Seaside Pod Review (A Queen Podcast)

A Night at the Opera (with Michael J Smith and Ian Winick)

Seaside Pod Review (A Queen Podcast)

Show Notes

Michael and Ian are back! Yay! We brought back our pals from Eat the Pudding to talk about A Night at the Opera. We'll go through our rankings and countdown the eleven songs (not including the instrumental) from Queen's biggest hit according to you, the listeners. We discuss how badly you got your rankings wrong, there's some discussion of Roger's new album, and as always, things go off the rails a few times. But we did it. And we enjoyed it. Perhaps you will too.

If you want to check out Eat the Pudding, you'll find that here : https://pod.link/1866546508 And if you want to go back and dive into Lord of Adders Black, you'll find that here : https://pod.link/1753002260

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