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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Jun 13, 2019 17:54:23 GMT
On the splitting-for-non-space-reasons, I wish every single expanded edition ever would just put the original album tracklisting on one CD, then all the extras on another. I would pay a premium for this. There’s nothing worse than listening to a perfect length, beautifully sequenced album with a great closer, then being thrown into some demo or second rate b-side after barely two seconds pause.
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Post by Wanklein on Jun 13, 2019 18:36:47 GMT
Alexlotl is right.
The is absolutely nothing worse than a bonus tracks sneakily tucked onto the end of a classic album.
There are many evils in this world: famine, war, rape, murder, death of a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd but all are inconsequential when compared to messing with a divinely sequenced album.
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Post by bradman on Jun 13, 2019 19:58:24 GMT
I know, I mean I need more time to weep profusely before being brought out of that state by a bogus bonus track.
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Post by Aural Relations on Jun 13, 2019 22:28:04 GMT
Not going to lie, I'm somewhat sympathetic to this one... I have a few reissues where studio outtakes have been thrown in at inopportune moments, or where dull studio chit-chat had been added to the start of good tracks.
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Post by essayceedee on Jun 14, 2019 0:15:23 GMT
One of the many beautiful things about having all of your music on a hard drive is that you can index it any fucking way you choose.
Problem solved.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jun 14, 2019 1:47:43 GMT
Not going to lie, I'm somewhat sympathetic to this one... I have a few reissues where studio outtakes have been thrown in at inopportune moments, or where dull studio chit-chat had been added to the start of good tracks. The only bonus track I'd consider "bad" is the strange collage of outtakes added on to the last track on the self titled Michael Gibbs album. All the more so since I waited years before the standalone CD edition with that added bit turned up on ebay (whereas the album was also part of a two-fer set which was readily available and also easily found for download). Oh well. Even then, just typing this up is putting more energy to complain about it then I otherwise have spent collectively over the past few years since I got it. It's more of a humblebrag really that I own the album, and maybe a recommendation for those who haven't heard it (and like big, orchestrated, late sixties british jazz compositions. But don't bother getting the CD I got unless you're an insane obsessive like me.
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Post by dccblowup on Jun 14, 2019 4:24:04 GMT
That is a great record.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Jun 14, 2019 12:41:19 GMT
A real head-scratcher for me was Zappa adding Big Leg Emma and Why Don'tcha Do Me Right between the original sides A & B on the Ryko Absolutely Free CD. Why not at the end? Of course he did a lot of Bizarre (heh) stuff around that time with his re-issues. He ruined Uncle Meat with the penalty tracks, and WOIIFTM and Ruben and the Jets with the replaced rhythm tracks, as I'm sure some of you know. I was so happy when Gail released Greasy Love Songs. I have an unexplainable love for that album.
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Post by gobshite on Jun 14, 2019 12:53:11 GMT
<SHite on> The earliest CDs from XTC and the Fall (Beggar's Banquet stuff) did that bonus-tracks-in-the-middle thing too. It seems like an attempt to somehow preserve the original experience by having the same start and finish with a bunch of random shit in the middle.
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Post by Brick Wall on Jun 14, 2019 13:15:38 GMT
1985 is calling. Every CD player remote has a *stop* button and a "program" function. As you were.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Jun 14, 2019 13:45:55 GMT
1985 is calling. Every CD player remote has a *stop* button and a "program" function. As you were. Is that you, Carl Swanson?
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Post by Aural Relations on Jun 14, 2019 14:21:33 GMT
1985 is calling. Every CD player remote has a *stop* button and a "program" function. As you were. Sometimes these are built into the track. As my stuff is all ripped, I'd have to edit each sound file in Audacity. For example, I have a Gerry & The Pacemakers compilation where several of the best tracks begin with 30 seconds of false starts and muffled cue announcements. Not sure for whose benefit they were included.
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Post by Ginuwine on Jun 14, 2019 15:57:27 GMT
Not that anybody gives a shit, but I always liked it when bonus tracks were preceded by like 40 seconds of silence. Gives a bit of separation from the actual album.
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Post by Brick Wall on Jun 14, 2019 16:36:42 GMT
1985 is calling. Every CD player remote has a *stop* button and a "program" function. As you were. Is that you, Carl Swanson? Nope. MYKE. By the way, did you know I'm retired?
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jun 14, 2019 20:23:09 GMT
For example, I have a Gerry & The Pacemakers compilation where several of the best tracks begin with 30 seconds of false starts and muffled cue announcements. Not sure for whose benefit they were included. It was obviously included for the benefit and elucidation of the Gerry Marsden scholars, who relish the opportunity to get an intimate peek into his genius working methods. I'm no Gerry & The Pacemakers expert, but I'm guessing it was the Ron Furmanek produced CD, "The Best Of"? They're probably remixed too.
I agree that it's a bit odd to put that shit on the hits. I know he did it on the Billy J Kramer CD.
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