In first edition CDS or digital master remasters
Wich release is better
CDS printed in Holland or CDS printed in the UK?
Theres any difference between em?
The tape from the Digital Remaster Series of 1993 had a different tracklisting than the uk one.........Side One...Keep Yourself Alive,Doing All Right,Liar,Jesus,Seven Seas of Rhye.....Side Two...Great King Rat,My Fairy King,The Night Comes Down,Modern Times RocknRoll,Son and Daughter.....that was the Holland Version,and in my personal experience the audio is clearer than the uk CD,abit the tape hiss tho...if you ever get a chance to find a sealed copy on ebay,buy it and youll see what I mean.....x
pestgrid wrote:
The tape from the Digital Remaster Series of 1993 had a different tracklisting than the uk one.........Side One...Keep Yourself Alive,Doing All Right,Liar,Jesus,Seven Seas of Rhye.....Side Two...Great King Rat,My Fairy King,The Night Comes Down,Modern Times RocknRoll,Son and Daughter....x
That was the first edition of Queen I that I had. Then I lost the tape. For 20 years I've thought I was going crazy because each time Doing All Right ends I am expecting the intro to Liar.
Similar case with my first Innuendo CD. It was the Mexican edition that has the vinyl edits so, for almost 10 years being a Queen fan I always thought Bijou was only a minute long.
The UK CDs from 1986 (CDP catalogue numbers) were pressed in three different places; West Germany, UK and Holland.
Some audiophiles claim there are differences in the quality of the sound. I've been told they tend to prefer the West German pressings as those were the first made.
Personally I can't hear any difference, but what I did recently discover is that the West German pressing of A Day At The Races (CDP 7 46208 2) has the album intro as a separate track to Tie Your Mother Down, whereas the UK pressing does not.
Early cassette releases often juggled up the track order. I guess Queen 1 remained in print (albeit on the FAME budget label) for years so retained that order. I can't think of any other cassette versions that stuck to the original 'sides of equal length' order.
But yes.. I was the other way around - I had a tape of the LP and then upgraded to the actual proper tape (hey, it was the 80s!) and was confused by the different track order.
8 tracks shuffled them up even more!