NEW - Rare -  Queen A Night At The Opera - Vinyl Me, Please - No. EO 71
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In November, members of Vinyl Me, Please Essentials will receive an exclusive colored vinyl reissue of Queen’s A Night At The Opera. The album comes in a deluxe new package, with foil details on the jacket, and on purple and pink galaxy vinyl.

Below, read about why we picked A Night At The Opera, and the details of our reissue.

Why We Picked A Night At The Opera

Andrew Winistorfer, Vinyl Me, Please Head of Editorial: The story of this Record of the Month starts with laying out this year, back in, like, March, and us realizing that we hadn’t done a “traditional” classic rock album as the Record of the Month since November 2015, when we did Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. That’s something we get from people — on social media, on our emails, on surveys — is that members want us to do more classic rock. It’s arguably the No. 1 feedback we get about what albums we’re picking, “Why not more classic rock?” So, it felt like the time was right for it.

Cameron Schaefer, Vinyl Me, Please Head Of Music: When the club started, philosophically, we wanted to mainly focus on hidden gems, stuff that is one level below the average collector’s consciousness. Classic rock albums are some of the biggest albums ever on vinyl; it feels like for some bands — like the Police, or Led Zeppelin — you can find every one of their albums in every used record store.

When we first announced Paranoid, I was actually super nervous because I thought people would think it’s too on-the-nose, and that it was way more in the public consciousness than the albums we usually do. And yet, people were really stoked: The people who have that album are maybe most excited about that one out of the ones we’ve done. It’s still all over Instagram, three years later.

It wasn’t enough to change our philosophy on curation, obviously, but we got to this place this year when we realized that we hadn’t done an album like that in three years.

And it feels like at a point, we’re neglecting an entire genre of music. We try to be pretty genre-inclusive with the Essentials Record of the Month, and at this point, we’ve done like three rap albums and multiple jazz albums in the interim, so it feels like this is overdue.

And it was you who came up with Queen, A Night At The Opera, as the pick. At first I thought, “Is this too big of an album? Or too obvious?” And then I realized I don’t own it on vinyl. And then I polled the office, and, like, of the seven to eight people who have the biggest record collections on staff, none of them had it either. That none of our vinyl-obsessed music fans on staff — with hundreds of records — own that one, and most of us didn’t own any Queen at all on vinyl, that was a lightbulb moment. What if this band that is so massive, and is such an important part of music history, and feels ubiquitous, what if it’s that they are all that, but our demo of record collectors doesn’t have them in their collection? It ended up feeling like an album that, for whatever reason, people don’t have in their collection but recognize as being an important record.