Part of intros (or other bits and pieces) that have mysteriously disappeared from subsequent pressings

I remember "Size of a Cow" having a sort of "Wop bop a loo bop" ending when it was being played as a new single, but after it became a hit, never heard it again.

Re "Rikki": No, it wasn't (reinstated), not on the copy I have.

It is on the 1999 remaster.

See "Forever Changes" thread for discussion of disappearing and reappearing fadeout on "A House Is Not a Motel"

Chameleons - a brief backwards reprise of "Nostalgia" is on the end of the _Fan And The Bellow_ LP but not on the CD.

Not quite the same, but:
XTC - the 10 second "Goodnight Sucker" on the 3D EP has never showed up on any of the myriad singles comps.

Jandek does this all the time. It really pisses me off. He took a whole verse out of some song from Blue Corpse!

Stranglers - "Souls" is missing a verse on the deluxe reissue.

Bit of twiddly lead guitar from the intro of "Foggy Notion" off VU Velvet Underground. Only on the first LP pressg.

Was going to mention that, think that was probably added during the compilation of "V.U.", it wasn't on the bootleg single of "Foggy Notion" my big sister used to have

Oh, and the first time "Taste of Cindy" was issued, it was on a magazine freebie, where a sharp intake of breath before the vocal comes in is heard.

It was edited off the album. But that 0.2 of a second is VITAL!!!

It'd better be on the box set!

Jesus And Mary Chain, I should clarify.

Sgt. Pepper Inner groove?

re: sound effects at the beggining of Rikki - I thought that was just a marimba.

Sgt. Pepper Inner groove?

The "fucking you like superman" bit? It's on the cd after "A Day In The Life" ends.

Not on my copy.

Weird. It's on mine!

The American version of Deep Purple "In Rock" didn't have the Blackmore feedback laden fread out at the beginning of "Speed King"

The "Get Together" intro of "Territorial Pissings," replaced by strangulation noises...

Really? So what is that on then? Original vinyl and CD, not represses?

Also that Taste Of Cindy bit sounds essential.

John Frusciante's Smile from the Streets You Hold has a few songs with added bits, front and back, on a certain pressing.

"Wasn't there some short instrumental on side 2 of R.E.M. Reckoning that disappear on the CD version?" he said, not bothering to check for himself.

I totally love that Jandek does this. It seems like such a lot of trouble - I mean, remastering isn't the same as going back into edit: actually going to the trouble of taking stuff out for a subsequent pressing indicates to me either 1) "this has been bugging me for a long, long time" or 2) "I am really really involved with the material," both of which are interesting to me

Heh, I was kinda being flip there. But I do like being able to hear original stuff that was later taken out.

I agree that it reveals an active interest on his part. As a listening experience it has a negligible effect on me, I couldn't even tell you which verse was missing. Another thing that got taken out on CD was a Mothers Of Invention reference, which is even more interesting from a Jandek perspective.

The sample intros were left out of the reissue of Call of the Mastodon. SUCKS.

As I understand it the "Nobody But Me" sample (if you call it a sample, it's more like they're playing the record and singing over it) on Meet the Residents has been absent since the 1997 reissue.

Every time I hear "Under Pressure" on the radio nowadays, there's a line missing from the final verse; the second time Bowie sings "this is our last dance" has been edited out. Anyone know -or care- why?

The original version of "Matte Kudasai" by King Crimson had this cool little lead line by Fripp that was removed in later editions.

I have a copy of the 1999 remaster of Pretzel Logic that indeed misses out the marimba intro to "Rikki." I got it as a promo from MCA when it came out.

A guy I used to know had a vinyl pressing of Forever Changes that had an abrupt cut-off ending on "A House." Anyone else?

As I understand it the "Nobody But Me" sample (if you call it a sample, it's more like they're playing the record and singing over it) on Meet the Residents has been absent since the 1997 reissue.

-- eatandoph, Friday, 11 April 2008 03:52 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Really? That's a pretty vital piece to it, and it did get credited and everything.

A guy I used to know had a vinyl pressing of Forever Changes that had an abrupt cut-off ending on "A House." Anyone else?

-- If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 11 April 2008 09:11 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Yes, me and Tom D mentioned it on the "Forever changes" poll thread. We both had that.

Ah. Steve's was a German pressing, if I'm not mistaken.

I b'lieve the first US pressing of New Order's "Blue Monday", on Factory US, had extra kick hits @ the beginning.

So did the UK pressing of Blue Monday. Substance loses them, but the Singles dbl CD regains them.

Weren't a few songs lost from XTC's "English Settlement" to fit it onto one CD? Have these songs been restored at any point?

The first US Columbia CD pressing of the first Clash album omitted a few seconds of the drum-roll-intro to "I Fought the Law" (reinstated with 1999 remaster).

The original UK CD of the Kinks' Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround omits the drumroll before "Top Of The Pops."

The Who's catalog is clogged with reissue omissions, mainly due to the remixes done by Jon Astley. He took way too many liberties on some of the records (Quadrophenia in particular is missing some small but memorable moments).

As I understand it the "Nobody But Me" sample (if you call it a sample, it's more like they're playing the record and singing over it) on Meet the Residents has been absent since the 1997 reissue.

-- eatandoph, Friday, 11 April 2008 03:52 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Really? That's a pretty vital piece to it, and it did get credited and everything.

The original version of "Matte Kudasai" by King Crimson had this cool little lead line by Fripp that was removed in later editions.

Whoah! This thread is making me glad I bought a lot of these records years ago! That is my favorite KC song probably. Can't imagine it without that guitar.

Weren't a few songs lost from XTC's "English Settlement" to fit it onto one CD? Have these songs been restored at any point?

My Geffen CD has everything; of course, the original U.S. issue on Epic was cut down from 2 LPs to 1.

My dad's vinyl copy of The Beatles red album has Help with the spy movie beginning. It's missing from the CD.

I seem to remember the London Calling single starting with with an English operator saying "Hello. This is London calling. Hello? This is London calling..." i could be crazy though.

"Wasn't there some short instrumental on side 2 of R.E.M. Reckoning that disappear on the CD version?" he said, not bothering to check for himself.

Are you referring to the country jam thing at the beginning of "Don't Go Back to Rockville"? They start this little dance thing and Michael says something like, "Oh come on now! You got it! HUH! In the mood." And then someone counts 1-2-3-[snare hit] and "Rockville" starts.