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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Hard to say. Each album has a couple tracks the other doesn't have. And the song order is different but I've never understood the reasoning behind the two different versions of the album.
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The record company as usual probably thought that the rearrangement of the song order and inclusion of certain material not in the other would be beneficial to the public reception of the album. Micro-marketing.
As for bonus tracks in Japan, it's probably to deter them from buying imports before the record is released on their home turf. Possible larger discrepancy in release dates?? Alternatively it may be that there are different expectations of the length of an LP there, so that anything falling short of that length will end up with added material.