Music Banter - View Single Post - US and UK versions of albums (and others): why do they exist?

Rainard Jalen · 01-07-2009, 02:24 PM

Often, tracks are removed or replaced on one version for objectionable content.

It may also be a question of formats. Magical Mystery Tour of the Beatles was always an EP with 6 songs on it in the original release. In the States, Capitol decided that the EP format is unlikely to be a big seller, so they made it into an LP, reordering the tracks on the first side and adding all the Beatles' singles of the time on the second side.

01-07-2009, 02:24 PM	#5 (permalink)
Rainard Jalen Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,221	Often, tracks are removed or replaced on one version for objectionable content. It may also be a question of formats. Magical Mystery Tour of the Beatles was always an EP with 6 songs on it in the original release. In the States, Capitol decided that the EP format is unlikely to be a big seller, so they made it into an LP, reordering the tracks on the first side and adding all the Beatles' singles of the time on the second side.