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Same track, different album
Posted by herecomesbod on 14 June 2009 - 2:33pm.
I`ve just been listening to Kid A by Radiohead and after hearing the track Morning Bell thought about its recurrence on Amnesiac albeit in a slightly different version. Both are great versions in their own way. What other artists have made a similar act by placing the same track (or version of) on different albums. I`m not talking about tracks appearing on live albums or best ofs, etc. Studio albums only if you know what I mean.
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Queen
A prototype instrumental of Seven Seas of Rhye rounds off Queen's debut. The full version turns up on Queen 2.
There must be more but I can't think of any.
Girl From the North Country
Versions on 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' and 'Nashville Skyline'. The latter, admittedly, as a duet with Johnny Cash.
Also the two versions (single and White Album) of Revolution, though this doesn't adhere strictly to your criterion of being on two different albums.
ELP's Tank
appeared on the debut album then was re-arranged and re-recorded on Works Volume 1
Thomas Dolby
'Europa and the Pirate Twins' on 'The Golden Age of Wireless' LP, then many years later - 'Eastern Bloc' on 'Astronauts and Heretics' LP.
EC, Beatles
The new Costello record has a redo of Complicated Shadows, last heard on his 1996 Attractions record All This Useless Beauty. Both different, both good.
The two fabs versions of One After 909 are interesting to compare, even though the original wasn't released until the Anthologies.
Across The Universe
Was the Let It Be version a re-recording of the original, or merely sans birdsong?
Mark Lewison to the rescue
The Let It Be version and the WWF charity version are the same track at different speeds with different effects.
And the Let it Be Naked version
is a different take.
Guns N' Roses
Don't Cry is on both Use Your Illusion 1 and 2. On 2, it's a version with alternate lyrics.
Voodoo Chile and
Voodoo Child (Slight Return); although they were both on Electrif Ladyland.
Little Feat
were definite proponents of this:
Willin' appears on their 2nd and 3rd albums, Cold cold cold on their 2nd and 4th,exactly like Tripe face boogie.
out come the freaks - was (not was)
wasn't there a version on EVERY album they did?
Mary Gauthier
does her song "I Drink" on her albums 'Drag Queens In Limousines' and 'Mercy Now'. Same song though both are very slightly different.
Steve Earle, on his 'The Revolution Starts... Now' album has the first song called "The Revolution Starts" and the last song called "The Revolution Starts... Now". The same song twice! The only difference is a little coda on the second one. Talk about filler!
Plus the whole royalty busting scams
performed by everyone from Chris Rea, "New light thru' old windows" and, slight nervous cough, Mick Hucknall with the Simply Red hits back catalogue. This concept also occurs as the live greatest hits LP that many have done.
On this track, how annoying is a greatest hits package that proclaims to have "all the hits" which turn out to be all the ones on that record label, with the rest in dodgy live mode......?
Swans are dead
New York's Swans adopted a scorched earth policy to the re-release of their back catalogue. Entire albums were wiped from history and replaced with compilations which selectively documented the middle period of the band's career.
This revisionist mindset was occasionally applied to individual songs: The penultimate Swans album - the German-language Die Tür Ist Zu - opens with a 21 minute monster called Ligeti's Breath/Hilflos Kind, which is as hard going as the title suggests. A shorter English-language version of this track, christened Helpless Child, later appeared on the band's swansong Soundtracks for the Blind.
A similar thing happened to Where Does a Body End?, which in its original form on The Great Annihilator, is a set of lyrics undermined by a chugging, one-note tune that races ahead of the words, as if voluntarily labelling itself as filler.
A better version of the song, retitled Where Does Your Body Begin? appears on Michael Gira's solo album - Drainland. Here the unsettling images of asphyxiated bodies floating in a river, and mass-telepathy eroding personal identity, are held in near stasis by a cosmic, ambient score that gives the lyrics room to breath and time to sublimate into your consciousness.
David Bowie's done it
Strangers When We Meet was on the soundtrack to The Buddha Of Suburbia and on his next album, 1.Outside. I'm guessing he included it on the latter because the former was a very low seller and he thought a song that good deserved a second chance. That's what I think anyway.
Virginia Astley's piece A Summer Long Since Passed appears on at least two of her albums, possibly three.
In a rather odd variation on this theme, there are two songs on Carmel's album World's Gone Crazy which are lyrically identical to older songs, just with different tunes.
Virginia Astley
Is she still making & releasing music?
ChangesSongBowie
He also did that end of the 70's version of Space Oddity. And there's two John I'm Only Dancings if memory serves.
Scary Monsters has It's No Game at the start and end. I've just read Tony Visconti's book and he says it's the same backing track each time, just a different vocal and mix...
And "Move On"
Is the backing track of "All The Young Dudes" backwards...!
And
'Boys Keep Swinging' has the same chord progression as 'Fantastic Voyage'.
Visconti's book
DrJ,
I've been thinking about getting the Visconti book. Is it a good read?
Well...
It's written in a very prosaic way, so I can't recommend the actual writing. But if you're like me and you're a sucker for stories along the lines of "on my second day in London I was watching Jimi Hendrix with the Stones ... Marc was becoming very egotistical ... then Bowie called me up and asked me if I'd like to waste a month with him and Eno, I said that wouldn't be a waste of a month! etc.etc", then it's worth a punt. Visconti has certainly had a life, the kind of life that was only possible to those born in the 1940s. And he lo-o-o-o-o-oves Bowie (understandable). As expected, the first 80%+ of the book covers up to 1981, then it peters off. A side effect of the book is that I can't stop listening to Bowie's It's No Game (Pt1).
It reminded me of the Geoff Emerick book, if you've read that at all, which was quite dry. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot!! Two thumbs up!!
Cheers...
Yes I'm a sucker for those rock'n'roll stories. As a Bowie fan I'm sure I'll find enough interest. I'm off to load 'It's no game' on the ipod. I haven't read the Geoff Emerick book either so cheers.
Congrats on the Glastonbury tickets. I went for about ten years on the roll and the odd one or two after that. It really is an important one off the tick list. Hopefully the ques getting out won't be as bad as in some recent years. My brother went for about fifteen years and then the car park ques finally put him off going (best part of a day getting out!)
I enjoyed the book
for the anecdotes and insider detail about the artists I particularly love (Bowie especially, and the days at Haddon Hall) but I thought overall that TV came across a bit prissy and self-justifying.
Three, actually
There are in fact three versions of John I'm Only Dancing; the first two are very similar and chronologically close together. The third has (Again) after the title and is very different, being a six minute disco workout, recorded during the Young Americans sessions. It's true Bowie has done it quite a few times. Another one is The Prettiest Star, one of my least favourite songs on Aladdin Sane. If you can dig out the original version (the follow up to Space Oddity, I think), you'll find a beautiful, delicate song, without the unappealing doo wop BVs. It's been reissued a few times now.
And I've just thought of another: Look Back in Anger was re-recorded in the late 80s or early 90s for a dance collaboration.
The Prettiest Star
was originally released under the pseudonym of Arnold Corns (!) and featured one M.Bolan on lead guitar.
John Martyn
"Couldn't Love You More" is on "One World" and then recorded again for "Glorious Fool" a few years later. Bonus points for "No Little Boy" where he re-recorded a load of his old stuff.
Forever Young
Recorded by Dylan in two different versions, both on the Planet Waves LP....
Joshua Tree
Mothers of the Disappeared is the backing track to One Tree Hill slowed down and treated by Eno.
More 2
Elvis Presley and America is the backing track to A Sort of Homecoming, again slowed down and treated by Eno. Are you sure about Mothers Of the Disappeared?
Dave Meegan
who did some of the engineering on JT claims it to be true. I've got the interview in front of me.
Fair enough
that's a new one on me
Tonight's the night
Neil Young
began and ended Tonights the night with the Title cut. Sort of did the same with Rust never sleeps (Hey hey My My (Out of the Blue)(Into the black)Acoustic vs electric
And Freedom
Acoustic and rockin' versions of Rocking In The Free World
Not an obsessive..
But I finding myself posting the answer "Steely Dan" in two consecutive posts (see also my suggestion for Liddle-baiting cover stars).
Anyway, in this context 'The Dan' released 'Your Gold Teeth' on Countdown to Ecstasy' and "Your Gold Teeth II' on 'Katy Lied'. They seem to be pretty different songs though, different key, arrangement and mostly different lyrics other than the central trope of throwing out one's gold teeth and seeing how they roll.
And pretty much every Jonathan Richman album since Modern Lovers features a re-recorded version of earlier works: one example - 'Affection' features on both 'Back in Your Life' and 'I'm So Confused'
Aren't there...
...a few versions of Careful With That Axe Eugene, under different names, around? No? I'll hand in my Cosmic Scousers card...
Yes ...
'Come In No.51, Your Time Is Up' is the re-tooled version of 'Eugene' on the Zabriske Point soundtrack. There is a live version on 'Ummagumma'
RT (inevitably)
You Me Us has several tracks in electric and accoustic mode:"Voltage Enhanced" and "Nude" as the 2 separate CDs put it. Possibly his worst LP, IMHO, bar the blistering Put it there, Pal.
Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias...
..had a double 7" single of "Heads down no nonsense mindless boogie", I seem to recall.
Track 2 was a forgettable little number entitled "Thank You", whilst for track 3 the band served up the identical song, but replaced the word "Thank" with a much ruder verb beginning with F.
Why can I never remember important things, but always recall rubbish like this?
John Cooper Claaaarke
released a 7" of 'Twat'. The B-side was called 'Splat' and was the same piece but with the dubious language replaced.
EDIT: Thinking about it, I suspect 'Splat' was the A-side in the hope of getting some radio play
The Chameleons
had a track on their 'Strange Times' album called 'Tears' that came in 2 flavours. The original album release had an acoustic version of the track while the 12" version had a full band version.
Here are the two versions:
Bob Dylan
Two versions of 'George Jackson' on the A & B sides of a single, Most of the alternate BOTT is also now officially out there somewhere. And four studio versions of 'Mississippi'. Does that count?
Roxy Music - the single version of 'Angel Eyes' bears little or no relation to the LP version. And Byroni re-recorded some tracks from the fist Roxy LP on (I think) 'Another Time, Another Place'.
Pedant here...
they were on "Let's Stick Together" - "Re-Make/Re-Model", "2HB", "Chance Meeting" and "Sea Breezes" from the first Roxy LP and "Casanova" from Country Life.
I stand
corrected.
Joe Walsh
Not a name that gets bandied about here very much, recorded Turn To Stone on Barnstorm and So What which came out within about two years of each other. Judging by the couple of fillers that were on So What I assume he was well short of material.
There's also a live version
on "You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind" which I always felt was one of the greatest album titles ever. In defence of "So What" I'd say it's got the definitive reading of 'Turn to Stone' albeit - if memory serves - lacking a verse from the original.
Honky Tonk Women/Country Honk
Later covered by Dick Emery in his seminal sophomore outing
"Hello, Honky Tonk!"
Maria Mckee
Re-recorded (from the eponymous) "Life is Sweet" for "High Dive"
You,Me,Us?
Slightly off topic but can't let Retro's dig at this album go unchallenged.While it can only ever be a matter of opinion,I must say the record in question comprises some of my very favourite RT songs."Woods of Darney",Cold Kisses",Burns Supper",and "Dark Hand Over My Heart" are all up there.Also,another Joe Walsh here."At the Station" from "But Seriously Folks" owes quite a bit to "Falling" from Joe Vitale's "Roller Coaster Weekend".
What Alastair said!
I was going to reply with exactly the same point, and pretty much the same songs. Woods Of Darney in particular is a stunner, one of his best, most moving songs. I like Razor Dance too, and The Ghost Of You Walks. There's a brilliant single album secreted between the two discs - which would in any case have been easily accommodated on one disc.
Arcade Fire
No Cars Go appears on their debut self-released EP and in a version on Neon Bible that nicely illustrates the huge leap they'd made in the interim.
I guess we won't count...
...the egregious practice, common in the 80s, where a band would do a "new version" or wholesale "remix", invariably hideous, of an old hit to bait a greatest-hits album or suchlike with the illusion of newness. Psychedelic Furs did it with Pretty in Pink, the Police did it with Don't Stand So Close To Me, Bowie did it with Fame (Fame '90 is truly one of the abominations in the DB catalogue), and how many bloody times did New Order give in to the temptation to tinker with Blue Monday, each time only serving to render the perfection of the original all the more obvious?
The 'temptation' to tinker
I like that :-)
Pure coincidence, I swear
Although who knows. The human mind--especially the mind of a human New Order obsessive--is a funny thing.