Queen (1st LP) [Limited] by Queen

Pros: Great debut album, sets the tone for all their later work
Cons: Some people may not have understood it in 1973

Queen's 1973 debut album, Queen, was the first in a long line of successful albums that these innovative musicians produced. Listening to the tracks on this album reveal the formulas that this band would build upon to churn out good, solid...

Pros: Great music, great album artwork.
Cons: sound production

Introducing: Brian May (guitars, piano, backing vocals) Roger Meadows Taylor (drums, vocals, backing vocals) Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano, organ, percussion, backing vocals) John Deacon (bass guitar) ...

Pros: QUEEN displaying impressive abilities
Cons: QUEEN seeking for their own face

QUEEN's debut is misleading and yet, fascinating, highly representative of the era. It displays a young band amidst the growing pains of competitive Rock N'Roll's landscape of the mid 1970s. While the guys struggled to find their own way out ...

Pros: Wonderful harmonies, Great instrumental playing, Rough draft of the greatness of latter albums
Cons: Some rough production values, semi-weak songwriting

I am very proud to have as my very first review on this website Queen's self-titled debut album, I a ...

Pros: Foundations for patented sounds already in place, Liar and Keep Yourself Alive are two early high-watermarks
Cons: Mercury's performance is quite low-key as opposed to later works, not a very consistent work.

Queen's career shot so high after A Night at the Opera, and continued until Mercury's death, that many people forgot they had a debut album in the first place. 1973's 'Queen' certainly is one of the more overlooked debuts among the legends they keep...

Pros: "Keep Yourself Alive", "Doing All Right" and the birth of a legend.
Cons: Not as distinctive or iconic as later works, too much fantasy/religion and prog-rock.

Every band has to begin somewhere. In many cases, the first album a group or artist ever produced is never usually regarded as one of their best, being seen more as an experiment, a test, a chance to prove that they could cut it in the musical world...

Pros: TASTEFUL GUITAR - BEAUTIFUL HARMONY VOCAL
Cons: none

KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE is completely re-made and has surfaced for the first time on this re-tooled version of QUEEN's debut release. With the addition of previously unreleased songs (MAD THE SWINE) bonus remix (LIAR) and the long lost re-take of KEEP...

Pros: Very fresh, original music, and it's easily recognisable as the band that wrote Bohemian Rhapsody
Cons: It wasn't exactly recorded under ideal circumstances and it shows.

Queen's debut album is an album of contradictions. It's an album that was hailed (eventually) as being ahead of its time, despite the fact that they had been performing the songs on it for nearly three years. An album that sounds polished and...

Pros: Displays of sheer raw talent
Cons: Not the best overall production quality

For those of you who think Queen were all about "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Another One Bites the Dust," then you should give a listen to the album that started it all. I first listened to Queen in 1974 and I have been a fan ever since....

Pros: here's understood future
Cons: not known enough

The first album, not the better but not the worse. All the components of “the” sound are already here. First of all, rock’n’roll of course with Modern Times Rock’n’Roll written by Roger Taylor, Keep Yourself Alive, Son And Daughter and Liar pierced by...

Pros: artistic, raw, powerful
Cons: doesn't sound like the queen most of us are familiar with, not a con for all, just for the close minded

Queen's first LP, their self titled album has been severely under rated! This album is ambitious and artistic, and although it's not an album of hits - it's an album of REAL music. Theatrical, raw, powerful and full of the talent that would later form...

Pros: What can I say? It's a Queen album.
Cons: Some songs are kinda long.

Queen's first self-titled album, released I believe in 1973, features some great pieces of work. My favorite song on this album, Liar, is 6:00+ in length, but it is nowhere near the outstanding greatness of Bohemian Rhapsody. Brain May's weird guitar...

Pros: beautifully crafted hard rock songs, excellent guitar solos by Brian May.
Cons: Seven Seas of Rhye preview is such a tease, Freddie's voice quality is not as high as on later albums.

Queen's first LP only took of after they released Queen II. But this album is just as good, If not better, Than Queen II. This album is full of excellent guitar riffs mixed with Freddie Mercury's amazing voice and his excellent piano skills. This album...