Albums with two different tracklistings

So Reflektor (and The Suburbs) by Arcade Fire and The Seer by Swans have their tracks in a different order on the vinyl versions of the records and the CD versions of the records. This is presumably to better fit the songs onto different sides of vinyl, which seems fair enough, but presumably was never a consideration when albums that were released pre-CD were then put onto that format?

Are there other examples of albums being sequenced differently for different mediums? Cassette? Minidisc? Download? (Where sequencing is obviously much more fluid.)

Michael Mayer's Immer has the wrong tracklisting if that counts.

the CD vs. vinyl versions of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Motorpsycho does this quite a lot. The Demon Box vinyl version has more songs than the cd version. The Angels And Deamons At Play vinyl and cd also differ in songs and tracklisting.

Get Happy!! to thread.

I've seen a number of different tracklistings for Thomas Dolby's Golden Age of Wireless

although that seems to happen every time an artist has a hit with a song that doesn't actually appear on the album. this happened to XTC a couple times if I remember correctly.

On the cassette version of The Cure's Seventeen Seconds the songs "Play For Today" and "A Forest" have switched places.

There's tons of instances of labels jumbling the running order on cassettes. The one that springs to mind is the pre-1985-reissue US PolyGram cassette of The Velvet Underground and Nico. "Black Angel's Death Song" and "I'm Waiting For The Man" switch places. I kinda prefer it that way, too.

It's rare that an album wasn't resequenced for 8-track cartridges. Pink Floyd's Animals had some 8-track exclusive music on it so there wouldn't be a gap in the middle of "Pigs on the Wing".

It was commonplace for albums released in the early CD era (mid-late '80s) to include a "CD bonus track". Some albums have different sequencing (or one or more songs switched out) for US and UK versions (or other countries). Some albums had a song appended to it if a non-album song became a hit shortly after the album was released, especially if the band wasn't very well known previously. Examples: The Rembrandts LP and Buffalo Springfield s/t. Others had a song removed for various reasons (i.e. Harry Nilsson's Aerial Ballet).

Big Star's 3rd/Sister Lovers has at least four different track listings i've seen.

Ha, came to mention eight-tracks, in which they reshuffled track order in an attempt to divide the album into four equal parts, although still not usually successfully enough to avoid the notice track-shifting audible "bump."

Like a Möbius strip (with what's listed as side one on the jacket turning up as side two on the inner label, and vice versa), Get Happy!! leads nowhere except back to its own beginning.

The idea of any artist bothering to reorder their album for a MiniDisc release is pretty funny.

I remember Down in a Hole being positioned differently on the cassette and CD versions of Alice in Chains' Dirt.

The idea of any artist bothering to reorder their album for a MiniDisc release is pretty funny.

Minidisc was the world's first ever MiniDisc-only release and was designed to take advantage of the format's (then exclusive) zero seek time: Minidisc contains 45 pieces split into 88 tracks which are intended to be played in shuffle mode, creating a quasi-unique, aleatoric arrangement every time it is played. (a technique also used for the 1999 compact disc release Masque by the King Crimson-related ProjeKct Three.)

Boris Pink has three different track listings depending on which format and label the release is.

Oh yeah, Money Jungle.

The original LP was released by United Artists Jazz in 1963 in mono and stereo versions.[1] United Artists was bought by EMI in 1979, and subsidiary Blue Note Records reissued the album on CD in 1987.[14] This contained more recordings from the same session: four previously unreleased works written for the session, plus two alternative takes. The order presented in this edition was that in which the songs were recorded.

See also: Money Jungle C/D?

yeah this was common with cassettes. white light/white heat had "sister ray" as the second track on side one. a bunch of roxy music albums had tracks switched. to this day i find the correct order on them a little jarring.

Faust Tapes

The first copy of Abbey Road I ever listened to regularly was a cassette that featured the opening 1-2 of "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something" with "Come Together" leading off into "Because" on Side 2.

Lots and lots of examples out there. Here was my thread about 8-tracks:

C/D: Eight-track alternate sequencing?

NRBQ At Yankee Stadium had "Ridin' In My Car" snatched from it due to a licencing issue - it had previously been issued on an indie label - but their best album will never sound right to me without what may be their best song on it.

(and yes, I know its original inclusion was more at the behest of Mercury Records than the band's)

'tiger bay' by saint etienne has 3 or 4 different tracklistings (UK release, US release, Giuditta Del Vecchio cover release, probably one other)

Good catch. Think I almost get fooled by that one once.

Are there other examples of albums being sequenced differently for different mediums?

To my ears, "Bron Y Aur" always concludes Side 1 of the Physical Graffiti cassette, a little palette cleanser after "Kashmir" while "Down by the Seaside" kicks in right after "Ten Years Gone" starts Side 2.

I'd like to hear more about alternate sequences without regard to the medium. For example, and this is a very small example, my former bandmembers could not ever agree on a proper sequence for the album we recorded. One of our possible compromises was to release it in one order and on the inside, have something derp like "Pplains' Sequence" on the sheet inside it with an alternate listing the listener could try manually.

cd/vinyl versions of manscape by wire bear no relation to each other except for the position of the final track.

There's an AMM album where they helpfully added a few seconds of silence as the last track on the CD reissue. IIRC the idea was that you could program that track anywhere you liked and thereby break up the other pieces.

Are there other examples of albums being sequenced differently for different mediums?

― fit and working again, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:22 PM (9 hours ago)

Little Wings - Light Green Leaves had not only different tracklistings for CD/LP/CS but completely different recordings of each song entirely for each format.

CD http://www.discogs.com/Little-Wings-Light-Green-Leaves/release/1785142
LP http://www.discogs.com/Little-Wings-Light-Green-Leaves/release/3683884
CS http://www.discogs.com/Little-Wings-Light-Green-Leaves/release/1453289

That's awesomely mad.

There was a Laraaji CD issued in the early 90s which had a liner note saying its track listing was pretty fluid, and suggested a track order including the five "silence" tracks on the end which numbered in length from 5 seconds to 1 minute. I found it was an admirable CD to fall asleep to.

I know elsewhere on ILM there's been a discussion on the definitive track listing to "The soft bulletin"...

As for cassettes, well there's a website devoted to the Beatles cassettes and their peculiar track listings. And we had an original cassette of "Blonde on blonde" which swapped "Stuck inside of Mobile" with "Obviously five believers". I always felt that was a better track order.

Just dud

skylab #2.

the vinyl edition was very different to the cd edition.

different versions, different tracklisting.

http://www.discogs.com/Skylab-Skylab-2-1999-Large-As-Life-And-Twice-As-Natural/master/31175

i found a promo edition, that had the vinyl edition, so only found this out when i years later found a 'normal' cd edition.

Aftermath - I still prefer the US version.

Several examples of US releases for New Order/Electronic albums including singles that the UK versions didn't include.

there's a secret version of todd rundgren's Runt on vinyl. has two extra songs. different mixes of other songs. you can't tell by the labels. you have to count the bands on the vinyl. if they add up to 12 that's the one.

even the promo copies only have ten tracks. so the secret alternate version came out after the album came out.

i play 50 copies of Hot Rocks a year in the hopes of getting one with the alternate brown sugar/wild horses. also not a first pressing! the version with alternate versions of those songs came out way after the album was released. we may never know why...

Krallice's third album Diotima the vinyl switched tracks 2 and 3 from the CD version.

I'm cheating a little bit and looking around the Internet for examples of this, and I just realized for the very first time that "I Me Mine" was a Side 1 song.

On the tape version of Let It Be, it started Side 2 with "I've Got a Feeling" coming after it. I haven't heard the original sequence, but I kinda like the tape version better.