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[wmeugene]

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Smash

The Offspring preserve the essential ingredients of their chosen genre--guitars grinding out three chords, shouted vocals, and plenty of vitriol--and layer them over a melodic base that packs considerable popular appeal. The 30th anniversary release of 'Smash' is exclusive to VMP and is limited...

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I do wonder if this was a possible Rock track selection as it would have fit in perfectly with what they were doing in that track?

 

[Nee Lewman]

I do wonder if this was a possible Rock track selection as it would have fit in perfectly with what they were doing in that track?

Not with generic plates.

 

[Nee Lewman]

@ByersVinyl got told off for doing some typical N&G ball busting. I love this forum.

Like in the town hall?

 

[Biscuit]

Sundazed had an email newsletter that went out today and featured a question about what gets (re)released. In light of discussions here, I thought this part was interesting:
"A big hurdle with reissues is that the rights to an overwhelming majority of the master recordings are controlled by just a few companies (Universal, Warner, Sony). Sometimes their minimums or prices are way out of line with what's realistic for a project. We have to agree to manufacture usually 2000 or more records for a release when usually, past sales from similar projects suggest 500 or 1000 are more realistic numbers. We've had a lot of times where we won't do something we love very much because we can't figure out how to break even on the project. The margins are extremely thin on major label licenses so breaking even is tough to get to and might take a while. There are tons of projects we know the market is dying for a reissue of (as are we), but we simply get told that we can't license that title or can't reorder that title anymore (we're getting low on Dock Of The Bay (hint hint, sigh). Generally it's because they want to do a version themselves, which we understand, but it'd be easier to swallow if they did indeed do them or do them sooner."

I think this above is part of VMP's issue with maintaining 5 tracks, cost issues, and ongoing curation woes. This was the same issue that hit Rubellan too.

 

[Murfocakes]

Like in the town hall?

Yes

 

[Murfocakes]

I have If You Want Blood by AC/DC on. Fucking love that album. I’m also pissed btw.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I have If You Want Blood by AC/DC on. Fucking love that album. I’m also pissed btw.

What?

 

[Murfocakes]

Pissed as in drunk

 

[Nee Lewman]

Pissed as in drunk

I was looking for relevance.

 

[Murfocakes]

My favourite bit in the whole album is when Bon Scott goes ‘it’s hot in here….’. He was an old, lascivious, drunken perv, but he was our old, lascivious, drunken perv.

 

[Murfocakes]

I was looking for relevance.

Excuse me for being the first person to send this thread on an unrelated tangent.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Excuse me for being the first person to send this thread on an unrelated tangent.

Im all good. I just thought you were saying Ac/dc was gonna be a VMP rotm or something….

 

[Murfocakes]

Don’t you want to know how I soundtrack my night of drinking? You know you would have loved these tales? Lee Newman! Now he was fun.

 

[Murfocakes]

Im all good. I just thought you were saying Ac/dc was gonna be a VMP rotm or something….

No. But we can pretend it is if that helps.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Don’t you want to know how I soundtrack my night of drinking? You know you would have loved these tales? Lee Newman! Now he was fun.

I heard that guy is dead.

 

[Murfocakes]

I heard that guy is dead.

He died choking on his vomit after a night drinking. Anyway, do you want to hear how I soundtrack my night drinking?

 

[Murfocakes]

Sorry I confused Lee Newman with Bon Scott. Not the first to do it. Not the last.

 

[Nee Lewman]

He died choking on his vomit after a night drinking. Anyway, do you want to hear how I soundtrack my night drinking?

Yes, please…

 

[Biscuit]

My favourite bit in the whole album is when Bon Scott goes ‘it’s hot in here….’. He was an old, lascivious, drunken perv, but he was our old, lascivious, drunken perv.

Those Bon Scott AC/DC albums are great. I remember going to see the Let There Be Rock movie in 1980 in theaters, it was the best!

 

[Murfocakes]

Those Bon Scott AC/DC albums are great. I remember going to see the Let There Be Rock movie in 1980 in theaters, it was the best!

Awesome. I have the DVD. I love love love Bon Scott. Yet I’m apathetic to Brian Johnson’s stuff with them. Maybe I’m strange. Or maybe I have good taste.