Most Ultra Rare Quad/5.1 Albums

[Quad Linda]

Crash Landing - Jimi Hendrix CD-4
Queen Q8
Animals - Pink Floyd SQ
Best of Bread DVD-A
Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart CD-4
Music of Another Present Era - Oregon SQ
Sings the Blues - Eddie Harris Q8
Sabotage - Black Sabbath CD-4
The Voice of Michael McDonald DVD-A
Talk to the People - Les McCann Q8
Best - Siegel/Schwall SQ
Takin' My Time- Bonnie Raitt CD-4
Quadfather - Dick Schory QS
Greetings from Elvis Presley Blvd. - Elvis CD-4
You Smile, the Song Begins - Herb Alpert Q8
Laid Back - Greg Allman CD-4
Déjà Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young DVD-A
Trilogy - Emerson, Lake & Palmer CD-4
Hear Ya Missed Me - Sly & the Family Stone SQ
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo DVD-A
Numbers - Cat Stevens CD-4
Sgt. Pepper - Beatles Q8
Apocalypse - Mahavishnu Orchestra SQ
Bloodshot - J. Geils Band CD-4
Blue - Joni Mitchell DVD-A
Keep Movin' In' - Merle Haggard Q8
Close to the Edge - Yes CD-4
Bob Dylan's Greatest Vol 2 SQ
Best of Bread vol. 2 CD-4
Minute by Minute - Doobie Brothers DVD-A
Vladimir Horowitz Plays Scriabin SQ
Energized - Foghat CD-4
Smiler - Rod Stewart Q8
Court & Spark - Joni Mitchell DVD-A
Desperado - Eagles CD-4
Eldorado - ELO Q8
Wildflowers - Judy Collins DVD-A
Coney Island - Herb Alpert CD-4
Winter Light - Oregon SQ
Eagles - CD-4
White Gold - Love Unlimited Orchestra Q8
Something Anything - Todd Rundgren DVD-A
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor CD-4
Unconditionally Guaranteed - Captain Beefheart Q8
With Everything I Feel - Aretha Franklin CD-4
Wildflowers - Tom Petty DVD-A
In Search of Space - Hawkwind Q8
Captain Beyond CD-4
Hejira - Joni Mitchell DVD-A
Fandango - ZZ Top Q8
One Size Fits All - Frank Zappa CD-4
Jeff Beck Live with the Jan Hammer Group SQ
Mind Games - John Lennon Q8
Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull CD-4
Rickie Lee Jones DVD-A
Space Ritual - Hawkwind Q8
Brothers & Sisters - Allman Brothers CD-4
Graceland - Paul Simon DVD-A
LA Express - Tom Scott Q8
Another Passenger - Carly Simon CD-4
Sold American - Kinky Friedman SQ
Gord's Gold - Gordon Lightfoot CD-4
Natty Dread - Bob Marley Q8
Welcome Back - ELP CD-4
Ladies of the Canyon - Joni Mitchell DVD-A
Ringo Q8
Good Vibrations (best) - Beach Boys CD-4
Chicago X DVD-A
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic Q8
Unmistakably Lou - Lou Rawls SQ
Initiation - Todd Rundgren CD-4
16 Greatest Hits - James Gang Q8
Blowin' Away - Joan Baez SQ
Street Party - Black Oak Arkansas CD-4
Kick off Your Muddy Boots - Graeme Edge & Adrian Gurvitz Q8
A Night on the Town - Rod Stewart DVD-A
Rock & Roll Outlaws - Foghat CD-4
Befour - Brian Auger & the Trinity Q8
Moondance - Van Morrison DVD-A
M.U. - Jethro Tull CD-4

All were mixed for surround and/or announced, but never released.
APRIL FOOL?? :yikes you decide whether or not this is laughable.

 

[Quadwreck]

Mind Games was announced by accident, John Lennon said only Imagine and Walls & Bridges were quad.

 

[rustyandi]

I have a Release flyer
about the upcoming release of
Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart CD-4

 

[oxforddickie]

Mind Games was announced by accident, John Lennon said only Imagine and Mind Games were quad.

Should that not have been Imagine & Wall and Bridges?

 

[Quadwreck]

Should that not have been Imagine & Wall and Bridges?

Aaargh, yes, I just corrected it, thank you.

 

[vinylguy4]

Still Apr 1 here, but not fooling.
Chicago X - DVD-A, there was one on ebay, so was made but not released.


The quad LP version of this one was made but never got released.



vinylguy4

 

[winopener]

But in Japan was out on CD4.

 

[Quad Linda]

Chicago X was released on both SQ & Q8. I own a Q8.

The LP you depict is not Chicago X, as the etched # indicates Ode QU 88035. Do you know what title it is? Although I don't memorize #'s and am not inclined to research it, it must be a title pressed very late in A&M/Ode's custom pressing arrangement with Columbia, judging from the #.

 

[vinylguy4]

Chicago X was released on both SQ & Q8. I own a Q8.

The LP you depict is not Chicago X, as the etched # indicates Ode QU 88035. Do you know what title it is? Although I don't memorize #'s and am not inclined to research it, it must be a title pressed very late in A&M/Ode's custom pressing arrangement with Columbia, judging from the #.

This is Carole King - Fantasy - QS LP, definitely not a CD-4. I don't think it is SQ, doesn't decode like SQ, but you just can never be sure about ODE/A&M.
Side 2 is QU 88036

vinylguy4

 

[Quad Linda]

Fantasy was definitely not a US CD-4. In fact, I don't believe that it ever was released on Quad vinyl in the US. I have a Q8 of it. King 4D-9 was the Japan CD-4 #.

This is Carole King - Fantasy - QS LP, definitely not a CD-4. I don't think it is SQ, doesn't decode like SQ, but you just can never be sure about ODE/A&M.
Side 2 is QU 88036

vinylguy4

 

[quadtrade]

There are many test lps done in another format. I have seen Columbia SQ titles in CD-4 and vice versa. Picked up a white label cd4 usa pressed of Dianna Ross live. Released on Q8 only here. Knowing the record execs back then would have been gold.
Fun part about that purchase was it was in NYC. I found the cover(white cover with cd-4 dianna ross wrote on the cover) on the floor and he called the record up from the basement storage. It was marked at $85 and i said i would take it before he saw it. He was mentioning something about redoing prices on old lps when he saw this and said "this would have been one of them" as he knew it was a rather odd pressing. That was a while ago, bet even New York has few record stores remaining. Used to hit the guy on Bleeker and a few other big stores. Any left?

 

[Quad Linda]

Record stores? What are those? There's one full line new record store in the Chicago area and half a dozen niche marketers. Milwaukee has two full-line stores. I so prefer browsing and holding to buying on line.

In the Quad days, there were no used stores. I was not aware of Japan LP's being imported here and had not seen them anywhere around Chicago back then, only Euro imports. What missed opportunities.

There are many test lps done in another format. I have seen Columbia SQ titles in CD-4 and vice versa. Picked up a white label cd4 usa pressed of Dianna Ross live. Released on Q8 only here. Knowing the record execs back then would have been gold.
Fun part about that purchase was it was in NYC. I found the cover(white cover with cd-4 dianna ross wrote on the cover) on the floor and he called the record up from the basement storage. It was marked at $85 and i said i would take it before he saw it. He was mentioning something about redoing prices on old lps when he saw this and said "this would have been one of them" as he knew it was a rather odd pressing. That was a while ago, bet even New York has few record stores remaining. Used to hit the guy on Bleeker and a few other big stores. Any left?

 

[Odys]

What's the story on the Devo Are We Not Men DVD-A? I've never heard of that being available. I'd trade half my collection to get my hands on that.

 

[Quad Linda]

Devo was never released, as was my whole list in post #1 in this thread. A couple had been mixed in 5.1 and were previously available in Quad.

We're pinheads all, Jocko Homo.

What's the story on the Devo Are We Not Men DVD-A? I've never heard of that being available. I'd trade half my collection to get my hands on that.

 

[Odys]

Devo was never released, as was my whole list in post #1 in this thread. A couple had been mixed in 5.1 and were previously available in Quad.

We're pinheads all, Jocko Homo.

Ahh, I got so excited at the possibility of this existing I missed the part at the end about it never being released. One chromosome too many.

 

[Quad Linda]

Chicago X was released as an SQ/Q8, but the DVD-A never happened.
Best of Bread was a CD-4/Q4/Q8, but no DVD-A
Court & Spark - Joni Mitchell was a CD-4/Q4/Q8, but no DVD-A
Welcome Back My Friends...ELP was Q8x2, but no CD-4 or modern digital surround.

To my knowledege, no other titles were ever released in Quad or 5.1

 

[Bob Romano]

Chicago X was released as an SQ/Q8, but the DVD-A never happened.
Best of Bread was a CD-4/Q4/Q8, but no DVD-A
Court & Spark - Joni Mitchell was a CD-4/Q4/Q8, but no DVD-A
Welcome Back My Friends...ELP was Q8x2, but no CD-4 or modern digital surround.

To my knowledege, no other titles were ever released in Quad or 5.1

In the effort to give proper knowledge
Court & Spark not on Q4
Emerson Lake & Palmer Q8x3
Chicago X must have hit the production stage but never released - I can say without hesitation that it does exist

 

[Quad Linda]

Thanks, Bob. I stand corrected.

Are you referring to the DVD-A of Chicago X? I do own a Q8.

In the effort to give proper knowledge
Court & Spark not on Q4
Emerson Lake & Palmer Q8x3
Chicago X must have hit the production stage but never released - I can say without hesitation that it does exist

 

[Bob Romano]

Are you referring to the DVD-A of Chicago X?

Yes I am...

 

[byrdman7]

Yes I am...

Yes it does and a excellent disc in every way.