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Version Ponderings
Jul. 4th, 2009 05:34 pmI have to wonder sometimes why there are so many different versions of a song or an album, or both. For instance, the Enya song "Book of Days"... different versions AND album art! The original song was only in gaelic, and subsequent ones with english added...
http://discography.enya.com/albums/03.html
http://discography.enya.com/singles/11.html
This is another album which seemed to have a different version every time I walked in the store! And not just the images, but the packaging changed a lot as well, inner sleeve stuff, embossing on the cover, etc. It's a great album too! At least the music different change on this one...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_(Hall_&_Oates_album)
http://www.cduniverse.com/images.asp?pid=6748821&style=music&image=front&title=Hall+%26+Oates+%2D+Voices+CD
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Hall-Oates/dp/B000002W4S
Here another album for which I personally remember being several unexplained different covers...
http://www.discogs.com/Foreigner-Double-Vision/release/401481
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Vision_(Album)
Other songs that I can think of just off the top of my head which have different versions in circulation, are Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple (the oddity with this is that an alternate take is the one we usually hear these days, not the original hit version). The alternate take is okay, but I'd like to have the original more easy to find as well.
One that is an example of insanity in song changes is Beast of Burden by The Rolling Stones (the record company edited two measly bars out of the song intro, which TOTALLY ruins it for me. I say measly because I can't see ANY GOOD REASON for taking those out.
There are plenty of other examples, some good too... like some alternate versions of Beatles' songs made available on those three big compilations a few years back, but I don't wanna go all tl:dr on ya, so I'll end it here.. I hope it was an enjoyable read ^v^ .
http://discography.enya.com/albums/03.html
http://discography.enya.com/singles/11.html
This is another album which seemed to have a different version every time I walked in the store! And not just the images, but the packaging changed a lot as well, inner sleeve stuff, embossing on the cover, etc. It's a great album too! At least the music different change on this one...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_(Hall_&_Oates_album)
http://www.cduniverse.com/images.asp?pid=6748821&style=music&image=front&title=Hall+%26+Oates+%2D+Voices+CD
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Hall-Oates/dp/B000002W4S
Here another album for which I personally remember being several unexplained different covers...
http://www.discogs.com/Foreigner-Double-Vision/release/401481
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Vision_(Album)
Other songs that I can think of just off the top of my head which have different versions in circulation, are Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple (the oddity with this is that an alternate take is the one we usually hear these days, not the original hit version). The alternate take is okay, but I'd like to have the original more easy to find as well.
One that is an example of insanity in song changes is Beast of Burden by The Rolling Stones (the record company edited two measly bars out of the song intro, which TOTALLY ruins it for me. I say measly because I can't see ANY GOOD REASON for taking those out.
There are plenty of other examples, some good too... like some alternate versions of Beatles' songs made available on those three big compilations a few years back, but I don't wanna go all tl:dr on ya, so I'll end it here.. I hope it was an enjoyable read ^v^ .
