I/O by Peter Gabriel: how to represent the album on BEA

[dihansse]

Apart from being a very special piece of work by Peter Gabriel, I think this is an interesting topic to have a discussion on how to represent it on BEA.
First it took a long while before it was released and when it was, it was released as a one single per month with each time a dark-side mix and a bright-side mix which are indeed very different versions of in the end, 12 different tracks.
So a few days ago I decided to just add the names of the 12 tracks as one album and I see that also other sites do it like this.
On the official release date today (although the Peter Gabriel website seems to mention 8 March as the official release date), it's clear that there are different versions on LP, CD and Blue Ray and finally of course the streaming versions.

When I look on Apple Music, I finally see two versions (I suppose Spotify does the same thing):
I/O (Bright-Side and Dark-Side Mix) which in this sense contains 24 tracks
I/O (In-Side Mix) with 12 tracks in Dolby Atmos

Now I see that Romanelli has modified this and included 36 tracks with each time the 3 versions of inherently the same song:

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I/O by Peter Gabriel

Without giving any judgement I would like to open the discussion what is the best way of representing this great Peter Gabriel release. With albums appearing in different versions and being re-released I think it's clear that the general consensus is to include the original version but here all the versions are released at the same time.

And finally, I really like this album and sometimes like the Dark-Side version more and sometimes the Bright-Side version where I mostly prefer as much as possible original instruments (mainly piano and strings) over synthesizers. I haven't made my mind up about the In-Side Mix yet.

[MadhattanJack]

I just think that as long as he doesn't release the Back-Side Mix, we should be OK no matter what the tracklisting is.

[albummaster]

Four different formats released on same day. Blu-ray not eligible for BEA, two vinyl releases with bright and dark side on separate albums and then a CD release which combines both bright and dark side. The CD release is correctly listed here ( https://www.discogs.com/release/2906867...Gabriel-IO ), but there's also a case for the separate vinyl releases being added in the future too, since they are all distinct (and similar already exist here e.g. Use Your Illusion comes to mind).

[hwex9000]