Альбомы

• Iggy & the Stooges Raw Power
• Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
• Roxy Music Stranded
• Tom Waits Closing Time
• David Bowie Aladdin Sane
• Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets
• Leonard Cohen Live Songs
• John Lennon Mind Games
• T. Rex Tanx
• Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
• Lou Reed Berlin
• Bryan Ferry These Foolish Things
• Queen Queen
• Elton John Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
• Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
• Can Future Days
• Paul McCartney & Wings Red Rose Speedway
• George Harrison Living in the Material World
• The Byrds The Byrds
• Bob Dylan Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
• The Who Quadrophenia
• Michael Jackson Music and Me
• Bob Marley & the Wailers African Herbsman

Cтихи и песни:

• Стихи и песни Владимира Высоцкого. 1973 год.
• Стихи Иосифа Бродского 1973 года

Фильмы

• Семнадцать мгновений весны

• Иван Васильевич меняет профессию

• В бой идут одни старики 

• Калина красная

• Плохой Хороший Человек 

• Амаркорд 

• Enter the Dragon

• Совсем пропащий

• Моска-Кассиопея 

• Земля Санникова

• Эта Веселая Планета

• Три орешка для Золушки

Книги

• Харуки Мураками Пинбол-1973

Автомобили

• Volkswagen Passat B1

• Mitsubishi Lancer 1973

Спорт

• Сезон 1973 Формулы-1

• Чемпионат СССР по хоккею с шайбой 1972-73 гг

• Чемпионат СССР по хоккею с шайбой 1973-74 гг

• 41-й чемпионат СССР по шахматам

Транспорт

• Пассажирский транспорт Москвы - 1973

• Схема Московского метро в 1973

Люди, родившиеся в 1973 году

• Анастасия Заворотнюк
• Сергей Шнуров
• Андрей Данилко
• Юрий Шатунов
• Наташа Королева
• Николай Цискаридзе

Умерли в 1973-м

• Пабло Пикассо
• Брюс Ли
• Джон Толкин
• Лидия Русланова
• Семен Буденный

Artist: Queen
Album: Queen
Release Date: Sep 4, 1973
Recording Date: 
Label: Elektra
Time:

Reviewby Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Like any patchy but promising debut from a classic rock 
group, it's often easy to underrate Queen's eponymous 
1973 debut, since it has no more than one well-known 
anthem and plays more like a collection of ideas than a 
cohesive album. But what ideas! Almost every one of 
Queen's signatures are already present, from Freddie 
Mercury's operatic harmonies to Brian May's rich, 
orchestral guitar overdubs, and the suite-like 
structures of “Great King Rat.” That rich, florid feel 
could be characterized as glam, but even in these early 
days that appellation didn't quite fit Queen, since they 
were at once too heavy and arty to be glam and - 
ironically enough, their legendary excess - they were 
hardly trashy enough to be glam. But that only speaks to 
the originality of Queen: they may have traded in 
mystical sword-n-sorcerers like so many '70s prog bands, 
they may have hit as hard as Zeppelin (and Page's guitar 
army certainly was a forefather to May's overdubs), but 
they didn't sound anybody else, they were too odd in 
their theatricality to be mistaken for another band. 
That much was apparent on this debut, but one thing was 
crucially missing: songs that could coalesce their sound 
and present it in a memorable fashion. There is an 
exception to that rule - the wild, rampaging opener 
“Keep Yourself Alive,” one of their very best songs - 
but too often the album plays like a succession of ideas 
instead of succinct songs, and the group's predilection 
for suites only highlights this, despite the occasional 
blast of fury like “Modern Times Rock & Roll.” This can 
be quite appealing as sheer, visceral sound and, in that 
regard, Queen is kind of irresistible. It showcases the 
band in all their ornate splendor yet it's strangely 
lean and hard, revealing just how good the band was in 
their early days as a hard rock band. That might not 
quite make it an overlooked gem - it remains patchy on a 
song for song basis - but it sure makes for an 
interesting debut that provides a rough roadmap to their 
later work. 

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