Roger Taylor -Fun On Earth & The Lot tracklisting

Says it's on Virgin/EMI - that's very surprising following the move to Universal/Island (although haven't they subsequently bought EMI anyway, which may have helped with getting the rights for The Cross material?)

The QOL admin confirmed that Roger is indeed a Virgin/Universal artist.

It's really a shame they won't do a vinyl version. The first Queen-related album not available on vinyl I think? Even stuff like Furia and the Barcelona remix got a vinyl version :( The only other exception I can think of is the Ukraine CD/DVD set, but that was mainly a DVD with CD's as bonus - not a real album (even though it WAS released in a jewelcase in the US).

The Ukraine release ridiculously didn't come out on Blu Ray, despite being filmed in HD; Brian even ludicrously tried to defend this decision by saying that he didn't view Blu Ray as a very popular format - clearly ok for the non HD Freddie Tribute concert however!!

Kevinrm15 wrote:
The QOL admin confirmed that Roger is indeed a Virgin......

I don't believe it.

I do not understand your dissatisfaction over the fact that there will be released on his new album on vinyl. Buy the digital version. anyway on vinyl will also figure rather than analog recording

I don't have a clue what you're talking about, but I surely can't be the only one who'd love a vinyl version. A big gatefold sleeve, maybe even coloured vinyl, numbered... Really hope they'll do a limited edition vinyl one in 2014 :(

Except the artwork, what added value does an analogue carrier have when the original recordings were made on digital equipment?

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Except the artwork, what added value does an analogue carrier have when the original recordings were made on digital equipment?

The higher sampling rate of the recording (eg. if it was done in 96/24 or 192/24) allows the waveform to transfer more accurately when cutting, hence it would sound better than something mastered from CD (2009 vinyl reissues, anyone?).
If you recall, a lot of people including myself noted for example that "The Cosmos Rocks" sounded better on vinyl than it did on CD.

^ this.

inu-liger wrote:
If you recall, a lot of people including myself noted for example that "The Cosmos Rocks" sounded better on vinyl than it did on CD.

Most people probably said this because any additional background noise caused by their turntable was an improvement on the original album... ;)

Let's not go there...

inu-liger wrote:

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Except the artwork, what added value does an analogue carrier have when the original recordings were made on digital equipment?

The higher sampling rate of the recording (eg. if it was done in 96/24 or 192/24) allows the waveform to transfer more accurately when cutting, hence it would sound better than something mastered from CD (2009 vinyl reissues, anyone?).
If you recall, a lot of people including myself noted for example that "The Cosmos Rocks" sounded better on vinyl than it did on CD.

To benefit from that, you would need
1) an extremely high-end turntable, amplifier and set of speakers
2) a specific broad-spectrum pressing, limiting the playing length of the album (I have two 96khz vinyls, and they can only hold 15 minutes per side)
3) exceptionally well-recorded (not just in therms of bitrate and frequency range, but in terms of microphones, instruments and general acoustics of the studio) music to begin with.

I really don't think that's a realistic pattern of expectation. I do prefer analog recordings to be presented on an analog medium, but when it comes to digital recordings, you have to go to extreme lengths to benefit from this at all.

In fact, I think it would probably be less troublesome and expensive to create a new alternative to Red Book CDDA, say 24bit/48khz (bitrate is, IMHO, far more important than frequency range) than to create the high-end vinyls you seem to find realistic to expect. In case somebody really anal turns up - no, I am not suggesting this is really done, I am providing an example to communicate how unduly complex I consider the high-end vinyl option to be.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T4gNaC9hDy4/UlZQPV4hgHI/AAAAAAAAAPg/RvHl6Bq7y4E/s1600/430.jpg

photo of THE LOT boxset ..thanks to italian fanpage
http://queen4everblog.blogspot.it/2013/10/breaking-news-ecco-lot-il-box.html

Compilation CD??
I just hope it isn´t a kind of GH CD inside this box...Because in 2 CDs you can´t put every single edit/extended version that Roger solo released...

I hope that CD contains track like I Wanna Testify which don´t fin in other CDs...