Do you remember back in the day when alongside a music album selected tracks would be sold singly and played on radio stations and have music videos made for them? And do you remember that these single songs released from the album would also have extra tracks not available on the album as a way to encourage you to buy them because if it was just the same as the album why wouldn't you just buy the album?
Well if you do remember that then you are one of the few because no longer do singles contain additional tracks, or if they do they contain a 'Radio Edit'. Why the feck would I want to pay money to hear a track already on the album I've purchased and then an edited and butchered version of that same track? The answer is that nothing would ever make me want to do that.
Take Muse's Plug In Baby single from their 2001 album Origin Of Symmetry. It contains the following tracks.
- Plug In Baby
- Nature_1
- Execution Commentary
- Spiral Static
- Bedroom Acoustics
Now look at their Undisclosed Desires single from their 2009 album The Resistance. It contains.
- Undisclosed Desires
- Undisclosed Desires Radio Edit.
I know which I'd sooner purchase.
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