Favourite Bonus Tracks

Waste of raw material and really stupid if they would fit on one disc . Hit the stop button if you dont want them.

Lou Reed‘s Coney Island Baby has got some awesome bonus tracks which fit perfectly.

 

I agree. Lots of Jethro Tull bonus tracks are essential. One of them, "Jack-A-Lynn (early version)" on the New Shoes Edition of Heavy Horses has become one of my favorite JT tracks:

 

All great tracks:
Wond'ring Aloud, Again
Paradise Steakhouse
Old Aces Die Hard
Everything In Our Lives
Living In These Hard Times
Beltane
Botanic Man
Kelpie
Crossword
Man of God
Urban Apocalypse
Broadford Bazaar (one of my favourites)

 

All great songs! I like Dun Ringill as well.

 

Disc 2 of Radiohead’s In Rainbows

 

Alanis Morissette-Permission, 2012

 

“Sooner Or Later” cover by Pete Townshend
“Silver Springs” Fleetwood Mac
“When The Tigers Broke Free” Pink Floyd

 

The Crossing added to Big Country's The Crossing on the 1996 re-issue. It's the best song on the album, too! (Well, in my humble opinion.)

 

Enya-Storms In Africa II, 1989
Was issued as a bonus on later manufactures of Watermark after the single release.

 

Actually tracked down the 12 inch single for that tune, incredible! Nice live cover of Tracks of My Tears

 

Great song but it doesn't belong half way through The Final Cut

 

Best group of bonus songs Ive ever heard is the Rascals Greatest Hits CD, 5 amazing songs added on to what was "Time Peace" before. They were apparently going in a gospel rock direction, and they were great at it

Ray of Hope
Heaven
Carry Me Back
Glory Glory

and especially the wonderfully furious rocker "See"

 

The electric "Can't Find My Way Home" from Blind Faith

"Pure & Easy" from Who's Next

'Jack Rabbit" and "Screw You Blues' from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

"Madman Across the Water" --with Mick Ronson on guitar--from Tumbleweed Connection.

 

The 2013 remix on the Nirvana - In Utero reissue
The remix on REM’s Monster reissue

 

State/BLT-Shep
Brotherhood, 1986
New Order

 

Covenant
Northern Light, 2002
Bullet (Funky Indian)/Don't Go

 

I think a lot of times they make the bonus tracks fit by giving us only a few of them from the vault. I agree with you on the waste of materials aspect, but I'd rather have a collected amount of unreleased material on a separate disc, rather than shoving them onto the artist's completed work.

Back when they released The Beatles catalogue on CD, I thought it was a rip-off that those first albums weren't combined on a twofer, like Capitol did with the Beach Boys first albums. In retrospect, I think it was wise. And the Past Masters albums do a wonderful job of compiling and completing...so much so that they are terrific stand-alone releases.

I sometimes do hit the stop button. Sometimes I don't. But I'm never dissatisfied with having a CD finish with the artist's last intended song.

 

First one that came to mind, Marshall Crenshaw's You're My Favorite Waste of Time. The bside to Someday Someway and bonus track on his self titled cd.

 

The Who:
Time is Passing
Too Much of Anything
I Don’t Even Know Myself

 

Bon Jovi - Save a Prayer

Bonus track on 'Keep The Faith' international edition

 

Scorpions - Daddy's Girl

Bonus track on the original 'Face The Heat' CD

 

Bon Jovi - Never Say Goodbye

Bonus track on 'Cross Road' international edition

 

"The Black Crow Knows" and "Tell Me About Your Drugs" are high points of Robyn Hitchcock's Element Of Light CD.

 

The Smiths - This Charming Man

 

Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe