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Old 01-07-2009, 02:31 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen View Post
Often, tracks are removed or replaced on one version for objectionable content.

It may also be a question of formats. Magical Mystery Tour of the Beatles was always an EP with 6 songs on it in the original release. In the States, Capitol decided that the EP format is unlikely to be a big seller, so they made it into an LP, reordering the tracks on the first side and adding all the Beatles' singles of the time on the second side.
What about an album like Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry by the Cure? The two versions are almost the exact same length and I don't think the changes had anything to do with objectionable content.
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