Every Queen Album Ranked Worst To Best

11. A Day At The Races

5th studio album (1976); UK #1; US #5

How do you follow up on your biggest commercial success yet? Apparently, by recreating it, if A Day At The Races is any indication. In fact, the successor to A Night At The Opera seems to not only retread that album, but all of Queen's previous ones. Still, being the enjoyable record that it is, it becomes the prototype for 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.' Besides, Queen had already put out a double record with their self-titled debuts, so they were no strangers to the concept of a one-two punch. And any album that gives us an epic like Somebody To Love is worth a listen.

Key Tracks: You and I; Somebody To Love; Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)

Fun Fact: Freddie originally wrote Somebody To Love for another queen, the one and only Aretha Franklin.

In this post: 
Queen
 
First Posted On: 
Contributor

Renato hails from Portugal but is obsessed with the US and UK charts, because why not? He also writes books with dozens of protagonists and will be remiss if you can't remember every single one of their names.