Deluxe Albums Are Out Of Control 

Yeah, I would pay for the 5 variations of the same song in the same album, please

@@frds_skce There can be alternate versions of songs that sound completely different from the final product, even some under a different song title. There can be unreleased tracks that could've ended up on the final release but did not, and even versions of songs that sounded better than the final release as well. Compilation albums are the way to go.

@@_PuppetMaster86 @The Hive Productions I jest, but i've seen fair number of actually good compilation album that does include different variation of songs which usually follow the trope of: base song, instrumental, the studio version, and whatever more. But what I would call as shitty move when doing compilation album is that to include every tiny bit of different song that completely change nothing, but the buzzing noise included as its not 'the final product'. The 1st take, 2nd take, all shitty things included. Yes, i'm looking at you, John Lennon's Imagine Ultimate Collection album.

@@frds_skce I disagree with your point for the Imagine Ultimate Collection album as the alternate, stripped down version of “Power To The People” and alternate versions of the song, “Imagine” (with the one that included the keyboard rather than the piano, both with sound like they could've been later Beatles tracks. Same could be said for the studio version of “Gimme Some Truth”. All awesome.

Compilation Deluxes are super cool. Even when deluxes only add a little bit of extra content (Like the Live In Prague tracks from Green Day’s recent 25th Anniversary Edition of Insomniac), it’s still really nice to see a few bonus songs/alternate takes/live versions you haven’t heard before. :)

Disagree IMO, the deluxe tracks sounded nothing like the original album and ruined it. + the original version is nowhere to be found now on streaming and the even removed the "(Deluxe)" from it, making the deluxe edition the only version now. Which is a shame IMO

@@Werfergrad I liked the original on spotify so I still got it lmao

@@buhnana6117 same lol

Wasn’t After Hours deluxe edition released not long after the standard edition, too? The same with Dawn FM, but it only added one original track that was already out for a few months anyways.

@@prettierjesus3119 that was the remixes that were added days after, the actual bonus tracks didn't get added until a week later

😭😭

Relatable asl

this feels specific

This is a pet peeve of mine when I want consistent lastfm scrobbles specifically

interesting about Lorde's album, thanks for the recommendation !

I really like the extent of pure heroine, sucks that Apple Music or Lorde or someone on her idk removed the Deluxe of the album on Apple Music but “the love club” ep is still on there

I only like listening to the original versions of the albums, especially if it's a concept album, so when you add a ton of extra bullshit it's kinda annoying, especially if I can't just listen to the normal one without making a playlist

So just look at the original tracklist on Wikipedia or somewhere and manually stop at the last song

I was laughing so hard at that situation! The cat reaction image I saw on a tweet about it didn't help lmaoooo I was laughing for a whole hour at that cat photo

Ttpd

@@L.NFrog..lmao it’s a lot but you can tell there is care in each song. Also w/ midnights 3am and till dawn I feel like it was cool and a funny bit but yeah I agree it makes it kinda bloated on websites and stuff and it’s all one work annoyingly split.

Lol

I thought you only listen to raditude

should've listened to raditude 10.4146476233 times

epic

@toby wong l + ratio + you can't party + weezer better

I'm surprised he didn't mention both Heartbreak & indigo 😂

Both albums were heat tho💯

Album is fire tho. Should’ve wacked like 20 of those songs on a mixtape

Heartbreak was peak ngl indigo was good but it just felt like a step down from heartbreak

i absolutely LOVE the last 3 tracks on after hours it really brings end to a story

Fax

I honestly liked Until I Bleed Out as the ending, since it kinda implies that he dies at the end of the album. The deluxe tracks are great though, Nothing Compares is one of his best tbh

@@evileye1199 I think Final Lullaby is one of his best, and probably the best on After Hours. It’s kind of weird how much Missed You sucks in comparison, though. Definitely my least favorite track on the album.

@@evileye1199 I see where you’re coming from, but Final Lullaby was such a beautiful outro to me. Nearly made me cry on my first listen.

wouldnt say its deluxe but just an alternate version

plus some albums mix the deluxe songs in with the originals (lookin' at you, WUNNA). sometimes this is actually a good thing (Deante' Hitchcock's album BETTER has way better structure on the deluxe) but often it isn't

This is so true. If all the best songs from donda were released first, then the fillers and pt.2s were the deluxe, everyone would say it was the AOTY

@@bon01_ yup. Every other album review nowadays has “too long” as one of the negative points. Critics absolutely want albums to be in the 10-12 songs range.

For an album without a high concept/concept album and a clear specific artistic vision, I’d say 8-12 tracks is a perfect album length. However, for albums with a lot of ground to cover within a certain concept, and/or the artist wants to explore many aspects of their artistic vision, I will always be willing to sit through 15-18 tracks, or even a bit more (if it’s good of course, lol). It just depends on the album. For instance, I really enjoy This Is It by The Strokes, and that’s 11 tracks. But some of my favorite albums of all time are ones with solid concepts that take longer than 8-12 tracks to achieve the best version. Some of my favorites are Wild World (Complete Edition) by Bastille (19 tracks; 1 hr 6 min), Trench by Twenty One Pilots (14 tracks; 56 min 9 sec), and Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons (13 songs; 50 min 51 sec). The length of tracks is also an important distinguishing factor between shorter and longer albums-as you can see, Trench is only 10 minutes shorter than Wild World, despite Wild World having 5 more tracks than it. I also consider Wild World (Complete Edition) to be the definitive edition of that album, while not considering the deluxe edition of Smoke + Mirrors as such, as it has some bonus tracks from the S+M sessions, and singles released 1-2 years before the album released. WW includes 5 “bonus tracks” in the Complete Edition, but those further add to and complete the album, especially The Anchor. The band must have thought so too, as it’s called Complete rather than Deluxe. All this is personal opinion, though. Some people aren’t big into listening to long albums (or unfortunately albums in general), so they’d probably want shorter albums. I’d love to hear what y’all think! 😄 (Wow, I did not mean to type a short essay when I started this comment LOL. I could talk about music all day, but I’ll stop here! Thanks for reading this if you did-Cheers!)

Life of the Party is a future classic but the other deluxe songs are not memorable

Best song I ever heard lowkey

@@kingvirus1472 people always forgetting up from the ashes god tier gospel song no pun intended

Donda sucks

@@joebidenjr5902 music is subjective but everyone is entitled to there own opinion I personally think it may not be his best work but it certainly has good tracks and some amazing production

the fact we got most of the missing songs from crystal ball dream factory and camille was incredible just wish it was organized a little better

@LARRAY 🅥 no its not

Nails is such a great band man

they must be stopped~

@@onlysmallbites you should really try them out. Listen to their album unsilent death

@@hazardousenvironmentspart0540 he never said anything about whether he’s listened to them or not

Plus we got Noel fucking Gallagher on a Damon Albarn song

Enter Humanz: Super Deluxe

@@d.i.y.a.b the worst deluxe

@@jared_seymour bro what

The deluxe edition was great I love Ticker Tape and Halfway To The Halfway House The super deluxe also hold some gems that I feel get little to no attention from the fans

Was literally about to comment this; so fuckinng insane how much they sell for on eBay because they don’t do new presses for vinyl

NINETY TWO SONGS WHAT THE FUCK

@@MortanAMrk that's nothing compared to some of the beach boys deluxe edition box sets, Pet Sounds for example has well over 200 songs.

@@mr.froglegs Jesus christ I had no idea about that

@@harperchampney9153 yea, its collection of all the various pieces they used to create the album. Every single individual piano part, all the vocal harmonies, the instrumentals. It's wild (wild expensively more like it lmao)

That is kinda cool ngl

removing Ye verse is an L

removing Kanye's verse on Blessings is a weird move imo

In the case of Circles, I think it works a lot like After Hours, where both endings work for the albums, but 1 isn't better than the other. The standard edition, to me it feels like Mac's career, incomplete and over too soon. There's a reason the last chord is unresolved, leaving the album without a true ending. While the Deluxe edition ending on Floating, which feels almost ghostly, ends up being that final goodbye and that everything's gonna be okay in the end. At least that's my own interpretation, it also helps that I consider both deluxe songs to be among the best on the album and it would be a shame if we never got them.

The gkmc remixes are better than the og

Gkmc remix’s were better?

I prefer different covers just so that when I see the album in peoples' topsters I can tell if they mean the "og" version or the deluxe version.

That’s a good thing in my opinion

That first deluxe was awful though

it annoys me though, bc it’s implied that the protagonist of After Hours dies at the end of the standard version.

@@internet-gf the protagonists does die in until I’m bleeding out. That part of him dies the moment he starts to move on. Just like In dawn fm the Weeknd creates a universe with his albums, but he also makes muziek about his own experience’s. The moment he breaks the circle of missing her and than partying the pain away, is the moment the character dies. The other 3 tracks are the Weeknd himself looking back at the situation, looking back at that now dead part of himself as he lets go. The delux tracks are the rolling credits of the movie. At least that is my theory

Damn this sounds like a huge influence from 808s and Heartbreak

I gotta give that one a listen, SWNT is crazy underrated as it is

@@chrispadilla4027 yeah man it's great. You listened to the new single?

yeah, i remember when i first listened to adventure it was the deluxe edition bc it was the only one on spotify - i genuinely didn't realise it was and thought all of the tracks were intended to be played in that order and i didn't question it at all.