Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen
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| Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen | |
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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | August 9, 2005 |
| Recorded | 2005 |
| Genre | Rock, hard rock |
| Length | 64:29 |
| Label | Hollywood |
| Producer | Brian Reeves |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [1] |
| Boston Herald | Favorable[2] |
| Chartattack.com | Mixed[3] |
| Rolling Stone | [4] |
Killer Queen is a tribute album of Queen songs.[5] The album is named for the 1974 Queen song of the same name that first appeared on the Sheer Heart Attack album. The album peaked at #104 on the Billboard 200 on August 27, 2005. Later, it re-entered the Billboard 200 in April 2006 at #115 after the Queen round in American Idol's season 5.
[edit] Track listing
- Gavin DeGraw – "We Are the Champions" (Freddie Mercury)
- Shinedown – "Tie Your Mother Down" (Brian May)
- Constantine Maroulis, with the cast of We Will Rock You – "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Mercury)
- Eleven, featuring Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age) – "Stone Cold Crazy" (Queen)
- Jason Mraz – "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" (Mercury)
- Joss Stone – "Under Pressure" (Queen, David Bowie)
- Breaking Benjamin – "Who Wants to Live Forever" (May)
- Be Your Own Pet – "Bicycle Race" (Mercury)
- Josh Kelley – "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Mercury)
- Los Lobos – "Sleeping on the Sidewalk" (May)
- Sum 41 – "Killer Queen" (Mercury)
- Rooney – "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)" (Mercury) (features the piano intro to "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" at the end)
- Jon Brion – "Play the Game" (Mercury)
- The Flaming Lips – "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Mercury)
- Ingram Hill – "'39" (May)
- Antigone Rising – "Fat Bottomed Girls" (May)
[edit] References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Boston Herald review
- ^ Chartattack.com review
- ^ Rolling Stone review
- ^ Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen Allmusic. Retrieved July 10, 2011
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