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Queen II

Queen - Queen II
Critic Score
Based on 3 reviews
1974 Ratings: #85 / 118
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Based on 738 ratings
1974 Ratings: #180
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
AllMusic
Queen is coiled, tense, and vicious here, delivering on their inherent sense of drama, and that gives Queen II real power as music, as well as a true cohesion.
Docky
90

Queen 2 shows improvements on basically every front, more great songs, better songwriting, more complex and memorable tracks, it's more of a glam rock with prog rock elements here now instead of the other way around on this album.

Saying these guys have an all killer no filler album would be a stretch but honestly like what...10 out of these 11 tracks are fantastic, the other one being an instrumental which I don't care about because honestly, Queen instrumentals never did much to me, like ... read more

BartDaGoat
90

Damn, Bowie really declined to produced this record.
After his short time in 1984 (the band), Brian May went to colleague to study physics and astronomy. During his time in colleague, May formed group named Smile with his old band mate - Tim Staffell and keyboardist Chris Smith (he was in the band for less than a year). Later Roger Taylor joined as a drummer. Tim became good friends Smile's fan Freddie Bulsura. He knew every song of Smile and he wanted to joined the band as a lead vocalist. ... read more

ST4T1C
85

Going Slightly Mad with Queen (episode 2: The battle of the Black and White Queens)

Queen follow there already good debut album with an excellent semi conceptual follow up. Basically everything from the last album is improved on with this album. Production miles better, feels a lot more cinematic and in style of some of Queens future projects. Also feel like Freddie's vocals and lyrics have improved as well on here, it really feels like everybody put their soul into this album to make it ... read more

BartDaGoat
90

Damn, Bowie really declined to produced this record.
After his short time in 1984 (the band), Brian May went to colleague to study physics and astronomy. During his time in colleague, May formed group named Smile with his old band mate - Tim Staffell and keyboardist Chris Smith (he was in the band for less than a year). Later Roger Taylor joined as a drummer. Tim became good friends Smile's fan Freddie Bulsura. He knew every song of Smile and he wanted to joined the band as a lead vocalist. ... read more

antvic2187
83

Side Black is obviously so much better than Side White, but I found myself enjoying songs from both. The operatic prog rock songs are the best here. It’s what really feels like early Queen

FAVORITE SONGS
White Queen (As It Began)
Ogre Battle
The March of the Black Queen
Seven Seas of Rhye

mirkocc1
73

the march, nevermore, seven seas y some day. la verdad que un buen album, fue disfrutable con algunos clasicos.

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Added on: June 9, 2013