CD's that have the bonus tracks in the middle of the album

I like the idea of the bonus tracks in the middle, assuming the album in question originally came out on LP, and assuming they are unique tracks and not alternates. This way, the respective sides are left intact, and the CD ends the same way the album ends.

 

The last two Kenny Wayne Shepherd CDs have had them in the spaced in the middle.

I think it's dumb, put em' at the end.

 

Somehow, it works for me...that way

 

Probably not the first, but the Japanese reissue of The Pop Group's Y inserted the single "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" at the beginning. The Rhino reissue added another track at the beginning, but made the original bonus track appear part of the original album.

 

I'm surprised nobody mentioned it, but Roxy Music's debut has "Virginia Plain" in the middle.

 

The original Shot of Love LP by Bob Dylan didn't have "Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar" but the subsequent CD releases had it right in the middle

 

The Best Buy-exclusive of Rick Springfield's "Rocket Science" has two bonus tracks mixed amongst the other tracks.

 

Yarbirds "Roger the Engineer" Edsel Yellow Cover (1986).

It inserts the single (Happenings Ten Years Time Ago/Psycho Daisies) right in the middle instead of the end

 

Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Brian didn't plan on having Sloop John B on the album at all, but the song had been a hit, so Capitol insisted that it be on the record. It was put at the end of side one, separated from the preceeding songs by the instrumental "Let's Go Away For Awhile". So this bonus track in the middle of an album predates CDs by 25 years.

I never listen to Sloop John B in that middle of the album. It's a much more satisfying experience for me to go directly from "Let's Go Away For Awhile" to "God Only Knows".

 

Reissue of Danzig's Blackacidevil has three added songs as tracks 6, 10, and 13. CD reissue of the Misfits Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood has Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight? from the Die, Die My Darling single added as track 6 with the other two at the end.

 

Mr. Mister - Go On
inserted "Bare My Soul" at the side break.

 

I recall reading somewhere that putting the bonus tracks in the middle was Andy Partridge's idea, so that each album would keep its original ending.

Another album with interspersed bonus tracks is the Voiceprint reissue of Jon Anderson's Christmas album 3 Ships.

 

Charles Mingus - 'Let My Children Hear Music' reissue...'Taurus in the Arena of Life' is the 4th track on the CD.

 

As does the latest Megadeth that I got there on the same day

 

Don't think it was mentioned but European issues of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" had "Into the Groove" put in the middle. I don't know if this counts but Kylie's "Light Years" had a bonus track "Password" put in even before track 1 plays (you have to manually "rewind" the first track on your cd player for the track to play).

 

I didn't find "Password" for YEARS on my copy of the album.

 

The Smiths' debut has This Charming Man added in the middle on most CD versions

 

Marillion 'Going Under' in the middle of Clutching At Straws
Phil Collins 'Heat On The Street' and 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' in the middle of But Seriously
The Blow Monkeys 'Walking The Bluebeat' in the middle of Animal Magic
Living In A Box 'Superheroes' in the middle of the Living In A Box s/t cd
It Bites 'Till The End Of Time', 'Vampires' and 'Charlie' placed in different positions on the various editions of Eat Me In St Louis
Daryl Hall & John Oates 'Rip It Up' in the middle of the japanese edition of Change Of Season

 

Rory Gallagher Live in Europe CD – BMG Entertainment (Strange Music Ltd / RCA)

Messin' with the Kid
Laundromat
I could’ve had Religion
Pistol Slapper Blues
Going to my Home Town
In your Town
What in the World
Hoodoo Man
Bullfrog Blues

 

Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather has The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) as a sort of bonus track in the middle. The AF CD is the go to version for that one.

 

John Fahey's America now has 41 minutes if music (ie more than its original running length) added at its very beginning (along with a slightly different sequence to its initial sequence).

 

Join the club. A neat, but stupid thing for them to have done.