It's not turning into a 'what should be in the boxset'-topic, it's turning in a 'what-queen-productions-could-release-without-brian-and-roger-thinking-their-days-as-a-creative-force-are-over-even-though-we-all-know-they-are-has-beens-whose-music-no-one-cares-about-except-us-the-real-fans' topic.
The Real Wizard · Member since
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Stuff like the bonus live videos from Absolute Greatest (which I will proudly admit I downloaded without buying that utter cack of a product). Put that on DVD and you'll have my money.
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Ditto. The Earls Court 77 and Paris 79 footage is excellent quality, even if it has mono sound. This stuff should be on DVD in the shops.
Soundfreak · Member since
Hi, I'm new....and somehow I ain't.....it's many years ago that I was here.
Anyway, I was reading this discussion. And although I also wait for "new" material I think most of you forget one important point.
Queen's record company EMI is in big financial trouble for quite a while. Even the Beatles' remasters could not help the company to solve their financial problems.
For Queen their "unreleased archive" is the only trump they have if it comes to negotiating a new record contract in case EMI goes downhill. Which is very likely to happen.
So it would not be wise to give anything "new" to EMI at the moment, as it may end with the company that will buy EMI. And I guess this is also the reason for the recent "Greatest Hits" album. They gave EMI some "new" product" without losing anything at all from their archive.
Another reason may also be, that we are currently in a time of changing formats. Brian May is very much into surround mixes, but - the SACD is dead, so is DVD-A.
But the "Blue Ray Audio" is around the corner. This may also be a reason, why they hesitate to come up with something new at the moment.
Penetration_Guru · Member since
During promotion for QPR, it was repeatedly said that "this is not PR filling FM's shoes, it's a whole new chapter".
Ergo, Queen IS finished. Anything created subsequently, merrily or otherwise, is "post-Queen", "the WWRY years", "Queen+", whatever...
Therefore, a box set of "the Golden Years", "the original lineup", "the good stuff", WHATEVER, is EMINENTLY appropriate.
If they [b]wanted[/b] to do it, there's a way of spinning it.
The way it's currently being spun says they [b]don't[/b] want to do it.
It's just a shame they don't respect our intelligence enough to admit it.
dragon-fly · Member since
Their strategy seems to be a bit like teasing.
And if they ever release it, I believe there will be those who would buy it. Just the quantity might be different.
mooghead · Member since
It IS teasing. Don't they realise that there is this thing called the 'Internet' which means you can obtain anything you want for free??
Keep teasing and I will lose any interest in spending my hard earned on proper material. I have forgotten how that feels anyway..
Sebastian · Member since
Back in Y2K, they'd have secured millions of sales as many people were still without any sort of internet connexion, let a lone enough bandwidth or speed to download full albums or concert videos within minutes (or hours, or seconds, depending).
Moreover, they would've been able to track down people like Mike Stone and Michael Kamen for some comments and stuff. As I wrote earlier, don't be surprised if upcoming anthologies reject 'Queen II' outtakes and alternative (more outrageous) versions in favour of a Jedward cover featuring the doctor and his sidekick.
Pim Derks · Member since
"From the creatores of the Office, now comes a new show about an aging has-been rockstar: The Doctor (And His Sidekick)."
I'd watch that!
Sebastian · Member since
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"From the creatores of the Office, now comes a new show about an aging has-been rockstar: The Doctor (And His Sidekick)."
I'd watch that!
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In fact, Roger said it was Freddie's favourite TV programme.
kevukuk · Member since
dear greg,
i dont know you,i have never met you,but you come accross as a smug twat "i have access to stuff you plebs can only dream about"
instead of popping up occasionally to tell us we should be gratefull for having another compilation of the same songs why dont you tell your employers what it is the fans really want,to be treated to the same respect other bands treat their fanbase.
thank god for all the fantastic downloads we have access to on this site,coz if we waited for queen productions to release anything interesting most of us would be too old or too disinterested
Penetration_Guru · Member since
kevukuk wrote: dear greg, i dont know you,i have never met you,but you come accross as a smug twat "i have access to stuff you plebs can only dream about" instead of popping up occasionally to tell us we should be gratefull for having another compilation of the same songs why dont you tell your employers what it is the fans really want,to be treated to the same respect other bands treat their fanbase. thank god for all the fantastic downloads we have access to on this site,coz if we waited for queen productions to release anything interesting most of us would be too old or too disinterested
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Yes, he does come across as a smug twat. He chooses to do so becuase our (collective) reaction amuses him, and probably the people around him.
But be under no illusions - Jim Beach etc do know what fans want - and this will to a degree have come from Greg (who is after all a fan himself). What the "Queen machine" then decides to actually do is based on a whole set of other criteria.
andreas_mercury · Member since
agree to the fact of GB is a tease if he were a bitch i had have slapped him by now and told him to beat it ..... not even give him the fare home. fuck Archivist he is liar
