[Introspective] Discography 2 tracks, was: Final results ofthe final round of the Rating Project

[David C. Dawson]

There's no maybe about it; they've already said more than once on the 
website that it would be a career retrospective, not Discography 2.  I agree 
that it's a stupid idea, but what can you do?  There's no question that past 
the first two Very singles, the Boys' popularity has very much been on the 
decline in the general public.  Consider that the last compilation had four 
#1 singles and a Discography 2 would have none.  Erasure are doing the same 
thing as the Boys in terms of a new compilation.  They've already announced 
the track listing for that, and it's woeful to say the least, taking 13 of 
its tracks from the Pop! compilation, plus throwing on a remix of one of the 
oldies, and only adding 5 new songs...brutal.  They have announced that 
there will be a 2-disc version of that, however, although what is on the 
second disc has not been revealed.  Filling it with the remaining singles to 
make a complete collection would be a good idea, as I think it would be with 
the Boys.

David

>I understand what you meaning, but if the people at EMI/Parlophone had yet 
>a
>little intelligence left (they loose a lot of it in this RIAA x Napster x
>Morpheus matter) they will release the Discography 2 and reissue the first
>Discography, making 2 sales out of one release.
>
>But this will be only if they believe that this hypotetical Discography 2
>has commercial material on it. Maybe people at EMI don't think that these
>latest singles from PSB are commercial enough. Let's see what happens.
>
>Another thought: Maybe this new greatest hits album will be a double CD, so
>it could have all the singles released previously. A Discography 1 + 2
>album.

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