Any Particular Order For Buying Queen Albums?

Yeah, well I like to support my favorite bands. I only download if the CD isn't worth buying (i.e. 99 Red Balloons)

The first time I ever heard Queen I was 3 or 4 years old. My mum and teenage sisters had a Queen album - The Game.(This was about 1980.)I had no idea who it was,all I know is that I heard "Another One Bites The Dust"and "The Game" and I LOVED them. Years later,when I was a teenager,I got the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and Classic Queen(on tape),and I also have that very same record The Game.This was when Wayne's World came out,and I first saw Bo Rhap on VH1,and became officially hooked on Freddie. So by the time I came to know Freddie,he was already gone. I now have: Classic Queen(on CD),Greatest Hits,A Night At The Opera,Greatest Hits 3,The Freddie Mercury Solo Collection(Mr. Bad Guy,Barcelona,+Bonus CD,and The Great Pretender(on tape).This is what I do: When I go to a music store,I look for any/all Queen Albums I don't yet have and buy them all. My goal is to one day have everything Queen has ever done.

That's exactly what I did, bought the Platinum collection first and listened to Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy over and over again. After this I went from the start. I get teased an awful lot for buying Queen cd's because I'm fifteen and can't stand any music other than Queen and Billy Joel and Montsy.

My,God,you're only 15?! You were only 3 when Freddie died.

Nope, just buy what appeals to you most at the time. There are no rules :)

Except when it comes to Nena - always try to find the album with '99 Red Balloons' first.

Frejorobri wrote:

My,God,you're only 15?! You were only 3 when Freddie died.

I was only 1.

Actually - the 99 Red Balloons album by Nena is quite good.

I'm still not gonna go out an buy a CD I don't want, when I'm only looking for one song. I never download whole albums, cause if I want the whole thing, I buy the CD since there are liner notes, lyrics, etc.

i think it doesn´t matter
for example: i i´m a queen fan sicen i was 11 years old.
the first album i bought was GH2. Then, i bought GH1
Then my dad brought me Innuendo from UK
i heared all the queen music in a different order, and i really like it
if you want to see or hear the music evolution, you don´t have to buy the albums in a chronologycal order
You have to buy the album you want, and once you have many queen albums, you can hear them in the order you want
that´s what i did it.

Which songs do you like best from GHs? We can judge better from that.

I don't think Queen absolutely has to be experienced in chronological order. But you should know one thing: the order in which you get the albums does influence which "styles" or "eras" of Queen that you like best, at least initially. I also started with GHI+II; my first Queen album was Live Magic; my first studio album was The Works. I think that because of this, I liked Queen's early to mid-80s work more than the '70s or '90s stuff from the outset. And in all honestly, I still do prefer '80s Queen by a hair over anything else.

It's all good, though, as I'm sure that you'll appreciate all the facets of the Queen catalog in your own unique way.

I'm 13, and I've been a QUEEN fan ever since I was born from just listening to Greatest Hits 1 and 2 over and over. I didn't start buying any of their other albums 'til last year. I haven't bought them in a particular order, because I know I'm just going to buy them all anyways. So from my point of view order doesn't matter. I still admire QUEEN as much as I would if I did go in order with the cd's.

The Platinum Collection was my first Queen album, and then I got the Crown Jewels collection. But even then, I only really liked The Game. And then I slowly began to listen to all the early albums and love them.