What's it going to take for QPL to start releasing what we WANT!

Was just thinking today.. Queen have recorded over 700 live concerts. And that got me thinking about The Rolling Stones: From The Vault and thinking about how 2 years ago Pink Floyd released there demos and unreleased material to make a new album. Like I seriously don't understand why Queen fans can't get this treatment Aslo!! I'm sorry for saying what has already been said but I'm just seriously pissed off that we can't get things the WE QUEEN FANS WANT!!! You could go on for hours what we want! And honestly I think it's the live album things I would really want weather if it's just Audio!

Unreleased material!
Promo Videos in HD
Hyde Park
Knebworth Park
Earls Court (hopefully soon! And both nights!)
Houston
Golders Green
South American gigs (ALL OF THEM!)
Japan gigs (ALL OF THEM!)
Paris (All 3 nights)
Hammersmith 79 (All nights)
Rio (Both nights)
A big one for me.. Brussels '84 (Would love to see all that was filmed for this gig!)

Aaaaaaaannnnnddddddd..... here we go again.......

Definitely agree with you, concerts, demos, unreleased material, etc......I'm not sure what to think anymore, is it QPL, is it BM, is it RT, is it..., really disgusted the last few years(20 years), i'm at a point I don't care anymore, I can care less about the Q-plus thing going on too, it's there right to earn more money but it's not Queen . To me personally being a fan for over 35 years, I have now lost complete respect, something i never imagined I would do. I'm sure they feel the same way, they can care less about a single fan.
I think i had enough of re-leases, colored vinyl of the same over and over, owl crap, badgers, basements, etc, the music is what is important to me but getting none of that.

I do believe that QPL dont give a shit,they will release what they want,when they want,and thats the reality,i think things will move along once the touring finishes,but dont expect miracles!!

Given how they've signed a new record deal about every 8 years, the usual come out per company exclusivity.

I imagine the ONLY chance of any archival stuff being released is dependent upon the FREDDIE FILM being an absolute OSCAR WORTHY success.

(unlikely it'll ever even be made)

Either that or some unfortunate circumstance in which it's done by Freddie's + _____(anybody's) ESTATE.


I won't dare say it.

It's sad.

After 38 years being a member of the fan club I left this year, enough was enough.

The question I have, if anyone knows, is how many copies of the recent releases have actually been sold(Hammersmith, Rainbow,Coloured vinyl box set) and who is actually buying them? If its only hardcore Queen fans then probably there aren't massive sales and QP may think material that needs work isn't worth the financial effort. I personally think they are thinking of the general public who may like Queen but are not ardent fans and are more likely to but Greatest Hits / Singles packages. Demos, promo,s and odd concerts may not be of interest to Joe Public. I also think that's why the live shows in the last few years are basically Greatest Hit shows, perhaps people who don't know the back catalogue would go??

Answer: A. Great. big. Fucking. Miracle.

And, as harsh as this may come across, Brian May dying. This would free QPL / Island up to release whatever they want without any pedancy getting in the way of they chose to.

Perhaps one of us should write to QPL and inform them what the fans would like?! Obvious point I know. Has anyone ever done this though? Anyone has a reply if they have?
Like most of you on here I would like to see more archive live releases,mainly from the 70s,though I would like an early Works your big at some point.
The most recent/impending release 'Messenger of the Gods' is an absolute insult imo to all the lo u feel fans who have been with them for decades now. I'd love to know who exactly comes up with these release ideas. I honestly hope it bombs!
I think a lot of us were hoping for Hyde Park this year and what do we get;a rehash of a 're 're release with a cheesy name. Oh but it's in pretty coloured vinyl! I couldn't give a shit what it looks like!! All we want is unreleased material. Maybe we can hold out hope for Queen on Air (again another cheesy title) later on in the year. But I guarantee it'll be in a box set full of crap extras. Who knows,Sid Snotts beerr can?Hey there's an idea that sell well with Bohemian lager,Killer Queen vodka. Jeez!!!!-

I think we have to face facts here.

Queen are no longer a current singles chart hits band. There seems little, if no hope, that there will ever be a new studio album (though some of us may live in hope). They still sell fast numbers of concert tickets to a lot of people who are living through memories of the 80's and want a jukebox show. They have a record deal with a major label to whom the Queen and Freddie Mercury names are just a business which can still make money. Because of this universal/island will want to release as much as they can with the lowest outlay aimed at the same people who buy those concert tickets.

The recording industry is almost dead on it's feet, unless you're one of the few megga acts. But the one thing that is keeping the industry afloat across the board is vinyl re releases. Vinyl sounds great, but only through top quality expensive equipment, but the industry have managed to sell the idea that vinyl played on anything is better than any other medium at present. So the "new" singles collection is probably the record company making sure they get their share of what Freddie's work is worth to them.

As a fan and collector this release just doesn't interest me, but I understand the reasoning behind it. Let's hope the artistic side of QP and Universal can persuade the business side that some fans still want more of what the band did in the 70's

jondickens1, re:

>Perhaps one of us should write to QPL and inform them what the fans would like?!

They've spent the ENTIRE time since the box sets were first floated in the OIQFC magazine IGNORING what it is plainly obvious to put out. When an "official" representative of QPL comes in to the largest on-line Queen forum and behaves in the way that he does in terms of responding to what are (admittedly in only a few cases) genuine questions, getting a response out of QPL directly is about as likely as Boris Johnson receiving an invite from Barack Obama to a home-made meal of traditional Kenyan cooking.

To be honest there are so many other bands releasing great box sets with great extras,plus new bands on the scene that I have little interest in Queen at the moment.Muse in concert are just sensational.

What it would take? Ten million people wanting the same releases that you want.

In my opinion, they've been doing a pretty good job of releasing some of the stuff we've wanted ever since they signed with Universal/Island. Yeah, the bonus discs with the remastered CD's could have been better. But I think it's more obvious now that they were trying to use some of those bonus tracks as teasers for projects they were working on. We've gotten a great re-release of Wembley with the complete Friday night show as a bonus. They put out a nice set of vinyl re-issues for the Queen vinyl fans. And they finally released some 70's concerts, and not late 70's concerts with more hits. No, they gave us some of their earliest available gigs. And they didn't skimp on those releases. They gave us both complete concerts at the Rainbow on CD and the complete video of the November show. And when most artists would have been happy to release the vinyl studio set that Queen did as a Christmas release, they also gave us the Hammersmith Odeon concert. And, in addition to trying to keep Freddie's solo work alive with a singles collection release, it looks like we'll finally be getting a collection of Queen's radio performances. And while I definitely hope that what's listed by the original poster is also being looked at by the group, I'll gladly take what they've released over the last few years over them trying to figure out how to package their greatest hits to buy them again and again.

1) The thing they recorded 700 concerts doesn't mean that they have 30-45 years later 700 concert recordings in releasable quality.
2) Many (most?) of their promo videos were shot on video, the only way how to release them in HD would be upscaling. Even though their upscaling algorithms are getting better and better with each release, I would still prefer a mix of SD (in original aspect ratio and AVC, not mpg2) and new HD scans (of course both the original cuts)
3) In the mental world of Brian, Roger and Jim anything which is not PERFECT is not worth releasing.