I ordered them from http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/Listups/pop/queen.html
Not cheap! There's handling and postage to be paid and after arrival (after 4 days they're delivered from Japan to the Netherlands) I receive a letter from the Custom Office to pay another 50 Euros, just because of importing these cd's from outside Europe....
MexQueenFM · Member since
wow! that's a lot of money, thanks for the link Rien :)
MexQueenFM · Member since
double post
Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira · Member since
"Who sits like a rock in front of their speakers!?!"
Me when I'm driving my car? ;)
Cheers,
Ogre-
inu-liger · Member since
CDJapan is very expensive to order from.
When I ordered two CDs and a DVD+CD set from them last year, I ended up paying around $60-$70 CDN for these discs altogether including shipping and duties and postage and stuff.....
'f course, that won't prevent me from ordering from them in the future - they're one of the best Japanese websites for ordering CDs DVDs and LaserDiscs. Did you guys know they still have some Queen LD's on that site for sale?
KevMull · Member since
How 'identical' to the sleeve are they?
i.e. Is NATO, Races etc gatefold?
Do they include orig inner sleeves?
Surely not lyrics too!
MexQueenFM · Member since
"i got mine from www.hmv.co.jp - they have english pages. they cost about $24 US each.
currency converter : www.xe.com/ucc/
Richard"
Thanks Richard, I'll check that out
Rien · Member since
The sleeves are identical to the vinyl versions. And as Brian May said, the GAME cover is stunning because it's really like the original one. The original gatefold ones are mini-gatefolds too. JAZZ has the mini bicycle poster attached as a fold out poster onto the album sleeve. They also have exact replicas of the inner sleeves in which the vinyl album was stored. QUEEN II, SHA, NOTW, and THE GAME have lyrics on the inner sleeves. QUEEN has no lyrics on the inner sleeve, gatefolds have lyrics as on the vinyl versions (inside of gatefold sleeve). Besides this ALL albums have a separate fold-out paper with the titles and lyrics in Japanese and English. The cd's itself have the print as the center label on the vinyl album. It are all replicas of the UK albums. I'd hoped that SHA would have a gatefold sleeve, but of course this is also the UK version - so no gatefold. I say this, because besides a UK vinyl album of SHA I also have a French version of this, which is a gatefold sleeve with the lyrics printed inside. When I bought that French vinyl album (somewhere in the 70's) it was a revelation to me, because that was the first time I'd seen SHA with the lyrics added. Remember, in those days we did not have internet to find lyrics and I got my first Queen songbook some years after I got that French album.
KevMull · Member since
Thanks Rien
Will you be putting some pics of some of 'em on ur web page?
Rien · Member since
This has to wait I guess. The digital cam from my work has been stolen, so we'll have to get a new one. Think I'm gonna buy one myself soon.
The mp3 files of these cd's have been deleted (only one is still on), due to heavy download in 24 hours.
In December my site went down for 16 days and I want to avoid that for a second time!
Adam Baboolal · Member since
You took em down? Aww... Maybe just two at a time? Like how Deacon Fan does it.
EDIT: My PC crashed when I got your files and I lost them. I think you put up a second set of files. Any chance of PM-ing me with them?
Peace,
Adam.
Rien · Member since
Well, I also don't want to give them all away.
I've actually put them up there so one could get a glance of the quality of those cd's.
I'll see what I can do.
Pim Derks · Member since
"I've actually put them up there so one could get a glance of the quality of those cd's."
'low' quality mp3 doesn't match 20-bit CD masters anyway Rien :-)
I'll probably going to get them soon.... I found a contact in Japan who can get them for me for about 23 euros each (incl. porto) :-)
Penis - Vagina · Member since
That's a good point Pim. Nothing against you Rien.. I would personally never put someone down for sharing anything.. but I was a little surprised at the differences in responses between this and when I started my project.
The only way you could really tell a difference in quality would be to listen to a 320 MP3 of a different master back to back with these, besides these are the 2001 remasters that have been around for nearly three years now. And they called _my_ project redundant ;)
Daburcor? · Member since
I'm gonna get them! Thanks for sharing these with us Rien! That was kind of you! :D
