Queen Greatest Hits CD

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Queen: Freddie Mercury (vocals, keyboards); Brian May (guitars, vocals); John Deacon (bass); Roger Taylor (drums, vocals).
Includes a 24-page booklet with color photos and reproductions of album covers.
This video includes a 10-page fan appreciation book.
Not to be confused with the 1981 Greatest Flix video, 1992's Greatest Hits featured most of the same material as Flix, as well as a few other clips. Since its predecessor had been out of print for some time, Queen's U.S. record company, Hollywood, assembled a new "best-of" video collection. While the new version leaves off such clips as "Flash's Theme" and "Love of My Life," they're replaced them with the rarely seen steamy video for "Body Language" and the tongue in cheek "I Want to Break Free." Also included are clips assembled especially for this collection -- "Killer Queen" (a different version than the one on Flix), "Seven Seas of Rhye," "Now I'm Here," and "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy," comprised of vintage and latter day images. While some of the videos haven't aged particularly well (such as "Play the Game," in which Freddie Mercury "wrestles away" Brian May's guitar during his solo), others show them as video pioneers (the half-animated "Save Me" and one of the very first promo clips ever, "Bohemian Rhapsody"). Other intriguing clips include "You're My Best Friend," "We Will Rock You," "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," and "Somebody to Love." ~ Greg Prato
This is going to take a little explaining. In 1981, when it was contracted to Elektra Records in the U.S., Queen released an album called Greatest Hits (Elektra 564), which contained 14 songs that chronicled singles from 1973 to 1981. In 1990, Hollywood Records acquired CD rights to Queen's catalog, by which time the Elektra Greatest Hits had gone out of print on vinyl. Hollywood released Classic Queen, a compilation that covered Queen's hits from 1982 to its demise in 1991, with a few older songs thrown in. Then it released this album, its version of Greatest Hits, which is a 17-track album that deletes the songs from the first Greatest Hits that appeared on Classic Queen (among them Queen's biggest hit, "Bohemian Rhapsody") and adds a few tracks from the 1973-1982 era that did not appear on the original release. The Elektra Greatest Hits LP had a superior selection, but it's gone now, so you're stuck with this. (New fans don't seem to have minded, as this new Greatest Hits sold better than the first one.) ~ William Ruhlmann
First released in 1981 on Queen's original U.S. label, Elektra, GREATEST HITS' track listing differed from the European release, which contained double the amount of tracks. When Hollywood Records purchased the entire Queen back catalogue in the early '90s, GREATEST HITS was finally issued on CD after being out of print for many years, and included the extra tracks only previously available on the European version. The only defect of the Hollywood Records version is that it omits two of Queen's most famous songs, "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Under Pressure," since both had been recently included as part of the CLASSIC QUEEN compilation.
Highlights? There are nothing but highlights here. Name any hit by the band and chances are it can be found here. Mixing favorites from the early years ("Killer Queen," "You're My Best Friend," "Seven Seas Of Rhye"), the latter years ("Radio GaGa," "I Want To Break Free") and everything in between ("Fat Bottomed Girls," "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," "We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions"), GREATEST HITS is flawless from beginning to end. Simply one of the strongest and most popular greatest hits collections of any rock band, ever.

Entertainment Weekly (11/13/92, p.80) - Rating: B+
Q (8/02, p.151) - "...Utterly wonderful..."