Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen

Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen
Compilation album by Various artists
Released August 9, 2005 (2005-08-09)
Recorded 2005
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length 64:29
Label Hollywood
Producer Brian Reeves
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Boston HeraldFavorable[2]
Chartattack.comMixed[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.

Track listing

  1. "We Are the Champions" (Freddie Mercury) – performed by Gavin DeGraw
  2. "Tie Your Mother Down" (Brian May) – performed by Shinedown
  3. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Mercury) – performed by Constantine Maroulis, with the cast of We Will Rock You
  4. "Stone Cold Crazy" (Queen) – performed by Eleven, featuring Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age)
  5. "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" (Mercury) – performed by Jason Mraz
  6. "Under Pressure" (Queen, David Bowie) – performed by Joss Stone
  7. "Who Wants to Live Forever" (May) – performed by Breaking Benjamin
  8. "Bicycle Race" (Mercury) – performed by Be Your Own Pet
  9. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Mercury) – performed by Josh Kelley
  10. "Sleeping on the Sidewalk" (May) – performed by Los Lobos
  11. "Killer Queen" (Mercury) – performed by Sum 41
  12. "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)" (Mercury) (features the piano intro to "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" at the end) – performed by Rooney
  13. "Play the Game" (Mercury) – performed by Jon Brion
  14. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Mercury) – performed by The Flaming Lips
  15. "'39" (May) – performed by Ingram Hill
  16. "Fat Bottomed Girls" (May) – performed by Antigone Rising

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Boston Herald review
  3. ↑ Chartattack.com review
  4. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  5. ↑ Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen Allmusic. Retrieved July 10, 2011

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