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shortfatfanny
But who´s gonna buy 19 deluxe editions of Rolling Stones Records ?
I think they will finish maybe three (probably not DW) and put them out
in a row of three or four months.
To test and push SF,EOMS and a Live album.And if it´s not a bargain,nothing
will follow - 19 deluxe editions less than an assumed amount of people(not
counting us 9 or 34 Hardcores)have bought?
Forget about the rest - if there´s no money in it,they won´t continue.
So what to do in the marketing department?
Don´t know,it´s not my job,but they can only try to get it as brilliant as it could
be when releasing it,as Gazza (with his nipples) said earlier:
They only have one shot...
Let´s hope the best.
I would spend a fortune too. I remember, I went to my retail chain when the London records were re-released and said: Hey, I'm going to buy (14 or something like that) a lot of different records by the same band out of the same series you advertised. Can I get a special prize though it's not 14 copies of the same record? During the next ten minutes he had a prayer (or probably a phone call with his boss in the main office) and my dream came true.Quote
Whale
I'm going to spend a fortune if this happens.
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mickijaggeroo
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Obviously, I doubt their will be big demand for say a Dirty Work or Undercover deluxe edition loaded up with a bunch of dance remixes and a few outtakes. However I do believe something like a three disc box set for Some Girls and or Exile with a remastered studio disc plus a killer live album and concert DVD would result in a marketplace detonation along the lines of the Zeppelin How The West Was Won album / the Zeppelin DVD.
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Big Al
... I really cannot envisage a deluxe Stripped for instance.
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Why not?
Stripped + tracks from Stripped Companion and Hope Floats + Stripped video, that would be a nice Deluxe Edition [CD + DVD], in my thoughts ...
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Gazza
Rarities was something of a filler at the very end of a contract though - and a venture which the Stones probably had little or nothing to do with. Its the redheaded stepchild of Stones releases.
Its something of a different ballgame when it comes to working with a new label, especially when there's a few million dollars of an advance involved.
Universal will be very anxious to recoup a sizeable amount of that money, and anyone with a modicum of grey matter is going to realise that a straight and unimaginative reissue of the 1994 repackages with a few tweaks isn't going to cut the mustard.
I was unaware of the label's past record of such 'deluxe reissues' with other artists, but the posts earlier in this thread by those who have cited examples of them would suggest that there are enough people in charge at Universal with sufficient commonsense to have insisted that the Stones wont be getting too much dosh from them unless they have a bit more imagination when it comes to repackaging their back catalogue.
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Hansel
So what possible track listings could we expect.For an album like DW,what ottakes were there if any?Flashpoint would have heaps as SG would too.
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with sssoul
>> i think that DW has a good amount of outtakes <<
DW indeed has a whole bunch of of very fine outtakes
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with sssoul
>> i think that DW has a good amount of outtakes <<
DW indeed has a whole bunch of of very fine outtakes
Yes, but how many people LOVE DW enough to spend $30 on a deluxe edition? A couple thousand? Is that enough to justify the time and expense of putting it together? I just don't see that there would be that much interest in deluxe editions of ANY Stones album post-Tatoo You.
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with sssoul
>> i think that DW has a good amount of outtakes <<
DW indeed has a whole bunch of of very fine outtakes
Yes, but how many people LOVE DW enough to spend $30 on a deluxe edition? A couple thousand? Is that enough to justify the time and expense of putting it together? I just don't see that there would be that much interest in deluxe editions of ANY Stones album post-Tatoo You.
Some fans like this, some other that. We know those battles.
Universal has put a lot of money in this contract, they will remaster all albums, to release them as Deluxe Edition, one after the other.
At the end, we'll get some "50 Deluxe Edition Set" (incl. the 23 ABKCO ones) to celebrate "The Rolling Stones 50s Anniversary" in 2012, the very olympic year ... ;-)
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maumau
if i understand thi "deluxe edition" project from Universal it is not a re-release of the whole catalogue of any artist in a deleuxe format. If this happens for the Stones (which i hope of course) it is going to be an astounding exception.
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maumau
if i understand thi "deluxe edition" project from Universal it is not a re-release of the whole catalogue of any artist in a deleuxe format. If this happens for the Stones (which i hope of course) it is going to be an astounding exception.
Right. Not even the Who (a far more historic band than Sonic Youth), which began releasing Deluxe editions a DECADE ago, has had ALL their albums "deluxed". There are STILL no Deluxe editions of Quick One, Sell Out, Quadrophenia, Who By Numbers, Who Are You, Face Dances or It's Hard. The idea of the Stones having their ENTIRE post-Decca catalog "deluxed" is beyond preposterous.
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melillo
a friend of mine who has the U2 deluxe versions said that he already had all of the extras or bonus material on all of them, so for what ever that info is worth
we will see