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
Geir OTM on "The Visitors".
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 January 2022 13:49 (two years ago) link
the pet shop boys are the kings of the b sides and have a whole album of their early material called alternative but have had alot more since!
― xzanfar, Saturday, 15 January 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
"Just Like Heaven" is a pretty much perfect added closer to 'You're Living All Over Me' by Dinosaur Jr.
I kinda think the b-side ballad "When A Blind Man Cries" really works at the end of Deep Purple's 'Machine Head' too.
― earlnash, Saturday, 15 January 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
The bonus tracks on the 90s CD reissue of Richard Hell’s Blank Generation make it flow much better as an album. His junkie crooner version of “All the Way” is a perfect album closer
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Saturday, 15 January 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
otm YLAOM and Anti.
I was gonna say The Life of Pablo but now I can't find any proof that Fade and No More Parties in LA were bonus tracks.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 15 January 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link
I pity the fool who owns only the "Standard Edition" of either this or this
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Saturday, 15 January 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
dua lipa : both albums are massively improved via their deluxe/extra tracks editions.i listen to the 'club future nostalgia' version a lot more than the standard album.same re the expanded ellie goulding/halcyon days album.
― mark e, Saturday, 15 January 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
I listen to Wendy & Bonnie's acoustic demos of songs that were left off 'Genesis' probably more than the actual album. The 2CD version with the demos of the album tracks is more than i need.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 15 January 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
I didn’t see Synchronicity mentioned upthread but that’s an obvious one for me. “Murder by Numbers” is comfortably better than 3-4 of the album tracks.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 15 January 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
The Who Sell Out definitely. Exhibit A in terms of bonus tracks turning a near-great album into a fully-realized masterpiece IMHO. The 1995 remix of the later reissues with the vintage mixes both show this.
The Replacements' Don't Tell a Soul kind of counts...I wish you could take the 2008 reissue and replace the album proper with the new Dead Man's Pop mix released in 2019, that would be a CD worthy of sitting next to Let It Be et al. The mix is a big improvement, but the extra stuff like "Portland," "We Know the Night," "Wake Up" and even "Date to Church" makes up for the weaker and less fun material that originally made the cut.
It's great having the UK versions of My Aim Is True and Armed Forces ending with the bonus singles "Watching the Detectives" and "What's So Funny..." "Radio Radio" is a great single too but adding it to the end of This Year's Model undermines the great and abrupt ending to "Night Rally."
The three bonuses Rykodisc originally picked for Young Americans were perfect, partly because two originally made the cut and the third was definitely in the running (and released as an actual single anyway). I generally prefer Bowie albums as they originally were, but this is one big exception where the addition of these three make the album more worthwhile.
While I'm at it, a couple of Target exclusives of recent years have been worth getting for the bonus track bait: Prince's Originals (the "cinematic" mix of "Nothing Compares 2 U" is my favorite version of that song outside of Sinéad O'Connor's own version) and the new Raise the Roof album by Plant & Krauss (both bonus tracks are keepers, especially the second Lucinda Williams cover).
― birdistheword, Saturday, 15 January 2022 22:01 (two years ago) link
all of the gil scott-heron rumal-gia late 90s/early 2000s cd versions added a lot to those albums. i consider those the best versions.
and i mean . . . pretty much every blue note cd reissue with extra material is worth it.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Sunday, 16 January 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
The The - Infected CD with the 12" versions
Does Pixies - Surfer Rosa + Come on Pilgrim count?
― raven, Sunday, 16 January 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Pulp - His 'N' Hers (the bonus tracks on the deluxe reissues are some of the best songs they ever did, especially B-sides such as Seconds and Her Sister's Clothes)
Jessie Ware - Her first three albums (Imagine It Was Us, Midnight Caller, Love To Love, Til' The End)
Haim - Women In Music III
Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down: The Directors Cut (Kevin Rowland's 13th Time should have never been taken off the album)
Roxy Music - S/T (I couldn't imagine the album without Virginia Plain)
Beyonce - Four (mainly for Schoolin' Life)
Britney - Glory (If I'm Dancing should have been the lead single)
Suede - Deluxe Reissues (same as Pulp, those B-sides from the first three albums are career highs)
The Modern Lovers - S/T (especially for Dignified & Old)
― kitchen person, Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:36 (two years ago) link
'Architecture & Morality' is probably my favorite album of 1981--and yet, the b-sides "Romance of the Telescope," "Of All the Things We've Made" (and maybe "Sacred Heart") are maybe even better and make the album even better.
Not surprising they formed the emotional core of 'Dazzle Ships'.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 16 January 2022 03:36 (two years ago) link
Bad feels incomplete without "Leave Me Alone."
― billstevejim, Sunday, 16 January 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
grew up on the Taang reissue of Spacemen 3's "The Perfect Prescription"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 16 January 2022 04:45 (two years ago) link
Returning to the first post, I don't see how "Wings Wild Life" is improved by adding "Give Ireland Back to the Irish".
Ok, it's now an archival set with lots of fine extras.
But the original cd, if you like the album or don't, isn't improved by the addition of one track that doesn't fit in with the rest.
― Mark G, Sunday, 16 January 2022 09:29 (two years ago) link
The three bonuses Rykodisc originally picked for Young Americans were perfect
"Who Can I Be Now?" would have been the perfect closer to that album.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 16 January 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
They’re not great albums but Drake’s hotline bling and Minaj’s superbass are the biggest hits of their respective albums and they’re bonus tracks
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 January 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
Also surprised it hasn’t been mentioned so far but “This Charming Man” and “how soon is now?” are two of the most iconic Smiths songs and they were also bonus tracks
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 January 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
The expanded CD of Skip Spence's Oar released by Sundazed in 199 is incredible. The recent 3xCD AndOarAgain might have been too inclusive - it's more an archive than an album - but the highlights are as good or even better than the album, farther 'out.'
― Freeze Instr., Sunday, 16 January 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
*1999
― Freeze Instr., Sunday, 16 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
― kitchen person,
I have the 80's Rhino LP with Dignified & Old at the end of side A.
i never realized it had 3 songs that weren't on the album originally. that's so weird. especially in the middle of the running order, i get that it's for fidelity reasons but...
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 17 January 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
wow I had no idea those songs weren't part of the original, this is totally messing with my my head
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 January 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
also, the rykodisc release of Big Star's "Third" - that one's a little iffy since the tracklisting for that has always fluctuated.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 17 January 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link
For me, the definitive version of Duran Duran's Rio is still the third edition american Capitol Records LP that subbed out the UK mix of side A with the superior Kershenbaum Night mixes. The night mix of "Hold Back The Rain" is spectacular - there's an entire thread about it.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 January 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
Live At Leeds and No Sleep Till Hammersmith also improved by including most/all of the original gig.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 January 2022 11:01 (two years ago) link
Will definitely third Anti. The standard album is still pretty great but Disturbia pushes it above and beyond
― vexingvexillologist, Monday, 17 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link