Heard The Bug on the radio yesterday, and it's one of those tracks I dislike like Walk Of Life, etc...
I'd even forgotten it existed - I never owned On Every Street - the obly Straits studio album I never brought home, actually - and I never did bring On The Night either. Maybe I should reinvestigate.
Never heard about this really. I did buy the vinyl when it came out, but by the time I crossed the pond, and fi nally got into CD, BIA was not a priority, so I finally did buy some 15 or 20 years ago, the vinyl's track lengths had left little memory, but I seem to remember that the tracks on the flipside were generally longer than on the A-side. But since MM, Straits always had longer tracks anyways (especially in an 80's decade where longer tracks were frowned upon), especially comparing to their 70's albums.
BTW, I just checked on RYM and Discogs and indeed it is the case (not easily fiound, the track lengths on the vinyl) and thankfully not WoL.
As for changing track lengths to fit an Lp or cassette, I only remember the change of track order/sequence for an easier fit on cassette, which I thought sucked (it was reminiscent of those ugly 8 tracks), because having a few minutes blank on on of the cassette's side was only a problem when auto-reversing.
So the cassette and CD have the same track lengths, then??
I personally wouldn't have minded in the tracks on nthe flipside had been extended , rather than those on the A-side.
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