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Post by gazman on Mar 28, 2024 12:14:41 GMT
They have mistakenly reported that there will be a 'Hasta Mañana' single released - hopefully they will correct that. |
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Post by baab on Apr 9, 2024 11:20:08 GMT
Regarding the Honey Honey single, well the Box is limited to 2800 pieces, how many boxes will count for UK? And the Honey Honey picture disc is (at least for my taste) one of the least well looking ones from the whole "Albums-The Singles" boxes. I didn't order it.
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Post by Alan on Apr 9, 2024 12:42:27 GMT
Regarding the Honey Honey single, well the Box is limited to 2800 pieces, how many boxes will count for UK? And the Honey Honey picture disc is (at least for my taste) one of the least well looking ones from the whole "Albums-The Singles" boxes. I didn't order it. Agreed: the singles/picture discs for the Waterloo set are the least inspired so far. But I think there are enough completists out there to push them into the vinyl chart for a week (maybe lower positions than previous sets?) That is a low number isn’t it? I can’t remember how many there were of the Arrival one, but I think it was the lowest and any subsequent box was produced in higher quantities than the previous. And with no Amazon sales and seemingly only official stores selling it, it must limit it. I haven’t ordered it yet as I spent my money on that one old I Have A Dream single, but come payday I’ll be ordering if its still available. I imagine though that it won’t be available for long and could end up as sought-after as the Arrival one, despite the company sleeves. Yes, Honey Honey picture disc is again unkind to Björn, just as the Head Over Heels one was. And I think he’ll quite literally get it in the neck again on the SOS one next year. Edit: I can only find issue limits for four of the previous singles boxes: Arrival - 2,000 The Album - 3,400 Voulez-Vous - 4,500 The Visitors - 3,000 Super Trouper - not known but I’ve seen a photo of one with the number 4,104, so must be more than that. It still appears to be readily available. |
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Post by Alan on Apr 9, 2024 18:06:20 GMT
Moved a couple of posts to this thread from the main 50th anniversary one.
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Post by Alan on Apr 27, 2024 16:42:41 GMT
I finally ordered the coloured vinyl singles box yesterday and it arrived today.
It’s quite underwhelming. The red, white and blue have been done before and the two company sleeves are a bit boring.
This is the tail-end of an ongoing series begun in 2016. It was always set to be the most boring of the issues so far, but the fact that it’s the only set of releases in this anniversary year makes it worse. The picture discs are slightly more interesting but you have to wonder why they seem so disinterested in doing much.
(My box is number 1,785. If that means the previous 1,784 have been sold, that still leaves 1,015 left. The issue is limited to 2,800… a pity they didn’t make it 1,815 as that was the year the battle of Waterloo was fought. And would have made it as limited as it perhaps deserved…)
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Post by HOMETIME on Apr 28, 2024 13:09:16 GMT
There's absolutely no excuse for this lack of imagination when it comes to vinyl colour choices. A cursory look at Amazon shows how vast the available colour palette is. The anal-retentive approach to sleeves has been this set's other undoing. Two company sleeves in a supposedly "deluxe" set is just plain lazy. True, the obvious picture sleeve is hardly earth-shattering, but it was a bad decision to ditch it. The "ABBA"-related singles box probably won't be any more exciting. What's the betting on the colours? Clear for So Long; red for I Dox5; yellow for SOS; white for Mamma Mia? Grr.
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