OK...I recently found an original pressing (1980 on Armageddon) of the Soft Boys' well-known classic Underwater Moonlight. Despite the fact that I already owned the 1986 pressing on Living Cream and the expanded Matador CD, I picked it up. Little did I expect, the mix is totally different to the recording I was used to! Not just the mix...but actual vocal takes and lyrics...It's so odd! Here's one of the top LP's of the 80's and it's available in totally different versions!?!!? Which would be the "real" one then? Is there a definitive one? Matador seems to have used the later version for the cd. Did Robyn re-mix it in '86? It may be totally different sessions altogether, the versions are so different. The earlier one is also way reverbier. How often does this happen? What's the story here????
The only other one I can think of right now is the Split Enz Frenzy album. Curiously described as an album made on the cheap, the Australian release IS totally different recordings than the US one as well as each containing songs the other doesn't have! For a small budgeted recording, the band managed to record and mix different versions of most songs and record extra songs for different countries! I always found that strange too. Hey...I just wrote a music post again finally!
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