Queen greatest hits IV

matt z wrote:

Yeeeargh... wow.

Ditto what they said. Only two are actual singles. And it's questionable whether or not GH3 should have even been released, being populated with solo hits, three remixes, two live covers and tracks dating back to 81 with one actual recent single. .... none were really hits but TATDOOL, the GM cover from FIVE LIVE and variations of Freddie's posthumous remixes.



So just for Fuchs sake.

1. Seven Seas of Rhye 1991 disco Hollywood records remix
2. Bohemian Rhapsody (sung by William Hung)
3. Football Fight *(Ted instrumental edit w dialogue)
4. Godawful THE VOICE QUEEN MEDLEY with Christina, Adam Levine etc
5. There's No Turning Back (*remastered)
6. Stutter Rap
7. Dream of Thee (*the only good track edition)
8. What are We Made of? (Why not? They can't all be jokes)
9. Surf's Up, School's Out *(instrumental BEARABLE version)
10. Queen + Adam Lambert - Tie Your Mother Down (with Brian on vocals)
11. Marc Martel - Bacon commercial
12. Uptown Funk (*because a GREATEST HITS IV WOULD ONLY BE RELEASED IN AN ERRONEOUSLY LABELED AND COLLECTED BOOTLEGGED CHINESE CD FEATURING THE BEATLES ON THE COVER)
13. I just called to say I love you
14. 35 seconds of Princes of the Universe
15. The badger song (*featuring Kerry Ellis)

And leave out Who Wants To Live Forever by Ian & Belinda? Have you no heart?

*goodco* wrote:

Because they blew it with Greatest sHits III, there is enough for a fourth one.

(mattz....not a bad list;-))

But, 'Queen GHIV' has a bad ring to it

Holy Kajagoogoo! I hadn't even noticed that.

It's a good thing they don't abbreviate. Geez lol.

I prefer re issue the greatest hits, as a the singles, like depeche mode did, all the uk singles, without exceptions.

LucasDiego wrote:

I prefer re issue the greatest hits, as a the singles, like depeche mode did, all the uk singles, without exceptions.

And the Queen Singles Collection 1, 2, 3 and 4?

I want Matt his edition, if this is not possible, I can settle with a Greatest Tits selection..............

Tom

It started as a joke but realistically. ... I haven't seen a Stutter Rap VIDEO clip that's actually viewable beyond low resolution.

I've looked up dead links in the forum from 2006 but .... are there better versions out there?

Even as a joke, I'd probably BUY "no turning back" as a remastered or high fidelity 320 k mix.

I'd LOVE to see a high quality STUTTER RAP in order to *(ahem) create a karaoke mix with the video.


Are there any live links out there for stutter?



I'd have included Brian's Macbeth if only it were available. But also, unfortunately. . That would make the whole project actually desirable.

As for that other WWTLF ...nah. It's too cheesy to be funny, and far too GRIM *(children singing about mortality with sad reverence) to be included.

Maybe there ought to be an ITUNES exclusive. ...

15. PEPSI COMMERCIAL CONTENT with Britney and Beyoncé as well as
16. Robbie Williams' appearance on Jay Leno. ... (where he tucked an index card into his mouth to imitate toothy Freddie Mercury.)



... the piece of sh!t bastard

The Greatest Hits album of 1981 was a very interesting and worthwhile collection of seminal hits, the ones that made Queen great.

The Greatest Hits II album in 1991 had some incredible moments on it, and of course some big hits, but by the time the record company was getting them to release four or five singles, the second single from an album didn't do as well, and the third even worse and so on. This was felt particularly by the time they got to the Miracle and Innuendo where Slightly Mad and the Mircacle grazed the charts. It's a less interesting album because already it covers fewer albums than the first collection, but it's still an album I like to play from time to time, and the sequence of tracks is so engrained in my mind that I NEED Hammer To Fall to come after The Invisible Man.

Greatest Hits 3 got a couple of spins on my CD player. Actually I bought the video, it was more interesting, because at the time there was no youtube, and there were many videos that I had missed growing up, so it was nice to be able to watch it. It also had the 'Queen' versions of the Made In Heaven videos rather than the British Film Institute versions, so it was a nice vid. But really, I think at the time I was just excited to be able to buy the latest Queen Greatest Hits at the age of 18 or whatever I was when it came out. Must've been about 18. It's not a great collection though, and it's not really Queen, it's some Queen, and a few things thrown in there to fill it up. It's understandable in a way, and I'm sure there were some casual Queen listeners who didn't have Barcelona or Driven By You in their collection (they might as well have put Foreign Sand on it..... in fact, why didn't they put a Roger track on it?)

The thought of a Greatest Hits IV would really just be a crock of shit for me. In reality the track listing could go:

Say It's Not True
C-Lebrity (it would have to be on there)
There Must be More to Life Than This
State of Shock (if they'd ever be allowed)
Let Me In Your Heart Again

and then after that it starts to get difficult. There really is nothing else that could go on it. They shot themselves in the foot with "forever", and calling the album "forever" was about the tackiest thing they could do. It's really bargain bin stuff now.

I was really quite disappointed with the whole 'Deep Cuts' thing (which I never bought), and that Absolute Greatest - I mean what on earth were they doing with that?? Again, I never bought it. Absolute Greatest was probably EMI desperately trying to hang on to one of their most lucrative back catalogues before they went under. Well, I hope it was that.

So no, lets not do a Greatest Hits IV. Let's have a Brian or Roger solo LP, or even Adam Lambert with Brian May and Roger Taylor (call it that, not Queen plus AL for a new album, it was good for the tour, but perhaps not an album), or even just let them retire. Or get John back in and produce a record with the three of them, but John wouldn't do it, and people probably wouldn't buy it anyway.

BETA215

And the Queen Singles Collection 1, 2, 3 and 4?


without the b sides of course! Only the singles! And using the single versions
Like this:
Singles 73-80
Keep Yourself Alive, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Killer Queen, Now I'm Here, Bohemian Rhapsody, You're My Best Friend, Somebody To Love, Tie Your Mother Down, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Spread Your Wings, Bicycle Race, Fat Bottomed Girls, Don't Stop Me Now, Love Of My Life (Live), Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Save Me, Play The Game, Another Onte Bites The Dust, Flash

Singles 81-91
Disc 1: Under Pressure, Body Language, Las Palabras De Amor, Back Chat, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, It's A Hard Life, Hammer To Fall, Thank God It's Christmas, One Vision, A Kind Of Magic
Disc 2: Friends Will Be Friends, Who Wants To Live Forever, I Want It All, Breakthru, The Invisible Man, Scandal, The Miracle, Innuendo, I'm Going Slightly Mad, Headlong, The Show Must Go On.

Singles 91-00 (And others)
These Are The Days Of Our Lives, Somebody To Love (1992 single), Heaven To Everyone, A Winter's Tale, Too Much Love Will Kill You, Let Me Live, You Don't Fool Me, No One But You, Another One Bites The Dust (1998 remix), We Will Rock You, 2000 version) Flick Of The Wrist, It's Late, Need Your Loving Tonight, Calling All Girls, Under Pressure (Rah Remix).

I kinda forgot this but the idea was not exactly a greatest hits but it's like singles that were never on a greatest hits album as well as songs that were never singles and amazing unreleased demos that Queen should finish

I personally think Greatest Hits III Is the biggest atrocity the Queen productions have ever released.

^^ this

LucasDiego has the right idea. Although it should be two double discs stopping at No one But You to avoid any duplication / post Queen nonsense.

Although I think that would be scuppered by the remaining members wanting people to see that Queen was a going concern.

And they'd want to add tunes that have become well known after the fact such as Stone Cold Crazy to sweep up any stray Metallica fans who have just got their pocket money.

So yes if there were to be another compilation, it should be all the A sides / double A sides. Perhaps even worldwide singles like Mustapha and Teo Torriatte. Just for LOLZ.

Maybe they could avoid issues by including a question mark after the release

Queen+/- Greatest hits IV??

We could finally hear pro audio versions of 46664 stuff.
Hear snippets of that guy Property of Queen Productions (melodyne his voice to accompany the tracks)

Hear the PEPSI commercial jingle.

Hear John Deacon's song with Errol Brown

matt z wrote:
Hear snippets of that guy Property of Queen Productions (melodyne his voice to accompany the tracks)

Now that would pretty funny! I'm almost surprised someone hasn't done that already....I've seen some of those 'autotune the news' things on youtube and usually get a laugh out of them

The King Of Rhye wrote:

matt z wrote:
Hear snippets of that guy Property of Queen Productions (melodyne his voice to accompany the tracks)

Now that would pretty funny! I'm almost surprised someone hasn't done that already....I've seen some of those 'autotune the news' things on youtube and usually get a laugh out of them

Yeah. A phony "leaked heading"

"LEAKED rare Queen demo 1978" etc.

thought about it a long while ago but don't have the studio works to do it. A little behind on the recording scene these days.

Nothing big like a missing Prophets Song mid section. Just something that would get back to QP with some snide sarcasm. (No anthology)


It'd make about 30 people in the world laugh