Hubby and I were listening to this in the car yesterday. I am so blown away by this album's brilliance, everytime I hear it.

I was only nine when this album was released, so it wasn't until many years afterwards that I discovered it. As we listened, we were wondering how much of a risk Queen was taking when they released this album. Songs like Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon, '39, and Seaside Rendezvous are certainly not typical rock songs. Was it risky? Could these songs have been rejected by Queen's fans as easily as they were accepted? Were they, in fact accepted right from the beginning? Or were they merely tolerated as part of an album that included such rock classics as Death on Two Legs, You're My Best Friend , and Bohemian Rhapsody?

There is not a note on this album that I dislike. And I would love to hear The Prophet's Song on 5.1 only I'm afraid that the sheer beauty of those harmonies, in the round, on surround sound would just make my brain explode in total awe.

I could continue to gush, but I'll stop here. Was anyone here a Queen fan when this album came out? Did it just totally make you sit back and go "holy sh!t"?