| blueviolin 09.11.2013 17:51 |
I think it sounds perfect. For example I like that in the album Happiness?, the songs are a bit longer, and we hear more details ( one of my favourite improvements: 'Loneliness') . The track 'Nazis 1994' is more enjoyable as well. Who cares about the errors? The music is beautiful. Spotting errors like this is very cruel to the people spending months of their lifes producing it. The end of Life changes has always sounded awful, happy it is skipped. The minute details of Rough Justice cannot be heard. Just read. Good old LPs... The question: why is someone coughing after Roger's scream in Turn on the Tv? Ps. Listening to Baby it's alright. Sounding awesome. Keyboards/strings/organ awesome. Pps. People, buy it!! Do you know the title of the fifth track of Roger's new album... Well, put it here between brackets: " ........." , about all these errors.... |
| Cockeye 09.11.2013 18:04 |
Can you come and be my manager at work? I'd love to be commended for making mistakes and to work for someone with ridiculously low expectations. |
| blueviolin 09.11.2013 18:10 |
Cockeye wrote: Can you come and be my manager at work? I'd love to be commended for making mistakes and to work for someone with ridiculously low expectations.Sure |
| brians wig 09.11.2013 18:34 |
Who cares about the errors? Have you HEARD "LIfe Changes" on Blue Rock? The bleedin end has been cut off BADLY!!!! |
| Sebastian 09.11.2013 19:33 |
blueviolin wrote: Who cares about the errors?Loads of people. You don't? Good for you. But those who do, have reasons for it, good reasons IMO. blueviolin wrote: Spotting errors like this is very cruel to the people spending months of their lifes producing it.It's not cruel if those months of their lives were spent doing a mediocre job. If they honestly couldn't do better, then they should've hired other people, full stop. |
| cmsdrums 10.11.2013 03:23 |
To say you think "it sounds perfect" is just daft. It's been factually proved to not be perfect and therefore it isn't. Fine, you may not be bothered by the errors, but don't act as if they don't matter and almost enhance the product!! |
| mooghead 10.11.2013 03:45 |
"Spotting errors like this is very cruel to the people spending months of their lifes producing it" What a stupid thing to say.... |
| chromant 10.11.2013 04:47 |
- If a buy a Ferrari without a tire, or a seat, who cares? It's still a beautiful car...good point, yeah... - If a buy e retrospective...RETRO...it means I buy what actually got released in those times, so a nice exact sonic representation of the original songs. The "rewrite history" (i.e. change songs lenghths, mix, etc.) approach is really lame. - It's in Roger's and Brian's power to produce crappy releases (and leaving John to earn a shitload of money by simply agree) but it's in our power to point out the errors. In the pre-internet days this was something I culd understand, but now with all the information available, I really don't get it. Big majors do screenings test before they release a feature film, why can't Queen Productions do the same with their releases? On a positive note the works of Rhys Thomas recently have been really good |
| Sebastian 10.11.2013 06:05 |
I think blueviolin is the perfect customer: early in the morning, he/she goes to a Starbucks in the morning, orders a large coffee and gets instead a small one with a phlegm swimming around in the middle of it. He/she doesn't complain, pays full price for it and then criticises those clients who, under the same circumstances, would be understandably outraged. Then a bus ride: full price ticket, but the conductor leaves him/her somewhere else and the seats have vomit all over them. Another customer gets upset, but not blueviolin: not only does he/she enjoy the way the bus ride is 'perfect', but he/she also condemns the other passenger for pointing up a mistake and being unfair to the poor driver who's spent months of his life learning to miss the right stations and letting the seats get more and more colourful. Gets to work, and it's payday, but he/she only gets half of the salary and some of it is actually in fake notes and a cheque that doesn't clear. He/she then scolds those employees who complain about it because what the company did to them is allegedly 'perfect' and it's cruel to point up errors. Back home after another doomed (but 'perfect' anyway) bus trip, he/she finds out there's a rat in the kitchen. He/she calls pest control and they make him/her go to a hotel for a day or two in order to dispose of the rat and scrutinise the house to see if there are more. At the hotel, he/she keeps getting served the wrong food, finds out his/her single-bed room's been double-booked so he/she has to share it with a flatulent oversized drunk who shags anything and everything in their sleep, yet blueviolin doesn't complain and praises the hotel for being 'perfect', looking down to those guests who dared pointing there were some mistakes. Back home, the exterminator didn't kill the rat and they actually stole some of the property. 'They're perfect', says blueviolin, congratulating the burglar for the hours of sincere effort put into robbing him/her and having the decency of urinating all over the carpet. Perfect indeed. |
| inu-liger 10.11.2013 06:20 |
Sebastian's post totally made me think of this classic jingle: "'Doo doo doo doo, doo-doo, do-Wah!' It doesn't matter what comes, fresh goes better in life, with Mentos fresh and full of life! Nothing gets to you, staying fresh staying cool, with Mentos, fresh and full of life! Fresh goes better, Mentos freshness, fresh goes better with Mentos, fresh and full of life! Mentos, the freshmaker!" |
| Pim Derks 10.11.2013 06:28 |
The cough in Turn On The TV was always there...? |
| cmsdrums 10.11.2013 07:47 |
Pim Derks wrote: The cough in Turn On The TV was always there...?Yes, it's part of the track |
| blueviolin 10.11.2013 08:42 |
brians wig wrote: Who cares about the errors? Have you HEARD "LIfe Changes" on Blue Rock? The bleedin end has been cut off BADLY!!!!Yes, it's awful |
| blueviolin 10.11.2013 08:44 |
blueviolin wrote:I mean, the new cutting cuts the awful part originally on Blue Rock, which I heard, in fact.brians wig wrote: Who cares about the errors? Have you HEARD "LIfe Changes" on Blue Rock? The bleedin end has been cut off BADLY!!!!Yes, it's awful |
| Rien 10.11.2013 11:47 |
This thread was about the GOOD things on The Lot, right? Well I am listening to the solo singles cd's and I am blown away. with JOY. |
| pestgrid 10.11.2013 15:59 |
Thanx for that one Rodg..... ;) |
| snelly1 10.11.2013 16:31 |
I Wanna a Testify and Turn on the TV, like I have never heard them before. I remember buying this when it came out ('77/78?) and all I've had since then is an old 7 inch to listen to. What great songs., never appreciated just how great the guitar and bass are. |
| soxtalon 11.11.2013 13:12 |
Question for those who have it...I haven't heard any mention about how Roger's version of Whole House Rockin' Is? I heard That QPR's Small was better than RT's for example but nothing of Whole House Rockin? For that matter, I'd love to hear more about the album (and other tracks) beyond how many errors there are! |
| Pim Derks 11.11.2013 14:13 |
Whole House Rockin' is similar to the live version RT did with the SAS Band. It's just an old fashioned rocker in a style similar to No More Fun, I Am The Drummer or Keep A Knockin'. |
| soxtalon 12.11.2013 06:45 |
Thanks :). I always wanted to hear a studio version of Roger's ideas....better worse I the same a QPRs? |
| Ron 12.11.2013 18:00 |
Ok, yes, there are some (understatement) flaws with this set, but I do like the stand alone versions on Happiness? and Electric Fire. No idea why they did this but it is a nice twist. Although adding at least 1-2 secs of silence after each track on EF was perhaps a bit too much sometimes. Still, having stand alone versions is cool! |
| . 13.11.2013 15:09 |
^ and you did get that extra copy of Strange Frontier |
| Ron 13.11.2013 15:40 |
^ yes true, just imagine how mega rare my copy will be in the next few years. Who doesn't want to have that box which doesn't have that Life Changes error! |
| PEG 14.11.2013 02:59 |
Me and my kids like to headbang to the extended version of Top Of The World Ma.... Man On Fire (live) is brilliant... I have always had a soft-spot for Love Lies Bleeding, and love the remix. Something that surprised me though, was the Shove It disc tracklist. I really thought the other version of the album (was it the USA release?) would be included, with Heaven for Everyone (RT vocal), and Feel The Force - leaving The 2nd Shelf Mix for the singles disc (which it was anyway). It is a better version of the album IMO :D |
| Rien 15.11.2013 11:22 |
I have just quickly compared the tracks from The Lot (studio albums) with the Original studio albums. I must say, the sound on The Lot is superb. (besides the errors and speed of course, but that's another thread) If the errors are corrected, this box is a kind of magic. |
| Cockeye 15.11.2013 11:53 |
I can only listen to it on Spotify at the moment - but I have to say that streaming at high res at 320kps the sound is stunning. That Denniz Pop mix of Shove It makes my teeth rattle! |