The bonus tracks are better than the album!
 

...ok, so bonus tracks are a complete rip, but sometimes they turn out to be better than the actual album (usually when the original release wasn't anything to write home about).


First artist that comes to mind: Elvis Costello.. His catalogue has been rereleased a million times, but in some cases (Armed Forces, Goodbye Cruel World, Get Happy!!!, and especially Punch The Clock), the extra tracks are, at the least, worthy of standing alongside the album. I listen to the bonus disc of Punch The Clock far more than I listen to the album which, aside from Shipbuilding, doesn't have much on it.

Risking the ire of diehard Echo fans, I'll say that I don't really care for Heaven Up Here; the four live tracks, on the other hand, are spectacular. I really wish HUH had been a live release; that would have been something fantastic.


Thoughts/additions?

all of coheed and cambria's bonus tracks are so much better than then the rest of the album especialy "21:13" of in keeping secrets of silent earth is an amazing track compared to the rest of the album

I used to think that the 3 best tracks on The Fall's Frenz Experiment album were the 3 singles. Ghost In My House , Victoria & Hit The North.

It wasn't until later that I discovered that The Fall never put singles on albums and that they'd only been added as extras for the CD re-release.

Apart from one other song the rest of that album is pants.

I'm guilty of listening to the bonus disc of Punch the Clock more than the actual album itself too, same goes for whenever I choose to listen to Goodbye Cruel World.

Also, 'We Have a Technical', a bonus track on Gary Numan's 'Replicas' is definitely one of the best songs he's ever done

i love the swan songs album by hollywod undead as a whole, but the bonus track "knife called lust" is easily HU's best track ever

Hmm, that makes me think of "This Charming Man" on The Smiths (much better than anything on side 1, and better than most of side 2) and "Life Begins At The Hop" on XTC's Drums & Wires (great album, but Life Begins really stands out). Heck, why not "How Soon Is Now" from Meat Is Murder?

In fact, back to Costello, the tracks that conclude the first three albums in their most popular versions (Watching The Detectives, Radio Radio, What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, & Understanding) were originally singles, and were tacked onto the albums for their American releases. Most people will argue that those tracks are highlights of the albums.