Hi, Just spotted on GEMM a copy of "The White Room" (JAMSCD6) being advertised as "extremely rare" because it has eight tracks rather than the normal nine. (For a second, I misread the advert to mean an actual "eight track" cassette, which really WOULD have been rare!) I think the advert refers to the fact that on JAMSCD6, "3 AM" and "The Church" are actually one track, rather two (as it says on the back). Both my UK copies of "The White Room" CD have these two songs as one track. I'd always assumed this was the case with the whole run. Does anyone know any different? John Not a Scot, just Scott-ish
Just spotted on GEMM a copy of "The White Room" (JAMSCD6) being advertised as "extremely rare" because it has eight tracks rather than the normal nine. (For a second, I misread ... Does anyone know any different?
I don't think it's "extremely rare" at all. As far as I know, not only did the entire UK run have 8 tracks, but the initial couple of runs in Australia also were exact duplicates of the UK version. (It then changed to be like the US version, that is, 9 tracks with the "Live from the Lost Continent" mix of LTTT, though the cover continued to label it as the "LP Mix".) I have versions of each, so I know this to be true. The only thing I can't be sure of is the numbers involved. It's quite lucky that the early Australian versions were the same, since I think all UK copies were manufactured by PDO, and hence subject to "laser rot". My copy is already showing some symptoms. I bet if you asked for a replacement you'd be given the (inferior) US import these days too. Michael
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 03:26:58PM -0000, Thug wrote:
Just spotted on GEMM a copy of "The White Room" (JAMSCD6) being advertised as "extremely rare" because it has eight tracks rather than the normal nine. (For a second, I misread ... Does anyone know any different?
I don't think it's "extremely rare" at all. As far as I know, not only did the entire UK run have 8 tracks, but the initial couple of runs in Australia also were exact duplicates of the UK version. (It then changed to be like the US version, that is, 9 tracks with the "Live from the Lost Continent" mix of LTTT, though the cover continued to label it as the "LP Mix".)
I have versions of each, so I know this to be true. The only thing I can't be sure of is the numbers involved.
I have a White Room import from of all places, Kuala Lumpur and it too has the UK tracklisting of 8 tracks with Church and Last train stuck together as one track with the orginal version of Last Train. The LP-mix of WTIL? is the right album version and not the lame Arista edition of putting the J&A intro onto the Live at Trancentral mix. The first 4 tracks are presented in the mini-concert format with lots of crowd noise before and after the songs, and No More Tears is longer and either Build a Fire or Make it Rain is shorter. IMO, the original edition is extremely better than the US/JAP version. It just holds together alot better. -- Loki Ambrodious von Esling -|- RELST8 - http://www.relst8.net |
Just spotted on GEMM a copy of "The White Room" (JAMSCD6) being advertised as "extremely rare" because it has eight tracks rather than the normal nine.
I don't think it's "extremely rare" at all. As far as I know, not only did the entire UK run have 8 tracks,
My UK copy has 9 tracks listed,although some tracks run into each other.
It's quite lucky that the early Australian versions were the same, since I think all UK copies were manufactured by PDO, and hence subject to "laser rot".
I checked mine and it doesn't say it was manufactured by PDO,so maybe I'm lucky. Although my copy of WTIL Story JAMSCD004 is deteriating rapidly, I contacted the company about 2 years ago and they said they couldn't replace it as they were not making any at that time. They said if they did run some copies off they would send me one, haven't heard anything so far, maybe they need more demand to make it worthwhile. Though whether it was because it was deleted makes any difference I'm not too sure in this case. I agree the US tracklisting is inferior to the UK version. Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
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