Bonds Tracks / Deluxe Editions are they even worth it?

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meruizh



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  • Posted: 07/09/2015 17:42
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Over the past couple of years i've noticed the amount of albums realeased as Standard Edition and for a higher price you can get the Deluxe Version with additional songs , live tracks, demos, etc. i can see the intention of these releases, simply to get more money out of each release, but are they worth it?

Bonus tracks in general tend to suck, they dont get to get played live and get dismissed by the own bands. Every now or then you can find a track that's worth it but thiis just makes me question the band forr why they didn't include it in the album in the first place. Still in general they are terrible.

The demos and live versions I dont mind them at all. Still i think it's not worth the extra price or the time. I rather get a collectors edition if i was really really into one specific band or album.

So what do you guys think about this?
Do you tend to listen to Deluxe versions or just stick to the standar versions?
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i listen to everything

i purchase everything
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Sometimes they are worth it. It depends how much you like the artist.

It's a bit frustrating when the deluxe or special edition is rushed out within a year of the original release - effectively rewarding the johnny come lately casual buyer instead of committed fans.

I tend to find that with older records from the 60s and 70s, for example, the bonus material on the repackaged CD releases can be very hit and miss.
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Kiki





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It is rubbish music made to get people to buy rubbish all over again
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It's worth It when the songs are good.

Fuck Billy Corgan.
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Almost never.
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Outtakes didn't make the original album for good reason. They were not as good as the tracks that did make the album. In most cases, bonus tracks are simply garbage tacked on to the end of an album to make more money.
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Romanelli wrote:
Outtakes didn't make the original album for good reason. They were not as good as the tracks that did make the album. In most cases, bonus tracks are simply garbage tacked on to the end of an album to make more money.


Essentially, this.

I've never found deluxe editions, or versions with piles of outtakes on them worth the money... or the time to be honest. The only two instances in recent memory that I can think of where a song was unjustly tacked on as a bonus track are Super Bass and Streetz Tonight... both of which were coincidentally better than all the songs on the album.

You'll notice that the majority of deluxe editions are pop albums of reissues.... which both have the same mission Laughing

Plus, they just feel ugly to me. What the hell is a bonus track. A song is a song.


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I'm too OCD to have them on 99.9% of occasions. The only albums I can think of where I have them are Are You Experienced, The Modern Lovers and Nowhere. I must say though, Muse's first four albums each have outstanding bonus tracks, but I don't listen to any of them with their respective albums.
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tacked onto original albums? very rarely worth it. afaik the only album i have with bonus tracks is Violent Femmes' s/t, and if i'm not mistaken, those two tracks were just tacked onto the CD version vs. the vinyl version, so it was still like first print.

i do sometimes like outtake compilations. for example, VU and Another View (the former moreso, but the latter has some good cuts) are very worth checking out for anyone with interest in TVU. that's mainly because they're the best takes of songs that weren't on albums as opposed to outtake versions of songs that did make it, which are obnoxious and masturbatory to release, imo.
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