SHEER HEART ATTACK
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SHEER HEART ATTACK
Sheer Heart Attack is the third studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 8 November 1974 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Recordsin the United States. Digressing from the progressive themes featured on their first two albums, this album featured more conventional rock tracks and marked a step towards the "classic" Queen sound. It was produced by the band and Roy Thomas Baker and launched Queen to mainstream popularity in the UK and throughout the world. -Wikipedia
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BBC
2007 - The album remains a perfect example of their baroque and roll.
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All Music
Sheer Heart Attack is flawless ... this sense of scale, combined with the heavy guitars, pop hooks, and theatrical style, marks the true unveiling of Queen, making Sheer Heart Attack as the moment where they truly came into their own
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The Vinyl District
2014 - wins out on the strength of its melodies
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Rollin Stone
1975 - Sheer Heart Attack is still, like its two predecessors, a handsomely glossy construction. If it’s hard to love, it’s hard not to admire: This band is skilled, after all, and it dares.
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brianmay.com
It has some high points, but there are just not enough really memorable songs.
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Only Solitaire
Eclecticism rules! You'll either love this to death or hate the guts out of it.
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Adrians Album Reviews
There is depth here and a huge hint of a developing talent. You can hear it all over the place.
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Keno's Classic Rock n Roll Web Site
this is a greats album and marks Queen hitting the big time and showed that even better thing where soon to come
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U Discover Music
2017 - the excellence of their studio technique and the sense of the band’s liberation make it one of Queen’s most loved works
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Backseat Mafia
2016 - Sheer Heart Attack was the first album where Queen got it unarguably right
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The Quietus
2017 - It’s bonkers in its diversity; an amazing grab bag made by these four great talents fighting against each other. I find it a really compelling album because of that.
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Rocktopia
2017 - "Guaranteed to blow your mind"
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Queen Zone
Fantastic album full of rock,pop slow ballad type tracks and a deacon penned song and one album that's always looked at by rock mags as one of the best rock albums ever
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Liverpool Sound and Vision
2011 - laid the foundations for what would be seen as the era that Queen dominated the charts and dominated the headlines
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Pop Matters
2011 - Here Queen stops trying to throw the everything and the kitchen sink into each song, instead spinning off each strong idea -- piano-driven balladry, Noel Coward pastiches, overblown widescreen overtures, gonzo breakneck metal riffage that anticipates thrash by a decade
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Queen Archives
2004 - This is not Queen's best album, but it's their most fun and showcases everything they did right.
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Aphoristic Album Review
Sheer Heart Attack is my least favourite of Queen’s peak trio of mid-1970s albums, but it’s still relentlessly entertaining.
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San Antonio Current
2011 - Inarguably one of the band’s best albums, Sheer Heart Attack might be an ideal introduction for anyone unfamiliar with this sect of rock royalty, potential for cardiac arrest be damned.
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Medium
There’s still some fairly bland, bloated classic rock, but they start getting really into the catchy, fun, epically harmonic, theatrical rock that they’re often known for.
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State Times
2016 - it is without a doubt one of their best. It combines the hard rock attitude of the mid 1970s with the progressive orchestral sound of Queen.
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Shane's Queen Site
Its a very complete album and to describe it in 2 words … ‘ very entertaining ‘ – another must have Queen album !
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The Eagle and Child
the band waved goodbye to their prog influences and began recording songs with (what we now know as) the classic Queen sound
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