I stole this idea from Jam Monkey's excellent thread: link
Self-explanatory really.
In a truely definitive collection of the first Queen album?
Here is my Beatles "Rubber Soul" example:
Drive My Car (UK 2009 Remastered series)
Norwegian Wood (UK 2009 Remastered series)
You Won't See Me (UK 2009 Remastered series)
Nowhere Man (UK 1999 - Yellow Submarine Song Book)
Think For Yourself (UK 1999 - Yellow Submarine Song Book)
The Word (UK 2009 Remastered series)
Michelle (UK 2009 Remastered series)
What Goes On (UK 2009 Remastered series)
Girl (UK 2009 Remastered series)
I'm Looking Through You (UK 2009 Remastered series)
In My Life (UK 2009 Remastered series)
Wait (UK 2009 Remastered series)
If I Needed Someone (UK 2009 Remastered series)
Run For Your Life (UK 2009 Remastered series)
Quick question just for clarification - Are you talking only which mastering we like better? Or can you choose alternative takes, such as (and these are only for illustrative purposes only)
Keep Yourself Alive (Long Lost Retake)
Doing All Right (BBC Session)
Great King Rat (Album Version - 2011 Remaster), etc. etc. etc.?
I personally had started (as one of my many Queen projects to keep me entertained a "Best Of" for each album...using the album versions vs. the alternative takes.
Fair enough. For the debut, I preferred the 2011 remaster except for Doing All Right and The Night Comes Down where I enjoyed the 1991 Hollywood remaster better.
Ive always enjoyed the original 1973 LP,but the original 8-track is very good if you ever get a chance to listen to it,and the winner goes to the 2011 SACD version.it really is like listening to the vinyl,but without the surface noise...how it sounds in the studio.....I have a fondness for the UK Digital Remaster Series,another really good one is the 2001 Japanese Mini Vinyl release...
So is anybody going to listen to every track from every release of the first album and compile a definitive list of their preference?
I'm sorry but I really can't see this happening unless you have absolutely nothing else going on in your life.
Or perhaps I have misunderstood.
Well you don't have to..but I'm sure over the years, big fans have gotten a few of the remasters and generally already have favorites...so it's not a new project. I don't have the Japan remasters though so my answers must be tempered with that in mind.