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Sikamikanico999 wrote: A MCIS mix could improve so much...

Rivers Cuomo wrote:
Ohh yeah!

I know, I hope we get that. If Billy could just get over his hate for the Zwan band members, maybe we could possibly get some new Zwan stufffffs.

I reassume in this way my opinion:

- new stuff (new songs, old unknown songs)
- remastered albums

This is great news! Really excited!

I hope the Gish re-issue comes with official lyrics this time! Also, what do you guys think about the next Greatest Hits album? Will it feature Tarantula and That's the Way? I hope he let's the fans choose the compilation! Or maybe have it in an interactive way where we can choose whatever songs we want to be on it? If you know what I mean? That'd be really cool!

I think the next Hits CD should only be stuff since 2007. It's annoying when you get all these different "best ofs" with most of the same songs on each one. Course, that's record labels for you. No one needs compilation albums these days anyway.

I hope there won't be any new best ofs.

DON wrote:
Me too. People pretty much known their hits. Billy barley even talked about it, he kind of squeezed it in at the last second and just kept talking.

Like epitome said, that's record labels, trying to squeeze money out of everything.

I usually do my own best-ofs that keep changing all few months; though, like epitome, I'm mostly an albums guy.

DON wrote:
I do the same thing, new playlists every other month or so. Yes I am an albums guy too.

Here is a new interview with Billy about the reissues and other SP news. Good stuff.

Wooooooo!

Does this seem like he is contradicting himself?

Booooom, Jimmy burn.

Darcy burn too probably

I'm surprised how many people on here are forgetting about the unreleased material that would be included with all the reissues. So many have talked about not wanting to buy the albums again, or the possibility of the remasters not being up to snuff, but have you all forgotten just how many unreleased gems there are? Apart from a slew of album studio-quality tracks, there are countless demos (think Gravity Demos), alternate versions, rehearsals and jams that can easily show up on the reissues, or the digital box sets (that no one here bothered to mention). I'd say it's still a bit early to get too excited about it all, but there's some real potential for great things. Buy Mellon Collie again for Speed and Towers of Rabble and Elsie. Buy Adore for Let Me Give the World to You and Grab the Mountain.

Remember, there's a lot we know about that we don't have, but there's A LOT we don't even know about that we don't have.

"And if it pushes me harder to write better music, and people only end up listening to the three best songs, I can live with that. In the past that would have really pissed me off."

"I like 99 percent of what she plays. She doesn't even know scales!"

What gets you up in the morning? Is it that feeling that you still have yet to write your best song?

"I don't think like that anymore."

NO.

"I like being an independent artist now, working with the people I'm working with, and making my own decisions based on my own criteria and not some weird cultural version of integrity and authenticity, which is total bullshit. I think I want to be in the game again because I'm playing by my own rules. And I think that's when rock 'n' roll is at its best anyway."

I'd really like the adore Let Me Give the World to You. But I've never heard of Grab the Mountain - what's that?

RottingApples wrote:
Here's hoping for a 10 CD MCIS re-release.

frankB wrote:
Agreed. I wanna see why BC didnt like it.

He didn't like it because that song is a corny piece of crap, as evidenced by the machina version

Sikamikanico999 wrote:

If you can imagine Celine Dion singing it, it's a dud.

Sikamikanico999 wrote:
I like it. Much better than That's The Way - now that one I could agree Celine Dion could sing.