― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Let's keep the afterbirth and throw Ian Riese-Moraine away! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Let's keep the afterbirth and throw Ian Riese-Moraine away! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Me too! Geir thirded. Normally I have bonus tracks - I wish they'd put them on an extra disk, like the Fleetwood Mac reissues
― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― jichael mackson, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Admittedly I often find dub versions to be superior to the originals.
― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link
According to AMG, the Japanese import CD has "bonus tracks" as well, but I don't know what they are...
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Friday, 2 June 2006 04:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Even the first version of the CD added "When I Needed You" which is one of their best ever B-sides.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Wire's "ManScape" has more tracks on than the LP version. Including the 'title track' "Life in the Manscape" which is the lead/single...
Hmm, what else.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― James, Friday, 2 June 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Generally, there's loads of cool bonus tracks on jazz rereleases, but usually they're just alternate takes that it's hard to get all that excited about, so they don't really feel like they improve the "album" as such.
― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
the title track on mya's moodring'i can be that woman' AND 'hands on me' on christina milian's it's about time'man up' on amerie's touch
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
originally a split lp on savoy, the 2001 atlantic cd reissue includes tons of unreleased dixon work. many, many brilliantly terrifying/terrifyingly brilliant solos.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Soft Cell- Non-stop erotic cabaret- I have an issue with 10! incredible bonus early singles & b-sides not on the album- it doesn't have all their great songs, but the 20 tracks make it a better collection than any other "best ofs".
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 2 June 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
And the expanded 2CD The Name Of This Band Is the Talking Heads is a revelation.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
The vinyl version of American Music Club's SAN FRANCISCO tragically slashes the two best songs that're found on the complete (CD) version.
― doug watson (solid air), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― shorty (shorty), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― shorty (shorty), Friday, 2 June 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
If this were fifteen years ago, I might have voted for the Cure's addition of Carnage Visors to the Faith CD, but now I'm too old to care. :-)
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 3 June 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
the new pornographers - challengers
― Zeno, Thursday, 27 September 2007 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Fragile and Close to the Edge are improved by versions of "America", I think Yes does a great job with those songs (I've never heard the original)
I like the bonus tracks on BOC's Secret Treaties as well. "Boorman the Chauffeur" should have made the original cut.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 27 September 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The Yes version of "America" is great although the original is great too and you should definitely hear it (and the entire "Bookends" for that matter).
To the original thread: "Ringo" obviously doesn't suffer from having "It Don't Come Easy" added at the end.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 27 September 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Albums that would have been better had the following same-era tracks been added
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 27 September 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
destroyer - kaputt, for "the laziest river" - the european tracklist with it second last is the best sequencekylie minogue - fever, for "tightrope"
― ufo, Saturday, 15 January 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link
rihanna anti
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 15 January 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
someone mentioned expanded live albums above - I think the expanded/remixed version of Bowie's Stage is heaps better than the old 2LP (and IMO crucial document of one of the all-time great tours and one of the greatest bands ever assembled)
also not quite 'bonus tracks' but I've long held that the cassette release of Standing On A Beach with b-sides on the flip is the definitive version - conversely the 'bonus tracks' on the CD (Other Voices, Play For Today, A Night Like This) make it a weaker compilation
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
DEV-O Live (from the Freedom of Choice tour) is a pretty bizarre example. it was released as a 6-song EP (probably under contractual obligation), then later made it to CD in a vastly expanded version by Ryko, with 16 bonus tracks from a different date fleshing out more or less a full concert. except...all the original stuff is still there. all six of the original tracks are duplicated, and not really much different. idk why they didn't just do a full set, who cares if the "original" performances aren't there?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link
Yeah Valentijn the Bowie Ryko bonuses are legendary (at least in my own mind). The demo version of "Candidate" makes my list of top 20 Bowie songs, sometimes. I remember feeling like "what" when Aladdin Sane came with no bonuses. "Holy Holy" is awful, the alt version of "John," is amazing, the live StS tracks are inessential, the "Crystal Japan" bonus on Scary Monsters had me giving Trent Reznor a side-long glance about not giving Bowie any credit for "A Warm Place". I don't even really think about Low without it ending with "Some Are" and "All Saints", etc. etc.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 00:06 (two years ago) link
"Lightning Frightening" from The Man Who Sold the World is my go-to example for totally inconsequential reissue bonus tracks, but I wouldn't really want it never to have been issued.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
Second for the guy who mentioned "Mutations" by Beck 15 years ago on this thread.
My CD finished with "Runners Dialled Zero" and "Diamond Bollocks", although the album apparently finishes with "Static".
Great album.
― in twelve parts (lamonti)
would argue these don't count as bonus tracks, they were included on most or all of the initial editions of the album. where are these 'stanard' copies of Mutations that finish with Static anyhow?
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 04:03 (two years ago) link
the recent longer/restored Secret Messages by ELO is an improvement over the original release.
― akm, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
The LP of Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Session didn’t include the what-now-seem-essential songs “Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)” and “Working On A Building.”
Two “perfect” albums with even-better songs released in expanded editions are Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball and The Waterboys’ Fisherman’s Blues.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 05:43 (two years ago) link
Brigitte Fontaine & Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Comme à la radio"
adds "Le goudron" which is one of her most popular songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 5 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
With good results, Love and Rockets added a bonus instrumental track to the *beginning* of both "Seventh Dream..." and "Express". For the former, "God and Mr. Smith" (based on "If There's a Heaven Above" which is moved from the beginning of Side A to the end of Side A, bookending the side with the same theme); and for the latter, the slowly building "Angels and Devils". The upbeat "Inside the Outside" was another bonus track on "Seventh Dream..." (a good addition to break up the other tracks' slow/medium tempos); certain additions also had "Ball of Confusion" (also a bonus track on "Express"). (Another "Express" bonus track was "Holiday on the Moon" - not my favorite L&R track, heh).
― ernestp, Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link