Imagine you meet somebody who is not familiar with Queen at all, or maybe knows some of the biggest hits.
Which songs would you put on one CD to REPRESENT what Queen was about? I am not talking about another 'Greates Hits' collection, but about one CD (lets say 17 tracks) which show to this person the musical range and variety of Queen's lifework.
You would have to include heavy rockers, bombast, pomp & glam, opera, pop, ballads, and all the stuff & styles they have done and remember that they had 3 singers. For example I think it would be useless to include Radio Ga Ga, I want to break free AND a kind of Magic, as all of these tracks represent the pop side of Queen.
I would pick (in no particular order):
Killer Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Tie your mother down
I'm in Love with my car
'39 (or good company)
Don't stop me now
Crazy little thing called love
Anotherone bites the dust
Radio Ga Ga
Was it all worth it
Innuendo
Too much love will kill you
Sheer heart attack
Somebody to love
My melanchony Blues
Bring back that Leroy Brown (or lazing on a sunday afternoon or seaside rendezvous)
Let me live
FlorianS