| Shane Jazz 27.12.2007 04:22 |
The choices are many: Drammen '82 Face it Alone Sail Away Sweet Sister demo Sandbox Khashoggi's Ship demo All in all, a wonderful year to be a Queen fan. Thanks to all those who shared their rare stuff this year. I am very grateful, and I am sure many others are as well. |
| Olavi 27.12.2007 04:57 |
Face it alone, the two versions from the convention. |
| Mean Mr. Ketchup 27.12.2007 08:04 |
I would say Drammen 1982, simply because it's unique. The Rainbow 1974 share was good too :P |
| DavidRFuller 27.12.2007 09:08 |
Saaannndddbbboooooxxxx! ;) |
| John S Stuart 27.12.2007 09:20 |
Shane Jazz wrote: The choices are many: Drammen '82 Face it Alone Sail Away Sweet Sister demo Sandbox Khashoggi's Ship demo All in all, a wonderful year to be a Queen fan. Thanks to all those who shared their rare stuff this year. I am very grateful, and I am sure many others are as well.***** Controversy alert ***** On paper, I see nothing wrong with 'Shane Jazz's' choice of Queenzone's 2007's hottest releases, but it is very much a poor-man's '...never mind the quality, feel the width' approach to collecting music, something which I personally stand diametrically opposed to. So without trying to enforce my own FLAC quality control mentality, how can one SERIOUSLY compare lossless sessions like '1984's Thames TV demos', 'The Call studio version', pittrek's best ever 'Huston '77', 'Young Nobles of Rock (Stark remaster), Dogwithabones' Brian May - Since You've Been Gone (rehearsal)- or even my own Brian May 'Who Wants To Live Forever' demos - against these degenerated low-fi MP3 pirated convention eves-dropping clips? Do not get me wrong, I think everyone should be entitled to his or her own opinion, but personally, I think that opinion should be based upon the quality and listenabilty (overall repeated enjoyment factor) rather than rarity for its own sake - or something (because of the poor audio reproduction) which will never really be listened to again. |
| pittrek 27.12.2007 09:23 |
Personally I will never forget the incredible gift from pow pow, who sent a couple of people a copy of his Houston DVD. John S. Stuart is correct as always, but unfortunatelly he / we can't change other people's minds and habbits |
| John S Stuart 27.12.2007 09:30 |
pittrek wrote: Personally I will never forget the incredible gift from pow pow, who sent a couple of people a copy of his Houston DVD...As noted above... John S Stuart wrote: ...how can one SERIOUSLY compare lossless ... pittrek's best ever 'Huston '77'...Many of us here in Queenzone are indebted for these 'quality shares' - so to Mr. Pittrek, (pow wow) and everyone else (whom I do not mean to offend from omission - but the list is far too long to write everyone's name personally - but you know who you are) who made it a valuable year - thank you. |
| EdFredrick 27.12.2007 11:06 |
It was a new year for me. I just found and joined the site this summer, and had also gotten faster internet to download with. It's hard to pick from all the wonderfull things i've gotten. "I thank you all"!! |
| Queenrockyou 27.12.2007 11:10 |
Hi everyone ! Happy to join in the discussion. Well, for me 2007 has been the year when I became more active on Queenzone, for the previous years I was only a "watcher". I began downloading in 2007, after learning about the Flac thing (no more comments on it here) and the good thing it was as far as quality (not that much the quality of the listening but the preservation of the music as it is lossless). So in the (almost-finished) year I really started to learn about Queen live (thanks Bob for the wonderful and promising site link and to every other webmaster on the web who dedicated themselves to this live side), ans I discovered some things I hadn't noticed before in the official releases. I'm now more interested in the Queen live side than before, and thanks to the Queenzoners here I was glad to download some very good concerts in perfect quality, and moreover I participated (at my own little level) in that great sharing community by reuploading files for which the download links were broken. I am very happy to see the number of people downloading the Knebworth 'Thank You All' bootleg I just reuploaded some times ago, it makes me feel that I participate the right way. You would of course prefer if I uploaded new things but I don't have for the moment ! And maybe I would prefer another website where only lossless would be agreed, but that's another debate. So thanks to you, I was happy to download a rough 50 concerts in the last months (I don't choose one in perticular but the nice thing that all these files were quite easily downloadable), and I was happy too to see that such great men among you started to convert torrents into rapidshare and mediafire (or else) links, which is in my opinion the best way for everyone to have access to the files (the fact that you have to wait between downloads on rapidshare if you don't pay a little sum, don't remember how many, for a year is not really a problem in my opinion, it still allows everyone to download, which is not the case as far as torrents are concerned). So many thanks to those who had this habit to think about everyone here, I will continue to ask for these conversions in 2008 not only for my own personal pleasure but for everyone ! And I am quite glad anyway to see that this move is more and more made by some of you. THAT's sharing ! Have a good end of year everyone, see you next, and enjoy yourself !! Rock on, Olivier, France. |
| Shane Jazz 27.12.2007 11:43 |
I understand your point completely, JSS. In terms of sound quality, I couldn't agree with you more. I should have phrased my question more clearly. I meant: what was shared in this forum in 2007 that you had never heard before that excited you most? I simply meant hearing things like Sandbox (even with the annoying Property of Queen Productions inserts) and Face it Alone, that most Queen fans hadn't heard before. I was just trying to gauge that good old fashioned "rush" that a fan can get when they hear something for the first time. My vote goes to Sandbox, I enjoyed the raw energy in it. |
| SCOM 27.12.2007 12:08 |
Young Nobles Of Rock. "Thank You All" is from 2007? I have bad memory lol. |
| John S Stuart 27.12.2007 12:17 |
Shane Jazz wrote: I understand your point completely, JSS. In terms of sound quality, I couldn't agree with you more. I should have phrased my question more clearly. I meant: what was shared in this forum in 2007 that you had never heard before that excited you most? I simply meant hearing things like Sandbox (even with the annoying Property of Queen Productions inserts) and Face it Alone, that most Queen fans hadn't heard before. I was just trying to gauge that good old fashioned "rush" that a fan can get when they hear something for the first time. My vote goes to Sandbox, I enjoyed the raw energy in it.I do see your point, so I do (to an extent) agree with you - but wouldn't it be great for 'Sandbox' to appear in studio quality? We do know it is 'out there' - so 'One day, some day'? |
| FEEL THE FORCE 2 27.12.2007 13:28 |
For me Vancouver 78 |
| Holly2003 27.12.2007 13:49 |
John S Stuart wrote:Perhaps because 1984 was a pretty crap band with poor songs, and the BM skip demos, while interesting, were musically worthless?Shane Jazz wrote: The choices are many: Drammen '82 Face it Alone Sail Away Sweet Sister demo Sandbox Khashoggi's Ship demo All in all, a wonderful year to be a Queen fan. Thanks to all those who shared their rare stuff this year. I am very grateful, and I am sure many others are as well.***** Controversy alert ***** On paper, I see nothing wrong with 'Shane Jazz's' choice of Queenzone's 2007's hottest releases, but it is very much a poor-man's '...never mind the quality, feel the width' approach to collecting music, something which I personally stand diametrically opposed to. So without trying to enforce my own FLAC quality control mentality, how can one SERIOUSLY compare lossless sessions like '1984's Thames TV demos', 'The Call studio version', pittrek's best ever 'Huston '77', 'Young Nobles of Rock (Stark remaster), Dogwithabones' Brian May - Since You've Been Gone (rehearsal)- or even my own Brian May 'Who Wants To Live Forever' demos - against these degenerated low-fi MP3 pirated convention eves-dropping clips? Do not get me wrong, I think everyone should be entitled to his or her own opinion, but personally, I think that opinion should be based upon the quality and listenabilty (overall repeated enjoyment factor) rather than rarity for its own sake - or something (because of the poor audio reproduction) which will never really be listened to again. I'm not a serious collector so just becasue it's rare doesn't mean much to me. I would rather have a non-rare, good quality concert (or demo) than, say, Drammen, which has very litle going for it. ps I appreciate that people will feel the exact opposite to me. |
| John S Stuart 27.12.2007 14:05 |
Holly2003 wrote:Aren't we in agreement - and saying the same thing?John S Stuart wrote:... I would rather have a non-rare, good quality concert (or demo) than, say, Drammen, which has very litle going for it...Shane Jazz wrote: The choices are many... Thanks to all those who shared their rare stuff this year. I am very grateful, and I am sure many others are as well...I think that opinion should be based upon the quality and listenabilty (overall repeated enjoyment factor) rather than rarity for its own sake... |
| Holly2003 27.12.2007 14:17 |
John S Stuart wrote:Yes, sorry, I need to pay more attention sometimes. :)Holly2003 wrote:Aren't we in agreement - and saying the same thing?John S Stuart wrote:... I would rather have a non-rare, good quality concert (or demo) than, say, Drammen, which has very litle going for it...Shane Jazz wrote: The choices are many... Thanks to all those who shared their rare stuff this year. I am very grateful, and I am sure many others are as well...I think that opinion should be based upon the quality and listenabilty (overall repeated enjoyment factor) rather than rarity for its own sake... All the best. |
| bitesthedust 27.12.2007 14:35 |
FEEL THE FORCE 2 wrote: For me Vancouver 78Vancouver 78 was actually first shared on The Traders Den in November 2006.... |
| Marknow 27.12.2007 18:30 |
.....ASSDUDE...... wrote: Penitration Guru had photos of his mum on the net under Maure gang bangs, that was good. And Fairy Fag had photos of his mum under Old Hoe's Love young Cu#. Not sure if that counts, but... Made us all laugh.And so ends another thread. |
| Marknow 27.12.2007 18:34 |
<font color=993300>bitesthedust<h6>¿Qué? wrote:The audio for Vancouver 1978 is the best show ever shared for free.FEEL THE FORCE 2 wrote: For me Vancouver 78Vancouver 78 was actually first shared on The Traders Den in November 2006.... |
| Marknow 27.12.2007 18:36 |
.....ASSDUDE...... wrote:Dont get me wrong, we all like a bit of humor. But try and keep it topic related too.Marknow wrote:ehehe Sorry, I couldnt help my self... I know its annoying and no one likes it.........ASSDUDE...... wrote: Penitration Guru had photos of his mum on the net under Mature gang bangs, that was good. And Fairy Fag had photos of his mum under Old Hoe's Love young Cu#. Not sure if that counts, but... Made us all laugh.And so ends another thread. |
| queentel 27.12.2007 18:50 |
The live killers dvds for me, thanks smitty |
| Raf 27.12.2007 19:56 |
That new Houston'77 DVD. :) :) :) |
| radio_what's_new 28.12.2007 00:18 |
Nothing. Queen is soooooooooo 2007. |
| tonyyy 28.12.2007 07:14 |
-Knebworth 1986 (Thank you all) -Vancouver 1978 I began this year downloading large files (FLAC and DVD). Thanks a lot to all those who shared their rare stuff! Tony --- Web: link Myspace: link |
| Harry_queenrecordings 28.12.2007 07:55 |
Shares like Drammen 82 and Vancouver 78 where awesome if you ask me. |
| Madman 28.12.2007 10:14 |
I agree - new, excellent source from Tokio from 1st May '75, then Drammen '82 and of course my top from this year - Vancouver '78. Now I wait for Nagoya '79 and Yamaguchi '79 recordings and somethink new from Crazy Tour '79 if exist :P |
| A Word In Your Ear 28.12.2007 10:28 |
The "Earls court 5.1 souround sound remaster DVD" |
| dysan 31.12.2007 05:16 |
Because most things are shared on torrent sites and stupid rapidshare, I get most of the things given away for free here a week or so later on ebay. The share on here that has given me the most pleasure in 2007 was Assassin. I still howl with laughter at that. |
| Queenrockyou 31.12.2007 05:46 |
Hi Dysan, I'm in the same case than you as far as torrents are concerned. But as far as rapidshare is concerned, it is the best way I think to download things. Of course mediafire can seem better for a downloader; but when I upload things, I prefer rapidshare by far. So I bought a premium account on rapidshare, for one year, especially for Queenzone. I think it really worths the investment, instead of paying each show after that on Ebay or elsewhere. Not that expensive compared to the advantage it gives you. I still can't download torrents, but now I can use mediafire and rapidshare, and I'm pleased to see that now the torrents are quite regularly converted in rapidshare or mediafire links. So I think you should do the same ! Hope you'll get more files in 2008 ! Happy new year to you, Regards, Olivier, France. |
| dysan 31.12.2007 06:18 |
I have been pondering it, I must admit. But what's wrong with sendspace, megaupload and yousend it etc? |
| Queenrockyou 31.12.2007 06:50 |
Yes, there are some other services which I haven't all tested for upload, but some are pain in the ass for download too, just like rapidshare without premium account I think (waiting between downloads, not possible to download several files at the same time etc...). But finally the sort of norm here on Queenzone is rapidshare and mediafire, and it looked like those services are the best for the moment. For my part, I'm uploading files with mediafire at the moment, and errors happened two times yet, forcing me to upload anew from the start whereas my file was uploaded at some 60% or so and after I spent more than half an hour to do this. And not the first time it happened. And moreover, Mediafire erased some of my files only ten days after I uploaded them and people were downloading those files, and they never answered to me when I aske them why. So I don't like mediafire. I sometimes uses the other services for download, never for upload. But I can't pay a premium account everywhere ! So I prefered buying only one, rapidshare, and I must say that I am very pleased with this, and my files have not been deleted yet, only if I ask them to do so. Of course that would be the case if the files were not downloaded for a long time, but it never happened for the moment. No, really, if you can't use torrents, I think it worths a rapidshare premium account. But I'm not making them free publicity ! Make you own choice. This was just my own opinion. I found this was the best way to be able to download stuff here, and I don't like to pay for nothing. The only think I can't get is video, because it is much harder work to upload it on mediafire or rapidshare, and is often offered in a torrent form here, but video is not my priority for the moment. Well, think about this and hope you will enjoy Queenzone at full in 2008 ! Regards, Olivier, France. |