Do you listen to bonus tracks?
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Topic: Do you listen to bonus tracks?
Posted By: The T
Subject: Do you listen to bonus tracks?
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:04
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The question is: if you buy an album with bonus tracks, do you listen to them the first time you listen to the album, as part of the whole, or do you ignore them and just catch up with them when an ocassion arises, or you just never ever listen to them?
Would somebody else be like me that NEVER listen to bonus tracks unless I really really have to? (like, for example, Vanden Plas' version of Gethsemane in JCS... I had to knew what that sounded ;like...)  ------------- 
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:06
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Sometimes they are good. But mostly, no.
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Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:07
| I always listen to the bonus-tracks because it is often interesting what the band produced outside of their albums. |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:08
| I listen to the whole album all the way through. But I make note on where the bonus tracks start so as to not get confused on why the album repeats itself. But yes I listen to bonus tracks. |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:08
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Well I cant answer this, because I only listen to bonus tracks if they are completely different songs. Like for example the remaster of The Yes Album has some different versions it, but I skip em because they are the same song. Tull's Catfish Rising and Broadsword and the Beast have interesting bonus tracks that I usuall listen to, and of course Tull's A has the Slipstream DVD for its bonus! ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:10
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I always listen to them seperatly out of the context of the album.
But I hardly ever listen to them again once I've heard them once (unless it's a very good song and not a studio run through, or demo version, of a well known song).
on some occasions the bonus track is better than the version that ended up on the original disc (Keep yourself Alive from Queen, i always prefer the bonustrack version)
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:10
| Yes, when I feel like doing that. Most of the time I just press the stop button before they start though, because I seldom feel like hearing them. It feels good to have them anyway. |
Posted By: trauma0
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:14
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yes, sometimes the bonus tracks are very good...
...but, sometimes  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/trauma0/?chartstyle=itunesrecent"> 
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:16
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Sometimes, the bonus tracks are some single lumped together with the album, like on the "Srcipt" remaster, and eloy's "Inside." But that's another thing, i guess... -------------
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Posted By: Flokk
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:16
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Nearly never. I don't do it because, I think it's probably not a very good song, because otherwise it would have been on the "main" record, and not just a bonus song.
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:23
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Well if they're worth it I'll listen to them. Opeth's Soldier of Fortune on the Ghost Reveries special edition is definitely worth it. So it all depends if its good or not. ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:25
I'm never able to vote in your polls ... you always forget my choice!  Which would in this case be: "occasionally - but I don't care much for most of them".------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:28
 You have to understand the pressure of creating a poll that's intelligent and informative, plausible yet entertaining, enlightening yet ironic....
  (yes, i speak lots of bullsh*t). Next time I'll try!
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MikeEnRegalia wrote:Posted By: Flokk
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:34
but to know whether it's good or not, you have to listen to it, don't you. So in your case it would be "Yes"  -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:54
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I do for the most part.. obviously the best bonus... for the old fart
prog I love ..are the live version bonus tracks ... like on that damn
Traffic remaster I can't find. Raff.. I may need you to pick up
JBcMD for me. No one here has the damn thing
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 15:57
Absolutely. Tull's bonus tracks are consistently interesting. The same with Bowie's Rhino CDs from the 1990s, unfortunately no longer available. And Yes's GOING FOR THE ONE has great bonus tracks. Not to mention FRAGILE, which is now blessed with their superb long version of 'America', turning an average album into a near-masterpiece! |
Posted By: swriter
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 17:08
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there's no answer for my response, I skim em when I forst ;isten to the cd, most of the time for me, I never go back to hear any bonus tracks except once in a great while!!!! ------------- ps |
Posted By: blaughida
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 17:21
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I like to listen to them, but not the first time I hear the album, because I want to know what the original album sounded like. Sometimes I forget to take a CD out and do end up listening to the bonus tracks the first time. When I import a CD into iTunes, I don't have this problem because bonus tracks appear to be from a different album. I list the non-bonus tracks as being from (original album name), while bonus tracks are labled with whatever the edition I have is called. |
Posted By: Elovec
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 17:30
| Yes I do. But I don't care much about them, really. They're sometimes good addition to the main album, but all in all - I handle them like a songs of a whole album. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 17:51
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What's sometimes frustrating is finding out the band left out a song or two that was better than some original songs ... But they are nice, sometimes for insight as to the musical process in the case of demos or outtakes; and for older albums (70s & 80s), as a sidenote showing what a band had to put aside to fit their music on the album. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 18:43
 Very well then. I do listen to them.-------------
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 18:51
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Yes, on the first time I listen to an album I will lisen to the bonus tracks as this will decide whether I ever listen to them again, in some cases (like VdGG) they're very good but in others (like Yes) they are terrible and I'll never listen to them again if I can help it. BTW T, what did you think of Gethsemane? ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: proglil49
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 19:37
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Usualy, I give it a shot the first time I listen to the album, but in general, bonus tracks are not really interesting (exept for the 1978 live version of Thick As A Brick) ------------- I want to be an astronaut |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 19:39
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Of course.
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Posted By: peppino
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 19:54
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Sure I do. Sometimes, there are some real good bonus tracks that are worth a listen. Jethro Tull, in particular, has a lot of real good bonus tracks on their new remastered albums. ------------- (insert insightful statement here) |
Posted By: Masque
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 20:05
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I don`t like bonus tracks, I feel they damage the original concept and cheapen it
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Posted By: Dieu
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 20:12
 Totally agree. I see an album like a peice of art that the artists made at a certain point in time.Demos and live ones have no place in that concept.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 20:45
i was really happy with the results. I mean, it was a decent heavy-prog-metal rendition of the theater classic, and Kuntz (an underrated singer in my opinion) gives a great, emotional performance. I would love to have a band record the whole Lloyd-Weber Opus in prog-metal fashion... that would be worth listening. (I love the original and the amazingly spectacular movie by the way.) -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 20:47
It's awful specially in tight albums when everything fits perfectly, and suddenly something with no relation at all starts sounding (even worse if it's a live version and suddenly you're hearing noise crowd). That's why nowadays I'm always ready with the remote or my finger to press STOP right after the last proper song ends. I don't want any "bonus" to ruin my experience. -------------
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 21:25
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I love Porcupine Tree bonus tracks. Steve Wilson is so prolific and he cant include every track on the album. Some dont fit anyway... I hate live bonus tracks though..... |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 21:41
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No, not usually. If it's not part of the album, there's a reason for it. I do listen to some bonus tracks; in fact, I listen the bonus tracks on Hawkwind's In Search of Space just as much if not more than the actual album! ------------- 
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 16:04
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Never is a problematic word. few examples if I may : On "John Barlycorn must die" by Trafic some of the bonus tracks are in the middle of the album so you do'nt usualy aware that these are bonus tracks, especially on first hearings. In Gong's "Endless egg" the song "Love is how Y make it" has an alt version that is sang as an a-capela. For some odd reason I find this version much more exciting than the original (still it is a rare situation for me). In many cases the live versions are more inspired than studio versions. My example here is not prog - Janis Joplin's "Kozmic blues" is far better in the live version. So if there are some live versions bonus tracks I will hear it. However I must say that IMO in most cases bonus tracks does'nt add an extra value and many times even spoil the album as a whole. ------------- omri |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 16:32
Yes, always 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 16:38
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I always listen to the whole CD through. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 17:36
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Yes, I do listen to them the first time I play the album. But if I don't like them much, I miss them out the next time!
Personally, I would like bonus tracks to be on a bonus disc.
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 18:22
| I listen to everything on an album the first time through, bonus tracks included. I like alternate versions to songs and b-sides that didn't make albums originally. |
Posted By: Nash
Date Posted: February 13 2007 at 20:50
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yes, of course I listen to bonus tracks, they are interesting material! ------------- http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/191/sydbarrettg.jpg/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Freak
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 10:28
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If you count the 2nd Disc of the Marillion re-masters, then yes. Those have some great material. The Clutching Bonus Disc is basically the next Marillion album, had Fish not left the band - and that's just interesting, especially because you can check out what two songs they ended up slitting into between the bands. Plus, it sounds excellent. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 10:40
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I like the albums the way the artist recorded them, but if the song is there and I like it also....Why in hell should I not listen it?
Ivàn ------------- 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 14 2007 at 15:37
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I always listen to the bonus tracks when I listen to an album. Some are excellent (for instance, the Caravan or Jethro Tull remasters), some average, some quite dire (as in the case of Yes - the bonus tracks on "Going for the One" are next to unlistenable). As a whole, I quite approve of them. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 03:18
what the lady said!!! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: seamus
Date Posted: April 17 2007 at 13:29
| Why not?! |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: April 18 2007 at 20:50
| Bonus tracks are greaaaaaaaat |
Posted By: raindance2007
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 05:39
| Of course you listen to them and in some cases bonus tracks are better than songs on the album. If a bonus track is better than a song on the album, then I like to include the bonus track as part of the album session. In some cases if I dislike an album song, I replace it with a bonus track I like and listen to that album with a track listing of the best songs on the remaster whether they are bonus tracks of not |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 07:33
| Yes of course |
Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 08:45
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the option that would best fit me is: yes, the first few times i listen to the album. later on, usually not. -------------  
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 09:23
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I always listen to them the first time through, just to see if they are good, but they usually aren't so I rarely revisit them.
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