[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Yara wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Wow, it must be great, I know very, very little, in fact, almost nothing about B-sides and different versions. And I love this kind of thing.
Now, problem is that it's funny! It's funny to read you guys talking because these things don't even make their way into my country. :-(
Really! Now, I don't understand the ITunes guys. None of the Itunes resources can be used by us - we can't buy music in the Itunes store, we can't buy the Itunes Originals, we can't...damn, do nothing in the Itunes store besides looking at pictures! And Brazil is a good market for music, I don't get it.
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Maybe it's because of your ongoing monkey problems, as highlighted in The Simpsons a few years back..
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]brians wig wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
What I would like to say is that when I uploaded the first radio broadcast of "C-lebrity" a few weeks ago, 1728 people downloaded it from Queen Zone.
If the singles boxset is limited to 10,000 copies only, that equates to 1728 fans who quite possibly won't waste their money or, if you like, a whopping 17.28% of copies produced that won't automatically be snapped up by fans.
Go show that to EMI.[/QUOTE]
I think you can probably increase that 17.28% up too - they'll be those Q+PR haters that won't have downloaded C-lebrity, and those who wanted to hold off to buy it. I'd say it's probably 20%+ that may possibly not want to top up with another version of Greatest Hits
What I would like to say is that when I uploaded the first radio broadcast of "C-lebrity" a few weeks ago, 1728 people downloaded it from Queen Zone.
If the singles boxset is limited to 10,000 copies only, that equates to 1728 fans who quite possibly won't waste their money or, if you like, a whopping 17.28% of copies produced that won't automatically be snapped up by fans.
Go show that to EMI.[/QUOTE]
I think you can probably increase that 17.28% up too - they'll be those Q+PR haters that won't have downloaded C-lebrity, and those who wanted to hold off to buy it. I'd say it's probably 20%+ that may possibly not want to top up with another version of Greatest Hits
Hi Greg, great to hear your side. Yes, this product could very well please the Greatest Hits audiences wordlwide and I'm happy if the people who don't know much about the band are happy this Christmas. Business well done.
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group).
It would be a very different and happy crowd here if we had a separate product, or at least losless download options with the B sides, remixes, outtakes.
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group).
It would be a very different and happy crowd here if we had a separate product, or at least losless download options with the B sides, remixes, outtakes.
Pittrek that would be REALLY unfortunate if there were a ten c.d. box set that only had NINE hours of music on there. Frankly it would be rather unfortunate if a ten c.d. box set only had TEN hours of music on it. Hopefully a project like that would be maximized as much as possible with the space on discs.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]regmarha wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group). [/QUOTE]
It seems we're never the target group - or haven't been since the Freddie box in 2000. Eight years is a long time.
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group). [/QUOTE]
It seems we're never the target group - or haven't been since the Freddie box in 2000. Eight years is a long time.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Ray D O'Gaga wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]regmarha wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group). [/QUOTE]
It seems we're never the target group - or haven't been since the Freddie box in 2000. Eight years is a long time. [/QUOTE]
so true it hurts.
we are like junkies, addicted seriously to the music and we cannot get our dose.
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group). [/QUOTE]
It seems we're never the target group - or haven't been since the Freddie box in 2000. Eight years is a long time. [/QUOTE]
so true it hurts.
we are like junkies, addicted seriously to the music and we cannot get our dose.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]regmarha wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Ray D O'Gaga wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]regmarha wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group). [/QUOTE]
It seems we're never the target group - or haven't been since the Freddie box in 2000. Eight years is a long time. [/QUOTE]
so true it hurts.
we are like junkies, addicted seriously to the music and we cannot get our dose.[/QUOTE]
Personally I feel like the loyal wife of a sexy cad, who can't be bothered to come home and give it to me regularly because he's off chasing the passing fancy of every two-bit tramp in a miniskirt. When will he realise I need to be satisfied? I need the release provided by his big throbbing boxset - all 10 discs of it.
Don't make me beg for it, baby.
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group). [/QUOTE]
It seems we're never the target group - or haven't been since the Freddie box in 2000. Eight years is a long time. [/QUOTE]
so true it hurts.
we are like junkies, addicted seriously to the music and we cannot get our dose.[/QUOTE]
Personally I feel like the loyal wife of a sexy cad, who can't be bothered to come home and give it to me regularly because he's off chasing the passing fancy of every two-bit tramp in a miniskirt. When will he realise I need to be satisfied? I need the release provided by his big throbbing boxset - all 10 discs of it.
Don't make me beg for it, baby.
I think such a compilation of singles as the proposed 10 c.d. one will come in due time...
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]AlexRocks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I think such a compilation of singles as the proposed 10 c.d. one will come in due time...[/QUOTE]
Sadly, I don't. To extend my lascivious metaphor, I think they're shooting their entire singles wad with this and the proposed releases.
Maybe Greg can secure permission to release the text that was to accompany the 10 disc set as a PDF file or something someday.
Sadly, I don't. To extend my lascivious metaphor, I think they're shooting their entire singles wad with this and the proposed releases.
Maybe Greg can secure permission to release the text that was to accompany the 10 disc set as a PDF file or something someday.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Ray D O'Gaga wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]regmarha wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Ray D O'Gaga wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]regmarha wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group). [/QUOTE]
It seems we're never the target group - or haven't been since the Freddie box in 2000. Eight years is a long time. [/QUOTE]
so true it hurts.
we are like junkies, addicted seriously to the music and we cannot get our dose.[/QUOTE]
Personally I feel like the loyal wife of a sexy cad, who can't be bothered to come home and give it to me regularly because he's off chasing the passing fancy of every two-bit tramp in a miniskirt. When will he realise I need to be satisfied? I need the release provided by his big throbbing boxset - all 10 discs of it.
Don't make me beg for it, baby.[/QUOTE]
yeah :) or, we are like some sad guy who fell in love with a prostitute and keeps sending flowers and text messages cos he cannot read the signs that this relationship is never ever gonna happen :)
My problem here is that QPL produces a maximum of 1 product annually and this year's one is not interesting for us for many reasons (we're not the target group). [/QUOTE]
It seems we're never the target group - or haven't been since the Freddie box in 2000. Eight years is a long time. [/QUOTE]
so true it hurts.
we are like junkies, addicted seriously to the music and we cannot get our dose.[/QUOTE]
Personally I feel like the loyal wife of a sexy cad, who can't be bothered to come home and give it to me regularly because he's off chasing the passing fancy of every two-bit tramp in a miniskirt. When will he realise I need to be satisfied? I need the release provided by his big throbbing boxset - all 10 discs of it.
Don't make me beg for it, baby.[/QUOTE]
yeah :) or, we are like some sad guy who fell in love with a prostitute and keeps sending flowers and text messages cos he cannot read the signs that this relationship is never ever gonna happen :)
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]AlexRocks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I think such a compilation of singles as the proposed 10 c.d. one will come in due time...[/QUOTE]
I just read your message on QOL... Do you expect Queen to release the box set faster than the 16 years it took Rolling Stones between those releases? :P
Seriously though, this is what I think is wrong with your hypothesis:
You are comparing a 3cd compilation album aimed at the general public with a 10cd luxury box set aimed at the hardcore fans.
The Rolling Stones have had a natural progression from individual albums (and subsequent cd re-releases) to compilation albums and box sets with ever diminishing potential audience... Queen already have their basic albums and compilation albums, and this is their top of the line "luxury item".
I just read your message on QOL... Do you expect Queen to release the box set faster than the 16 years it took Rolling Stones between those releases? :P
Seriously though, this is what I think is wrong with your hypothesis:
You are comparing a 3cd compilation album aimed at the general public with a 10cd luxury box set aimed at the hardcore fans.
The Rolling Stones have had a natural progression from individual albums (and subsequent cd re-releases) to compilation albums and box sets with ever diminishing potential audience... Queen already have their basic albums and compilation albums, and this is their top of the line "luxury item".
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]pittrek wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE]
So... OK, it's not what you expected. It's a smaller set. Originally 156 items over 10 CDs, spanning 9 hours (from memory), and with a colossal book of text that most people would have criticised to hell without even reading. But, had we issued that, as planned (and actually handed in, by the way), you guys would now be saying... "£249 for a box. Are they joking? Who can afford that in these money-tight times? Don't 'they' know the world is on the brink of recession, with more people losing their homes than ever, and more bankrupt people than EVER before? QPL live in a dream world if they think we have ALL THIS money to spend at this time."
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I WOULD buy this version ! It would be fantastic to have something like that ![/QUOTE]
Me too. And I don't see how the economic situation is an argument for 4 boxes of 13 2 track CDs containing no new material, however neatly it has been designed. It's an argument for really pushing a collection of Greatest Hits albums, all packed together at a competetive price point.
Oh wait - that's the product they had out during the boom years, when the response to criticism of THAT was "it's for the mass market, it's not aimed at you, your time will come".
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So... OK, it's not what you expected. It's a smaller set. Originally 156 items over 10 CDs, spanning 9 hours (from memory), and with a colossal book of text that most people would have criticised to hell without even reading. But, had we issued that, as planned (and actually handed in, by the way), you guys would now be saying... "£249 for a box. Are they joking? Who can afford that in these money-tight times? Don't 'they' know the world is on the brink of recession, with more people losing their homes than ever, and more bankrupt people than EVER before? QPL live in a dream world if they think we have ALL THIS money to spend at this time."
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I WOULD buy this version ! It would be fantastic to have something like that ![/QUOTE]
Me too. And I don't see how the economic situation is an argument for 4 boxes of 13 2 track CDs containing no new material, however neatly it has been designed. It's an argument for really pushing a collection of Greatest Hits albums, all packed together at a competetive price point.
Oh wait - that's the product they had out during the boom years, when the response to criticism of THAT was "it's for the mass market, it's not aimed at you, your time will come".
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It's not like Queen or EMI are taking the Master Recordings and throwing them out after these releases folks! They are going to sell them as well as they can in the best ways possible to maximize profits as much as possible! Good for them! As I said I think demand in the next few years will lead to some more interesting releases or release.
You all realise that there was the whole issue of being able to get what ever tracks on ten c.d.s...right? I think a comprehensive box set will demand something different that will allow more space on it. As it is Queen are still making singles and I dought that they wanted to stop with "No One But You (Only The Good Die Young)" since no matter what you all think of Queen + they DO still have unreleased recordings with Freddie Mercury...so it is not all over yet.
The wonderful world of Queen Productions gets stranger and stranger everyday. Like any casual fan in their right mind would shelf out 40 pounds for 13 cd-singles while they don't know half of the tracks - if the Platinum Collection is next to it for 1/4th of the price and ONLY has tracks they know.
What's next - Queen Number Ones? Freddie Mercury + Queen: The Show Must Go On! We Still Rock You: The Best of Queen.
What's next - Queen Number Ones? Freddie Mercury + Queen: The Show Must Go On! We Still Rock You: The Best of Queen.