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Rating: 5 / 5
This is some of the gayest rock music ever created! Freddy Mercury really pulled the wool over the eyes of so many “macho” rock fans it’s hilarious. As he paraded and pranced around in tights onstage, most of his straight audience was too lame to know that he was mocking them – I’m sure many would’ve been horrified to learn the truth about him. How great is that? Freddy was such an awesome singer. Check out the LIVE AID footage from ’85. No one comes close to the way Mercury commands the audience. He had virtually every single person clapping over their heads in unison. What a presence!
As for the music itself: I used to think this was a rock band that dabbled in opera, but, as this collection indicates, they were pretty much a rock-opera band that dabbled in different styles, like disco and rockabilly. Most of this disk is indeed rock-opera. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is probably their most well-known cut in this style and it’s great. But then you have cheesy songs like “Bicycle Race” which, as it was released as a single, illustrate the incredibly overblown egos of Mercury and co. (and, hey, more power to ‘em).
Of course, the most indespensible Queen songs are here: the sports anthem “We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions” and the disco funkster “Another One Bites The Dust” is classic too, evoking memories of a fascinated, naive 5th-grade existence. I also like “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” which is an old-school rocker unlike anything else here. Aside from that, “Killer Queen” is pretty cool/gymnastically incredible (in an aural sense) and I think “Flash (aaa-aaah!)” is enjoyably bone-headed and funny (whenever that single bass note starts playing, my mind thinks: “Stumble out of bed/ And I stumble to the kitchen/ Pour myself a cup of ambition! . . .” – “9 to 5″ by Dolly Parton). The rest is far too “packerish” for my tastes, but I admire Queen’s willingness to be themselves even if they were too wimpy to verbalize it in their heyday (c’mon, what wouldn’t YOU do for money?).
Rating: 3 / 5
Nowhere is this labelled a CD. Why not? It does not meet the standards for a CD.
Why do you care about this: it may not play in your car, it will not play in my DVD player and you can’t exercise your constitutional “fair use” rights to make a copy for your own personal use.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am a new-commer to Queen and I have to give it all five stars. I dont know about other comments that were written, but I personally was able to put the CD on my iPod Mini. I didn’t have any problems with it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I grew up with this music and still love it today! This is a great assortment of Queen songs. A great buy.
Rating: 5 / 5