There are 3 types of deluxe editions 1. The “original” deluxe. Back in the day the standard and the deluxe would come out at the same time at like a $2-$3 difference. You would get like 2-3 bonus songs or maybe a dvd. 2. The “New” deluxe. Basically everything we’ve gotten recently which is basically a whole new album attached to the other tracks. 3. The “compilation” deluxe. When an important album reaches a milestone and you get all of the demos, b-sides, live tracks, and leftovers, usually coming in a expensive box set.
@@frds_skce There can be alternate versions of songs that sound completely different from the final product, even some under a different song title. There can be unreleased tracks that could've ended up on the final release but did not, and even versions of songs that sounded better than the final release as well. Compilation albums are the way to go.
@@_PuppetMaster86 @The Hive Productions I jest, but i've seen fair number of actually good compilation album that does include different variation of songs which usually follow the trope of: base song, instrumental, the studio version, and whatever more. But what I would call as shitty move when doing compilation album is that to include every tiny bit of different song that completely change nothing, but the buzzing noise included as its not 'the final product'. The 1st take, 2nd take, all shitty things included. Yes, i'm looking at you, John Lennon's Imagine Ultimate Collection album.
@@frds_skce I disagree with your point for the Imagine Ultimate Collection album as the alternate, stripped down version of “Power To The People” and alternate versions of the song, “Imagine” (with the one that included the keyboard rather than the piano, both with sound like they could've been later Beatles tracks. Same could be said for the studio version of “Gimme Some Truth”. All awesome.
Compilation Deluxes are super cool. Even when deluxes only add a little bit of extra content (Like the Live In Prague tracks from Green Day’s recent 25th Anniversary Edition of Insomniac), it’s still really nice to see a few bonus songs/alternate takes/live versions you haven’t heard before. :)
The craziest deluxe I’ve ever heard is future’s INLY deluxe, because it came out like 3 days after the “standard” edition came out, even though the deluxe just feels like it completes the album. I feel like the album just wasn’t finished yet and he released the rest of it as a “deluxe”
Disagree IMO, the deluxe tracks sounded nothing like the original album and ruined it. + the original version is nowhere to be found now on streaming and the even removed the "(Deluxe)" from it, making the deluxe edition the only version now. Which is a shame IMO
Wasn’t After Hours deluxe edition released not long after the standard edition, too? The same with Dawn FM, but it only added one original track that was already out for a few months anyways.
Lately I've gotten really annoyed at Spotify sometimes *only* having the deluxe versions of albums. Usually when I'm trying a new album, I want to hear the original-- then if I'm absolutely blown away and love the artist, I might consider the deluxe version. However, since most deluxe versions are bloated with demos, boring live cuts, or clearly unfinished songs, it's usually not worth my time. One rare exception to this, interestingly, is the extended version of Lorde's debut album, Pure Heroine. You get the 4 songs from the Love Club EP that aren't in the base album, another catchy track in the iTunes version ("No Better"), and cap it all off with an excellent cover of The Replacements' "Swingin' Party." Deluxe editions as a whole would be a lot more attractive if they did this more often, incorporating EP-only tracks or non-album singles to add to the album instead of giving me 12 live tracks and some demos.
I really like the extent of pure heroine, sucks that Apple Music or Lorde or someone on her idk removed the Deluxe of the album on Apple Music but “the love club” ep is still on there
I only like listening to the original versions of the albums, especially if it's a concept album, so when you add a ton of extra bullshit it's kinda annoying, especially if I can't just listen to the normal one without making a playlist
There’s nothing sadder than seeing your favourite artist start dropping singles expecting a new project only to realize they were hyping a deluxe with two extra songs
After Hours is one of the best Deluxes out there. I already loved it to death, but ending it on Until I Bleed Out seemed kinda awkward. Then The Weeknd dropped the last 3 tracks and they were ON PAR, if not BETTER than the entire album itself. It felt like finding the missing piece to a puzzle.
I honestly liked Until I Bleed Out as the ending, since it kinda implies that he dies at the end of the album. The deluxe tracks are great though, Nothing Compares is one of his best tbh
@@evileye1199 I think Final Lullaby is one of his best, and probably the best on After Hours. It’s kind of weird how much Missed You sucks in comparison, though. Definitely my least favorite track on the album.
If you think Chris Brown amount of tracks in Indigo is bad, take a look at his other album, Heartbreak of a Full Moon Deluxe Christmas Edition, it has 57 songs on there which is very bizarre.
Thanks so much for saying it. Artists take existing material and double the length with mediocre cuts, maybe some occasional bangers-its like bro I'm eating good, you dropped, don't starve me. Just take the bonus tracks, refine the material, add some songs, AND DROP A NEW PROJECT. Save your energy and time.
I was laughing so hard at that situation! The cat reaction image I saw on a tweet about it didn't help lmaoooo I was laughing for a whole hour at that cat photo
@@nathanialisalongverylongnamelmao it’s a lot but you can tell there is care in each song. Also w/ midnights 3am and till dawn I feel like it was cool and a funny bit but yeah I agree it makes it kinda bloated on websites and stuff and it’s all one work annoyingly split.
The worst instance is Taylor swift dropping anything. I don't mind some of her songs but it feels like my tl is being flooded by swift news and it's just annoying ...
i like the artists and bands that just put everything on one album and be done with it. i dont wanna be scrolling 10 minutes through their spotify discography just to see each song repeat itself 5 times
On Spotify anyway, the thing that frustrates me about Deluxe albums is that sometimes that’s all you can find. So if I don’t want to listen to a bunch of demos or live performances I’ve got to figure out where the original tracklist ends for myself.
plus some albums mix the deluxe songs in with the originals (lookin' at you, WUNNA). sometimes this is actually a good thing (Deante' Hitchcock's album BETTER has way better structure on the deluxe) but often it isn't
I mean, considering how much backlash some albums face for being 15-18 tracks long, I can understand why someone would want to release a 12 track album and then release the rest in the deluxe version. It doesn’t matter for the listener, but for critic appraisal and awards, it’s something.
@@bon01_ yup. Every other album review nowadays has “too long” as one of the negative points. Critics absolutely want albums to be in the 10-12 songs range.
For an album without a high concept/concept album and a clear specific artistic vision, I’d say 8-12 tracks is a perfect album length. However, for albums with a lot of ground to cover within a certain concept, and/or the artist wants to explore many aspects of their artistic vision, I will always be willing to sit through 15-18 tracks, or even a bit more (if it’s good of course, lol). It just depends on the album. For instance, I really enjoy This Is It by The Strokes, and that’s 11 tracks. But some of my favorite albums of all time are ones with solid concepts that take longer than 8-12 tracks to achieve the best version. Some of my favorites are Wild World (Complete Edition) by Bastille (19 tracks; 1 hr 6 min), Trench by Twenty One Pilots (14 tracks; 56 min 9 sec), and Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons (13 songs; 50 min 51 sec). The length of tracks is also an important distinguishing factor between shorter and longer albums-as you can see, Trench is only 10 minutes shorter than Wild World, despite Wild World having 5 more tracks than it. I also consider Wild World (Complete Edition) to be the definitive edition of that album, while not considering the deluxe edition of Smoke + Mirrors as such, as it has some bonus tracks from the S+M sessions, and singles released 1-2 years before the album released. WW includes 5 “bonus tracks” in the Complete Edition, but those further add to and complete the album, especially The Anchor. The band must have thought so too, as it’s called Complete rather than Deluxe. All this is personal opinion, though. Some people aren’t big into listening to long albums (or unfortunately albums in general), so they’d probably want shorter albums. I’d love to hear what y’all think! 😄 (Wow, I did not mean to type a short essay when I started this comment LOL. I could talk about music all day, but I’ll stop here! Thanks for reading this if you did-Cheers!)
@@joebidenjr5902 music is subjective but everyone is entitled to there own opinion I personally think it may not be his best work but it certainly has good tracks and some amazing production
I prefer it much more when artists decide to release an EP or a b-side album over deluxe versions. They come across more thought out and generally end up being more memorable because of it. To me, deluxe editions should be reserved for reissues of albums with large historical significance, like The Beatles discography. Otherwise it just feels like padding.
SOPHIE managed to make a decent deluxe album,first she made an iconic album called Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides with originally was 39 mins long with 9 songs which was made in 2018,then in 2019 she made the Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Inside Non-Stop Remix Album which had 25 songs and all of the songs were either remixes or new songs which all had smooth transitions.
One of the craziest deluxe editions I’ve seen is Prince’s Sign Of The Times. It adds pretty much every piece of material he made for three albums AND radio edits AND a whole ass concert recording. Goes hard tho
MMESYF deluxe by Denzel this year was what a deluxe should be. A live version of a lot of the songs plus two extras that fit the vibe and key ideas of the album.
The really bad thing about Indigo is that it would have been such a good album if both version would have been cut down to like 18/20 songs max, but all those fillers really dilute the quality and scare listeners away
I still can't believe what Nails did for the 10th anniversary edition of Unsilent Death. The they bumped it up from 15 minutes to an outrageous 22 minutes! What the fuck has the industry come to.
Something notable is the deluxe versions of K-pop, titled "repackages". Basically, a repackaged album adds more songs on a different concept combined with the original album being repackaged, then they actually promote it and stuff.
I think the deluxe version of Gorillaz' "Humanz" might be my favorite, just because the theme of getting as many guests as possible and having a party at the end of the world is great for that particular album, but I can't say adding extra tracks and B-sides to other, already pretty complete, albums is a generally "good" idea.
The deluxe edition was great I love Ticker Tape and Halfway To The Halfway House The super deluxe also hold some gems that I feel get little to no attention from the fans
5:25 I personally don’t view Madvillainy as a “long album” bc it doesn’t even reach 50 minutes of run time. Personally I feel like a long album is defined more by it’s runtime rather than quantity of tracks
Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales, Mo'Tales was the first deluxe version that felt like an old fashioned deluxe album in a while. It came a year after the original release and before the grammy win. Not much changed on the cover, but the 5 new tracks/interludes are just as good (if not better) as the original EP. I think the funniest thing is that the new tracks pushed the project further into full length album territory given how much she told us it wasn't one.
It's so annoying to me that everytime i stream an album thats more than 20 years old i have to look up the original tracklisting so in know what tracks to remove. If i want to listen to a classic album i want to hear it as it was orginally meant to be heard
The smashing pumkins' deluxe edition of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness has 92 songs and 5 discs and most of them are remixes of the original songs besides the first 2 discs with 14 songs each. It's just crazy to see so many song and know when the deluxe part starts and when the original album ends
@@harperchampney9153 yea, its collection of all the various pieces they used to create the album. Every single individual piano part, all the vocal harmonies, the instrumentals. It's wild (wild expensively more like it lmao)
The craziest deluxe I’ve ever seen is XXXTENTACION’s ? deluxe. The worst part is that he didn’t even make this and it’s so clear that it’s a cash grab. It adds songs from an EP that is already on streaming services, instrumentals, voice memos about the songs, and a recording called Jah on drums that just consists of X playing the drums. It’s a huge cash grab from his family, it’s sad and it’s plain to see. (53 songs I believe)
Honestly, it is really cool when deluxe editions have different covers. But I ultimately love having the original artwork when I'm listening to an album, so I'm more than cool with a deluxe edition having the same cover so I can just save that one to my library and have all the songs
One of my favorite examples of a deluxe edition is Moral Panic by Nothing but Thieves. They added 5 songs that were arguably just as good as the standard album, and rearranged all the original tracks to give a completely different experience listening through it from front to back, as well as fitting all the extra tracks within instead of just pinning them on the tail end. It feels like a deluxe edition that actually had purpose and intention behind it, and I wish more artists handled it like that.
Prince's Sign o' the Times Super Deluxe released a couple years ago slapped so hard. First two discs were the original album, third disc was edits and B-sides. Fourth, fifth, sixth discs were all previously unreleased. Seventh and eighth discs were live, and the ninth disc was a DVD of another live show. It was crazy
Eternal Atake luv vs the world 2 will always be a big one for me because it literally dropped the Friday before we got our "2 days off till this COVID stuff calms down"
Crazy how the modern deluxe album is just stacking an entire album on top of an existing album. I guess if you’re a super fan you wouldn’t mind but in the case of lil uzi I would rather have eternal atake and LUVTW2 as separate albums. Some deluxe albums I’ve enjoyed in recent memory is Young Thug’s So Much Fun and Weeknd’s after hours because I feel like they add just the right amount of songs to make the album feel complete imo
I miss when Deluxe albums use to release the same day as the original version and only be an extra 2-5 songs. A very worthy 2-5. Nowadays everybody is dropping another full album to the deluxe just to push streams and cash exactly like it’s explained in this video. I’ve hated this new format & strategy the moment it started. Rarely any Deluxe albums nowadays that makes the album better.
I don't do deluxes. I never stream them, when I see them come out, it's usually way after listening to the original and I have no intention to add 1-10 songs to the original no matter how good they might be. Any good songs added will be saved individually and won't be listened to in the album
deluxe additions have always felt off to me. i never listen to the deluxe editions of things where extra songs are just stuck on the end. especially if it’s an album with a story, the deluxe tracks disrupt it and really make the story feel off, like it didn’t end when it was supposed to. i also really dislike albums over 20 tracks, but that’s just an attention span thing. with the exception of taylor swift.
So after seeing this I'm really happy that the Dawn of the Dimetrix deluxe album didn't do this. It added 2 more songs (total 13 tracks) and a second discs of nothing but all of the song's instrumentals. Didn't go over board, it just added on to the album.
Just some deluxe albums that I like, because I’m not too sure what else to talk about: •Born to Die (If only Lana didn’t complicate it by making a Paradise edition as well that adds all of the tracks from Paradise, and a completely original one on top of it) •GKMC (But, the remixes seemed unnecessary) •My Everything (It also has a Target edition with two **extra** extra tracks. Neither of them are on Spotify.) •Dark Sky Paradise (It gets rid of a whole Kanye verse, and adds an Ariana feature) •After Hours •positions I like Circles’ deluxe edition’s two extra tracks a lot, but having 14 songs goes against having 12 songs for the 12 hours on a clock. Not sure why Mac’s estate would release the extra tracks unless there was some good symbolism behind it.
In the case of Circles, I think it works a lot like After Hours, where both endings work for the albums, but 1 isn't better than the other. The standard edition, to me it feels like Mac's career, incomplete and over too soon. There's a reason the last chord is unresolved, leaving the album without a true ending. While the Deluxe edition ending on Floating, which feels almost ghostly, ends up being that final goodbye and that everything's gonna be okay in the end. At least that's my own interpretation, it also helps that I consider both deluxe songs to be among the best on the album and it would be a shame if we never got them.
The one thing I really hate is when they release an album then release the deluxe like a week later and only add one or two songs (example Post Malone‘s new album)
The best deluxe I heard was the life of Pierre 4 deluxe which is literally a whole new album (15 songs) added onto the 16 songs of the life of pierre 4. Lil uzi vert vs the world 2 is second place for similar reasons
one of my favorite deluxes is good kid, maad city. the standard album on its own makes sense; it's a concept album and only really contains songs that contribute to the story of the album. the deluxe has a lot of great songs recorded during the same sessions, but they aren't necessarily part of the story of the album (plus a couple remixes). it makes sense to give those extras that degree of separation.
Didn't even mention the 50th anniversary white album super deluxe, which has 107 songs and is about 5 1/2 hours,,,,, not including the 4 blu ray discs which double the total to about 12 hours
Idk how to say it but The Weeknd can be an example of this deluxe-ifying albums. He did pretty great with the deluxe of After Hours, adding 3 bonus tracks at the time of release and just a remix 1 year later (Save Your Tears with Ariana Grande). But for the deluxe of Dawn FM, he calls it Alternate World and added 3 remixes at the time of its release, the single version of Take My Breath (the only lead single from Dawn FM), and added 1 more remix (Out Of Time remixed by Kaytranada). Also he added Moth To A Flame which is a collab song b/w him and Swedish House Mafia.
The Weeknd’s album “after hours” are songs about him dealing with his breakup. I like how his delux songs feel like they are set month after the break up, about how he has been trying to move on, and eventually on the last song he lets go.
@@intheskatepark the protagonists does die in until I’m bleeding out. That part of him dies the moment he starts to move on. Just like In dawn fm the Weeknd creates a universe with his albums, but he also makes muziek about his own experience’s. The moment he breaks the circle of missing her and than partying the pain away, is the moment the character dies. The other 3 tracks are the Weeknd himself looking back at the situation, looking back at that now dead part of himself as he lets go. The delux tracks are the rolling credits of the movie. At least that is my theory
Can't wait until we get the deluxe deluxe deluxe album, featuring three-thousand songs. Or maybe even a deluxe deluxe deluxe deluxe deluxe deluxe deluxe album, featuring every song ever made.
My favorite deluxe album is missing molars by Genesis owusu. Smiling with no teeth is amazing, but coming back to especially "same thing" and the other songs really completed the albums themes for me.
Madeon’s Adventure deluxe is probably one of my favorite ones out there because of just how many quality songs it adds to the original album, and the fact that some date back to 2012-13 while feeling completely coherent with the album tracks speaks volumes about his music.
yeah, i remember when i first listened to adventure it was the deluxe edition bc it was the only one on spotify - i genuinely didn't realise it was and thought all of the tracks were intended to be played in that order and i didn't question it at all.
Bro y’all don’t know that one of my favorite albums, Magazines or Novels by Andy Grammer has Good to Be Alive as a deluxe exclusive and I didn’t figure that out till I played my CD and it ended. I was so sad 😭
I admire your take on this topic. It is very true how cohesive some deluxe albums can be when they come from a genuine place, as in more of the less “saving” two maybe three extra songs to extend the story of the album. In my eyes anything more than let’s say 18 is enough to finish a story of an album. I feel when I’m doing listen throughs such as one comment said that they can only remember one or two songs that they may have liked and wanted to continue to listen to but it isn’t always a short attention span, if it’s ‘filler’ songs and makes the continuation of the album in a sense ‘boring’ it’s a waste of money to pursue to buy the whole album so the artist makes the extra money of one’s enjoyment of that ‘era’ someone is in their music career. Don’t get me wrong through, extended albums with remixes and maybe acoustic additions isn’t always a problem but it should be labeled properly for the listeners awareness before diving into music.
I remember when re-releases were huge back in the early 2010's like Teenage Dream: the Complete Confection and Pink Friday Roman Reloaded The Re-Up these would be released well after the album was number 1 and had a bunch of hits just to prolong it's longevity of it's success with extra tracks and remixes That being said I love deluxe editions and extra content depending on the artist or if I really enjoyed the album thats my view
Even one of my favorite artists did this. If you bought Gus Dapperton's Orca on vinyl at release you're missing a song that was only on the Japan exclusive CD. I think half a year later deluxe got released (only on vinyl), with the Japan exclusive song and 3 new songs.
I think that the best deluxe edition of an album is Warlord by Yung Lean. It adds 5 new songs that fit the style of the album and none of them feel like they were just throwaways put on it just to be on a deluxe edition.
The deluxe version of ERRA's self titled is honestly the best deluxe version I've ever heard. The normal album was already my AOTY but that deluxe version with 3 covers, 3 originals, and making the album almost 2 hours long is just perfect
I honestly love that Tyler, the Creator only ever had one Deluxe album with Golbin. That way you know you’re getting the full picture and story/scope of the album, with the only difference being an extra or substituted track on the physical copies. The only similar instance to this he did was release the Cherry Bomb instrumentals, and even then that’s just the same songs with instrumentals added as well since he loved his production on that album.
I used to think deluxe albums were mostly a thing for albums like GKMC or Under Pressure where they only had enough music for 3 sides on an LP so the deluxe tracks would be for the fourth side (Camp side D is what made me think this the most). I just assumed that since music at the time were mostly made for CDs and ITunes, most artists would make albums that were either too long for 1 LP or too short for 2 so bonus tracks would work for vinyls.
the deluxe/special ed version of hozier's self titled album is godsend, arsonist's lullaby is one of my favorite hozier track and it's pretty interesting that he added covers to it too, his do i wanna know cover is magical
The only deluxe edition I could ever enjoy was The Avalanches - Since I Left You 20th Anniversary Edition. The second disc (or 3rd - 4th on vinyl) contained a whole bunch of remixes I surprisingly enjoyed. I usually hate remixes but these were sensible, and decent.
The Smashing Pumpkins have a Deluxe version of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness that is OVER 20 HOURS LONG! It has like nearly 100 songs, and because its The Smashing Pumpkins, most are ridiculously long
There are 3 types of deluxe editions
1. The “original” deluxe. Back in the day the standard and the deluxe would come out at the same time at like a $2-$3 difference. You would get like 2-3 bonus songs or maybe a dvd.
2. The “New” deluxe. Basically everything we’ve gotten recently which is basically a whole new album attached to the other tracks.
3. The “compilation” deluxe. When an important album reaches a milestone and you get all of the demos, b-sides, live tracks, and leftovers, usually coming in a expensive box set.
Yeah, I would pay for the 5 variations of the same song in the same album, please
@@frds_skce There can be alternate versions of songs that sound completely different from the final product, even some under a different song title. There can be unreleased tracks that could've ended up on the final release but did not, and even versions of songs that sounded better than the final release as well. Compilation albums are the way to go.
@@_PuppetMaster86 @The Hive Productions I jest, but i've seen fair number of actually good compilation album that does include different variation of songs which usually follow the trope of: base song, instrumental, the studio version, and whatever more.
But what I would call as shitty move when doing compilation album is that to include every tiny bit of different song that completely change nothing, but the buzzing noise included as its not 'the final product'. The 1st take, 2nd take, all shitty things included.
Yes, i'm looking at you, John Lennon's Imagine Ultimate Collection album.
@@frds_skce I disagree with your point for the Imagine Ultimate Collection album as the alternate, stripped down version of “Power To The People” and alternate versions of the song, “Imagine” (with the one that included the keyboard rather than the piano, both with sound like they could've been later Beatles tracks. Same could be said for the studio version of “Gimme Some Truth”. All awesome.
Compilation Deluxes are super cool. Even when deluxes only add a little bit of extra content (Like the Live In Prague tracks from Green Day’s recent 25th Anniversary Edition of Insomniac), it’s still really nice to see a few bonus songs/alternate takes/live versions you haven’t heard before. :)
The craziest deluxe I’ve ever heard is future’s INLY deluxe, because it came out like 3 days after the “standard” edition came out, even though the deluxe just feels like it completes the album. I feel like the album just wasn’t finished yet and he released the rest of it as a “deluxe”
Disagree IMO, the deluxe tracks sounded nothing like the original album and ruined it. + the original version is nowhere to be found now on streaming and the even removed the "(Deluxe)" from it, making the deluxe edition the only version now. Which is a shame IMO
@@Werfergrad I liked the original on spotify so I still got it lmao
@@buhnana6117 same lol
Wasn’t After Hours deluxe edition released not long after the standard edition, too?
The same with Dawn FM, but it only added one original track that was already out for a few months anyways.
@@prettierjesus3119 that was the remixes that were added days after, the actual bonus tracks didn't get added until a week later
This came up at the same time as my email notifying me that my Call Me If You Get Lost: the Estate Sale CD was delivered
Lately I've gotten really annoyed at Spotify sometimes *only* having the deluxe versions of albums. Usually when I'm trying a new album, I want to hear the original-- then if I'm absolutely blown away and love the artist, I might consider the deluxe version. However, since most deluxe versions are bloated with demos, boring live cuts, or clearly unfinished songs, it's usually not worth my time.
One rare exception to this, interestingly, is the extended version of Lorde's debut album, Pure Heroine. You get the 4 songs from the Love Club EP that aren't in the base album, another catchy track in the iTunes version ("No Better"), and cap it all off with an excellent cover of The Replacements' "Swingin' Party." Deluxe editions as a whole would be a lot more attractive if they did this more often, incorporating EP-only tracks or non-album singles to add to the album instead of giving me 12 live tracks and some demos.
This is a pet peeve of mine when I want consistent lastfm scrobbles specifically
interesting about Lorde's album, thanks for the recommendation !
I really like the extent of pure heroine, sucks that Apple Music or Lorde or someone on her idk removed the Deluxe of the album on Apple Music but “the love club” ep is still on there
I only like listening to the original versions of the albums, especially if it's a concept album, so when you add a ton of extra bullshit it's kinda annoying, especially if I can't just listen to the normal one without making a playlist
So just look at the original tracklist on Wikipedia or somewhere and manually stop at the last song
There’s nothing sadder than seeing your favourite artist start dropping singles expecting a new project only to realize they were hyping a deluxe with two extra songs
😭😭
Relatable asl
this feels specific
Yall remember when kendrick did the deluxe for dang and it was the same album but the song list was backwards
wouldnt say its deluxe but just an alternate version
Collectors edition yeah
After Hours is one of the best Deluxes out there. I already loved it to death, but ending it on Until I Bleed Out seemed kinda awkward. Then The Weeknd dropped the last 3 tracks and they were ON PAR, if not BETTER than the entire album itself. It felt like finding the missing piece to a puzzle.
i absolutely LOVE the last 3 tracks on after hours it really brings end to a story
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I honestly liked Until I Bleed Out as the ending, since it kinda implies that he dies at the end of the album. The deluxe tracks are great though, Nothing Compares is one of his best tbh
@@evileye1199 I think Final Lullaby is one of his best, and probably the best on After Hours.
It’s kind of weird how much Missed You sucks in comparison, though. Definitely my least favorite track on the album.
@@evileye1199 I see where you’re coming from, but Final Lullaby was such a beautiful outro to me. Nearly made me cry on my first listen.
Perfect upload timing, as I just finished listening to all 6 hours of the Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness deluxe edition. I regret nothing.
Lol
I thought you only listen to raditude
should've listened to raditude 10.4146476233 times
epic
@toby wong l + ratio + you can't party + weezer better
If you think Chris Brown amount of tracks in Indigo is bad, take a look at his other album, Heartbreak of a Full Moon Deluxe Christmas Edition, it has 57 songs on there which is very bizarre.
I'm surprised he didn't mention both Heartbreak & indigo 😂
Both albums were heat tho💯
Album is fire tho. Should’ve wacked like 20 of those songs on a mixtape
Heartbreak was peak ngl indigo was good but it just felt like a step down from heartbreak
Wait till you hear Frank Zappa’s Apple Music Cuts. Over Nite Sensation is 5 hours of pure beauty and jam.
Thanks so much for saying it. Artists take existing material and double the length with mediocre cuts, maybe some occasional bangers-its like bro I'm eating good, you dropped, don't starve me. Just take the bonus tracks, refine the material, add some songs, AND DROP A NEW PROJECT. Save your energy and time.
The worst instance of this is when Taylor swift released midnights, and then three hours later dropped a “3am edition” with more songs
I was laughing so hard at that situation! The cat reaction image I saw on a tweet about it didn't help lmaoooo I was laughing for a whole hour at that cat photo
Ttpd
@@nathanialisalongverylongnamelmao it’s a lot but you can tell there is care in each song.
Also w/ midnights 3am and till dawn I feel like it was cool and a funny bit but yeah I agree it makes it kinda bloated on websites and stuff and it’s all one work annoyingly split.
The worst instance is Taylor swift dropping anything. I don't mind some of her songs but it feels like my tl is being flooded by swift news and it's just annoying ...
And then Tortured Poets happened...
The deluxe version of Chris Brown’s album, “Heartbreak on a Full Moon” has 57 songs! 😭
i like the artists and bands that just put everything on one album and be done with it. i dont wanna be scrolling 10 minutes through their spotify discography just to see each song repeat itself 5 times
On Spotify anyway, the thing that frustrates me about Deluxe albums is that sometimes that’s all you can find. So if I don’t want to listen to a bunch of demos or live performances I’ve got to figure out where the original tracklist ends for myself.
plus some albums mix the deluxe songs in with the originals (lookin' at you, WUNNA). sometimes this is actually a good thing (Deante' Hitchcock's album BETTER has way better structure on the deluxe) but often it isn't
I mean, considering how much backlash some albums face for being 15-18 tracks long, I can understand why someone would want to release a 12 track album and then release the rest in the deluxe version. It doesn’t matter for the listener, but for critic appraisal and awards, it’s something.
This is so true. If all the best songs from donda were released first, then the fillers and pt.2s were the deluxe, everyone would say it was the AOTY
@@bon01_ yup. Every other album review nowadays has “too long” as one of the negative points. Critics absolutely want albums to be in the 10-12 songs range.
For an album without a high concept/concept album and a clear specific artistic vision, I’d say 8-12 tracks is a perfect album length.
However, for albums with a lot of ground to cover within a certain concept, and/or the artist wants to explore many aspects of their artistic vision, I will always be willing to sit through 15-18 tracks, or even a bit more (if it’s good of course, lol). It just depends on the album.
For instance, I really enjoy This Is It by The Strokes, and that’s 11 tracks. But some of my favorite albums of all time are ones with solid concepts that take longer than 8-12 tracks to achieve the best version. Some of my favorites are Wild World (Complete Edition) by Bastille (19 tracks; 1 hr 6 min), Trench by Twenty One Pilots (14 tracks; 56 min 9 sec), and Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons (13 songs; 50 min 51 sec). The length of tracks is also an important distinguishing factor between shorter and longer albums-as you can see, Trench is only 10 minutes shorter than Wild World, despite Wild World having 5 more tracks than it.
I also consider Wild World (Complete Edition) to be the definitive edition of that album, while not considering the deluxe edition of Smoke + Mirrors as such, as it has some bonus tracks from the S+M sessions, and singles released 1-2 years before the album released. WW includes 5 “bonus tracks” in the Complete Edition, but those further add to and complete the album, especially The Anchor. The band must have thought so too, as it’s called Complete rather than Deluxe.
All this is personal opinion, though. Some people aren’t big into listening to long albums (or unfortunately albums in general), so they’d probably want shorter albums. I’d love to hear what y’all think! 😄
(Wow, I did not mean to type a short essay when I started this comment LOL. I could talk about music all day, but I’ll stop here! Thanks for reading this if you did-Cheers!)
The Donda deluxe felt unnecessary because it was already long enough. The only song I can rember from it is Life Of The Party
Life of the Party is a future classic but the other deluxe songs are not memorable
Best song I ever heard lowkey
@@kingvirus1472 people always forgetting up from the ashes god tier gospel song no pun intended
Donda sucks
@@joebidenjr5902 music is subjective but everyone is entitled to there own opinion I personally think it may not be his best work but it certainly has good tracks and some amazing production
I would like a deluxe version of this video
I prefer it much more when artists decide to release an EP or a b-side album over deluxe versions. They come across more thought out and generally end up being more memorable because of it.
To me, deluxe editions should be reserved for reissues of albums with large historical significance, like The Beatles discography. Otherwise it just feels like padding.
SOPHIE managed to make a decent deluxe album,first she made an iconic album called Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides with originally was 39 mins long with 9 songs which was made in 2018,then in 2019 she made the Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Inside Non-Stop Remix Album which had 25 songs and all of the songs were either remixes or new songs which all had smooth transitions.
One of the craziest deluxe editions I’ve seen is Prince’s Sign Of The Times. It adds pretty much every piece of material he made for three albums AND radio edits AND a whole ass concert recording. Goes hard tho
the fact we got most of the missing songs from crystal ball dream factory and camille was incredible just wish it was organized a little better
Just commented about that same album... It's the only super deluxe i have bought. Did cost quite a bit, but it was 100% worth the money for me!
Uzi changed the game where a Deluxe edition is another album to inflate album sales of the 1st album.
madvillainy isnt even long
its 22 tracks, but adds up to around 45 minutes since alot of the tracks are very short
MMESYF deluxe by Denzel this year was what a deluxe should be. A live version of a lot of the songs plus two extras that fit the vibe and key ideas of the album.
The really bad thing about Indigo is that it would have been such a good album if both version would have been cut down to like 18/20 songs max, but all those fillers really dilute the quality and scare listeners away
I still can't believe what Nails did for the 10th anniversary edition of Unsilent Death. The they bumped it up from 15 minutes to an outrageous 22 minutes! What the fuck has the industry come to.
Nails is such a great band man
they must be stopped~
@@onlysmallbites you should really try them out. Listen to their album unsilent death
@@hazardousenvironmentspart0540 he never said anything about whether he’s listened to them or not
Can’t wait for the deluxe ultra edition of this video with 15 extra seconds of low quality jpegs!
Something notable is the deluxe versions of K-pop, titled "repackages". Basically, a repackaged album adds more songs on a different concept combined with the original album being repackaged, then they actually promote it and stuff.
That is kinda cool ngl
I think the deluxe version of Gorillaz' "Humanz" might be my favorite, just because the theme of getting as many guests as possible and having a party at the end of the world is great for that particular album, but I can't say adding extra tracks and B-sides to other, already pretty complete, albums is a generally "good" idea.
Plus we got Noel fucking Gallagher on a Damon Albarn song
Enter Humanz: Super Deluxe
@@d.i.y.a.b the worst deluxe
@@jared_seymour bro what
The deluxe edition was great
I love Ticker Tape and Halfway To The Halfway House
The super deluxe also hold some gems that I feel get little to no attention from the fans
5:25 I personally don’t view Madvillainy as a “long album” bc it doesn’t even reach 50 minutes of run time. Personally I feel like a long album is defined more by it’s runtime rather than quantity of tracks
Graduation is longer? Wow I might actually check out Madvillainy sometime soon
5:51 the plane may be going down,but migos going down the moves!
Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales, Mo'Tales was the first deluxe version that felt like an old fashioned deluxe album in a while. It came a year after the original release and before the grammy win. Not much changed on the cover, but the 5 new tracks/interludes are just as good (if not better) as the original EP.
I think the funniest thing is that the new tracks pushed the project further into full length album territory given how much she told us it wasn't one.
The Culture 2 part had me dying
Offset breakdancing and Takeoff doing adlibs while a plane is in chaos
Perfection.
It's so annoying to me that everytime i stream an album thats more than 20 years old i have to look up the original tracklisting so in know what tracks to remove. If i want to listen to a classic album i want to hear it as it was orginally meant to be heard
The smashing pumkins' deluxe edition of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness has 92 songs and 5 discs and most of them are remixes of the original songs besides the first 2 discs with 14 songs each. It's just crazy to see so many song and know when the deluxe part starts and when the original album ends
Was literally about to comment this; so fuckinng insane how much they sell for on eBay because they don’t do new presses for vinyl
NINETY TWO SONGS WHAT THE FUCK
@@MortanAMrk that's nothing compared to some of the beach boys deluxe edition box sets, Pet Sounds for example has well over 200 songs.
@@mr.froglegs Jesus christ I had no idea about that
@@harperchampney9153 yea, its collection of all the various pieces they used to create the album. Every single individual piano part, all the vocal harmonies, the instrumentals. It's wild (wild expensively more like it lmao)
The craziest deluxe I’ve ever seen is XXXTENTACION’s ? deluxe. The worst part is that he didn’t even make this and it’s so clear that it’s a cash grab. It adds songs from an EP that is already on streaming services, instrumentals, voice memos about the songs, and a recording called Jah on drums that just consists of X playing the drums. It’s a huge cash grab from his family, it’s sad and it’s plain to see. (53 songs I believe)
got me pissed off
Honestly, it is really cool when deluxe editions have different covers. But I ultimately love having the original artwork when I'm listening to an album, so I'm more than cool with a deluxe edition having the same cover so I can just save that one to my library and have all the songs
I prefer different covers just so that when I see the album in peoples' topsters I can tell if they mean the "og" version or the deluxe version.
One of my favorite examples of a deluxe edition is Moral Panic by Nothing but Thieves. They added 5 songs that were arguably just as good as the standard album, and rearranged all the original tracks to give a completely different experience listening through it from front to back, as well as fitting all the extra tracks within instead of just pinning them on the tail end. It feels like a deluxe edition that actually had purpose and intention behind it, and I wish more artists handled it like that.
Indigo and heartbreak on a full moon are classics
Just subscribed last night. Loving these videos. Editing and scripting is par none.
or when deluxe come out several months after the regular album comes out...
That’s a good thing in my opinion
Prince's Sign o' the Times Super Deluxe released a couple years ago slapped so hard. First two discs were the original album, third disc was edits and B-sides. Fourth, fifth, sixth discs were all previously unreleased. Seventh and eighth discs were live, and the ninth disc was a DVD of another live show.
It was crazy
wait until this man finds out about french montanas new albums😂😂😂 4:27
Eternal Atake luv vs the world 2 will always be a big one for me because it literally dropped the Friday before we got our "2 days off till this COVID stuff calms down"
Crazy how the modern deluxe album is just stacking an entire album on top of an existing album. I guess if you’re a super fan you wouldn’t mind but in the case of lil uzi I would rather have eternal atake and LUVTW2 as separate albums. Some deluxe albums I’ve enjoyed in recent memory is Young Thug’s So Much Fun and Weeknd’s after hours because I feel like they add just the right amount of songs to make the album feel complete imo
I miss when Deluxe albums use to release the same day as the original version and only be an extra 2-5 songs. A very worthy 2-5. Nowadays everybody is dropping another full album to the deluxe just to push streams and cash exactly like it’s explained in this video. I’ve hated this new format & strategy the moment it started. Rarely any Deluxe albums nowadays that makes the album better.
I don't do deluxes. I never stream them, when I see them come out, it's usually way after listening to the original and I have no intention to add 1-10 songs to the original no matter how good they might be. Any good songs added will be saved individually and won't be listened to in the album
deluxe additions have always felt off to me. i never listen to the deluxe editions of things where extra songs are just stuck on the end. especially if it’s an album with a story, the deluxe tracks disrupt it and really make the story feel off, like it didn’t end when it was supposed to.
i also really dislike albums over 20 tracks, but that’s just an attention span thing. with the exception of taylor swift.
So after seeing this I'm really happy that the Dawn of the Dimetrix deluxe album didn't do this. It added 2 more songs (total 13 tracks) and a second discs of nothing but all of the song's instrumentals. Didn't go over board, it just added on to the album.
love the jet set radio background music!
Just some deluxe albums that I like, because I’m not too sure what else to talk about:
•Born to Die (If only Lana didn’t complicate it by making a Paradise edition as well that adds all of the tracks from Paradise, and a completely original one on top of it)
•GKMC (But, the remixes seemed unnecessary)
•My Everything (It also has a Target edition with two **extra** extra tracks. Neither of them are on Spotify.)
•Dark Sky Paradise (It gets rid of a whole Kanye verse, and adds an Ariana feature)
•After Hours
•positions
I like Circles’ deluxe edition’s two extra tracks a lot, but having 14 songs goes against having 12 songs for the 12 hours on a clock. Not sure why Mac’s estate would release the extra tracks unless there was some good symbolism behind it.
removing Ye verse is an L
removing Kanye's verse on Blessings is a weird move imo
In the case of Circles, I think it works a lot like After Hours, where both endings work for the albums, but 1 isn't better than the other. The standard edition, to me it feels like Mac's career, incomplete and over too soon. There's a reason the last chord is unresolved, leaving the album without a true ending. While the Deluxe edition ending on Floating, which feels almost ghostly, ends up being that final goodbye and that everything's gonna be okay in the end. At least that's my own interpretation, it also helps that I consider both deluxe songs to be among the best on the album and it would be a shame if we never got them.
The gkmc remixes are better than the og
Gkmc remix’s were better?
The one thing I really hate is when they release an album then release the deluxe like a week later and only add one or two songs (example Post Malone‘s new album)
The best deluxe I heard was the life of Pierre 4 deluxe which is literally a whole new album (15 songs) added onto the 16 songs of the life of pierre 4. Lil uzi vert vs the world 2 is second place for similar reasons
one of my favorite deluxes is good kid, maad city. the standard album on its own makes sense; it's a concept album and only really contains songs that contribute to the story of the album. the deluxe has a lot of great songs recorded during the same sessions, but they aren't necessarily part of the story of the album (plus a couple remixes). it makes sense to give those extras that degree of separation.
If you want every bonus track for megadeths dystopia in physical music form (4 bonus tracks) you have to BUY THE ALBUM 3 TIMES in different formats
this video is soo well done! love the small animated "bites" (lol)
Didn't even mention the 50th anniversary white album super deluxe, which has 107 songs and is about 5 1/2 hours,,,,, not including the 4 blu ray discs which double the total to about 12 hours
Idk how to say it but The Weeknd can be an example of this deluxe-ifying albums. He did pretty great with the deluxe of After Hours, adding 3 bonus tracks at the time of release and just a remix 1 year later (Save Your Tears with Ariana Grande). But for the deluxe of Dawn FM, he calls it Alternate World and added 3 remixes at the time of its release, the single version of Take My Breath (the only lead single from Dawn FM), and added 1 more remix (Out Of Time remixed by Kaytranada). Also he added Moth To A Flame which is a collab song b/w him and Swedish House Mafia.
I really appreciate you doing these even though the algorithm doesn't like it. You have a really digestible and fun way of making this content.
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The Weeknd’s album “after hours” are songs about him dealing with his breakup. I like how his delux songs feel like they are set month after the break up, about how he has been trying to move on, and eventually on the last song he lets go.
That first deluxe was awful though
it annoys me though, bc it’s implied that the protagonist of After Hours dies at the end of the standard version.
@@intheskatepark the protagonists does die in until I’m bleeding out. That part of him dies the moment he starts to move on.
Just like In dawn fm the Weeknd creates a universe with his albums, but he also makes muziek about his own experience’s. The moment he breaks the circle of missing her and than partying the pain away, is the moment the character dies.
The other 3 tracks are the Weeknd himself looking back at the situation, looking back at that now dead part of himself as he lets go. The delux tracks are the rolling credits of the movie.
At least that is my theory
Damn this sounds like a huge influence from 808s and Heartbreak
Can't wait until we get the deluxe deluxe deluxe album, featuring three-thousand songs. Or maybe even a deluxe deluxe deluxe deluxe deluxe deluxe deluxe album, featuring every song ever made.
worst deluxe album covers are the ones that just put a white see though block on the bottom and say deluxe
I was JUST watching you lol
My favorite deluxe album is missing molars by Genesis owusu. Smiling with no teeth is amazing, but coming back to especially "same thing" and the other songs really completed the albums themes for me.
I gotta give that one a listen, SWNT is crazy underrated as it is
@@chrispadilla4027 yeah man it's great. You listened to the new single?
Madeon’s Adventure deluxe is probably one of my favorite ones out there because of just how many quality songs it adds to the original album, and the fact that some date back to 2012-13 while feeling completely coherent with the album tracks speaks volumes about his music.
yeah, i remember when i first listened to adventure it was the deluxe edition bc it was the only one on spotify - i genuinely didn't realise it was and thought all of the tracks were intended to be played in that order and i didn't question it at all.
the deluxe for DS2 actually completes the album and has some of the album highlights as well
Bro y’all don’t know that one of my favorite albums, Magazines or Novels by Andy Grammer has Good to Be Alive as a deluxe exclusive and I didn’t figure that out till I played my CD and it ended.
I was so sad 😭
What is "deluxe" about serving up the same songs, but in unfinished early demo versions? I want the songs at their best, not worst.
I’m loving all the Jet Set Radio music here ❤️
Scott the woz of music.
i love onlysmallbites hes like scott the woz for kanye fans
5:44 I love it
5:26 bruh madvillany is a high school period long 💀
am i the only one who thinks smallbites talks JUST like scott the woz?
My sentiments, exactly.
make a deluxe version of this video
the tortured poets department...
I admire your take on this topic.
It is very true how cohesive some deluxe albums can be when they come from a genuine place, as in more of the less “saving” two maybe three extra songs to extend the story of the album. In my eyes anything more than let’s say 18 is enough to finish a story of an album. I feel when I’m doing listen throughs such as one comment said that they can only remember one or two songs that they may have liked and wanted to continue to listen to but it isn’t always a short attention span, if it’s ‘filler’ songs and makes the continuation of the album in a sense ‘boring’ it’s a waste of money to pursue to buy the whole album so the artist makes the extra money of one’s enjoyment of that ‘era’ someone is in their music career.
Don’t get me wrong through, extended albums with remixes and maybe acoustic additions isn’t always a problem but it should be labeled properly for the listeners awareness before diving into music.
Always love watching your videos to hear Angel Island act 1 playing in the background
I remember when re-releases were huge back in the early 2010's like Teenage Dream: the Complete Confection and Pink Friday Roman Reloaded The Re-Up these would be released well after the album was number 1 and had a bunch of hits just to prolong it's longevity of it's success with extra tracks and remixes
That being said I love deluxe editions and extra content depending on the artist or if I really enjoyed the album thats my view
Even one of my favorite artists did this. If you bought Gus Dapperton's Orca on vinyl at release you're missing a song that was only on the Japan exclusive CD. I think half a year later deluxe got released (only on vinyl), with the Japan exclusive song and 3 new songs.
Deluxe albums have become like videogame DLCs, where instead of adding content that enhances the experience, we get more of the same.
I think that the best deluxe edition of an album is Warlord by Yung Lean. It adds 5 new songs that fit the style of the album and none of them feel like they were just throwaways put on it just to be on a deluxe edition.
amen.
You don´t talked about the Sgt pepper´s lonely Hearts Club Band from the Beatles super deluxe eddition with 65 songs.
The deluxe version of ERRA's self titled is honestly the best deluxe version I've ever heard. The normal album was already my AOTY but that deluxe version with 3 covers, 3 originals, and making the album almost 2 hours long is just perfect
I honestly love that Tyler, the Creator only ever had one Deluxe album with Golbin. That way you know you’re getting the full picture and story/scope of the album, with the only difference being an extra or substituted track on the physical copies. The only similar instance to this he did was release the Cherry Bomb instrumentals, and even then that’s just the same songs with instrumentals added as well since he loved his production on that album.
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I hate it when deluxe albums come with bonus songs but, some of the bonus songs are region locked so you are not getting all of the bonus songs.
I used to think deluxe albums were mostly a thing for albums like GKMC or Under Pressure where they only had enough music for 3 sides on an LP so the deluxe tracks would be for the fourth side (Camp side D is what made me think this the most). I just assumed that since music at the time were mostly made for CDs and ITunes, most artists would make albums that were either too long for 1 LP or too short for 2 so bonus tracks would work for vinyls.
The weirdest deluxe version is Piñata’s, it has 81 songs.
In 2020 Linkin Park put out their deluxe of Hybrid Theory for the 20th anniversary. Had 80 songs and it's almost 4 and a half hours lol
the deluxe/special ed version of hozier's self titled album is godsend, arsonist's lullaby is one of my favorite hozier track and it's pretty interesting that he added covers to it too, his do i wanna know cover is magical
Very pleased with your use of Jet Set Radio music in the background.
This channel is like Odd1sOut but music and i absolutely love that
Okay I fucking LOST IT when you did the Migos bit.....Fucking breakdancing while the plane goes down.
7:25 didn’t expect to see a helmet reference in this
You really out here milking that package delivery animation 💀💀
Love the vids btw 💖
The only deluxe edition I could ever enjoy was The Avalanches - Since I Left You 20th Anniversary Edition. The second disc (or 3rd - 4th on vinyl) contained a whole bunch of remixes I surprisingly enjoyed. I usually hate remixes but these were sensible, and decent.
Bites: *Shows a clip of Music to be Murdered by deluxe version*
Everyone: "Not again."
As soon as I saw that you mentioned Flume's album I instantly hit that like button. 🔥🙏
The Smashing Pumpkins have a Deluxe version of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness that is OVER 20 HOURS LONG! It has like nearly 100 songs, and because its The Smashing Pumpkins, most are ridiculously long
Your SEGA themes ror background music are much appreciated