QueenZone discussion #1358254

dave76 wrote: TITLE: FUN ON EARTH TRACKLISTING: 1. One Night Stand! 04:22 2. Fight Club 03:02 3. Be With You 03:10 4. Quality Street 04:25 5. I Don't Care 03:24 6. Woman You're So Beautiful! 03:38 7. Be My Gal (My Brightest Spark) 02:45 8. I Am The Drummer (In A Rock 'n' Roll Band) 02:47 9. Small 03:51 10. Say It's Not True 04:58 11. The Unblinking Eye – Abridged 04:54 12. Up 03:10 13. Smile 03:01 TITLE: the lot CONTENTS: 8 original albums and 4 compilation discs 1. Fun In Space 2. Strange Frontier 3. Happiness 4. Electric Fire 5. Shove It (The Cross) 6. Mad Bad & Dangerous to Know (The Cross) 7. Blue Rock (The Cross) 8. Fun on Earth (new album + 2 new tracks for box only) 9. 4 x discs CD compilation (title TBC) 1 DVD - content –promo videos and extras Your thoughts?

dave76 wrote: link

Queen1973 wrote: That was used for happiness(like)

MadTheSwine73 wrote: I'd love to have all of Roger's stuff on vinyl. I've only ever come across Fun In Space in stores, which I bought.

GT wrote: There will be no vinyl box set or LP.

rschoorl wrote: I would imagine it is safe to say that this box set will not be released in North America..

GT wrote: There will be no vinyl box set or LP.

Pingfah wrote: Strange that there's no vinyl for the new album, you'd have thought a limited run of maybe a coloured vinyl would go like hotcakes.

fertini wrote: what about price ??? In Italy some online stores have it at a preorder price of 162 euros .... LOT link eur 161.99 FOE link eur 24.99 LOT seems to be a bit expensive, compared to the FM Boxset some years ago and considering a Queen-related release.

Lplix wrote: I hope that Lot will be a limited max 5000/10000 pieces edition looking at the price, with some "surprise" inside, like a remaster of Shove it (for example); I buyed the european edition and the USA edition of the Cd when they comes out and i found that the european edition, if you open every track with the spectrum analysis, you will see that it seems lossy. This thing is also visible in Heaven for everyone track in the Freddie boxset. I like roger style, since i buyed my first queen album (1980), but He's not Elvis or Freddie to to justify the price indicated in the sites BOL or Mondadori; in 2001 I payed 300000 Italian lire (approx. 160 euros) for Freddie's collection, now the same price for Roger seems a little expansive even considering the lust for QPL and Universal / Island. Hoping in an Amazon great price i wait the full tracklist of the four "mysterious" cds. best wishes P.s. : Who will be next ? Brian or maybe........john ?

CruellaDeVille wrote: How good is your Italian?

rocknrolllover wrote:

Lplix wrote: I hope that Lot will be a limited max 5000/10000 pieces edition looking at the price, with some "surprise" inside, like a remaster of Shove it (for example); I buyed the european edition and the USA edition of the Cd when they comes out and i found that the european edition, if you open every track with the spectrum analysis, you will see that it seems lossy. This thing is also visible in Heaven for everyone track in the Freddie boxset. I like roger style, since i buyed my first queen album (1980), but He's not Elvis or Freddie to to justify the price indicated in the sites BOL or Mondadori; in 2001 I payed 300000 Italian lire (approx. 160 euros) for Freddie's collection, now the same price for Roger seems a little expansive even considering the lust for QPL and Universal / Island. Hoping in an Amazon great price i wait the full tracklist of the four "mysterious" cds. best wishes P.s. : Who will be next ? Brian or maybe........john ?

Your English is bad

AlexRocks wrote: If I recall correctly Belinda Carlise's latest re-releases are in the horrible digi-packaging. Cheapest crap possible. I hope Roger's stuff is not done that way. I suppose even if it is hey it could always be re-released! Lol. But no really.

MadTheSwine73 wrote: I'd love to have all of Roger's stuff on vinyl. I've only ever come across Fun In Space in stores, which I bought. Whether the box set comes out in vinyl format, I don't know, but I'd love to have his new album on vinyl!

dudeofqueen wrote: Absolutely - Brian's solo albums (except for the Starfleet Project Mini-LP) have been a complete let-down fror such a talented rock guitarist with AW being little more than a compilation of material available elsewhere. Its no wonder he'd had to turn his head towards other projects outside music as his only real solo success was piggy-backed on to the death of Freddie and the publicity that generated.

TheGuvnor wrote: PR-wise, it's really great. "Sunny day" is announced and played on the radio as the first single release from the album - but it's not possible to buy the single anywhere. But wait a minute! On the various Queen/RT websites they tell you to follow a link to a BBC program and go to 1h:07m.40s....unbelievable.

Kevinrm15 wrote: The QOL admin confirmed that Roger is indeed a Virgin......

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: Except the artwork, what added value does an analogue carrier have when the original recordings were made on digital equipment?

inu-liger wrote: If you recall, a lot of people including myself noted for example that "The Cosmos Rocks" sounded better on vinyl than it did on CD.

inu-liger wrote:

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: Except the artwork, what added value does an analogue carrier have when the original recordings were made on digital equipment?

The higher sampling rate of the recording (eg. if it was done in 96/24 or 192/24) allows the waveform to transfer more accurately when cutting, hence it would sound better than something mastered from CD (2009 vinyl reissues, anyone?). If you recall, a lot of people including myself noted for example that "The Cosmos Rocks" sounded better on vinyl than it did on CD.

Agr123456 wrote: Compilation CD?? I just hope it isn't a kind of GH CD inside this box...Because in 2 CDs you can't put every single edit/extended version that Roger solo released... I hope that CD contains track like I Wanna Testify which don't fin in other CDs...

Agr12345 wrote: A few weeks ago i took all extended/edits/b sides of Roger & The Cross and it's more than 4 CDs (I'm not counting collaborations or unreleased stuff, only which it was available thru the years on vinyl/CDs/etc) So unless they add the singles and extended version to the albums which they come from or we will miss some stuff...

RonB wrote:

Agr12345 wrote: I actually doubt that we'll get ie the 7" edit of Power To Love or maybe Foreign Sand, simply because it is an edit. They also did not include any edits on the FM solo box. In fact, I dont see that many edits popping up on other (non-Queen related) releases. There are exceptions ofcourse.

New Dark Ages is a simple edit, but Foreign Sand is a different version/mix - album has acoustic guitar under the verse whereas the single has the acoustic guitar and some piano removed.

cmsdrums wrote: New Dark Ages is a simple edit, but Foreign Sand is a different version/mix - album has acoustic guitar under the verse whereas the single has the acoustic guitar and some piano removed.

AlexRocks wrote: Holy shit! That looks fucking awesome!

tero! 48531 wrote: Why would people be expecting individual packaging, when the only comparable product was also released without individual packaging? Also, the packaging is the most expensive part of manufacturing this box set, and it IS a bit redundant when the potential buyers already own (most) of the albums anyway.

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

tero! 48531 wrote: Why would people be expecting individual packaging, when the only comparable product was also released without individual packaging? Also, the packaging is the most expensive part of manufacturing this box set, and it IS a bit redundant when the potential buyers already own (most) of the albums anyway.

If you applied your logic in this instance, tero, then you may as well say that the bulk of the box itself is redundant as most of us will have those albums anyway.... But the fact of the matter is it's not redundant at all, - not everyone owns these albums already, so would have neither the music NOR the artwork. With regards to the "only comparable product", I can only assume you mean the FM box? Fair point, but it's the only comparable set in terms of SOLO issues. When Queen 40 was released as a box, ALL of the sleeves were there - and most people would already have that..... I didn't "expect" individual artwork, but I hoped for it, as I personally don't own Blue Rock or Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know. Also, if I went just for the box, I wouldn't have the physical artwork for the new album either. At the end of the day, it's just another marketing ploy - if you want the artwork, linear notes etc, you need to buy the individual CD at £15, and if you want the extras.....it's the bulky (semi-redundant if you apply tero's logic) box.

cmsdrums wrote: The Ukraine release ridiculously didn't come out on Blu Ray, despite being filmed in HD; Brian even ludicrously tried to defend this decision by saying that he didn't view Blu Ray as a very popular format - clearly ok for the non HD Freddie Tribute concert however!!

OwenSmith wrote: The Lot listed on amazon.de for pre-order: link

Pingfah wrote: Why does everywhere except the UK seem to have this for preorder?