I was inpsired to listen to Mission of Burma’s Signals, Calls & Marches album by @Caedus this morning. This is an album I listened to a lot when I first discovered it. For years it was on solid rotation for me, but being a bad lad, it was a Soulseek download that I added to my mp3 player.
Whoever I downloaded it from was missing track 3 - Devotion and track 4 - Execution and it was probably over a decade of listening to it before I signed up to Spotify and suddenly there were new songs I had never heard before. Even today, they still catch me off guard and I sort of automatically dislike them because they disrupt my personal canon.
Have you got any albums like this? I know there are some albums that have songs I absolutely can’t stand and are automatic skips too, but can’t think what they are right now
Yeah, similarly when I dodgy downloaded the second Handsome Furs album off some livejournal group or whatever, it was missing track 11.
I bought the CD a few years later but the nature of how much I loved that record meant I had already listened to it very many times, almost certainly more times than I have since getting the CD, and it still sounds kinda wrong now, even though it’s been ten years at least.
Dunno if it’s “canon”, but a couple albums I got to review ended up having different track orders when released.
Return to Cookie Mountain was “wolf like me”, “I was a lover” and “province”, and I listened to the pr copy so much that it still feels weird not being like that.
Similarly the pr copy of Origin:Orphan I had by the hidden cameras started with the title track and then “in the na” and “he falls to me”. Looking at it on Spotify “in the na” isn’t on the album. Another album I downloaded of theirs didn’t have “I want another enema” on it for some reason
Only realised when I binned off itunes that I’d been listening to Last Splash by The Breeders in alphabetical order for years. I bought the CD around the time but must have got lazy and downloaded it as well rather than burning the CD to itunes.
Cannonball appears pretty early on, as you’d expect so never questioned it too much. It’s still jarring for me to hear in the intended order.
The tracklist the first time I listened to How To Dress Well’s Anteroom was backwards for some reason, and I preferred it that way after I realised the mistake
Might be because these are bonus tracks. Actually the first 4 tracks are bonus tracks, the last 6 tracks are the original EP and the first 2 tracks were a single, I think tracks 3 and 4 were previously unreleased, I think I might have even read that they were unfinished songs that they finished off for a reissue at some point.
I have two albums by Slovenly, one of my favourite bands. Like a lot of suckers in the early 90s I enthusiastically dumped my 80s vinyl versions in favour of CDs. Anyway on two of Slovenly’s CDs (‘Riposte’ and ‘We Shoot for the Moon’) they have flipped the A and B sides completely changing the track sequence. They were released on SST so it’s conceivable that it was done in error (twice). I used to programme my CD player to play them in the vinyl order as I found it so jarring but can’t be arsed nowadays.
Apparently the older reissues of SC&M had the bonus tracks at the end as well? Always find it a bit funny when they shove bonus tracks at the start, it’s such a choice.
The first Raincoats album has this with Fairytale in the Supermarket, which was only added when it was reissued in the early 1990s. I obviously never heard the album without it, but it’s such a fantastic opener and it leads really well into the second track, I can’t imagine it without that on the beginning.
Tears In The Morning on Beach Boys’ Sunflower always skipped from a few seconds in on my CD, so it feels weird when I stream it and hear the whole song
Similar to @jeffpistachiomagnum with the The Breeders, it took me a decade after downloading Hole’s Live Through This to realise that it doesn’t, in fact, have its tracks in alphabetical order.
Still prefer Asking for It as an opener and Violet as the closing track.
Yeah, I get it slightly more with the Mission of Burma one because Academy Fight Song was their first single and came out before the EP (plus it works really well as an opener) but then it’s odd to have the two unreleased ones at 3 and 4.
I’m sure I’ve seen old reissues of the early 80s Fall albums that put the bonus tracks/singles at the start as well which just seems very wrong, glad they moved them all to the end later (except the Beggars Banquet-era albums where bonus tracks pop up in the middle as per the 80s thing of putting some at the end of both sides of the cassette)
My early album purchases were all on cassette tape (we didn’t have a CD player in the house until 1994), so there are quite a few ‘classic’ albums that I own that are missing bonus tracks, or hidden tracks.
The first time I heard Endless, Nameless by Nirvana at a friend’s house was a surprise, as Something In The Way was always my cue to fast forward the tape and flip it over again.
i used to delete the tracks I didn’t like when uploading to iTunes, so it wasn’t until Spotify was my main mode of music listening that i’d rediscover those ones
e.g. on Slanted and Enchanted I didn’t like any of the noisy Fall-type tracks initially, so to this day No Life Singed Her, Conduit For Sale and Fame Throwa feel a lot fresher than the rest
My CD copy of the debut album from The Bats seems (from other track listing’s I’ve seen) to mix up sides A and B? But then the album makes more sense that way to me so who knows