Bonus Tracks or Bonus Disc?

Those Elvis doubles cost extra in Australia though

-- Nic de Teardrop (kimono_my_hous...), May 28th, 2005 8:34 PM. (later)

Yeah. There are a few Fall albums that are going to freak me out if I hear the original record (seriously, at the start/end of the CD I can understand, but why scatter bonus tracks *within* the orginal tracklisting!?).

Price aside though, who the fuck wouldn't prefer an extra disc to extra tracks? Nutso eco-conservatives?

When reissuing an album with bonus tracks, wouldn't it make some sense to put the bonus tracks at the beginning of the disc, so that if you wanted the album to stop where it's supposed to you could just cue it up to start playing after the bonus tracks?

Has this ever been done?

Hidden tracks you have to skip back for have been done Soulwax, e.g.), but bonus tracks before the main title? Wouldn't the bonus tracks become the main feature (with the album as a bonus)?

the XTC reissues threw the bonus tracks in the middle, between the sides - that worked quite well

the XTC reissues threw the bonus tracks in the middle, between the sides - that worked quite well

oooh .. not sure about that.
think that would really piss me off.

When reissuing an album with bonus tracks, wouldn't it make some sense to put the bonus tracks at the beginning of the disc, so that if you wanted the album to stop where it's supposed to you could just cue it up to start playing after the bonus tracks?

Has this ever been done?

the Fontana Reissue of Miles Davis's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is like this: the first 16 tracks are outtakes/alternate takes, and the last 10 tracks comprise the original LP. but that's the only example I can think of; I wish this was common practice.

the tracklist for VU'sPeel Slowly and See box set annoys me — three of the discs begin and end with bonus tracks, leaving the original albums sandwiched in the middle. the intention was to present the tracks in order of recording date, but it's mostly just an inconvenience, and it would have sufficed just to print the session dates in the booklet and send the bonus tracks to the beginning/end of the discs.

Some '90s Fall reissues did this - Grotesque and Perverted By Language had the singles/B-sides at the beginning of the CD.

I have some Bauhaus, Sad Lovers And Giants, Chapterhouse discs with bonus tracks before the main album but I think this was for chronology.

The death of the 'bonus track,' and its idiot cousin, the 'hidden track,' is the most positive thing I can think of about the death of the CD.

I more or less hate all bonus tracks included on the same CD as the album. It got to where I wouldn't even rip the bonus tracks to iTunes, and if I did, I would give them a different album title so as not to be confused with the album as originally sequenced / intended. I think the main issue for me is when you are hearing a 'seminal' album for the first time, and not knowing the last song when you hear it. That's the worst!

The thing that really annoys me is something I only see done on jazz albums - the original version of a piece is followed by an alternate take, like so:

1. First Song
2. Second Song
3. Second Song (Alt. Take)
4. Third Song
5. Third Song (Alt. Take)
6. Fourth Song

yeah that is the worst ^^^^
i like bonus tracks!
i was not crazy w/ the rise of the download-only bonus tracks though. those just end up being forgotten about.

Yeah, when the most recent Syd Barrett 'best of' came out, "Ramadan" was a dl track. I thought when they brought out a RSD version they might add it but no.

When reissuing an album with bonus tracks, wouldn't it make some sense to put the bonus tracks at the beginning of the disc, so that if you wanted the album to stop where it's supposed to you could just cue it up to start playing after the bonus tracks?

Has this ever been done?

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, July 7, 2015 4:32 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was done on the 2006 reissue of Dwight Yoakam's Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc. the first disc was demos on tracks 1-10 and the original album on tracks 11-20, and then the second disc was a live show.

I think the main issue for me is when you are hearing a 'seminal' album for the first time, and not knowing the last song when you hear it. That's the worst!

I don't think I've ever listened to Kind of Blue and The Shape of Jazz to Come in their album formations. I've only listened to them as part of the boxes they're on. So I don't necessarily hear them as Those Albums; I hear That Album as That Box. In other words, I think your listening experience can determine what the format of a seminal album is. Does a bonus track sound like a better closer than the actual closer? Then it is.

(Not a bonus track situation, but the early-80s cassette running order of VU & Nico -- "Waiting for the Man" and "Black Angel's Death Song" swap places -- is ideal, and anything else sounds off)

(That's strange)

Actually, just checked, it was "Run run run" rather than WFTM.

An album got announced today - or, at least, it was the first time I became aware of it.

I guess in the olden days, you'd have then waited for the release date and bought it in a shop, assuming it was stocked. Maybe you'd pre-order it in a shop?

There's definitely part of me that wanted to order it straight away but ... it's on Domino ... and there might be a limited edition or bonus disc version at (most likely) Rough Trade, maybe Monorail ... and I have slight theory that if you pause, you might be less likely to buy ... and so the shop specific version has failed.