| Product Summary | | UPC: 00720616252227 | | Release Date: 8/9/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 63980646 | | Item#: M2CXEM | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. We Are The Champions - Gavin DeGraw ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Tie Your Mother Down - Shinedown ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Bohemian Rhapsody - Constantine/London Cast Of The Musical "We Will Rock You" ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Stone Cold Crazy - Eleven/Josh Homme ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Good Old Fashioined Lover Boy - Jason Mraz ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Under Pressure - Joss Stone ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Who Ways To Live Forever - Breaking Benjamin ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Bicycle Race - Be Your Own Pet ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Josh Kelley ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Sleeping On The Sidewalk - Los Lobos ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Killer Queen - Sum 41 ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Death On Two Legs - Rooney ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Play The Game - Jon Brion ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Bohemian Rhapsody - The Flaming Lips ~ Various Artists | | | 15. 39 - Ingram Hill ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Fat Bottom Girls - Antigone Rising ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Tributee: Queen. | | Various Artists: Deryck Whibley (vocals, piano); Tony Vincent, Brent Smith , Lori Eure, Niki Scalera, Carly Thomas, Rosalind Brown, Maria Davidson, Jenny DiNoia, Dustin Dubreuil, Aspen Miller, Brandon Mix, Joey Calveri, Douglas Crawford, Jamison Scott (vocals); David Gilmore, Elliot Easton, Alain Johannes, Oliver Leiber, Bill Bell, Dave Brownsound, Jason Todd (guitar); Eric Hinojosa, John Gilutin (piano); Jed Leiber (Hammond b-3 organ); Greg Hawkes, Raymond Angry (keyboards); Natasha Shneider (Moog synthesizer); Abraham Laboriel, Sr., Paul Peterson, Brad Stewart , Ian Sheridan, Cone McCaslin, Brian Ray (bass guitar); Adam King (drums, percussion); Jack Irons, Abe Laboriel, Jr., Sergio Gonz lez, Barry Kerch (drums); Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne. | | Queen are one of those serendipitous bands: the right guys, in the right frame of mind, at the right place, at the right time. Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon, and Roger Taylor could make fey sound manly and inject complex melodic lines into straight-ahead megaton rockers -- this is known. Queen are a near impossible act to follow, but tribute after tribute proves that people are still willing to give it a shot. Hollywood Records offers up Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen and takes as good a stab as any at trying to capture some of Queen's magic. Pagan god of American Idol, Constantine Maroulis' "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a Xerox copy of the original (helped in great part by the cast of the British Queen musical We Will Rock You). He sounds great, no doubt about that, injecting quite a bit of human feeling into the performance of a song that he obviously holds in the highest regard. Well, good for him. This CD surely will sell a few copies based on his presence alone, and that's precisely why he's on here with Joss Stone and Sum 41 in the first place. Jason Mraz takes a break from taking over the world to turn in...what?!...the least obvious cover? Surprise, surprise. This Dave Matthews apprentice must have a couple of Queen albums besides The Greatest Hits in his hemp-fiber backpack. His take on A Day at the Races' bouncy "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" might be the best song this self-designed geek ever recorded. Denied the crammed wordplay and "lookit me! I'm really singing high!" nonsense of his Mr. A-Z release, Mr. Mraz focuses for a moment on someone other than himself and channels Mercury (albeit by way of some Colorado coffeehouse) quite admirably. L.A. rockers Eleven turn down the speed and turn in a girthy version of "Stone Cold Crazy," taking the tune out of the mosh pit and into the back of Monster Magnet's tour bus. Rooney takes an ambitious stab at "Death on Two Legs" and proves that they can play it note for note. They just can't sing it (who can, anyway?). Los Lobos eat up some studio time with "Sleeping on the Sidewalk" and the Flaming Lips decide this whole thing is just too much trouble by giving up and recording another version of "Bohemian Rhapsody," a limp and route take on the tune that makes Constantine's version sound even more reverent than it already does. But none of this is the "real deal." It can't be, not without Freddie, and this brings to mind a quip, related by Led Zeppelin's most revered knob-twiddler, Glyn Johns, where a band he was recording kept begging him for that "Bonham" drum sound. "I'll tell you what," he said. "Here's the phone. Call him up and have him come down here to play the drums, because that's the only way you're going to bloody get it." There can be only one. ~ J. Scott McClintock | | Released contemporaneously with a Queen "reunion" album that found the surviving members collaborating with former Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers, KILLER QUEEN features a passel of younger artists paying their respects to Freddie Mercury and company. While there's a wide variety of entrants in the build-your-own-Queen-song contest, from veteran roots-rockers Los Lobos to young neo-soul waif Joss Stone, many of these tracks stick surprisingly close to the originals. Hearing pop-punks Sum 41 and power-poppers Rooney deliver note-perfect versions of "Killer Queen" and "Death on Two Legs" respectively, one has to assume that Queen's elaborate, painstakingly created templates just seemed too perfect to disturb. Closing things out, the all-female quintet Antigone Rising adds a wry gender-bending twist to "Fat Bottomed Girls," nodding to the broad sense of camp that was always at the heart of Queen's approach. |
Producer: Dave Fridmann; Tony Battaglia; Oliver Leiber; Beau Dozier; David Bendeth; Stuart Sikes; Keith Forsey; Brian Reeves; Rick Beato |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/02/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 162 522 | | Label : Hollywood Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00720616252227 |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Production |  5 | | Performance | 5 | | Composition |  4 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 Great tribute Wednesday, August 17, 2005
A Listener from NJ
It takes a handful of artists that never would have appeared together in concert or on an album, hands them each a Queen song, and allows them to go to town. The end result is a creative compilation of some Queen classics.
Best on the CD is the haunting rendition of "Who Want to Live Forever," sung by Breaking Benjamin. This is probably the best track of the CD, along with Constantine's version of "Bohemian Rhapsody." Constantine stays true to the style of Queen (his voice sounds a little like Freddie Mercury's) and manages to pay great respects to the song and Queen itself. Also nicely done is Joss Stone's "Under Pressure." She gives it a bluesey, soulful tone.
Overall, this CD is excellent. The only thing missing, in my opinion, is "We Will Rock You," and "Somebody to Love." Was this review helpful?  
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