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Queen – Studio Collection
Label: Virgin EMI Records – 00602547202888
Series: Mastered At Abbey Road Studios - Half Speed Mastering –
Format: Box Set, Compilation, 180 Gram
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Purple
2 × Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Album, Etched, Reissue, Remastered, Disc 1 White, Disc 2 Black
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Red
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, White
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Black
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Green
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Pink
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Silver
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Yellow
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Blue
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Red
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Orange
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Blue-Green
2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Disc 1 Blue, Disc 2 Purple
2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Disc 1 Blue, Disc 2 Clear
Country: Europe
Released: 25 Sep 2015
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style:
The Queen Studio Collection
QUEEN (1LP):
Side A
Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right
Great King Rat
My Fairy King
Side B
Liar
The Night Comes Down
Modern Times Rock ‘N’ Roll
Son And Daughter
Jesus
Seven Seas Of Rhye
QUEEN II (2LP):
Side A (white side)
Procession
Father To Son
White Queen (As It Begins)
Some Day One Day
The Loser In The End
Side B
Etching
Side C (black side)
Ogre Battle
The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
Nevermore
The March Of The Black Queen
Funny How Love Is
The Seven Seas Of Rhye
Side D
Etching
SHEER HEART ATTACK (1LP):
Side A
Brighton Rock
Killer Queen
Tenement Funster
Flick Of The Wrist
Lily Of The Valley
Now I’m Here
Side B
In The Lap Of The Gods
Stone Cold Crazy
Dear Friends
Misfire
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes)
In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1LP):
Side A
Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To…)
Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
I’m In Love With My Car
You’re My Best Friend
‘39
Sweet Lady
Seaside Rendezvous
Side B
The Prophet’s Song
Love Of My Life
Good Company
Bohemian Rhapsody
God Save The Queen
A DAY AT THE RACES (1LP):
Side A
Tie Your Mother Down
You Take My Breath Away
Long Away
The Millionaire Waltz
You And I
Side B
Somebody To Love
White Man
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
Drowse
Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
NEWS OF THE WORLD (1LP):
Side A
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Sheer Heart Attack
All Dead, All Dead
Spread Your Wings
Fight From The Inside
Side B
Get Down, Make Love
Sleeping On The Sidewalk
Who Needs You
It’s Late
My Melancholy Blues
JAZZ (1LP):
Side A
Mustapha
Fat Bottomed Girls
Jealousy
Bicycle Race
If You Can’t Beat Them
Let Me Entertain You
Side B
Dead On Time
In Only Seven Days
Dreamers Ball
Fun It
Leaving Home Ain’t Easy
Don’t Stop Me Now
More Of That Jazz
THE GAME (1LP):
Side A
Play The Game
Dragon Attack
Another One Bites The Dust
Need Your Loving Tonight
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Side B
Rock It (Prime Jive)
Don’t Try Suicide
Sail Away Sweet Sister
Coming Soon
Save Me
FLASH GORDON (1LP):
Side A
Flash’s Theme
In The Space Capsule (The Love Theme)
Ming’s Theme (In The Court Of Ming The Merciless)
The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction Of Dale)
Football Fight
In The Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise)
Execution Of Flash
The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash)
Side B
Arboria (Planet Of The Tree Men)
Escape From The Swamp
Flash To The Rescue
Vultan’s Theme (Attack Of The Hawk Men)
Battle Theme
The Wedding March
Marriage Of Dale And Ming (And Flash Approaching)
Crash Dive On Mingo City
Flash’s Theme Reprise (Victory Celebrations)
The Hero
HOT SPACE (1LP):
Side A
Staying Power
Dancer
Back Chat
Body Language
Action This Day
Side B
Put Out The Fire
Life Is Real (Song For Lennon)
Calling All Girls
Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love)
Cool Cat
Under Pressure
THE WORKS (1LP) :
Side A
Radio GaGa
Tear It Up
It’s A Hard Life
Man On The Prowl
Side B
Machines (Or Back To Humans)
I Want To Break Free
Keep Passing The Open Windows
Hammer To Fall
Is This The World We Created?
A KIND OF MAGIC (1LP):
Side A
One Vision
A Kind Of Magic
One Year Of Love
Pain Is So Close To Pleasure
Friends Will Be Friends
Side B
Who Wants To Live Forever
Gimme The Prize (Kurgan’s Theme)
Don’t Lose Your Head
Princes Of The Universe
THE MIRACLE (1LP):
Side A
Party
Khashoggi’s Ship
The Miracle
I Want It All
The Invisible Man
Side B
Breakthru
Rain Must Fall
Scandal
My Baby Does Me
Was It Worth It
INNUENDO (2LP):
Side A
Innuendo
I’m Going Slightly Mad
Headlong
Side B
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Don’t Try So Hard
Ride The Wild Wind
Side C
All God’s People
I Can't Live Without You
Delilah
Side D
The Hitman
Bijou
The Show Must Go On
MADE IN HEAVEN (2LP):
Side A
It’s A Beautiful Day
Made In Heaven
Let Me Live
Mother Love
Side B
My Life Has Been Saved
I Was Born To Love You
Heaven For Everyone
Side C
Too Much Love Will Kill You
You Don’t Fool Me
A Winter’s Tale
It’s A Beautiful Day (Reprise)
Side D
"13"
Companies, etc.
Licensed To – Universal International Music B.V.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Queen Productions Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Queen Productions Ltd.
Remastered At – Gateway Mastering
Lacquer Cut At – Abbey Road Studios
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF83152
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF85561
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF83623
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF83149
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF83150
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF85894
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF84595
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF84592
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF86503
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF86500
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF83621
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF83622
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF86506
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF85889
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF85891
Credits
Lacquer Cut By – Miles*
Remastered By – Bob Ludwig
Notes
Warning:
This release includes not only the original 2015 edition, but also the subsequent 2016 and 2019 re-releases which, despite the presence of a download coupon, should not be listed as separate.
The Queen Studio Collection
All 15 studio albums presssed on heavyweight 180g coloured vinyl.
Half speed mastered at Abbey Road studios
LPs recreated using the finest technology from the original master tapes
The collection includes a lavishly illustrated 108 page hardback book
Featuring an introductions to each album, quotes from the band, and rare photographs and memorabilia from the Queen Archive
Notes on the individual albums:
Queen - Lyrics on inner sleeve, Purple vinyl.
Queen II - Gatefold sleeve with separate White and Black lyric inner sleeves, double vinyl - White and Black single sided vinyls to match the "sides" (they weren't originally labelled A and B sides, just White and Black sides), with etched reverses.
Sheer Heart Attack - Lyrics on inner sleeve, Red vinyl.
A Night At The Opera - Gatefold sleeve with embossed front crest and picture inner sleeve, White vinyl.
A Day At The Races - Gatefold sleeve with die cut picture inner sleeve, Black vinyl.
News Of The World - Gatefold sleeve with lyric/picture inner sleeve, Green vinyl.
Jazz - Gatefold sleeve with embossed JAZZ on front and rear, picture inner sleeve and nude bicycle race poster with lyrics on reverse, Pink vinyl.
The Game - Lyric/picture inner sleeve, Silver vinyl.
Flash Gordon - Die cut lyric/picture inner sleeve, Yellow vinyl.
Hot Space - Lyric/picture inner sleeve, Blue vinyl.
The Works - Lyric inner sleeve, Red vinyl.
A Kind Of Magic - Gatefold sleeve with lyric/picture inner sleeve, Orange vinyl.
The Miracle - Lyric/picture inner sleeve, Blue-Green vinyl.
Innuendo - Gatefold sleeve with lyric/picture inner sleeves, double vinyl with full track lengths as released on CD version, Blue and Purple vinyls.
Made In Heaven - Gatefold sleeve with lyric inner sleeves and three posters, double vinyl with full track lengths as released on CD version, Blue and Clear vinyls.
Description of set:
The set is housed in a gold coloured box with a flip-open lid. The box has the Queen name in logo form on the front and STUDIO COLLECTION just beneath, along with the Queen crest near the bottom.
This box comes in an outer slip case, this time black with the same design in gold on the front with a gold border. The rear shows the package contents, the sides list the LP names (and a bar code on one side).
All the LPs come with printed inner sleeves aswell as polylined protective inner sleeves. The LPs themselves are also in individual cellophane covers.
The hardback book is the same size as an LP, although thicker of course, with black cover and gold logo/text/crest.
Finally there is also a Back To Black coupon for full digital download of all the tracks.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode (Text): 6 02547 20288 8
Barcode: 602547202888
Label Code: LC01846
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Collection eine umfassende Sammlung aller Studioalben der legendären Band auf 180g Vinyl.
Immer schon zeichneten sich Queen durch ihre Vielfalt aus, sei es musikalisch oder menschlich. Dieser Grundsatz wurde auch bei der Plattensammlung geltend gemacht: »Queen: Complete Studio Album Collection« enthält insgesamt 15 Studioalben auf 18 Coloured Vinyls – alle in unterschiedlichen Farben. Die Aufnahmen wurden dafür von Bob Ludwig von den Originaltapes neu gemastert. Zuvor hatte das Queen-Team einige Blindtests durchgeführt. Mit Ludwig entschieden sie sich nach dem Ergebnis für einen der gefragtesten Mastering-Ingenieure der Welt. Er hatte bereits Aufnahmen von Jimi Hendrix, den Dire Straits oder Led Zeppelin bearbeitet. Aufgrund der Länge einiger Alben wurde die Sammlung auf insgesamt 18 LPs ausgeweitet. Die Longplayer »Innuendo« und »Made In Heaven« benötigten jeweils zwei Schallplatten. Das Album »Queen II« wurde auf zwei Einzel-LPs gepresst, eine schwarze und eine weiße. Zusätzlich zur umfangreichen LP-Collection umfasst die limitierte Box auch ein aufwendig illustriertes, 108 Seiten starkes Hardcover. Darin enthalten: zahlreiche seltene Fotos, Erinnerungsstücke, handgeschriebene Songtexte und Informationen zu Singles und Videos aus den persönlichen Archiven von Brian May, Roger Taylor und einigen Queen-Fans.
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Queen: „Complete Studio Album Collection“: Die kompletten Studioalben als limitiertes Vinyl-Box-Set
Published on July 9, 2020
Foto: Rob Verhorst/Redferns/Getty Images
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Ein absolutes Muss für Queen-Fans und Vinyl-Enthusiast*innen: Die gesammelten Studiowerke der legendären Band sind als limitiertes Box-Set in farbigem, audiophilen Vinyl exklusiv über uDiscover erhältlich.
von Markus Brandstetter
Wenige Bands prägten die Rockgeschichte so wie Queen. Die Band um Jahrhundertfrontmann Freddie Mercury und Gitarrengenie Brian May verstand es wie keine andere, den Rahmen dessen, was man bis dahin unter Rock-Kompositionen verstand, zu sprengen. Die Musik von Queen war ausschweifend, virtuos, eine melodische Achterbahnfahrt zwischen großen Rocksongs, opernhafter Theatralik, kompositorischer Finesse und zeitlosen Melodien. Alle Hits, Rekorde und großen Würfe von Queen sind zu zahlreich, um sie aufzuzählen.
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Queen - Complete Studio Album Collection
Queen
Complete Studio Album Collection
Coloured LP Box
Exklusives Package mit hochwertigem Sound
Nachzuhören ist dies am besten in dem Box-Set Queen: Complete Studio Album Collection, das exklusiv im uDiscover-Shop vorbestellt werden kann. Die spektakuläre Box bietet alle 15 Studioalben der Band auf insgesamt 18 LPs. Die Alben erscheinen auf 180 Gramm schwerem farbigem Vinyl (jede LP hat eine andere Farbe), das von Mastering-Legende Bob Ludwig gemastert wurde.
Ursprünglich war der Plan, von den originalen Bändern zu mastern. Da viele der Bänder aber bereits gelitten hatten und teils restaurationsbedürftig und qualitativ suboptimal waren, entschied man sich, einen neuen, digitalen Master mit 24-Bit-Samples und einer Samplingrate von 94 kHz zu fertigen, um den bestmöglichen Klang zu bieten.
Gepresst wurde das Album von Miles Showell in den legendären Abbey Road Studios in London im Halfspeed-Verfahren. Eine Zusatzinformation für Audiophile: Showell nutzte für das Verfahren eine gut erhaltene Neumann VMS-80-Plattenschneidmaschine mit Schneidkopfverstärkern und speziell entwickelten RIAA-Filtern. Diese Liebe zum Detail sorgt für die optimale Audioqualität, die die Box zum wahren Hörerlebnis macht. Gefertigt wurde das Vinyl bei Optimal in Deutschland. Jede einzelne Pressung wurde sowohl vom Queen-Team als auch von Optimal ausgiebigen Testverfahren unterzogen, um die bestmögliche Qualität zu gewährleisten.
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Description
180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - Pressed in Germany Half-Speed Mastered at Abbey Road by Bob Ludwig
15 Albums Pressed On High Quality 180g Colored Vinyl!
Half-Speed Lacquers Cut At Abbey Road Studios Mastered By Bob Ludwig!
Pressed at Optimal in Germany!
Queen on Vinyl: This is how listeners first heard the now legendary Queen in the 1970's when vinyl was the predominant format for recorded music
Every Queen Studio Album In Audiophile Sound: Sourced from the Original Master Tapes, Mastered By Bob Ludwig, Cut at Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios, and Pressed at Optimal in Germany
Five-Years-In-the-Making 18LP Box Set Includes Lavish 108-Page Hardback Book and Uncompromising Custom-Produced Colored Vinyl
At long last, each of Queen's 15 brilliant studio albums spanning 1973 through 1995 can be enjoyed in bonafide audiophile sound. Five years in the making, the no-expense-spared 18LP box set The Studio Collection presents the music Freddie Mercury, Brian May, and company in the finest fidelity it's ever enjoyed. Sourced from the original master tapes, mastered by Bob Ludwig, cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios, and pressed at Optimal in Germany, this mammoth collection will rock you again and again. Custom-produced colored vinyl (different for each record), an eye-popping 108-page hardback book, and flip-tip box. There's more information on the mastering and cutting below, but right now, secure your copy of this today. And prepare to go stone cold crazy like never before.
Queen on vinyl: This is how listeners first heard the now legendary Queen in the 1970's when vinyl was the predominant format for recorded music. As a matter of principle, every Queen studio album was offered at the time of original release on vinyl, even well into the era when CDs had taken over as the medium of choice for most of the public. However, the final two albums, Innuendo and Made In Heaven were actually formatted primarily with the CD in mind, with a longer running time, so the contents had to be edited down to fit them on to the two sides of a vinyl album. Now, specially for this edition, for the first time, these two albums have been cut at full length as double vinyl LP's - four sides each – making up a vinyl set that is complete in every way.
The box set offers many other special features. Most noticeable is the colored vinyl: designed for collectors, each album is afforded a different color, in keeping with its original artwork, giving a unique record-deck experience. The color discs are custom-produced especially for this set, using new material technology which ensures optimal sound quality.
There are more surprises: Queen II originally never had a designated ‘A side' or ‘B side' - but ‘Side White' and ‘Side Black'. For this new edition, the album has been cut on two separate discs, black and white, each with a custom etching on the reverse side, a nice bonus for collectors.
The collection has been five years in the making. Queen's production team has worked extensively on all stages of this painstaking mastering process. The first step was the tape research: Locating and confirming the correct versions and best sources for all tracks. Most notably, "Under Pressure," plus five tracks on the Innuendo album, were improved hugely after the discovery of better sources during this period. Particular attention was paid to the original releases to ensure that nothing was lost or changed for the worse by reverting to earlier sources.
Mastering: To ensure optimum quality in mastering the music, the Queen team asked a number of world-renowned mastering engineers to deliver their best efforts on the same three songs. After double-blind comparison tests, Bob Ludwig's work was a clear winner. He is probably the best-known mastering engineer in the world. His skills, combined with a perfect acoustic environment and the some of the world's finest analogue and digital equipment at Gateway Mastering in Portland, OR, allow him to produce matchless quality in the final result.
The original plan was to master everything straight from the analogue mix tapes, where available. But in fact most of those tapes, having suffered from the effects of time, were in need of some restoration. Problems included speed errors, missing audio, newly developing clicks and other unwanted noise. Hence, the decision was made to create new super-high quality digital masters, using 24 bit samples and a sampling rate of 96 kHz. All the restoration was then performed in the digital domain, and the vinyl was cut from these perfected files. All restoration was carried out with the lightest of touches, with a profound respect for the originals, and the resulting masters are undoubtedly the finest ever.
The Cut: Of course, with the vinyl process, everything depends on the final stage – the physical cut. For this process, there was only one man in the frame: Miles Showell at famed Abbey Road Studios, London, has perfected the technique of cutting at half speed. Showell runs the source file and the cutting lathe at 50% of the normal speed, which means double the accuracy in the cutting of the groove, resulting in superior reproduction of the music via the stylus in your record player. Showell uses a beautifully maintained Neumann VMS80 lathe boasting cutter-head amplifiers fitted with custom designed RIAA filters. These filters are optimized for the very cleanest sound. Showell started by cutting the albums onto acetate discs to check the process for every track, and only after he'd fixed any sibilance or other vinyl-specific problems did he cut the lacquers to be sent to the manufacturing plant, Optimal in Germany.
Optimal has an enviable reputation for audiophile-quality pressings, plus unparalleled capability for the printing and manufacture of all the elements to be contained in the box set. The Queen team worked closely with the technicians at Optimal in an exhaustive quality-control program where test-pressings of every disc, in black and colored vinyl, were checked to minimize unwanted noise. Finally, the finished results were compared with original pressings of the LPs to answer the question: "Was it all worth it?" True to the final words of the song: "Yes, it was a worthwhile experience!!!"
The 18 vinyl LP box set also comes with a lavishly illustrated 12 x 12 inch 108 page hardback book which features introductions to each album, quotes from Queen themselves, hand-written lyrics, rare photographs, memorabilia, and information on singles and videos - all made possible with unlimited access to Queen's own archive plus the personal archives of Brian May, Roger Taylor and some generous fans.
Queen - Complete Studio Album Collection - 180g 18LP Box Set
Features:
• Special limited edition colored 180g 18LP box set
• Featuring all 15 hit studio albums sourced from the original master tapes
• Mastered by Bob Ludwig
• Half-speed lacquers cut at Abbey Road Studios
• Manufactured at Optimal in Germany
• Queen II cut on double LP, each with a custom etching on the reverse side
• Innuendo & Made In Heaven cut as full length double vinyl LPs for the first time
• Includes lavishly illustrated 12 x 12 108-page hardbook book with intros to each album, quotes from Queen themselves, hand-written lyrics, rare photographs, memorabilia & information on singles and videos
• Housed in flip-top box with slip-case protective cover
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