The mother of all greatest hits packages. To me, this is the quintessential Greatest Hits Album, with every song a certified winner. Released at what many fans consider to be the end of Queen’s Golden Age (I beg to differ, but that’s another story), this album is filled with brilliance from start (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) to finish (“We Are The Champions”).
There will always be arguments that personal favourites didn’t make the cut. From A Night at the Opera alone you could have had tracks such as “Death on Two Legs”, “I’m In Love With My Car” and “39”. What you can’t argue with is the quality of the songs that did make the album, and it truly is representative of the best work that Queen has produced – or at least had up until that point of their career.
Apart from the radio, this was my first real compilation of their great songs, and it still get a flogging in our household. Whenever we are searching for some music to pacify every generation, this is still the best album to grab.
Rating: Perfect. 5/5
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