Queen I Box Set Announced - Pre-Release Discussion Only

You can listen to the Ibex performance from 1969 already....

If I am not mistaken, we already knew this for decades. Brian said in the early 00's that indeed this one had been performed by Smile. (After the famous story that goes with Brian adapting it from a blues track that he heard on the radio in 1967 / 1968 and decades later he would actually learn who was the original performer as well as the song title, thanks to a fan who provided him with this information).

I know I've seen it in print somewhere. And Mercury even called it that on stage between songs when they played there in 1975/76.

This is super exciting! I thought for sure that this would be the first physical boxset I'd have bought in years but then I checked iTunes and it was only $9.99 for the 6 disc Collector's Edition. I don't know if that's a mistake or if they'll change it after the fact or what.
It'll take me a few listens to warm up to the new mix of TNCD but I do like the "room" they've added. I was worried the remixes would simply have a bunch of reverb added on like the recent live recordings. Glad to be wrong.
The fact that they've remixed what are essentially bonus tracks too is impressive.
Too bad Queen are following suit with other releases by having the surround option streaming-only. At least we'll have one though!
I was expecting recycled live stuff but, wow, that much from Rainbow was surprising. Well worth it for the four new song, I think.

I can't wait to hear the rest of this stuff!


Question for folks in the US who have pre-ordered stuff from QOL before: How close to the release date is it usually delivered? I'll be out of of town (ELO in LA!) on the 25th and wouldn't want this sitting by the front door.

The early Japanese releases had some retitles in Japanese-- for example, Keep Yourself Alive was ”炎のロックンロール", "Flaming Rock 'n' Roll", and Now I'm Here was "誘惑のロックンロール", "Temptation Rock 'n' Roll".  Queen I was indeed released as Princess of Fear, but from what I can tell, they're all mostly referred to by their English titles in the present day since the average Japanese person has so much more exposure to English now.  Personally I've always referred to the first album as "Queen I".

That won't be too bad if it's subtle. The end of the "Now and Then" music video did the same with photos, it had the heads move as they came closer to the camera, it wasn't convincing but it wasn't terrible, gave the photos a bit of depth.

Thank God I wasn't the only one who noticed that! I imagine it's gonna be used to bring some movement to the pictures on the inner sleeve.

It's currently €143 on Amazon.de: www.amazon.de/dp/B0DCMDJMWB

The box set is $35.99 on Australian ITunes. I hope you all stole it on US ITunes for $9.99!

I bought the song. Only listened on my phone at work so far. The overall separation is nice, but the drums seem a bit much in places. But if you focus on the drums you can ignore the autotune or whatever vocal treatment it is, which seems quite glaring on a couple of lines.

Excited to hear the whole album, but will it replace the original? Hmm.

I thought I'd been clever in my wording to stop anyone from being nit picky! I thought saying "Queen history" would put in people's heads 1970 onwards, otherwise I could've simply said early on. 

I just meant SWAFIB being performed by Queen, not Smile. It's first live performance was no later than in 1972 but it's the first time we know it was played by Queen before this. So, that's what I meant knowing when songs were actually first played by "Queen", not Smile or Ibex or whatever! 

Pre-ordered it for €150,00 from amazon.fr

For that 7 euro difference, I'm not going through all the hassle of canceling and re-ordering.

Very excited about the release. Will post my thoughts on it later.

For me it will just be a new experience to hear the album in a different way. The original one will still exist and remains in my collection.
It is interesting to see though that the original mix is not on any of these reissues. I wonder if they will do the same (for this album at least) as Genesis did in 2007 when they released remixes of all of their albums. All original mixes are now out of print.

Thnx.
That's about €35 cheaper as where I ordered it yesterday, so I cancelled that order and made a new one at Amazon.de for the boxset + 2CD.

The primary answer is nobody has a damn clue.

But if they ARE "holding back" a Marquee tape, that would be just fucking perverse when it would be a better fit for THIS release than re-including the Rainbow tracks.