Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] message from The Office
From: Craig Lawton
Date: 21/04/2011, 2:00 pm
To: "powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au" <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>
CC: "powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au" <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>

I enjoyed the best of both worlds stuff, but would be amazed if there isnt more live stuff of good quality from the late 80s, 90s and 00s.... Especially since i got into them around 1990. 

On 20/04/2011, at 10:38 AM, Stuart Fenech <stuart.fenech@gmail.com> wrote:

 

;-)
 
Re: Hunters
 
We had more input on the Mutations album than the box set; for the box set we mainly crossed reference on the Spare Parts ... there had never been any early live material etc. Given the discounting, the sales probably were not up to hopes. The weakness was probably that fans already owned a lot of the material - and though it was all beautifully remastered and it was a beautiful design, individual remasters were already in stores and there is a more limited audience for this area.
 
Re: Triffids
 
One of the interesting box sets I have here is the 10 CD limited edition Triffids set. This was more a serious fan package. One CD best of. One CD live recordings. Three CD's of live recordings. Two CD's of early tapes. Two CD's random rarities. One CD early singles. Most material unreleased to that point. Fans swamped it...
Re: Midnight Oil
 
So many options; so little discs? :)
 
- Remasters
- Unreleased live material - CD/DVD/Bluray
- B-sides
- Remixes
- Fancy formats - eg. how would 10-1 sound in 5.1 DVD/DVD-A/Bluray?
 
Recommend having remasters in the box set well BEFORE any remasters are on shelves, given the above exerpience.
 
Looking forward to whatever comes of this; will inevitably buy it anyway :)
 
Regards
 
Stuart
www.humanfrailty.com.au
 
On 19 April 2011 21:21, koala sprint <koala.sprint@gmail.com> wrote:


This is the best news to come out of the Oils HQ since the Sound Relief gigs.
I know when Hunters & Collectors put our their box set they enlisted the help of the fans to see what they actually wanted. They did the same for their b-sides/rarities collection, Mutations and we ended up with an amazing collection that everyone was happy with. It not only looked amazing (Like a toolbox from a workshop http://www.humanfrailty.com.au/ ) but contained just about everything the discerning fan would want.
 
Arlene, we are here to help.
 
Don't bother adding the 5 or so remixes of Beds are Burning onto the end of Diesel and Dust only to find out that none of the fans like them.(or maybe they do?).
 
My personal want list (trying to keep my feet on the ground and be reasonable), on top of all the albums and EP's remastered, would be to have each albums b-sides and out-takes tacked on to the end, plus a second disc of demos and live tracks from that albums era.
That would be 11 double albums, plus single albums for Bird Noises, Species Deceases and the 4 new tracks from the Real Thing.
25 Discs!!! What a box set that would make. All housed in a replica Water Tank just like the one behind Rob's kit.
Limited to 5000 at AU$150 each. There's a cool 3/4 million bucks there!
 
Maybe I got a little excited, but taking reality out of the equation, I'd add in 1 double disc of live tracks from each albums era. 4 discs for each album. Right, I'll calm down now.
 
 
Is it July yet?