| tjbarrett96 28.09.2008 15:16 |
So....what rarities and general Queen collectors' items have you accumulated over the years? I've only been a fan for about 3 years now, but I think I have a steady collection started: Albums: Queen - Foreign CD, American LP Queen II - American CD Sheer Heart Attack - Foreign CD A Night At The Opera - American CD, American LP A Day At The Races - American CD, American LP News Of The World - American CD Jazz - American CD, American LP Live Killers - American 2-CD Set The Game - American CD Flash Gordon - American CD Greatest Hits - American LP Fun In Space - American Promo LP Hot Space - Foreign CD The Works - American CD A Kind Of Magic - American CD Live Magic - American CD The Miracle - Foreign CD Innuendo - American CD Rick Rubin Remixes - American CD Greatest Hits (Red) - American CD Five Live EP - American CD Made In Heaven - American CD The Platinum Collection - American 3-CD Set Freddie Mercury Solo - American 3-CD Set Pre-Ordained - American CD Bootleg Lover Of Life, Singer Of Songs - American 2-CD Set Artist Karaoke Series: Queen Volume 1 - American CD The Cosmos Rocks - Foreign CD (QOL Exclusive Tour Edition) Singles: You're My Best Friend - American 45 Play The Game - American 45 Another One Bites The Dust - American 45 (B-Side is Don't Try Suicide) Need Your Loving Tonight - American 45 Say It's Not True - Foreign CD C-lebrity - Foreign CD, Foreign 45 (Picture Disc) Video: Live In Budapest - VHS Greatest Hits (Red) - VHS Champions Of The World - VHS Greatest Flix III - VHS Becoming Queen - DVD The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert - 2-DVD Greatest Video Hits 1 - 2-DVD Classic Albums: The Making Of 'A Night At The Opera' - DVD Live At Wembley Stadium - 2-DVD Greatest Video Hits 2 - 2-DVD On Fire: Live At The Bowl - 2-DVD Return Of The Champions - DVD Under Review 1973-1980 - DVD Live In Japan 1985 - DVD Bootleg Under Review 1980-1991 - DVD Lover Of Life, Singer Of Songs - 2-DVD Queen Rock Montreal & Live Aid - 2-DVD Books: Classic Queen - Sheet Music Book Greatest Hits (Red) - Sheet Music Book Clothing: T-Shirt - Front: Queen Color Crest | Back: Band Member Names T-Shirt - Front: Queen Logo with 'At The Beeb' Picture | Back: Sketched Queen Crest T-Shirt - Front: News Of The World Logo | Back: 1977 Tour Advertisement Memorabilia: Figurine - Freddie Mercury, Magic Tour Figurine - Freddie Mercury, Live Killers Poster - Lover Of Life, Singer Of Songs Toothbrush - We Will Rock You ToothTunes Framed Picture - Commemorative Picture and General Discography By 'American', I mean 'Hollywood Records' or 'Elektra Records' By 'Foreign', I mean 'Parlophone Records' or 'EMI Records' All Videos are American-made. Do you have any criticism as to what I need to add to my collection? What are your collections? Cheers! |
| Winter Land Man 14.10.2008 03:25 |
This is basically what I remember. I think about 5 vinyl singles got covered with cat piss at some point which really pissed me off. I don't take them out and play them much, as I usually have them on my computer. The CD albums and cassettes I listen to in the car sometimes though. I have quite a bit of the 'Too Much Love's Will Kill You' cassette singles (US), I bought them all at the same time on eBay. I have a few Headlong CD promos! I've got doubles of albums. I don't even want to bother going through my DVDs right now. I have a few of the Classic Queen Promo CDs from 1989 (one was even stolen from me!). I've even got the Mr. Sad Guy bootleg... but it's not official, so I didn't list it. I got Pre-Ordained as well. Most of this stuff I bought a few years back when I had this goddamn urge to buy things. I spent like $300.00 in one week at one point. Albums Queen - CD Queen II - CD Sheer Heart Attack - CD A Night At The Opera - CD A Night At The Opera (Deluxe Edition) - CD A Day At The Races - CD News Of The World - CD Jazz - CD The Game - Cassette Flash - CD Hot Space - Cassette The Works - CD A Kind Of Magic - CD The Miracle - Cassette (Hollywood), cassette (Capitol) Innuendo - CD (Hollywood), CD (Parlophone) Made In Heaven - Cassette (Hollywood), cassette (Parlophone) Compilations Greatest Hits - Vinyl (1981 US) Classic Queen - CD (1989 US Promo CD) Greatest Hits I & II package - CDs Classic Queen - CD Platinum Collection - CDs The A-Z Of Queen, Vol. 1 - CD Greatest Hits (WWRY Edition) - CD Stone Cold Classics - CD Other Queen At The BBC - CD Live At Wembly '86 - CDs Queen Live At The Bowl Queen Rock Montreal Singles - I might be wrong on which countries some of them originally came from, I don't really care about that! Keep Yourself Alive - 7" US Single Keep Yourself Alive / Another One Bites The Dust - 7" US Spun Gold Single Liar / Killer Queen - 7" US Spun Gold Single Killer Queen / Flick Of The Wrist - 7" US Single Bohemian Rhapsody - 7" US Single You're My Best Friend - 7" US Single Somebody To Love - 7" US Single We Are The Champions / We Will Rock You - 7" US Single Fat Bottomed Girls / Bicycle Race - 7" US Single Another One Bites The Dust - 7" US Single Play The Game - 7" US Single Crazy Little Thing Called Love - 7" US Single Need Your Loving Tonight - 7" US Single Flash - 7" UK Single Body Language - 7" US Single Under Pressure - 7" US Single Radio Ga Ga - 7" US Single Radio Ga Ga / A Kind Of Magic - Euro CD Promo Single It's A Hard Life - 7" US Single Hammer To Fall - 7" US Single Hammer To Fall - CD Single Promo Re-Release from 92 or something One Vision - US 7" Single One Vision - US 7" Promo Single A Kind Of Magic - 12" US Single Pain Is So Close To Pleasure - 12" US Single Breakthru' - CD Promo Single Breakthru' - CD Promo Single with four tracks Breakthru' - UK Cassette Single I Want It All - Cassette US Single Innuendo - CD US Promo Single Innuendo - CD UK Single Headlong - CD US Promo Single Headlong - CD UK Single Headlong - US Cassette Single I'm Going Slightly Mad - CD UK Single The Show Must Go On - US Cassette Single Heaven For Everyone - US Cassette Single Heaven For Everyone - US CD Promo A Winter's Tale - UK CD Single (four songs) Too Much Love Will Kill You - UK Cassette Single Too Much Love Will Kill You - US Cassette Single Too Much Love Will Kill You - US CD Single Too Much Love Will Kill You - US CD Promo Too Much Love Will Kill You - UK CD Single You Don't Fool Me - UK CD Single You Don't Fool Me - US 12" Single Freddie Albums Mr. Bad Guy - US Cassette Mr. Bad Guy - CD (don't know which country, I'd have to check but I'm lazy!... could be Canada though) Barcelona - UK CD Barcelona - US CD (from 92) The Remixes - CD The Great Pretender - CD The Freddie Mercury Album - CD Lover Of Life, Singer Of Songs - UK Import Freddie Singles Love Kills - 7" US Love Kills - 7" US Promo I Was Born To Love You - US 7" promo I Was Born To Love You - US 12" I Was Born To Love You - US 12" Living On My Own - US 7" Living On My Own - US CD Promo (1993) Living On My Own - UK CD (1993) Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow - UK 12" The Great Pretender - UK 7" The Great Pretender - US 7" The Great Pretender - UK CD (1993) The Great Pretender - US CD Promo (1993) Barcelona - UK 7" Barcelona - UK 7" (1992) How Can I Go On - UK 7" (1992) The Golden Boy - UK 7" In My Defence - UK 7" Queen+Paul Album Cosmos - UK CD Single C-Lebrity - US CD Promo ================================================ Here is what I'm LOOKING FOR! Scandal - US Cassette Scandal - US 7" Scandal - US CD pink disc Scandal - US CD Promo These Are The Days Of Our Lives - US Cassette These Are The Days Of Our Lives - US Cassette Promo A Winter's Tale - UK CD (the one with the gift looking sleeve) I Can't Live With You - US CD Promo Stone Cold Crazy - US CD Promo It's Late - US 7" Jealousy - US 7" |
| inu-liger 14.10.2008 03:50 |
Scandal - US 7" I have this :-) But it's not for sale! |
| Winter Land Man 14.10.2008 03:53 |
inu-liger wrote: Scandal - US 7" I have this :-) But it's not for sale! Jerk [img=/images/smiley/msn/tounge_smile.gif][/img] I'll give you my entire collection for it! [img=/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif][/img] J/k. I'm noticing there's not a lot of stuff on eBay anymore. |
| david (galashiels) 14.10.2008 17:05 |
everyones is bigger than mine. |
| maxpower 15.10.2008 10:59 |
Queen 7-inch UK Single Releases Don't Stop Me Now Crazy Little Thing Called Love Flash Radio Ga Ga I Want To Break Free x 2 (Both Freddie Sleeves Gold & White Writing) It's A Hard Life A Kind of Magic Who Wants To Live Forever I Want It All Breakthru The Invisible Man (Clear Vinyl) Scandal (Poster Bag) The Miracle The Show Must Go On Too Much Love Wil Kill You (Pink Vinyl) Let Me Live (Picture Disc) 12-inch UK Breakthru Headlong (White Label Promo) You Don't Fool Me (White Vinyl) Vinyl Albums Sheer Heart Attack A Night At The Opera A Day At The Races A Kind of Magic Innuendo Greatest Hits II Box of Tricks Box Set (1992) Cd Singles I Want It All (Picture CD) Breakthru Scandal The Miracle Innuendo (Explosive Version) I'm Going Slightly Mad Headlong Bo-Rhap/These Are The Days Who Wants To/Friends Will Be Friends (Dutch Import) Five Live E.P Featuring Somebody To Love With George Michael Heaven For Everone Cd's 1 & 2 A Winters Tale Xmas Box (Still Sealed) A Winters Tale (picture sleeve) Too Much Love Will Kill You Let Me Live You Don't Fool Me Videos (VHS) Greatest Flix We Will Rock You The Works Video EP Live In Rio (1985 Original) Live In Budapest (1987 Original) The Magic Years 1,2,3 Rare Live Live At Wembley (1990) Greatest Flix II The Freddie Mercury Tribute (1992 Original) Champions of The World Made In Heaven The Films Greatest Flix III All albums on CD from Queen to The Cosmos Rocks except Greatest Hits III (a total rip off) Solo Stuff - Freddie Mercury Albums Mr. Bad Guy (1985 Original) Barcelona (Cassette Album 1988 Original) The Freddie Mercury Albums (With Postcards) The Freddie Mercury Solo Collection Singles Love Kills The Great Pretender (1987 original) The Great Pretender (1987 12") In My Defence (CD Single 1) Living On My Own (12" Vinyl) Brian May Albums Back To The Light Live At The Brixton Academy & Vhs Video too Another World Singles Driven By You Too Much Love Will Kill You (Red Pill Pack) Resurrection CD's 1&2 Resurrection 12" Picture Disc Vinyl Last Horizon (Pop Up Sleeve) The Amazing Spiderman Business Roger Taylor Albums Electric Fire Singles Nazis 1994 (12" Clear Vinyl) Foreign Sand (12" Picture Disc) Happiness? (7" Green Vinyl) Happiness? (CD Single) DVDs Wembley, Milton Keynes, Video Hits 1&2, Return Of The Champions I used to collect all the time but haven't done so since the mid 90's I may one day start again |
| The Fairy King 16.10.2008 10:45 |
Yeah sure, your e-penis is much bigger than mine.... :P |
| Brian_Mays_Wig 16.10.2008 11:21 |
I aint writing it all down, but its all on the house insurance for £5000-6000. |
| Sebastian 16.10.2008 13:16 |
A Night at the Opera Jazz A Day at the Races That's it. |
| The Exhibitionist 16.10.2008 18:20 |
Only a good stack of LPs and all but 4 albums on iTunes...Which reminds me, I must work on my collection more. |
| Erin 16.10.2008 19:30 |
I've been working on cataloging our collection lately. I'm almost done. |
| Rick 18.10.2008 08:37 |
Well, what I'm most proud of are the following: - Killer Queen book - 40+ photographs of Queen live in Liverpool 1978/1979 - 100+ tapes of live material (Queen, Brian/Roger solo, The Cross, interviews, soundchecks etc.) - One rare video. The concert isn't rare, but this version IS! :) Unfortunately, I can't trade it, but hey, you asked for personal collections, right? :P |
| Winter Land Man 19.10.2008 03:45 |
Erin wrote: I've been working on cataloging our collection lately. I'm almost done. Hurry up Erin! Before another Greatest Hits comes out! [img=/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif][/img] I'm probably going to get jealous of your collection though. Mine is bigger than average, but I know you probably have a million more things. Doesn't Pieter have a Freddie cardboard cut out? |
| Erin 19.10.2008 13:38 |
Play The Game wrote: Doesn't Pieter have a Freddie cardboard cut out? A Great Pretender one? I wish! We do have a Brian cardboard cut out, though... |
| Winter Land Man 19.10.2008 14:58 |
Erin wrote:Play The Game wrote: Doesn't Pieter have a Freddie cardboard cut out?A Great Pretender one? I wish! We do have a Brian cardboard cut out, though... Yeah, someone had The Great Pretender one. They were willing to sell it to me but I think they were asking like $200 and I didn't have it at the time. |
| onevsion 19.10.2008 22:25 |
After years and years of collecting I'm almost "complete" (and satisfied :-) ) Wich means: Vinyl LP's All Queen lp's (including Made In Heaven; rest is crap IMHO) & Solo lp's in NM condition. (I only need: Happiness? numbered vinyl, got it once but it wasn't Mint enough:-) ) Queen single releases. Every song wich was released as a single with a picture sleeve. Not all formats but for each song just one single(the one I liked most / was most affordable) All in Near Mint condition. For example: These Are The Days Of Our Lives US 1991 cassette single. Seven Seas Of Rhye (3" cd single > it's much cheaper than it's 7" picture sleeve variant AND it contains two nice lossless tracks. We Will Rock You (live) (7" issued only in Japan with a picture sleeve) Love Of My Life (dutch picture sleeve; I can't afford the spanish version :-) ) Only item I miss is Staying Power (wich was released in Japan with a picture sleeve) Freddie Mercury solo box set. After buying this 10 cd / 2 dvd set I quit collecting Freddie Mercury stuff (who needs all those 12" single mixes / edits when it's all in here?). I only kept the original vinyl LP's. Mint of course. Promo posters some nice ones: Who Wants To Live Forever, Headlong etc. Don't really collect them, but they are nice anyway. Official Videos / DVD's All concerts, and the promo videos. Concerts After years of trading, I decided to downsize my collection. I kept the best, about 70, concerts (sound wise (masters, or low gens) / performance wise / or personal memories) and all the videos (at least the ones with Freddie). Threw away (yes... I know) all my Poor+ / VG- / VG rated audio shows because I never listen to them anyway. I did keep my own masters / concert tickets / photos of course. Not really a Queen item but nice anyway: Vintage deadstock 1978 unworn (not anymore :-) ) pair of Asics wrestling shoes. Excact same shoes Freddie Mercury was wearing at some concerts in 1978 (the white asics with black stripes; not a pair of "retro shoes") Always loved those shoes. That's about it I think. |
| onevsion 19.10.2008 22:34 |
Rick wrote: Well, what I'm most proud of are the following: - Killer Queen book - 40+ photographs of Queen live in Liverpool 1978/1979 - 100+ tapes of live material (Queen, Brian/Roger solo, The Cross, interviews, soundchecks etc.) - One rare video. The concert isn't rare, but this version IS! :) Unfortunately, I can't trade it, but hey, you asked for personal collections, right? :P Only 1 rare video ? :-) |
| shieldmatron 20.10.2008 20:46 |
Since I'm in the mood to make a list... Queen albums - Queen - CD Queen II - CD Shear Heart Attack - CD A Night At The Opera - LP, CD A Day At The Races - CD News of the World - LP, CD Jazz - LP, CD Live Killers - CD The Game - LP, cassette, CD Flash Gordon - cassette, CD Hot Space - CD The Works - CD A Kind of Magic - CD The Miracle - CD Innuendo - CD Made In Heaven - CD Live At Wembley - CD The Platinum Collection - CD Solo albums - Freddie Mercury - Mr. Bad Guy - CD The Great Pretender - cassette, CD Barcelona - cassette, CD Brian May - Back To The Light - cassette, CD Another World - CD Roger Taylor - Fun In Space - cassette, CD Strange Frontier - CD Electric Fire - CD Happiness? - CD Other Albums & bootlegs - Queen At The Beeb London 1975 (Italian CD of Hammersmith Odeon Christmas Eve concert) Rock In Japan The Royal Philharmonic Plays Queens Rhapsody numerous downloaded concerts from QZ Video - A Night At The Opera - DVD On Fire - Live At The Bowl - DVD Greatest Video Hits 1 - DVD Greatest Video Hits 2 - DVD Live At Wembley - VHS, DVD Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert - VHS Queen Rock Monteral - Blu-Ray We Will Rock You - VHS Queen The Magic Years - Vols. 1, 2, 3 - VHS Live in Budapest - VHS Greatest Video Hits 1 - VHS (red cover) Greatest Video Hits 2 - VHS (blue cover) Rare Live: A Concert Through Time & Space - VHS numerous downloaded video concerts from QZ, etc Biggles: Adventures In Time (movie) - VHS Books - Queen - The New Visual Documentary Queen comic book - The Unauthorized Biography - Celebrity Comics |
| Rick 21.10.2008 05:40 |
Ducksoup wrote:Rick wrote: Well, what I'm most proud of are the following: - Killer Queen book - 40+ photographs of Queen live in Liverpool 1978/1979 - 100+ tapes of live material (Queen, Brian/Roger solo, The Cross, interviews, soundchecks etc.) - One rare video. The concert isn't rare, but this version IS! :) Unfortunately, I can't trade it, but hey, you asked for personal collections, right? :POnly 1 rare video ? :-) Yep. The rest is quite common. I did have some rare things in the past, but they were shared here quite soon after that. Still, I'm very proud of this video. Never saw this version before and the quality is excellent! It';s either a master clone or 1st gen video. Okay, and I have one uncirculating audio recording. Maybe I'll trade that one in the future. :) |
| Wiley 22.10.2008 13:20 |
My collection is not impressive by Internet-Queen-Fan-Community standards but nobody I know has one like it for any artist. My friends are not collectors. I was lucky enough to get a Made In Heaven CD that has the original version of Let Me Live (which I shared with everyone years ago) and a Back Chat/Calling All Girls 12" single. Both from my country, Mexico. Apart from that, I suppose everything is standard. I have a Starfleet Project mini LP that has a golden stamp on the sleeve (can't remember what it is) and a couple of East German Greatest Hits albums with white Queen II'ish covers I got from a friend. |
| Dubroc 27.10.2008 06:33 |
Well, it took me a while to put it all on line: freewebs.com/dvd2000 |