pittrek wrote:
I was really hoping for a bonus live DVD.
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20 live performances as in live tracks selected from the Wembley, Milton Keynes and Montreal releases?
Rick wrote:
20 live performances as in live tracks selected from the Wembley, Milton Keynes and Montreal releases?
*shrugs* More scary ideas, man...
I had a vision of the future!
Make way for "Queen Absolut Greatest LIVE!", a compilation of the best live versions of their tracks. (All of them, obviously, previously available on CD or DVD.)
But hey, it will surely include a booklet with pictures of Queen in concert, TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME!
(Which translates to "previously available elsewhere but never in the same book").
mike hunt wrote:
thank god I don't buy everything with the queen name on it anymore. Those days are over. i'm sorry, but this release is truly a joke.
I hear ya! I just hope at least one of the tracks will be a more obscure single edit or something. Or maybe even a brand-new edit like "I'm In Love With My Car" on "Queen Rocks". Or at least one re-take. Just one.
[/QUOTE]And a commentary disc? Come on! 20 bucks says that it'll be a re-hash of the commentaries on GVH1 and GVH2...[/QUOTE]
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Hmm, as for the live tracks in the book version -
3) Limited Edition Book version
Hardback 52 page A4 book
Includes:-
• The 20 track CD
• The audio commentary CD
• Previously unseen photos by Johnny Dewe Matthews, memorabilia, hand written lyrics
• Exclusive access to online streaming of 20 live performances
The word streaming doesn't thrill me.
Also, it would make perfect sense if they're live versions of the 20 songs on the disc. However, I wonder where Heaven For Everyone and The Show Must Go On are coming from.
I assume These Are The Days would be from Return Of The Champions, but I doubt they'd pick a Paul sung version of anything. If they're going down that path, they'd have to be from Roger's Cross or Solo shows, which would make me very happy.
I remain cautiously optimistic.
3) Limited Edition Book version
Hardback 52 page A4 book
Includes:-
• The 20 track CD
• The audio commentary CD
• Previously unseen photos by Johnny Dewe Matthews, memorabilia, hand written lyrics
• Exclusive access to online streaming of 20 live performances
The word streaming doesn't thrill me.
Also, it would make perfect sense if they're live versions of the 20 songs on the disc. However, I wonder where Heaven For Everyone and The Show Must Go On are coming from.
I assume These Are The Days would be from Return Of The Champions, but I doubt they'd pick a Paul sung version of anything. If they're going down that path, they'd have to be from Roger's Cross or Solo shows, which would make me very happy.
I remain cautiously optimistic.
Ducksoup wrote:
demonwolf wrote:
some are just never happy, it is ridicilous.
Bulllshit.
The Milton Keynes 82 dvd and LP set made me very happy.
But that was about the last time Queen released a decent product.
"Absolute Greatest" is just a another release that's absolutely useless. Just like Greatest Hits 3, The Platinum Collection, Greatest Hits 1 + 2 boxed (gold), Stond Cold Classics, Queen Rocks, Greatest Kareoke Hits... and the list goes on.
Like Mike Hunt, I'm glad my days of "buying all that had the Queen logo on it" are long gone. I have shrinked my collection to all original vinyls, all original singles that were released with a picture sleeve (one item for each single in some kind of format, mostly 7") and some dvds and videos.
Enough is enough!!
I don't buy Queen products anymore unless they release something really special that's worth buying!
Hi, Ducksoup. I have to disagree with your bad opinion about Queen Rocks and Greatest Karaoke Hits. The first has a very nice re-recording of ICLWY and Karaoke Hits is on my DVD player for the last months or so. Reason: my 2 year old boy loves it, as it features hits that span all of the bands carreer. Apart from that, and being a little bit older myself, I just love this (Karaoke) DVD as well, because it has a great number of videos and features IWBTLY (band version).
Cheers,
Ogre-
Simon Brown wrote:
I assume These Are The Days would be from Return Of The Champions, but I doubt they'd pick a Paul sung version of anything.
[/QUOTE]Paul NEVER sung TATDOOL...
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Simon Brown wrote:
Also, it would make perfect sense if they're live versions of the 20 songs on the disc. ...
I remain cautiously optimistic.
See? that's the problem. If you say something "makes perfect sense" then QP would most likely not do that.
I prefer to expect another "Stone Cold Classics" and then be pleasantly surprised. I have been lowering my expectations on new Queen product since around the time GH3 came out.
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bigV wrote:
Paul NEVER sung TATDOOL...
V.
[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] Yeah, I know. Sorry, I meant that since it was only Roger and Brian singing TATDOOL, it would be ok to use. However, they probably won't pick a song withn Paul singing, so they'd have to look elsewhere for The Show Must Go On and I Want It All, which were also on ROTC. If you see what I mean.
And Hevean For Everyone has only been done by Roger with The Cross to my knowledge.
What is the point of this album? At least Queen Rocks had a new song and couple of remixes. Surely a double 40 track cd chronoloically would have been better with maybe something like robbery or dog with a bone as bonus tracks.
the word rip-off comes to mind all this is for is to generate revenue for 2009 check led zep, def lep etc free bonus discs demo's remixes etc look what we get either nothing or a big never seen before limted edition sticker on the front or a fookin cd of them talking.. i agree it will be a hash from the dvd-commentary lol i felt like this on the queen-rocks album-rip off its like they seriously have not got a clue or they genuine believe we want to sit and listen to them talking about the songs for the hundred-thhhhhh time because queen fans have not seen or heard them talk about there material...yawns the best value for money and exciting item was the freddie box set demos,mixes etc roger and brian need to look at other bands and see how they think of there fans with well thought additions to a release. damn im mad lol i would of been happy with a remastered cd of the 12in mixes instead of the actual hits cd there releasing lol sorry bri and rog............major fail i feel like after 30yrs as a queen fan im being laughed at as they take our hard earned cash. And thats a deffo no im not buying it lol queen know the cd is not a worthy release thats strong enough to stand alone thats why they added the amazing rocking in ya chairs talk cd haaa
Well, you never know. With the way Brian May has been rewriting history lately we may learn something new on this interview disc. After recently learning that Paul Rodgers was in fact Freddie's favourite singer all along, perhaps we'll discover that Freddie predicted Adam Lambert's arrival over twenty years ago and that he wished he could sing like Lambert would. Or something....
Honestly, this is further evidence that Queen post 1991 are "Queen" in name only.
Honestly, this is further evidence that Queen post 1991 are "Queen" in name only.
Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote:
Ducksoup wrote:
demonwolf wrote:
some are just never happy, it is ridicilous.
Bulllshit.
The Milton Keynes 82 dvd and LP set made me very happy.
But that was about the last time Queen released a decent product.
"Absolute Greatest" is just a another release that's absolutely useless. Just like Greatest Hits 3, The Platinum Collection, Greatest Hits 1 + 2 boxed (gold), Stond Cold Classics, Queen Rocks, Greatest Kareoke Hits... and the list goes on.
Like Mike Hunt, I'm glad my days of "buying all that had the Queen logo on it" are long gone. I have shrinked my collection to all original vinyls, all original singles that were released with a picture sleeve (one item for each single in some kind of format, mostly 7") and some dvds and videos.
Enough is enough!!
I don't buy Queen products anymore unless they release something really special that's worth buying!
Hi, Ducksoup. I have to disagree with your bad opinion about Queen Rocks and Greatest Karaoke Hits. The first has a very nice re-recording of ICLWY and Karaoke Hits is on my DVD player for the last months or so. Reason: my 2 year old boy loves it, as it features hits that span all of the bands carreer. Apart from that, and being a little bit older myself, I just love this (Karaoke) DVD as well, because it has a great number of videos and features IWBTLY (band version).
Cheers,
Ogre-
So basically you are loving an album for ONE track.
Good for you.
I tend to judge albums by their full content not just one song.
In my opinion Queen rocks is just another filler in the catalogue and so is karaoke hits.
Maybe you like dance traxx volume 1 too?
Rick wrote:
20 live performances as in live tracks selected from the Wembley, Milton Keynes and Montreal releases?
I think more like randomly selected mp3s from the "best of the bootlegs" series
Re: CD commentary
It is not easy to catch what Brian and Roger were saying in the two Greatest Hits videos. They swallow their words at the end and speak with marbles in their mouths. Luckily there are subtitles on GHV 2. However, there won't be any subtitles to help us "hear" what they say on a CD.
It is not easy to catch what Brian and Roger were saying in the two Greatest Hits videos. They swallow their words at the end and speak with marbles in their mouths. Luckily there are subtitles on GHV 2. However, there won't be any subtitles to help us "hear" what they say on a CD.