Some time ago I put together a playlist on Amazon Music "Unlimited" of America, one of my favorite acts. It's always been a good relaxing choice when I'm looking for something mellow. It's basically all their albums in order, with the few songs I dislike stripped out. So it's most of their catalog until you get past the first five or six albums.
So tonight I fired it up, and when it got to "I Need You," to my surprise the original version didn't play (even though the album cover and etc. was displayed correctly), but some alternate take version that sounds like it came from a box set bonus disk.
I thought it was maybe just a programming goof, so I decided to swap in one of the many other iterations of the song from one of the many hits collections they have out. So I went looking for the original version and.... it's not there. EVERY instance of it plays a live version, a different "remix" version or an outtake version.
Making matters worse, the deeper I get into the debut album, I note that at least some other tracks have been swapped out as well. It's as if they lost the license for the album so they've just pieced it together from whatever other versions of the songs they can find. Maybe they will fix this after a bit, but who knows. The worst thing is there's no way to gripe about it to anyone -- except you fine folks here!
Yet another reason to hang onto those CDs, folks.
They also still don't have Santana's Carvanserai.
So tonight I fired it up, and when it got to "I Need You," to my surprise the original version didn't play (even though the album cover and etc. was displayed correctly), but some alternate take version that sounds like it came from a box set bonus disk.
I thought it was maybe just a programming goof, so I decided to swap in one of the many other iterations of the song from one of the many hits collections they have out. So I went looking for the original version and.... it's not there. EVERY instance of it plays a live version, a different "remix" version or an outtake version.
Making matters worse, the deeper I get into the debut album, I note that at least some other tracks have been swapped out as well. It's as if they lost the license for the album so they've just pieced it together from whatever other versions of the songs they can find. Maybe they will fix this after a bit, but who knows. The worst thing is there's no way to gripe about it to anyone -- except you fine folks here!
Yet another reason to hang onto those CDs, folks.
They also still don't have Santana's Carvanserai.