Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Changing Medium ... Changing Playlists

Changing Medium ... Changing Playlists

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Music: Music Catch-Basin: Changing Medium ... Changing Playlists

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By Derf on Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 7:56 am:

I have recently "upgraded" my cassette collection of "Elton John's Greatest Hits" and "Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol. II" to CD's and was shocked to find that some of the playlists were changed from cassette to CD!

Vol. II's cassette playlist:
1. The ••••• Is Back
2. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
3. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
4. Don't Go Breaking My Heart
5. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
6. Philadelphia Freedom
7. Island Girl
8. Grow Some Funk Of Your Own
9. Levon
10. Pinball Wizard

Vol. II's CD playlist:
1. The ••••• Is Back
2. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
3. Tiny Dancer
4. I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)
5. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
6. Philadelphia Freedom
7. Island Girl
8. Grow Some Funk Of Your Own
9. Levon
10. Pinball Wizard

There are two possible explanations for this switch:
1. The record company MCA produced the cassette version several years ago. The recent CD I purchased was produced by Polydor. A conflict of interest might have been the reason for the switch.
2. Elton John, in the intervening years between the cassette and CD had those two hit songs that were BIGGER hits than the cassette songs, and the new record company decided that replacing them was the appropriate thing to do.

In any case, I'm left with two songs that DIDN'T make it to CD! Has anyone else had problems like mine when trying to "trade up" to CD?

By Todd Pence on Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 6:45 pm:

On some double live albums a track was eliminated in the original CD version (two examples that come to mind are Rush's Exit Stage Left and Uriah Heep Live '73). However, recent remastered versions of those two albums at least have corrected the problem.