Pitchfork reveals that a 25th anniversary edition of The Velvet Rope, Janet's landmark 1997 album, will be released on streaming. October 7. The new edition comes with two rarities, “Accept Me” and “God’s Stepchild,” as well as 13 remixes, many of which are streaming for the first time. Several videos from the album will also be remastered for the release.

"God's Stepchild" was the Japanese bonus track, with "Can't Be Stopped" embedded within. "Can't Be Stopped" was embedded in "Special" on the US edition.

There was an Australian tour edition released with the album, and a bonus disk with 5 remixes, all of which appear on this release.

Component 1:

01 Interlude: Twisted Elegance
02 Velvet Rope [ft. Vanessa-Mae]
03 You
04 Got ’Til It’s Gone [ft. Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell]
05 Interlude: Speaker Phone
06 My Need
07 Interlude: Fasten Your Seatbelts
08 Go Deep
09 Free Xone
10 Interlude: Memory
11 Together Again
12 Interlude: Online
13 Empty
14 Interlude: Full
15 What About
16 Every Time
17 Tonight’s the Night
18 I Get Lonely
19 Rope Burn
20 Anything
21 Interlude: Sad
22 Special
23 Can’t Be Stopped
24 Accept Me (Bonus Track)
25 God’s Stepchild (Bonus Track)

Component 2:

01 I Get Lonely (TNT Remix Edit) [ft. Blackstreet]
02 Got ’Til It’s Gone (Ummah Jay Dee’s Revenge Mix)
03 Go Deep (Timbaland/Missy Remix) [ft. Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott]
04 Together Again (Jimmy Jam Deeper Mix)
05 Every Time (Jam & Lewis Disco Mix)
06 I Get Lonely (Jam & Lewis Feel My Bass Mix)
07 Got ’Til It’s Gone (David Morales & Frankie Knuckles Def Club Mix)
08 Together Again (Tony Moran 12" Club Mix)
09 Go Deep (Masters at Work Thunder Mix)
10 Together Again (Tony Humphries Club Mix Edit)
11 I Get Lonely (Jason vs. Janet the Club Remix)
12 Go Deep (Masters at Work Vocal Deep Disco Dub)
13 Got ’Til It’s Gone (Armand Van Helden Bonus Beats)

Just because, here are the samples used on the album.

• "Velvet Rope" samples "Hobo Scratch" by Malcolm McLaren and The World Famous Supreme Team and "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield.
• "You" samples "The Cisco Kid" by War.
• "Got 'til It's Gone" samples "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell.
• "My Need" samples "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross and "You're All I Need to Get By" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
• "Free Xone" samples "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins, "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell & the Drells, and "Joyous" by Pleasure.

[Edited 10/4/22 10:29am]

I'm happy for some of the new(ish) stuff but she has historically ignored the Got Til Its Gone remixes. Idk why they're so good, the other Ummah mix, the Nellee Hooper mix and the full Armand Van Helden mix. Nice to get Frankie & David's mix finally though!

Years ago, around 2001 (after All For You had come out), I had started a project to collect all the remixes to that point, and do a big multi-disk compilation to share. I had done my best to list all the remixes of her songs through All For You.

It was a huge project, and it never quite got off the ground as I wanted.

The remixes for "Got 'Til It's Gone" I had listed were:


Got Till It's Gone
No QTip 3.51
No Rap 3.38
Instrumental 4.49
Original Extended Version 5.31
Mellow Mix 5.11
Mellow Mix Edit 3.51
Nellee Nooper Master Mix 4.18
Ummah Jay dee's revence mix 3.45
Ummah's Uptown Saturday Night Mix 4.23
Armand Van Helden Speedy Garage Mix 9.11
Armand Van Helden Bonus Beats 5.05
Def Club Mix 10.53
Def Club Mix UK Edit 5.12
Def Radio Mix 3.18
Def The Bass Mix 9.12
Def Instrumental 8.44
Morales My Club Mix 7.48
Morales Drum & Beats remix 3.52
Morales drum, bass, & beats remix 3.52
Morales Classic Club Mix w/ Intro 10.11
Morales Classic Club Mix 8.48
Morales Classic Club Radio Mix 3.54

In my vinyl, I have this 12" of mixes.

Thanks for the information.

If not mistaken "Accept Me" was not released on the Japanese (by the way, I'm happy of the latest release "Janet Japanese Singles Collection") edtion.

Not fond of remixes despite those on the "Got ’Til It’s Gone" EP & from another album: "Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)" EP.

[Edited 10/5/22 1:47am]

The Janet bias is astounding.

2freaky said:

The Janet bias is astounding.

It's literally a thread about her, so....

Ramzoo said: