Upcoming Sony Compilation

[Joseph Brooks]

Why, why, why? Why would they want yet another comp featuring the "big
three" don't they realize that their core audience is the die hard fan?
Eric, if I could I'd like to slap some sense into you... Sheesh.... They're
not going to win any new fans by running over the same dead ground and
"going through the motions". People have heard these songs, they don't need
a new compilation to be made aware of them. If they liked those songs,
they'd be fans already. Why not show them what else you can do? Grrr.. this
just irks me to death...

JB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John A. Swartz [mailto:jswartz at MITRE.ORG]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 5:47 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
> Subject: BOC: Upcoming Sony Compilation
>
>
>      Someone mentioned the upcoming BOC compilation that should be out
> soon (although I haven't yet seen it available for pre-order on
> CDNOW.com), and the fact that Eric polled the AOL crowd about what
> should be on it.  Before you all get really excited about any BOC
> rarities or cool tracks that the die-hard fans would want, I should
> point out that the ground rules for that poll were that the fans were
> asked what songs Joe Q. Public would most want to hear.  In
> other words,
> "Don't Fear the Reaper", "Godzilla", and "Burnin' For You"
> will probably
> be the first 3 tracks.  And, while I expect that this disc
> will be good
> (rumor has it that the tracks will be REMASTERED), don't
> expect to hear
> "Mistress of the Salmon Salt", "Monsters", "Nosferatu",
> "Morning Final",
> or any sort of rare demo or live tracks -- all of which, I suspect,
> would be on a compilation that would be hand-picked by
> die-hard fans of
> BOC who already have at least 5 CDs in their collection with
> "The Big 3"
> on them.
>
> John
>