, especially with the extreme sounds we have now (like Nile, Suffocation, Cryptopsy—bands I don't listen to precisely because they are too extreme for my personal taste), which makes everything else seem light. But let's try to take our minds back to 1976, for example, and I'll talk about A DAY AT THE RACES, the most underrated album by Queen simply because it came after A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. Let’s start with "Tie Your Mother Down." A driving track with Brian May's huge guitar—VERY HARD ROCK. The next song is "You Take My Breath Away," one of the sweetest and most romantic songs I've ever heard. Just piano and Freddie's voice (who in the previous song sounds like a lion, but here sounds like a woman); towards the end of the song, the orchestra comes in, not a real one, but Brian May with his legendary Red Special. They had an eclecticism and versatility like no other. NO ONE was like them. Honestly, the more I think about what they did and who they were, the more I am convinced that they are the greatest band of all time.

But the record in question is phenomenal, do I need to talk about it? Alright, I will.. So, as you should know, this album was already in the works a few years before its release, which only happened in '73, also because our guys, besides having issues with the record label, had to graduate!! Unfortunately, since the dawn, that piece of crap known as the music press was against us, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it strengthened the band. The press dismissed Queen as supermarket rock, as a copy of Led Zeppelin (I listen to Led Zeppelin almost as much as Queen, since right after Queen on my list of favorite bands are indeed Zeppelin, Floyd, and Tull), there may be an influence of hard rock, but nothing to do with Led Zeppelin.. I really can’t compare a Keep Yourself (a fantastic track) to the Led.. The first Queen album seems harder and heavier to me, they were already rocking out with Modern Times R n' R and tracks like Great King Rat - Liar.. There’s great music in here, but who cares, let’s tear them apart, let’s hate them because it's them!! They must have thought that way back then.. Oh well, today Queen is a legendary band, Freddie Mercury is a myth, and the press ended up with egg on their face, and they all lived happily ever after.

P.S. I definitely prefer the live version of "When" to the studio version of "My Arms, Your Hearse."

Fucking amazing, fucking!!! Just the solo of "When" performed masterfully gives me chills all the way to my brain!!! Mike's growl is super intense but never excessively guttural like that of other singers. To think that during "Queste serate" he had vocal cord issues, so he had to take steroids to be able to sing. His own words!

It's a shame you think that way 47, but of course that's your opinion and it certainly deserves respect! I found it to be a fantastic album, and right now I’m not listening to anything else! When it comes to Opeth, I enjoy it like a pig! I must have played Burden to death. Just like Heir Apparent, which is nothing short of granite in its riffs, those picked parts are devastating!! Ha ha ha, Rock on!!!!!

@ Pixies: I don't really notice it much, maybe the initial parts could vaguely remind one of it, but nothing more (just my personal opinion). If I'm not mistaken, this by Le Orme is from '71, so it's a year before Storia di un minuto.

I don't mean that Fear has marked an era, as the albums inevitably did at least until Powerslave, but that it is a great album and certainly not a workmanlike one!