Why was A Day At The Races seemingly ignored for a "special" edition? We've had numerous releases of ANATO, and now the NOTW box set, but nothing for ADATR.
If they have all the multi tracks, a 5.1 mix would be awesome, plus they could use bits of, if not all of, Earls Court for an accompanying CD or DVD. I'm sure they could manage to "fix" some of the issues with the recordings. I would guess they must also have enough archive material for an outtakes CD. Would it be too much to hope for a 45th Anniversary edition? That would give them four years to put something together.
I still hope 2018 brings us the tenth anniversary edition of TCR, including Frederick's favourite song that he couldn't live to hear, Frederick's favourite bass-playing performance by anyone other than Good Ol' Deaks, Frederick's favourite album cover, Frederick's favourite drummer (Taylor Hawkins) on harmonies and, of course, an alternate take of every single song by Frederick's other favourite singer, Kerry Ellis.
Sebastian wrote:
I still hope 2018 brings us the tenth anniversary edition of TCR, including Frederick's favourite song that he couldn't live to hear, Frederick's favourite bass-playing performance by anyone other than Good Ol' Deaks, Frederick's favourite album cover, Frederick's favourite drummer (Taylor Hawkins) on harmonies and, of course, an alternate take of every single song by Frederick's other favourite singer, Kerry Ellis.
You forgot the Blu-Ray The Next American Dream featuring The Half sold US Arena tour featuring extra footage of Jeff Scott Soto playing Freddie's favourite Free albums while sitting in a hotel room just down the road from where ever that nights gig was with his hand on the telephone just in case! ??
Sebastian wrote:
I still hope 2018 brings us the tenth anniversary edition of TCR, including Frederick's favourite song that he couldn't live to hear, Frederick's favourite bass-playing performance by anyone other than Good Ol' Deaks, Frederick's favourite album cover, Frederick's favourite drummer (Taylor Hawkins) on harmonies and, of course, an alternate take of every single song by Frederick's other favourite singer, Kerry Ellis.
TCR -- Roger and Rodgers were motivated in the studio, but Brian phoned it in. Then on tour Rodgers phoned it in while Brian did his rawk star shtick, which is still ongoing.
And I can not wait for 2024. The 50th anniversary of both Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack. The box will so extensive that they will need to use a truck for delivery.
While Queen, Queen 2 were excellent albums in my opinion they wern't a commercial success, so I don't think they will ever get the Boxset treatment. Jazz had some hits and personally I like the album in general but the same goes....not successful enough for a boxset. The albums I think would get that special treatment is Sheer Heart Attack, their first breakthrough album. Obviously ANATO, NOTW and The Game would be next up. Races really should get the special treament as well, but for some odd reason it's considered a weaker version of Opera by the general public and critics. I do think ANATO is slightly the stronger of the 2, but Races is really close excellence in my opinion.
What's really annoying is that after The Game was released on 5.1 DVD-A a few years ago, Brian specifically said on his Soapbox that they had started work on a 5.1 mix of ADATR. Another of his pet projects that he couldn't then find time for after starting, and doesn't trust anyone else to do!
Lets be honest here. There's a lot of work goes into creating these box sets if they have to create new content, such as the raw sessions disk. and if they don't cover the costs they wont make them.
Any regular reader of the comments section of the magnificent SDE website link can see that it is exceedingly rare for a box set from any artist to come out that doesn't piss off the core fans of a band.
Collections of previously released material with no new content is much cheaper to put together and easy to make a profit.
Getting new content together for an existing album takes time, and time is money. I imagine they figure out how many hours they can afford to spend on it and stop when they get to that point.
I bought a 10cc box set called Tenology that I absolutely love but 10cc fans hated it.
Similarly for Pure McCartney, Had everything I wanted on it, but avid fans thought 'whats the point'?.
I was on the other side of the fence for Queen Forever, which seemed such a waste of 3 new tracks.
I love my Def Leppard Hysteria 7cd/DVD set, but the core fans are all over it because it's missing some remixes and b sides tracks and doesn't have a 5.1 mix. (Sound familiar?), and contains no previously unreleased material.