| 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. | | 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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