Which of the Queen's songs would you choose for a "perfect compilation CD"?

I always wonder about how would be "a perfect Greatest Hits" CD for my own preferences... you know, we're all Queen's fans but each one in here would pick different songs...
Mine would contain:

1. The Prophet's Song
2. Princes of the Universe
3. Stone Cold Crazy
4. I Want It All
5. We Will Rock You
6. We Are the Champions
7. Tie Your Mother Down
8. One Vision
9. Sheer Heart Attack
10. I Was Born to Love You
11. Under Pressure
12. Bohemian Rhapsody
13. Killer Queen
14. Get Down, Make Love
15. Let Me Entertain You
16. Who Wants to Live Forever
17. I Want to Break Free
18. Play the Game
19. Father to Son
20. The March of The Black Queen

How about you???

Let me see...
1.Don't stop me now
2.Somebody to love
3.Good old fashioned lover boy
4.Bicycle race
5.Seven seas of Rhye
6.Bo rhap
7.Breakthru
8.It's a hard life
9.Brighton rock
10.I was born to love you
11.Made in Heaven

(Not in order)

Oh god, if I wanted a greatest hits comp. of my own, I'd have it pressed on vinyl, just to make it special! Even then, are too many good songs from Queen to fit in one vinyl disc!

Haha interesting thought...I dunno i tried doing that but instead of having a perfect compilation CD i ended up with two then three cd's until i had just about copied my entire Queen collection minus one or two songs lol. I mean there are just way too many songs that require selection in order to do them justice.

But certainly a few which I think would *have* to be included would be, the proverbial Queen songs perhaps but anyway: Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, We Are the Champions, I Want to Break Free, Show Must Go On, etc.

Some personal choices of mine would be Love of My Life, It's A Hard Life, Don't Stop Me Now...but ya that's all personal preference. Just make a whole super big DVD (or one of those fancy new discs...blu-ray or whatever) or something and cram as many songs on as possible!

01. was it all worth it
02. death on two legs
03. radio gaga
04. white man
05. spread your wings
06. ride the wild wind
07. mother love
08. nevermore
09. stone cold crazy
10. princes of the universe
11. innuendo
12. let me entertain you
13. who wants to live forever
14. i want it all
15. another one bites the dust
16. don't lose your head
17. we will rock you
18. bohemian rhapsody
19. i'm in love with my car
20. the show must go on

Depends how many songs you can fit on, but here are mine anyway (v. hard choice by the way !)

1. Loser In The End
2. I'm In Love With My Car
3. The Show Must Go On
4. Death On Two Legs
5. I'm Going Slightly Mad
6. White Queen (As It Began)
7. Seven Seas Of Rhye
8. Ogre Battle
9. Back Chat
10. Scandal
11. Khashoggi's Ship
12. Lily Of The Valley
13. Stone Cold Crazy
14. Now I'm Here
15. The Millionare Waltz
16. Breakthru
17. I Want To Break Free
18. I Want It All
19. Spread Your Wings
20. Seaside Rendevous
21. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
22. The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke
23. A Kind Of Magic
24. Princes Of The Universe
25. Hammer To Fall
26. Good Company
27. One Vision
28. WWRY (fast)
29. Killer Queen
30. Tenement Funster

thats probably too many songs but I don't care ! :-D

something like this:

1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Another One Bites The Dust
3. We Will Rock You
4. Under Pressure
5. Innuendo
6. The Show Must Go On
7. Hammer To Fall
8. I Want It All
9. Stone Cold Crazy
10. Who Wants To Live Forever
11. Liar
12. Somebody To Love
13. Now I’m Here
14. The March Of The Black Queen
15. Spread Your Wings
16. White Queen (As It Began)
17. Save Me
18. Tie Your Mother Down
19. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
20. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
21. Brighton Rock
22. Killer Queen
23. ‘39
24. In The Lap Of The Gods . . . revisited
25. Dead On Time
26. Seven Seas Of Rhye
27. Don’t Stop Me Now
28. Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to...)
29. It’s Late
30. Keep Yourself Alive

1. Radio Ga Ga
2. Bohemian Rhapsody
3. I Want It All
4. A Kind Of Magic
5. I'm Going Slightly Mad
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye
7. You Don't Fool Me
8. Another One Bites The Dust
9. Bicycle Race
10. Princes Of The Universe
11. We Are The Champions
12. We Will Rock You
13. Under Pressure
14. Killer Queen
15. Mustapha
16. The Show Must Go On
17. Friends Will Be Friends
18. One Vision
19. Fat Bottomed Girls
20. Im In Love With My Car

:D :D :D

Wait - Change 'Im In Love With My Car' to 'Innuendo' :D

I made one of my own titled "Magic Kingdom" and here is the set list

1. Tie Your Mother Down (Live Killers)
2. Hammer To Fall (Queen Rocks ! Version)
3. Headlong (Remix Of The Innuendo And Live At Brixton Academy Versions)
4. I Want It All (The Miracle Album Version, With The Guitar's Intro)
5. A Kind Of Magic (Live Magic)
6. Under Pressure (Rah Mix)
7. Another One Bites The Dust
8. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
9. The Show Must Go On (Remix Of My Own)
10. Innuendo
11. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live At Wembley '86)
12. Love Of My Life (Live Killers)
13. Somebody To Love (Live On Fire At The Bowl)
14. Bohemian Rhapsody (Live Version) (I Don't Know From Which Concert It Is From, But It Is In A Medley With The Millionaire Waltz I Believe. I Cut It after The Solo, So It Is Short.)
15. Made In Heaven
16. Mother Love
17. Too Much Love Will Kill You
18. No One But You (Live In Amsterdam)
19. We Will Rock You
20. We Are The Champions (Remix Of The Queen Version And The Queen + Robbie Williams Version)

I think it's a great album ! But still, you could have all the original songs and have a great CD too. I liked mixing songs in that time, though I still think I am not that good.

DISC 1
Keep Yourself Alive
Great King Rat
March Of The Black Queen
Seven Seas of Rhye
Killer Queen
Brighton Rock
Now Im Here
You're My Best Friend
Bohemian Rhapsody
Sweet Lady
39
Tie Your Mother Down
Somebody To Love
Teo Torriate
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Spread Your Wings
It's Late
Fat Bottomed Girls
We Will Rock You ( Fast Live Version )

DISC 2
Another One Bites The Dust
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Save Me
Put Out The Fire
Under Pressure
Radio Ga Ga
Hammer To Fall
I Want To Break free
It's A Hard Life
One Vision
A Kind Of Magic
Scandal
I Want It All
The Invisable Man
Breakthru
Innuendo
Headlong
Ride The Wild Wind
The Show Must Go On
To Much Love Will Kill You

1. My Fairy King
2. March Of The Black Queen
3. Flick Of The Wrist
4. Death On Two Legs
5. Seaside Rendezvous
6. You Take My Breath Away
7. Somebody To Love
8. Sheer Heart Attack
9. My Melancholy Blues
10. Let Me Entertain You
11. Don't Stop Me Now
12. Sail Away Sweet Sister
13. Life is real (song for Lennon)
14. Man On The Prowl
15. I Want To Break Free
16. One Year Of Love
17. Was It All Worth It?
18. I'm Going Slightly Mad
19. Bijou
20. My Life Has Been Saved

I just picked one or two favourites from each album. It was hard to narrow it down to only 20 though!

~-:Moet et Chandon:-~ wrote:

Haha interesting thought...I dunno i tried doing that but instead of having a perfect compilation CD i ended up with two then three cd's until i had just about copied my entire Queen collection minus one or two songs lol. I mean there are just way too many songs that require selection in order to do them justice.

I know what you mean, I recently made a playlist for my ipod with my favourite Queen songs and it has 44 and I missed some

If I absolutely had to fit it into one CD. Not in any particular order:

1) The Show Must Go On
2) March of the Black Queen
3) Love of My Life
4) Death on Two Legs
5) In the Lap of The Gods... Revisited
6) We Are The Champions
7) White Queen
8) Bohemian Rhapsody
9) Innuendo
10) Tie Your Mother Down
11) My Fairy King
12) Who Wants to Live Forever?
13) Prophet's Song
14) Procession/Father to Son
15) Life Is Real
16)'39
17) Was It All Worth It?
18) You Take My Breath Away

Too many to mention, but they should have made each greatest hits cd a doulble disc.