Artist..........: Queen
Album...........: Greatest Hits I, II & III - The Platinum Collection (3CD)
Label...........: Hollywood Records
Release date....: 2000
Comment :
What once seemed Queen's greatest liabilities--a preening flamboyance and pompous, overwrought theatricality--have ironically become their most enduring charms in a gray, postmodern pop-music landscape. While it eschews the glammy, pre-punk hard rock of live faves like "Stone Cold Crazy" and "Tie Your Mother Down" for the band's more quirky club-beat string of latter-day hits, this 51-track triple-CD anthology goes a long way toward documenting the true dimensions of the band's music and fame. Some songs may not be instantly familiar to American fans because of yet another irony: just as their U.S. fortunes waned during the punk and new wave era, the band was exploding into true international superstars. Thus, there may be a sense of discovery here, whether of latter-day Queen material or solo work by Brian May and Freddie Mercury, whose duet on "Barcelona" with diva Montserrat Caballé transcends boundaries of both time and genre. A previously unreleased live performance of "The Show Must Go On" featuring Elton John on vocals is also included. --Jerry McCulley
Tracks:
DISC 1:
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Another One Bites The Dust
3. Killer Queen4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. Bicycle Race
6. You’re My Best Friend
7. Don’t Stop Me Now
8. Save Me9. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
10. Somebody To Love
11. Now I’m Here
12. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
13. Play The Game
14. Flash
15. Seven Seas Of Rhye
16. We Will Rock You
17. We Are The Champions
DISC 2:
1. Kind Of Magic, A
2. Under Pressure
3. Radio Ga Ga
4. I Want It All
5. I Want To Break Free
6. Innuendo
7. It’s A Hard Life
8. Breakthru
9. Who Wants To Live Forever
10. Headlong
11. Miracle, The
12. I’m Going Slightly Mad
13. Invisible Man, The
14. Hammer To Fall
15. Friends Will Be Friends
16. Show Must Go On, The
17. One Vision
DISC 3:
1. Show Must Go On, The - (with Elton John)
2. Under Pressure - (with David Bowie)
3. Barcelona - (with Montserrat Caballero)
4. Too Much Love Will Kill You
5. Somebody To Love - (with George Michael)
6. You Don’t Fool Me
7. Heaven For Everyone
8. Las Palabras De Amor
9. Driven By You - (with Brian May)
10. Living On My Own - (with Freddie Mercury)
11. Let Me Live
12. Great Pretender, The - (with Freddie Mercury)
13. Princes Of The Universe
14. Another One Bites The Dust - (with Wyclef Jean)
15. No One But You
16. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
17. Thank God It’s Christmas
Quality : MP3 320kbps CBR
