U2 - Live Under a Blood Red POLL

Great version of Electric Co., so I voted for that.

This collection was formative for me.

Huh:

During the performance of "The Electric Co.", Bono included a 27-second snippet of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns". When Under a Blood Red Sky was released, U2 failed to get permission and pay the appropriate licensing and royalty fees to include that piece of Sondheim's tune on the album. When Sondheim objected, U2 agreed to pay a $50,000 (US) penalty for the unauthorized use and to press all future releases with a new version that did not include the snippet.

Essentially, there are now two versions of the vinyl album: the original with the full "The Electric Co." running 5:18 and the edited version which runs 4:51. However, the various CDs pressed around the world all vary in the versions of the song that are included.

The trifold digipack CD pressed in the U.S. correctly lists "The Electric Co." at 4:51 and contains the edited version of the song.
Later U.S. CD pressings in the standard jewel box format incorrectly list "The Electric Co." at 5:18, but have the edited version of the song.
Some, and perhaps all, European pressings of the CD correctly list "The Electric Co." at 5:18 and have the unedited version of the song (the same is likely true of other worldwide CD pressings).
An Australian pressing of the CD lists the track at 4:57, but the song actually runs the full 5:18.
The remastered editions all contain the edited version of the song.

Reading the sleeve of my friend's CD copy as a teen is when I first came across the word 'interpolating', such a weird term to use in a tracklist.

voting for 11 o'clock tick tock, the live version lays bare that it is the most secret joy division song

voted for New Year's Day. the way the bass is mixed in this version makes it THE definitive version for me—i haven't listened to the studio recording in years.

"11 O'Clock Tick Tock" for me. So much better than the single version - with all due respect to Martin Hannett etc.

I first heard/loved the unedited version so I can't even listen to the edited version of "The Electric Co." It's just wrong.

I decided to rip the audio from the 2008 re-release of the Live at Red Rocks video and give it a spin... you figure they'd spend the money to buy rights to send in the clowns and let's twist again so they could do a completely unedited version but they do not. still sounds pretty damn good though!

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'11 O'clock Tick Tock' is my choice, but wow, what a great record.

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vindicated!