Queen - Classic Queen
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Artist: QueenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-03-10
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
- Kind of Magic
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Under Pressure
- Hammer to Fall
- Stone Cold Crazy
- One Year of Love
- Radio Ga Ga
- I'm Going Slightly Mad
- I Want It All
- Tie Your Mother Down
- Miracle
- These Are the Days of Our Lives
- One Vision
- Keep Yourself Alive
- Headlong
- Who Wants to Live Forever
- Show Must Go On
Music reviews of Classic Queen
Music Review: Buy with Red Greatest Hits, either that or buy Gold or Platinum Collections
Rating: 4 Stars
Queen's Classic Queen was released in March of 1992.
When Hollywood Records signed Queen in 1990 and re-released its back catalog (for the US and Canada they were on Elektra/Asylum from 1973-82 and Capitol/EMI from 1984-89) in the US and Canada) in 1991, the band were slowly regaining America. The band were huge for most of the world outside the US and Canada whom pretty much ignored the band for nearly a decade. Then the February of 1991 release of Innuendo gave Queen its first Gold selling album in the US since 1984's The Works and "Headlong" and the Innuendo title cut were huge US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks hits reaching numbers 3 and 15 on that chart respectively. Just as Queen were slowly re-conquering the US and Canada, lead singer Freddie Mercury died from AIDS in November of 1991 and Innuendo sales boosted as did its back catalog (just released on CD at the time for the first time in the US and Canada).
Then in February of 1992 came a little film called Wayne's World which used "Bohemian Rhapsody" for a centerpiece scene took that track (the flip side to "The Show Must Go On" at the time) and gave it a second chart life, peaking even higher than it did the first time around this time reaching #2. Hollywood Records quickly released a revamped version of Greatest Hits II entitled Classic Queen that March to capitalize on the moment, and found Queen with its first US Top Ten album since The Game in 1980 and reached #4.
On this collection, you get songs that were on the original 1981 Greatest Hits collection out of "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Under Pressure" (a 1991 remix done by Brian Malouf for this collection). Plus you get the US rock radio smashes which were "Tie Your Mother Down" (which is a great rock track), the minor rock radio hit "One Vision", "I Want it All" which hit #3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Track charts in 1989, "Headlong" which reached #3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1991. Plus you get a unique edit of "The Miracle" and big European hits like the rocker "Hammer to Fall", "I'm Going Slightly Mad", "Who Wants to Live Forever", "A Kind of Magic" and songs that weren't hits like the rocking "Stone Cold Crazy", the ballad "One Year of Love" and songs from 1991's Innuendo that became hits after Freddie Mercury's death "These Are the Days of Our Lives" which became a minor Adult Contemporary hit in 1992 and "The Show Must Go On" which peaked at #2 with "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the US in 1992 (and a huge Billboard Mainstream Rock Track hit as well).
Classic Queen would hit #4 and sell three million copies plus in the US alone but as a standalone (like the maroon Greatest Hits is kind of bland) but bought together is a great overview to Queen. If you want other great best ofs buy either the Gold or Platinum Collections.
Description of Classic Queen
This is an excellent collection of one of the most popular and influential rock bands of all time, though it omits "We Are the Champions" and "Fat Bottomed Girls" (these, however, can be found on the Greatest Hits album, which together with Classic Queen gets you a comprehensive selection of their work). There's some great stuff here, including rockers like "Hammer to Fall," "Stone Cold Crazy," "I Want It All," "Headlong," and the hilarious "Tie Your Mother Down." There's also a good sampling of ballads, performed with an energy and sincerity that sets them apart: "Who Wants to Live Forever" is sorrowfully beautiful, and "The Show Must Go On" is only echoed by songs like Queensryche's "Is There Anybody Listening." Rounding things off is a fine selection of the unclassifiable, such as "Under Pressure," "I'm Going Slightly Mad," and "Radio Ga Ga." --Genevieve WilliamsGeneral CDs
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