|
Ok so, after reading all of you for some months in this thread, I have something to say.
I simply don't understand tracklist changes.
SATT 10th hasn't Underdogs and has Welcome To The Dead Zone. In 2007, anyway, they were happy about Underdogs (otherwise they would not put it in the official album) and less happy about Welcome To The Dead Zone (sometimes, as Flint explains in his RYM guide, they used as b-sides songs that did not fit well in the album, but Welcome To The Dead Zone would fit it, so they probably thought that it was worse thand Underdogs). Then, why include it?
TIMTTMY 20th has Prologue To History instead of Nobody Loved You. Ok, Prologue To History is considered one of their best B-sides (also by me), but it's rockier than the rest of the album, as Nobody Loved You is too. But the question is: why remove a track and put another one it? It's like a betrayal of the original album.
In my opinion, you can remaster an album and then put a second, and even third, cd of demos/remixes/live versions, but the tracklist should be untouched (like in the THB 10th and 20th, EMG 10th and 20th, GT 20th and GATS 27th).
Than, Know Your Enemy 21th. The idea is even messier than the previous ones: we all know that the album was intended as a couple of albums (like RTF and Futurology), but I don't think I'll consider these two albums as the original ones. For me, KYE is KYE, full stop. I'm happy for the new songs, and I'll put them in the B-sides collection (after the 10 KYE tracks and before the 9 FD-LT tracks), but they cannot be part of KYE as I listen to it. I'm curious about the new mixes though, but I think that if they mixed it as it has been mixed, there has to be a reason. I hate ret-cons, I hate "no, I changed my mind, if I did today I would do like this". Ok, but you did it 21 years ago and you did it like that, so why change it?
I don't know, I'll just see. But the tracklist issue is very important to me.
|