More than just about any other pop group you can think of, the best way to know the band Queen and its music is to listen/watch their videos. It’s not really about the visual style of the videos, because most of them are set in a ‘live’ setting with the band lip-synching to their songs. It’s more about the complexity of the sound the four musicians make, something they were never really able to capture in concert or on a concert DVD. This two-disc set probably has more Queen songs than the casual fan will ever want to listen to, so they can use the tracking button on their remote to skip around and watch the hits — Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, etc. The real fans – or those inspired to learn more about the band’s music than what they heard on the radio – can spend time exploring the lesser known songs (at least to a US audience) on the second disc of the set. Not all of them work, but if there is one thing you learn from a set like this it’s that even when Queen flopped musically, they did it with style.
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