That's a fascinating question. Or two. First, as you all know vinyl is my preferred medium. SACDs I will do opportunistically when it makes sense. Stealers for example made sense because CDs have never been in print in the US, and were only available in the UK for a short time. I'm very leery of trying Joe Jackson because those have been released in deluxe expanded CD editions. I don't need to make a killing on anything but I do need to not get killed on any of them if you get me.
I don't know if I've ever really thought as much about an absolute wish list without being tempered by filtering it through what I think is possible. That being said, Everclear, JJ and Stealers were all bands I love enough that they were quite honestly at the very top of the first lists of titles I asked for. So I have actually crossed some off of the dream list already.
But really, my youth was mixed between metal and then synth-driven new wave or electro-pop as disparate as those seem, and I'm very much a product of the 80s having been born in 1970. So, in no real order, Black Sabbath would have been a dream, as would Iron Maiden, The Cure, Depeche Mode and New Order. There are a LOT of 90s bands I'd love to do, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden. But so many of these properties are being treated like they're the Beatles now and I just can't get them. So I wait and keep at it and hope things change down the road. I am very new, so I do have a track record to develop before being taken completely seriously by people holding the bigger bands and titles.
I haven't officially announced it yet as I'm trying to cut down the announcement-release times but I am doing two titles from Erasure on LP, Wonderland and The Circus. I'm afraid those are two more that have had expansive CD releases and I just don't know about their prospects for SACD and haven't asked for them.
OTOH, I have requests in for some titles I can't talk about yet that I am asking for the SACD license along with vinyl. Sorry, I know what this forum exists for and I wish I could be more effusive about how many more titles i have coming u on SACD. And I want very much to find out how the Stealers titles do before making a bigger commitment to the format.
..some of us realize the uphill battle it can be when you are involved with physical discs...and those of us that LOVE the disc medium and want it to continue will also support people like you...it's so refreshing to deal with someone in the music business that isn't just a "suit"/numbers cruncher....we lucked out with Marshall from Audio Fidelity and now you have our attention...I'm especially glad you expounded on the environment in the music business...because a lot of people on these forums have not idea how difficult it is in the financial arena...people are under the misconception that the smaller labels are just making money by the truckload...when it is the distributors that hold you for ransom with their demands...that's why you see Music Direct owning MoFi and Acoustic Sounds owns Analogue Productions...it's like someone trying to start an automobile company and compete with the major auto brands....not impossible to do but certainly an uphill task..
