I mean, I laready have GH (Parlophone), GHII, and GHIII, Greatest Hits
(Hollywood), as well as The Gold Collection, The Platinum Collection,
Classic Queen, Stone Cold Classics, Rocks, and Q is for Queen, as
well as all of the original albums. DO I really need another hits
collection? No. Will I buy it anyway. Probably.

The only benefit I can think of is that the new tracks *may* be
cleaned up and remastered better with later technology. But on the
other hand they might get stuffed up.


geoff

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The only benefit I can think of is that the new tracks *may* be
cleaned up and remastered better with later technology. But on the
other hand they might get stuffed up.


geoff

Maybe, but my fear is that with fans being fans, the tracklisting is
probably going to be pretty much the same as "Greatest Hits, with maybe
only a couple of extra tracks. If that's the case, then it will be not much
improved over The We Will Rock You edition of Greatest Hits from a few
years ago.

Though it may anger some Fans, there are some songs on each of the GH
albums that I can do without. I don't really see the need for "Good Old
Fahioned Lover Boy", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Killer Queen", "Save Me", "Play
the Game", or "Seven Seas Of Rhye" on a single disc career retrospective.
Likewise, I don't think that "It's a Hard Life", "Breakthru", "The
Miracle", or "Friends Will Be Friends" make the grade on a career
encompassing CD, either. Ironically, there are some songs that have often
been overlooked, like "Tie Your Mother Down" (its on Classic Queen and GH:
The WWRY edition, but both seem like forced inclusions, rather than
admitted omissions), which I would like to see included, but I don't think
they will make the cut, either.

Ironically, there are some songs that have often
been overlooked, like "Tie Your Mother Down" (its on Classic Queen and GH:
The WWRY edition, but both seem like forced inclusions, rather than
admitted omissions), which I would like to see included, . . .

Keep Yourself Alive
Brighton Rock
Stone Cold Crazy
Death On Two Legs
Bohemian Rhapsody
I'm In Love With My Car
Tie Your Mother Down
Drowse
Will Will Rock You (fast version)
Sheer Heart Attack
Fight From The Inside
Dead On Time
Fat Bottomed Girls
Another One Bites The Dust
Dragon Attack
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Under Pressure
Hammer To Fall
I Want It All
Who Wants To Live Forever

I have burned myself a bunch of these type of CDs over the years, that
were sort-of an amalgam of songs from all 3 GH albums, Rocks, Stone Cold
Classics, Classic Queen, Q is for Queen: The A-Z of Queen Volume 1, and
others. Every one I've burned has ended up with a slightly different
tracklisting, but there are some stalwarts that just *have* to be there.
Given that the fans are voting on this thing, I think the tracklisting is
going to be pretty much like every other Queen hits CD ever made. You can
almost gurantee that Bohemian Rhapsody is going to be on there, you can
almost guarantee that Another One Bites the Dust is going be there. I'm
kinda hoping that maybe there'll be some different mixes on the CD,
myself. Like, the video versions of Invisible Man and Headlong, and maybe
a new mix of Who Wants To Live Forever that has the first verse sung by
Freddie, like it appears in the first Highlander movie, but is shortened,
like the video version. I'd like to see a re-edit or re-mix of Hammer to
Fall that inlcudes the solo from the 12" Headbanger Mix, but without the
drum and guitar intro. Somethign like that would inspire long-time fans
to buy it, despite having each of those songs on no fewer than 5
different CDs already.

I mean, I laready have GH (Parlophone), GHII, and GHIII, Greatest Hits
(Hollywood), as well as The Gold Collection, The Platinum Collection,
Classic Queen, Stone Cold Classics, Rocks, and Q is for Queen, as well as
all of the original albums. DO I really need another hits collection? No.
Will I buy it anyway. Probably.

The thing that gets me is, they are already advertising this CD to have
20 songs on it, and as a single disc compilation. They couldn't pull that
off on GHII or Classic Queen without making some edits even to some
already edited single versions of the songs, and worse still those CDs
were comprised of only 17 songs. Either they already know what the
tracklisting is, or they are really overestimating what they can get on a
CD.

I don't understand why Hollywood Records feels the need to release
Greatest HIts album after Greatest Hits album. Why not release
something from the "vault"? Why not release another DVD concert? It's
equally annoying that they have the same, tired track listing for
these compilations.

It is pretty meaningless for Queen fans, since we do not buy those greatest hits albums

So, the tracklisting does not really interest anyone, and they have released too many GH albums already.

I bet this one is not going to sell much, maybe even less than GH3 and Rocks.

I hated that CD so bad when it came out that I went to a record store in
Connecticut and had them special order Greatest Hits II for me because I
felt it had a much better tracklisting, and "The Miracle" wasn't
butchered to death on it. Only a year or so later, Hollywood put out "The
Gold Collection" that had the original Greatest Hits I & II in it.
Apparently, I wasn't the only one that felt that way. Year later, I
actually admire Classic Queen for what it was: A trick to get people to
buy it instead of the Wayne's World Soundtrack, and instead introduce a
new geneeration to Queens later material. It was a strange bunch of
songs, with a couple from '74 and '76, and a bunch of others from 1982
and up.

Oh, sure, there is, but Queen's back catalog doesn't get re-ordered and
re-stocked very often or very deeply, and a new comp is likely to get
more attention and more prominent shelf placement and in-store promotion
than an older one, and therefore will get sales that the older one would
not.

Wouldn't we all, but Queen Productions seems content doing what they do.
There's a rumor of an old Hammersmith concert making its way to DVD soon, I think.

My introduction to Queen was via Classic Queen in the early 90s, so I
know where you are coming from.

I get what you're saying, but my point
is there's no need for comp after comp after comp. If someone needs an
introduction to Queen, there are PLENTY of Greatest Hits CDs to choose
from.

I would like for them to start putting out more concert DVDs and a
massive box set.