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Post by impulse on Apr 8, 2020 8:47:02 GMT -5
My Queen collection consists of their Greatest Hits volumes 1 and 2, plus the albums A Night At The Opera and the Flash Gordon soundtrack. To be honest, that's all the Queen I need. I would urge you to add the Sheer Heart Attack album to your collection. It is the perfect sampler of all the facets of queen and have some stuff that only they could get away with. Show tunes, thrash metal, and operatic elements in the same freaking song Plus it has Killer Queen. Who doesn’t love that song? My favorite Queen album by miles.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 8, 2020 8:56:05 GMT -5
Someone is selling a misassembled issue of Teen Titans #6 (TT cover with Marvel 2-in-1 inside pages) for... an unreasonable asking price. You never know it's not gonna work until you try, I suppose. There! I said it.
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Post by beccabear67 on Apr 8, 2020 9:05:51 GMT -5
My favorite Queen song, which almost nobody seems to remember, is Dragon Attack from The Game album. It's funny what you will find as the hit on an album by your own choosing... it has everything by all four... great drums, great bass, a great guitar solo and Freddie vocals, how can it not be understood as their greatest single track ever?
I saw that Flash Gordon at the theater and I think seeing Brian Blessed in leather and wings did something to physically change my brain! I still get Flashbacks!
I still wonder about that 'Please Please Me' LP autographed by Stu Sutcliffe, right up there with the autographed Nick Drake CD... I mean those ought to be worth twice a Teen Titans with a Marvel inside!
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Post by berkley on Apr 8, 2020 9:10:47 GMT -5
Personally, I couldn't do without the first 4 Queen albums - and that's only if I had to cut it down to the bare minimum. Everything up to and including News of the World was great. Jazz had its moments but that's the one where they stopped feeling like essential albums to me.
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Post by impulse on Apr 8, 2020 9:22:19 GMT -5
My favorite Queen song, which almost nobody seems to remember, is Dragon Attack from The Game album. It's funny what you will find as the hit on an album by your own choosing... it has everything by all four... great drums, great bass, a great guitar solo and Freddie vocals, how can it not be understood as their greatest single track ever? I saw that Flash Gordon at the theater and I think seeing Brian Blessed in leather and wings did something to physically change my brain! I still get Flashbacks! I still wonder about that 'Please Please Me' LP autographed by Stu Sutcliffe, right up there with the autographed Nick Drake CD... I mean those ought to be worth twice a Teen Titans with a Marvel inside! That is a GREAT song. It is so funky. Personally, I couldn't do without the first 4 Queen albums - and that's only if I had to cut it down to the bare minimum. Everything up to and including News of the World was great. Jazz had its moments but that's the one where they stopped feeling like essential albums to me. I definitely preferred 70s Queen to 80s and 90s Queen. It's good they were able to pivot and stay relevant, but as I alluded to in..geez, one of these threads, I feel the 80s ruined (for me, anyway) the sound of a lot of 60s and 70s groups. Not saying it was bad, just not my thing.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 8, 2020 9:30:14 GMT -5
Someone is selling a misassembled issue of Teen Titans #6 (TT cover with Marvel 2-in-1 inside pages) for... an unreasonable asking price. You never know it's not gonna work until you try, I suppose. There! I said it. Just got in a bid. Fingers crossed. 🤫
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2020 9:31:55 GMT -5
Someone is selling a misassembled issue of Teen Titans #6 (TT cover with Marvel 2-in-1 inside pages) for... an unreasonable asking price. You never know it's not gonna work until you try, I suppose. There! I said it.
Not the error itself....but how did that dog-eared book get 7.5? I'd fire the grader.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 8, 2020 15:19:11 GMT -5
I don't have the earliest Queen stuff, though I have the Greatest Hits stuff and Classic Queen, which covers the best stuff fairly well. I have everything from A Kind of Magic to the end, Flash Gordon, The Game and News of the World. I like a lot of stuff on Hot Space, but never bought the album.
I used to have the Wembley concert, a Budapest one (same tour) and the three-volume documentary on Queen, plus I taped the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, when it was broadcast. had all of that on VHS; but, long gone now. Since I can listen to and view most of that on Youtube, I haven't really bothered buying the missing albums or seeing if the concerts are on dvd.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 9, 2020 3:37:08 GMT -5
My nephew just got me to check the membership of the UN’s human rights commission.
It’s not quite Mos Eisley, but Obi Wan would say it’s a good effort.
There! I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 9, 2020 6:20:23 GMT -5
Someone is selling a misassembled issue of Teen Titans #6 (TT cover with Marvel 2-in-1 inside pages) for... an unreasonable asking price. You never know it's not gonna work until you try, I suppose. There! I said it.
Not the error itself....but how did that dog-eared book get 7.5? I'd fire the grader.
It's interesting that there are pictures of the interior for a slabbed book.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 9, 2020 8:45:37 GMT -5
Not the error itself....but how did that dog-eared book get 7.5? I'd fire the grader.
It's interesting that there are pictures of the interior for a slabbed book. Well, if you are slabbing a book, you need to take pictures of every page before slabbing it away so that you can read the dang ding dong blasted thing. We human's truly are God's comedy channel, are we not?!? When do we begin slabbing up our records/CD's and movies/television DVD/BlueRays? All for the sake of selling it to some fool willing to pay more money for something just because a company says it is worth more since it is slabbed and sealed in plastic? If i can't read it then why the hell would I want it? EGADS, what fools we mortals be!!! There I said it!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2020 10:01:35 GMT -5
Can we not get into the slabbing pissing match again? Nothing good ever comes from it here. Some like it, some don't and no matter how much people go back and forth about it, no one ever reconsiders their position, and hard feelings and people quitting the site are the only outcomes.
-M
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Post by impulse on Apr 9, 2020 10:10:24 GMT -5
This is kind of a pitfall of all collectables. They are only worth what people think they are, regardless of condition. For every meticulously cared for and slabbed comic, how many Beanie Babies are there in a garbage back in someone's attic by now?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 9, 2020 14:21:44 GMT -5
Star Wars was, at first, about the adventures of Luke Skywalker.
The five films that followed established that the saga was actually not centered on Luke, but on the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker, and that Luke's adventures were just a part of it.
The latest installment in this long storyline does the same thing, and establishes that it was actually not just about Anakin Skywalker, but about the rise and fall of Emperor Palpatine. Anakin's story, like Luke's before it, is just a part of the bigger tale.
I, for one, think that despite the inelegance of bringing back an old villain for lack of an interesting new one, this move makes perfect storytelling sense and is actually quite clever. It turns the nine movies into a single big story, instead of one big story with a three-movie extension tacked on.
Despite the relative failure of the Disney sequels, I raise my hat at what Abrams did with Episode 9. It was quite a feat of rescuing a seemingly-doomed storyline.
There! I said it.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 9, 2020 15:09:12 GMT -5
Episode 9 was an unmitigated disaster and was the nadir of a franchise that had presumably long since hit that point. The only thing interesting in it was that they were actually able to make a movie that was worse than the prequels. Shoe-horning in a musty relic of an already uninteresting villain was indicative of the creative flaccidity of a franchise that was always derivative and floundered for something to say.
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