Best Ever Albums

Re: US vs. UK versions of albums.

albummaster — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:12:27 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/16/2013 18:12

lethalnezzle wrote:

It lists the version that was released first.

Yes, BEA only shows the original release for all albums on the site, this is because only one release is shown for each album, and this rule avoids the confusion over which artwork or track-listing should be used.

Re: US vs. UK versions of albums.

Listmeister — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:29:33 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/16/2013 17:29

swedenman wrote:

Can I ask why we're saying Are You Experienced is a US album? The Jimi Hendrix Experience was based in London unless I'm horribly mistaken.

On further research, I think I was wrong about this one.

Maybe it is only British albums that released two versions.

Re: US vs. UK versions of albums.

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:59:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/16/2013 15:59

Can I ask why we're saying Are You Experienced is a US album? The Jimi Hendrix Experience was based in London unless I'm horribly mistaken.

Re: US vs. UK versions of albums.

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:10:01 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/16/2013 15:10

Listmeister wrote:

If we can only have one track listing, I would suggest that the listing for the country of origin (US in the case of Jimi Hendrix) is the definitive version, and BEA should reflect those track listings.

It lists the version that was released first.

US vs. UK versions of albums.

Listmeister — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:07:48 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/16/2013 15:07

I ran into this doing the Best Debut of All Time tournament. The album was Are You Experienced? by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It turns out that there is a US version and a UK version. The US version has Purple Haze, and Hey Joe and The Wind Cries Mary, while the UK version does not but it has three songs the US version does not have.

BEA has the UK version track listing; comments consistently say the US version is better. I saw this on an album as recently as Savage Garden (1997), with two different track lists. Before I started looking at this site, I thought the problem was isolated to the well-documented Beatles albums.

Can we do anything on this site to deal with two track listings situations? Also, it seems that the UK version is always definitive. Was that a deliberate choice, or did it just happen to be the way the tracks got laid down by the first person to list the tracks?

If we can only have one track listing, I would suggest that the listing for the country of origin (US in the case of Jimi Hendrix) is the definitive version, and BEA should reflect those track listings.