A Day at the Races
Studio album by QueenWikipedia
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Search complete. 33 mentions across 9 episodes found for "A Day at the Races".
Oct 7, 2026
Steve ReadingHOST
I'll have to have a think about that, and then if you're in a romantic mood, you can certainly dance with a partner or a very good friend to the one which follows.
Steve ReadingHOST
So I'm being very cryptic again, aren't I? So we're gonna have Queen, uh, a track from A Day at the Races.
Steve ReadingHOST
You know, the early Queen albums, or two of them, were named after, um, Marx Brothers films, weren't they? Um, A Night at the Opera, then followed by A Day at the Races.
Steve ReadingHOST
The track we're gonna hear from that one is Tie Your Mother Down, and we are gonna hear the LP extended version.
Steve ReadingHOST
And then Elton John from 1997, a really nice ballad of Elton's, Something About the Way You Look Tonight, which came from an album called The Big Picture.
Dave GwilliamHOST
Aerosmith may draw the line after Rocks.
Dave GwilliamHOST
Queen followed A Night at the Opera with A Day at the Races.
Dave GwilliamHOST
Those are records where the conversation about expectation can become almost as big as the music itself.
Dave GwilliamHOST
Sometimes the follow-up lands commercially.
Kevin BrownHOST
And like production-wise, you know, I mean, Sheer Heart Attack I don't think suffers from really any of the production issues you got on Queen I and Queen II.
Kevin BrownHOST
It's still a little bit, you know, it's not got quite as much clarity as, you know, Nights at the Opera, A Day at the Races, but I think it suits this.
Kevin BrownHOST
I think a little bit of, a little bit of grease and a little bit of grit kinda suits this kind of song.
Randy WoodsHOST
It's a little bit muddy, yeah.
Jim LillHOST
So I know Don't Stop Me Now.
Jim LillHOST
Through social osmosis, I know they had an album called A Day at the Races and an album called A Night at the Opera.
Jim LillHOST
And the last big piece of info I have about Queen is the movie, Bohemian Rhapsody.
Jim LillHOST
I went to see that movie with some friends.
Graham OlsonHOST
In 1974, Queen would have their first hit in the UK with Seven Seas of Rye.
Graham OlsonHOST
It was originally a small instrumental track on their eponymous debut album called Queen, but then the group had an album called Queen II.
Graham OlsonHOST
I was thinking to myself, you know these album titles are awfully uncreative.
Graham OlsonHOST
But then I remembered what Led Zeppelin did, how they titled their albums Led Zeppelin II, III, IV, etc.
Graham OlsonHOST
Well, maybe Queen was modeling themselves after that approach, and indeed, Seven Seas of Rye drew comparisons to Zeppelin among the critics for its hard rock style.
Graham OlsonHOST
This was a song written by Freddie Mercury, and he described the tune as a figment of his imagination.
Graham OlsonHOST
Seven Seas of Rye was a number 10 hit in the UK, but didn't do anything across the pond.
Graham OlsonHOST
Still, it was progress for the fledgling Led Zeppelin sound-alikes.
Jake BrennanHOST
The film does not tell you that only months before this show, Queen were seen as pariahs in the music industry, having been fined by the British Musicians Union for playing Sun City in apartheid South Africa.
Jake BrennanHOST
Instead, the film makes Live Aid out to be this emotionally redemptive moment in which Freddie Mercury returns to and reconciles with his bandmates after having left to make a solo album.
Jake BrennanHOST
But Freddie never quit the band.
Jake BrennanHOST
And his solo album was not a point of contention with the rest of Queen.
Jake BrennanHOST
In fact, Queen's drummer Roger Taylor had already released two solo albums of his own by this point.
Jake BrennanHOST
Was Queen's Live Aid performance absolutely riveting? Yes.
Jake BrennanHOST
Was it a kick in the ass to their career? Yes.
Jake BrennanHOST
But not everyone embraced the newly liberated Freddie and his band.
Frank SantopadreHOST
That's where my mom went to high school.
Frank SantopadreHOST
And they were showing Duck Soup and Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races, and I was so excited.
Frank SantopadreHOST
It built an entire week around us, and there were like four people there.
Judd ApatowGUEST
I mean, it's funny when you think about your brain Like, what was I interested in? Yeah, and why? Why was I so fascinated by it all? Because on some level, I think I've created this narrative, and I don't know if it's correct, that I enjoyed the rebelliousness of the Marx Brothers, that they were basically telling everyone to fuck off, and they were attacking class and prejudice.
Rohan AcharyaHOST
Let's hit the shuffle button.
Rohan AcharyaHOST
MUSIC PLAYS I love A Day At The Races, and Drowze has come up from side two of A Day At The Races, their 1976 album, and its sister song, of course, from side one, ended up being Tie Your Mother Down.
Rohan AcharyaHOST
Let's have a look at the singles from that album.
Rohan AcharyaHOST
We've got Somebody To Love and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy.
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Rohan AcharyaHOST
When Brian asked me what my favourite Queen album was, I said The Game.
Rohan AcharyaHOST
Yeah.
Rohan AcharyaHOST
I think, actually, it probably is A Day at the Races, but in a way, if anyone asks me, I'm going to say The Game because that's the one I want them to check out.
Rohan AcharyaHOST
Yeah, right.
CarmenPANELIST
Galvin.
CarmenPANELIST
A Day at the Races, A Kind of Magic.
CarmenPANELIST
A Day at the Races, A Kind of Magic.
GalvinHOST
Katy Perry.
GalvinHOST
God, I know they know this.