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Queen Rocks | align="center" bgcolor="darkturquoise" colspan="3"|Queen Rocks | | lign="center" colspan="3"| | | lign="center" bgcolor="darkturquoise" colspan="3"|Album by Queen | | lign="left" valign="top"|Released | colspan="2" valign="top"|November 3, 1997 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Genre | colspan="2" valign="top"|Classic Rock | | lign="left" valign="top"|Length | colspan="2" valign="top"|70 min 21 sec | | lign="left" valign="top"|Record label | colspan="2" valign="top"|Hollywood Records | | lign="left" valign="top"|Producer | colspan="2" valign="top"|Queen | Queen Rocks is a album by the British rock band Queen released in 1997. The album is mostly a collection of Queen's heaviest rock songs however it also contained 1 new track, "No One But You (Only the Good Die Young)". 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. Thus far, it's the last original studio recording featuring May, Taylor and Deacon (and the first and only recording without Freddie Mercury). The album is unique to the Queen catalogue, as it deliberately did not follow the standard "Hits" collection format. The criterion for inclusion was sheer hard-rock. Some hits are present ("Hammer To Fall", "Seven Seas Of Rhye") and some tracks included were never released as singles anywhere ("Put Out The Fire" and "Sheer Heart Attack"), but all are classic Queen rockers even casual fans will welcome. A good number of face-melters are absent ("Brighton Rock", "I Go Crazy", "Liar"), but "Queen Rocks" lives up to its name and is a solid collection. Perhaps a future "Vol. 2" will see the light of day, but that may be pushing it by adding yet another collection of previously available material on the market, which in Queen's case is already balancing a few overlapping (but individually excellent) "Hits" compilations. See below for details on these. Brian May has indicated a desire to pull many of the collections, so promotion can be placed back onto the original albums. Most notably, the "Platinum Collection" which houses the original UK Greatest Hits Volumes 1, 2 & 3 will see a pull from the market in the near future. If and when these moritoria occur, "Rocks" will hopefully stand its ground and remain on the shelves. Track listing - We Will Rock You
- Tie Your Mother Down (single version)
- I Want It All (hybrid album/single version)
- Seven Seas Of Rhye
- I Can't Live With You (1997 Rocks retake)
- Hammer To Fall
- Stone Cold Crazy
- Now I'm Here
- Fat Bottomed Girls (album version)
- Keep Yourself Alive
- Tear It Up
- One Vision (album version)
- Sheer Heart Attack
- I'm In Love With My car (hybrid album/single version)
- Put Out The Fire
- Headlong
- It's Late
- No One But You (Only the Good Die Young)
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