Is it called "Queen I" or just "Queen"?

Call it whatever you want. It matters not.

exactly. which is why [i][b]Donna Summer's Greatest Hits[/b][/i] was a great ideal....

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[b]*goodco* wrote: [/b] Alexrocks............not one of our favorite posters here....but a good question.

Hopefully, you will take heart in the responses by so many who referenced LedZep.

What no one mentions.......had Queen not released a second album called 'Queen II'....there would not be much of a discussion.

Led Zeppelin ........is on the web as 'Led Zeppeilin I'.

After all..one does not have to ask if it is 'Boston I' ....or 'Boston'....because their second album was not Boston II. [/QUOTE]

while you're doing so well with this... can explain why BOTH [i]Chickenfoot's[/i] and [i]Travelling Wilbury's[/i][b] second[/b] albums were called[i][b] Chickenfoot III[/b][/i] and [i][b]Travelling Wilbury's vol 3[/b][/i][/QUOTE]

I think it had to do with the fact that a pirate compilation of rare songs and demos by the Wilburys had been around for a while and the fans considered it like their second album. The band was aware of that and so they named their second album "vol 3"

I think I saw that somewhere, I'm not entirely sure but yeah, something like that.

Marknow! You are absolutely right! WOW! I thought it might have been called "Black Sabbath"! But now I know better! Thanks!

Otherwise how about refering to it as "Their self titled studio l.p."? Or even "Their first self titled studio l.p."?

Of course in the case with "Led Zeppelin I" being specified that way if they did not keep naming products "Led Zeppelin" such as the 1990 box set and 2003 d.v.d. anthology then there were not need to be such as distinction.

One that I have seen debate on is the 1979 live album;

i think it is called 'Live Killers' as we refer to it, and as official listings etc call it, but I have also heard several people argue that it is actually just called 'Killers', with the 'live' bit bring purely an extra addendum after the band name to clarify that it is not a studio album!

Eg; version 1: Queen: 'Live Killers'
Version 2: Queen (live): 'Killers'

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One that I have seen debate on is the 1979 live album;

i think it is called 'Live Killers' as we refer to it, and as official listings etc call it, but I have also heard several people argue that it is actually just called 'Killers', with the 'live' bit bring purely an extra addendum after the band name to clarify that it is not a studio album!

Eg; version 1: Queen: 'Live Killers'
Version 2: Queen (live): 'Killers'[/QUOTE]

You could make a good argument for the 'live' bit not being intended as part of the title. It's in an entirely different font than 'Queen' and 'Killers' on the cover. Plus it just sounds nicer as a title than 'Live Killers'.

i disagree with that theory re:[b][i] live killers[/i][/b]

since it's clearly a bit of a "fun"  an oxymoron/paradox cum play on words

for [b][i]"live killers"[/i][/b]

is much like [i]"jumbo shrimp" "beginning of the end" "open secret""act naturally""alone together" "Hell's Angels" "found missing""liquid gas" "deafening silence""seriously funny" "living dead"
"even odds" "minor crisis"[/i]

And then there is Van Halen (or is it Van Halen I ?)...Van Halen II, and then after eight studio albums, Van Halen III

The VAN HALEN thing was just a dig at the fact it was VaN HALEN MK III


The third version of the band

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i disagree with that theory re:[b][i] live killers[/i][/b]

since it's clearly a bit of a "fun"  an oxymoron/paradox cum play on words

for [b][i]"live killers"[/i][/b]

is much like [i]"jumbo shrimp" "beginning of the end" "open secret""act naturally""alone together" "Hell's Angels" "found missing""liquid gas" "deafening silence""seriously funny" "living dead"
"even odds" "minor crisis"[/i][/QUOTE]

You're right, that has to be intentional. Went right over my head too