Your perfect album

How about this?
I know it's a bit all over the place, but it might work.

Side A:
Innuendo
Death on two legs
Mustapha
Rock it (Prime Jive)
Staying Power (extended)
Need Your Loving Tonight

Side B:
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Show Must Go On
Drowse
In the lap of the Gods (Revisited)
Save Me
Cool Cat

I Think something like this... Sorry for cheating with medley's :-)

Side One:

1) It's A Beautiful Day
2) You Take My Breath Away
3) In Only Seven Days
4) Spread Your Wings
5) Tenement Funster - Flick Of The Wrist - Lily Of The Valley
6) My Melancholy Blues

Side Two:

1) Keep Yourself Alive
2) Orge Battle - The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke - Nevermore - March Of The Black Queen
3) Great King Rat - My Fairy King
4) Dead On Time
5) It's Late
6) The Prophet's Song

Ok ok, If we're counting medleys and similar arrangements... :P

1) We Will Rock You/We are the Champions
2) Tenement Funster/Flick of the Wrist/Lily of the Valley
3) Death on two legs/LOASA/I'm in love with my car/You're my Best Friend/'39.
4) Queen II - side white
5) Queen II - side black
6) Dark side of the Moon
7) The Wall

:)

OKAY,I'VE DECIDED TO DO BEST QUEEN ULTIMATE  ALBUM (TRACK ORDER DEPENDING) OF EACH DECADE THEN GET AN IDEA OF AN ULTIMATE ALBUM.

1. BRIGHTON ROCK/ TIE YOUR MOTHER DOWN
2. FATHER TO SON/YOU TAKE MY BREATH AWAY
3. WHITE QUEEN
4. MY FAIRY KING/THE MILLIONARE WALTZ/ SPREAD YOUR WINGS
5. LIAR/39/YOU AND I
6. OGRE BATTLE/ NOW I'M HERE/SOMEBODY TO LOVE
7. DEAD ON TIME

BEST ROCK N ROLL: 70S

1. BRIGHTON ROCK
2. TIE YOUR MOTHER DOWN (SHORT)
3. SHEER HEART ATTACK
4. OGRE BATTLE
5. LIAR
6. NOW I'M HERE
7. DEAD ON TIME
8. SWEET LADY
9. STONE COLD CRAZY
10. THE PROPHET'S SONG
11. IT'S LATE
12. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

SOFTER: 70S

1. KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE
2. KILLER QUEEN
3. YOU TAKE MY BREATH AWAY
4. YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND
5. THE MILLIONARE WALTZ
6. YOU AND I
7. SOMEBODY TO LOVE
8. LOVE OF MY LIFE
9. GOOD OLD FASHIONED LOVER BOY
10. MISFIRE
11. SEASIDE RENDZEVOUS
12. SOMEDAY ONE DAY
13. TEO TORRIATTE

PROG: DON'T KNOW WHICH ORDER

1. PROCESSION
2. FATHER TO SON
3. WHITE QUEEN
4. SOMEDAY ONE DAY
5. MY FAIRY KING
5. GREAT KING RAT
6. OGRE BATTLE
7. FAIRY FELLER MASTERSTROKE
8. NEVERMORE
9. LIAR
10. LILY OF THE VALLEY
11. JESUS
12. THE MARCH OF THE BALCK QUEEN
13. THE PROPHET'S SONG
14. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
15. FUNNY HOW LOVE IS
16. SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE

80S:

ONE VISION
RADIO GA GA
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
I WANT IT ALL
ONE YEAR OF LOVE
A KIND OF MAGIC
I WANT TO BREAK FREE
HAMMER TO FALL
BREAKTHRU
IT'S A HARD LIFE
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER
THE INVISIBLE MAN
PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE
SAVE ME

ITSM wrote: I think this could work, with the fade -ins and -outs...

SIDE A
1. In the Lap of the Gods (number 7 on Sheer Heart Attack)
2. My Fairy King
3. The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke (edited at the beginning and the end)
4. Delilah
5. Drowse
6. The Miracle

SIDE B
7. You Take My Breath Away
8. I'm Going Slightly Mad
9. Flick of the Wrist
10. In Only Seven Days
11. The March of the Black Queen (edited at the end)
12. Teo Torriatte

You would put Delilah, The Miracle, Slightly Mad and In Only Seven Days in? Are you mental?

Keep Yourself Alive
Killer Queen
Tenement Funster
Death on Two Legs
Bohemian Rhapsody
Drowse

We Will Rock You
Tie Your Mother Down
Sail Away Sweet Sister
It's Late
Save Me
In the Lap of the Gods...Revisited

Did't check track lengths, and had to toss out a couple of  equal favourites.

Side "70's"

Keep Yourself Alive
White Queen (As it began)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Brighton Rock
I'm In Love With My Car
The Prophet's song

Side ª80's & 90's"
One Vision
Radio Ga Ga
Under Pressure
I Want It All
Innuendo
The Show Must Go On

Ok, it's very difficult to chose 12 songs between 128. So, if you let me add 6 songs more, I chose for another side called "No the best but funny and interesting songs" these other:
-Bijou
-It's Late
-Let Me Live
-I Want To Break Free
-Tie Your Mother Down
-Surf's up... school's out! (yes, I know... it's a Queen+PR song, but I think it's great, so I would like to put it in a record... anyways, it's  in the bottom a Roger's song)

As you can see, my track list is quite rocker. The worst thing that Queen had, has, and will have is its best quality... the albums are all different between them, and even their track lists have a roller coaster of styles, so there will be a lot of "bests albums" because there're fans more rocker than others.

Sorry for my bad english :P

great topic, but i think the idea should be to pick a period of queen and set up a perfect album had they collected enough great songs to make up the *perfect album*... this shouldn't span more than 3 albums, anymore than that, we're looking at a greatest hits....

Hot Space, The Works and A Kind Of Magic ...  three relatively weak albums compared to the rest of the cannon... if Queen went on hiatus after 1980, and came back in 1986 with the album "One Vision" this is what it would be like (assuming they didn't take a full break and decided to shelve Hot Space and The Works just before releasing them, to a later date....and they would have released a full soundtrack for A Kind Of Magic, rather than a half album/half soundtrack a la A Hard Day's Night)

One Vision (1986) [Album Version]
[Cover of Album would be the One Vision single sleeve]

Side A
1. A Kind Of Magic (86)
2. Under Pressure (81)
3. Radio Ga Ga (84)
4. I Want To Break Free (84)
5. Friends Will Be Friends (86)

Side B
1. A Hard Life (84)
2. Hammer To Fall (84)
3. Who Wants To Live Forever (86)
4. One Vision (85)

One Vision (1986) [12 Song Version]

Side A
1. A Kind Of Magic (86)
2. Under Pressure (81)
3. Radio Ga Ga (84)
4. I Want To Break Free (84)
5. Las Parablas de Amor (82)
6. Friends Will Be Friends (86)

Side B
1. Staying Power (82)
2. Hammer To Fall (84)
3. Who Wants To Live Forever (86)
4. Back Chat (82)
5. A Hard Life (84)
6. One Vision (85)

Ok, I'll try this:

1. One Vision
2. Tie Your Mother Down
3. Ogre Battle
4. March of the Black Queen
5. Liar
6. '39
7. Save Me
8. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
9. Hammer to Fall
10. We Will Rock You
11. Bohemian Rhapsody
12. We Are the Champions

Bet you weren't expecting to hear BoRhap between WWRY and WATC, huh?

The point was to have some tracks from the '80s and '90s (not only the '70s).
I understand your concern, but I really like those songs too.

But of course; you can change them with: Ogre Battle, Great King Rat, The Millionaire Waltz and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy : )