Summary from 27 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Queen's catalog across 28 albums from 27 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated Queen album is A Night at the Opera (1975) with a 9.2/10 average from 6 ratings, followed by Live at Wembley Stadium and Sheer Heart Attack. The discography on Wavelength spans 1973 to 2026. Bohemian Rhapsody ranks as the highest-rated Queen song on Wavelength with a 9.7/10 average.
Queen
“This ambitious set of reissues highlights a strange band whose career was as varied and resourceful as any act in rock.”
The Works
“"Radio Gaga," the single that opens up the new Queen album, is another instant jewel in Queen’s Top Forty crown. It’s one more anthemic lament to that overfamiliar icon, sung and played with Queenly overkill in "Deutschland Uber Alles" style by a group that did its share to corrupt the airwaves in the Seventies. This […]”
Hot Space
“Queen has always ruled by sound instead of soul, and Brian May’s orchestral guitar creations are what captured — and has kept — the group’s hard-rock following. But on Hot Space, with the John Deacon/Roger Taylor rhythm section continuing to write funky songs and with a vocal contribution from David Bowie, Queen offers a bit […]”
Sheer Heart Attack
“Two of the most liberated and ambitious of the "fun" oriented British bands beginning to make their mark in the States are the updated war-horses Pretty Things and the nouveau-heavies Queen. Both of these groups, which could easily — if not accurately — be termed "psychedelic," seem to be signaling the advent of what may […]”
Queen II
“Queen is a reasonably talented band who have chosen their models unwisely. On "Side Black," they venture into a lyrically muddled fairy-tale world with none of Genesis’s wit or sophistication. They’ve also appropriated the most irritating elements of Yes’s style — histrionic vocals, abrupt and pointless compositional complexity, and a dearth of melody. "Side White" […]”
Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack)
“Collecting the hits alongside parts of Queen’s rapturous 1985 Live Aid set, this soundtrack mirrors its movie in reflecting the band’s inability to move on.”
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