Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Queen - "Greatest Hits"
I remember when I was a kid it was rumored that if you played "Another One Bites the Dust" backward it said "Smoke marijuana". I had a friend who's older brother had the song on vinyl, but we could never get it to work. I'm not even sure I really knew what marijuana was at the time other than it was a drug and drugs were bad for you. This album has been a disappointment to many of my generation who's main exposure to Queen was through the movie, "Wayne's World", because many of them bought the album before realizing that the main song they were buying the album for, namely "Bohemian Rhapsody" isn't on it. Who cares! I don't even really like that song. This album does have the other Queen songs that everybody knows, the aforementioned "Another One Bites the Dust" and the two songs sort of in one "We Will rock You" and "We Are the Champions". This album also has one of my personal favorite songs, "Fat Bottomed Girls", that has an absolutely terrific vocal intro and guitar hook. The second half of the album is kind of a letdown, but the first half is such great high energy music that you skip the second half and not feel bad about it. Most of the tracks are high energy and well-suited to doing your best Freddie Mercury impression while driving too fast with the windows rolled down. I've tried to workout to this album before and it just didn't work. I kept getting distracted. I think I originally got this as a Christmas present a decade or so ago and it's still one of my favorite albums that gets regular play while driving. You can sing along about your own personal love of the fat bottomed girls at Amazon
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