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Queen: Rocks

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Label: Parlophone Records
Released: 1997.11.03
Time:
 70:21
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.queenonline.com
Appears with: Brian May, Roger Taylor,  Freddie Mercury
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] We Will Rock You [from News of the World, 1977] (B.May) - 2:01
[2] Tie Your Mother Down [single version, from A Day at the Races, 1976] (B.May) - 3:45
[3] I Want It All [hybrid album/single version, from The Miracle, 1989] (B.May) - 4:30
[4] Seven Seas of Rhye [from Queen II, 1974] (F.Mercury) - 2:47
[5] I Can't Live with You [1997 Rocks Retake] from Innuendo, 1991] (Queen/B.May) - 4:35
[6] Hammer to Fall [album version, from The Works, 1984] (B.May) - 4:30
[7] Stone Cold Crazy [from Sheer Heart Attack, 1974] (Queen) - 2:14
[8] Now I'm Here [from Sheer Heart Attack, 1974] (B.May) - 4:12
[9] Fat Bottomed Girls [album version, from Jazz, 1978] (B.May) - 4:18
[10] Keep Yourself Alive [from Queen, 1973] (B.May) - 3:44
[11] Tear It Up [from The Works, 1984] (B.May) - 3:28
[12] One Vision [album version, from A Kind of Magic, 1986] (Queen) - 5:09
[13] Sheer Heart Attack [from News of the World, 1977] (R.Taylor) - 3:26
[14] I'm in Love with My Car [hybrid album/single version from A Night at the Opera, 1975] (R.Taylor) - 3:05
[15] Put Out the Fire [from Hot Space, 1982] (B.May) - 3:20
[16] Headlong [from Innuendo, 1991] (Queen/B.May) - 4:33
[17] It's Late [from News of the World, 1977] (B.May) - 6:29
[18] No-One but You [Only the Good Die Young, 1997 (B.May) - 4:11

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Freddie Mercury - Vocals, Producer
Brian May - Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Remixing, Producer
John Deacon - Bass, Producer
Roger Taylor - Drums, Percussion, Remixing, Producer

John Anthony - Producer
Roy Thomas Baker - Producer
David Richards - Engineer, Producer
Justin Shirley-Smith - Engineer
Josh MacRae - Engineer
Geoff Workman - Engineer
Stefan - Engineer
Mike "Clay" Stone - Assistant Producer, Engineer
Kevin Metcalfe - Mastering
Pete Malandrone - Equipment Coordinator
Richard Gray - Design

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Queen were never adverse to commercialism - after all, Freddie Mercury made sure that he recorded a full album's worth of vocal tracks on his deathbed, so his colleagues could record a posthumous album. It should come as no surprise, then, that just two years after the release of that posthumous record, the surviving members went back into the vaults to assemble Rocks, Vol. 1. As the title suggests, Rocks, Vol. 1 captures Queen at their most rockin', or, to be more accurate, their heaviest. Despite its breakneck conclusion, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is not here, but "Seven Seas of Rhye," "Stone Cold Crazy," "We Will Rock You," "Sheer Heart Attack," "Fat Bottomed Girls," "I Want It All" and "I'm In Love with My Car" are, along with several underappreciated album tracks, new remixes of "Tie Your Mother Down" and "I Can't Live with You," and "No One Like You," a tribute to Mercury recorded by the surviving members of Queen. In other words, Rocks, Vol. 1 is a bit of a hodgepodge and one that most fans will be able to ignore. But for casual fans of Brian May's searing, melodic guitar, Mercury's operatic wail, and the surprisingly swinging backbeat of John Deacon and Roger Taylor, this compilation will suit their needs quite nicely.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Queen Rocks is a compilation album by the English rock band Queen, released in 1997. The album is a selection of songs from Queen's heavier side. It also contained one new track, "No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young)", which is a gentle ballad. This song began life as a track for Brian May's solo album Another World (1998); the remaining members chose to record it as a bookend for their career as Queen. It was the last original studio recording from the 1990s featuring Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon (and the first ever Queen recording without the lead singer Freddie Mercury). The album is unique to the Queen catalogue, as it deliberately does not follow the standard "greatest hits" collection format. Some hits are present ("We Will Rock You", "I Want It All" and "Fat Bottomed Girls"), while other tracks included were never released as singles anywhere ("Put Out the Fire", "Tear It Up" and "Sheer Heart Attack"). The album also contains a remake of "I Can't Live With You", with a much louder and heavier guitar and more aggressive drumming.

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