Rare singles

The City of Mice · Post by **The City of Mice** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:57 am

For collection's sake, I'm real interested in getting me hands on rare single CDs such as Future Shock, Black Night, Break The Ice, etc etc... but do they like not exist anymore??!? Or are they still floating around somewhere??

brought2ubyletterC · Post by **brought2ubyletterC** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:37 pm

As far as seeing Strato singles available in the States, I've never seen anything earlier than "S.O.S". But maybe some online stores, or eBay?

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:51 pm

The City of Mice wrote:For collection's sake, I'm real interested in getting me hands on rare single CDs such as Future Shock, Black Night, Break The Ice, etc etc... but do they like not exist anymore??!? Or are they still floating around somewhere??

Check e-bay and another this kinda auction sites. By that way I´ve managed to find nearly every of these old singles. Only AMLYA wellow vinyl and WtSR? Japan CDS are still missing right now. They´re existing but it depends if ppl would like to see them...

Llageran · Post by **Llageran** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:07 pm

Try Ebay.....or GEMM.com. Can find some stuff there.
I found most of mine at Ebay though.
I have most things....except for that /%¤¤#(/&%# Kiss Of Judas Single.

ChromeSatch · Post by **ChromeSatch** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:27 pm

I have been collecting some of the rare strato stuff for about 4 years:
As for singles i have

Father Time
WTSR
AMLYA-7"
It's a mystery-7"
Wings Of Tomorrow (vinyl+cd)
and the less rare stuff

I just wanted to note that i haven't bought anything from the internet and also i haven't really been hunting down these items, so my point is that it REALLY depends where you live at, in order to find these items rather easily or not.

Also, can someone give me an estimated price for stuff like the above? Because i see them at ebay selling for very different prices and i'm wondering how much are they really worth(i'm talking about used condition).

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:50 am

ChromeSatch wrote:Also, can someone give me an estimated price for stuff like the above? Because i see them at ebay selling for very different prices and i'm wondering how much are they really worth(i'm talking about used condition).

I´d think 80-100 € for 7'' singles around here. > expensive

But on the auction sites the prices really vary much, for example found the original feet cover II-CD in 25 €.

cliff · Post by **cliff** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:31 am

IceBreaker wrote:for example found the original feet cover II-CD in 25 €.

Is the cover that one ?

or

If you had the second one, it's the re-released, not the original one, and it isn't worth that much money!
The original released is impossible to find, or if you do, you can expect to spend at least 1000€ for it

I used to have Future Shock and Black Diamond (or perhaps Kiss Of Judas, I can't remember), but I gave them to a "friend". No comment.

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:36 am

cliff wrote: Is the cover that one ?

Of course this. Paid around 25 € about it.

or

That one is still missing from my collection, though it´s the re-release.

cliff wrote:If you had the second one, it's the re-released, not the original one, and it isn't worth that much money!
The original released is impossible to find, or if you do, you can expect to spend at least 1000€ for it

Heh, made then a really good affair...

ChromeSatch · Post by **ChromeSatch** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:23 pm

Well, i have the feet version in vinyl. What's its rarity compared to the cd?
How many "feet" cds or vinyls exist anyway?
One other thing: Is the Fright Night (album) vinyl worth alot? Or maybe not so much?
Thanks, your opinions are very helpful.

Beast_Pete · Post by **Beast_Pete** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:00 pm

IceBreaker wrote:
cliff wrote: Is the cover that one ?

Of course this. Paid around 25 € about it.

Ohh, I found that one for 80euros in Wacken, but I did not have the money for it.

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:50 pm

ChromeSatch wrote:Well, i have the feet version in vinyl. What's its rarity compared to the cd?
How many "feet" cds or vinyls exist anyway?

I dunno, but suppose the vinyl with feet cover is not so rare than the CD. Like with the Wings of Tomorrow too.

Warrior of Hell · Post by **Warrior of Hell** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:01 pm

I`ve got this A million lightyears away single

nepi · Post by **nepi** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:33 pm

IceBreaker wrote:
cliff wrote: Is the cover that one ?

Of course this. Paid around 25 € about it.

uuuh, that's cheap! I never get a rare piece for such a nice price!
But is it so rare this way? I mean I have seen it more than once on any places.... Others I am still searching

Beast_Pete · Post by **Beast_Pete** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:21 pm

I won't tell for how much did my Finnish friend get the dedicated Episode vinyl...

Stratofanius · Post by **Stratofanius** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:20 pm

My only rare strato single is The Kiss of Judas promo (+ of course I have other "famous" singles like S.O.S, HHAL etc.)...
Rare ones are so expensive that I'm maybe not going to buy more of them.

Just a Vampire · Post by **Just a Vampire** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:05 am

IceBreaker wrote:
The City of Mice wrote:For collection's sake, I'm real interested in getting me hands on rare single CDs such as Future Shock, Black Night, Break The Ice, etc etc... but do they like not exist anymore??!? Or are they still floating around somewhere??
Check e-bay and another this kinda auction sites. By that way I´ve managed to find nearly every of these old singles. Only AMLYA wellow vinyl and WtSR? Japan CDS are still missing right now. They´re existing but it depends if ppl would like to see them...

I guess I saw the WtSR japan, but I don't know if it's a single or what kinda work. anyhow, i need to get the money to buy it.

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:07 am

Just a Vampire wrote: I guess I saw the WtSR japan, but I don't know if it's a single or what kinda work. anyhow, i need to get the money to buy it.

official strato.com wrote: WILL THE SUN RISE?

Released 1996
Another single release prior to Episode-album. This is almost like a 'live' single since all the other songs but one are live-recordings.

Rating: ** Very Difficult to Find

SONG MUSIC LENGTH
WILL THE SUN RISE? Tolkki 5'07"
SPEED OF LIGHT (live) Tolkki 3'03"
WILL THE SUN RISE? (live) Tolkki 5'07"
ETERNITY (live) Tolkki 6'56"
FATHER TIME (live) Tolkki 5'01"
DISTANT SKIES (live) Tolkki 4'10"

Burning Reflection · Post by **Burning Reflection** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:17 am

^I've got that single

I found the Will the Sun rise single at some random used CD store in Tokyo when I was there. That single really kicks ass! It's almost like a mini "episode era" live album!

Beast_Pete · Post by **Beast_Pete** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:25 pm

I ordered the WtSR? single on amazon.de, but after 3 months they told me, that they can't get it. I mean, WTF??!!1!ELEVEN Why do they put it in the list, fi they don't have it at all?!

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:02 pm

Beast_Pete wrote:I ordered the WtSR? single on amazon.de, but after 3 months they told me, that they can't get it. I mean, WTF??!!1!ELEVEN Why do they put it in the list, fi they don't have it at all?!

Maybe their list was just out of update.
Namely I had the same situation with one Finnish record-store with the same WtSR?-single too.

Beast_Pete · Post by **Beast_Pete** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:19 pm

You must come to Wacken, so we can buy the WtSR? singel there hand-in-hand.

Okay, not hand-in-hand.

nepi · Post by **nepi** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:17 pm

Burning Reflection wrote:^I've got that single I found the Will the Sun rise single at some random used CD store in Tokyo when I was there. That single really kicks ass! It's almost like a mini "episode era" live album!

I suppose this single only exist as a japan edition??

It's a very cool and funny piece. I love the sequence when TK says something and TT and JJ plays any parts spontaneously (-exist that word?)

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:23 pm

nepi wrote: I suppose this single only exist as a japan edition??

Like Father Time, I think so.

Beast_Pete · Post by **Beast_Pete** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:05 am

Or Black Diamond and The Kiss of Judas. But hey, they exist in Korea too.

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:53 am

Beast_Pete wrote:Or The Kiss of Judas. But hey, they exist in Korea too.

The Kiss of Judas exists in Europe too as a promo CDS.

Beast_Pete · Post by **Beast_Pete** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:32 pm

(5600+1000)

Hmm. But it's still too rare anyway. And that is, what counts.

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:10 pm

Beast_Pete wrote: But it's still too rare anyway. And that is, what counts.

I think here it´s not so rare yet. You can see copies roaming on the auction sites quite often, I can say very well.

Beast_Pete · Post by **Beast_Pete** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:26 pm

Copies? Legal ones?

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:30 am

Beast_Pete wrote:Copies? Legal ones?

Fully official promos.

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