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From: lee@LIBERTY.CS.UMASS.EDU (Peter Lee)
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Subject: Re: xtc
Keywords: English Settlement, XTC
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Date: 1 Feb 90 18:07:13 GMT
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root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root):
>mendel@CS.UIUC.EDU (Michael Mendelson):
>> I just saw an English Settlement CD (one, not two) which claimed to
>> have the "entire contents of the double-LP" on it.  Were they lying,
>> or is there a CD which has the whole album on it?  (I did not notice
>> the company or anything else, but I don't think it was an import.)
>> Wouldn't this be false advertising if as someone pointed out the
>> domestic release omits a couple of tracks?
>
>Most of the XTC discs, when released, included multiple additonal
>tracks not available on the LP. I don't think that _English_Settle-
>ment was ever a double-LP, even in it's CD release, though.

Actually, English Settlement was, in fact, originally a double LP.  All
UK vinyl pressings are two records, and one US pressing (on Geffen, as I
recall) is as well.  The UK CD, however, does not contain the complete
double album (its missing two tracks, as I recall).  The US CD contains the
whole thing, as advertised.  For once, the US record company got something
right!
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