Queen
QUEEN 2 (2011 REMASTER) DELUXE EDITION

"The Loser In the End" is very good and is one of the better Roger Taylor tracks and the emotional "Funny How Love Is" is strong as well.. "Some Day One Day" also really plays like a template to the excellent Brian May tracks that would emerge later in "'39" and "Long Away". And for these reasons you can see why this is the favorite of long time fans which I totally respect. Queen II is very interesting and is a grower but if you're a newcomer you may want to start with A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, or Sheer Heart Attack before you get to this one.

Just a year later, the Queen releases their second album, which turned out to be even stronger than their debut. The powerful mixture of hard, glam, progressive and sometimes even metal caused the appearance of not the best reviews from many critics, while ordinary listeners, feeling the beauty and originality, felt truly conquered. There is also some conceptuality in the work - the compositions follow one after another mostly without pauses, the lyrics are often an appeal to fantasy, and the relationship between good and evil is shown through the confrontation between the White and Black Queen (the band should live up to its name, right?), however, this does not mean that the songs cannot be listened to individually. They are quite independent things, just for a better understanding of the main ideas of the album, it is worth listening to it from beginning to end. The first part of the album, entitled “Side White”, was composed by May (with the exception of one piece by Taylor), the second, “The Black Side” (“Side Black”), is entirely by Mercury, but there is no dissonance - they complement each other wonderfully. The album turned out to be first-class, the most progressive of all in the work of the group, and Brian May has always been proud of it, calling it the best of their entire career, which we can agree with him. Many, following me, will find here the influence of various teams, but there is no plagiarism here at all.

Queen II saw the band finding their theatrical vision that would grow into fruition on A Night at the Opera. Simply put, the great moments were here and this is probably their heaviest album but the great songs weren't quite here yet.

There are some great songs on here...songs l haven’t heard before..Freddy had such an amazing voice, along with the other band members..all geniuses in their own right.. A must add to your Queen collection!!!

Very good edition of this album. Very recommended for collectors!

La segunda obra y tal vez la más imponente de esta exclentísima e histórica banda. Contiene el primer gran éxito de la banda Seven Seas Of Rhye, además de espectaculares temas como The March Of The Black Queen y The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke.