Queen - Greatest Hits

I consider this collection of Queen music their popular music. Much of it was mellow or radio friendly, and thus much of it hit the top 10. Given that Queen had a very eclectic repertoire, you'll find quirky songs such as "Fat Bottomed Girls" next to the mellow love song "Somebody to Love". Queen's progressive rock and harder rock songs are only barely represented on this particular collection, though strains of their harder edge show through in songs like "Bicycle Race" and "Another One Bites the Dust".

In many ways Queen was an album group. While most of their albums stop short of being true concept albums, most of their albums did have a theme. Also, their music was organized carefully to provide a presentation of the music that was greater than the sum of the individual songs. Thus, listening to a "greatest" collection does little to express the true scope of this group. I recommend this CD as one that provides a small sampling of Queen, and some of their more mellow music at that. You need to also have "Classic Queen" to additional hits such as "Bohemian Rhapsody". You may also want to consider "The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II and III", which is perhaps the most comprehensive set short of buying albums.

Though this CD is lacking in its breadth, I still give it 5 stars because Queen was such a great group, and the songs here do represent a small portion of their incredible talent.


THE BEST QUEEN CD FOR YOUR MONY!   May 28, 2000
Shnober@aol.com (Grapeview ,Washington)
20 out of 41 found this review helpful

This CD I highly recomend! I dont think there is another band out there that has had more hits then Queen! If you havent herd any of these songs you must live in a cave! Another thing about Queen, is that all there songs have a differnt sound but all of them are master pieces! But all their songs have that awsome moving Queen hormony! If you want "Elvis Presly" listen too " CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLD LOVE". If you want "David Bowie" Listen to " UNDER PRESSURE" If you want the

"Beattles" listen too " KILLER QUEEN". The one of the thing that I mostly love about Queen is their wide range of sound, thay have it all and thay do it well! Personaly my favorites are: WE WILL ROCK YOU, ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, GOOD OLD FASHION LOVER BOY, KILLER QUEEN, and last but not least, I WANT TO BREAK FREE, it is an awsome song! But I love all these songs,if you are a new Queen listener I would sugest this alblum and "Classic Queen" The song

"Bohemion Rapsody" is alone worth buying the alblum for. But I like this one a little better then Classic Queen. This CD is well worth the mony and you never get tieard of listening to it! Man to Bad Freddy Mercery Died from "AIDS"!


Not quite all the hits, but it's a start!   February 13, 2006
Eddie Lancekick (Pacific Northwest)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful

With the greatest hits album of "Queen", we don't have all the hits, for a band of their magnitude of success has to eventually release a dual CD set (which they did) that can cover all the ground. Before that though, we had "Classic Queen" and "Queens Greatest hits".

Greatest hits gives the fans the arena stomping anthems "We will rock you" "We are the champions" and "Another one bites the dust" which have been embraced by sports teams, players, and gym and stadium soundsets everywhere. The soothing song "You make me live" is on here, with vocalist Freddie Mercury in prime form. Fun, funny and catchy pop songs like "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle race" grace the track listing as well. There are lesser known, non radio played songs like "Now I'm here" "Play the game" and "Seven seas of rhye" that we get to explore. The 17 track album rounds out with the powerful, uplifting song of "I want to break free". It's not all of the greatest hits, but considering how many this band really had, you can't put them all on one album. This however, was a great start to help celebrate one of the greatest bands of the past 50 years, whose music I never tire of listening to.


Full Marks   April 20, 2000
Freddy Powys (Nice, France)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful

This is arguably one of Hollywood Records smartest moves. Every song on this album is perfect, from the feet-thumping anthem WE WILL ROCK YOU to the last track I WANT TO BREAK FREE, leading on to Classic Queen, which along with this album, shows Queen at their ultimate best. The much revered WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS is in there, mingling with the afore-mentioned WE WILL ROCK YOU, and ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, all classics and all damn good songs. "The Game", in my view Queen's best album, is well represented from the perfectly constructed PLAY THE GAME to the immaculate SAVE ME, without which the compilation wouldn't be complete, via CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE, a personal favourite especially when played live, and naturally ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. The unclassifiable KILLER QUEEN is right up there with all the epics (BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY et al; alright, so it's not on the album, but keep your shirt on, the world won't stop turning), and SOMEBODY TO LOVE is as fantastic as it is murder to sing live. The inseparable duo of FAT-BOTTOMED GIRLS and BICYCLE RACE are brilliant if somewhat loutish in the lyrics department, and YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND, based on a terrific bassline from John Deacon, is one of my favourites from the '701s. NOW I'M HERE combines the irrevocable talents of Freddie Mercury and Brian May, as well as some pretty good drumming too. SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE is one of Queen's earliest songs, and also one of their best, thanks to the catchy piano solo at the beginning. BODY LANGUAGE, despite the constant criticism aimed at "Hot Space", its album, is a blinder of a song and if the band had to sacrifice their usual style to make it then so be it. I'm also amazed that DON1T STOP ME NOW appeared so low down in the pecking order of the American charts, as it's a great song (nuff said). GOOD OLD-FASHIONED LOVER BOY is excellent in both lyrics and music departments but the next track, and the modernest of the lot, i.e. I WANT TO BREAK FREE isn't really to my taste. It becomes quite catchy after a while though, and the video is out of this world! The CD is definitely worth buying, along with Classic Queen and, at a push, Greatest Hits III, if you1re a newcomer on the Queen scene and want to get a feel of their remarkable music.