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I understand them re-releasing songs from that boxset. They're only doing that because that boxset is discontinued (in part due the Dr. Dre material appearing on there without his permission and it becoming a legal issue along with "The Chronic Relit: From The Vault"). WideAwake used "Doggy Bag" along with "20 To Life: Volume 1" and "20 To Life: Volume 2" to re-release the unreleased material that appeared on the boxset. I just hope that after this release, they can move forward and give the fans more good unreleased recordings. Maybe release a remastered version of "Doggystyle" or "Dogg Food" in the future.
re-releasing and repackaging shit is not gonna work...i wont, and nobody i know, is gonna buy doggystyle, or dogg food or whatever else again for a couple of unreleased tracks, more linear notes and a bulky package...
re-releasing and repackaging shit is not gonna work...i wont, and nobody i know, is gonna buy doggystyle, or dogg food or whatever else again for a couple of unreleased tracks, more linear notes and a bulky package...and the cats who use itunes and amazon wont have the full "experience" of that purchase so yeah....while were at it, is there anyone stupid enough to have legitimately purchased a digital download for doggystyle?
Quote from: J-FUNKTION on August 21, 2012, 08:12:03 AMre-releasing and repackaging shit is not gonna work...i wont, and nobody i know, is gonna buy doggystyle, or dogg food or whatever else again for a couple of unreleased tracks, more linear notes and a bulky package...and the cats who use itunes and amazon wont have the full "experience" of that purchase so yeah....while were at it, is there anyone stupid enough to have legitimately purchased a digital download for doggystyle? History says otherwise. There's a reason labels keep putting out deluxe editions of all their classic albums. Selling whole albums of unreleased music is actually more of a financial gamble than re-releasing classic albums with a few extra goodies attached.
Quote from: UCC on August 20, 2012, 11:13:59 AMI'd be more interested if they did well put together versions of the classic albums...Like if they released Doggystyle, with all the remixes from the singles, with all the tracks that later became tracks on Doggystyle,instrumental versions of all the tracks... maybe even some of the tracks broken down into just parts so we can see how they were made,that would be more interesting to me...And then have a big booklet with lots of info on the making of Doggystyle, interviews with people who were involved, how the artwork/photos were donefor it... then do that for the Chronic, Dogg Food, etc.I don't know if you ever seen like classic Jazz albums or rock albums or anything, but they do that all the time, like have full liner notes redone for them,and get the session recordings for the album and put all that stuff on a couple of discs or so...Exactly what I was thinking CDs with big booklets full of (production) info, artwork etc basically everything they could find and there has to be alot, not just music wise but also photo sessions, promo material the works. Only I think they should leave the classic albums alone and move on with the unreleased stuff, then really putting the emphasis on "unreleased" with stickers on the CDs like "Unleashed from The Vaults: 100% authentic Death Row exclusives" or something like that. Let's say they're releasing a compilation album from the 2002/2003 era, songs by Crooked I, Eastwood, N.I.N.A., Boo-yaa Tribe, Kurupt, Spider, Switchblade etc are on it. A nice booklet in there with as much info on each song as possible, a little background info on each artist, photo's and pictures that are actually from that period and maybe a brief summary of the label's status those 2 years. The XXL cover in 2002, Left Eye joinig the label, other artists affiliation with the label during that time (Juvenile, Ray J, Murder Inc), interviews the artists did and so on. As far as the sound quality goes, I was under the impression that not all of the material was in good shape and that some songs simply could not get any better sound quality wise. If that really is the case then I don't mind the quality being average at best or even worse, better to have it in bad quality then to not have it at all.
I'd be more interested if they did well put together versions of the classic albums...Like if they released Doggystyle, with all the remixes from the singles, with all the tracks that later became tracks on Doggystyle,instrumental versions of all the tracks... maybe even some of the tracks broken down into just parts so we can see how they were made,that would be more interesting to me...And then have a big booklet with lots of info on the making of Doggystyle, interviews with people who were involved, how the artwork/photos were donefor it... then do that for the Chronic, Dogg Food, etc.I don't know if you ever seen like classic Jazz albums or rock albums or anything, but they do that all the time, like have full liner notes redone for them,and get the session recordings for the album and put all that stuff on a couple of discs or so...
I don't buy that because they are also including material that was put out on other projects. It's just lazy to me. I actually like what UCC was talking about and it's something I've suggested in the past as well. Do a collector's set of some of the classic catalog and model it after what these other labels have done with say, the BDP catalog or ODB and GZA's deluxe albums. Include all the single and 16' inch stuff on a bonus disc with cleaned-up versions of the "Doggystyle" leftovers from the first Lost Sessions (don't know if that's still legally possible). Put "G's Up, Hoes Down" back in the original tracklist and do a remastered Doggystyle collector's edition, instead of these over-priced, poorly-mixed and weakly-compiled bootleg-quality albums they've been putting out.
Quote from: 3331 on August 20, 2012, 04:48:20 PM doggystyle relit is a possibility though with some bloody mary and danny boy tracks at the end.LMAO I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed they sure love to throw us unheard, unreleased Bloody Mary, C-Po and Danny Boy songs but they hoard the good shit (Crooked I's Untouchable cd, Every Single Day OG, Sam Sneed originals and of course everything by 2pac) they spent 26 million bucks to buy DR and put out albums that sell 5000 copies at 10x a piece. that's 50,000 profit + a small amount of back catalogue income
doggystyle relit is a possibility though with some bloody mary and danny boy tracks at the end.
maybe....but in 2012/2013?
Selling whole albums of unreleased music is actually more of a financial gamble than re-releasing classic albums with a few extra goodies attached.
Quote from: J-FUNKTION on August 21, 2012, 12:19:15 PMmaybe....but in 2012/2013? I would say so you ever notice how many times labels will re-issue classic albums or do new "greatest hits" packages? If you're someone that collects CD's, a remastered deluxe edition of an album might be something worth having. On the opposite side of things, if you're a casual fan, unreleased music from an artist is kind of a questionable investment.