The relevant tidbit: [i] For the future Roger plans to release brand new solo material in 2013 and he wants to involve the public in the choices of which tracks make it onto the album. A track will be made available each week leading up to the album release and the public will need to vote and decide what they would like to see appear on the album alongside some of Rogers favourite songs! [/i] I think it's great although it is strange. I guess we're going to hear songs that then aren't going to be on the album. It's a novel approach and an interesting way to engage the fans. Hopefully the leftovers will be made available for download.
The question I had is in regards to "alongside some of Roger's favourite songs!" Does this mean:
a. the album is half new/half best of
b .the album has a few covers on
c. or simply that Roger's got songs that are definitely going on and we're picking the filler.
I think it's c. but it is strangely worded.
cmsdrums · Member since
Cool! (although as usual, a not very well worded and ambiguous press release!)
The Real Wizard · Member since
Stevie Wonder did something similar at a club show in 1979 (and the recording is available).
He said he was going to play three new ballads in a row, and the one that gets the best reaction will end up on his next album.
The winner was "Lately" - one of his best ever tracks, as far as I'm concerned.
DragonOnMyBack · Member since
The problem with doing this for new material though is that as soon as we know there are other new tracks out there already recorded and mixed we will inevitably be disappointed when they disappear offline (after a week of voting) into the vaults not to be heard of again for another 20 years.
Now they have told us they exist they may as well just release them all in some form or other soon. Otherwise we will have 20 years of continual discussion and complaining on this forum until the Roger Taylor Solo Collection Boxset is released. in 2038.
mooghead · Member since
This is stupid. So he is going to release a bunch of songs.. which people will grab/download... then select a few of those songs, songs people already have, to put on an album people are going to pay for? Bootleggers are going to make a fortune making albums of the songs that didn't get selected.
I guess as a publicity stunt its starting to work already though...
last-horizon 42265 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]
This is stupid. So he is going to release a bunch of songs.. which people will grab/download... then select a few of those songs, songs people already have, to put on an album people are going to pay for? Bootleggers are going to make a fortune making albums of the songs that didn't get selected.
I guess as a publicity stunt its starting to work already though...[/QUOTE]
I think they will provide us non HQ versions. As for me, I will buy the album regardless.
last-horizon 42265 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]DragonOnMyBack wrote:[/b]
The problem with doing this for new material though is that as soon as we know there are other new tracks out there already recorded and mixed we will inevitably be disappointed when they disappear offline (after a week of voting) into the vaults not to be heard of again for another 20 years.
Now they have told us they exist they may as well just release them all in some form or other soon. Otherwise we will have 20 years of continual discussion and complaining on this forum until the Roger Taylor Solo Collection Boxset is released. in 2038.[/QUOTE]
On the other hand, at least we'll have access to left-over stuff. Can you imagine how many unknown RT solo stuff there must be in the archives from the early Fun In Space solo career days up to these?
I guess that being so prolific, Roger could easily fill 10 solo albums.
mooghead · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]last-horizon 42265 wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]
This is stupid. So he is going to release a bunch of songs.. which people will grab/download... then select a few of those songs, songs people already have, to put on an album people are going to pay for? Bootleggers are going to make a fortune making albums of the songs that didn't get selected.
I guess as a publicity stunt its starting to work already though...[/QUOTE]
I think they will provide us non HQ versions. As for me, I will buy the album regardless.[/QUOTE]
And therein lies the rub. The same reason we get reissue after reissue. What if you really hate everything you hear of the album, you will buy it anyway? Course you will.
mooghead · Member since
"I guess that being so prolific, Roger could easily fill 10 solo albums."
4 albums since 1981?
last-horizon 42265 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]
"I guess that being so prolific, Roger could easily fill 10 solo albums."
4 albums since 1981?[/QUOTE]
My count is a bit higher than that:
4 solo albums
3 Cross albums
2 solo non-album singles (Testify + Unblinking)
1 Cross non-album single (Manipulator)
+ b-sides (all albums except FIS had at least one)
+ bonus tracks (ie. Final Destination '94 + One Night Stand)
+ many unreleased tracks (ie. like the leaked SF ones)
+ collaborations (inc unreleased like "Long Way" 2002 duet)
Plus all the recordings that he must have made during all these years (inc his version of Small, Woman You're So Beautiful, etc). I would bet that his solo vaults are so big fat.
Many of this has happened while writing for and touring / recording / promoting with Queen (ie. no full time for his solo career). Can you imagine how much he could have recorded since 1992?
This is stupid. So he is going to release a bunch of songs.. which people will grab/download... then select a few of those songs, songs people already have, to put on an album people are going to pay for? Bootleggers are going to make a fortune making albums of the songs that didn't get selected.
I guess as a publicity stunt its starting to work already though...[/QUOTE]
I think they will provide us non HQ versions. As for me, I will buy the album regardless.[/QUOTE]
And therein lies the rub. The same reason we get reissue after reissue. What if you really hate everything you hear of the album, you will buy it anyway? Course you will.
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How does buying new songs encourage buying reissue after reissue?
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thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
Why don't you read before you ask? "I will buy the album regardless" is a clear statement indicating he/she doesn't care what's on it, but will buy it anyway. QPL's business strategy these past ten years or so seems to have been "they will buy it regardless" because they keep re-releasing the same stuff **and people DO buy it**. So the remark by Mooghead is perfectly justified.
last-horizon 42265 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
Why don't you read before you ask? "I will buy the album regardless" is a clear statement indicating he/she doesn't care what's on it, but will buy it anyway. QPL's business strategy these past ten years or so seems to have been "they will buy it regardless" because they keep re-releasing the same stuff **and people DO buy it**. So the remark by Mooghead is perfectly justified.[/QUOTE]
I disagree. I haven't purchased most of the latest releases (Wembley 25th, Absolute Greatest, Lover Of Life, Budapest, Rock Montreal, Singles Collections, Super Live In Japan, Ukraine 2008, DOOL and TGP). Not because they are good or bad, just because I don't care.
However I do purchase what I am personally interested in or want to have regardless its contents (TCR -I like to have all studio albums-, Queen On Fire -Milton Keynes in its full glory-, Return Of The Champions -first tour involving BM+RT since 1986- and Unblinking Eye -first Roger single since 1999-, just to name a few). Roger's new album will fall in this category. I have all his solo stuff, and I don't want his new album to be an exception.
Just my 2 cents.
Russian Headlong · Member since
He should do a best of voted by the fans and record 3 or 4 new tracks or some rarities like Manipulator or Heartland from the Cross which never were on an album. My best of RT would be:
It's an Illusion, Nazis, Strange Frontier, Future Management, Man on Fire, Unblinking Eye, Where are you now? Nation Of Haircuts, No More Fun, Foreign Sand, Old Friends, Dear Mr Murdoch, Surrender,
Benn · Member since
Frankly, if true, this is the BIGGEST pile of shit I have ever come across.
Whatever happened to the artise releasing material that he is happy to stand behind and take whatever criticism comes his way simply because it reflects a point in time and his creativity?
this is the X-Factor generation gone completely fucking mad and just proves how fucking scared he is of criticism:
"Ok fans, here are a bunch of songs. I'll only release the ones that most people like. But if 49 out of 100 people don't like one of them, then it won't get released."
And there I was, thinking that out of the two of them, Roger was the one with his head scrcewed on.
No wonder John fucked off out of it when he did. Perhaps he saw the writing on the wall and though better of any involvement with these two senile twats.
