Tracklist:1. A Kind of Magic
2. Under Pressure
3. Radio Ga Ga
4. I Want It All
5. I Want to Break Free
6. Innuendo
7. It's A Hard Life
8. Breakthru
9. Who Wants to Live Forever
10. Headlong
11. The Miracle
12. I'm Going Slightly Mad
13. The Invisible Man
14. Hammer to Fall
15. Friends Will Be Friends
16. The Show Must Go On
17. One Vision
The End of Chapter Two – 7/10
As Queen survived the 80s and released lots of singles that became great hits, Queen Productions has decided to release another Greatest Hits compilation, especially after the big success of the first compilation. There’s no other goal to this compilation than to have all the greatest hits from 1982 to 1991 on compact disc, thus you can guess the tracklist without having looked at it.
So are there surprises in the tracklist? No of course not, since Queen wasn’t surprising us anymore in the 80s. Or am I wrong? Yes! The surprise is they included several songs from 1991’s Innuendo, including its title track and “Headlong”. Furthermore there are just the most successful hit singles such as “A Kind of Magic”, “Under Pressure”, “Radio Gaga”, “I Want It All” and “Friends Will Be Friends”. A lot of these songs are not bad at all and there one specific collector’s reason for this compilation: single edits! Yes, Queen decided to edit their beloved compositions for broadcast on air. Often the tracks are shortened and decreased in power, such as “I Want It All” or “Who Wants to Live Forever”, but there’s one song I’d otherwise hate and is quite worth your time on here. “I Want to Break Free” has been given an intro! It’s not really much, but it gives the song more content. Why the hell did this version not make it to the album The Works? Ah well, unfathomable are the ways of Queen...
Anyhow, if you really want to see an album that has all the big hits and single edits together, then I suggest you take a look at Greatest Hits 2. If you already have all the albums you should think very hard first. ‘Nuff said.
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