Errors / Issues on 'The Lot' (First Edition)

I don't care.

[QUOTE] [b]last-horizon 42265 wrote:[/b]

On a side not, just ONE proper listen to the "Blue Rock" CD would have spotted the error. Just ONE listen. Among all the RT team, no-one has taken the time to listen to the full disc even once? Totally lack of quality control.

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The answer to your question is, clearly, no. I have said here several times in relation to numerous releases that proof listening and reading simply cannot be being done on final product runs. I suppose as opposed to someone being too lazy to do it, it could be that they do but are too incompetent to do it properly - not sure which is worse.

In my view the archivists might well be able to access and listen to the tapes, but have been proved to simply not be qualified musically to tell the differences between mixes, versions etc. Sorry to be harsh, but in my view as a musician and Queen fan, most of the team are just not up to the job.

DVD issues:

1. Shove It video - bad quality soundtrack which can be replaced with high quality album version - it hasn't been done.
2. The Unblinking Eye video - lossy quality soundtrack which can be replaced with high quality track from CD single - it hasn't been done.
3. Nazis 1994 video - album version soundtrack instead of original 'F-word' version.
4. Liar live version video - low quality audio, cut at the beginning.

^ They are issues rather than errors though.

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

In my view the archivists might well be able to access and listen to the tapes, but have been proved to simply not be qualified musically to tell the differences between mixes, versions etc. Sorry to be harsh, but in my view as a musician and Queen fan, most of the team are just not up to the job.

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While I understand the recent evidence you're looking at, they are both utterly capable of identifying mixes and versions.

I can't explain why that hasn't happened, though

I've now just looked at Roger's new website. First thing that strikes me is the statement/quote from Roger on the homepage, that they've transcribed incorrectly.

Then I read the Blue Rock page and could barely read parts of it due to the grammatical nonsense going on. Then the final paragraph reads that the December gig in Guildford will mark 20 years since the members of The Cross first met (which even the most basic maths can work out, based the release dates of their first material must have been at LEAST 26/27 years ago).

Then the Shove It page itself states that the album finished recording in December 1987, and was then released some 10 months EARLIER in January 1987.

I can't bring myself to read the rest - I give up on these incompetent fuckwits.

[QUOTE] [b]Victor Kruger wrote:[/b]

^ They are issues rather than errors though.
Out of curiosity, does the disc have PCM audio?[/QUOTE]

Audio track is 24/48 PCM

Same problem with life changes on spotify

From the Facebook:

MESSAGE ABOUT THE LOT BOX SET.

We are aware that there are issues with some box sets which have been received and we are investigating this as a matter of importance.

A follow up announcement will be posted very soon.

Thank you for your patience.

Team RT

If anyone cares, back again on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FI2PJU6/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=newofthemus0a-21&camp=2902&creative=19466&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B00FI2PJU6&adid=0VG8XA2B84QJXC5CT5Y0&

[QUOTE] [b]cmi wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE]
Another thing that I heard was that 'Hand Of Fools' and 'Life Changes' do not follow eachother as quick as they do on the original album. There is a little more silence between them.
On the original album 'Life Changes' begins slightly before the last echo of 'Hand Of Fools' has faded out, on 'The Lot' the 'Hand Of Fools' echo gets plenty of time to fade out.
Don't know if it's the same with the other songs on 'Blue Rock' (except ofcourse the ones that are truly coupled to eachother, like 'Put It All Down To Love' and 'Millionaire)[/QUOTE]

Actually it's a good issue now to have some proper sandalone versions.
Also this fact means that remasters were made from original masters of every song. It seems all albums were compiled from the very start.[/QUOTE]

Just listened to the 'Happiness?' album from the box today.
'Nazis 1994', Happiness' and 'Revelations' are uncoupled also, so not tied together anymore, but stand-alone versions.
'Nazis 1994' already was available as a stand-alone on the single, but that means that we have a stand-alone version of 'Happiness' and 'Revelation' for the first time on CD.
'Happiness' stand-alone only was available before as the soundtrack for the video, since the singles contained a badly cut album version.
'Revelations' has a helicopter sound at the beginning which could never be properly heard on the previous album version.

[QUOTE] [b]agrasso wrote:[/b]
If anyone cares, back again on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FI2PJU6/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=newofthemus0a-21&camp=2902&creative=19466&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B00FI2PJU6&adid=0VG8XA2B84QJXC5CT5Y0&[/QUOTE]
That's not from amazon direct, just a market seller on there trying to get in on the action.

Oddly enough Life Changes cuts off at the end and plays the beginning on the Spotify version

[QUOTE] [b]Hutchence wrote:[/b]
From the Facebook:
MESSAGE ABOUT THE LOT BOX SET.
We are aware that there are issues with some box sets which have been received and we are investigating this as a matter of importance.
A follow up announcement will be posted very soon.
Thank you for your patience.
Team RT[/QUOTE]
'Some' box sets?

[QUOTE] [b]Victor Kruger wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Hutchence wrote:[/b]
From the Facebook:
MESSAGE ABOUT THE LOT BOX SET.
We are aware that there are issues with some box sets which have been received and we are investigating this as a matter of importance.
A follow up announcement will be posted very soon.
Thank you for your patience.
Team RT[/QUOTE]
'Some' box sets?[/QUOTE]

New edition;-) Roger want yours money;-)