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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music)
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Music/BohemianRhapsody redirects here. For the film, see Bohemian Rhapsody.A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by British Glam Rock band Queen, released in 1975 through EMI in the UK and Elektra Records in the US. Yes, it is named after the famous The Marx Brothers' film of the same name. Often cited as the most expensive album ever made at the time, with overdubs, vocal harmonies, and effects that resulted in it taking four months to record at seven studios, the album takes its "No synthesizers" claim and milks it for all it's worth. It's best known for the hit singles "Bohemian Rhapsody", "You're My Best Friend", "I'm In Love With My Car", and "Love Of My Life". A documentary about the creative process behind the making of this album can be seen in the Classic Albums TV documentary series. | |
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Sunday is Boring | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_1b7abcdc | comment |
Sunday is Boring: "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" is a "Days of the Week" Song that details what the singer will do for every day of the week. Naturally, as the title suggests, they'll be lazing instead of doing something. | |
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No Sympathy | |
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No Sympathy: The protagonist in "Bohemian Rhapsody" describes himself as "just a poor boy" who needs "no sympathy". | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_1d8733d3 | type |
Overly Narrow Superlative | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_1d8733d3 | comment |
"'39" does make sense, but seems not to. It helps to know the back story. Seriously. Best song about theoretical Einsteinian space travel-induced time dilation masquerading as a sea shanty EVER. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_1e7c47ab | type |
Stealth Pun | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_1e7c47ab | comment |
Stealth Pun: From "Good Company", "The reward of my own efforts, my own limited company" could refer both to the protagonist's lack of friends and the legal institution of a limited company (in which the liability of members or subscribers is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company). | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: "Good Company", with the line "take care of those you call your own and keep good company". | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: "The Prophet's Song" references Noah's Ark and the Great Flood. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_26ac510e | type |
Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The lyrics of "'39" playfully reference one of Freddie's pre-Queen bands, Sour Milk Sea. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_2e70a1db | type |
Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" (1:08), "God Save the Queen" (1:11). | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_34f6774c | type |
Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: It's often speculated that it's one. After all, when you tie in the title as well as the ridiculous amounts of operatic and classical influences on this album over any other, it makes more than enough sense. | |
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Gratuitous French | |
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Gratuitous French: "Seaside Rendezvous" in the title alone, but also in the lyrics: | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: "Death on Two Legs" is mostly in Common Time, but the band skips beats wherever it fits the rhythm of the music or lyrics better, meaning that there are scattered measures of 3/4 or 2/4 thrown in. The operatic segment of "Bohemian Rhapsody" has some segments with polyrhythms, using 4/4 over 12/8. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_396e1c2a | type |
Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: "Bohemian Rhapsody" | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: Brian May's method for supplying the harp parts. Since he couldn't actually play the instrument, he recorded each chord separately and edited them together to get the lines he wanted. On audio tape. It took days. | |
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Establishing Series Moment | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_41c08e5 | comment |
Establishing Series Moment: A variant contained within one album. The intro to album opener "Death on Two Legs" starts off with reverberated piano fading in, which loses its reverb—then sirens and multitracked guitar come in, along with more effects, being led into the actual song with a high scream by Freddie Mercury. This shows off the album's strong focus on effects and overdubs, as well as foreshadowing the repeated Song Style Shifts on "Bohemian Rhapsody." | |
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Call-and-Response Song | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_43c4002a | comment |
Call-and-Response Song: "Bohemian Rhapsody" has Freddie doing this with the other band members and sometimes even with his own vocals. | |
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Song Style Shift | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_43d39d6b | comment |
Song Style Shift: "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes through several: acapella, Lonely Piano Piece, opera, Hard Rock, and finally back to a Lonely Piano Piece. "The Prophet's Song" is a hard rock song with an extended A Cappella section in the middle, where Freddie goes crazy with the studio overdubs. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_47b97b31 | type |
Album Closure | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_47b97b31 | comment |
Album Closure: "God Save the Queen" is the national anthem of the United Kingdom and British colonies. Queen made an instrumental version of this song as the last track of the album. This version became so popular that Queen also used it as the song to close their live shows. | |
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I Want My Mommy! | |
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I Want My Mommy!: The protagonist in "Bohemian Rhapsody" moans for his mother. | |
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Stock Sound Effects | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_48dfb7e4 | comment |
Stock Sound Effects: "I'm in Love with My Car" ends with car noises (which instead start the song in the single version). | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_4b1ca7d2 | type |
Genre Roulette | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_4b1ca7d2 | comment |
The whole album provides examples, mostly related to the Genre Roulette, but frequently within songs as well — "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the most famous case by far, but "The Prophet's Song" provides examples almost as strong. | |
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All of the Other Reindeer | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_4c8e8078 | comment |
All of the Other Reindeer: "Bohemian Rhapsody" | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Roger Taylor sings lead on "I'm in Love with My Car". Brian May sings lead on "'39" and "Good Company". | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: "Good Company" opens with the narrator describing how his pipe-puffing father advised him as a kid to take care of the people around him and "keep all good company." The song ends with the narrator as a pipe-puffing old man himself, contemplating how badly he messed up by alienating the people around him, having failed to follow his dad's advice. | |
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It's a Wonderful Plot | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_551c5085 | comment |
It's a Wonderful Plot: "Bohemian Rhapsody" | |
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The Diss Track | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_5834239a | comment |
The Diss Track: The opening track of A Night at the Opera, "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)", scathingly rails against the band's previous manager, Norman Sheffield, among other things likening him to "a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride" and outright telling him to kill himself. Sheffield was never mentioned by name in the song, but recognized that it was about him and sued for libel... which instead resulted in the song's subject matter becoming public knowledge. On the Live Killers version, Freddie Mercury ramped it up a bit more by saying it was dedicated to "a motherfucker of a gentleman". | |
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Metal Scream | |
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Metal Scream: Roger Taylor's piercing falsetto in "39" and "Bohemian Rhapsody". | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
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Gratuitous Panning: The middle section of "The Prophet's Song" revolves heavily around various unaccompanied overdubbed vocals jumping around the stereo channels. | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: "Love of My Life" would later be turned into a concert duet with the audience. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_60f567f1 | type |
Lonely Piano Piece | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_60f567f1 | comment |
Lonely Piano Piece: The second movement of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is driven mostly by piano, and is narrated by a convict solemnly contemplating his impending execution. The fifth and final moment goes back to the style, with the convict (still solemnly) accepting his fate. | |
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Echoing Acoustics | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_617204d8 | comment |
Echoing Acoustics: The vocal canon in "The Prophet's Song" uses tape delay to achieve this effect. | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_641cf81d | comment |
Viewers Are Geniuses: Without an understanding of the Time Dilation effect of Einstein's theory of special relativity, the lyrics of "'39" probably won't make a lick of sense. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_67784113 | comment |
Non-Appearing Title: "Bohemian Rhapsody". | |
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A Storm Is Coming | |
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A Storm Is Coming: "The Prophet's Song", based on the Biblical story of Noah. | |
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At the Opera Tonight | |
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At the Opera Tonight: Basically what the album title alludes to. | |
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Car Song | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_72651184 | comment |
Car Song: "I'm in Love with My Car", about Roger's love for his vehicle. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_72651184 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_73fa8db | type |
Singer Namedrop | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_73fa8db | comment |
Singer Name Drop: The Brian May-sung "Good Company" features an offhanded reference to how the narrator's father called him "Baby B" as a kid. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_73fa8db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_73fa8db | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74149c93 | type |
Epic Rocking | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74149c93 | comment |
Epic Rocking: "The Prophet's Song" is over eight minutes long, and stands as the second-longest track in Queen's discography (only being beat out by the 22:33 "'13'"). "Bohemian Rhapsody" nearly reaches the six-minute mark, but falls short by just five seconds (though this didn't stop the film of the same name from rounding up to six minutes). | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74149c93 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74149c93 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74b7629c | type |
Instrumentals | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74b7629c | comment |
Instrumentals: "God Save the Queen". Despite having official lyrics, the Queen version completely eschews them. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74b7629c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74b7629c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_74b7629c | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7aea8bae | type |
Murder Ballad | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7aea8bae | comment |
Murder Ballad: "Bohemian Rhapsody" | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7aea8bae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7aea8bae | featureConfidence |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7aea8bae | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)" is "dedicated" to the band's former manager, and gives him quite an earful. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7d89315b | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7d97ab06 | type |
Space Is an Ocean | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7d97ab06 | comment |
Space Is an Ocean: "'39" is about a space voyage, but leans so hard into nautical metaphors that it's a borderline Tomato Surprise when Time Dilation comes up. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7d97ab06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7d97ab06 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7f8fd503 | type |
Lonely at the Top | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7f8fd503 | comment |
Lonely at the Top: The protagonist of "Good Company" manages to achieve his dream of owning a successful business, but at the cost of driving away his family and friends with his excessive dedication to his work. At the end of the song, he realizes what a tremendous mistake he made in spite of his material success, calling himself insane as a result. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_7f8fd503 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "I'm in Love with My Car" is a song about a man who's in love with his car. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8409a385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8409a385 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: "Death on Two Legs" A band named Queen covering "God Save the Queen"? That's got to be one heck of a boast! | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_86b21114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_86b21114 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: The narrator of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a self-confessed murderer. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_898ff050 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_898ff050 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_898ff050 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8c99369f | type |
Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8c99369f | comment |
Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic: "Bohemian Rhapsody" | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8c99369f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8c99369f | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8cbd311b | type |
Good Angel, Bad Angel | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8cbd311b | comment |
Good Angel, Bad Angel: In "Bohemian Rhapsody", various factions are fighting over the protagonist's soul: | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8cbd311b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_8cbd311b | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_966da803 | type |
Defiant to the End | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_966da803 | comment |
Defiant to the End: "Bohemian Rhapsody". | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_966da803 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_966da803 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_966da803 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_99e87707 | type |
When You Coming Home, Dad? | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_99e87707 | comment |
When You Coming Home, Dad?: "Good Company" is about an ambitious young businessman whose wife leaves him and takes the kids because he's never home. There's a double meaning to his being rewarded with "my own limited company". | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_99e87707 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_99e87707 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9b6acdb3 | type |
Lyrical Cold Open | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9b6acdb3 | comment |
Lyrical Cold Open: "Bohemian Rhapsody" starts off with an opening acapella chorus. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9b6acdb3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9b6acdb3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9b6acdb3 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: "Love of My Life" has "when I get older I will be there at your side to remind you how I still love you, I still love you". Sixteen years later, "These Are the Days of Our Lives" (by a different songwriter though) has an older (and dying) Freddie singing "when I look and I find, I still love you... I still love you." The video makes it all even more tearful, as it was Freddie's last. "Seaside Rendezvous" has "I love you madly", while "Was It All Worth It" from The Miracle has "We love you madly". | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: The first three tracks. "Death On Two Legs" is a harsh, acerbic 'fuck you' of a song, that abruptly shifts into a tinkly piano solo and Freddie's twee lyrics of "Lazing On a Sunday Afternoon", which itself shifts into the slow, hard, rock ballad "I'm In Love With My Car". Without a single pause. The whole album provides examples, mostly related to the Genre Roulette, but frequently within songs as well — "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the most famous case by far, but "The Prophet's Song" provides examples almost as strong. | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_a4c37cbe | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b24ce4b2 | type |
Rearrange the Song | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b24ce4b2 | comment |
Rearrange the Song: Because "Bohemian Rhapsody" used a huge amount of overdubbing in the studio, live performances since 1977 frequently cut out the a Capella intro (sometimes swapping in the one from "Mustapha") and use a pre-recorded tape of the operatic section, accompanied by a screen projection of either the relevant portion of the music video or home movies of the band. Other live performances, including the one at Live Aid, only feature the ballad section. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b24ce4b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b24ce4b2 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b3247afd | type |
Common Time | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b3247afd | comment |
"Death on Two Legs" is mostly in Common Time, but the band skips beats wherever it fits the rhythm of the music or lyrics better, meaning that there are scattered measures of 3/4 or 2/4 thrown in. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b3247afd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b3247afd | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: In "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_b707726f | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)" features exactly one curse word in the line "So now you can kiss my ass goodbye!" Additionally, Freddie Mercury introduced the song in the Live Killers rendition by completing the parenthetical subtitle, "dedicated to a motherfucker of a gentleman." | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bc00493f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bc00493f | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bebb370 | type |
Gratuitous Italian | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bebb370 | comment |
Gratuitous Italian: "Bohemian Rhapsody" has several Italian words thrown in for rhyme and to tie in with the song's operatic approach. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bebb370 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bebb370 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: "Bohemian Rhapsody". However, since the very moment people could analyze it, many have claimed to "get" it, even if Freddie himself has said that the song has no real personal meaning. "'39" does make sense, but seems not to. It helps to know the back story. Seriously. Best song about theoretical Einsteinian space travel-induced time dilation masquerading as a sea shanty EVER. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_bef696dd | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c4b74656 | type |
One-Woman Song | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c4b74656 | comment |
One-Woman Song: "Sweet Lady". | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c4b74656 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c4b74656 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c4b74656 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The album title references The Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera. Their next album would be named after another Marx Brothers film, A Day at the Races (1937). The Blind Guardian album A Night at the Opera was named after this album. "Bohemian Rhapsody" provides namedrops the title characters of The Marriage of Figaro and Scaramouche, as well as Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. Brian May's electric guitar version of "God Save the Queen" is an homage to Jimi Hendrix's similar rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c75df49a | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c7e7529c | type |
Five Stages of Grief | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c7e7529c | comment |
Five Stages of Grief: The intro to "Bohemian Rhapsody" starts off "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"; the narrator is going through Denial. The part where the narrator talks about "Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter" is the narrator going through Despair. The opera part, especially the "Will you let me go?", is the narrator Bargaining. The hard rock section is, of course, Anger. In the final, gentle-sounding stage, the narrator shifts back into Despair before finally settling on Acceptance. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c7e7529c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c7e7529c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_c7e7529c | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 | type |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 | comment |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The second verse of "Good Company" juxtaposes the lines "my very good friends and me" and "won't you keep me company?" with "the girl from number four" (deliberately avoiding the obvious rhyme of "the girl from number three") | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_cff53786 | type |
Cover Version | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_cff53786 | comment |
Cover Version: "God Save the Queen", an electric guitar rendition of the British national anthem (also the melodic basis for various patriotic songs in the US, Russia, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein). Notable in that Queen had never covered anything in the studio prior to this and would not cover anything else. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_cff53786 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_cff53786 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_d076824c | type |
Every Episode Ending | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_d076824c | comment |
Every Episode Ending: Played With. A few (but not all) of the songs have similar endings: the song will pretend to end, but then a heavily panned coda appears out of nowhere. At first, it sounds like it builds up to something, but nothing's really done with it. | |
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1.0 | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_d076824c | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_d29f109e | type |
Live Album | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_d29f109e | comment |
The "Bohemian Rhapsody" intro is just eight Freddies stacked atop one another, as are other bits of the song (e.g., "anyway the wind blows" before the solo). In fact, this is the sole reason why Queen never performed the full song live, only select parts of it - for instance, on Live Killers, the intro is replaced with Freddie singing a section of "Mustapha" acapella, while the section that starts "I see a little silhouetto of a man" is playback from the studio recording pumped into the arena as the audience sings along. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_d29f109e | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_dbfd6b8 | type |
Lyrical Dissonance | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_dbfd6b8 | comment |
Lyrical Dissonance: "'39" is a happy, upbeat skiffle song, with lyrics about leaving on a space voyage for what seems like one year, but due to the time dilation effect, one hundred years have passed on Earth, and everyone the protagonist loves is long since dead. "Good Company" is also quite sad if you listen past the seemingly upbeat (for most of the song) music, detailing the story of a businessman whose ambition drives off everyone close to him. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_dbfd6b8 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_dd1f0863 | type |
Walking Swimsuit Scene | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_dd1f0863 | comment |
Walking Swimsuit Scene: "Seaside Rendezvous" evokes images of an old-fashioned beach visit near the seaside. | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_dd1f0863 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_dd1f0863 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_e18675e6 | type |
Word Salad Lyrics | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_e18675e6 | comment |
Word Salad Lyrics: "'39" is a subversion: it seems like a case of this, but it's actually a case of Viewers Are Geniuses, describing the effects of Time Dilation in Einstein's special theory of relativity on a group of spacefaring explorers who leave on a voyage that, from their perspective, lasts a year. However, when they return, they find that a hundred years have passed on Earth, and everyone they ever knew or loved here is either dead or massively aged. Brian May, as mentioned, has a PhD in astrophysics and had already studied the subject before forming Queen. | |
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| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) | hasFeature |
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_e18675e6 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_e40f6792 | type |
Design Student's Orgasm | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_e40f6792 | comment |
Design Student's Orgasm: The album cover, which would eventually become the band's logo. | |
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1.0 | |
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A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_e40f6792 | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_e64f13db | type |
Bohemian Parody | |
| A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_e64f13db | comment |
Bohemian Parody: Trope Namer. Duh. | |
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Grief Song | |
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Grief Song: "Bohemian Rhapsody" is maybe a Murder Ballad about someone who killed a man and feels bad about it. "'39" is about an astronaut who goes on a deep-space mission only to find his lover has passed away due to the time-dilation effect. | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Appears a lot (it's Queen, after all). One of the most prominent usages occurs during the middle part of "The Prophet's Song" where Mercury backed his own voice using a delay machine. All vocals on "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" and "Love of My Life" were by Freddie, from those in the low register to the high falsetto parts. Brian sang everything on "Good Company". The "Bohemian Rhapsody" intro is just eight Freddies stacked atop one another, as are other bits of the song (e.g., "anyway the wind blows" before the solo). In fact, this is the sole reason why Queen never performed the full song live, only select parts of it - for instance, on Live Killers, the intro is replaced with Freddie singing a section of "Mustapha" acapella, while the section that starts "I see a little silhouetto of a man" is playback from the studio recording pumped into the arena as the audience sings along. Freddie and Roger contributed backing vocals on parts of "'39", but the resolutions of each chorus (e.g., "all your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand, for my life's still ahead, pity me") are just Brian plus Brian plus Brian, including the falsetto part. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon", which is played in the style of a music hall song. "Bohemian Rhapsody", which is a mini-opera. Several songs have instrumentation borrowed from classical music. | |
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"Days of the Week" Song | |
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"Days of the Week" Song: "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" lists the activities that the singer undertakes on each day of the week, ending with the title. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: "Death on Two Legs" hard cuts into "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon". The latter, in turn, hard cuts into "I'm in Love With My Car". The guitar at the end of "The Prophet's Song" fades into the introduction for "Love of My Life". The gong at the end of "Bohemian Rhapsody" fades into "God Save the Queen". | |
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The Walrus Was Paul | |
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The Walrus Was Paul: Freddie once openly admitted that "Bohemian Rhapsody"'s lyrics have no real meaning to them. | |
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Heavy Mithril | |
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Heavy Mithril: "'39", which is a literal space opera. "The Prophet's Song" is supposed to be about the Biblical story of Noah, or so Brian May says (he also claims that the song came to him in a dream). | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: "You're My Best Friend". | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The description of Time Dilation in "'39" is spot-on. Brian May has since earned a PhD in astrophysics and had already studied the subject in quite some detail before even forming Queen. | |
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