User:Tedster41/Ted's B-Side Guide

Hello! If you've navigated your way here, which you seem to have, welcome! This is basically a public sandbox for me to show you something I work on in my spare time. That being finding all of the bonus tracks and little tidbits that didn't make it to an album, and instead appeared as a B-side or possibly an outtake that would be released years later. The main use of this page is to show you, yes, you, the bonus tracks, the b-sides and the outtakes from your my favourite albums, and how they can be arranged into a neat little tracklist alongside them. Crucially, this does not discuss external remixes (remixes made by artists other than the song's original creator) because the line between official and unofficial remixes is very blurred. Live versions (including when they are used as b-sides) are also excluded for similar reasons; the amount of live bootlegs out there makes it pointless to try and collect all the live versions of a certain song. This page also has a couple album concepts (e.g. vinyl editions and compilations).

However, in all honesty, what are the chances of you reading this? Obviously you are, but... you might be one of the only people on this Earth to read this. While I do say this is to show other people B-sides and so on, and it is, it's also because I just want to show those tracklists with all the joys of Wikipedia's formatting. But since you're here, have a good read. You might find an album you like somewhere in here, you never know.

Right, enough existentialism, let's get down to business.

Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman

Underworld are a favourite of mine. I've even made a userbox for them. Their first (and greatest) album of the Mk II era, dubnobasswithmyheadman, is an astounding piece of work, and even though it only contains a measly nine songs, the journey that those songs take you on is extraordinary. One other extraordinary thing about this album is the amount of B-sides from it, because holy hell there's a lot of them. Lemme show you.

CD 1: Main Album

Same old album, nothing new. Go on to it's actual page if you wanna see the tracklist.

CD 2: 1991-1993

Now the fun begins. These are miscellaneous B-sides released during the album's production.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Mother Earth" (or M.E., as it's known on the album; FM Mix)	"Mother Earth" / "The Hump" single, 1991/2	5:45
2.	"The Hump" (Wild Beasts; honestly I think this would have felt at home on the album)	"Mother Earth" / "The Hump" single, 1991/2	6:25
3.	"The Hump" (Groove Without a Doubt)	"Mother Earth" / "The Hump" single, 1991/2	8:54
4.	"Mmm… Skyscraper, I Love You" (Jam Scraper)	"Mmm… Skyscraper, I Love You" single, 1993	9:14
5.	"Mmm… Skyscraper, I Love You" (Telegraph 6.11.92)	"Mmm… Skyscraper, I Love You" single, 1993	7:09
6.	"Spikee"	"Spikee" / "Dogman Go Woof" single, 1993	12:33
7.	"Dogman Go Woof"	"Spikee" / "Dogman Go Woof" single, 1993	12:15
Total length:			62:06

CD 3: "Dirty Epic" / "Cowgirl"

This is an officially released single... sort of. The final track on the original single, "River of Bass" was just a cut from the album. The other B-side (of many) on this single, Rez, in itself had a B-side (yeah you get used to this kind of behaviour eventually), called "Why, Why, Why". This never had an 'official' release until 2012, on the 1992–2012 collection. Including it on the end of the single instead of "River of Bass" (as they likely intended) pushes us just a smidge over the edge of the Red Book CD limit. However, if this collection were actually to be released now, one of the other B-sides, "Dirty" would appear in a shortened version. Why? Because copyright sampling blah blah blah boring. This shortened version would keep us under the limit. So for the sake of keeping this disc PG (playable goodness), we're going to assume the shortened version is included, even though it removes the second best bit of the song.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Dirty Epic" (Dirty Guitar Mix)	White label release, 1992	10:00
2.	"Dirty Epic" (Dirty Mix)	Lemon Interupt ─ "Dirty" / "Minniapolis", 1992	10:18
3.	"Dirty Guitar" (Album Version)	Not actually the album version; “Dirty Epic” single, 1994	9:52
4.	"Cowgirl" (Irish Pub in Kyoto Mix)	"Cowgirl" single, 1994	11:45
5.	"Cowgirl" (Winjer Mix)	"Cowgirl" single, 1994	6:25
6.	"Cowgirl" (Album Version)	Not actually the album version; "Cowgirl" single, 1994	8:57
7.	"Rez"	"Rez" / "Why, Why, Why" single, 1993	9:57
8.	"Why, Why, Why"	"Rez" / "Why, Why, Why" single, 1993	12:16
Total length:			79:31 (80:27)

CDs 4 & 5: Dark & Long

Yes. You read that correctly. Two CDs for all of the self-made 'remixes' of this one song. To some people, this is a single. To some people, likely because each 'remix' of the song is literally just an entirely different song with maybe one element from the original, this is an EP. To people who actually look at the total duration of this whole fiasco, a little under two hours, it's a double album. I'm in the double album camp. Why? Take a look at this tracklist and you'll see why.

Note: the remix titles are just going to be the titles of the songs for the sake of easy reading, and also because they're nothing like the original "Dark & Long"

CD 4

1. "Dark & Long" – 7:37
2. "Dark Train" – 9:51
3. "Most 'Ospitable" – 5:53
4. "215 Miles" – 20:02

CD 5

1. "Thing in a Book" – 20:14
2. "Spoon Deep" – 17:59
3. "Dark Hard" – 11:34
4. "Burts" – 8:47
5. "Second Hand" – 9:01 (originally appeared on "Café Del Mar (Ibiza)", and is basically a remix of "Thing in a Book")

And that's the B-sides. All 4 CDs of them. However, there's still a little bit missing. Sure there's the rarities disc on the 20th anniversary re-release of the album (see the page for that), but even then, there's a couple outtakes missing. "The Big Meat Show", which first appeared officially on the 1992─2012 collection, an extended version of "River of Bass" on an early DAT that was discovered to either be a sampler of their music or an early version of the album, and a 17 minute remix of "Cowgirl" from the era, eventually released in 2021. Oh, and an unfathomable amount of live bootlegs. Trust me, there's a lot. If you do want a quick taste of the madness that would come about at Underworld gigs, listen to the version of Rez/Cowgirl played at Reading Festival in 1996. But that's enough about Underworld, let's move over to another band for a little bit, shall we?

Space Manoeuvres - Oid

I've typed that name so many times that I can spell 'manoeuvres' without a moment's thought. Anyway, this album was released in 2005, and the first single from it was released in... 1999?! Fine, electronic artists are weird like that. Space Manoeuvres is an alias of John Graham, who made a name for himself under the Quivver alias, and as a member of the band Tilt, although he would leave the band in 1999 to focus on his own works, like this belated album. So, what's on it? Well, a bunch of deep progressive trance, what the man is known for. What is interesting, however, is the fact that each song has a reference to a number. It starts with "Zero Downtime", then "Stage One", then "Zone Two", and so on. The reason I bring this up is because the album goes up to seven, but then, on a separate EP of remixes of songs from this album, a new track called "Moonbase Nine" appears. Alright but... where did eight go? It's usually nine that gets skipped, but not in this case. So put "Moonbase Nine" on the album? Yeah. Bit of a gap with eight, but whatever. That's how it was for three years, until in 2008 (once again rather late), when "Octobot" was released. Finally! The missing piece. Now I can complete my tracklist.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Zero Downtime"		0:48
2.	"Stage One"	"Stage One" single, 1999	8:03
3.	"Zone Two"		7:47
4.	"Part Three"		9:33
5.	"Quadrant Four" (Original Vocal Mix)	"Quadrant Four" single, 2004	9:23
6.	"Pentexplorer"		6:16
7.	"Division Six"		8:31
8.	"The Seventh Planet" (Leama and Moor Remix)		7:52
9.	"Octobot"	"Octobot" single, 2008	8:00
10.	"Moonbase Nine"	"Factoid" EP, 2005	6:38
Total length:			72:51

Alright, so that's the album. What about the B-sides? Well, “Stage One”, as it appeared here, is the "Separation Mix". Graham would also make a "Total Separation Mix" in '99, which is a more breakbeat version of the original. There was also a "Breaks Mix" of "Part Three" and an instrumental version of "Quadrant Four", which makes sense given the fact that the version here is the "Original Vocal Mix". There was also one other original track, titled "Pluto Disko", released in 2002. And other than remixes, that's it. Nothing else was released under the Space Manoeuvres name.

The Prodigy - Experience

This is going to be a quick stop, mainly because The Prodigy's already covered most of the bases with their own 'Expanded' bonus disc of B-sides from this album. However, there are some tracks missing. Unfortunately, not all of them will fit on a CD, so we're going to have to go without the tracklist. Instead, just a standard bullet-point list.

The tracks missing from the 'Expanded' disc are:

What Evil Lurks EP

• "What Evil Lurks"
• "We Gonna Rock"
• "Android" (not present on copies outside the UK)
• "Everybody in the Place" (Original)
• and an assortment of early tracks found on demo tapes ("Oz", "Manic", "Dr Zupan")

"Charly" single

• "Pandemonium"
• "Charly" (Original Mix)

"Everybody in the Place" single

• "Rip Up the Sound System"

"Fire" / "Jericho" single

• "Fire" (Bonfire Version, although an edit of this does appear)

Alright, let's move straight on.

Paul McCartney - McCartney II

This is my favourite McCartney album. Not in the McCartney series, but my favourite album released by Macca ever. I suppose that also makes it my favourite in the McCartney series also. Paul's sonic experiments produced a rather lot of music, and while his record company eventually convinced him to make a single LP album, his original intentions was for the album to be a double album. As a double album, the tracklist would look a little something like this:

Side one

1. "Front Parlour" – 5:15
2. "Frozen Jap" – 5:43
3. "All You Horse Riders" – 3:53
4. "Blue Sway" – 6:31

Side two

1. "Temporary Secretary" – 3:14
2. "On the Way" – 3:38
3. "Mr H. Atom" – 2:23
4. "Summer's Day Song" – 3:25
5. "You Know I'll Get You Baby" – 3:32
6. "Bogey Wobble" – 2:59

Side three

1. "Darkroom" – 3:45
2. "One of These Days" – 3:35
3. "Secret Friend" – 10:31
4. "Bogey Music" – 3:27

Side four

1. "Check My Machine" – 8:58
2. "Waterfalls" – 4:43
3. "Nobody Knows" – 2:52
4. "Coming Up" – 5:34

Pretty hefty collection, clocking in at over our Red Book CD limit of 80 minutes (horrifying, I know). As previously mentioned, Paul's label weren't a big fan of the record, and asked for it to be edited down. Many tracks were dropped, and others were edited. So now, we get to play the game in reverse. With all the cards at the table, we get to ask, where do they get dealt to?

Well, "Secret Friend" and "Check My Machine" would be bound to the B-side realm, "Check My Machine" being edited in the process. "All You Horse Riders", "Blue Sway", "Mr H. Atom", "You Know I'll Get You Baby" and "Bogey Wobble" would be left unreleased, and the remaining tracks would be jigged around (and some edited) until the album felt right. I personally think Paul made some very good choices as to what to drop and what to not, leaving the album with no duds at all! (oh and before you ask, yes I do like "Temporary Secretary", maybe it's because of my electronic taste, but I just do). However, I think "Blue Sway" being dropped was a bad move. It should have either made it to the album as an edited instrumental adjacent (there are some vocals, but they're not exactly verse-chorus) or been the B-side of "Temporary Secretary" instead of "Secret Friend", which I think shouldn't have been released. Even so, it's not about my opinion, is it?

And as one last mention, the Christmas classic "Wonderful Christmastime" was made in these sessions and released before the album, but since it's a Christmas song it half counts because you'd only want to listen to it at Christmas.

Chicane - Far From the Maddening Crowds

This is another quick stop as all of the tracks I'm about to mention won't fit on a single disc. Chicane's debut album, Far From the Maddening Crowds, is my all-time favourite trance album. Everything about it screams Ibiza, or as the English pronounce it, IBEEEFAA! There's a great mix of ambient, trance and breakbeat to make a truly amazing album, but Chicane had been up to a lot more outside of his first album. So what else was there?

Nick Bracegirdle's first work was with his friend Leo Elstob, with whom he made the track "Right Here Right Now" under the name Disco Citizens, which would reach #40 on the UK Top Charts. After this, Bracegirdle would go solo under the Chicane name and release two EPs, Cyanide Music Volume One and Offshore, the titular track from the latter being released as a single in late 1996. "Offshore" would be remixed by Disco Citizens to be more suited to nightclubs, and was a success there and in the charts, reaching #14 on the UK Top Charts. While the original version of "Offshore" would find its way onto the album, other songs from the EPs would not.

After this, Chicane would release "Sunstroke", which would also receive a Disco Citizens club update. Both the original and Disco Citizens remix would appear on the album, although the "White Mix", an alternate version of the track present on the single, would not. A mashup of "Offshore" with "A Little Love, a Little Life" by Power Circle created by DJ Anthony Pappa would then be released as "Offshore '97". This would appear on the album instead of the un-mashed Disco Citizens Remix of "Offshore".

Meanwhile, over in Disco Citizens land, Leo Elstob had left, making Disco Citizens another Bracegirdle solo project. Instead of abandoning it, he decided to release a new single under the name in '96 called "Footprint". Two versions of this track were created originally, the "Sonic Mix" and the "Infinitive Mix". In '97, Bracegirdle would revisit it and create the "'97 Revamp". None of these would appear on the album, probably because they were released under a different name. And in 1998, after the album's release, one more track would be released under the Disco Citizens name. That being "Nagasaki Badger", which if you told me it was a Chicane track I wouldn't be surprised at all. Due to it being released under a different name and not being included on any albums, it wasn't really known, but I think it really should! It's a great track, and you should give it a listen. On the B-side, there is a remix from... Chicane. Looks like the self-remix strikes again.

So to recap, for tracks from the time that didn't appear on the album, we've got:

• Cyanide Music Volume One EP
• Offshore EP
• Offshore (Disco Citizens Remix)
• Sunstroke (White Mix)

and under the Disco Citizens name:

• Right Here RIght Now (Original Mix)
• Footprint (Sonic Mix, Infinitive Mix, 97' Revamp)
• Nagasaki Badger (Original Mix, Chicane Remix)

Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants

Uh oh. It's time for another round of B-side mania, folks!

Unlike their previous album, Underworld only released one real single from this album, "Pearl's Girl", while the other two listed on the page are promo releases with nothing new on them. Great! So only a couple B-sides then, right? ...yeah, no. Since there was only one single, they completely over compensated and released the single with eight B-sides. EIGHT. Alright, let's just get to it then.

Note: "Carp Dreams...Koi" and "Tin There" are listed as remixes/versions of "Pearl's Girl" on Underworld releases, but bear no resemblance to the track.

CD 2: "Pearl's Girl"

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Pearl's Girl"	Second Toughest in the Infants album, 1996	9:35
2.	"Carp Dreams...Koi"	"Pearl's Girl" single, May 1996	10:07
3.	"Oich Oich"	"Pearl's Girl" single, May 1996	8:33
4.	"Tin There"	"Pearl's Girl" single, October 1996	8:11
5.	"Puppies"	"Pearl's Girl" single, October 1996	3:51
6.	"Cherry Pie"	"Pearl's Girl" single, May 1996	8:22
7.	"Pearl's Girl" (14996 Version)	"Pearl's Girl" single, October 1996	8:50
8.	"Mosaic"	"Pearl's Girl" single, May 1996	5:01
9.	"Rowla" (Extended)	"Rowla" promo single, 1996; included because "Rowla" is a remix of "Cherry Pie" and because the extended version isn't on the album	8:25
10.	"Deep Arch"	"Pearl's Girl" single, May 1996	8:24
Total length:			79:25

So, yeah. That's quite a few. However, you may have noticed that some came about in the May release of the single, and others came about in the October release. So why was the single released twice? Very simple. In February 1996, the film Trainspotting was released. Featured on it, among other amazing songs, was "Dark & Long" (Dark Train) and "Born Slippy .NUXX". While "Dark & Long" we have previously discussed, "Born Slippy .NUXX" was released on a non-album single release in 1995. This version of "Born Slippy" was used over the ending of the film, and became quite well known as a result. Underworld began to gain attention, and it was only in June when they finally re-released the track as a single that their popularity exploded. And so, with this popularity under their belt, they re-released "Pearl's Girl" in October for their new fans, with new B-sides, which you can see above. But what about "Born Slippy"? That wasn't on the album, so what do we do with it? Well, it was included on a bonus disc in re-releases, again for their new fans. On later re-releases (like the 20th anniversary one), the song has become associated with the Second Toughest album. So, do we have to assemble the B-sides for it as well? Probably.

CD 3: "Born Slippy"

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Born Slippy"	"Born Slippy" single, 1995	8:31
2.	"Born Slippy .NUXX"	"Born Slippy" single, 1995	9:44
3.	"Born Slippy .TELEMATIC"	"Born Slippy" single, 1995	9:39
4.	"Deep Pan"	"Born Slippy .NUXX" single, 1996	10:00
Total length:			37:54

Alright, that's all of them. Well... apart from all of the unreleased tracks from the 20th anniversary re-release. Oh, and all the early versions of Born Slippy .NUXX also on there. Oh, oh, and the Darren Emerson remix of "Confusion the Waitress" that never made it off of acetate. Oh, oh, oh, AND the 26 minute unreleased "Pearl's Girl" jam session released in 2019. That's all of them.

The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

While this Prodigy album doesn't have nearly as many B-sides as The Prodigy's first, there's still plenty to look through.The first single from the album, "One Love", released in 1993, had two B-sides, one of which would later appear on the album. The single itself would become famous as Liam Howlett, the guy who actually made all the music, had been named as 'the man that killed breakbeat' by many. To disprove them and show that he wasn't a hack with no talent, he first released "One Love" as a white label under the name "Earthbound", after the name of his studio. The single was heralded by DJs of the time as a fine piece of breakbeat, with Mixmag, who had denounced him and was the leader of the 'prodigy bad' movement, asking the producer to reveal themselves and to make more music for everyone. Howlett must have been beaming like a five-year-old when he saw that. The track was released officially not long after in October, to the dismay of many DJs, learning that they had just proven themselves wrong.

"One Love" was included on the album, but Howlett later said he wished for it to be dropped from the tracklist. Why? Did he not like it? No. Put simply, he ran into the same problem that we have throughout this page. That eighty minute limit for CDs. An edited version of "One Love" had to be included instead of the full length version, leaving the album just two minutes from the limit. If the full length version was used, the album would clock in at 80 minutes and four seconds, over the limit. As well as this, Howlett had to drop another track, "We Eat Rhythm" to fit the album onto the disc. As such, Howlett wanting to drop "One Love" was likely because he preferred "We Eat Rhythm" to go on it, as that would never have an official release, while most Prodigy fans probably already had the "One Love" single. One other thing to note is that if "One Love" was dropped and replaced with "We Eat Rhythm", the album would fit in the eighty minute limit for CDs, but only barely, with just 21 seconds to go before the limit was reached.

So, assuming the album was released as Howlett now prefers it, here's what the tracklist would look like.

1. "Intro" – 0:45
2. "Break & Enter" – 8:24
3. "Their Law" (feat. Pop Will Eat Itself) – 6:40
4. "Full Throttle" – 5:02
5. "Voodoo People" – 6:27
6. "Speedway (Theme from Fastlane)" – 6:23
7. "The Heat (The Energy)" – 7:00
8. "Poison" – 6:42
9. "No Good (Start the Dance)" – 6:17
10. "We Eat Rhythm" – 5:25
11. "3 Kilos" – 7:19
12. "Skylined" – 5:56
13. "Claustrophobic Sting" – 7:13

Alright, but our deal here is finding B-sides. So now we've dropped "One Love" from the tracklist, what would a B-side collection with it look like? You might think of the 'More Music for the Jilted Generation' disc, considering The Prodigy have previously been good with B-side collections on their Experience album. Well, that disc once again misses quite a few B-sides, so I've decided to give it a complete overhaul and make my own disc, which looks like this:

CD 2

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"One Love"	"One Love" single, 1993	5:50
2.	"Rhythm of Life"	"One Love" single, 1993	5:05
3.	"No Good (Start the Dance)" (Bad for You Mix)	"No Good (Start the Dance)" single, 1994	6:52
4.	"Goa (The Heat, The Energy Pt. 2)"	"Voodoo People" single, 1994	6:04
5.	"Poison" (95 EQ)	"Poison" single, 1995	6:12
6.	"Rat Poison"	"Poison" single, 1995	5:34
7.	"Scienide"	"Poison" single, 1995	5:54
Total length:			41:31

Great, but that's only half of the disc used. Sure, I'm all about keeping it under the limit, but there were some remixes by other artists used as B-sides. So, since there's room for it, let's throw in some remixes.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
8.	"One Love" (Jonny L Remix)	"One Love" single, 1993	5:10
9.	"No Good (Start the Dance)" (CJ Bolland Museum Mix)	"No Good (Start the Dance)", 1994	5:14
10.	"Voodoo People" (Haiti Island Remix)	"Voodoo People" single, 1994	5:22
11.	"Voodoo People" (Dust Brothers Remix)	"Voodoo People" single, 1994	5:56
12.	"Speedway (Theme from Fastlane)" (Secret Knowledge Remix)	"Voodoo People" single, 1994	10:26
13.	"Poison" (Environmental Science Dub Mix)	"Poison" single, 1995	6:18
Total length:			38:25 (79:56)

4 seconds from the limit! Now that's what I call cramming.

Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars

This might be my favourite Fatboy Slim album. I say might be because the previous album (and widely regarded as the better one), You've Come a Long Way, Baby, is just as good, and I'm still deciding which is better in my mind. Either way, we're covering this one now, and I'll probably get to the other later.

This album, unlike Fatboy's previous albums, only has a few B-sides. Trust me, his previous two albums had a lot. But there aren't many for this album, and I think that's because of the way the singles were released. Half of the singles from the album were double-A sides, which is a single where both sides (or in the CD era, two songs) are the main focus of the single. A great example of this would be The Beatles' "We Can Work it Out", which featured "Day Tripper" on the other side. Both are great songs, and both were advertised as the Beatles' new hit song, unlike "I'll Get You", which no one's heard of, which backed "She Loves You". The four tracks from Fatboy's album released as Double As (not the batteries) were "Star 69" / "Weapon of Choice" and "Song for Shelter" / "Ya Mama". Those singles didn't have any B-sides, except "Illuminati", which was the B-side to the latter. However, there were two other singles before these, "Sunset (Bird of Prey)" and "Demons". The former had one B-side, "My Game", while the latter had two, "The Pimp" and "Camber Sands". So that's it, right? No. There is just one more Fatboy song related to this album.

In 1994, before the name "Fatboy Slim" had even been uttered, Norman Cook (Fatboy's real name), had already been up to rather a lot. He'd scored a number one as part of The Housemartins with "Caravan of Love" in 1986, and then another number one with Beats International, that being "Dub Be Good to Me". So it was safe to say the man was doing pretty well. But now, rather than producing pop hits, Cook was in the mood of making music for nightclubs. He did this under several names and with several bands, making hits under Pizzaman and Mighty Dub Katz, and eventually in 1995, the same year as the first Fatboy Slim release, Norman Cook put out his first 'solo' album of music. Consisting of tracks from the previous two names mentioned and a couple more completely solo Cook works, "Southern Fried House" is a good sampler of what the man was up to at the time. However, crucially for us, there's one particular song on there that might sound familiar. "Bird of Prey", released under a one-time alias called "Yum Yum Head Food", is a ten minute, more ambient sounding track compared to the rest of the album. Why mention this? Well, because "Sunset (Bird of Prey)" was the first single from Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, and as you might have guessed from the name, it is a remix of that original "Bird of Prey" track. This means that this can also then count as a bonus track related to this album. So, what have we got?

CD 2

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"My Game"	"Sunset (Bird of Prey)" single, 2000	5:25
2.	"The Pimp"	"Demons" single, 2001	4:34
3.	"Camber Sands"	"Demons" single, 2001	6:06
4.	"Illuminati (from the film Tomb Raider)"	"Song for Shelter" / "Ya Mama" single, 2001	3:13
5.	"Sunset (Bird of Prey)" (Yum Yum Head Food Version)	Southern Fried House album, 1995	10:32
Total length:			29:50

Alright, so that's half an hour of music. Do we have to cram it full of remixes again? Alright, fine.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
6.	"Talkin' Bout My Baby" (Midfield General's Disco Reshuffle)	"Talkin' Bout My Baby" / "Drop the Hate" remixes 12", 2002	6:55
7.	"Song for Shelter" (Chemical Brothers Remix)	"Song for Shelter" / "Ya Mama" single, 2001	7:03
8.	"Star 69" (X-Press 2 Wine 'Em Dine 'Em And 69 'Em Supamix)	"Star 69" / "Weapon of Choice" single, 2001	8:19
9.	"Sunset (Bird of Prey)" (Darren Emerson Remix)	"Sunset (Bird of Prey)" single, 2000	7:17
10.	"Retox" (Dave Clarke Remix)	"Retox" remixes 12", 2002	5:19
11.	"Drop the Hate" (Santos Napalm Reprise)	"Drop the Hate" remixes 12", 2001	7:29
12.	"Star 69" (Timo Maas Remix)	"Star 69" / "Weapon of Choice" single, 2001	7:09
Total length:			49:31 (79:21)

Okay, that's enough.

Take That - III

This album doesn't have any B-sides. Shocking, I know. But, that's how it is in a streaming world. What's the point in a B-side? It's not like you're getting more value for money, you're paying the same 10 quid a week for all the songs the service offers. However, this album, released in 2014, was around just at the end of the 'special bonus tracks' era. The time where every major album had three bonus tracks if you bought it from... Target, or the iTunes Store. This album is no exception, not only having a deluxe edition with three bonus tracks, but also a Google Play deluxe with another two bonus tracks. And then, best of all, it was re-released in 2015 with another four songs. This is just a concept of what a vinyl release with all of these bonus tracks would look like.

For producer/writing credits, all of the tracks below are on the album's actual page, with all the credits you need.

Side one

1. "These Days" – 3:51
2. "Let in the Sun" – 3:39
3. "If You Want It" – 4:02
4. "Lovelife" – 3:35
5. "Portrait" – 3:34
6. "Higher Than Higher" – 4:06

Side two

1. "I Like It" – 4:22
2. "Give You My Love" – 2:49
3. "Freeze" – 4:01
4. "Into the Wild" – 3:52
5. "Flaws" – 4:01
6. "Get Ready For It" – 3:30

Side three - Deluxe and Google Play Deluxe bonus tracks

1. "Believe" – 4:19
2. "Amazing" – 4:04
3. "Do it All for Love" – 4:16
4. "Fall Down at Your Feet" – 2:55
5. "If it's Not Love" – 3:37

Side four - 2015 edition bonus tracks

1. "Hey Boy" – 3:44
2. "Will You Be There for Me" – 3:37
3. "Carry Me Home" – 4:15
4. "Bird in Your Hand" – 3:20

And best of all, it all fits within our 80 minute CD limit, so this version can be pressed on CD too!

M People - Northern Soul

If you've been in the CD section of a charity shop in the UK, then you've probably heard of M People. A project of Haçenda's Mike Pickering (who's first name gives us the 'M' in M People), M People became well known for their hits "Moving On Up" and "Search for the Hero", among a multitude of other singles. However, before their breakthrough, they released their album Northern Soul. Originally released in late 1991, the album boasted 11 original songs. Then, when the band had a couple new singles and no album to put them on, they re-released it with a changed tracklist. Their new singles were added, along with some other new songs, and some were dropped. And while there is no original B-sides for this album (they're all remixes), when there's two versions of an album with varying tracklists, that's just as good!

Now, the standardised version of the album is the 1992 re-release, mainly because that was more popular as they had a little more chart success at that point. If you want to listen to that, fine. But the version below is a combination of both '91 and '92 releases, with all of the original tracks put together onto one album. In areas where the position of a song changes between releases (e.g. track 4 in '91 and track 7 in '92), I've either chosen one of the two spots given for the track to go into, or just found somewhere in the middle where it fits.

Note: If the original release is not noted, it means the song was present in the same form on both releases.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Colour My Life" (Oakenfold/Osborne Mix)	1991 release; "Part One" remix on 1992 release	5:34
2.	"Excited" (M People Master Mix)	1992 release	5:02
3.	"How Can I Love You More?"		5:15
4.	"Inner City Cruise"		4:26
5.	"It's Your World"		4:00
6.	"Someday"	1991 release; "Sasha's Full Master" remix on 1992 release	5:36
7.	"Sexual Freedom"		5:17
8.	"Kiss it Better"		5:09
9.	"Landscape of Love"		5:44
10.	"Tumbling Down"		4:39
11.	"Man Smart"	1992 release	5:15
12.	"Life"	1991 release	4:53
13.	"Platini"	1991 release	5:02
Total length:			65:53

As previously mentioned, there are no B-sides, only remixes. However, Mike Pickering, being a reputable house producer, made a good few remixes himself. Let's have a look at them.

CD 2: M People Remixes

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Colour My Life" (Cuba Mix)	"Colour My Life" single, 1991	5:32
2.	"How Can I Love You More?" (Holy Love)	"How Can I Love You More?" single, 1991	5:07
3.	"How Can I Love You More?" (Club Mix)	"How Can I Love You More?" single, 1991	5:47
4.	"Inner City Dub"	Northern Soul album, 1991	4:29
5.	"Kiss it Better" (Guitar Mix)	Northern Soul album, 1991	4:48
6.	"Colour My Life" (Part One)	"Colour My Life" single, 1992	5:00
7.	"Colour My Life" (Part Two)	"Colour My Life" single, 1992	5:02
8.	"Someday" (Part One)	"Someday" single, 1992	6:00
9.	"Someday" (Part Two)	"Someday" single, 1992	6:41
10.	"Excited" (M People Remix)	"Excited" single, 1992	5:30
11.	"Excited" (M People Dub)	"Excited" single, 1992	5:00
Total length:			58:59

Alright, that's fine, but there's one other part of the story I haven't told you. In 1992, when "Someday" was released as a single, there was also a promotional release featuring remixes by some guy who went under the name 'Sasha'. This version also appeared on the 1992 re-release of the album. But this 'Sasha' fellow, he had been doing stuff in the industry, although he was no mover and shaker. Not yet, anyway. After a year or two, in 1994, he and his friend John Digweed would release the Renaissance Mix Collection, which both then and now has been called the greatest DJ mix ever put to disc. Alright, good start. He'd go further, releasing some singles in 1996, releasing one of the greatest trance EPs ever in 1999, and finally a proper album (not his first, but everyone forgot about his first) in 2002. But the first time he'd get somewhere in the charts was in 1993, when he did another remix for M People, this time on "How Can I Love You More?", off of this album. Yes, the only single from this album that didn't create a confusing mess of re-releases was re-released in 1993, after both versions of the album had been put out, and best of all, this single reached #8 on the UK Top Charts. So Sasha seemed to be rather good at helping out the M People. Does this mean I have to make a disc of Sasha remixes?

...sure, why not.

CD 3: Sasha Remixes

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Someday" (Sasha's Master Mix)	Northern Soul album, 1992	7:39
2.	"Someday" (Sasha's Full Tension Mix)	"How Can I Love You More?" single, 1993	7:10
3.	"Someday" (Sasha's Dub)	"Someday" promo single, 1992	6:59
4.	"How Can I Love You More?" (Sasha's Master Mix)	"How Can I Love You More?" single, 1993	8:16
5.	"How Can I Love You More?" (Sasha's Ambient Dub)	"How Can I Love You More?" single, 1993	5:56
6.	"How Can I Love You More?" (Sasha's Qat Mix)	The Best of M People remixes 12", 1998	10:04
Total length:			46:04

As a quick note before we move on, "Sasha's Qat Mix" is listed there as being released in 1998. Despite this, it was recorded at the same time as the '93 remixes, but went unreleased... kind of. Remember that DJ mix CD I mentioned earlier, the one that has been called the greatest one of its kind? Well, the "Qat Mix" is played on that. Not in it's full length, or course not, but a portion of it. So while it was released in its entirety in 1998, the clubbing public has had a taste of it since September 1994.

Faithless - Reverence

If you've heard the name Faithless, then chances are you've heard their greatest hit, "Insomnia". That 90s track that goes "I can't get no sleep", if you're British then chances are you know it. Well, Reverence, released in early 1996, was the album from which that hit spawned. This album doesn't have any original B-side tracks. However, it has an absurd amount of remixes made by its creators. Look, let me show you.

The first single from this album, "Salva Mea", was released in 1995. When "Insomnia" got popular the following year, it was re-released too with some new remixes. Putting all of the remixes together, you get this.

CD 2: "Salva Mea"

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Salva Mea" (Epic Mix)	1995 release	11:51
2.	"Salva Mea" (Tuff Mix)	1995 release	9:37
3.	"Salva Mea" (Sister Bliss Remix)	1995 release	8:43
4.	"Salva Mea" (Floating Mix)	1995 release	8:12
5.	"Salva Mea" (Deep Gold Mix)	1996 release	9:29
6.	"Salva Mea" ('96 Remix)	1996 release	9:11
Total length:			57:03

So yeah, rather a lot. Best of all, out of all of those remixes, about two actually got played regularly. Not only that, but remixes by other people would get played instead. Guess we'll add that because there's space.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
7.	"Salva Mea" (Way Out West Mix)	1996 release	7:49
8.	"Salva Mea" (DJ Quicksilver Remix)	1996 release	6:51
9.	"Salva Mea" (Voodoo Mix by Jules Vernes)	1996 release	7:48
Total length:			22:27 (79:30)

Alright, and then after "Salva Mea" was released, the group released their second single, "Insomnia". This also had a large number of remixes upon release, and when they re-released it when it became popular in clubs, they supplied even more remixes. Best of all, they then released it again in 1997 for the US market with some new(er) remixes.

CD 3: "Insomnia"

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Insomnia" (Monster Mix)	1995 release	8:38
2.	"Insomnia" (Moody Mix)	1995 release	10:43
3.	"Insomnia" (Original Mix)	1995 release	10:55
4.	"Insomnia" (Tuff Mix)	1995 release	7:18
5.	"Insomnia" ('96 Remix)	1996 release	7:16
6.	"Insomnia" (Armand’s European Vacation Mix)	1997 release	7:57
7.	"Insomnia" (Armand's Mission to Mars Mix)	1997 release	8:53
8.	"Insomnia" (DJ Quicksilver Remix)	1996 release	7:58
9.	"Insomnia" (De Donatis Remix)	1996 release	7:38
Total length:			77:20

Yes, I included some external remixes again. In my defence, the European Vacation Mix is very well known, and the De Donatis version was also played in the clubs quite a bit, apparently.

Alright, so the two trance/prog house tracks from the album have been released, which just leaves us with some rap numbers from Maxi Jazz and Jamie Catto's other projects. Alright, so no more B-side remixes, right? Nope. We've still got a whole lot more to cover.

After the first release of "Insomnia", the third single was released, and this was a Catto number, a ballad called "Don't Leave". So, how did the producers of the band, Rollo & Sister Bliss, react upon having to release a ballad as a single? Did they let Catto write a few B-side numbers? Of course not. More remixes!

CD 4: "Don't Leave"

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Don't Leave" (Floating Mix)	1996 release	6:04
2.	"Don't Leave" (Moody Mix)	1996 release	9:25
3.	"Don't Leave" (Big Mix)	1996 release	8:21
4.	"Don't Leave" (Euphoric Mix)	1996 release	11:24
5.	"Don't Leave" (Deep Mix)	1996 release	8:03
6.	"Don't Leave" (Simple Mix)	1996 release	8:12
7.	"Don't Leave" (Goetz's String Mix)	1997 release	3:54
8.	"Don't Leave" (Orchestral String Mix)	1997 release	3:24
Total length:			58:47

You may have noticed that once again, there was a second release of this single. That was not because of the success of "Insomnia", but rather because it was featured in the film A Life Less Ordinary. The version featured there is "Goetz's String Mix", Goetz being Faithless' regular engineer. The mix itself is simply just the original but now with a string section, so I felt it was alright to include. The "Orchestral String Mix" is different, and was released only on a US promo CD. The remix is credited to Rollo & Sister Bliss so it's alright to include.

So, that's all of them, right? Still no.

Earlier in 1997, the group released another single from the album, the title track, "Reverence". Once again, it wasn't really suited to be remixed, but it got remixes anyway. However, it seems by this point Rollo & Sister Bliss were running low on steam, because only two remixes were created for it. This is so little we can tack it onto our previous "Don't Leave" disc.

CD 4: "Don't Leave" and "Reverence"

No.	Title	Length
9.	"Reverence" (Monster Mix)	9:21
10.	"Reverence" (Epic Mix)	9:31
Total length:		18:52 (77:39)

Okay, surely tha-"If Lovin' You is Wrong" was released in July 1996 after the original release of "Don't Leave", and guess what it had? Remixes!

CD 5: "If Lovin' You is Wrong"

No.	Title	Length
1.	"If Lovin' You is Wrong" (Slowly Risin' Mix)	7:41
2.	"If Lovin' You is Wrong" (Inflammable Mix)	8:36
3.	"If Lovin' You is Wrong" (Mighty Mix)	8:35
Total length:		24:52

Alright, I'll be honest. That's it. No more singles. No more remixes. Well... no more official singles at least.

In 1995, before any of their official releases, the group put out a mysterious release with no name on it, which was later dubbed "The Scream". This release featured three tracks, and was essentially an early version of "Salva Mea". So, put those three tracks on the end of this disc? Fine, why not.

CD 5: "If Lovin' You is Wrong" and "The Scream"

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Scream" (Mix 1)	10:16
2.	"The Scream" (Mix 2)	6:14
3.	"The Scream" (Mix 3)	7:51
Total length:		24:21 (49:13)

Okay, no more. That's all the remixes I can find, excluding the stuff on the "Irreverence" disc (see the album's page), most of which is just external remixes, and some of which we've already covered here. It's best we move on from this remix mess.

Calvin Harris - I Created Disco

Calvin Harris' debut album, an assortment of Amiga noises arranged into an hour of music, did not paint a bright future for the now legendary DJ. Following this he would stop making music on his Amiga and started making some much better received and much better known songs. However, just to torture those reviewers who said that this album is bad (I personally quite like it), I've assembled all of the B-sides and bonus tracks for this album too.

Following the main album, we have:

No.	Title	Original release	Length
15.	"We're All the Same"	iTunes Store bonus track	3:56
16.	"Rock 'n' Roll Attitude"	"The Girls" B-side	3:19
17.	"Love for You"	"Acceptable in the 80s" B-side	3:49
18.	"Wild Scenes"	"Merrymaking at My Place" B-side	3:54
19.	"1984"	Calvin Harris sampler, 2006	4:22
Total length:			74:46

But since this is Harris' debut album, it also means we get to dig around in his early stuff before the album. Well, under the name "Stouffer", he released "Da Bongos" and "Brighter Days" in 2002. Then, under the Calvin Harris name, he released "Let Me Know" and "Hip Hop" in 2004. Another early cut, "Rock Band", was released in 2006.

As for early versions of the tracks on the album, early promos and samplers give us the demo versions of "Acceptable in the 80s", "The Girls", and "This is the Industry". Also present is an un-mastered extended version of "The Girls".

ABBA - Departure

ABBA never officially broke up. Stardom had broken the marriages between the two couples, and by 1981, they had both divorced. From these tensions, their final album (until their recent reunion), The Visitors, was born. The album is by far their most introspective, and the darkest in their catalogue as a result. After its release, the band continued to perform on TV shows, but less and less frequently. Work began on another album, but with all the issues in the group, it never happened. There was a greatest hits album, and then nothing more. Despite this, fragments of the album still floated around, and all it takes is a bit of work and an obsession with tracklists to make it.

So, I have created a concept of what their final album would look like, although it would likely have had much more than what there is on this concept if sessions continued. I have pieced this together from the two singles that came out of the sessions and a few unreleased tracks also. The album itself was never named, likely because the sessions didn't get far enough for a proper album to be created, so I've given it the name "Departure", to contrast with their popular album Arrival, which contained "Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Money, Money, Money".

All tracks are written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus

Side one

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Under Attack"	"Under Attack" single, 1982	3:45
2.	"Cassandra"	B-side of "The Day Before You Came", 1982	4:50
3.	"Just Like That" (Saxophone Version)	Unreleased; "Slow" and "Na-na-na" versions also found	5:06
4.	"You Owe Me One"	B-side of "Under Attack"	3:28
Total length:			17:04

Side two

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"I Am the City"	More ABBA Gold, 1993	4:01
2.	"Givin' a Little More"	Unreleased; excerpt appeared on Thank You for the Music	4:20
3.	"The Day Before You Came"	"The Day Before You Came" single, 1982	5:50
Total length:			14:13 (31:20)

Take That - Take That & Party

Take That's first album, Take That & Party, is an utter cheese fest, which only true cheese connoisseurs can stand. And so, for those of us who can get through it, I've added the B-sides from the various singles (yes, all seven of them) that came from this album on the end of the actual thing as a bonus challenge. Some album tracks were used as B-sides on singles released before it, but there were non-album B-sides on singles from both before and after the album's release.

Now, if you're a true Take That fan, you'll probably think of the 'Expanded' version of the album, but that only contains two bonus B-sides and an external remix. We're doing much better than that here.

All tracks are written by Gary Barlow

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
14.	"Waiting Around" (from "Do What U Like" single)	Andy Lee Pete Lee	4:01
15.	"I'm Out" (from "I Found Heaven" single)	Duncan Bridgeman	4:15
16.	"Still Can't Get Over You" (from The Love Songs EP)	Gary Barlow	4:10
17.	"How Can it Be" (from The Love Songs EP)	Barlow	4:57
18.	"Don't Take Your Love" (from The Love Songs EP)	Barlow	4:04
19.	"Never Want to Let You Go" (from "It Only Takes a Minute" single)	Ian Levine	4:28
20.	"Could it Be Magic" (Rapino Radio Mix)	Levine Billy Griffin The Rapino Brothers	3:30
Total length:			79:50

The Beatles - Magical Submarine Tour

Following The Beatles' LSD influenced escapades in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the band released two further psychedelic albums; Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine. However, neither were complete albums. Magical Mystery Tour was originally just an EP, but those don't go down well in the American market, so Capitol Records turned it into an LP, filling the B-side with previous psychedelic singles. Yellow Submarine was similar, with four original tracks on the A side (along with two previously released ones) and the soundtrack to the film, composed by George Martin, on the B-side.

From this, I decided to make a concept of these two releases put together, with all of the original Beatles numbers on one release, and no previously released tracks (or film soundtracks).

All tracks are written by Lennon-McCartney, except for songs with asterisks, which are by George Harrison, "A Beginning", which is by George Martin and "Flying" by Harrison─Lennon─McCartney─Starkey.

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"A Beginning"		0:50
2.	"Magical Mystery Tour"	McCartney	2:48
3.	"Hey Bulldog"	Lennon, with McCartney	3:12
4.	"Only a Northern Song" (*)	Harrison	3:24
5.	"Your Mother Should Know"	McCartney	2:33
6.	"I Am the Walrus"	Lennon	4:35
Total length:			17:22

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Blue Jay Way" (*)	Harrison	3:50
2.	"All Together Now"	McCartney, with Lennon	2:11
3.	"Flying"		2:16
4.	"The Fool on the Hill"	McCartney	3:00
5.	"It's All Too Much" (*)	Harrison	6:26
Total length:			17:43 (35:05)

Orbital - Orbital (1993)

The three pillars of 90s techno are Underworld, The Prodigy, and Orbital. While the former two have already been discussed at length here, I have yet to talk about an Orbital album, so let's get that squared away now. Orbital are quite well known for their tracks "Chime", "Halcyon + On + On", "The Saint" and others. Their first two albums were both titled "Orbital", and so to differentiate them they are referred to as the "Green Album" and the "Brown Album". We're going to discuss the "Brown Album" here.

Firstly, this album features the previously mentioned "Halcyon + On + On". However, this track is actually a remix of a previous track released by the band, titled "Halcyon". This track appeared on the Radiccio EP, alongside three other tracks. This EP was released less than a year before the Brown Album.

Another noteworthy bonus track is "Semi Detached", which was released on the Trance Europe Express compilation in September 1993, not long after the release of the Brown Album. As well as this, the song "Impact (The Earth is Burning)" received a remix by Orbital themselves for the US market. Both of these would later be released on the Diversions compilation album in 1994. "Semi Detached" would also later be remixed and placed on their following album, Snivilisation, as "Attached".

So, putting all of that together (and a couple external remixes for cramming reasons), you get this bonus disc:

CD 2

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Halcyon"	Radiccio EP, 1992	11:07
2.	"The Naked and the Dead"	Radiccio EP, 1992	6:23
3.	"Sunday"	Radiccio EP, 1992	7:14
4.	"The Naked and the Dub"	Radiccio EP, 1992	11:51
5.	"Semi Detachted"	Trance Europe Express compilation, 1993	9:33
6.	"Impact USA"	"Impact" remix 12", 1993	11:20
7.	"Lush 3-3 Underworld"	"Lush 3" single, 1993	13:01
8.	"Lush 3-5 CJ Bolland"	"Lush 3" single, 1993	6:15
Total length:			76:43

CeeLo Green - The Lady Killer

You probably know CeeLo Green from either "Crazy", which he made with producer Danger Mouse under the name "Gnarls Barkley", or for his solo hit "Fuck You". This album is where "Fuck You" came from. And while I could blabber on about reviews, the problem with them is, you never really know which version they're reviewing. Why? Because this album has a multitude of different tracklists on many different versions of the album. To set it out in stone, here's all the different versions:

• Standard (American) edition
• International edition
• Platinum edition
• Japanese bonus tracks edition
• iTunes and Amazon bonus tracks edition
• Best Buy bonus tracks edition

So, let's deal with this fun, shall we?

Most of the songs on the standard edition are retained in other versions, except the International edition, which drops "Love Gun" and "No One's Gonna Love You". "Love Gun" is replaced with "Please", which is not on the standard edition, and "Fuck You" is swapped out for the radio friendly version, "Forget You", although "Fuck You" is then placed at the end of the album.

As for bonus tracks, the Platinum edition adds "Scarlet Fever" and "Anyway", the Japanese bonus tracks are "Georgia" and "Grand Canyon", the iTunes and Amazon bonus tracks are "Everybody Loves You (Baby)" and "Scarlet Fever" (again), and finally the Best Buy bonus tracks are "Red Hot Lover" and "Grand Canyon" (again). As one other note, the song "It's OK" has "Bridges" as a B-side. Oh, and "I Want You" was remixed for a single release, but since the album version is present on the standard album (as you may have guessed), we're not going to add the single version to it or swap it out, even though the Platinum edition does so.

Phew. That's a lot. Let's organise this tangled mess.

1. "The Lady Killer Theme" (Intro) – 1:37
2. "Bright Lights Bigger City" – 3:38
3. "Fuck You" – 3:43
4. "Wildflower" – 4:02
5. "Bodies" – 3:43
6. "Love Gun" (feat. Lauren Bennett) – 3:20
7. "Satisfied" – 3:26
8. "I Want You" – 3:36
9. "Cry Baby" – 3:27
10. "Fool for You" (feat. Philip Bailey) – 3:40
11. "It’s OK" – 3:46
12. "Old Fashioned" – 3:24
13. "No One's Gonna Love You" – 3:29
14. "Scarlet Fever" – 4:45
15. "Anyway" – 3:34
16. "Please" (feat. Selah Sue) – 5:00
17. "Georgia" – 3:46
18. "Grand Canyon" – 3:25
19. "Everybody Loves You (Baby)" – 3:32
20. "Red Hot Lover" – 3:15
21. "Bridges" – 4:07
22. "The Lady Killer Theme" (Outro) – 0:58

And even after all that, it's still below 80 minutes.

But, there's somehow still more. Considering the amount of bonus tracks there are, would it not surprise you if I told you there was an entire album of leaked outtakes? Because there is.

CD 2: Stray Bullets

1. "Goldschläger" – 3:01
2. "You Don’t Shock Me Anymore" – 3:05
3. "Cho Cha the Cat" (feat. The B-52s) – 3:36
4. "I Like It" – 3:40
5. "Little Black Book" – 2:32
6. "Talking to Strangers" – 3:16
7. "Champain" – 3:53
8. "Night Train" (feat. The Goodie Mob) – 4:13
9. "The Secret" – 2:51
10. "Sophistic@ted B!$ch" – 2:53
11. "I’ll Kill Her" (feat. Me & Lonan the Destroyer) – 2:33
12. "Is It" – 2:43
13. "Super Woman Theme Song" – 3:00
14. "Night Cap Outro (One Last Shot of Goldschläger)" – 0:54

ABBA - Even More ABBA Gold

If you've lived on this planet, chances are you've heard or seen the compilation ABBA Gold. It is a compilation of all of the best ABBA hits, and is the second best-selling album in British history. Of course, when you have an album which is that successful, you make a sequel. And that they did, releasing More ABBA Gold the following year. Despite this, there are still well-known singles from the group that are not represented in either of these compilations, such as "Happy New Year" and "Hasta Mañana". So, as an avid ABBA fan, I decided to make a third ABBA Gold album, aptly titled Even More ABBA Gold. It is based on singles that didn't appear in previous ABBA Gold albums, especially songs featured in other ABBA greatest hits albums (like this one) that aren't present in the ABBA Gold series. There are a few album tracks present, although these have been carefully selected as songs that were regarded as particularly good (for example, "If it Wasn't for the Nights", featured here, was going to be the lead single from Voulez-Vous until "Chiquitita" was recorded) or if they were featured in other ABBA related media (such as "Kisses of Fire" in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again).

Here's what this concept would look like:

All tracks are written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus; additional songwriters are listed below

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"As Good as New"		Voulez-Vous (1979)	3:22
2.	"Hasta Mañana"	Stig Anderson	Waterloo (1974)	3:05
3.	"That's Me"	Anderson	Arrival (1975)	3:15
4.	"Happy New Year"		Super Trouper (1980)	4:26
5.	"Bang-A-Boomerang"	Anderson	ABBA (1975)	3:05
6.	"Andante, Andante"		Super Trouper (1980)	4:38
7.	"Rock Me"		ABBA (1975)	3:06
8.	"Kisses of Fire"		Voulez-Vous (1979)	3:16
9.	"Nina, Pretty Ballerina"		Ring Ring (1973)	2:51
10.	"I've Been Waiting for You"	Anderson	ABBA (1975)	3:41
11.	"Another Town, Another Train"		Ring Ring (1973)	3:12
12.	"My Love, My Life"	Anderson	Arrival (1976)	3:52
13.	"Hole in Your Soul"		ABBA: The Album (1977)	3:41
14.	"He is Your Brother"		Ring Ring (1973)	3:18
15.	"Slipping Through My Fingers"		The Visitors (1981)	3:51
16.	"If It Wasn't for the Nights"		Voulez-Vous (1979)	5:11
17.	"People Need Love"		Ring Ring (1973)	2:45
18.	"Why Did it Have to Be Me?"		Arrival (1976)	3:20
19.	"Love isn’t Easy (But it Sure is Hard Enough)"		Ring Ring (1973)	2:57
20.	"Rock'n Roll Band"		Ring Ring (1973)	3:11
21.	"Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)"		Waterloo (1974)	3:05
Total length:				80:00

Right on the eighty minute limit there!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Read My Lips

Sophie Ellis-Bextor is best known for her hit "Murder on the Dancefloor". Not only did it reach #2 upon its release in 2001, but two decades later in 2024, it reached that position once again after it was included in the film Saltburn, introducing the once millennial-only music number to a new generation. The album that it came from, Read My Lips, was also reasonably successful upon release in the UK in late 2001. However, after a re-release in 2002, the album enjoyed even better success. However, when it was re-released, it had a slightly different tracklist. You know the drill, so let's get straight into it. What different versions are there?

• Standard edition
• UK edition
• 2002 edition

The UK edition adds two songs, "Sparkle" and "Final Move", while the 2002 edition adds "Music Gets the Best of Me", "Get Over You" and a live version of Ellis-Bextor's breakout hit, "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)". "Murder on the Dancefloor" also has "Never Let Me Down" as a B-side.

Putting that all together, and you get this:

1. "Take Me Home" – 4:07
2. "Lover" – 3:24
3. "Move this Mountain" – 4:45
4. "Murder on the Dancefloor" – 3:50
5. "Music Gets the Best of Me" – 3:39
6. "Sparkle" – 4:31
7. "I Believe" – 4:04
8. "Get Over You" – 3:15
9. "Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)" (with Spiller) – 3:43
10. "Leave the Others Alone" – 4:09
11. "By Chance" – 4:13
12. "The Universe is You" – 3:37
13. "Is it Any Wonder" – 4:25
14. "Never Let Me Down" – 3:43
15. "Final Move" – 4:44
16. "Everything Falls into Place" – 3:44

I've chosen to use the original version of "Groovejet", simply because I prefer it (and because of my 'no live recordings' rule). If you prefer the live version, you can use that instead.

The Prodigy - Demos of Oz

Before "Firestarter", before "Voodoo People", even before "Out of Space", The Prodigy was just Liam Howlett making rave tunes in his house in Braintree, Essex. But what was on these tapes? Well, the four tracks which would make up the What Evil Lurks EP, the Charly single, B-sides and all, and some other tracks. When the group signed to XL Recordings, they saw fit to put out those tracks in the aforementioned releases. However, there were tracks that never left Howlett's home cassettes.

This concept release showcases the tracks that didn't make it off of the cassettes. Of course, they have been unofficially released, that's how I have access to them, but they have never been published by the Prodigy themselves. So, what are these tracks?

1. "Charly" (‘91 Remix) – 4:09
2. "Drop the Bass" – 3:51
3. "Manic" – 3:41
4. "The Beat" – 2:37
5. "Dr. Zupan" – 3:42
6. "Oz" – 3:20
7. "Lift Me" – 3:32
8. "Spacehopper" – 3:21
9. "Evil Minds" – 4:02
10. "Android II" – 5:03

I'm sure you can find all of these online, because someone as stupid as me could find them. Just put "the prodigy demo tape" into YouTube and bam! all of the unreleased stuff you want. However, most of them have been lossy compressed into ear-grinding noises by 90s mp3 compression, so do prepare yourself.

Underworld - Bootleg Babies

Speaking of rarities, our old friends Underworld have plenty. Not just from studio recordings, but also live recordings. Studio rarities are either very easy or very difficult to find. There's quite a few on each of three 90s albums as part of the Super Deluxe Edition, but outside of that, there's stuff from archives of underworldlive.com, mailing lists, leaked stuff or found tapes, the works.

But what about live bootlegs? Well first, let me clarify why we even want live bootlegs. Most artists have a fixed setlist for their tours, but Underworld don't. What they do instead is just jam out for a bit. While this was especially so in the early 90s, sampling live guitars and all sorts, it continued through the 90s and onwards. Unfortunately, most of the early recordings have not survived. There is an excerpt from a Glastonbury gig in 1992 where they messed around with a plethora of other people available online, and a rehearsal at their studio on the dubnobasswithmyheadman Super Deluxe, but other than that nothing else. As for stuff later than that (e.g. '95 and onwards), there is a different situation. There is a torrenting website known as RTSR that has been around since 1996 which hosts torrents of live Underworld bootlegs. As an Underworld fan, it's a really great place to gain access to some rare alternate takes on their tracks, with different sounds and structures. I really have been enjoying listening to these as they show a whole new side to the band. If you're a fan of them, I would highly recommend checking it out, although it is a little difficult to gain access to. It is still active, uploading some of their latest sets, although the design of the website has probably not been updated since 2007.

So, what does this have to do with tracklists? Sure, I could just write a bunch of tracklists of live sets, but there is something particularly special (and easy to access) that came out of RTSR. In 2000, the band released their first official live album, Everything, Everything. It contains audio from a set on their Beaucoup Fish tour in 1999. Seeing this, the RTSR members decided they wanted to make their own live album. Of course, there were plenty already available on the site, so they decided to do a sort of 'greatest hits' of all of the recordings on the website. They would choose a selection of songs that they wanted to appear on the album, and then choose which recording of that song would appear. They titled this album, Bootleg Babies, after a lyric in the song "Juanita : Kiteless : To Dream of Love", similar to how Everything, Everything was named after a lyric of "Cowgirl". Custom artwork was made for the album, it was all mastered by a guy called Gerald Geoff, and the whole thing sounds spectacular. Again, I would thoroughly recommend this if you like Underworld's music. It's also just a way to dip your toe into the RTSR pool, shortly before you'll likely jump in the deep end and leech a bunch of torrents.

Oh, right, the tracklist. Of course. Here you go.

Disc one

No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Juanita : Kiteless : To Dream of Love"	Move Club, Cologne, Germany / 19.07.1996	21:41
2.	"Rowla"	Viva Festival, Cologne, Germany / 13.05.1999	6:16
3.	"Bruce Lee"	Tilburg, The Netherlands / 20.03.1999	5:19
4.	"Kittens"	Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, England / 26.06.1999	6:26
5.	"Dark & Long (Dark Train)"	Temptation, Alexandra Palace, London, England / 31.12.1998	11:10
6.	"Born Slippy"	Move Club, Cologne, Germany / 19.07.1996	13:50
7.	"Born Slippy .NUXX"	Temptation, Alexandra Palace, London, England / 31.12.1998	9:49
8.	"Outro"	Viva Festival, Cologne, Germany / 13.05.1999	0:38
Total length:			75:13

Disc two

No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Intro"	I Love Techno, Ghent, Belgium / 14.11.1998	1:25
2.	"Mmm... Skyscraper, I Love You"	Temptation, Alexandra Palace, London, England / 31.12.1998	8:25
3.	"Push Upstairs"	Temptation, Alexandra Palace, London, England / 31.12.1998	11:15
4.	"Confusion the Waitress"	Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, The Netherlands / 27.05.1996	8:32
5.	"King of Snake"	Viva Festival, Cologne, Germany / 13.05.1999	9:54
6.	"Jumbo"	Tilburg, The Netherlands / 20.03.1999	10:14
7.	"Moaner"	Tilburg, The Netherlands / 20.03.1999	10:39
8.	"Rez/Cowgirl"	Reading Festival, Reading, England / 25.08.1996	17:12
Total length:			77:19

Vincent de Moor - Orion City

Vincent de Moor is a reasonably famous name in the trance scene. He's no Ferry Corsten or Armin van Buuren, but that's mainly because he quit the industry some time ago and we haven't heard a peek from him since. However, during his time in the industry, he put out two albums; Orion City and Moor. We're going to look at the first of these two, Orion City. Released in 1998, this album features multiple of de Moor's classic tracks, including "Flowtation" and the titular track, "Orion City". So, since this album isn't on Wikipedia, let's just have a quick run-through of the tracklist to start us off.

1. "Intro" – 1:54
2. "Orion City" – 6:00
3. "True" – 5:52
4. "You Shining Down" – 4:38
5. "Across the Moon" – 6:04
6. "Flowtation" – 6:53
7. "Scindeep" – 7:31
8. "Dark Angel" – 6:54
9. "Dominorunner" – 5:54
10. "The Pagemaster" – 8:47
11. "Magnetic" – 7:03
12. "Exotic Mind" – 6:04

Lovely. Now, were there any singles from this album? Of course there were. "Orion City", "You Shining Down", "Flowtation", "Dark Angel" (as a B-side), "Magnetic" / "Dominorunner" and "Exotic Mind" were all released as singles. And where there's singles, there's B-sides!

CD 2: B-Sides

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Impact"	"Flowtation" single, 1996	7:14
2.	"Groove Feelings"	"Flowtation" single, 1996	6:25
3.	"Down You"	"You Shining Down" single, 1997	6:56
4.	"Darwin's Voyage"	"Darwin's Voyage" single, 1998 ("Dark Angel" was the B-side)	7:10
5.	"Flagpoint"	"Flagpoint" single, 1998	7:47
6.	"Shadowdrummer"	"Flagpoint" single, 1998	7:36
7.	"Orion City" (Original Mix)	"Orion City" single, 1998	6:02
8.	"You Shining Down" (Full Vocal Edit)	"You Shining Down" single, 1997	7:04
9.	"Flowtation" (Original Mix)	"Flowtation" single, 1996	7:23
10.	"Dark Angel" (Dark Heaven Mix)	"Darwin's Voyage" single, 1998	7:03
11.	"Exotic Mind" (Mind Edit)	"Exotic Mind" single, 1994	6:09
Total length:			77:36

Now, were there singles outside of the ones from this album? Yes, of course there were! And because it is de Moor's first album, we can include all singles released prior to it on our tracklist. While I've already covered one (the "Flagpoint" single in the above tracklist), that one was an exception as it is clearly a non-album single from these sessions (released at the same time as the other singles from this album and on the same record label, Rewind Records, which Vincent only used for the singles from this album). Now, not only are there other singles, there are B-sides to those singles. De Moor's standard method at first for B-sides is one track on the A-side and two on the B-side, all original. He later switched to the standard one A and one B system. So, if we put that all in a tracklist, what does it look like?

CD 3: More singles

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Systematic"	"Systematic" single, 1996	7:49
2.	"Close Encounters of the Second Mind"	"Systematic" single, 1996	6:50
3.	"Wipe Out"	"Systematic" single, 1996	7:14
4.	"Details"	"Details" single with Stef Vrolijk, 1997	8:09
5.	"Cocoon"	"Details" single with Stef Vrolijk, 1997	6:30
6.	"Atmospheric"	"Details" single with Stef Vrolijk, 1997	7:33
7.	"Take Control"	"Take Control" single, 1997	6:50
8.	"Meridian"	"Take Control" single, 1997	8:07
9.	"Shamu"	"Shamu" single, 1998	6:29
10.	"Spring Drops"	"Shamu" single, 1998	6:36
Total length:			71:49

CD 4: Even more singles

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Lover Lady"	"Lover Lady" single, 1998	6:32
2.	"Tracer"	"Lover Lady" single, 1998	7:49
3.	"Night Express 2000"	"Night Express 2000" single, 1998	6:17
4.	"Trinity"	"Night Express 2000" single, 1998	7:12
5.	"Lover Lady" (Dub Version)	"Lover Lady" single, 1998	5:41
6.	"Night Express 2000" (Hard Dub)	"Night Express 2000" single, 1998	6:46
Total length:			40:17

Alright, that's all of them. Although, that last disc is only using half of the space a CD is capable of holding. Should we cram it with remixes?

Fine.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
7.	"Orion City" (S 'N' S Mix)	"Orion City" single, 1998	6:15
8.	"You Shining Down" (Jon the Dentist Mix)	"You Shining Down" single, 2000	6:48
9.	"Flowtation" (Continuous Cool Mix)	"Flowtation" single, 1997	6:39
10.	"Shamu" (Armin Remix)	"Shamu" single, 1999	9:51
11.	"Orion City" (Moonman's Drift Mix)	"Orion City" single, 1998	6:35
Total length:			36:08 (76:25)

Alright, enough cramming.

Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby

I told you we'd end up here! This album is Fatboy Slim's most well known by a long shot. Featuring such tracks as "The Rockafeller Skank" ("right about now, the funk soul brother..."), "Right Here, Right Now" and "Praise You", these songs have been used in countless films, TV shows and adverts. But, Fatboy is quite the fan of the B-side, so what has he got?

Well, there are a good selection of B-sides from this album, however, most of them have already been covered in the Tenth anniversary bonus disc, which can be seen on the album's page. Most of them. And for us, most is not enough. We want all of them! So, let's do a quick look through the tracks they they missed on this disc.

Australian bonus track edition

• "How Could They Hear Us?"

"Praise You" single

• "Sho Nuff"

Wait, that's it? Huh. Okay, they were quite thorough with their collection. However, there do seem to be some other anomalies on their disc, namely the first three tracks. "Cowboy", "Radioactivity" and "Because We Can". The first was made for the Blade II film, which was released in 2002? Seems a bit off the mark for bonus track for an album from 1998, especially since he did an album in 2000. Even worse, the second, "Radioactivity", appeared on Fatboy's Late Night Tales album in... 2007?! Considering this was just a year before the tenth anniversary disc's release, this was probably included to be like "look, new music! ooooo look at this". Lastly, "Because We Can" was for the Moulin Rouge! film, released in 2001, one year after Fatboy Slim's album... after this one. Again, it's a bit far to reach in order to count it as a bonus track. Our disc won't include any of these then. However, the one other non-B-side on this disc, "Lounge Island", is allowed to stay, as it is a Fatboy remix of "Love Island", a track from this album. Speaking of which, the "Manumission Mix" of that track also counts, as it was also made by Fatboy himself in 1999. So, since that's rather a lot to add or remove, so let's just do a quick tracklist to round everything off.

CD 2: B-sides and more

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"How Could They Hear Us"	Australian bonus track edition	5:08
2.	"Love Island" (Manumission Mix)	Manumission: The Movie soundtrack, 1999	3:29
3.	"Always Read the Label"	"The Rockafeller Skank" single, 1998	5:52
4.	"Tweakers Delight"	"The Rockafeller Skank" single, 1998	3:06
5.	"The World Went Down"	"Gangster Trippin" single, 1998	6:41
6.	"Jack It Up (DJ Delite)"	"Gangster Trippin" single, 1998	4:03
7.	"Sho Nuff"	"Praise You" single, 1999	5:09
8.	"Don't Forget Your Teeth"	"Right Here, Right Now" single, 1999	5:32
9.	"Praise You (Original Version)"	"Right Here, Right Now" single, 1999	6:19
10.	"Lounge Island"	Tenth anniversary bonus disc	3:13
Total length:			49:34

The Beatles - 1

As you may have heard, in 2023, the Beatles re-entered the singles charts for the final time (or so we're told) with "Now and Then", a song written by John Lennon in 1977, attempted to be completed by the remaining three Beatles in 1996, and finally finished in 2021/2. So, yeah, this song was a long time coming. And it was treated as such, reaching number one in the UK, being their 18th number one single. The problem that you may have guessed, given the title of this section, is that The Beatles' 2000 compilation, 1, which includes all of their number one singles, has become outdated. Many have suggested that it should not be updated, as "Now and Then" shouldn't be put next to the rest of the Beatles catalogue. I don't agree, but even if you did want to update it, you'd likely run into a bit of a problem. That being that the 1 compilation, in its current form, is 78 minutes long, and "Now and Then" is four minutes long. Now, in case you need a quick recap, 78 + 4 is in fact 82, and 82 > 80. Therefore (or ∴ if you're still feeling the maths), "Now and Then" won't fit on the 1 compilation in CD form, and so we must give up and cry.

Or can we? I have come up with an alternate take on the album which rectifies one other issue people have with the album. A lot of people dislike how the album only includes songs that reached number one on the official UK and US charts, so songs like "Please Please Me", which reached number one on a number of UK charts but not the official one, are not included. This concept fixes that issue by accounting for all charts. I have gone through each single and checked the... Wikipedia page for it to see if it charted at number one anywhere. After putting all of these songs together, you get a double CD set, with "Now and Then" and a bunch of other new songs. I've made a tracklist here which lists where each track mentioned reached number one, except when there's way too many to count.

All tracks are written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted

Disc one

No.	Title	Charted at number one in	Length
1.	"Love Me Do"	Australia (Kent Music Report), New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade), US (Billboard, Cash Box)	2:22
2.	"Please Please Me"	UK (NME, Melody Maker, Disc)	2:00
3.	"From Me to You"	Ireland (IRMA), New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade), South Africa (Springbok), UK (OCC)	1:56
4.	"She Loves You"	A whole load of places	2:18
5.	"I Want to Hold Your Hand"	So many places	2:24
6.	"Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry)	Australia (Kent Music Report), Denmark (Salgshitlisterne)	2:48
7.	"I Saw Her Standing There"	Australia (Kent Music Report), Canada (CHUM), Denmark (Salgshitlisterne), New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade)	2:55
8.	"All My Loving"	Australia (Kent Music Report), Canada (CHUM), Finland (The Official Finnish Charts), Sweden (Kvällstoppen, Tio i Topp)	2:04
9.	"This Boy"	Canada (CHUM)	2:13
10.	"Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell)	Argentina (CAPTIF), Finland (The Official Finnish Charts), New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade), US (Cash Box)	2:32
11.	"Komm, gib mir deine Hand" (Lennon─McCartney, Jean Nicolas, Heinz Hellmer)	West Germany (Musikmarkt)	2:26
12.	"Can't Buy Me Love"	Too many people places	2:11
13.	"Do You Want to Know a Secret"	US (Teletheatre Research Institute)	1:56
14.	"A Hard Day's Night"	A bunch of places	2:34
15.	"I Should Have Known Better"	Chile (Billboard), Netherlands (Dutch Top 100), Norway (VG-lista)	2:44
16.	"If I Fell"	Norway (VG-lista)	2:22
17.	"I Feel Fine"	A good collection of places	2:25
18.	"Eight Days a Week"	Canada (RPM), Netherlands (Dutch Top 100), US (Billboard, Cash Box)	2:44
19.	"Ticket to Ride"	A good number of spots	3:10
20.	"Rock and Roll Music" (Berry)	Australia (Kent Music Report), Finland (The Official Finnish Charts), Norway (VG-lista), Sweden (Kvällstoppen)	2:30
21.	"Help!"	Loadsaplaces	2:18
22.	"Yesterday"	Belgium (Flanders Ultratop), Finland (The Official Finnish Charts), Netherlands (Dutch Top 100), Norway (VG-lista), Sweden (Kvällstoppen, Tio i Topp), US (Billboard, Cash Box)	2:03
23.	"We Can Work It Out"	A multitude of different countries	2:15
24.	"Day Tripper"	A similar case as its A-side	2:50
25.	"Michelle"	C'est trop position	2:40
26.	"Nowhere Man"	Australia (Kent Music Report), Canada (RPM), US (Record World)	2:44
27.	"Paperback Writer"	A reasonable group of places	2:16
28.	"Eleanor Rigby"	Australia (Go-Set), Belgium (Walloon Ultratop), Canada (RPM), New Zealand (Listener), UK (Record Retailer)	2:08
29.	"Yellow Submarine"	A lot more than the other A-side, I'll tell you that	2:38
Total length:			69:24

Disc two

No.	Title	Charted at number one in	Length
1.	"Strawberry Fields Forever"	Australia (Go-Set), Belgium (Walloon Ultratop), Netherlands (Dutch Top 100, Dutch Top 40), Norway (VG-lista), Sweden (Kvällstoppen)	4:07
2.	"Penny Lane"	"More places than John's song lmao" - Paul McCartney	3:03
3.	"All You Need Is Love"	A lot of places on our world	3:57
4.	"Hello, Goodbye"	Many, many, many places	3:27
5.	"I Am the Walrus"	Belgium (Walloon Ultratop)	4:33
6.	"Lady Madonna"	Plenty of places	2:16
7.	"Hey Jude"	HOLY MOLY THAT'S A LOT OF PLACES	7:12
8.	"Revolution"	Australia (Go-Set), Belgium (Walloon Ultratop), New Zealand (Listener)	3:21
9.	"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"	Australia (Go-Set, Kent Music Report), Austria (Ö3), Japan (Oricon), New Zealand (Listener), Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade), West Germany (Musikmarkt)	3:07
10.	"Get Back"	A bag of locations	3:13
11.	"The Ballad of John and Yoko"	More places than John listed in the song... I think	2:59
12.	"Something" (George Harrison)	Australia (Go-Set), Canada (RPM), New Zealand (Listener), US (Billboard), West Germany (Musikmarkt)	2:59
13.	"Come Together"	Australia (Go-Set), Belgium (Musikmarkt), US (Billboard, Cash Box), West Germany (Official German Charts)	4:19
14.	"Let It Be"	A good bracket of countries	3:50
15.	"The Long and Winding Road"	Canada (RPM), US (Billboard, Cash Box)	3:40
16.	"For You Blue" (Harrison)	Canada (Maple Leaf System), US (Billboard)	2:32
17.	"Got to Get You into My Life"	Canada (RPM)	2:27
18.	"Free as a Bird" (Lennon–McCartney–Harrison–Starkey)	Scotland (OCC)	4:26
19.	"Now and Then" (Lennon–McCartney–Harrison–Starkey)	Austria (Ö3), Germany (Official German Charts), UK (OCC)	4:08
Total length:			70:12

System F - Together

Following his breakout success in 1999, Ferry Corsten began becoming popular in many places, although strangely not his home country of the Netherlands. He got massive in the UK however, as his native genre of trance was heading to the Moon then. However, in 2000, he began getting popular in another region. Japan. Yes, the country famous for having people randomly become popular there was arguably Corsten's best market. In Japan, his supersaw heavy tracks, which relied on his trusty Roland JP-8000, began to gain traction. Because of this, his first album under the System F name was released early there, being put out in late 2000, while everyone else got it in early 2001. Not only that, but the Japanese also received a bonus track, titled "The Game". However, after the release of this album, you could tell Corsten was getting tired of the supersaw sound. Not just him, but everyone else too. Trance began to change, and split into two forms. One was utter cheese, created by record executives capitalising on trance's success in the charts and the clubs, and the other was the actual trance DJs trying to keep the genre going. Unfortunately, supersaw was the sound of the former, and worse, it was becoming the public's view of trance. The genre began to melt into cheese, and most people moved back to house music. However, in Japan, as they were late to get into trance, they were also late to leave it. What this meant was that Japanese fans of Corsten were asking for more supersaw when the rest of the world wanted less, Corsten included. By 2002, Corsten's new sound went on full display in his track "Punk", which was more on the electro side of trance. So even though Corsten had clearly moved on from the supersaw sound, the Japanese market still wanted more. And so, in early 2003, he released quite possibly his final supersaw-oriented work for some time, Together. The second and final album under the System F name, it is a solid hour of blinding melodies, each and every one of them fired out of a JP-8000. The album was released exclusively in Japan, probably because Corsten knew it would do all but good to his name if he released it anywhere else. Some singles were released outside the country, but the album itself never made it out of the Land of the Rising Sun. It was a reasonable success there, and while it never charted, it kept Corsten's name popular in Japan. "Spread Your Wings", a track from the album which sounds like an anime theme if I've ever heard one, was used in the 2003 anime TV show Area 88, alongside other trance tracks, including two other Corsten works.

So, did this album have any B-sides? No, of course it didn't. Corsten had finished with this sound before he had made the album, so it's likely he churned the whole thing out in about a month because his record company said they needed another album for Japan. The album isn't even available on streaming services, while the previous one, Out of the Blue, is featured with a bonus disc of more content! It's clear this album was just another pay-cheque for Corsten, and not a passion project. And so, anything that came out of the sessions would be placed on the album, with no room for B-sides. All B-sides on the singles would either be a track already on the album or, and this was especially the case in Japan, it would be a double A-side release, again featuring two tracks from the album.

Right, but if there's no B-sides, why am I bringing it up? Well, because if you go on the page for the album, you'll find that all of the tracks are between 3-4 minutes long. Seems like a weird thing to bring up, I know, but, some of these songs were eventually released on streaming services, although they appear in much longer formats. These were the true versions of these songs, the "Original Extended" versions. See the "original" in that phrase. However, if we were to try and put all of these songs onto a CD in replacement of their edited counterparts, we would find the CD would not be able to hold all of them, as we would go past the 80 minute limit. So, what now? Well, in a bygone era, long before CDs were invented, music enjoyers like you and I listened to music through different discs, known as vinyl records. These mystical discs could store music not in digital form, but in analogue. Without messing with the volume or fidelity of the record, it can store (roughly) up to 22 minutes per side, which is probably the reason why we moved to CDs. Hoewver, since these discs, unlike CDs, have two sides, it means as much as 44 minutes of music can be safely stored on a record. Still not great. However, if we multiply and gain another record, we can store 88 minutes of music, 8 minutes more than a single CD. Alright, now we're getting somewhere. However, the total length of the album, full length versions and all, is still over that. While some might view this as game over, there is one other thing I'd like to bring up.

There is one other piece of evidence that proves that this album is a quick buck for Corsten. It features a nice round 15 tracks, however two of those are a little... anomalous. One is "Dance Valley Theme 2001", a track made and released just a couple months after the Out of the Blue album was released (in areas outside of Japan). That track is also featured on the Out of the Blue bonus disc from 2010, essentially claiming it as an Out of the Blue bonus track rather than a Together one. And as if that isn't enough, the single release of the track had a song from Out of the Blue as a B-side. This is clearly not a track from this album, and simply something Corsten threw on last minute to make a longer tracklist. Not only that, but the album contains a "special bonus track by Gouryella", another one of Corsten's aliases. I shouldn't have to point out why this is a quick track that he threw on to bloat the tracklist, but in case you don't get it, songs from one alias shouldn't really be put on an album from another. It's even worse when the track in question had already been released as a single with no mention of the album on the sleeve. In short, "special bonus track" is basically code here for "we've got nothing else to give you". So, dropping those two from the tracklist, and it fits! Right then, let's get tracklisting!

Side one

1. "Together" (Original Extended) – 6:40
2. "The Sonnet" (Original Extended) – 10:59

Side two

1. "Ignition, Sequence, Start!" (Original Extended) – 7:02
2. "Déjà Vu" – 3:55
3. "Spaceman" (Original Extended) – 7:00
4. "Savannah" – 3:45

Side three

1. "Pegasus" (Original Extended) – 6:39
2. "Reaching Your Soul" (Original Extended) – 9:02
3. "Devotion" – 4:21

Side four

1. "Underwater" (Original Extended) – 6:01
2. "Solarize" – 4:51
3. "Q-Rious" – 3:45
4. "Spread Your Wings" (Original Extended) – 6:43

And, looking at this tracklist, it fits really well when split up on vinyl. "Ignition, Sequence, Start!" is a great opener, just as "Savannah" is a great closer. "Pegasus" has a completely different vibe to "Savannah" so separating them onto different discs, even though they are just next to one another on the tracklist, makes the album flow much better than the quick jump of one style to the next which you find on the CD. And while you may argue that vinyl is an obsolete format, it has recently gained much popularity. And the fact that the vinyl version is the one which features the extended versions is a good little nugget, as extended versions of songs tended to be the versions on 12" vinyl records, which is why full length versions are sometimes called the 12" Mix or Version. This in turn was because DJs used 12" records to mix with, and so to a DJ of the time, especially since each side begins with an extended version, this would be quite a good Ferry collection, and maybe one to keep in their record bag.