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09-29-2003, 11:15 PM
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Need more greatest Hits for DVD-A & SACD!
This is what they need to do to get more people interested in these formats and get me (and I think others) to buy more discs.. I like some of these artists they are releasing but often times not all of a CD and not enough to spend $15-20 on. Especially some of the older artists who have a large catalog why not release a bunch of greatest hits disc and then follow up with certain individual CD's that defined the artists career? I want REM but not all the separate discs! I want Queen but again not all in separate discs! Anyone else feel this way?
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09-29-2003, 11:40 PM
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I agree completely! I think The Eagles greatest hits vol 1 is the biggest seller of all time. That should translate into many sacd dvd-a sales as well. Silverline has a couple of "various artists" disks avaible. Classic rock, country and I think I remember a "show tunes" as well. Anyway, I'm also looking for more of this type. We need to make more people aware of these new formats. GENE
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09-29-2003, 11:50 PM
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Anyone else feel this way?
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YES!
Another idea: how about a couple of loaded sampler discs, with popular songs from various genres. Probably not cheap royalty-wise but a good long-term investment IMO.
A disc with Pink Floyd, Yes, Tool, Radiohead, Coldplay, REM, B52's, Staind, Madonna, etc. all on one disc is bound to get some attention.
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09-30-2003, 08:00 AM
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I kind of feel that populating the high-res market with compilations would make the format seem like a novelty.
Then again, I generally despise "greatest hits" comps and the likes for album bands.
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09-30-2003, 11:59 AM
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I totally agree with more greatest hits albums on hi-rez. There are many artists that I like to sample, especially on hi-rez. But if I have to purchase an individual album to sample an artist, I rather buy a less-expensive CD.
Interestingly, SACDs released by the major music companies in Hong Kong are almost always compilations or "Greatest Hits" albums. Given the size of the market, SACDs (hardly any DVD-A's are released there) has taken off nicely. |
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09-30-2003, 12:32 PM
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There are quite a few greatest hits SACD's available. Johnny Winter, The Byrds, and Aerosmith off the top of my head. Then there's the several Sony soundtrack albums out that feature multiple artists, plus several labels have samplers out, the AudioQuest sampler is my fav.
I'm like Mike, I generally don't like greatest hits packages. The HIT songs are the ones I've heard too many times. Due to ray-dio play, play, play, play, play, often times the hits have turned into MISSES as far as I'm concerned.
Rachael, the big disc cat! I used to be looking for Hi-Vision Laserdiscs & D-Theater tapes, now I'm looking for HD-DVD's and Blu-rays.
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09-30-2003, 04:00 PM
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I kind of feel that populating the high-res market with compilations would make the format seem like a novelty.
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I agree with Mike. You want to have big hits available but often the best selling albums stand on their own, like DSOTM for example.
I think some of the better pop/rock records are concept albums by nature.
Greatest hits on either classical or jazz would send the wrong message to fans of that genre. I think the fans want to listen deeply into the record and not just the overdone radio songs.
The real key is to keep doing comprehensive remasterings in hybrid form like SACD has done with Peter Gabriel, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, etc.
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I would love to get James Taylor's Greatest Hits on DVD-A from Warner as well. Alot of his best work (IMHO) was done before he went over to Columbia.
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I'm not so sure about this. JT is one of my favorite SACDs and Hourglass and October Road are also quite good.
It would be nice if Warner would put James Taylor out but they are really struggling just keeping promises on REM, which I have been waiting on for a while.
And where the heck is Van Morrison?
Talk about an under-utilized Warner catalog... 
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09-30-2003, 04:05 PM
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Warner Brothers owns Black Sabbath. Now that would rock on DVD-A! Can you imagine War Pigs with an aggressive high-res surround mix? Holy crap but that would rock.
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09-30-2003, 06:13 PM
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