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    Posted: July 15 2005 at 18:17


I bought this album a couple of weeks ago, and decided to check the archives for what other people had thought of it.

Surprisingly, I saw that the version on here had more songs on it than the version I have, my version does not have 11-15 on it, stopping at Giving to You.

Also looking at the total time of 33:54, I noticed that this has to be incorrect for the version on your site, and would be closer to the version that I own - where counting only the minutes (all seconds rounded down for simplicity) for the first 10 songs - the ones on the album I own - comes to 30 min.

Is there 2 different versions of this album, or is it just a discrepency?
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Obviously you did not get the latest remaster version but the first version of the album without any bonus tracks.

Allthough the main interest is still yhe album (which had Giving To You as a closer), the bonus tracks are taken from non-album singles . They(Traffic) released a whole bunch of those back in those years as the industry was really pushing that format nit being sure the Album format was yet all that interesing commercially speaking, as it was probably more profitable to sell seven separate singles than one 14 track album. Some of those singles were quite neat "tunes" but most not coming close to to some of the album highlights such as the title track.

In general, it is always better to look for the remastered version which for obvious reasons (there are notable exception to this ) sound better. The bonus tracks in Traffic's case are usually interesting but sometimes not - as is the case of alternate versions/takes , live versions or left-overs from those sessions.
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 18 2005 at 03:51
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Obviously you did not get the latest remaster version but the first version of the album without any bonus tracks.

Allthough the main interest is still yhe album (which had Giving To You as a closer), the bonus tracks are taken from non-album singles . They(Traffic) released a whole bunch of those back in those years as the industry was really pushing that format nit being sure the Album format was yet all that interesing commercially speaking, as it was probably more profitable to sell seven separate singles than one 14 track album. Some of those singles were quite neat "tunes" but most not coming close to to some of the album highlights such as the title track.

In general, it is always better to look for the remastered version which for obvious reasons (there are notable exception to this ) sound better. The bonus tracks in Traffic's case are usually interesting but sometimes not - as is the case of alternate versions/takes , live versions or left-overs from those sessions.

So it has been re-released with bonus tracks? Good to know. Thanks.
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Well what should be done?  Should I add another Mr. Fantasy?


PS. My copy is a CD version, didn't most record companies always add tracks to them when they were new so that people would be tempted into buying them?
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Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Obviously you did not get the latest remaster version but the first version of the album without any bonus tracks.

Allthough the main interest is still yhe album (which had Giving To You as a closer), the bonus tracks are taken from non-album singles . They(Traffic) released a whole bunch of those back in those years as the industry was really pushing that format nit being sure the Album format was yet all that interesing commercially speaking, as it was probably more profitable to sell seven separate singles than one 14 track album. Some of those singles were quite neat "tunes" but most not coming close to to some of the album highlights such as the title track.

In general, it is always better to look for the remastered version which for obvious reasons (there are notable exception to this ) sound better. The bonus tracks in Traffic's case are usually interesting but sometimes not - as is the case of alternate versions/takes , live versions or left-overs from those sessions.

So it has been re-released with bonus tracks? Good to know. Thanks.

Almost all historical Traffic albums have been re-released and remastered. Until Low Sparks. But only the first two have a lots of bonus tracks (Barleycorn too , actually)

Still waiting for Shootout and Eagle Flies and On The Road, though!
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