QueenZone discussion #1193696

hillerqueen wrote: Absolute Greatest.....what?  Exaggeration and potentially misleading title  I'd have called it "All that your given is what you've been given a 1000 times before" Pic absolute youngest......I think they should have just used the crest.

Erin wrote: I don't think it's too bad.  They could've put the crest in the blank space, though.  At least, it's better than another arched over pic of Freddie. [img=/images/smiley/msn/wink_smile.gif][/img] With crest... [img=link

queenpaulo wrote: i think we have to worry with the musics they'll put on Cd and no with the cover! however... the pic stay good, i THINK

pittrek wrote:

queenpaulo wrote: i think we have to worry with the musics they'll put on Cd and no with the cover! however... the pic stay good, i THINK

Well I'm afraid the cover will be more interesting than the musical content of the CD :-)

Pim Derks wrote: It looks like one of those cheap compilation cd's you can buy at groceries, pharmacies and huge supermarketchains which include material by famous artists who had a licensing problem at some point in their career (Genesis, Sparks, The Beach Boys etc) so that almost anyone can put out a CD with tracks by them.

Benn wrote: Anyone here actually going to buy it? Regardless of the quality of the cover, SURELY no one needs to have their all-time greatest 20 hits on another CD, do they? Would make a nice drinks coaster I guess......

pittrek wrote: I'm still trying to persuade myself to buying the single collection box sets.

Holly2003 wrote: It's a bizarre release really. Firstly, it's the kind of CD grannies buy for their grandchildren, even when -- especially when -- they have no idea what their grandchildren's taste in music is. Queen greatest hits compilations have become like boxes of chocolate, or socks, or soap -- ideal Xmas presents when you really can't be arsed buying anything with any thought behind it. So what makes this so odd is that Xmas is a long way away, and when that market rolls round, this CD will either be in the bargain bins or gone altogether. It's also been released at the same time as  another compilation, the singles box sets: where's the logic in that? Does QP think the market is either so broad that they can infinitely churn out compliations, or is there a select smaller market with bottomless pockets that just loves to hear the same songs, just in a slightly different packaging? And what's with the CD format anyway? Don't they know that CDs are dying a death? Which takes me to the download market: who's going to downlad this album, when all the songs are already available as downloads from previous releases? As for the picture, I agree it looks like one of those CD covers for an interview disc. It might work as the cover for a Queen: the first ten years compilation, but it probably won't appeal to the market this CD is aimed at. But here's the strangest thing about it: QP know that they have a bunch of customers just dying to buy Queen stuff -- us lot. All it would take would be the slightest incentive, some kind of B-Sides bonus disc, like U2 did a while back, for us to buy it. But they haven't even thought of that market. I've given up being angry at Queen (Productions) -- life's too short -- it's much more fun just to laugh at them helplessly floundering around, 20 years behind everyone else, still trying to flog the same old product in the same old format. Bizarre.  

dragon-fly wrote: It's just absurd- the whole thing.  I wonder- who got such a "bright" idea of this compilation? It must be the most stupid move in music business.   

cmsdrums wrote:

  dragon-fly wrote: It's just absurd- the whole thing.  I wonder- who got such a "bright" idea of this compilation? It must be the most stupid move in music business.   

Unfortunately it isn't a stupid idea in the music "business" because it will sell by the shed load (which QP and its associats will think justifies its release).  Unfortunately that's the exact reasoning behind this release - "business", as opposed to artistic merit, musical variation, excitement of fans over new releases etc.. etc.. Unless there's the surprise of bonus unreleased stuff (which there won;t be if we can supposedly guess the tracklisting) then I wont buy it

cmsdrums wrote:

  dragon-fly wrote: It's just absurd- the whole thing.  I wonder- who got such a "bright" idea of this compilation? It must be the most stupid move in music business.   

Unfortunately it isn't a stupid idea in the music "business" because it will sell by the shed load (which QP and its associats will think justifies its release).  Unfortunately that's the exact reasoning behind this release - "business", as opposed to artistic merit, musical variation, excitement of fans over new releases etc.. etc.. Unless there's the surprise of bonus unreleased stuff (which there won;t be if we can supposedly guess the tracklisting) then I wont buy it

Benn wrote: dragon-fly, Incorrect - Greatest Hits did not feature any music from Hot Space, The Works, A Kind Of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo or Made In Heaven. All this release does is to pare-down the three volumes of Greatest Hits into one package, which, should anyone really want to have done that, would already have done by simply ripping the tracks from any of the multiple formats these tracks appear on and creating their own disc on their own PC. Long and short is there is no decent market within the existing fan base for this.  The target is non-Queen fans and casual music buyers. QPL once again sacrificing the requests of the devoted for the $ from the nobodies.

Benn wrote: dragon-fly, Incorrect - Greatest Hits did not feature any music from Hot Space, The Works, A Kind Of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo or Made In Heaven. All this release does is to pare-down the three volumes of Greatest Hits into one package, which, should anyone really want to have done that, would already have done by simply ripping the tracks from any of the multiple formats these tracks appear on and creating their own disc on their own PC. Long and short is there is no decent market within the existing fan base for this.  The target is non-Queen fans and casual music buyers. QPL once again sacrificing the requests of the devoted for the $ from the nobodies.

vadenuez wrote: Well, I like to give friends & family presents I know THEY like, not something I like. That's pretty selfish. BTW, that's more or less the attitude from QPL these days.

  Mr Prime Jive wrote: Given the choosen picture (by staff, JB, Brain or poor Rog') I would have done the artwork this way :

Raf wrote: Not their worst, but not good either... It's probably better than QRM, Live In Ukraine and the C-Lebrity single :P

rhyeking wrote: Replying to this post just clear some erick mckay's six-of-the-same-threads out. I hope no one is too devastated.

dragon-fly wrote:

rhyeking wrote: Replying to this post just clear some erick mckay's six-of-the-same-threads out. I hope no one is too devastated.

I just wonder- when administration is going to ban him?

Mr Prime Jive wrote: Given the choosen picture (by staff, JB, Brain or poor Rog') I would have done the artwork this way : [img=link

pittrek wrote:

  dragon-fly wrote:  

      rhyeking wrote:   Replying to this post just clear some erick mckay's six-of-the-same-threads out. I hope no one is too devastated.  

I just wonder- when administration is going to ban him?

Why ?

Freddies Lunch Box wrote: besides MIH.... all of the covers look ama-fckin-ture when freddie left us

Hadrian wrote:

Freddies Lunch Box wrote: besides MIH.... all of the covers look ama-fckin-ture when freddie left us

Totally agree.  Only decent ones were Queen Rocks and Live At The Bowl, and that wasn't too great.  I still think that Return of the Champions is by far the worst one.  The shot for the back side of the booklet would have been far better