These are amazing news, not only for Pink Floyd fans but for music fans in general. So much music and so many hours of video...
But to be fair with Queen, they've released much more live material than Pink Floyd.
On topic, excellent news, indeed.
Brain Damage UK has a detailed breakdown of the box set, and my god did my jaw drop. They even outdid the Immersion box sets they did for the DSOTM/WYWH/Wall 5 years ago link
I have to be honest, I thought their immersion box sets were a bit of a rip off,
A Discovery edition, an experience edition and the immersion edition.
I found the price jump from the experience to the immersion edition a little too high for my wallet. and yet it still somehow managed to omit stuff people wanted while including a scarf.. a scarf?
The new set does look exhaustive... high prices though
Amazon is selling it for 378 pounds in the UK or $700 in the USA.
If Queen released everything that existed and packaged it in a personally signed box at that price, people would complain it was steep.
I thought the $700 seems fair, especially for a 27-disc set of unreleased stuff. At least they'll release an individual set separately early next year, in a slightly lower price.
We may never hear a official recording of John Deacon singing some lines from his songs he wrote or some live recordings of Doug or Barry... But now we will get an official recording of a very rare song of Nick Mason singing in Scream thy last scream and their unofficial first guitarist Rado Klose
Killer_queenIII wrote:
I thought the $700 seems fair, especially for a 27-disc set of unreleased stuff. At least they'll release an individual set separately early next year, in a slightly lower price.
If you divide the price through the number of discs, it is indeed reasonable, BUT as a lump sum it's waaaay beyond the budget of the average consumer. I think they would get more sales if, aside from the big box and the 2-disc compilation, they would also have the contents of the big set divided into, say, four or five separate sets at 1/4 or 1/5 the price of the big one.
As I mentioned earlier, they will have the contents released separately early next year in six sets, likely in a lower price to make up for those who couldn't afford the full thing.
Killer_queenIII wrote:
I thought the $700 seems fair, especially for a 27-disc set of unreleased stuff. At least they'll release an individual set separately early next year, in a slightly lower price.
If you divide the price through the number of discs, it is indeed reasonable, BUT as a lump sum it's waaaay beyond the budget of the average consumer.
I think the whole point of the Floyd set is that it ISN'T aimed at the "average consumer"; it's for the long time, dedicated fans who've waited decades for it - the average consumer gets countless reissues of albums and Greatest Hits compilations to satisfy their needs.
Again someone else does what Queen should be doing.
Didn't GB or someone say at the time of the Freddie Boxset of CD's and DVD's that a larger Queen version was on the way all those years ago
Having released Rainbow and Hammersmith already I donut see Queen releasing anything like it or the Floyd set
"aside from the big box and the 2-disc compilation, they would also have the contents of the big set divided into, say, four or five separate sets at 1/4 or 1/5 the price of the big one. "
Totally agree with thomasquinn and the way QPL operates that is what most likely will happen(IF it ever happens), this way they make can more
profits, they will drag it forever.