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GlennFolkvord wrote:

Jon wrote:I still don't personally approve of having those two Vitalic remixes on disc two. Kind of goes against what Jarre says in his quotation beneath the track listng.

Is it necessary to take everything so literal? It's obvious to everyone Jarre didnt make those remixes, and they're not part of his body of work, which means they are more like bonuses than part of the Rarities selection itself.

Well, I guess some people need to complain when they aint getting something, and some people need to complain when they get more than they expected

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shadow wrote:

Pat Gleeson wrote: BTW anyone who has the cover of the Rarities in High Resolution..? The highest I can find is 600*600, which is somewhat small, and the rest are from the unoffical release from many years ago

I suppose you will get high-res artwork when you buy one of the official downloads.

Jon wrote:

GlennFolkvord wrote:I didn't realise we no longer had an opinion around these parts anymore

I didn't realize anyone had told you not to have an opinion.

I just mean, it isnt necessary to complain whenever your own personal expectation or dream isnt met. Remixes tacked on to the end of a compilation? The shock, the horror!!! People have too high expectations and too much information these days. It's information overload. People are actually sitting around here expecting rare 12" remixes and certain pre-Oxygene tracks that are their own faves. Where did they get the info from that this album would have rare 12" remixes? Nowhere! They dreamed it up in their head! And when FDM fails to deliver - not Jarre, but FDM! - they complain about it. And directs it towards JMJ no less, the man who is LEAST responsible for this project. Sure, he collaborated but FDM initiated it, and JMJ did not collaborate all he could because he didnt allow FDM to use tracks from post-FDM albums, as if they are not essential.

Try to base expectations on confirmed information, at least. Try it just once. I promise it wont hurt you

shadow wrote:Just finished listening to the Essentials, but what a dissapointment... All the tracks are the original album pieces, and some are cut short (Oxygene 2 is only the first half, and Magnetic Fields just the first part). Couldn't they atleast have decided to release the: Paris La Defense version of Equinoxe 4 and Les Chants Magnetiques 2, or the vinyl Record version of Equinoxe 5...

GlennFolkvord wrote:(...)People have too high expectations and too much information these days. It's information overload. (...)

GlennFolkvord wrote:How can it be a dissapointment regarding Equinoxe 4 and MF2 from La Defense? Nobody thought they would be included, and everyone knew those tracks were not up for inclusion here. Why? They dont belong to Dreyfus like the studio recordings Jarre made for them. So they could never be expected to be included here. Why you expected them to be included I dont understand, as no info has suggested they would be. On the contrary, everything pointed at tracks coming only from Drefus' catalogue.

GlennFolkvord wrote:And, you do understand they cant include the whole of MF1 on a compilation.....

13dots wrote:i saw the interview where they explain the remastering of the rarities
are the "essentials" given the same treatment?

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