Best Ever Albums

Re: UK US Track Differences

bobbyb5 — Fri, 6 Apr 2018 18:22:09 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 04/06/2018 22:22

Some US and UK versions are so different that they're barely even the same album. Or they're so different that it makes the difference between a blah album and a great one. Or they might take a perfectly good album and alter the tracks so much that it turns the album into a piece of shit. For instance, they leave out all the best tracks and replace them with crappy ones.

These are the ones that drive me most crazy.

Logical Progression by LTJ Bukem

Telekon by Gary Numan

Re: UK US Track Differences

PurpleHazel — Thu, 5 Apr 2018 19:34:45 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 04/05/2018 23:34

Similarly, the Are You Experienced CD editions since 1993 have had all the the tracks from both versions, though they aren't always in the same order.

Re: UK US Track Differences

Romanelli — Thu, 5 Apr 2018 17:42:29 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 04/05/2018 21:42

PurpleHazel wrote:

All of the Beatles albums prior to Revolver are different in the U.S. than the U.K. So different that at least five albums have different titles and covers. Do the U.S. ones that share more than half the songs with the analogous U.K. albums count? Rubber Soul counts and I'd say With the Beatles /Meet the Beatles do because they share the same cover art and the titles are similar.

Beatles: U.K. vs. U.S. Album Guide

When the Beatles albums were released on CD, they used the British versions and fixed the gaps with the Past Masters discs. Actually a pretty good fix for something that was a pretty big mess.

Re: UK US Track Differences

PurpleHazel — Thu, 5 Apr 2018 17:02:00 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 04/05/2018 21:02

All of the Beatles albums prior to Sgt. Pepper were different in the U.S. than the U.K. So different that at least five albums had different titles and covers. Do the U.S. ones that shared more than half the songs with the analogous U.K. albums count? Revolver and Rubber Soul count and I'd say With the Beatles /Meet the Beatles do because they share the same cover art and the titles are similar.

Beatles: U.K. vs. U.S. Album Guide

Re: UK US Track Differences

glynspsa — Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:16:08 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 04/05/2018 20:16

I honestly think Are You Experienced is different enough we maybe should have both listed. to me the US version is superior.

UK US Track Differences

Tha1ChiefRocka — Thu, 5 Apr 2018 15:33:56 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 04/05/2018 19:33

Well, after reading the stuff going on with Black Celebration, I happened to be looking at the tracklist for an album that I had posted, and, lo and behold, there was track missing from there as well! The album in question is

Desolation Boulevard by Sweet

I had no idea that the song "Sweet F.A." was not present on the British release (which was the first release) but on the Capitol records release that I'm familiar with. It's actually from a previous album of theirs, so the US album got it put on here instead, because this album had their hits on it.

I agree that there is no need to annotate any of the current track listings for these differences, but it did get me thinking, how much stuff out there do people maybe miss from these track differences? Are there any other one's that you all can think of?

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