> I guess here's a good list of what we'd want to see:
>
>
http://rarerecordings.tripod.com/id1.html>
> But also stuff that's been unreleased, like "Wedding Cake Island" with
> lyrics-
> and yeah, live footage, but good quality stuff.... including the two
> reunions in
> '05 and '09 ( I do think they will play again one day, at least I imagine
> so).
>
> I'd be most excited if there are some great unreleased tunes that we don't
> expect, although I don't want to be an overly demanding fan, expecting
> blood
> from a stone. They won't shortchange us, I'm sure.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Robert Daniels <
daniels1975@gmail.com>
> To:
powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
> Sent: Wed, July 20, 2011 3:10:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [powderworks] Re: Message to the Powderworkers List
>
>
> While I'd enjoy all of these, I'd also like to see more official live
> material,
> especially video of said live material (after all, that's what they did/do
> best). I'm really only interested in stuff that is already commercially
> available if it's remastered.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Michael Blackwood
> <
blackwood_michael@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>I'd rather they take their time and make the box set into something
>> epic...
>>Really, the most important thing is that they compile ALL the
>>officially-released non-album tracks. If they can't do that, here's how
>> I think
>>they should prioritize them:
>>
>>1st priority: Non-album Midnight Oil originals. This would be the
>> b-sides like
>>Heaven And Earth, You May Not Be Released, etc.
>>
>>2nd priority: Alternate versions of Midnight Oil album tracks. This
>>would include the shorter "single" versions of several songs, the
>> remixes, the
>>live b-sides etc.
>>
>>3rd priority: Non-album covers of other artists. There are a few of
>> these as
>>b-sides (live and studio) and on tribute albums.
>>
>>What do you other Powdies think? I know I'd rather have ALL of the first
>> group
>>above than an incomplete set from each category. I'd put the Non-album
>>Midnight Oil originals on one disk, the live b-sides on a second disk,
>> the
>>single versions (and alternate versions like Cemetery In My Mind <True
>> Believers
>>Blind version>) plus covers on the third disk, and the Remixes on a
>> fourth disk.
>>
>>Of couse, any unreleased songs would be in a new "ultimate priority"
>> group, but
>>I suspect we'd be lucky to get even one of those, so it could go into the
>>compilation of non-album originals.
>>
>>Anybody want to pass this on to Arlene? ;-)
>>
>>
>>
> ________________________________
> To:
powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
>>From:
rob10@liveonthe.net>>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:37:37 +1000
>>Subject: [powderworks] Re: Message to the Powderworkers List
>>
>>
>>On 19/07/2011 1:53 PM, Midnight Oil Office wrote:
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> I bring bad news I'm afraid... Oils box set release has been
>>> rescheduled for March.
>>> I'm very sorry for the disappointment and for putting a big hole in
>>> some of your Xmas stockings.
>>> We will do our best to make it worth the wait.
>>> Arlene
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
