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Towards the end of last year,
Queen released a 'new' album:
Absolute Greatest. As an enormous Queen
fan, I was... disappointed. It seems to me that Queen have sold out,
re-releasing the same songs on what is essentially the same album over and
over again every few years. A conversation with a friend who is possibly
even more of a Queen fan than I am revealed much the same feelings.
We can't be the only two! Our displeasure stems from the fact that we know that
Queen have so much more to offer from their back catalogue than the same old
radio-friendly previously-released single offerings that we all hear time and
time again. Also, surely everyone already has
Queen's greatest hits in some form or other
knocking around their mp3/ CD/ cassette/ vinyl collection?
So, a few beers later we embarked upon the monumental task of picking just one
unreleased* album track from each studio album (see the bottom of this post for
titles, album covers and a link to
Amazon) in
order to produce a definitive and original** alternative introduction to Queen:
A Dream Queen album, if you will.
Being a sad git, I have decided that I'd like to include a larger portion of
Queen's fan base in the discussion, and this is where this blog post comes in:
Below, you should find a form on which you can make your selection from the
remaining album tracks (after UK single A-sides have been removed) for each of
Queen's studio albums (I've omitted Flash). Please fill it in and pass it on to
any other Queen fans that you know, and hopefully we can produce a plan for the
definitive Queen non-singles 'best of' album. I'll write a results post at some
point in the future if I feel I've had enough responses for the result to be
unembarrassing!
Feel free to comment if I've omitted anything, or if you believe any non-album
or live tracks would be worthy of inclusion as extras!
* Unreleased, that is, as an A-side on a UK single.
** As original as it can be, that is.
