Albums improved by bonus tracks

Admittedly I often find dub versions to be superior to the originals.

According to AMG, the Japanese import CD has "bonus tracks" as well, but I don't know what they are...

Even the first version of the CD added "When I Needed You" which is one of their best ever B-sides.

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.

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.

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

originally a split lp on savoy, the 2001 atlantic cd reissue includes tons of unreleased dixon work. many, many brilliantly terrifying/terrifyingly brilliant solos.

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".

And the expanded 2CD The Name Of This Band Is the Talking Heads is a revelation.

The vinyl version of American Music Club's SAN FRANCISCO tragically slashes the two best songs that're found on the complete (CD) version.

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. :-)

the new pornographers - challengers

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.

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.

Albums that would have been better had the following same-era tracks been added

destroyer - kaputt, for "the laziest river" - the european tracklist with it second last is the best sequence
kylie minogue - fever, for "tightrope"

rihanna anti

Geir OTM on "The Visitors".

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!

"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.

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

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.

I pity the fool who owns only the "Standard Edition" of either this or this

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.

Brigitte Fontaine & Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Comme à la radio"

adds "Le goudron" which is one of her most popular songs.

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).