Queen - Greatest Hits I, II, III (2000)(The Platinum Collection)

Queen - Greatest Hits I, II, III (1981-1999)(The Platinum Collection)

Country: London, England
Genre: Hard rock, progressive rock, glam rock, heavy metal
Duration: 04:23:24 h.
Format: FLAC (Covers + Log + Cue)
Official Site: http://www.queenonline.com/

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Queen - Greatest Hits I (1981)(The Platinum Collection)

1. "Bohemian Rhapsody" – 5:55
* From A Night at the Opera (1975) Mercury
2. "Another One Bites the Dust" – 3:36
* From The Game (1980) Deacon
3. "Killer Queen" – 2:57
* From Sheer Heart Attack (1974) Mercury
4. "Fat Bottomed Girls" – single version – 4:16
* From Jazz (1978] May
5. "Bicycle Race" – 3:01
* From Jazz (1978] Mercury
6. "You're My Best Friend" – 2:52
* From A Night at the Opera (1975) Deacon
7. "Don't Stop Me Now" – 3:29
* From Jazz (1978] Mercury
8. "Save Me" – 3:48
* From The Game (1980) May
9. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" – 2:42
* From The Game (1980) Mercury
10. "Somebody to Love" – 4:56
* From A Day at the Races (1976) Mercury
11. "Now I'm Here" – 4:10
* From Sheer Heart Attack (1974) May
12. "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" – 2:54
* From A Day at the Races (1976) Mercury
13. "Play the Game" – 3:33
* From The Game (1980) Mercury
14. "Flash" – single version – 2:48
* From Flash Gordon (1980) May
15. "Seven Seas of Rhye" – 2:47
* From Queen II (1974) Mercury
16. "We Will Rock You" – 2:01
* From News of the World (1977) May
17. "We Are the Champions" – 2:59
* From News of the World (1977) Mercury


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Queen - Greatest Hits II (1991)(The Platinum Collection)

1. "A Kind of Magic" (Taylor) – 4:22
* From A Kind of Magic (1986)
2. "Under Pressure" (Queen, Bowie) – 3:56
* From Hot Space (1982)
3. "Radio Ga Ga" (Taylor) – 5:43
* From The Works (1984)
4. "I Want It All" (Queen) – 4:01
* From The Miracle (1989)
5. "I Want to Break Free" (Deacon) – 4:18
* From The Works (1984)
6. "Innuendo" (Queen) – 6:27
* From Innuendo (1991)
7. "It's a Hard Life" (Mercury) – 4:09
* From The Works (1984)
8. "Breakthru" (Queen) – 4:09
* From The Miracle (1989)
9. "Who Wants to Live Forever" (May) – 4:57
* From A Kind of Magic (1986)
10. "Headlong" (Queen) – 4:33
* From Innuendo (1991)
11. "The Miracle" (Queen) – 4:54
* From The Miracle (1989)
12. "I'm Going Slightly Mad" (Queen) – 4:07
* From Innuendo (1991)
13. "The Invisible Man" (Queen) – 3:58
* From The Miracle (1989)
14. "Hammer to Fall" (May) – 3:40
* From The Works (1984)
15. "Friends Will Be Friends" (Mercury/Deacon) – 4:07
* From A Kind of Magic (1986)
16. "The Show Must Go On" (Queen) – 4:23
* From Innuendo (1991)
17. "One Vision" (Queen) – 4:02
* From A Kind of Magic (1986)


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Queen - Greatest Hits III (1999)(The Platinum Collection)

1. "The Show Must Go On" (Queen & Elton John) – 4:35
* From the 1997 premiere of "Ballet for Life" in Paris
2. "Under Pressure" (Queen & David Bowie) – 4:08
* A remix of the original from Hot Space (1982)
3. "Barcelona" (Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé) – 4:25
* From Barcelona (1988]
4. "Too Much Love Will Kill You" – 4:18
* From Made in Heaven (1995)
5. "Somebody to Love" (George Michael & Queen) – 5:07
* From the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
6. "You Don't Fool Me" – 5:22
* From Made in Heaven (1995)
7. "Heaven for Everyone" – 4:37
* From Made in Heaven (1995)
8. "Las Palabras de Amor" – 4:29
* From Hot Space (1982)
9. "Driven by You" (Brian May) – 4:09
* From Back to the Light (1992)
10. "Living on My Own" (Freddie Mercury) – 3:37
* From The Freddie Mercury Album (1992)
11. "Let Me Live" – 4:45
* From Made in Heaven (1995)
12. "The Great Pretender" (Freddie Mercury) – 3:26
* From The Freddie Mercury Album (1992)
13. "Princes of the Universe" – 3:31
* From A Kind of Magic (1986)
14. "Another One Bites the Dust" (Queen & Wyclef Jean) – 4:20
* A remix of the original from The Game (1980)
15. "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" – 4:11
* From Queen Rocks (1997)
16. "These Are the Days of Our Lives" – 4:22
* From Innuendo (1991)
17. "Thank God It's Christmas" – 4:19
* From A Kind of Magic (1986)

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Description:

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen. The record, released on November 2, 1981, is the UK's all-time best-selling album. Combined with Greatest Hits II, it became the definitive Queen compilation. While a domestic release with different tracks but the same cover art was available in the U.S. in 1981, the British release was available to United States customers only by import until the 1995 release of Greatest Hits I & II, which combined the two discs. The seventeen-track UK Greatest Hits disc was released in the U.S. on its own for the first time, with a few bonus tracks, in 2004 under the name Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You Edition.

There was no universal track listing or cover art for the Greatest Hits album, and each territory's tracks were dependent on what singles were released there and what tracks charted. In some cases, despite the band's popularity, not enough songs were issued as singles to fill a compilation album, and a few album tracks were used as filler. Some examples of these were "Sweet Lady" and "Love of My Life", neither was released as a single in any country, but appear on some regions' 1981 Hits release. In the UK and the U.S., where solid numbers could be collected, the standard was raised again by only including top twenty Hits.

The U.S. ended up with its original edit of Queen's first single release, "Keep Yourself Alive", which had been re-released in the U.S. in 1975 (original release was 1973) after the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody". Also, because of the delay in release dates between the UK (out first) and the U.S. (almost a month later), the U.S. was able to add "Under Pressure" (Queen's duet with David Bowie) to its Hits collection, as it was released during that interim.

In Argentina and Brazil, the LP edition included the same list of UK Greatest Hits minus "Seven Seas of Rhye", and including "Love of My Life" (Live Killers version). CD version is the same as the British.

Jumping ahead to 1991, Queen sought to issue a second Greatest Hits collection worldwide, this time with a standard track listing. However, the band had just changed record labels in the US, from Capitol to Hollywood Records, who keen on a massive promotion of the band's back catalogue. The problem was that Elektra still held the US rights to that first 1981 collection (despite being Hollywood's US licencée). Hollywood Records decided to not release Greatest Hits II to the U.S. market, but instead created their own collection, Classic Queen (1992). This compilation was made up of tracks such as "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Under Pressure" (which had already appeared on the Elektra 1981 Hits collection) as well as newer tracks ("A Kind of Magic" and "Radio Ga Ga">. Some tracks were not even singles in the U.S. ("One Year of Love"> or anywhere ("Stone Cold Crazy">. Though well received, this collection would eventually pose the problem of overlapping track lists in the future.

Hollywood Records, later that year, re-released a companion collection Greatest Hits with similar artwork (on a red background, where Classic Queen was on royal blue). Commonly referred to as the Red Greatest Hits, it features most of the '70s tracks absent from "Classic Queen" (including "Another One Bites the Dust" [1980], "We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions" and "Killer Queen">.

In 2004, to promote the Las Vegas production of the musical "We Will Rock You", Hollywood Records released Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You Edition which was the UK Greatest Hits with three bonus tracks.

Greatest Hits II is a 1991 Queen compilation. It was #1 on the UK Albums Chart. The disc contains most of Queen's European hits from 1981 to 1991. Accumulated sales (Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the U.S. and Canada combined) are in excess of 16 million worldwide. It was released less than a month before the death of vocalist Freddie Mercury and the last Queen release of any kind while he was still alive, it was later made available in the United States in two box sets: Greatest Hits I & II and The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III.

A related video release entitled Greatest Flix II was released at the same time, but is now out of print. Most of the videos are now available on the DVD Greatest Video Hits 2 with the exception of the videos from the Innuendo album.

Greatest Hits III is a compilation of latter-day Queen songs, the band members' solo hits and the band's collaborations with other artists (hence the album's credit to "Queen+">. It was released on November 8, 1999.




Line-up:

* Freddie Mercury - lead & backing vocals, piano
* Brian May - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, piano on "Doing All Right"
* John Deacon - bass guitar
* Roger Taylor - drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll", percussion



More info at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(album)
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