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Album   Released Publisher Rating
Greatest Hits (EMI Bonus Track) 2000 EMI Music Distribution
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (EMI) 1991 EMI Music Distribution
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Review by Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide
Released:
March 21, 2000
Label:
EMI Music Distribution
Rating:
Styles:
Hard Rock
Contemporary Pop/Rock
Glam Rock
Heavy Metal
British Metal
Arena Rock
Album Rock
Dance-Rock
Art Rock
Even more remarkable than the number of different Queen collections with nearly identical track listings and artwork which are available is the fact that every one of them is pretty much beyond reproach -- such is the quality of the band's magnificent legacy. This particular version of their Greatest Hits features the original vinyl sequence and artwork. [The UK release adds one bonus track: "Teo Torriatte"]
Track # Track Time Composer
1 Bohemian Rhapsody 5:56 Mercury, Queen [1]
2 Another One Bites the Dust 3:36 Deacon
3 Killer Queen 3:02 Mercury
4 Fat Bottomed Girls 3:26 May
5 Bicycle Race 3:03 Mercury
6 You're My Best Friend 2:52 Deacon, Queen [1]
7 Don't Stop Me Now 3:31 Mercury
8 Save Me 3:49 May
9 Crazy Little Thing Called Love 2:45 Mercury
10 Somebody to Love 4:58 Mercury
11 Now I'm Here 4:15 May
12 Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy 2:55 Mercury
13 Play the Game 3:32 Mercury
14 Flash 2:51 May
15 Seven Seas of Rhye 2:50 Mercury
16 We Will Rock You 2:02 May
17 We Are the Champions 3:02 Mercury
18 Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) (*) 5:05 May
Back to the topGreatest Hits, Vol. 2 (EMI)
Review by Greg Prato, All Music Guide
Released:
October 30, 1991
Label:
EMI Music Distribution
Rating:
Styles:
Hard Rock
Glam Rock
Contemporary Pop/Rock
Heavy Metal
British Metal
Arena Rock
Dance-Rock
Album Rock
Art Rock
Released just about a month before Freddie Mercury's untimely death in November 1991, a second best-of collection titled Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, was issued in England only. While the album was resequenced (with other tracks added) and released as Classic Queen in the U.S. in 1992, Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 features all of the band's European hits from 1982 through 1991. Since 1981's Greatest Hits went on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time in Queen's homeland (spending 63 weeks on the charts when first released, and reappearing steadily ever since), the band had racked up enough hits to warrant a follow-up ten years later. While Queen's hits from this era may not be as stellar as their '70s predecessors, they were all still very compelling rock compositions. Tracks such as "Radio Ga Ga," "Friends Will Be Friends," "I Want to Break Free," and "I'm Going Slightly Mad" show that the band could still compose pop gems, while the hard rockers "I Want It All," "Headlong," "One Vision," and "Hammer to Fall" kept their longtime fans happy. Also included are a few of the band's more epic compositions -- "The Miracle," "Innuendo," "Who Wants to Live Forever," and "A Kind of Magic" -- which help round out this second excellent collection of British Queen hits. [EMI's 2001 reissue keeps the track list intact, but ups the ante with some lavish packaging.]
Track # Track Time Composer
1 A Kind of Magic 4:22 Taylor
2 Under Pressure 3:56 Taylor, May, Deacon, Mercury, Bowie
3 Radio Ga Ga 5:43 Taylor
4 I Want It All 4:01 Queen [1]
5 I Want to Break Free 4:18 Deacon
6 Innuendo 6:27 Queen [1]
7 It's a Hard Life 4:09 Mercury
8 Breakthru 4:09 Queen [1]
9 Who Wants to Live Forever 4:57 May
10 Headlong 4:33 Queen [1]
11 The Miracle 4:54 Queen [1]
12 I'm Going Slightly Mad 4:07 Queen [1]
13 The Invisible Man 3:58 Queen [1]
14 Hammer to Fall 3:40 May
15 Friends Will Be Friends 4:08 Deacon, Mercury
16 The Show Must Go On 4:23 Queen [1]
17 One Vision 4:02 Queen [1]
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Aussie pressing of their greatest hits includes 17 tracks, 'A Kind Of Magic', 'Under Pressure', 'Radio Ga Ga', 'I Want It All', 'I Want To Break Free', 'Innuendo', 'It's A Hard L...
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