albums featuring the same song played twice in different styles

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Here's what I've come up with. Are there many more?

1. Yo La Tengo, "Painful" ("Big Day Coming")
2. Wilco, "Being There" ("Outtasite [Outta Mind")
3. Wilco, "Summerteeth" ("A Shot in the Arm")
4. Jesus and Mary Chain, "Honey's Dead" ("Reverance")

...?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

5. Frank Black & the Catholics, Black Letter Days (Tom Wait's "Black Rider")

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago) link

6. PJ Harvey, Rid of Me ("Man-size")

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

The Lemonheads, Come on Feel...(Style, Rick James Style)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

bokaJ retsieM's Psychedelic Underground

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

9. neil young, "tonight's the night"
10. neil young, "rust never sleeps"
11. neil young, "freedom"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

Sorta (since they were seperate singles originally):
Stereolab, "Switched On" ("Au Grand Jour")

― direct_program, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

Butthole Surfers - 'Graveyard' (Locust Abortion Technician)

― Graeme (Graeme), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

14. his name is alive, "stars on e.s.p" ("this world is not my home"/"i can't live in this world anymore")

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

...although, now that I think about it, it may just be that they put the same song on there twice (been a long time since I've listened to Locust Abortion Technician)

x-post

― Graeme (Graeme), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

15. abc - lexicon of love - "poison arrow"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

Graeme, I think that one of them is really, really slow. It maybe the same recording though, just slowed the f down. I haven't listened to that album in years either.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

16 Neu! - Neu! 2

― TRON FIGHTS FOR THE USERS (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link

Bob Dylan: Planet Waves (Forever Young)

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

Lenny Kravitz "Fields of Joy" from Mama Said.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

17. Tom Waits' Franks Wild Years has two pairs: "Straight to the Top", without suffix and (Vegas), and "Innocent When You Dream", (Barroom) and (78).

Marillion's Misplaced Childhood is sorta the reverse, and so doesn't get a number; it has two different songs ("Lavender" and "Blue Angel") using the same backing.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

Do hip hop remixes count? if so, there's tons.
Dead Prez, RBGhas 3 versions of Hell Yeah
Missy Elliott So Addictive, 2 of One Minute Man;Under Construction, 2 of Work It
etc.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

Sneaker Pimps, Becoming X ("6 Underground"/Nellee Hooper mix)
Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy ("Possession")

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

24. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway ("Salvador Sanchez" and "Pancho Villa")

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

25. The Wannadies, Bagsy Me (Silent People, Bumble Bee Boy)

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

26. the homosexuals' record (soft south africans fast/slow)

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

27. Destiny's Child - Survivor ("Independant Woman Pt 1"/"Independant Woman Pt 2")
28. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish ("Push Upstairs"/"Push Downstairs")
29. various - Rubiyat (The Cure's "Hello I Love You")
30. Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is The Day, This Is The Hour, This Is This! ("Wise Up! Sucker")
31. Pop Will Eat Itself - Cure For Sanity ("X, Y, and Zee")

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

32. Matthew Sweet's Altered Beast contains both "Ugly Truth" (with Vassar Clements on fiddle) and "Ugly Truth Rock", replacing the fiddle with wah-wah guitar.

Butthole Surfers did two versions of "Creep In The Cellar" on Rembrandt Pussyhorse, but one of 'em may just be a remix, so I'm not sure. And as regards the earlier Surfers track, I believe both "Graveyards" have completely different vocals in addition to different speeds. But again, I'm not positive.

I'm assuming multi-artist collections like "Best of Louie Louie" are ineligible here.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

33. Richard Thompson, "You? Me? Us?" ("Razor Dance')
34. Ron Sexsmith, "Ron Sexsmith" ("There's a Rhythm")

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

35. Craig Armstrong, The Space Between Us ("Weather Storm"/"After the Storm")

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

um, Sgt Pepper...

― droctagon, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

Rufus Wainwright - Poses: "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk."

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

Thinking Fellers - Wormed by Leonard: barnstormer "Narlus Spectre" foreshadowed through its half-speed sister "Milva Spectre"

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

Scritti Politti - "Cupid and Psyche 85" ("Word Girl" done 2 ways)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

Primal Scream own this thread.

"Give Out But Don't Give Up" has "Funky Jam" and a remix of it called "Struttin'"
and on "Screamadelica" there are two versions of "Higher Than The Sun" - one produced by the Orb, and another mixed by Andrew Weatherall subtitled "A Dub Symphony in Two Parts"
"Xtrmntr" features two versions of "Swastika Eyes" - one produced by Jagz Kooner, the other mixed by the Chemical Bros.

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

all right, so they're not exactly played twice in different styles, but remixes kinda count. Don't they?

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

the bites "white lines and runways" ('desert island' in a band version and piano version)

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

David Bowie Scary Monsters ("It's No Game")
Pink Floyd The Wall ("In the Flesh?")
Kraftwerk Computer World ("Computer World")
Queen Queen Live Killers ("We Will Rock You")

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

Depeche Mode - "Never Let Me Down" (Music For The Masses) (remix)
Sublime - "What I Got" (s/t)

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

Stereolab's "And the Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" has "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" (Mellow) and "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" (Foamy)

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

same Stereolab mini-lp has a studio version and Neu Wave live version of "We're Not Adult Oriented"

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin has two versions of "Race for the Prize".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

Richard Thompson, You Me Us also has 2 versions of 'Hide It Away'.
Paul Westerberg, Come Feel me Tremble, 'Crackle and Drag'
Juliana Hatfield, God's Foot, 'Fade Away'

xpost: that Flaming Lips also has two versions of 'Waiting for Superman'

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

Surprising how many records qualify.

Husker Du's Zen Arcade: "Reocurring Dreams"/"Dreams Reocurring:

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago) link

This Nation's Saving Grace by The Fall: "Mansion" & "To NK Roachment: Yarbles"

― F Ath, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

Shy FX has 4 (count 'em 4!!) different version of "Original Gangsta"--the original, "Gangsta Kid (Hyperfunk Remix)", "Gangsta II (L Double Remix)" and "Gangsta II: The Final Chapter"--all on Just An Example. It's a lot of Ray Liotta samples by the end. Technically I guess they are all in relatively the same style though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

Cornershop -- 6 AM / 7:20 AM Jullander Shere (from "Woman's Gotta Have It")

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 03:40 (twenty years ago) link

Gaunt on their "sob story" record (which is fucking excellent,by the way); 2 versions of "lies". One is slow, one not so slow.

― chad (chad), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 03:53 (twenty years ago) link

two more from neil young, who is the true owner of this thread:

"live rust" (which, like "rust never sleeps," contains both "hey hey my my" and "my my hey hey")

"sleeps with angels" (which features the same instrumental track played twice with different lyrics and different titles, "western hero" and "train of love")

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - 'Isn't it a Pity'

I like the Galaxie 500 version better, though.

― ted kolberg, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 04:57 (twenty years ago) link

altered images "happy birthday" has a short intro version of the title song on each side, as well as the full song i believe, so 3 times

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 05:11 (twenty years ago) link

Primal Scream also do it across albums, of course - If they Move
Kill Em on Vanishing Point --> MBV Arkestra on Xtrmntr

― bham, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 07:46 (twenty years ago) link

Frank Zappa's "One Size Fits All" -- Sofa No. 1 and Sofa No. 2 (with vocals, without)

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 07:59 (twenty years ago) link

Does Howard Devoto's Jerky Verions Of The Dream count?

"Out Of Shape With Me" and "Way Out Of Shape" have different tunes but share substantially the same lyrics.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 08:01 (twenty years ago) link

That last John Cale album had two versions of the single, "Things".

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago) link

The Stone Roses: Waterfall & Don't Stop. If we take "forwards" and "backwards" as "different styles", which I suppose we must.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

"live rust" (which, like "rust never sleeps," contains both "hey hey my my" and "my my hey hey")

Waitaminute....isn't one of them titled "Out of the Blue, Into the Black"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

red house painter-mistress
one is guitar-bases, the other piano

― kephm, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

Frank Zappa - America Drinks & America Drinks And Goes Home (Absolutely Free)

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

PiL - Religion I & II
PiL - Lou Reed I & II

Nick Cave - Do You Love Me?

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

Well, if we're counting across albums, a la PRML SCRM, then Radiohead did it with "Morning Bells" or whatever it was called on Kid A, then Amnesiac.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 3 June 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

Nick Cave - Henry Lee & Curse of Milhaven

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago) link

Nick Cave - Henry Lee & Curse of Milhaven

.....I was about to say "Oh No They're Not!", but now that ya mention it.....holy shit!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Kraftwerk - Morgenspaziergang

... as explained in an earlier thread which I can't be bothered to search for

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

"Americana" by The Offspring ends with "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" done in a Latino jazz stylee, if memory serves.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star: "International Feel" / "Le Feel Internationale."

― mike a, Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

The Chameleons' Strange Times ("Tears")

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago) link

Waitaminute....isn't one of them titled "Out of the Blue, Into the Black"?

the acoustic one is titled "my my hey hey (out of the blue)" and the electric one is "hey hey my my (into the black)."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

Express by Love & Rockets has two versions of "All in my mind"

Also doesn't Alanis' Jagged Little Pill have two versions of "You Oughta Know"?

― Seb (Seb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

Eels - 'Going To Your Funeral Pt 1/2'
Pedro - 'Intro'/'Outro'

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

McCartney - Junk and Sing Along Junk

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

abc - lexicon of love - "poison arrow"

somewhere I still have
the 12" with 'look of love
parts 2 and 3': RARE

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

tolchock trio ghosts don't have bones - "wolf eyes"
sonic youth washing machine - "becuz"

― Russignonald's, Friday, 4 June 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

Two examples I can think of:

Red House Painters' first self-titled album - two versions of "Mistress"

Yo La Tengo - Painful - two versions of "Big Day Coming"

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 25 July 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link

(I realize both are listed in the thread already... but wanted to revive.)

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 25 July 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link

One of my favorites- the two versions of "Solid Gold" that bookend International Pony's Mit Dir Wir Sind Vier.

― Telephone thing, Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Bettie Serveert, Palomine ("Palomine")

― http://tinyurl.com/ggggst (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Queens of the Stone Age ("Feel Good Hit of the Summer")
Wings ("Band on the Run")

― http://tinyurl.com/ggggst (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Oooh, the new Cortney Tidwell ("So We Sing" and "Oh Suicide")
listen here: http://www.cityslang.com/ecards/CortneyTidwell/CortneyTidwell_en/swf/

― DOES ANYONE IN THIS BITCH LIKE OMC (Tape Store), Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Vertrauen II and Vertrauen III from the Tindersticks' second LP (they are the same song, no?)

Swell's album "41" begins with "in the door, up the stairs" and finishes with "down the stairs, out the door". Sounds rather than songs, mind.

― Duke, Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Motorpsycho's Waiting For The One from their album Demon Box (1993). First as an acoustic folksong, second as a noiserock-band.

― Marty Innerlogic, Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Suzanne Vega - "Tom's Diner" - A capella version at the beginning, instrumental version at the end. I wonder if they synch up?

Kings of Convenience - "Singing Softly to Me" and "The Girl From Back Then", which the back cover calls "parts 1 and 2 of the same song."

Extra Fancy - "You Look Like a Movie Star, Honey" and "You Surf Like a Porno Star, Honey" (a short surf style instrumental reprise)

Is Camper Van Beethoven's "Skinhead Stomp" a version of "Take the Skinheads Bowling"?

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 26 July 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link

― poppage champagne (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 July 2009 04:09 (fifteen years ago) link

"America, Fuck Yeah" (Bummer Version)

― poppage champagne (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 July 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Bastro does two versions of "Recidivist" on Sing the Troubled Beast.

― scott pgwp (pgwp), Sunday, 26 July 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link

I lots of these answers do not really answer the question.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 26 July 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link

"2 versions of the same song" and "same song played twice in different styles" are not the same thing.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 26 July 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link

"Give My Regards To Broad Street" by Paul McCartney has "No More Lonely Nights" in the most famous ballad version at first, and then a disco version of the same song at the end.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 26 July 2009 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Not on the same album, but Pavement's "Slowly Typed" on the Shady Lane EP is a version of "Type Slowly" on Brighten the Corners.

― jaymc, Sunday, 26 July 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Frank's Wild Years by Tom Waits does this with two songs (Innocent When You Dream and Straight to the Top).

― chap, Sunday, 26 July 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link

The Clash - Sandinista

One More Time - One More Dub
Something About England - Mensforth Hill
Junco Partner - Version Pardner
Washington Bullets - Silicone on Sapphire

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 26 July 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage features the title track, 4 of 5 times.

― Kommen sie bitte und listen to Kraftwerk (EDB), Sunday, 26 July 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Bob Dylan - Alberta & Alberta 2

Self Portrait

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 26 July 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Spare Snare, Live at Home: slow slide-guitar version of "Thorns" and noisy rock version of "Thorns."

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 26 July 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Pop-O-Pies - punk and rap versions of "Truckin'" on The White EP

― xhuxk, Sunday, 26 July 2009 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Eddy Detroit - Mephisto Cigars

― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 27 July 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link

The Specials "More Specials" : "Enjoy yourself (It's later than you think)"

― Mark G, Monday, 27 July 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link

A-Frames - Black Forest - three versions of title track

― o. nate, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link

(not really in a different style, though, just slightly cruddier and more distorted each time)

― o. nate, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Local H - "Manifest Destiny" (parts I and II)

― Garbage strikes make me sad (j-rock), Thursday, 30 July 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link

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