Amon Duul 2 : Revisted Rec vs. Repertoire Reissue Mania WTFSTOPITSTOPITSTOPITFFS!

Seriously, WTF is going on? Granted, while I don't really care for AD2 beyond Carnival In Babylon (which is really being generous, as even the relatively lighter Wolf City blows that one away), I'm happy that Revisted Rec has given the full catalog a treatment, so no complaints there...

Now I don't know who's to blame, but Reportoire and Revisted seemed to have had a full scale battle over the triumphant first three album reissues (Phallus Dei, Yeti, and Tanz Der Lemminge). No major problems with Yeti or Tanz as they're both long albums, and the 2002 Reportoire reissue added a couple of relatively inessential bonus tracks to Yeti...(not sure about the Revisited Rec one) so no major differences in the versions across the board here, so if you only care about either of these two, then stop reading.

Phallus Dei however had been given a good fucking over two times in three years though.. originally released in 2000 or so as is, it then got re-reissued by Reportoire, at least got remastered VERY WELL I might add, but for some reason decided to put the title track at the end of the album instead of the beginning.. and then we get a series of bonus tracks called "Freak Out" or something or other that are essentially outtakes from the NEXT album Tanz. NOW, Revisted Rec has restored putting "Phallus Dei" at the beginning of their reissue, however their remastering is quiet and not as good, and they added two new magnum opuses as bonus tracks that sound like they came from years later... "TouchMaPhal" and "I Want The Sun To Shine". They're great.. but there's no information as to where and what these tracks are..

And the Revisted Rec Lemmingmania has been amended with not only four new bonus tracks (as opposed to the pointless addition of "Phallus Dei" that the Reportoire reissue did), but a bonus video for "All The Years Round"...

To make things more confusing, the Reportoire reissue of Carnival Of Babylon includes as bonus tracks many tracks off Lemmingmania that sonically sound MUCH better than the Revisited Rec Lemmingmania counterparts.

All this after Reportoire reissued the first three without bonus tracks or anything just two years prior to their re-reissues... and just four years before Revisited got a handle of this.

STOP FUCKIN WITH THE KARRER!