Great Pretender

Freddie Mercury - Great Pretender

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Artist: Freddie Mercury
Brand: Hollywood
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-11-24
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:

The Great Pretender
Foolin' Around
Time
Your Kind Of Lover
Exercises In Free Love
In My Defence
Mr. Bad Guy
Let's Turn It On
Living On My Own
My Love Is Dangerous
Love Kills
Living On My Own (Techno Mix)

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Music Review: It's Freddie, but....
Rating: 3 Stars

Released in the wave of quickie re-issues following Freddie's death in 1991, "The Great Pretender" sops up six remixed tracks from Freddie's lone solo album (Mr. Bad Guy), singles from the musical "Time," a couple soundtrack numbers and a B-Side. It also makes a strong argument for band chemistry and leaving well enough alone. Most of the songs here are remixed, and not to an improvement. Not like that many people really heard many of these songs beforehand; "Mr Bad Guy" was something of a flop and didn't even break the top 100 on original release.

What you get here is an noncohesive set of songs that don't hold together in the way the Queen's albums (even lesser efforts) did. While Freddie was the focal point of the band, every great Queen album had contributions from all four members, and it tempered the tone of the albums. Did you really care when the band toured with Paul Rodgers...or for that matter, release an album with that lineup?

Mercury alone (and in the later years) tended towards danceclub music, which sometimes worked ("Love Kills") and sometimes didn't ("Your Kind Of Lover"). Since Queen was all about the excess, it comes as no surprise that their frontman was the leader in that department. "Exercices in Free Love" sounds like it came from Mercury's collaboration with opera singer Montserrat Caballé, but then someone should have cut out this wailing mess and taken advantage of the campy class of "Barcelona."

When listening to the better tracks, like "Mr Bad Guy," "In My Defense" and "My Love is Dangerous" (rocked up here from its original album take), you may wonder just what might have happened if Brian, Roger and John had been involved. It's a little telling that a couple other of "Mr Bad Guy's" songs got tweaked by the band for the posthumous Made in Heaven album, and are stronger than just about everything here. Freddie Mercury was one of the foremost man-divas in rock, unfortunately, "The Great Pretender" is not the showcase it should be. Better to get Queen's Greatest Hits or maybe someone should eventually reissue "Mr Bad Guy."

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