ADATR or NOTW?

I stopped in Newbury Comics - Harvard Square Store​ last month, and there was a woman who seemed to be talking to someone next to her near the vinyl records. I perked up as soon as she mentioned Queen​ because, duh. I made my way over to her to hopefully offer suggestions. It turns out she was on the phone via headset, and the guy next to her was just a guy next to her. The only two records under the Queen label were A Day At The Races and News Of The World.

I feel really terrible for bothering this woman and possibly coming off as creepy when I told her I loved Queen (it was only then that I realized she was on the phone), but the person on the other end of her line not knowing which of those albums to pick got me thinking...

If you could only pick ADATR or NOTW to introduce someone to Queen, which would you pick? And no, there's no possible way to get around it or access any other media in this scenario. Your friend in this scenario bases their taste in music on the first two seconds of the first song on an album because this friend grew up in an anti-music/TV/internet/anything remotely fun household and is only just starting to branch out, but really can't venture all that far from their comfort zone of talk radio and audio books because they still haven't completely forgiven you for what has since become known as "The Simon & Garfunkel​ Incident", and there's no hope for even a gray area when they decide whether to write the album and band off. You have to give them a compelling and well-thought out argument. I'd love to read your responses!

Groucho knows what's up

ATTN: QUEEN, C/O PETER BROWN

I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE A NEW ALBUM COMING OUT CALLED "A DAY AT THE RACES." THAT, AS YOU UNDOUBTEDLY KNOW, HAPPENS TO BE THE NAME OF ONE OF THE MARX BROTHERS' MORE SUCCESSFUL FILM OUTINGS. THOUGH MY STEREO LISTENING THESE DAYS IS PRETTY MUCH RESTRICTED TO HEARING AIDS IN BOTH EARS, [I] RECALL A NUMBER OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LOOK AFTER MY HOUSE PLAYING YOUR LAST ALBUM - WHICH I BEL[I]EVE WAS TITLED "A NIGHT AT THE OPERA." THAT, TOO, WAS THE NAME OF A MARX BROTHERS MOVIE.

THOUGH I HAVE LONG SINCE PLACED BILLBOARD, CASHBOX AND RECORD WORLD WELL BELOW YOUTH'S COMPANION ON MY LIST OF READING MATTER, KNOW THAT YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL RECORDING ARTISTS. COULD IT, BY[ ]ANY CHANCE, BE YOUR SAGE CHOICE IN ALBUM TITLES. IF SO, YOU[']RE IN FOR MANY PRODUCT[I]VE YEARS BECAUSE THE MARX BROTHERS MADE 13 TURKEYS ALL TOGETHER, AND I MADE FIVE ALONE, AND THEN, OF COURSE, THERE WAS MY QUIZ SHOW "YOU BET YOUR LIFE." AND MY SEVEN BOOKS, AND BOY, COULD THIS GO ON FOREVER.

SO, KEEPING THIS IN MIND, I WISH YOU MUCH SUCCESS WITH YOUR LATEST RECORDING "A DAY AT THE RACES." AND [I]'M CERTAIN IT WILL BE ANOTHER BIG SMASH.

HOPE THIS FINDS YOU,

DR. HUGH Z. HACKENBUSH
(OR AS I AM SOMETIMES KNOWN, GROUCHO MARX)

(source: 40 Years Of Queen, pg. 29)