Queen : Sheer Heart Attack

Not hip?  Not cool?  Oh, dear.  Excellent album. 

The vinyl version was, I recall, the first "serious" album I ever bought.  There'd been Mud and Glitterband albums before but this was obviously very different to me back in 1975 (yes, I know it came out a year earlier but it took time to save up in those days).  Maybe "Night at the Opera" was their breakthrough album but I've always preferred this.  How many present day bands could boast such a fine piece as their third album)?

.....and nobody played the synthesizer.