Good retrospective for what it is

Queen's Greatest Hits III was released in November of 1999.

Some fans have balked and complained about this compilation's existence but it does contain some real eye-opening tracks and shouldn't be overlooked.

Nearly all the tracks were singles mainly in the UK (even the remixed of "Under Pressure" was issued as a single in 1999 in the UK), and they're all worth the listen (except Wyclef Jean's God-awful gangsta rap reworking of "Another One Bites The Dust").

No-One But You, guitarist Brian May's emotional tribute to Freddie, is stunning and brought tears to my eyes, and as one song is worth the price of this collection alone and was first released on the 1997 compilation of Queen's rock tracks Queen Rocks.

Let Me Live, Heaven For Everyone, Too Much Love Will Kill You and You Don't Fool Me from the band's 1995 farewell Made In Heaven(Heaven For Everyone appears in edited form whilst the other tracks are their full versions) and Innuendo's These Are The Days of Our Lives are brilliant as is Princes of the Universe and Freddie Mercury's excellent remake of The Great Pretender.

The US Top 20 1993 hit George Michael's version of Somebody To Love (with Queen from the Freddie tribute concert) is an interesting comparison to the original.

The Show Must Go On with Elton John is a great live reading and was the last live recording with bass player John Deacon before he retired from Queen in 1998.

I denoted one star for the remix of Bites the Dust which was turned into a gangsta rap remake!

Otherwise, a good companion to Greatest Hits 1 and 2 or better yet get this disc with The Platinum Collection!

Not a "Queen's Greatest Hits" CD, but a "Queen's Rarites" CD

As said above, this really isn't a Queen's Greatest hits, but rather Queen's rarities. Of the 17 tracks, 3 are really just Queen singing songs with diffrent lead singers (Show must go on, Barcelona, Somebody to love), 3 are solo cuts (Driven by you, the Great Pretender, and Living on my own) and 2 are just remixed versions of the originals (Under Pressure, Another one bites the dust). Of the remaining 9 songs, 4 of them are from Queen's final album, Made in Heaven, (Too Much Love Will Kill You, You Don't Fool me, Heaven for Everyone, Let me Live) which never appeared on any Queen compilation album. 2 other songs are good songs that couldn't make the other compilation albums, but are still here none the less (Princes of the Universe, These are the Days of our Lives.) The final two songs are very diffrent. The song "Thank God It's Christmas" is a holiday song which never made any album. The other song, "No-one but you (Only the Good Die Young)" is not only Queen's last song recorded, but the only song made from the three-man line-up of Brian May, John Deacon, and Roger Taylor. So this album is half a greatest hits album, half a rarities cd. However, it is still a must-pick-up for Queen fans

Not exactly Greatest Hits

Queen's III greatest hits album really doesn't feature the best hits of Queen. We do receive arguably the best live performances from the Mercury Tribute Concert delivered by Elton John and George Michael, however we also receive some weak tracks of the album "Made in Heaven", one of Queen's weakest entries. The album does feature a few strong rock songs, but this title is quite misleading.



Best Songs:



Show Must Go On: Although we don't hear Mercury's voice for this one, Elton John gave an exceptional performance of this classic at the Tribute Concert.



Under Pressure: A different version featuring a totally different beginning to the song. A classic in the Queen Catalog.



Somebody to Love: Freddie isn't singing here, but you hardly even notice because Michael does such a remarkable job on the delivery with his singing voice.



Living on my own: This track was originally released on Mercury's solo album, "Mr. Bad Guy". It was the best off that album and has great, jivey upbeat mood to it. Always fun.



Princes of the Universe: I love this song. One of the most underrated rock songs ever written by Queen, it has a powerful beat to it and carries a good pace to it.



Worst Songs:



Driven By You: A weak rock song that really carries a bad beat to it with very little tune.



Let me Live: Never liked this one and it certainly doesn't belong on any Greatest Hits Collection.



Heaven for everyone: It's very far from a hit, and although some Queen fans say its underrated it really isn't very well written.



As you can see, this album is really not worthy of being called Greatest Hits. This is the only Greatest Hits release by Queen that contains tracks which are bad songs. My suggestions: Greatest Hits(Hollywood) and Classic Queen.



P.S. Please don't buy this album because it's not worth it. Borrow it from a friend.