The Crown Jewels

Queen - The Crown Jewels

The Crown Jewels
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Artist: Queen
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 1998-11-24
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Product features:
  • 1998 eight cd boxed set with lyrics booklet
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Keep Yourself Alive
  2. Doing All Right
  3. Great King Rat
  4. My Fairy King
  5. Liar
  6. The Night Comes Down
  7. Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
  8. Son and Daughter
  9. Jesus
  10. Seven Seas of Rhye
Music CD 2
  1. Procession
  2. Father to Son
  3. White Queen (As It Began)
  4. Some Day One Day
  5. The Loser in the End
  6. Ogre Battle
  7. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
  8. Nevermore
  9. The March of the Black Queen
  10. Funny How Love Is
  11. Seven Seas of Rhye
Music CD 3
  1. Brighton Rock
  2. Killer Queen
  3. Tenement Funster
  4. Flick of the Wrist
  5. Lily of the Valley
  6. Now I'm Here
  7. In the Lap of the Gods
  8. Stone Cold Crazy
  9. Dear Friends
  10. Misfire
  11. Bring Back That Leroy Brown
  12. She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes)
  13. In the Lap of the Gods...Revisited
Music CD 4
  1. Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)
  2. Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
  3. I'm in Love with My Car
  4. You're My Best Friend
  5. '39
  6. Sweet Lady
  7. Seaside Rendezvous
  8. The Prophet's Song
  9. Love of My Life
  10. Good Company
  11. Bohemian Rhapsody
  12. God Save the Queen
Music CD 5
  1. Tie Your Mother Down
  2. You Take My Breath Away
  3. Long Away
  4. The Millionaire Waltz
  5. You and I
  6. Somebody to Love
  7. White Man
  8. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
  9. Drowse
  10. Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
Music CD 6
  1. We Will Rock You
  2. We Are the Champions
  3. Sheer Heart Attack
  4. All Dead, All Dead
  5. Spread Your Wings
  6. Fight from the Inside
  7. Get Down, Make Love
  8. Sleeping On The Sidewalk
  9. Who Needs You
  10. It's Late
  11. My Melancholy Blues
Music CD 7
  1. Mustapha
  2. Fat Bottomed Girls
  3. Jealousy
  4. Bicycle Race
  5. If You Can't Beat Them
  6. Let Me Entertain You
  7. Dead on Time
  8. In Only Seven Days
  9. Dreamer's Ball
  10. Fun It
  11. Leaving Home Ain't Easy
  12. Don't Stop Me Now
  13. More of That Jazz
Music CD 8
  1. Play the Game
  2. Dragon Attack
  3. Another One Bites the Dust
  4. Need Your Loving Tonight
  5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  6. Rock It (Prime Jive)
  7. Don't Try Suicide
  8. Sail Away Sweet Sister
  9. Coming Soon
  10. Save Me

Free Music Notes for The Crown Jewels

Free Music Review: 20th century classic
Hit: 5 Stars

This is THE ultimate Queen collection - putting together Queen's first 8 classic albums from the wonder years of 1973 to 1980. What results is a work of art and some of the best music of the 20th century by far , in this delightful treasure of a collection.

Queen (1973)

You might take a bit of time to get to appreciate the genius of this but this is certainly a masterpiece and I love it . My favourites are upbeat rocker 'Keep Yourself Alive' , the beautiful 'Doing Alright 'the brilliant 'Liar' the sad and imaginative 'My Fairy King and Roger Taylor's 'Modern Times Rock 'N Roll -classic 1970's hard rock at its best. We would see more examples of by Taylor in subsequent albums ..These are all masterpieces which should have got much greater recognition than they did .
There are also numbers with some rather nasty verses such as 'Great King Rat and 'Mad The Swine ' which we would see toned down in the later albums , and 'Son and Daughter' is rather strange . Jesus sounds like Queen's tribute to Gospel music and is actually quite memorable with it's melodic choral chant. Nevertheless all of them are important in studying the development of the band. Listen a few times and you'll love it .Its one of the best rock albums of all time.

Queen II (1974)

This album is a masterpiece, absolutely one of Queen's best. Together with Sheer Heart Attack it is among the most underrated album of the rocking 70's and for me the 70's rock!!
It is a ingenious blend of rock, opera and magnificent poetry. Study the lyrics. There is a wonderful journey into a Tolkienesque fantasy land. This is really a work of art -something like that sung by Mediaeval balladeers but its a mix of ballads and rock.
That fantastic hit Seven Seas of Rhye and songs like the full-of- action and energetic 'Ogre Battle,' the sad and beautiful 'White Queen,' the 'March Of The Black Queen' is a several song rock opera that's style seems to have preceeded 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. and the incredible 'Fairy Feller's Master Stroke' are like Tolkien and Lewis etc with a touch of Alice In Wonderland and Harry Potter in rock-opera mode. Then there are the wonderful melodies with a baroque flavour 'Father To Son,' the exquisite love song 'Nevermore' and the melodic and whimisical 'Funny How Love Is,' and Roger Taylor's classic 1970's hard rock 'The Loser In The End'.
Buy it, study it and let your imagination free.


Sheer Heart Attack (1974)

This one reaches the majestic heights of Mozart,Tchaikovsky et al of previous centuries.It is tragic that only Killer Queen is well known to the general public of these songs.Because ther energetic Brighton Rock,the inditement of the corrupt materialism of modern time-Flick of the Wrist (with it's beautifully psychedelic overtures),the sheer poetry of Lily of the Valley (which any struggling genius can relate to),the opera rock masterpice Lap of the Gods and the fast paced rocker Misfire should have been hits of the century. the hard rock beaut Stone Cold Crazy was redone years later by metallica , a tribute to Queen's pioneering work in rock!
Very Very little from the 20 th century compares to them What a pity Queen became so commercialised later and churned out so much mediocre rubbish in the 1980's Carve the names of these songs in gold!

A Night At The Opera (1975)

Another classic of the 20 th century.Everyone knows the classic rock-opera Bohemian Rhapsody but I think 'The Prophets Song ' is the best of the album.Queen guitarist Brian May wrote this after he had a dream about the Great Flood. Many religions and cultures have stories of floods, including the Great Flood of The Bible that led to Noah's Ark..But most (not all) music stars today lack imagination)Hard rocker 'Death on Two Legs'you can dedicate to anyone you hate with a passion and is also fantastic. I enjoyed the nonchalant and whimsical 'Seaside Rendezvous' and 'Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon' I think '39'is a lovely story (it's about a man who go's into space for many years and does not age , but when he returns , his daughter , or grandaughter , is now an old lady) and so is the melancholy 'Good Company'. the operatic 'Love of My Life' -What can I say? And the hard-rock Sweet Lady is great too!Another tribute to rock opera.

A Day At The Races (1976)

Of course yokels couldn't appreciate most of it. Songs like the 'Millionaire Waltz ','Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy' , 'Tel Torriate' and 'Long Away' take take you right to the heart of classic rock opera at it's very best.While there are the exhilirating hard rock classics like 'Tie Your Mother Down'. For me listening to this album just like the previous 2 is like medidating....Wonderful

News Of The World (1977)

OK.There is some good stuff on this album : We Will Rock you and We Are The Champions are all-time rock classics.
I think Spread Your Wings is a fantastic inspirational song - unforgettable. There is the punk rock-style Get Down Make Love and the bluesy Melancholy Blues , which are also good.
But the album is not as good as Queen's first five masterpieces (which are among my favourite albums of all time: Queen , Queen II, Sheer Hear Attack,A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races .Its still worth having in your collection and it's still a hallmark of the roaring 70's , which is always a pleasure to listen to (Its also far better than 80's Queen) but it also marks a departure from Queen's classic rock-opera roots for which I most love the band. Of course musical fashions were changing by 1977.

Jazz (1978)

This album contains some of Queen's greatest tracks-the rollicking Fat Bottomed Girls , Bicycle Race and one of my favourite queen songs-Don't Stop Me Now.
Also noteworthy are the fast paced Let Me Entertain You and Fun It , the melancholy Leaving Home Ain't Easy and Jealousy , the Middle Eastern style Mustapha and the waltzing 50's style Dreamer's Ball.
An excellent album featuring a very important stage in the bands development.

The Game (1980)

Well , lets see.
This is Queen's first album of the 1980's and I believe that 70's Queen is far superior to 80's Queen.
But Queen had already , by then , departed from it's grand rock/opera style of 1973-1976 with News of The world (1977) and Jazz (1978)
This album is quite simply a mixed bag.
'Save Me' and 'Play The Game' are the best songs on the album and do justice to Queen at it's best.The video of the song is also great.
'Sail Away Sweet Sister' is a pretty ballad ; 'Rock It Prime Jive' is another great rocker by Roger Taylor (there are some really great Taylor rock pieces on the 70's albums) as is 'Coming Soon' . 'Crazy Little Thing' called love is a pleasant 50's style hit .
'Another One Bites The Dust' has a fantastic beat, 'Dragon Attack ' and 'Don't Try Suicide' are typical 80's pop and ' Need Your Loving Tonight' is mediocre.



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The Crown Jewels Poster

Queen's crown jewels shine brightly, and they're a bargain in this inspiring eight-CD collection. Commemorating the operatic British band's 25th anniversary, The Crown Jewels boxes Queen's first eight albums, remastered and boasting bonus artwork, liner notes, and a reproduction of the infamous "Fat Bottomed Girls" bicycle poster. Since the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991, there's been a spate of Queen reissues and repackages, but this 90-song collection, spanning 1973's Queen to 1980's The Game, represents the crux of Queen's power and range of talent. What's best is being reminded of such great hits as the pure bombastic operatic style of "Killer Queen," the neo-rockabilly "A Crazy Little Thing Called Love," the boastful anthem "We Are the Champions," and the pop glam of "Tenement Funster." It's a colorful, engrossing trip, and the time is right for The Crown Jewels: with movies like Velvet Goldmine reminding us again of the glorious musical (and otherwise) excess of the '70s, everything old sounds new again. --Katherine Turman

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