The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III
The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III
What once seemed Queen’s greatest liabilities–a preening flamboyance and pompous, overwrought theatricality–have ironically become their most enduring charms in a grey, postmodern pop-music landscape. While it eschews the glammy, pre-punk hard rock of live faves such as “Stone Cold Crazy” and “Tie Your Mother Down” for the band’s more quirky club-beat string of latter-day hits , this 51-track triple-CD anthology goes a long way toward documenting the true dimensions of the band’s music and fame. It even includes some solo work by Brian May and Freddie Mercury, whose duet on “Barcelona” with diva Montserrat Caball? transcends boundaries of both time and genre. A previously unreleased live performance of “The Show Must Go On” featuring Elton John on vocals is also included. –Jerry McCulley
Customer Review: Bow down to Rock Royalty!!
The best, most flamboyant, most spectacular, most amazing rock group ever!! Queen are just brilliant. In Freddie Mercury, they had a frontman who had it all. He could command the stage like no one else, had a voice that was so incredible, a style that was so unique, and a talent that can never be dimmed. Brian May is a guitar genius, able to make the instrument speak, and being a good vocalist in his own right. John Deacon is brilliant on bass, and Roger Taylor a diva on the drums, each member stamping his own individuality on the band. Their music is so intense, so haunting, so fantastic, so QUEEN!! This band are THE Royalty of Rock, and as such, deserve all the homage that is offerred to them. They rock,their music rocks, they certainly rock my world, and I’m sure that everyone who listens to them will find their own world rocked too. God Save Queen!!
Customer Review: Doesn’t represent the true power of Queen
If you’re a collector, who wouldn’t mind buying 5-6 albums when you really like a band, then don’t buy this. If you however are just interested in their most well known songs, like Bohemian Rhapsody, Killer Queen, We Are The Champions…etc, then this might be worth your money.
Greatest Hits I
This collection isn’t fair to their early material. This is like making a 15 song compilation for The Beatles from Rubber Soul to Let It Be, or for Led Zeppelin throughout their entire career. You simply can’t make a fair Queen compilation from 73 to 80 on one CD only.
If this would be a 2CD-compilation from 73 to 80, I would remove Flash’s Theme, and add the following songs, for a total of 17+17 songs.
Keep Yourself Alive, Doing All Right, Liar, Father To Son, White Queen, Ogre Battle, Nevermore, Brighton Rock, In the Lap of the Gods, Stone Cold Crazy, Death On Two Legs, 39, Love of My Life, Tie Your Mother Down, You Take My Breath Away, More of That Jazz, Dragon Attack and Sail Away Sweet Sister.
That would be fair to the early Queen.
Greatest Hits II
Queen in the 80’s developed into a single oriented band, so this is a great compilation for their late years. But where’s Bijou?
I have to say I don’t see the point in Greatest Hits III, but some songs like You Don’t Fool Me and Princes of the Universe are worth listening to, atleast.
I would only recommend this if you’re into the late Queen material. And then take a look at their 70’s studio albums, from Queen(1973) to The Game(1980).
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