CDs where a track was cut from the album "to fit music on one cd"

Probably the most irritating thing in my opinion is to see where a record label decided to eliminate a track "to make it fit on one cd." They did it with Gord's Gold and "An Affair on 8th Avenue." Are there others that you can think of where that's happened?

 

The original CD release of The Cure’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me omitted “Hey You”.

Same deal with the “Why Can’t I Be You” extended remix on Mixed Up.

 

Don Henley dropped A Month of Sundays from the vinyl of Building the Perfect Beast.

Trisha Yearwood just dropped a COUPLE from her latest record on vinyl in 2020....

LA Guns Cocked and Loaded....I feel like that was missing the last track on vinyl.

It was actually fairly normal toward the end of the vinyl run. They would call them "bonus tracks"...available "only on CD and cassette"...which translates to "ONLY not on vinyl".

 

The OP is asking about CDs, not vinyl.

 

RUSH: All The Worlds a Stage.
What You're Doing is missing on the original CD

 

D.M.S.R. was dropped from the original CD release of 1999.

 

Roy Harper - Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion omitted 3 tracks - Home (studio), Too Many Movies (live) and Home (live) and added them to the CD of Valentine.

Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus omitted 2 tracks - Don't Bogart That Joint and A Apolitical Blues

 

The James Gang 16 Greatest Hits became their 15 Greatest Hits when it was released on CD.

 

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth: The first releases on CD omitted four of the ambient tracks that were included on the original double LP. Only in Japan was the album issued on 2 CDs with the full track list. In the rest of the world, the full version only became available in 2003.

 

Aretha Franklin's One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism dropped some of the spoken word sermonizing. They made the original album a bit windy so it didn't hurt, but on the other hand they cut one of the better ones by Jesse Jackson.

Also the Jam's Snap!

 

There was a Big Star twofer that cut two songs for reasons of time. Ack.

 

The Jam’s compilation double album had several songs cut for the CD version which was also renamed Compact Snap!
(“Compact” meaning CD but also seemingly indicating it has been trimmed to fit on one disc)

 

Live Rust had two tracks edited for the CD release (Cortez the Killer and ... one other one)

 

"Passage to Bangkok" from Exit Stage Left.

 

Original CD versions of
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Scorpions World Wide Live ( think it may have been all tracks but edited for time)
Dokken Beast From The East (Except the Japanese release)

 

Wasn't a track lopped off of Ozzy's "Speak of the Devil" CD too?



Dan

 

Fortunately for me the MFSL version of Waiting For Columbus restored them but of course on 2 CDs.

 

Thanks! This helps as I consider what albums to buy. Gord's Gold was one of them.

 

Pretty sure Guns N Roses dropped a track called Atlas Shrugged from Chinese Democracy due to time restraints.

 

Extreme - III Sides to Every Story sadly left Don't Leave Me Alone off the Cd for time

 

I think the first U.S. CD of English Settlement by Xtc is lacking one or two tracks from the 2-LP set. But since that's the only version I've ever owned, I couldn't even tell you what they are!

 

"Leisure" and "Down In the Cockpit" are missing from early CDs. I prefer those two to "Fly On the Wall" and "Snowman".

 

I seem to recall there were some truncations with Blonde on Blonde...

 

Fleetwood Mac's "Sara" was shortened on the original Tusk CD .