Different versions of CD's (US edition etc)

[soundstory]

[quote][i]Originally posted by bruiser[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Lazlo Nibble[/i]
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I'm pretty sure some CD versions of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's [i]Flaunt It[/i] have different inter-ad tracks than others, but can't confirm it.
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i am not sure about the ads, although that is ringing a bell. i DO remember a difference in samples from movies in the songs though: the UK album had the real samples, the US album had them done by voice actors/impersonators.

i think. am i high?
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you are right 100%

[soundstory]

the Divinyls albums, What A Life & Temperamental had very different teacklists between the UK & Australian issues

[Spudboy]

Icicle Works debut album: different cover and tracklisting for the US version.

Still looking for my girl with auburn hair and tawny eyes...

[humanracer]

"Some early digital recording & playback equipment, including CD players, used 14-bit converters, even though they were dealing with 16-bit audio. Some also used noisy "brick wall" filters to remove frequencies higher than the Nyquist frequency (22050 Hz). The resulting noise introduced by these converters and filters could be made relatively quiet by using pre-emphasis: boosting the signal (especially the higher frequencies) in the recording before it was put onto CD, and embedding flags in the disc's subcode to tell a CD player to apply de-emphasis on playback. Some CD players even had a de-emphasis button that could be used to manually apply de-emphasis, but now it's just a built-in feature of the analog outputs of nearly all dedicated audio CD players. By the late 1980s, pre-emphasis stopped being used because reliable 16-bit DACs with oversampling and other technologies minimized the conversion & filtering noise without the need for pre-processing the recording.

Most major-label CDs with pre-emphasis were manufactured in Japan in the early and mid-1980s. Relatively recent forum posts indicates that pre-emphasis is still used on newly manufactured CDs by some indie labels, mainly for classical titles. "

[jaybag]

A couple I can think of:
- The U.S. version of the S/T When In Rome CD had only ten tracks, not twelve, as "Big City" and "Whatever the Weather" only appeared on the UK release. The worst thing was the version I purchased LISTED all 12 songs on the back cover but only included the 10. Oddly those two extra tracks aren't even included on the UK version of the iTunes album, so they must be pretty rare.
- The U.S. version of the Boys Don't Cry second album "Who the Am Dam do You Think We Am" had only 9 tracks while the UK version had 13, including an instrumental entitled "The Cure" (a joke on the fact that everyone thought they took their name from the famous Cure song).

[Sean]

I was lucky enough to get the When In Rome that listed the 12 tracks and had all 12. Those two tracks weren't anything to write home about but they were cool to have nonetheless.