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

Tom Davies tom at awesome.uk.com
Mon Aug 11 16:53:08 PDT 2003


The new Greatest hits is an irrelevance to me.

What I'm looking forward to is the GH DVD video, with all the vids from
start to end.


> 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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