National Treasures - The Singles Collection Thread

[Mr.Selfdestruct]

If the deluxe edition is as sexy as Postcards and Journals, I will probably get it.

[sculptureofabloke]

Originally Posted by UEF

Don't get it! There isn't a prize for being the best MSP fan you know

It's an addiction. I'll probably get the standard cd, special cd, super special box, vinyl, Japanese cd, couple of promos and fucking Vietnamese cassette.

[Dancing Kirby]

Originally Posted by Mr.Selfdestruct

If the deluxe edition is as sexy as Postcards and Journals, I will probably get it.

As nice as they look, they're awful when it comes to scratching the CDs.

[Mr.Selfdestruct]

Originally Posted by Dancing Kirby

As nice as they look, they're awful when it comes to scratching the CDs.

Good point actually. My copy of Postcards started to skip a little, not too long after i bought it. Depending on what cd player i used.

[Tidus]

Late to the party, but are they suggesting it may be a collection of single cds, each with the single on it...ie 33 cd's each with one track on it?

If so, how disgustingly wasteful, and utterly pointless. Not a chance I'd buy that.

[UEF]

You could fit their entire discography and all videos on a DVD.

[Abstract Unknown Girl]

Originally Posted by Mr.Selfdestruct

My copy of Postcards started to skip a little, not too long after i bought it.

Yeah mine skips a lot too, but that's mainly from me pressing the skip button until the end of the album

[Littlesue]

Originally Posted by sculptureofabloke

Can't really imagine anyone outside of this forum buying it. Besides the stuff on Forever Delayed, there's not much that could be on this that the less obsessed normal types would be interested in.

I can't agree with this, Greatest Hits albums are usually brought by casual or non fans as well as die hard fans, I have greatest hits albums of groups I would never buy normal albums like The Smiths, Pulp, Blur and The Verve.

[Phil C]

Originally Posted by Tidus

Late to the party, but are they suggesting it may be a collection of single cds, each with the single on it...ie 33 cd's each with one track on it?

If so, how disgustingly wasteful, and utterly pointless. Not a chance I'd buy that.

And nor would anyone else. Which is why I rather suspect it'll be more like the recent Clash singles box set, in which every single has its own disc with its own original b-sides collated onto it. They've confirmed neither as yet, but I'd be amazed if they'd do what you're suggesting.

Having said that, I do worry about getting screwed over in terms of the DVD that comes with the double-disc edition as it doesn't seem to fit with the description of the bpx set.

[deadmartyr]

I don't know if anyone picked up on this in this thread, so apologies if this is a repeat, but going through Nicky's recent Twitter lyrics postings I came back across this one:

''ive been looking for national treasures-they are not in the government- not in the palace''x

So I do wonder if they may have written a title track single, despite this cover song talk.

[Nature's Discontent]

Originally Posted by deadmartyr

I don't know if anyone picked up on this in this thread, so apologies if this is a repeat, but going through Nicky's recent Twitter lyrics postings I came back across this one:

''ive been looking for national treasures-they are not in the government- not in the palace''x

So I do wonder if they may have written a title track single, despite this cover song talk.

Ah, yes. I think somebody suggested they might be new lyrics in the twitter thread. It's enough to convince me it's a title track they've done. I'm not sure about the cover song talk. Probably just more Wire lies, although it might be the b-side or something.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by Abstract Unknown Girl

Yeah mine skips a lot too, but that's mainly from me pressing the skip button until the end of the album

But you're missing out on great songs like I Think I Found It and Hazelton Avenue for starters!

No, they wouldn't put one single song on ech CD. That would be craziness! I hope it's like The Clash singles boxset with a cool package!

[meganslastwords]

I'll buy it whatever it is

[Industrial Symphony No.1]

Originally Posted by Littlesue

I can't agree with this, Greatest Hits albums are usually brought by casual or non fans as well as die hard fans, I have greatest hits albums of groups I would never buy normal albums like The Smiths, Pulp, Blur and The Verve.

They'd just download the individual tracks they want if they don't have them already or wait until the album is in the bargain bin. Pulp's greatest hits got to number 71 in the charts.

[Littlesue]

Lol, I still disagree, a lot of older people don't have computers or don't know how to download, I don't! The Phonics greatest hits was released almost 3 years back, is still in the top 150 and has sold about 800,000 as opposed to their album released after which sold about 120,000.