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Rating: Truly a great idea, this album from 1992.
A nice collection, but I cannot consider it the BEST OF FREDDIE MERCURY, which could have been achieved by adding songs like THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS or LOVE ME LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW.
The album features the collaboration with Giorgio Moroder, namely LOVE KILLS, a disco track with good success and linked to the film METROPOLIS. Then there are some songs from "MR. BAD GUY", FOOLIN' AROUND (a catchy track but not elevated to single), YOUR KIND OF LOVER (nice musical moments with Freddie on the piano), LET'S TURN IT ON and the same title track from the '85 album.
Not to mention LIVING ON MY OWN which is not yet the disco hit (almost identical to the version of "MR. BAD GUY").
Essential is BARCELONA sung along with Montserrat Caballé still accompanied by its b-side EXERCISES ON FREE LOVE, a piano piece that doesn't take off.
The true greatness of this album is the presence of themes from Dave Clark's musical and the rearrangement of a song by the Platters, namely THE GREAT PRETENDER (the music video is amusing where even Roger Taylor dresses as a woman and then goes on to compose the ironic choir?!).
I was mentioning Dave Clark's musical: the two songs that come out of this experience are impressive. The first show is TIME (a song that smoothly transitions from melancholic piano moments to engaging spaces). The second is even better: IN MY DEFENCE is one of Freddie's best-sung songs (the musical background and verse motifs are moving, the chorus is powerful and energetic). Piano pranks and various crescendos accompany the song to the end before fading with a grand finale.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 The Great Pretender (03:28)
Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)
Pretending I'm doing well (ooh ooh)
My need is such I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell
Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)
Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)
I play the game but to my real shame
You've left me to dream all alone
Too real is this feeling of make believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal
Ooh Ooh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)
Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)
I seem to be what I'm not (you see)
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're still around
Yeah ooh hoo
Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal
Oh yes I'm the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)
I seem to be what I'm not you see
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're
Pretending that you're still around
02 Foolin' Around (03:36)
You're so beautiful, you just lay it on me
Foxy lady, you really are the greatest show in town
You want to play,
You wanna eat your cake and have it your way
You got it easy and you don't give a damn
Fooling around, you just keep fooling around with me.
Walking down the street, people watching closely
Such a tease, you can turn on any man you want
You masquerade,
You're the catch of the season every night and day
You, you, you don't have any time for me
You just keep fooling around with me.
Fooling around - everywhere I go you're the only,
Only, only sexy lady
Fooling around, all you do is keep me hanging around
You're really so hard to please
You've gotta really watch that, baby!
You just, you just, fooling around with me
You just, you just, fooling around with me
You keep fooling, you keep fooling
Fooling, fooling, fooling, fooling,
Fooling...
Want to play, but you always want it all your own way
You got it easy but you don't give a damn
Fooling around, you just keep fooling around with me.
You just keep fooling around with me, yeah
I'm a fool, fool, fool, fool for you baby,
Keep fooling around
I'm a fool, fool, fool, for you sexy baby,
Keep fooling around
I'm a fool, fool, fool, fool for you baby,
Keep fooling around
04 Your Kind of Lover (03:59)
Now you say you're leaving me
I just can't believe it's true
You're my kind of lover
Wanna little bit of feeling
Add a little bit of meaning to my life
I wanna little bit of feeling
A little bit of sunshine to my life
I wanna be your kind of lover
Give a little bit of feeling
Just a little bit of feeling
Add a little bit of meaning to my life
I wanna boogie down with you, brother
Boogie down with bassman
Win love on the grandslam
I'll be there waititng when you call.
Just step right into my heart
Come a little closer
Don't tell me that it's over
Make a brand new start
We can work it out just next to nothing
Work it out, work it out just next to nothing
With feeling, feeling, feeling, with feeling
We can work it out
Let me show what I can do,
I can be your kind of lover
We can work it out
Let me show what I can do,
I can be your kind of lover
I wanna be your kind of mother
Let's talk about loving right
Don't talk about doing wrong
Put a little bit of sense into your mind
We gotta talk it out man to man
Make each other understand
Right now a little happiness would be fine
Just step right into my heart
Come a little closer
Don't tell me that it's over
Make a brand new start
We can work it out just next to nothing
Work it out, work it out just next to nothing
With feeling, feeling, feeling, with feeling
We can work it out
Let me show what I can do, I can be your kind of lover
We can work it out
Let me show what I can do, I can be your kind of lover
Your kind of lover
06 In My Defence (03:52)
In my defence what is there to say
All the mistakes we made must be faced today
It's not easy now knowing where to start
While the world we love tears itself apart
I'm just a singer with a song
How can I try to right the wrong
For just a singer with a melody
I'm caught in between
With a fading dream
In my defence what is there to say
We destroy the love - it's our way
We never listen enough never face the truth
Then like a passing song
Love is here and then it's gone
I'm just a singer with a song
How can I try to right the wrong
For just a singer with a melody
I'm caught in between
With a fading dream
I'm just a singer with a song
How can I try to right the wrong
I'm just a singer with a melody
I'm caught in between with a fading dream
Caught in between with a fading dream
Caught in between with a fading dream
Oh what on earth
Oh what on earth
How do I try
Do we live or die
Oh help me God
Please help me
07 Mr. Bad Guy (03:56)
Let's go chasing rainbows in the sky
It's my invitation
Let's all take a trip on my ecstasy
I'm Mr. Bad Guy
Yes, I'm everybody's Mr Bad Guy
Can't you see I'm Mr. Mercury
Oh, spread your wings and fly away with me
Your big daddy's got no place to stay
Bad communication
I feel like the President of the USA
Mr. Bad Guy, yes I'm everybody's Mr Bad Guy
Can't you see I'm Mr. Mercury
Oh, spread your wings and fly away with me
I'm Mr. Bad Guy, they're all afraid of me
I can ruin people's lives
Mr. Bad Guy, they're all afraid of me
It's the only way to be
That's my destiny
Mr. Bad Guy, Mr. Bad Guy, Mr. Bad Guy
It's the only way to be
It's my destiny, oh yeah
Mr. Bad Guy, yes I'm everybody's Mr Bad Guy
Can't you see this is my destiny
Oh, spread your wings and fly away with me
08 Let's Turn It On (03:46)
Let's turn it on, and get everybody thinking, thinking,
thinking,
Let's turn it on, everybody song and dancing, dancing,
dancing,
Let's turn it on, let's turn it on,
All the people got to get the right impression
Turn it on, turn it on, turn it on,
Why don't we turn it on and let's stop everybody fighting.
Let's get it on, let's get everybody jumping,
Let's get it on and get everybody stamping,
Let's get it on, let's get it on,
All the people got to get the right impression,
Let's get it on, turn it on, and let's get everybody dancing.
Let's turn it on, yeah
Nobody is giving it up, yeah, yeah,
Everybody is living it up, yeah,
Everybody is living it up, living it up, let's turn it on,
Yeah, nobody is giving it up, everybody is living it up, yeah,
Everybody is living it up
Let's turn it on, turn it on, yeah,
Dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing
Let's turn it on, and get everybody swinging,
Let's turn it on, get right into that lovely feeling,
Let's turn it on, yeah, come on all you people get together,
Turn it on, turn it on, turn it on,
And let's get everybody dancing.
Turn it on and get everybody happy,
Let's turn it on, let's make everybody happy,
Let's turn it on, let's turn it on,
come on all you, all you happy people together,
Turn it on, yeah, turn it on, turn it on,
Let's make everybody crazy!
09 Living on My Own (03:39)
Sometimes I feel I'm gonna break down and cry (so lonely)
nowhere to go nothing to do with my time
I get lonely so lonely living on my own
Sometimes I feel I'm gonna break down and cry (so lonely)
nowhere to go nothing to do with my time
I get lonely so lonely living on my own
Sometimes I feel I'm always walking too fast
and everything is coming down on me down on me
I go crazy oh so crazy living on my own
Dee do da da Dee do da da
I don't have no time for the monkey business
Dee do da da Dee do da da
I get so lonely lonely lonely yeah
got to be some good times ahead
sometimes I feel nobody gives me no warning
find my head is always up in the clouds
in a dream world
It's not easy living on my own
Dee do da da Dee do da da
I don't have no time for the monkey business
Dee do da da Dee do da da
I get so lonely lonely lonely yeah
got to be some good times ahead
Dee do da da Dee do da da
I don't have no time for the monkey business
Dee do da da Dee do da da
I get so lonely lonely lonely yeah
got to be some good times ahead
Dee do da da Dee do da da
I don't have no time for the monkey business
Dee do da da Dee do da da
I get so lonely lonely lonely yeah
got to be some good times ahead
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By KrYsTaL
Perhaps one of the last true musical geniuses of our times, a sacred monster who left us too soon.
His last image is that of the last frame of the video 'These are the days of our lives,' where... it is precisely that gaunt face that murmurs 'I still love you' that is the last image we have of an extraordinary rock interpreter.
