Question: any heavier moments in Queen's discog post The Game?

Good to know. Thanks.

S.D. wrote:

The third disc is mostly later stuff primarily pulled from The Miracle, Innuendo and Made In Heaven.  I would just buy the Innuendo album instead.  

I'd offer an enthusiastic "seconded" on this. Innuendo is a great summation of latter-day Queen, sadly also kind of a sign they could have produced some amazing music yet had Freddie not died when he did.

For the hard rock lover not as keen on eccentric albums, I'd say Made in Heaven is a close second for that era. The purist is put off by the fact that most of it wasn't "new" so much as it was older solo tracks or demos with Freddie's voice on that they provided new backing tracks for, but it was a pretty hard rocking album for one that was so mortality focused.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Citanul wrote:

So if you're looking to explore Queen beyond the hits then I'd say that those three collections are the perfect way to do it (apart from buying the actual studio albums of course).

I'm not really interested in investing in their full discography, so for the right price, these discs may be the perfect fit for a fella such as myself. The first 2 collections anyway. The jury is still out on that 3rd one.

Dude, as someone who started this thread and has been listening (on Spotify) to a whole of the Queen discog lately...all you really need is the first Queen album. That thing rips from beginning to end. After that, in my personal non-Queen fanboy opinion, it's very hit or miss and not essential at all. Most people in this thread probably disagree though.

S.D. wrote:

 

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ZombieHavoc wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Citanul wrote:

So if you're looking to explore Queen beyond the hits then I'd say that those three collections are the perfect way to do it (apart from buying the actual studio albums of course).

I'm not really interested in investing in their full discography, so for the right price, these discs may be the perfect fit for a fella such as myself. The first 2 collections anyway. The jury is still out on that 3rd one.

Dude, as someone who started this thread and has been listening (on Spotify) to a whole of the Queen discog lately...all you really need is the first Queen album. That thing rips from beginning to end. After that, in my personal non-Queen fanboy opinion, it's very hit or miss and not essential at all. Most people in this thread probably disagree though.

I have only ONE major gripe about that first one and this is going to sound really stupid: there's this REALLY stupid mixing move in the track "Doing All Right" that ONLY exists in the digital pressings on the album.

It's a ballad that goes from super quiet to VERY loud very quickly and, on the vinyl, it just lifts, gets loud and does its thing. In every CD version I've ever heard, you can hear the volume being dropped by a very ham-fisted audio engineer. Seriously, I can see the hand turning a volume knob or pulling down a fader as I hear it. The first few times I heard it, I thought someone was farting around with my stereo while I wasn't looking. Tremendously annoying and unlikely to be fixed anytime soon, sadly.