The UK version of Queen's Greatest Hits is superior to the American version, in my opinion. It includes all of Queen's UK Top 20 Hits from 1974 to 1980. ("Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" is included because it was the lead track on the hit "Queen's First EP".) It should be noted that these are the single versions of the songs, which are sometimes different than the album versions. The most notable differences are on "Bicycle Race", which is almost a minute shorter than the album version, and "Flash", which includes dialogue from the movie, which the album version does not. This is the definitive compilation of Queen's early years.

Of course this compilation is great. It's got most of the cream of Queen's crop (huh?) and is expanded from the version on LP/Cassette I grew up listening to. With one exception: What in the hell did they do with "Under Pressure"? This is DEFINITELY not one you leave off! Hell, "Don't Stop Me Now" and "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" should have been axed WAY before the classic Queen/Bowie collaboration. Even "Flash" (which for some unknown reason, i still like) should have been left off in favor of "U.P.". That's really the only reason not to give this 5 stars...that and there are quite a few killer album tracks that no GH will have ("Misfire", "Who Needs You", "Don't Try Suicide")so you should really pursue the original albums, which you probably will after starting out with this primer.

Although Queen is not everyone's cup of tea, anyone who can appreciate good music should respond to Freddie Mercury's voice and Brian May's guitar playing is mandatory listening IMO. And the best part of all of it is Queen's songs. Adventurous, heavy, melodic, hilarious, pomp, and a multitude of styles. This is totally the surface of a great band, but worth coming back to even after you own every album.

Darn when cd's first came out what you where looking for was hard to find. And Queen was at the top of my list to get something into my budding cd collection. I finally found this at our local record store as the vinyl was slowly circling its drain due to cd's. And yes the first Queen I saw on the shevles was this import. Darn glad I got it that day even though I considered the price steep due to it being an import it still took the cd industry some years to get all of the choices you have now days I do not need another queen this on did me fine though its play list is different from what they have here tracks 1 - 6 are the same the rest go like this

7.Don't Stop Me Now

8.Save Me

9.Crazy Little Thing Called Love

10.Somebody To Love

11.Now I'm Here

12.Good Old-Fashoned Lover Boy

13.Play The Game

14.Flash

15.Seven Seas Of Rhye

16.We Will Rock You

17.We Are The Champions

What can I say this order works for me. And if you want more Queen than this hey go for it I do not blame you good stuff from a great band that started in the 70's. No one else like them. I still remeber driving down the road to tapes I made from the vinyl I had of them.

I ordered this CD thinking it was remastered year 2004 as Amazon product detail says. What a fool Amazon made of me!

What I got was 1994 version-10 year older version with higher price tag. Of course, I sent it back to be replaced with year 2004 version only to see the same 10 year old CD from Amazon with no explanation or appology a month later.

I, at least, do not have time and energy to fight with AMAZON about this anymore. DO NOT BE FOOLED!!!

This album is the most popular in Rock, ever! They tried to pull it off the shelves but the cries were too loud. It is also re-mastered.