HAPPYPERSON said:

This is the biggest bunch of bullshit EVER! Get your shit right the FIRST TIME and there won't be any need for a RE-Release and fans gettin' duped TWICE, no less. Pisses me OFF!!! Seems 2b a pattern for Mrs. Carter. :-O

Let's not act brand new. You do realize that re-releases have been a common industry practice for about 15 years; so common that even veteran acts regularly do it. I laugh at the dramatic overreaction just because it's Beyonce doing this time, as if she's being devious or something. Next month it could be U2. Would you bang your head against the pavement and cry foul then too? It's not Obamacare, you won't have to buy it.

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Qazz said:

Let's not act brand new. You do realize that re-releases are beyond a common practice now; so common that even veteran acts regularly do it. I laugh at the dramatic overreaction just because it's Beyonce doing this time. Next month it could be U2. Would you bang your head against the pavement then?

Actually, I LOVE Beyonce. I just don't love the need to re-release the same album twice with added guests. It's not fair and it de-values the first release and undermines the position of the consumers who bought it 2 begin with and whom are, as usual, "stuck" with it. Beyonce is a breath of fresh air to the music industry and to R&B. It's the labels that perpetuate the rip-off antics.

Obviously fake. All that can't even fit on one CD and "Good in Good Bye" ROFL

Either way, a re-release has been rumoured for a while but Lord knows what would be added other than the "***Flawless" remix.

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fucking please GAWD, BUDDHA, Rasta man in heaven. I've had to endure her fuckign self title album. The gay men and ''feminist'' women at my work play the album to death. And i mean they played it like 7-10 times throughout the day. While talking about how flawless and GOD like Beyonce was.

I mean i'm sure gay men will be happy. But the rest of us will hide our ears in fear ear herpes has never sounded so nasty.

These tracklist photos are always fake. Seriously, what record label would send out an internal "track list" (in Microsoft Word)...

whitechocolatebrotha said:

Qazz said:

Let's not act brand new. You do realize that re-releases are beyond a common practice now; so common that even veteran acts regularly do it. I laugh at the dramatic overreaction just because it's Beyonce doing this time. Next month it could be U2. Would you bang your head against the pavement then?

Actually, I LOVE Beyonce. I just don't love the need to re-release the same album twice with added guests. It's not fair and it de-values the first release and undermines the position of the consumers who bought it 2 begin with and whom are, as usual, "stuck" with it. Beyonce is a breath of fresh air to the music industry and to R&B. It's the labels that perpetuate the rip-off antics.

Other than her first album, when has she never re-released an album? It's not that unusual for her.

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proud to say i have never bought a re-release. its greedy and lazy imo, people already bought the albumnow you gonna throw 2 or 3 new songs on there and put it out again. why not just go in the studio and record a new album.

lowkey said:

proud to say i have never bought a re-release. its greedy and lazy imo, people already bought the albumnow you gonna throw 2 or 3 new songs on there and put it out again. why not just go in the studio and record a new album.

I agree.It's nothing more than a lazy marketing gimmick.Instead of making a new album,these artists just want to fool their fans into buying the same album (with some bonus tracks) again.

SoulAlive said:

lowkey said:

proud to say i have never bought a re-release. its greedy and lazy imo, people already bought the albumnow you gonna throw 2 or 3 new songs on there and put it out again. why not just go in the studio and record a new album.

I agree.It's nothing more than a lazy marketing gimmick.Instead of making a new album,these artists just want to fool their fans into buying the same album (with some bonus tracks) again.

Who started this nonsense? The King of Pop?

Graycap23 said:

SoulAlive said:

I agree.It's nothing more than a lazy marketing gimmick.Instead of making a new album,these artists just want to fool their fans into buying the same album (with some bonus tracks) again.

Who started this nonsense? The King of Pop?

The earliest example I can think of is the re-release of the Pointer Sisters album Breakout in 1984 after it had been first released in 1983. It had already had done well in terms of sales (platinum) and singles. The re-released album added I'm So Excited which itself had already been released two years earlier. The reemergence of the song pushed the album to double platinum. The reason for the song being given a second chance was that it began receiving airplay by radio stations and the suits at the Pointer Sisters label suggested adding the song to a new version of the Breakout album.

UnderMySun said:

The earliest example I can think of is the re-release of the Pointer Sisters album Breakout in 1984 after it had been first released in 1983. It had already had done well in terms of sales (platinum) and singles. The re-released album added I'm So Excited which itself had already been released two years earlier. The reemergence of the song pushed the album to double platinum. The reason for the song being given a second chance was that it began receiving airplay by radio stations and the suits at the Pointer Sisters label suggested adding the song to a new version of the Breakout album.

Vanilla Ice released an album called Hooked in 1989. Not long after, it was re-released with some songs added to it as To The Extreme which became a big hit and sold over 10 million copies in the US. Rick Rubin remixed a Geto Boys album, and it was also re-released under a different title. It's not exactly the same thing, but in the 1960s some albums had stereo and mono versions. On The Beatles white album, some of the mono versions were different. Helter Skelter is about a minute shorter on the mono album. There's also the case where songs were mixed differently on the earlier copies (Off The Wall), but weren't packaged as a different album on later pressings. Album covers have changed too (Slippery When Wet, Appetite For Destruction). In the 1980s, the cassette version of an album sometimes had extra songs added to it that were not on the LP.

UnderMySun said:

Graycap23 said:

Who started this nonsense? The King of Pop?

The earliest example I can think of is the re-release of the Pointer Sisters album Breakout in 1984 after it had been first released in 1983. It had already had done well in terms of sales (platinum) and singles. The re-released album added I'm So Excited which itself had already been released two years earlier. The reemergence of the song pushed the album to double platinum. The reason for the song being given a second chance was that it began receiving airplay by radio stations and the suits at the Pointer Sisters label suggested adding the song to a new version of the Breakout album.

I don't think a brand new album with one old hit attached to it is the same as one old album with a brand new hit attached to it. I am sure there are a lot of albums through the 1950s upward that included an old hit with a new album.

MickyDolenz said:

Helter Skelter is about a minute shorter on the mono album.

I didn't notice that!

MickyDolenz said:

In the 1980s, the cassette version of an album sometimes had extra songs added to it that were not on the LP.

Walking With A Panther comes to mind: two bonus tracks on the CD , and four bonus tracks on the cassette.

I seem to recall Boyz II Men re-releasing 1991's Cooleyhighharmony in 1993 because "End Of The Road" was such a gigantic hit but could only be found on 1992's Boomerang soundtrack.

Cinny said:

I seem to recall Boyz II Men re-releasing 1991's Cooleyhighharmony in 1993 because "End Of The Road" was such a gigantic hit but could only be found on 1992's Boomerang soundtrack.

The second version had a different album cover and it had some remixes too. It's kind of a album & remix album put together.

MickyDolenz said:

Cinny said:

I seem to recall Boyz II Men re-releasing 1991's Cooleyhighharmony in 1993 because "End Of The Road" was such a gigantic hit but could only be found on 1992's Boomerang soundtrack.

The second version had a different album cover and it had some remixes too. It's kind of a album & remix album put together.

That's right. All I know is I had Cooleyhighharmony original version, 1992's East Coast Family compilation (which had the remixes), and the Boomerang soundtrack, so I didn't pick it up.

Cinny said:

MickyDolenz said:

Helter Skelter is about a minute shorter on the mono album.

I didn't notice that!

On the stereo version, it fades out and then fades back in. Then Ringo yells about blisters. The mono doesn't come back on after the fadeout. I found that out from when I used to listen to Breakfast With The Beatles. The show would also play songs that had not been released at the time.

Cinny said:

MickyDolenz said:

The second version had a different album cover and it had some remixes too. It's kind of a album & remix album put together.

That's right. All I know is I had Cooleyhighharmony original version, 1992's East Coast Family compilation (which had the remixes), and the Boomerang soundtrack, so I didn't pick it up.

I never had the original. I bought the Japanese version, which is similar to the re-released version.

MickyDolenz said:

Cinny said:

I didn't notice that!

On the stereo version, it fades out and then fades back in. Then Ringo yells about blisters. The mono doesn't come back on after the fadeout. I found that out from when I used to listen to Breakfast With The Beatles. The show would also play songs that had not been released at the time.

I am used to the stereo version, as that was the copy my mom had (it's mine now! ) but I picked up the Mono box set on CD and I didn't notice that! I mostly listen to disc one of White Album though.

take a year off

badujunkie said:

take a year off

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Takeawhaa??? Now, you know that's another language for that girl

Beyonce Announces Platinum Edition Box Set
November 04


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Identity said:

Beyonce Announces Platinum Edition Box Set
November 04


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