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23skidoo 9th Jun 2018		CD Album Mason Williams - The Mason Williams Ear Show (2013)	Track 9 is actually performed (per the liner notes) by Mason Williams and Jennifer Warren (before she changed her last name to Warnes). Same with Track 4. Corrections submitted.
23skidoo 6th May 2018		CD Album Rogue Traders - Here Come The Drums (2005)	My copy is the exact same (including catalogue number and UPC), only it's credited to Columbia and Sony BMG, not Ariola.
23skidoo 4th May 2018		CD Album The Brothers-in-Law - The Brothers-in-Law Volume 2 (2008)	The Expose 67 section is missing one track, "This Land is Whose Land?" which was on early pressings of the LP before a legal issue required its removal. "Gerda" was also removed from the album, but has been reinstated for the CD.
23skidoo 14th Apr 2018		CD Album Tom Jackson - That Side Of The Window Special Edition (1999)	Unable to upload a scan of the cover due to the insert being damaged. Hoping to find another image of it. The cover is slightly different to the standard edition.
23skidoo 14th Apr 2018		CD Album Katy Perry - One Of The Boys (2008)	Canadian pressing has same UPC and catalogue number
23skidoo 13th Apr 2018		CD Album George Thorogood And The Destroyers - Greatest Hits: 30 Years Of Rock (2004)	Canadian edition has same catalogue number and UPC. Only difference is the image of the snake on the label is broke up by a silver ring around the spindle on the disc itself. (I tried to scan but my scanner doesn't like scanning shiny objects like CDs.)
23skidoo 13th Apr 2018		CD Album Vangelis - Blade Runner (1994)	The info on this has an error - Mary Hopkin is on Rachel's Song, not Memories of Green. I've submitted a correction.
23skidoo 13th Apr 2018		CD Album She And Him - Classics (2014)	I have the Canadian pressing of this. It has the same catalogue number and UPC - except my version is in a standard jewel case. Other than that one difference the releases are identical so I'm not bothering with a Canadian version index.
23skidoo 11th Apr 2018		CD Album Various Artists - 100 Greatest Seventies (2017)	Some weird glitch happening on the Disc 5 listing - each track is listed twice.
23skidoo 8th Apr 2018		CD Album Kate Bush - This Woman's Work Anthology 1978-1990 (1990)	The image of the Japanese version of this set shows it to be identical to this version, so with thanks to the person who took the image and uploaded it originally, I've uploaded it here too since there's no need to reinvent the wheel on this.
23skidoo 7th Apr 2018		CD Album Chuck Berry - Chuck (2017)	@whitewhale1965. I agree. It was a mind-blowing surprise to learn of this album's release not very long after Chuck died. I wasn't sure what to expect - but this was by far his best album since the 1960s, all new tracks recorded during the last couple of years of his life (though Jamaica Moon is actually a remake of his early hit, Havana Moon). The guy was in his late 80s but could still get the job done. A real gift.
23skidoo 5th Apr 2018		CD Album Enya - Enya (1988)	@whitewhale1965 - Almost identical; the later reissue under "The Celts" title replaces the track "Portrait" with one called "Out of the Blue" - which is the exact same composition as "Portrait", just a longer performance that was recorded a year or so after the BBC album was made for use as the flipside to Orinoco Flow.
23skidoo 28th Jun 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - American Recordings (2006)	I had a chance to compare the booklets for the US and Canadian pressings of this. The American version includes a standalone miniature reprint of the handwritten document by Cash. The Canadian version makes it part of the foldout booklet instead (which is less cool but easier to read!).
23skidoo 27th Jun 2015		CD Album Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (1997)	Does it say whether Kate herself was involved in the remastering? I tend to be a bit more forgiving if the original artist makes audio changes than if a third party comes in and tinkers around. Remastering can be damaging. Lots of classic rock tracks from the 1950s from Elvis to Bill Haley have been remastered to remove things like echo and the songs often sound flat as a result.
23skidoo 21st Jun 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - The Best Of The Johnny Cash TV Show 1969-1971 (2007)	I have this CD but the track listing and cat no. are slightly different. Here is the track listing on the version I have with cat # 88697 21230 2: Cash: I Walk the Line (The Johnny Cash Show Open) Cash: Flesh and Blood Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man George Jones: She Thinks I Still Care/Love Bug/The Race is On Cash and Lynn Anderson: I've Been Everywhere * Bobby Bare: Detroit City Ray Charles: Ring of Fire * (Ronstadt track omitted) Derek and the Dominos: It's Too Late * (A Boy Named Sue omitted) Kris Kristofferson: Loving Her Was Easier Roy Orbison: Only the Lonely/Oh Pretty Woman Cash with the Carter Sisters/Statler Bros: Belshazzar Waylon Jennings: Brown Eyed Handsome Man Cash and Joni Mitchell: Girl from the North Country James Taylor: Fire and Rain * Cash, Carter Family, Statler Bros, Carl Perkins, Tennessee Three: Daddy Sang Bass Cash: I Walk the Line
23skidoo 11th Jun 2015		CD Album Petula Clark - Tell Me Truly (1994)	@mister_tmg Sad to hear. Are the 78s in question particularly rare? I bought a Bill Haley CD once that had an awful transfer of a couple of 78s but it was forgiven because at the time the source used was the best known copy of that particular 78. (Fortunately a later compilation was able to obtain a cleaner copy and also used updated digital remastering to clean it up.) In the case of this CD obviously the key is to see if there are any other releases (vinyl or CD) or these 78s and compare the sound.
23skidoo 5th Jun 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - Country Christmas (1992)	Ultra obscure CD recorded by Johnny Cash and released in-between his Mercury Records and American Records contracts. It could be said that this was the last "old-school" album Cash ever recorded (i.e. of the type he often did during his time at Columbia) before moving on to more modern recordings under Rick Rubin. Wikipedia suggests there was a release on Delta Records in 1991 but I haven't been able to locate one earlier than this 1992 LaserLight release.
23skidoo 22nd May 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - The Soul Of Truth: Bootleg Vol. IV (2012)	For those seeking to collect the complete Johnny Cash canon on CD, this 2-CD set contains the complete contents of two albums (actually three if you include the unreleased 1975 set) that were omitted from the otherwise exhaustive The Complete Columbia Album Collection.
23skidoo 8th May 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - The Complete Columbia Album Collection (2012)	Definitely the biggest CD set I have ever purchased! Although it's not actually complete - two albums, Destination Victoria Station and the Columbia version of A Believer Speaks the Truth are omitted and I was annoyed that the contents of the earlier Bootleg series weren't incorporated - this is an amazing survey of one man's career. Not everything is a gem, but there are many treasure to be found here. You also learn what songs Cash really loved - note the multiple versions (live and studio) of I Still Miss Someone, for example. PS I will be adding a photo of the box in the near future but if someone wants to jump ahead, feel free. PPS It has been called to my attention that there is a discrepancy in the title of the Larry Gatlin song Cash recorded for the Gospel Road soundtrack (Disc 32-33). A number of sources say the title of the song was "Help Me" (and Elvis covered it under this title) however on the Gospel Road album the song was simply titled "Help".
23skidoo 30th Apr 2015		CD Album Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me (2004)	The version I indexed carries the Parental Advisory: Explicit Content label (Canadian version with English and French). I have a very vague memory that there might have been a censored version of this album also released in 2004, but I cannot confirm.
23skidoo 29th Apr 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - Live Around The World: Bootleg Vol. III (2011)	Although I've seen some reference to the White House concert being complete on this CD, that isn't the case as there are a number of performances from the show that aren't included. What is included are Richard Nixon's opening remarks which give some historical context as apparently the show took place the day Apollo 13 returned safely to earth. Cash also changes the ending of A Boy Named Sue to reference his newborn son. Read Robert Hilburn's "Johnny Cash: The Life" to find out why Pete Seeger sounds a little snarky towards Cash in his introduction to the Newport show (and perhaps why Cash himself sounds a little odd). The NCO Club show is fascinating because the audience is actually more rowdy and demanding than the prisoners Cash had recently played for at Folsom. At one point you hear him apparently abandon an attempt at doing a duet with June and instead launch into one of his older hits.
23skidoo 29th Apr 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town / Boom Chicka Boom (2003)	Omnibus of two of Cash's little-known albums for Mercury Records. I think both were also separately released on CD. From the 2003 release date likely this came out after Cash's death.
23skidoo 27th Apr 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - Out Among The Stars (2014)	Although promoted as a major posthumous release for Cash, this also allows fans of June Carter Cash to enjoy two additional duets with her husband, plus Waylon Jennings also gets posthumous recognition here. There's also a cameo by country comedy legend Minnie Pearl who died a few years after recording her part of this album (I won't spoil the surprise by saying where she turns up). Although John Carter Cash reportedly had to perform some surgery on these tracks, it sounds like this would have been quite a good release back in the day if Cash hadn't lost confidence in Columbia. There were a couple albums' worth of Gospel songs Cash also recorded around this time that he never bothered giving to Columbia, either, releasing them on private labels, though Columbia got them in the end, putting them out on the Bootleg IV collection.
23skidoo 27th Apr 2015		CD Album Danny Kaye - Danny Kaye Vol. 2: For Kids (2006)	Track 15 isn't taken from the soundtrack to the movie, but is a later condensed version of the film story. Running more than 9 minutes, it was originally released as a two-part 45 single but this release edits the two into one track.
23skidoo 16th Apr 2015		CD Album Bill Haley And His Comets - Bill Haley`s Greatest Hits! (1991)	CD insert erroneously gives a running time of 3:00 for "Hook, Line and Sinker". This and the fact it's a CD-exclusive bonus track, may make it appear that it's an alternate take, but it is the same as the album and single release from 1956.
23skidoo 16th Apr 2015		CD Album Bill Haley And His Comets - From The Original Master Tapes (1985)	Earliest known CD release in the US of Haley's 1950s Decca recordings. Notable for using source material that lacked later overdubs, so as a result there is no handclapping (or band shouts) during "Rudy's Rock", an awkward vocal line in "Don't Knock the Rock" is retained, a clunking sound during a verse of "See You Later Alligator", and an unidentified voice (likely pianist Johnny Grande) is heard speaking the words "One, two..." as a count-in to "Rock Around the Clock" before Haley starts singing; this edit of Clock has been reissued many times since.
23skidoo 16th Apr 2015		CD Album Various Artists - The Unbroken Circle (2004)	It should be noted that Engine 143 was recorded by Johnny Cash only three weeks before he died and according to John Carter Cash was the last song he ever recorded. June Carter Cash is also featured posthumously.
23skidoo 12th Apr 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - The Legend Of Johnny Cash (2005)	I'm very impressed with the scope of this CD which manages to cover virtually all of the major bases in Cash's career (granted with the 1970s and 1980s underrepresented, with Cash's Mercury recordings overlooked completely) in only 21 tracks. This is quite literally the only CD to give to anyone who is unfamiliar with Cash. Odds are they will want more.
23skidoo 11th Apr 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (2000)	Legend of John Henry's Hammer is utterly incredible and I am gobsmacked that this performance - in my opinion one of the greatest live performances of a single song Cash ever gave - was not only left off the original album but sat unreleased for decades afterwards. It's not perfect - Cash loses focus near the end when he cracks up after the prisoners latch on to an unintended double entendre in the lyrics - but it still manages to be just as atmospheric as the original studio version. And what makes it more amazing is this 7-minute wonder was actually performed by request (or at least we're led to believe it's a request, as it features a very specific piece of percussion instrument that I can't imagine they'd have just carried with them on the off chance someone asked for a non-single number from a 6-year-old album).
23skidoo 11th Apr 2015		CD Album Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash At San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert) (2000)	The booklet is almost as fascinating as the CD (it's the same booklet in the US release), especially where Cash himself writes about the famous middle finger photo. You can tell that Johnny has a bit of a chip on his shoulder - he clearly didn't want to be filmed, for one thing. And I think he was (perhaps understandably) nervous about the San Quentin song (the joke about whether the guards will still speak to him - seen in the video clip - sounds pretty earnest), though not nervous enough to deny the prisoners an immediate encore. (Amazingly, given the space limitations of vinyl LPs, the original vinyl release features both performances of the song.) You also hear on the extended CD Cash talking about that song coming up and also mentioning, a number of songs before doing it, his new Boy Named Sue song. A song that was so new to Cash that the filmed performance reveals that he actually sang it while reading the lyrics. I actually prefer the Folsom Prison album (especially the extended version with the amazing Legend of John Henry's Hammer) but this is a fantastic set, too. If Cash never recorded anything else after these two, he'd have had more than enough classics to be immortalized.

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