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* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1992 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their whole catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disc (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
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* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1992 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, 2007, the ''Oh, by the Way'' BoxedSet was released, compiling all of the band's studio albums up to that point in surprisingly accurate scale recreations of the original LP packaging. This is generally considered to be the best presentation of the albums from an aesthetic standpoint, though in terms of actual sound quality, fans will gladly point you in the 2011 ''Discovery'' and Pink Floyd Records remasters. Speaking of which, a third example of this trope came about concurrently with the 2011 remasters' release: as their Pink Floyd's whole catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disc (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'', ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', and the upcoming ''Loving the Alien (1983–1988)'', the three (soon to be four) box sets released so far, each spanning a certain era of David's career, certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from the titular era in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the {{title track}} of ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash. Time will tell how the fourth set will fare among the public.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'', ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', and the upcoming ''Loving the Alien (1983–1988)'', the three (soon to be four) four box sets released so far, each spanning a certain era of David's career, certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from the titular era in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the {{title track}} of ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash. Time will tell how the fourth set will fare among the public.public, though at the moment reception seems to be positive.
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* Hoo boy, Music/DavidBowie reissues. Not only have there been quite a few reissues that count as these, some albums have had more than one, and gathering ''all'' the bonus material a particular album's had over the years may well neccessitate much searching and a deep wallet...
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* Hoo boy, Music/DavidBowie reissues. Not only have there been quite a few reissues that count as these, some albums have had more than one, and gathering ''all'' the bonus material a particular album's had over the years may well neccessitate necessitate much searching and a deep wallet...
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* Within the same year of its regular US release, Flume's SelfTitledAlbum was re-released in a "Deluxe Edition". It was a fairly generous four disc package, featuring the original album, two discs worth of bonus tracks (comprising a "mixtape" where rappers add vocals to previously instrumental songs from the album, remixes by and of Flume, and a LiveAlbum), and a copy of Ableton Live 9 Lite including tutorials and interactive sessions for three of the album's songs.
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* Within the same year of its regular US release, Flume's SelfTitledAlbum was re-released in a "Deluxe Edition". It was a fairly generous four disc four-disc package, featuring the original album, two discs worth of bonus tracks (comprising a "mixtape" where rappers add vocals to previously instrumental songs from the album, remixes by and of Flume, and a LiveAlbum), and a copy of Ableton Live 9 Lite including tutorials and interactive sessions for three of the album's songs.
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** The limited box set ''The Laser Years'' exclusively contained ''Cities In Concert'', an ''In Concert Houston-Lyon'' special variant with all music in full length — that is, until ''In Concert Houston-Lyon'' was replaced by ''Cities In Concert'' as part of the regular back catalog during the 1997 remastering.
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** The limited box set ''The Laser Years'' exclusively contained ''Cities In in Concert'', an ''In Concert Houston-Lyon'' special variant with all music in full length — that is, until ''In Concert Houston-Lyon'' was replaced by ''Cities In Concert'' as part of the regular back catalog during the 1997 remastering.
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* Vicious Pink's self-titled album was rereleased on CD for the first time in 2012, with the addition of various remixes of "Cccan't You See?", the extended versions of "Fetish" and "Take Me Now", and the previously-unreleased "I Confess".
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* Vicious Pink's self-titled album was rereleased re-released on CD for the first time in 2012, with the addition of various remixes of "Cccan't You See?", the extended versions of "Fetish" and "Take Me Now", and the previously-unreleased "I Confess".
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'', ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', and the upcoming ''Loving The Alien (1983-1988)'', the three (soon to be four) box sets released so far, each spanning a certain era of David's career, certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from the titular era in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash. Time will tell how the fourth set will fare among the public.
* Music/{{Epica}} did this in 2007 with "The Divine Conspiracy" featuring a high-quality hardbound digibook, and again with their 2012 release, "Requiem for the Indifferent." There are a few editions but the super-high-end "Mailorder Edition" includes the album, an instrumental version of the album, postcards featuring album art, and a certificate of authenticity indicating which copy out of a limited run of 500 the customer has received, all wrapped up in a pine box with the Epica logo and album title woodburned into the cover. Interestingly, some early releases went out with an unfinished version of the album's closing track, "Serenade of Self-Destruction", that was missing most of its vocals, and so are considered highly collectable.
* Music/{{Epica}} did this in 2007 with "The Divine Conspiracy" featuring a high-quality hardbound digibook, and again with their 2012 release, "Requiem for the Indifferent." There are a few editions but the super-high-end "Mailorder Edition" includes the album, an instrumental version of the album, postcards featuring album art, and a certificate of authenticity indicating which copy out of a limited run of 500 the customer has received, all wrapped up in a pine box with the Epica logo and album title woodburned into the cover. Interestingly, some early releases went out with an unfinished version of the album's closing track, "Serenade of Self-Destruction", that was missing most of its vocals, and so are considered highly collectable.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'', ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', and the upcoming ''Loving The the Alien (1983-1988)'', (1983–1988)'', the three (soon to be four) box sets released so far, each spanning a certain era of David's career, certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from the titular era in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track {{title track}} of ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]'' ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash. Time will tell how the fourth set will fare among the public.
* Music/{{Epica}} did this in 2007 with"The ''The Divine Conspiracy" Conspiracy'' featuring a high-quality hardbound digibook, and again with their 2012 release, "Requiem ''Requiem for the Indifferent." Indifferent''. There are a few editions but the super-high-end "Mailorder Edition" includes the album, an instrumental version of the album, postcards featuring album art, and a certificate of authenticity indicating which copy out of a limited run of 500 the customer has received, all wrapped up in a pine box with the Epica logo and album title woodburned into the cover. Interestingly, some early releases went out with an unfinished version of the album's closing track, "Serenade of Self-Destruction", that was missing most of its vocals, and so are considered highly collectable.
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* 2012's ''Music/RoxyMusic: The Complete Studio Recordings'', released to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary. The release compiles everything the band recorded, bar live material. This includes a 2-disc set of non-album tracks, including several tracks that had never before appeared on CD. In addition to featuring superb packaging (replicating the original vinyl releases almost exactly), the tracks themselves are musically identical to the original vinyl releases as well, as they are flat transfers from the original tapes (i.e. not tampered with). Aside from a strangely muted-sounding mix of "Virginia Plain," this set might be one of the few Deluxe Box Set releases to actually fulfill their potential.
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* 2012's ''Music/RoxyMusic: The Complete Studio Recordings'', released to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary. The release compiles everything the band recorded, bar live material. This includes a 2-disc set of non-album tracks, including several tracks that had never before appeared on CD. In addition to featuring superb packaging (replicating the original vinyl releases almost exactly), the tracks themselves are musically identical to the original vinyl releases as well, as they are flat transfers from the original tapes (i.e. not tampered with). Aside from a strangely muted-sounding mix of "Virginia Plain," Plain", this set might be one of the few Deluxe Box Set releases to actually fulfill their potential.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from the titular era in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and (1974–1976)'', ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', and the upcoming ''Loving The Alien (1983-1988)'', the three (soon to be four) box sets released (so far) so far, each spanning a certain era of David's career career, certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from the titular era in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash. Time will tell how the fourth set will fare among the public.
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** Music/DreamTheater's newest album is a pretty good example. It hasn't been re-released with extras (yet...), but on the initial release, three versions were available: The standard album in CD or LP form, a 3 CD version with a disc of cover songs and a disc of instrumental versions of the regular album's songs, and another edition with everything from before, a lithograph from the artist who designed the cover art, a mousepad, and a DVD with isolated tracks for all the audio on the regular album so people could do their own remixes of the songs.
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** Music/DreamTheater's newest album ''Black Clouds & Silver Linings'' is a pretty good example. It hasn't been re-released with extras (yet...), but on the initial release, three versions were available: The standard album in CD or LP form, a 3 CD version with a disc of cover songs and a disc of instrumental versions of the regular album's songs, and another edition with everything from before, a lithograph from the artist who designed the cover art, a mousepad, and a DVD with isolated tracks for all the audio on the regular album so people could do their own remixes of the songs.
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** Rhino also tends to reissue older, critically acclaimed artists from artists signed onto Warner Music Group labels as Collector's Edition digipaks, containing both the original album (with the disc art mimicking the original LP label) and a bonus disc, typically containing either a live recording, non-album singles, remixes, demo recordings, etc. Unfortunately, these releases tend to suffer from some dynamic range compression, though the degree to which this occurs varies by album. For instance, the Collector's Edition release of Music/JoyDivision[='s=] [[Music/UnknownPleasures sole]] [[Music/{{Closer}} two]] studio albums are considered to be much more noticeable casualties compared to the reissues of Music/NewOrder[='s=] Creator/FactoryRecords[=-era=] output. One notable exception to this is [[https://www.discogs.com/Echo-The-Bunnymen-Ocean-Rain/release/2015838 the 2008 Collector's Edition release]] of Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen[='s=] ''Ocean Rain'', which is so well-mastered it's outright listed on the TV Tropes page for the LoudnessWar as one of the more notable aversions of it.
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* Certain record labels (for example, Roadrunner Records) have become infamous for releasing an album... then releasing it six months later with bonus tracks... then two years later with a bonus DVD... and it's even got to the point where they are releasing albums 10 years later with very little in the way of bonuses. There are currently at least five separate versions of Music/MercyfulFate's "Melissa" album available, not taking separate mediums into account ([=LPs=], Cassettes) or the astonishing amount of compilations or especially live albums with songs from the album on them. This has become a running joke within the music community to the point where almost no one buys a Roadrunner album upon its release, because they can get it six months later with bonus tracks.
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* Certain record labels (for example, Roadrunner Records) Creator/RoadrunnerRecords) have become infamous for releasing an album... then releasing it six months later with bonus tracks... then two years later with a bonus DVD... and it's even got to the point where they are releasing albums 10 years later with very little in the way of bonuses. There are currently at least five separate versions of Music/MercyfulFate's "Melissa" album available, not taking separate mediums into account ([=LPs=], Cassettes) or the astonishing amount of compilations or especially live albums with songs from the album on them. This has become a running joke within the music community to the point where almost no one buys a Roadrunner album upon its release, because they can get it six months later with bonus tracks.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from their titular eras in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from their the titular eras era in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash.
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** ''The Complete Oxygène'' is ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Oxygène 7-13'', the latter with a bonus track called "Oxygen in Moscow", in a tall black cardboard case. Today, the case is the only reason to buy ''The Complete Oxygène'' because the bonus track is actually Claude Monnet's "Oxygène 12" remix also available on ''Odyssey Through O2'', and even then you'll have a hard time fitting that box anywhere into your collection as it's even taller than a DVD case.
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** ''The Complete Oxygène'' is ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Oxygène 7-13'', the latter with a bonus track called "Oxygen in Moscow", in a tall black cardboard case. Today, the case is the only reason to buy ''The Complete Oxygène'' because the bonus track is actually Claude Monnet's "Oxygène 12" remix also available on ''Odyssey Through O2'', and even then you'll have a hard time fitting that box anywhere into your collection as it's even taller than a DVD case. Not to mention that, as of 2016, ''Oxygène'' has been upgraded to a trilogy.
** On that note, the release of ''Oxygène 3'' was accompanied by the ''Oxygène Trilogy'' package, which includes all three albums gathered together in neat little digipaks; the Ultimate Edition adds in clear vinyl copies of those same albums and a coffee table book detailing the equipment and instruments used to record each album in the trilogy.
** On that note, the release of ''Oxygène 3'' was accompanied by the ''Oxygène Trilogy'' package, which includes all three albums gathered together in neat little digipaks; the Ultimate Edition adds in clear vinyl copies of those same albums and a coffee table book detailing the equipment and instruments used to record each album in the trilogy.
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* 2012's ''Music/RoxyMusic: The Complete Studio Recordings'', released to celebrate the band's 40th Anniversary. The release compiles everything the band recorded bar the live album Viva!. This includes a 2 disc set of non-album tracks which has several tracks that had never appeared on CD. In addition to featuring superb packaging (replicating the original vinyl releases almost exactly), the tracks themselves are musically identical to the original vinyl releases as well, as they are flat transfers from the original tapes (i.e. not tampered with.) Aside from a strangely muted sounding mix of "Virginia Plain," this set might be one of the few Deluxe Box Set releases to actually fulfill their potential.
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* 2012's ''Music/RoxyMusic: The Complete Studio Recordings'', released to celebrate the band's 40th Anniversary. anniversary. The release compiles everything the band recorded recorded, bar the live album Viva!. material. This includes a 2 disc 2-disc set of non-album tracks which has tracks, including several tracks that had never before appeared on CD. In addition to featuring superb packaging (replicating the original vinyl releases almost exactly), the tracks themselves are musically identical to the original vinyl releases as well, as they are flat transfers from the original tapes (i.e. not tampered with.) with). Aside from a strangely muted sounding muted-sounding mix of "Virginia Plain," this set might be one of the few Deluxe Box Set releases to actually fulfill their potential.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from their titular eras in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]] that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from their titular eras in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]] ''[[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]]'' that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from their titular eras in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of David Visconti's mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]] that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash.
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from their titular eras in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of David Tony Visconti's heavier mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]] that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash.
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* Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab is a label that specializes in a fairly unique take on this trope, licensing various critically-acclaimed and/or highly influential albums from a variety of artists and releasing high-quality remasters of them under the "Original Master Recording" brand. Notably, MFSL consistently presses all CD versions of their catalog onto gold compact discs rather than the standard aluminum ones, ensuring that the chances of disc rot occurring are next-to-none.[[note]]For those unaware, "disc rot" is the process by which the metal reflective layer in a CD degrades over time due to prolonged exposure to the elements, rendering portions of the disc or even the whole unit unplayable if it progresses far enough. This phenomenon is typically the result of severe damage, improper sealing of the polycarbonate exterior in manufacturing, or overall poor storage; gold [=CDs=] are virtually immune to disc rot thanks to the fact that the reflective layer is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the name implies]], made of gold, the most chemically inert metal known to man.[[/note]]
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** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well. Each box set contains all of his albums from their titular eras in neat facsimiles of the original LP releases, right down to the fan club pamphlets included within, alongside a singles compilation CD, alternate mixes of some of the albums, and a comprehensive book about the era represented by its respective set. While the first two box sets earned considerable acclaim for the immense care put into them, the third one has earned criticism for some of David Visconti's mixing choices, most infamously a volume drop partway through the title track of [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum "Heroes"]] that resulted in Parlophone having to issue amended replacement discs to fans following prolonged backlash.
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* 2012's ''Music/RoxyMusic: The Complete Studio Recordings'', released to celebrate the band's 40th Anniversary. The release compiles everything the band recorded bar the live album Viva!. This includes a 2 disc set of non-album tracks which has several tracks that had never appeared on CD. In addition to featuring superb packaging (replicating the original vinyl releases almost exactly), the tracks themselves are musically identical to the original vinyl releases as well, as they are flat transfers from the original tapes (i.e. not tampered with.) Aside from a strangely muted sounding mix of "Virginia Plain," this set might be one of the few Deluxe Box Set releases to actually fulfill their potential.
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** Music/DreamTheater's newest album is a pretty good example. It hasn't been re-released with extras (yet...), but on the initial release, three versions were available: The standard album in CD or LP form, a 3 CD version with a disk of cover songs and a disk of instrumental versions of the regular album's songs, and another edition with everything from before, a lithograph from the artist who designed the cover art, a mousepad, and a DVD with isolated tracks for all the audio on the regular album so people could do their own remixes of the songs.
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** Music/DreamTheater's newest album is a pretty good example. It hasn't been re-released with extras (yet...), but on the initial release, three versions were available: The standard album in CD or LP form, a 3 CD version with a disk disc of cover songs and a disk disc of instrumental versions of the regular album's songs, and another edition with everything from before, a lithograph from the artist who designed the cover art, a mousepad, and a DVD with isolated tracks for all the audio on the regular album so people could do their own remixes of the songs.
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** Their [[MilestoneCelebration 50th anniversary]] GreatestHitsAlbum ''GRRR!'' had a [[http://i26.fastpic.ru/big/2012/1201/f0/ff6c9266ecc20c2395f2d66d11c0d3f0.jpg super deluxe edition]] with 4 disks compiling 80 songs (the regular, fitting the years being celebrated, has 50 in 3 disks), plus a bonus CD, a 7" single, a hardbook cover, and many collectibles.
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** Their [[MilestoneCelebration 50th anniversary]] GreatestHitsAlbum ''GRRR!'' had a [[http://i26.fastpic.ru/big/2012/1201/f0/ff6c9266ecc20c2395f2d66d11c0d3f0.jpg super deluxe edition]] with 4 disks discs compiling 80 songs (the regular, fitting the years being celebrated, has 50 in 3 disks), discs), plus a bonus CD, a 7" single, a hardbook cover, and many collectibles.
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** ''Oxygène – New Master Recording'' also came along with a video disk containing the ''Oxygène – Live in Your Living-Room'' performance recording.
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** ''Oxygène – New Master Recording'' also came along with a video disk disc containing the ''Oxygène – Live in Your Living-Room'' performance recording.
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* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1992 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their whole catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disk (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
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* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1992 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their whole catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disk disc (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
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* The re-release of Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/ExileOnMainSt'' got put out in ''four'' different formats. The regular Single-CD version, a Double-Vinyl edition, A Double-CD version featuring 10 bonus tracks to go along with the regular album, or, if you [[CrackIsCheaper really wanted to splurge it]], an Limited-Edition Autographed Version of the album signed by all the band members, which would have set you back around $2000 had you got it when that version was available. A fifth version called ''"Exile on Main St. Rarities Edition"'' which contained just the 10 bonus tracks, is also available at Target.
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* The re-release of Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/ExileOnMainSt'' got put out in ''four'' different formats. The regular Single-CD version, a Double-Vinyl edition, A Double-CD version featuring 10 bonus tracks to go along with formats: the regular album, or, single-CD version, a double-vinyl edition, a double-CD version with 10 bonus tracks, or if you [[CrackIsCheaper really wanted to splurge on it]], an Limited-Edition Autographed Version limited-edition autographed version of the album signed by all the band members, which would have set you back cost around $2000 had you got it when that version was available. A fifth version '''$2000''' upon release. An additional release called ''"Exile ''Exile on Main St. St.: Rarities Edition"'' Edition'', which contained just the 10 bonus tracks, is was also available exclusively at Target.
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** In TheNewTens, there's been two-disc versions of his first two albums from TheSixties and a ''Music/StationToStation'' reissue that, in Special Edition form, includes two extra discs for his much-bootlegged Nassau Coliseum concert from 1976...and in ''Deluxe'' Edition form includes an additional two [=CDs=] (one with the mix the 1985 CD version had, one with the single versions of the songs), a [=DVD=] with a new surround sound mix of the album, three [=LPs=] for the original album and the concert, and from there such items as replicas of the tour's press kit, the official fan club folder, etc. from this period. And there was a ''third'' special edition reissue of ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' in 2012 (previously, it had been reissued in 1990 and 2002).
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** In TheNewTens, there's been two-disc versions of his first two albums from TheSixties and a ''Music/StationToStation'' reissue that, in Special Edition form, includes two extra discs for his much-bootlegged Nassau Coliseum concert from 1976... and in ''Deluxe'' Edition form includes an additional two [=CDs=] (one with the mix the 1985 CD version had, one with the single versions of the songs), a [=DVD=] with a new surround sound mix of the album, three [=LPs=] for the original album and the concert, and from there such items as replicas of the tour's press kit, the official fan club folder, etc. from this period. And there was a ''third'' special edition reissue of ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' in 2012 (previously, it had been reissued in 1990 and 2002).
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** When their out-of-print albums from the '70s and '80s get reissued on CD, it's usually as a two-disc deluxe edition, with demos and outtakes and the works. And in these cases, there is no vanilla edition. Albums that have gotten this treatment so far: ''Daniel Amos'', ''Shotgun Angel'', ''Music/{{Alarma}}'', ''Music/{{Doppelganger}}'', and ''Music/DarnFloorBigBite''. Their album ''Music/SongsOfTheHeart'' also got a deluxe 10th-anniversary reissue, even though the original was still in print.
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** When their out-of-print albums from the '70s and '80s get reissued on CD, it's usually as a two-disc deluxe edition, with demos and outtakes and the works. And in these cases, there is no vanilla edition. Albums that have gotten this treatment so far: ''Daniel Amos'', ''Shotgun Angel'', ''Music/{{Alarma}}'', ''Music/{{Doppelganger}}'', and ''Music/DarnFloorBigBite''. Their album ''Music/SongsOfTheHeart'' also got a deluxe 10th-anniversary reissue, even though the original was still in print.
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* The Postal Service's [[OneBookAuthor only album]] ''Give Up'' was re-released as a two CD "10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" in 2013. Disc one is a remastered version of the original album, while disc two collects {{B Side}}s, remixes and other previously released non-album material, as well as featuring two previously unheard songs. Making a pre-order of this version or buying a physical copy at certain record stores also got you {{feelies}} in the form of a postcard set featuring photos of the band.
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* The Postal Service's [[OneBookAuthor only album]] ''Give Up'' was re-released as a two CD two-CD "10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" in 2013. Disc one is a remastered version of the original album, while disc two collects {{B Side}}s, remixes and other previously released non-album material, as well as featuring two previously unheard songs. Making a pre-order of this version or buying a physical copy at certain record stores also got you {{feelies}} in the form of a postcard set featuring photos of the band.
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* Bauhaus albums have been re-released as Collector's Editions with multiple discs of outtakes, alternate versions of songs and the like. They're all a few cents shy of $30.
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* Bauhaus Music/{{Bauhaus}} albums have been re-released as Collector's Editions with multiple discs of outtakes, alternate versions of songs and the like. They're all a few cents shy of $30.
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* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1991 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their whole catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disk (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
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* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1991 1992 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their whole catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disk (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
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* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1991 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their entire catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disk (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
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* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1991 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their entire whole catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disk (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
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** 2009, October: ''The Unforgettable Fire'', their fourth album, is remastered as a 25th anniversary edition, and receives the grand treatment of ''The Joshua Tree'' before it: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities; and a Limited Edition Box Set featuring the two [=CDs=], a DVD with documentary and concert footage from the era, a hardcover book, and five photograph prints.
** 2011: ''Achtung Baby'', widely considered to be U2's best album, is rereleased as a 20th anniversary edition (with "slightly cleaned up" audio as opposed to a full remastering, which the band thought unnecessary). This set the bar higher than any album before it, with five physical formats, including a single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a second CD of B-sides, rarities, and remixes; a quadruple-vinyl edition with the same track listing as the CD Deluxe Edition. The last two examples embody this trope to a T. The Super Deluxe Edition includes ''six'' [=CDs=] (''Achtung Baby'', the follow-up album ''Zooropa'', a CD of just B-sides and rarities, ''two'' [=CDs=] of remixes, and a "Kindergarten" version of the album featuring demo versions of each song in order) and ''four'' [=DVDs=] (the related feature documentary film ''From the Sky Down'', the concert film ''Zoo TV: Live from Sydney'', and two [=DVDs=] of music videos and other documentaries), all packaged in a very large hardcover book with ''16'' equally large prints (each one being one "panel" of the album art). The Über Deluxe Edition then outdid even ''that'', with all the content of the Super Deluxe Edition, plus the vinyl edition of the album, five vinyl singles corresponding with the singles from the album, a series of badges, a special edition of "Propaganda" magazine (modeled on U2's old fan magazine), and a ''replica of Bono's "Fly" sunglasses'', all packaged in a magnetic puzzle tile box.
** 2011: ''Achtung Baby'', widely considered to be U2's best album, is rereleased as a 20th anniversary edition (with "slightly cleaned up" audio as opposed to a full remastering, which the band thought unnecessary). This set the bar higher than any album before it, with five physical formats, including a single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a second CD of B-sides, rarities, and remixes; a quadruple-vinyl edition with the same track listing as the CD Deluxe Edition. The last two examples embody this trope to a T. The Super Deluxe Edition includes ''six'' [=CDs=] (''Achtung Baby'', the follow-up album ''Zooropa'', a CD of just B-sides and rarities, ''two'' [=CDs=] of remixes, and a "Kindergarten" version of the album featuring demo versions of each song in order) and ''four'' [=DVDs=] (the related feature documentary film ''From the Sky Down'', the concert film ''Zoo TV: Live from Sydney'', and two [=DVDs=] of music videos and other documentaries), all packaged in a very large hardcover book with ''16'' equally large prints (each one being one "panel" of the album art). The Über Deluxe Edition then outdid even ''that'', with all the content of the Super Deluxe Edition, plus the vinyl edition of the album, five vinyl singles corresponding with the singles from the album, a series of badges, a special edition of "Propaganda" magazine (modeled on U2's old fan magazine), and a ''replica of Bono's "Fly" sunglasses'', all packaged in a magnetic puzzle tile box.
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** 2009, October: ''The Unforgettable Fire'', their fourth album, is remastered as a 25th anniversary edition, and receives the grand treatment of ''The Joshua Tree'' ''Music/TheJoshuaTree'' before it: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities; and a Limited Edition Box Set featuring the two [=CDs=], a DVD with documentary and concert footage from the era, a hardcover book, and five photograph prints.
** 2011:''Achtung Baby'', ''Music/AchtungBaby'', widely considered to be U2's best album, is rereleased re-released as a 20th anniversary edition (with "slightly cleaned up" audio as opposed to a full remastering, which the band thought unnecessary). This set the bar higher than any album before it, with five physical formats, including a single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a second CD of B-sides, rarities, and remixes; a quadruple-vinyl edition with the same track listing as the CD Deluxe Edition. The last two examples embody this trope to a T. The Super Deluxe Edition includes ''six'' [=CDs=] (''Achtung Baby'', the follow-up album ''Zooropa'', a CD of just B-sides and rarities, ''two'' [=CDs=] of remixes, and a "Kindergarten" version of the album featuring demo versions of each song in order) and ''four'' [=DVDs=] (the related feature documentary film ''From the Sky Down'', the concert film ''Zoo TV: Live from Sydney'', and two [=DVDs=] of music videos and other documentaries), all packaged in a very large hardcover book with ''16'' equally large prints (each one being one "panel" of the album art). The Über Deluxe Edition then outdid even ''that'', with all the content of the Super Deluxe Edition, plus the vinyl edition of the album, five vinyl singles corresponding with the singles from the album, a series of badges, a special edition of "Propaganda" magazine (modeled on U2's old fan magazine), and a ''replica of Bono's "Fly" sunglasses'', all packaged in a magnetic puzzle tile box.
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** When their out-of-print albums from the 70s and 80s get reissued on CD, it's usually as a two-disc deluxe edition, with demos and outtakes and the works. And in these cases, there is no vanilla edition. Albums that have gotten this treatment so far: ''Daniel Amos'', ''Shotgun Angel'', ''Music/{{Alarma}}'', ''Music/{{Doppelganger}}'', and ''Music/DarnFloorBigBite''. Their album ''Music/SongsOfTheHeart'' also got a deluxe 10th-anniversary reissue, even though the original was still in print.
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** When their out-of-print albums from the 70s '70s and 80s '80s get reissued on CD, it's usually as a two-disc deluxe edition, with demos and outtakes and the works. And in these cases, there is no vanilla edition. Albums that have gotten this treatment so far: ''Daniel Amos'', ''Shotgun Angel'', ''Music/{{Alarma}}'', ''Music/{{Doppelganger}}'', and ''Music/DarnFloorBigBite''. Their album ''Music/SongsOfTheHeart'' also got a deluxe 10th-anniversary reissue, even though the original was still in print.
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* Music/KingCrimson's 1973 album ''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'' was rereleased in 2012 in several versions, the grandest of which came with ''14 [=CDs=]'' of bonus material, claiming to include "every known note" recorded by the relatively short-lived lineup at the time.
** Crimson one-upped themselves the following year with the set ''The Road to Red'', a box set of live shows from between 1972 to 1974, along with new stereo and 5.1 remixes of the 1974 album ''Red'', which spans 24 discs - 21 [=CDs=], 2 [=DVDs=], and 1 Blu-Ray disc.
** Crimson one-upped themselves the following year with the set ''The Road to Red'', a box set of live shows from between 1972 to 1974, along with new stereo and 5.1 remixes of the 1974 album ''Red'', which spans 24 discs - 21 [=CDs=], 2 [=DVDs=], and 1 Blu-Ray disc.
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* Music/KingCrimson's 1973 album ''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'' was rereleased in 2012 in several versions, the grandest of which came with ''14 [=CDs=]'' of bonus material, claiming to include "every known note" recorded by the relatively short-lived lineup at the time.
** Crimsontime. They one-upped themselves the following year with the set ''The Road to Red'', a box set of live shows from between 1972 to 1974, along with new stereo and 5.1 remixes of the 1974 album ''Red'', which spans 24 discs - 21 [=CDs=], 2 [=DVDs=], and 1 Blu-Ray disc.
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** Music/DreamTheater's newest album is a pretty good example. It hasn't been rereleased with extras (yet...), but on the initial release, three versions were available: The standard album in CD or LP form, a 3 CD version with a disk of cover songs and a disk of instrumental versions of the regular album's songs, and another edition with everything from before, a lithograph from the artist who designed the cover art, a mousepad, and a DVD with isolated tracks for all the audio on the regular album so people could do their own remixes of the songs.
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** Music/DreamTheater's newest album is a pretty good example. It hasn't been rereleased re-released with extras (yet...), but on the initial release, three versions were available: The standard album in CD or LP form, a 3 CD version with a disk of cover songs and a disk of instrumental versions of the regular album's songs, and another edition with everything from before, a lithograph from the artist who designed the cover art, a mousepad, and a DVD with isolated tracks for all the audio on the regular album so people could do their own remixes of the songs.
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* The re-release of Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/ExileOnMainSt'' got put out in ''four'' different formats. The regular Single-CD version, a Double-Vinyl edition, A Double-CD version featuring 10 bonus tracks to go along with the regular album, or, if you [[CrackIsCheaper really wanted to splurge it]], an Limited-Edition Autographed Version of the album signed by all the band members, which would have set you back around $2000 had you got it when that version was available. A fifth version called ''"Exile On Main St. Rarities Edition"'' which contained just the 10 bonus tracks, is also available at Target.
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* The re-release of Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/ExileOnMainSt'' got put out in ''four'' different formats. The regular Single-CD version, a Double-Vinyl edition, A Double-CD version featuring 10 bonus tracks to go along with the regular album, or, if you [[CrackIsCheaper really wanted to splurge it]], an Limited-Edition Autographed Version of the album signed by all the band members, which would have set you back around $2000 had you got it when that version was available. A fifth version called ''"Exile On on Main St. Rarities Edition"'' which contained just the 10 bonus tracks, is also available at Target.
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* There's a super-limited expensive version of {{Music/Paramore}}'s third album, ''Brand New Eyes''. Acoustic B-Sides, vinyl record, DVD, the works.
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* A great example of a collector's edition done well is John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers with Music/EricClapton. It contains the 1966 mono version and 1969 stereo remix, features early recordings of the band, done at the BBC and also early singles and promotional material. You also find alternate takes on songs and even earlier versions of them. Last, but not least, you get multiple live tracks with the band. You also get a great booklet, detailing the band and also a copy of the original CD booklet. Plus, the [=CDs=] themselves are modeled to look like old [=LPs=].
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* A great example of a collector's edition done well is John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers Bluesbreakers' first studio album, ''Blues Breakers with Music/EricClapton.Music/EricClapton''. It contains the 1966 mono version and 1969 stereo remix, features early recordings of the band, done at the BBC and also early singles and promotional material. You also find alternate takes on songs and even earlier versions of them. Last, but not least, you get multiple live tracks with the band. You also get a great booklet, detailing the band and also a copy of the original CD booklet. Plus, the [=CDs=] themselves are modeled to look like old [=LPs=].
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** Similarly, his soundtrack for ''The B.Q.E.'' can either be purchased as a CD / DVD combo pack (including the soundtrack album, the complete film... and a Viewmaster reel) or as a vinyl album (with an accompanying comic book).
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** Similarly, his soundtrack for ''The B.Q.E.'' can either be purchased as a CD / DVD CD[=/=]DVD combo pack (including the soundtrack album, the complete film... and a Viewmaster reel) or as a vinyl album (with an accompanying comic book).
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** 2007: The 20th anniversary remaster of their 1987 opus ''The Joshua Tree'' is released in three CD formats: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities, and a box set featuring both [=CDs=], a DVD with documentary and concert footage from the era, a hardcover book, and some photograph prints. There was also a double vinyl edition.
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** 2007: The 20th anniversary remaster of their 1987 opus ''The Joshua Tree'' ''Music/TheJoshuaTree'' is released in three CD formats: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities, and a box set featuring both [=CDs=], a DVD with documentary and concert footage from the era, a hardcover book, and some photograph prints. There was also a double vinyl edition.
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* A great example of a collector's edition done well is John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers with Music/EricClapton. It contains both the 1966 mono version and 1969 stereo remix, it features early recordings of the band, done at the BBC and also early singles and promotional material. You also find alternate takes on songs and even earlier versions of them. Last but not least you get multiple live tracks with the band. You also get a great booklet, detailing the band and also a copy of the original CD booklet. Plus the [=CDs=] themselves are modeled to look like old [=LPs=].
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* A great example of a collector's edition done well is John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers with Music/EricClapton. It contains both the 1966 mono version and 1969 stereo remix, it features early recordings of the band, done at the BBC and also early singles and promotional material. You also find alternate takes on songs and even earlier versions of them. Last Last, but not least least, you get multiple live tracks with the band. You also get a great booklet, detailing the band and also a copy of the original CD booklet. Plus Plus, the [=CDs=] themselves are modeled to look like old [=LPs=].
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* Music/{{U2}} has been a fan of this trope since 2004, and their dedication to it has been steadily increasing.
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* Music/{{U2}} has been a fan of this trope since 2004, and their dedication to it has been steadily increasing.rising.
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* There's a super-limited expensive version of {{Paramore}}'s third album, ''Brand New Eyes''. Acoustic B-Sides, vinyl record, DVD, the works.
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* There's a super-limited expensive version of {{Paramore}}'s {{Music/Paramore}}'s third album, ''Brand New Eyes''. Acoustic B-Sides, vinyl record, DVD, the works.
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* Sony Records started re-releasing famous albums on major anniversaries of their original release (10th or 25th mostly) with the original album, a bonus CD (usually demos and/or outtakes) and a DVD with a documentary, music videos and some rare/live footage. Examples include ''Music/LondonCalling'' by Music/TheClash, ''The Holy Bible'' by the Music/ManicStreetPreachers and ''Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum'' [[SelfTitledAlbum by Weezer]].
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* Sony Records started re-releasing famous albums on major anniversaries of their original release (10th or 25th mostly) with the original album, a bonus CD (usually demos and/or outtakes) and a DVD with a documentary, music videos and some rare/live footage. Examples include ''Music/LondonCalling'' by Music/TheClash, ''The Holy Bible'' by the Music/ManicStreetPreachers and ''Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum'' [[SelfTitledAlbum by Weezer]].by]] Music/{{Weezer}}.
* Music/{{Weezer}} started doing this with new albums in 2008: their 2008 SelfTitledAlbum ("The Red Album") had a vanilla version, a deluxe edition with 4 bonus tracks, and a pair of additional bonus tracks for the itunes version, along with different bonus tracks for international versions, and a Japan-exclusive dvd. ''Raditude'' had a similar array of different versions, as well as an iTunes Pass version with remixes, alternate versions and outtakes. To be fair, the physical versions of the regular and deluxe versions for both came out simultaneously, with the deluxe version typically costing only slightly more, but getting absolutely everything including international bonus tracks could still be pricey. They also re-released their debut album (commonly known as ''The Blue Album'') and ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' in deluxe editions with bonus tracks and an extra disc with b-sides and rarities. The ''Pinkerton'' reissue was even released with a smattering of bonus goodies, including a diorama of the album's artwork, a reprint of the original lyric booklet, and a copy of the compilation ''Death to False Metal''.
* Music/{{Weezer}} started doing this with new albums in 2008: their 2008 SelfTitledAlbum ("The Red Album") had a vanilla version, a deluxe edition with 4 bonus tracks, and a pair of additional bonus tracks for the itunes version, along with different bonus tracks for international versions, and a Japan-exclusive dvd. ''Raditude'' had a similar array of different versions, as well as an iTunes Pass version with remixes, alternate versions and outtakes. To be fair, the physical versions of the regular and deluxe versions for both came out simultaneously, with the deluxe version typically costing only slightly more, but getting absolutely everything including international bonus tracks could still be pricey. They also re-released their debut album (commonly known as ''The Blue Album'') and ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' in deluxe editions with bonus tracks and an extra disc with b-sides and rarities. The ''Pinkerton'' reissue was even released with a smattering of bonus goodies, including a diorama of the album's artwork, a reprint of the original lyric booklet, and a copy of the compilation ''Death to False Metal''.
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* A great example of a collector's edition done well is John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers with Music/EricClapton. It contains both the 1966 Mono version and the 1969 stereo remix, it features early recordings of the band, done at the BBC and also early singles and promotional material. You also find alternate takes on songs and even earlier versions of them. Last but not least you get multiple live tracks with the band. You also get a great booklet, detailing the band and also a copy of the original CD booklet. Plus the [=CDs=] themselves are modeled to look like old [=LPs=].
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* A great example of a collector's edition done well is John Mayall and The the Bluesbreakers with Music/EricClapton. It contains both the 1966 Mono mono version and the 1969 stereo remix, it features early recordings of the band, done at the BBC and also early singles and promotional material. You also find alternate takes on songs and even earlier versions of them. Last but not least you get multiple live tracks with the band. You also get a great booklet, detailing the band and also a copy of the original CD booklet. Plus the [=CDs=] themselves are modeled to look like old [=LPs=].
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* Music/{{Weezer}} started doing this with new albums in 2008: their 2008 SelfTitledAlbum ("The Red Album") had a vanilla version, a deluxe edition with 4 bonus tracks, and a pair of additional bonus tracks for the itunes version, along with different bonus tracks for international versions, and a Japan-exclusive dvd. ''Raditude'' had a similar array of different versions, as well as an iTunes Pass version with remixes, alternate versions and outtakes. To be fair, the physical versions of the regular and deluxe versions for both came out simultaneously, with the deluxe version typically costing only slightly more, but getting absolutely everything including international bonus tracks could still be pricey.
** They also rereleased their debut album (commonly known as ''The Blue Album'') and ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' in deluxe editions with bonus tracks and an extra disc with b-sides and rarities. The ''Pinkerton'' reissue was even released with a smattering of bonus goodies, including a diorama of the album's artwork, a reprint of the original lyric booklet, and a copy of the compilation ''Death to False Metal''.
** They also rereleased their debut album (commonly known as ''The Blue Album'') and ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' in deluxe editions with bonus tracks and an extra disc with b-sides and rarities. The ''Pinkerton'' reissue was even released with a smattering of bonus goodies, including a diorama of the album's artwork, a reprint of the original lyric booklet, and a copy of the compilation ''Death to False Metal''.
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* The 2006 rerelease of Klaus Schulze's ''Timewind'' had a second disc with the previously unreleased outtakes "Echoes of Time" and "Solar Wind", and the 2000 self-tribute piece "Windy Times". The CD's had a vinyl record-like texture.
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* The 2006 rerelease re-release of Klaus Schulze's ''Timewind'' had a second disc with the previously unreleased outtakes "Echoes of Time" and "Solar Wind", and the 2000 self-tribute piece "Windy Times". The CD's had a vinyl record-like texture.
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* The first ''Film/TheHungerGames'' film has ''two'' different versions of the ''Songs From District Twelve and Beyond'', which was a collection of pop, rock and indie tunes from (if only in the closing credits) or "inspired by" the film. The special edition of the album was little more than shameless marketing: the only new ''content'' you get is a download code (!) for a single bonus song, "Lullaby"; and the {{feelies}} consist only of "nine collector's cards" (basically a nine-piece double-sided puzzle of two of the movie poster designs), and a not-so-exclusive poster, which though nice, is a common promo poster design, not standard poster size, and ''printed on the back of the song guide'', which itself does not have lyrics included to boot. Luckily, said "special edition" is only a few bucks more.
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* The first ''Film/TheHungerGames'' film has ''two'' different versions of the ''Songs From from District Twelve and Beyond'', which was a collection of pop, rock and indie tunes from (if only in the closing credits) or "inspired by" the film. The special edition of the album was little more than shameless marketing: the only new ''content'' you get is a download code (!) for a single bonus song, "Lullaby"; and the {{feelies}} consist only of "nine collector's cards" (basically a nine-piece double-sided puzzle of two of the movie poster designs), and a not-so-exclusive poster, which though nice, is a common promo poster design, not standard poster size, and ''printed on the back of the song guide'', which itself does not have lyrics included to boot. Luckily, said "special edition" is only a few bucks more.
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** Crimson one-upped themselves the following year with the set ''The Road To Red'', a box set of live shows from between 1972 to 1974, along with new stereo and 5.1 remixes of the 1974 album ''Red'', which spans 24 discs - 21 [=CDs=], 2 [=DVDs=], and 1 Blu-Ray disc.
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** Crimson one-upped themselves the following year with the set ''The Road To to Red'', a box set of live shows from between 1972 to 1974, along with new stereo and 5.1 remixes of the 1974 album ''Red'', which spans 24 discs - 21 [=CDs=], 2 [=DVDs=], and 1 Blu-Ray disc.
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** ''The Complete Oxygène'' is ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Oxygène 7-13'', the latter with a bonus track called "Oxygen In Moscow", in a tall black cardboard case. Today, the case is the only reason to buy ''The Complete Oxygène'' because the bonus track is actually Claude Monnet's "Oxygène 12" remix also available on ''Odyssey Through O2'', and even then you'll have a hard time fitting that box anywhere into your collection as it's even taller than a DVD case.
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** ''The Complete Oxygène'' is ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Oxygène 7-13'', the latter with a bonus track called "Oxygen In in Moscow", in a tall black cardboard case. Today, the case is the only reason to buy ''The Complete Oxygène'' because the bonus track is actually Claude Monnet's "Oxygène 12" remix also available on ''Odyssey Through O2'', and even then you'll have a hard time fitting that box anywhere into your collection as it's even taller than a DVD case.
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* Certain record labels (for example, Roadrunner Records) have become infamous for releasing an album... then releasing it six months later with bonus tracks... then two years later with a bonus DVD... and it's even got to the point where they are releasing albums 10 years later with very little in the way of bonuses. There are currently at least five separate versions of Music/MercyfulFate's "Melissa" album available, not taking separate mediums into account ([=LPs=], Cassettes) or the astonishing amount of compilations or especially live albums with songs from the album on them. This has become a running joke within the music community to the point where almost no one buys a Roadrunner album upon its release, because they can get it six months later with bonus tracks.
** Music/DreamTheater's newest album is a pretty good example. It hasn't been rereleased with extras (yet...), but on the initial release, three versions were available: The standard album in CD or LP form, a 3 CD version with a disk of cover songs and a disk of instrumental versions of the regular album's songs, and another edition with everything from before, a lithograph from the artist who designed the cover art, a mousepad, and a DVD with isolated tracks for all the audio on the regular album so people could do their own remixes of the songs.
** The "6 months later with bonus tracks" scheme is especially done with R&B and pop music. Several labels will release an album by an artist and then re-release it 6 months later as a "special edition" and release one of the new songs a few months before to radio, basically forcing fans of an artist to buy the album again with the artists' new big hit on it. Sometimes a record company will pull this a ''second time'' by releasing the album with the original tracklist, the 6 tracks from the "special edition" and 2-4 more new tracks just so fans have to buy an artists' album ''again''.
*** And don't try to round it by just buying the new tracks from iTunes or Amazon Music; the record companies will sometimes seal off the new track as being an 'album-only purchase'.
*** British rock bands have gotten in on the "re-release with the new single on it" game. Want "Flux" by Bloc Party, "Kiss of Life" by Friendly Fires or "Heavy in Your Arms" by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine and don't want to buy the single? Guess what albums you're going to have to buy again?
** There's also been a trend of record labels releasing both a "standard" and a "deluxe" edition for popular music acts at the same time. The deluxe editions usually have different artwork and anywhere from 2-10 extra tracks. Sometimes there'll also be bonus videos of the making of the album, music videos, track-by-track commentary, interviews etc.
* ''13 Tales from Urban Bohemia'' by The Dandy Warhols had a 4 song 2nd disc included in the first pressing.
* ''Renegades'' from Music/RageAgainstTheMachine also had a second disc included in the first pressing.
* As part of its 30th anniversary, the Def Jam label released several albums as "deluxe editions" in 2014, including among others a 2-disc rerelease of Music/LLCoolJ's ''Mama Said Knock You Out'', multidisc reprints of both Music/PublicEnemy albums ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' and ''Music/FearOfABlackPlanet'', and one massive 6-LP [[GreatestHitsAlbum "Greatest Hits"]] with a T-shirt, a collection of pre-Def Jam songs that contributed to the label founders' production styles, and a bound book with photographs and liner notes that could be ordered in either vinyl or CD format.
* Music/{{Nas}} has had his debut album ''Illmatic'' reprinted twice for its 10th ("Platinum Edition") and 20th ("Illmatic XX") anniversary with bonus tracks (usually remixes) and "rare" photography, and on top of the countless interviews he's done [[UpToEleven he made a full-scale documentary about the creative process behind it]]. It's an in-joke among rap fans to [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment list the three different album releases at their top three albums of all time.]]
* Music/FaithNoMore's ''Album of the Year'' had a weird variation. The original release of the album had the regular version and a 2CD version with a bonus remix disc. The Japanese version featured two non-album tracks added to the end. A German Limited edition called "Competition Edit" added the two Japanese bonus tracks plus four remixes to the end of the first disc. These remixes were different to those on the 2CD bonus disc. So, if you wanted to, you could round up all the tracks by combining the disc from that version with the second disc of the 2CD edition, and have no repetition, but you would have to buy both releases to do it.
* There's a super-limited expensive version of {{Paramore}}'s third album, ''Brand New Eyes''. Acoustic B-Sides, vinyl record, DVD, the works.
* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins (well, [[RevolvingDoorBand the newest version of the group]]) did the same with their seventh album, ''Zeitgeist'', to a ridiculous extent: there are six versions of the album, the bonuses of which are all exclusive. (Ironically, you can't get the song ''Zeitgeist'' unless you buy it at Target.)
** In a similar case of irony, you can't get the song "The Colour and the Shape" on the album ''The Colour and the Shape'' (both by Music/FooFighters, by the way) unless you get the 10th anniversary edition of the album. Like the Pumpkins' ''Zeitgeist'', it includes six bonus tracks; unlike ''Zeitgeist'', they're all on the same version of the album.
* A few Music/DefLeppard albums were like this. For instance, the greatest hits compilation Vault had different tracks on the US, European, and Japanese releases; granted, the lineups were altered to reflect which songs had been hits in which region, so it made a bit more sense that regional albums be tailored, given that some songs that had been top tens in one country barely scratched airplay in others. And the Japanese releases also get bonus tracks not available on the other editions in order to encourage Japanese fans to purchase the domestic edition rather than import other copies. But then the YEAH! album got even worse than all this, mirroring examples above by having bonus tracks that were different depending on if you purchased it via iTunes, Target, Best Buy, or Wal* Mart.
* Sony Records started re-releasing famous albums on major anniversaries of their original release (10th or 25th mostly) with the original album, a bonus CD (usually demos and/or outtakes) and a DVD with a documentary, music videos and some rare/live footage. Examples include ''Music/LondonCalling'' by Music/TheClash, ''The Holy Bible'' by the Music/ManicStreetPreachers and ''Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum'' [[SelfTitledAlbum by Weezer]].
* Independent label Inside Out (known in some territories as Inside Out Music) is rather fond of this, regularly releasing enhanced editions of albums simultaneously with the regular editions, as well as far more lavish special editions of older albums by their more notable bands.
* A great example of a collector's edition done well is John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers with Music/EricClapton. It contains both the 1966 Mono version and the 1969 stereo remix, it features early recordings of the band, done at the BBC and also early singles and promotional material. You also find alternate takes on songs and even earlier versions of them. Last but not least you get multiple live tracks with the band. You also get a great booklet, detailing the band and also a copy of the original CD booklet. Plus the [=CDs=] themselves are modeled to look like old [=LPs=].
* Music/SufjanStevens' ''Songs for Christmas'' collection got the deluxe box-set treatment: 5 discs, 40 pages of liner notes (including guitar tabs for most of the songs and short stories), an animated music video, a poster with a full-page comic strip on the back, and stickers. There was no VanillaEdition of ''Songs for Christmas''--most of the songs had leaked to the internet a year beforehand, and one suspects that this deluxe treatment was done to give fans some incentive to pay for songs they had already downloaded.
** Similarly, his soundtrack for ''The B.Q.E.'' can either be purchased as a CD / DVD combo pack (including the soundtrack album, the complete film... and a Viewmaster reel) or as a vinyl album (with an accompanying comic book).
* Concept-album Prog Rock band Music/CoheedAndCambria does this, sort of:
** ''The Second Stage Turbine Blade'' has three extra songs; the epic "Elf Tower New Mexico", an acoustic demo version of "Junesong Provision", the demo version of "Everything Evil" and the bonus song "IRO-Bot" moved to it, from the original final song "Godsend Conspirator".
** The band's latest album, ''Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow'', has two versions, both with the same artwork on the front and back: the cheap one, with a thin cardboard CD case; and the expensive one, with a large cardboard box featuring a wide, amazing piece of artwork depicting various portions of a Sci-Fi battle that takes place sometime during the album's storyline, as well as a DVD showing a "Making-Of" video, a collection of photographs, and a bunch of AMAZING acoustic demos, all but one of them featuring semi-animated artwork video (i.e. drawings by the ''The Amory Wars''/''Coheed and Cambria'' artist, with flame effects added in, and pulsing lights, and panning over images)
* Boris and Music/SunnO's collaboration album Altar was released six different times in less than a year, including a single CD release, a double CD release in the US and Japan where both versions include different extra tracks, US and Japan triple LP releases which included DIFFERENT VERSIONS of the same bonus tracks from the CD release, and another 3 LP picture disc release that was sold only at one show in London.
* Music/NineInchNails released the LP set "Ghosts" in 6 different editions, including a vinyl release and a deluxe edition containing 2 CD's, a data-DVD with audio streams broken down for mixing and sampling, a UsefulNotes/BluRay disc of the four albums and an accompanying slideshow, and a 48-page hardcover book. However, the '''Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition''' was the king, housing everything from the deluxe edition, plus a 4-LP 180 gram vinyl set in a fabric slipcase and two exclusive limited edition Giclée prints, numbered and signed by Trent Reznor.
* Darkwave project Music/SoporAeternusAndTheEnsembleOfShadows released three different versions of their ninth album, ''Les Fleur du Mal'': the CD of the album (~$20), a double-vinyl limited edition (900 copies, ~$60), and a limited edition CD boxset (2000 copies, ~$100) with the album, a 40-page book of lyrics and illustrations, and a 112-page manga about the album.
* The soundtrack for ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', "The Dethalbum", had a special edition that included a few extra songs and some audio skits. This edition was produced in such limited quantities that people were gouging the price at a minimum of $100.
* A few fans were really ticked at how Music/{{Starflyer 59}}'s ''Ghosts of the Future'' and ''Ghosts of the Past'' were handled. Basically, the super deluxe edition (a vinyl box set featuring cool artwork) was released first, and fans who shelled out $60 or more for it under the impression that these tracks were exclusive to this set were less than pleased when the entire shebang was released as a much less expensive vanilla edition CD a year later.
* The reissue of Music/PearlJam's ''Music/{{Ten}}'' came in a bunch of versions. A two-CD "Legacy Edition" which came with a remastered version of the original album, a new remixed version of the album and half a dozen bonus tracks. The "Deluxe Edition" added in a DVD of their MTV Unplugged show, and a final "Super Deluxe Edition" had all the other stuff, a vinyl LP copy of the album and remixes, also sold on its own, a recording of a live show on vinyl, a replica of the early PJ demo cassettes, and a replica of Eddie Vedder's lyrics notebook. Admittedly, there were a lot of complaints about the mixing/production of the original album, but ''still''. Keep in mind that they're planning to do something similar for all of their albums, leading up to their 20th anniversary as a band. Follow-ups ''Vs.'' and ''Vitalogy'' were packaged together, in [[http://pearljam.com/music/albums/997/studio/18656/vs_and_vitalogy_-_20th_anniversary_editions either]] a regular version with both albums and bonus tracks, an expanded one adding a live album, and "Limited Edition Collector's Boxed Set (5 [=LPs=], 3 [=CDs=], 1 Cassette, Digital Download, Composition Notebook, Memorabilia-filled Envelope)".
* Music/{{Weezer}} started doing this with new albums in 2008: their 2008 SelfTitledAlbum ("The Red Album") had a vanilla version, a deluxe edition with 4 bonus tracks, and a pair of additional bonus tracks for the itunes version, along with different bonus tracks for international versions, and a Japan-exclusive dvd. ''Raditude'' had a similar array of different versions, as well as an iTunes Pass version with remixes, alternate versions and outtakes. To be fair, the physical versions of the regular and deluxe versions for both came out simultaneously, with the deluxe version typically costing only slightly more, but getting absolutely everything including international bonus tracks could still be pricey.
** They also rereleased their debut album (commonly known as ''The Blue Album'') and ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' in deluxe editions with bonus tracks and an extra disc with b-sides and rarities. The ''Pinkerton'' reissue was even released with a smattering of bonus goodies, including a diorama of the album's artwork, a reprint of the original lyric booklet, and a copy of the compilation ''Death to False Metal''.
* On September 9, 2009, EMI re-issued every album by Music/TheBeatles; the stereo mixes being released standalone and as a box set. A monaural set (the mono mixes preferred by the band and producer, plus mono mixes of the albums which were originally in stereo... with the albums being "[[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wU1%2BXEVjL.jpg mini-LPs]]") was planned as a very limited edition with only 10,000 copies planned for release. Massive pre-orders forced EMI to reconsider. When it finally came out, it had sold 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week. In Japan, it sold 20,000. New copies can still be found at online retailers such as Amazon.
* The re-release of Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/ExileOnMainSt'' got put out in ''four'' different formats. The regular Single-CD version, a Double-Vinyl edition, A Double-CD version featuring 10 bonus tracks to go along with the regular album, or, if you [[CrackIsCheaper really wanted to splurge it]], an Limited-Edition Autographed Version of the album signed by all the band members, which would have set you back around $2000 had you got it when that version was available. A fifth version called ''"Exile On Main St. Rarities Edition"'' which contained just the 10 bonus tracks, is also available at Target.
** Their [[MilestoneCelebration 50th anniversary]] GreatestHitsAlbum ''GRRR!'' had a [[http://i26.fastpic.ru/big/2012/1201/f0/ff6c9266ecc20c2395f2d66d11c0d3f0.jpg super deluxe edition]] with 4 disks compiling 80 songs (the regular, fitting the years being celebrated, has 50 in 3 disks), plus a bonus CD, a 7" single, a hardbook cover, and many collectibles.
* Though trumped by the above in cost, the current title-holder for music may be American metal band Music/LambOfGod. Their 2010 anthology ''Hourglass'' comes in 5 versions: a 3-CD set, a US$100 set with all 6 studio albums on USB drives, a US$120 set with all 6 albums on vinyl, a US$260 set with the vinyl albums, USB drives, the 3-CD set, and an art book. And for the truly devoted, there's a US$1000 set with the vinyl albums, USB drives, 3-CD set, the art book, an autographed 8x10 picture, an "Hourglass" sticker, a 4-foot by 6-foot cloth flag...and a Jackson Signature Series Mark Morton guitar.
* The first soundtrack for ''Series/{{Glee}}'' came in three flavors - one basic 17-track CD, one with one additional song, and one with three different additional songs. They did it again for the ''Showstoppers'' album, this time having an additional ''six'' songs, as well as different packaging between the two.
* Rhino Records releases boxed-sets containing (usually) all or a selection of a group's studio albums with alternate versions, b-sides and the like. They've done it with Music/TheGratefulDead, Music/TalkingHeads, Music/TheDoors, and Music/BlackSabbath, among others. The fact that these sets usually cost upwards of $50 AND are sometimes only part of a band's output is a bit grating, although when some of them include extensive liner notes and surround-sound, it's worth it.
** Rhino also had a sub-imprint, Rhino Handmade, that focused on limited editions (of usually no more than 3000 copies) of rare works of certain artists, or compilations of long out-of-print material. Many of their releases have become collector's items and fetch high prices on eBay. Since 2013, it's been less of a label for rare work than more of a shingle for their collectible mainstream box sets.
* Bauhaus albums have been re-released as Collector's Editions with multiple discs of outtakes, alternate versions of songs and the like. They're all a few cents shy of $30.
* The Special Limited Edition of Music/LadyGaga's ''The Fame Monster'' included that and her previous album ''The Fame'', as well as an artbook, posters, 3-D glasses, a paper doll, and ''a lock of Gaga's hair''. A second limited edition was a Gaga-shaped USB drive that contained the album, artwork, music videos, and remixes.
* Music/{{U2}} has been a fan of this trope since 2004, and their dedication to it has been steadily increasing.
** 2004: The new album ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'' is released in three CD formats: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition featuring a bonus DVD with documentary and performance footage; and a Collector's Edition that had an exclusive version of the CD featuring a bonus track (ironically, the song from which the album title was derived) and the DVD from the Deluxe Edition, packaged with a hardcover book. (This does not include the vinyl edition.)
** 2007: The 20th anniversary remaster of their 1987 opus ''The Joshua Tree'' is released in three CD formats: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities, and a box set featuring both [=CDs=], a DVD with documentary and concert footage from the era, a hardcover book, and some photograph prints. There was also a double vinyl edition.
** 2008: The remasters of Music/{{U2}}'s first three albums, ''Boy'', ''October'', and ''War'', are released, each in two CD formats: a standard single-CD edition with newly expanded liner notes and full lyrics (which were previously not available), and a Deluxe Edition featuring a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities. Again, there were also vinyl editions. Notably, there were no bonus [=DVDs=] or hardcover books released this time.
** 2009, February: The new album ''No Line on the Horizon'' is released in ''four'' CD formats: a standard single-CD edition in a jewel case; a single-CD edition in a digipak with a download link for [[TheFilmOfTheSong The Film of the Album]], ''Linear''; a single CD packaged with a magazine that also included the movie download link; and a box set with the CD, movie download link, and a hardcover book. This is again in addition to a vinyl edition, bringing the total number of physical formats up to ''five''.
** 2009, October: ''The Unforgettable Fire'', their fourth album, is remastered as a 25th anniversary edition, and receives the grand treatment of ''The Joshua Tree'' before it: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities; and a Limited Edition Box Set featuring the two [=CDs=], a DVD with documentary and concert footage from the era, a hardcover book, and five photograph prints.
** 2011: ''Achtung Baby'', widely considered to be U2's best album, is rereleased as a 20th anniversary edition (with "slightly cleaned up" audio as opposed to a full remastering, which the band thought unnecessary). This set the bar higher than any album before it, with five physical formats, including a single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a second CD of B-sides, rarities, and remixes; a quadruple-vinyl edition with the same track listing as the CD Deluxe Edition. The last two examples embody this trope to a T. The Super Deluxe Edition includes ''six'' [=CDs=] (''Achtung Baby'', the follow-up album ''Zooropa'', a CD of just B-sides and rarities, ''two'' [=CDs=] of remixes, and a "Kindergarten" version of the album featuring demo versions of each song in order) and ''four'' [=DVDs=] (the related feature documentary film ''From the Sky Down'', the concert film ''Zoo TV: Live from Sydney'', and two [=DVDs=] of music videos and other documentaries), all packaged in a very large hardcover book with ''16'' equally large prints (each one being one "panel" of the album art). The Über Deluxe Edition then outdid even ''that'', with all the content of the Super Deluxe Edition, plus the vinyl edition of the album, five vinyl singles corresponding with the singles from the album, a series of badges, a special edition of "Propaganda" magazine (modeled on U2's old fan magazine), and a ''replica of Bono's "Fly" sunglasses'', all packaged in a magnetic puzzle tile box.
* Music/DanielAmos:
** When their out-of-print albums from the 70s and 80s get reissued on CD, it's usually as a two-disc deluxe edition, with demos and outtakes and the works. And in these cases, there is no vanilla edition. Albums that have gotten this treatment so far: ''Daniel Amos'', ''Shotgun Angel'', ''Music/{{Alarma}}'', ''Music/{{Doppelganger}}'', and ''Music/DarnFloorBigBite''. Their album ''Music/SongsOfTheHeart'' also got a deluxe 10th-anniversary reissue, even though the original was still in print.
** And for Terry Scott Taylor's 2010 solo album ''Swine Before Pearl'', you could buy the vanilla edition, or you could pay an extra $30 to also get a personalized greeting from Dr Edward Daniel Taylor (Terry's crazy radio preacher alter ego). Or you could pay an extra $100 on top of that, to ''also'' get a personalized original song.
* Music/{{Autechre}}'s ''Quaristice'' had a special edition limited to 1000 copies, with a metal case and a bonus CD, ''Quaristice Versions'', which featured extended and alternate versions of the songs. The Japanese version had the bonus track "Nu-Nr6d".
* The 2006 rerelease of Klaus Schulze's ''Timewind'' had a second disc with the previously unreleased outtakes "Echoes of Time" and "Solar Wind", and the 2000 self-tribute piece "Windy Times". The CD's had a vinyl record-like texture.
* Music/{{Covenant}}'s ''Modern Ruin'' has a limited edition with a bonus EP titled ''Wir Sind die Nacht'' (We are the Night), which uses samples from the 2010 German horror film of the same name.
* Hoo boy, Music/DavidBowie reissues. Not only have there been quite a few reissues that count as these, some albums have had more than one, and gathering ''all'' the bonus material a particular album's had over the years may well neccessitate much searching and a deep wallet...
** It started in TheNineties. Most of the Rykodisc re-releases of his 1969–80 back catalog over 1990–92 had bonus tracks (alternate takes, demos, unreleased songs, B-sides, etc.), and [=EMI=]/Virgin followed that up by giving his 1983–89 output the same treatment in 1995.
** At the TurnOfTheMillennium his newest albums had special editions available alongside the standard versions, and most of his solo output from TheNineties had bonus track-heavy and/or 2-disc versions (''Black Tie White Noise'' made it to three discs, but the last was a [=DVD=]). 2-disc reissues of three of his GlamRock albums turned up as well. His first two live albums were given additional tracks and reordered to match the original setlists, and ''Music/YoungAmericans'' included a bonus [=DVD=] of a 1974 TV interview and performance.
** In TheNewTens, there's been two-disc versions of his first two albums from TheSixties and a ''Music/StationToStation'' reissue that, in Special Edition form, includes two extra discs for his much-bootlegged Nassau Coliseum concert from 1976...and in ''Deluxe'' Edition form includes an additional two [=CDs=] (one with the mix the 1985 CD version had, one with the single versions of the songs), a [=DVD=] with a new surround sound mix of the album, three [=LPs=] for the original album and the concert, and from there such items as replicas of the tour's press kit, the official fan club folder, etc. from this period. And there was a ''third'' special edition reissue of ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' in 2012 (previously, it had been reissued in 1990 and 2002).
** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well.
* Music/{{Epica}} did this in 2007 with "The Divine Conspiracy" featuring a high-quality hardbound digibook, and again with their 2012 release, "Requiem for the Indifferent." There are a few editions but the super-high-end "Mailorder Edition" includes the album, an instrumental version of the album, postcards featuring album art, and a certificate of authenticity indicating which copy out of a limited run of 500 the customer has received, all wrapped up in a pine box with the Epica logo and album title woodburned into the cover. Interestingly, some early releases went out with an unfinished version of the album's closing track, "Serenade of Self-Destruction", that was missing most of its vocals, and so are considered highly collectable.
* The first ''Film/TheHungerGames'' film has ''two'' different versions of the ''Songs From District Twelve and Beyond'', which was a collection of pop, rock and indie tunes from (if only in the closing credits) or "inspired by" the film. The special edition of the album was little more than shameless marketing: the only new ''content'' you get is a download code (!) for a single bonus song, "Lullaby"; and the {{feelies}} consist only of "nine collector's cards" (basically a nine-piece double-sided puzzle of two of the movie poster designs), and a not-so-exclusive poster, which though nice, is a common promo poster design, not standard poster size, and ''printed on the back of the song guide'', which itself does not have lyrics included to boot. Luckily, said "special edition" is only a few bucks more.
* Music/KingCrimson's 1973 album ''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'' was rereleased in 2012 in several versions, the grandest of which came with ''14 [=CDs=]'' of bonus material, claiming to include "every known note" recorded by the relatively short-lived lineup at the time.
** Crimson one-upped themselves the following year with the set ''The Road To Red'', a box set of live shows from between 1972 to 1974, along with new stereo and 5.1 remixes of the 1974 album ''Red'', which spans 24 discs - 21 [=CDs=], 2 [=DVDs=], and 1 Blu-Ray disc.
* The Postal Service's [[OneBookAuthor only album]] ''Give Up'' was re-released as a two CD "10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" in 2013. Disc one is a remastered version of the original album, while disc two collects {{B Side}}s, remixes and other previously released non-album material, as well as featuring two previously unheard songs. Making a pre-order of this version or buying a physical copy at certain record stores also got you {{feelies}} in the form of a postcard set featuring photos of the band.
* Within the same year of its regular US release, Flume's SelfTitledAlbum was re-released in a "Deluxe Edition". It was a fairly generous four disc package, featuring the original album, two discs worth of bonus tracks (comprising a "mixtape" where rappers add vocals to previously instrumental songs from the album, remixes by and of Flume, and a LiveAlbum), and a copy of Ableton Live 9 Lite including tutorials and interactive sessions for three of the album's songs.
* Music/MyChemicalRomance's fourth album ''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys'' was released with an elaborate package available for pre-order, which included a full-color photo book, replicas of the mask and gun used by one of the characters, a bead bracelet, and a bonus EP.
* Music/{{ACDC}} had their box set ''Backtracks'' with a deluxe edition housed in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW7srJ8qJU0 an operating guitar amplifier]]''. Their "soundtrack" to ''Music/IronMan2'' had also a collector's edition packaged as a hardcover book, featuring an Comicbook/IronMan comic reprint (along with other goodies).
* The Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection re-releases classic Creator/{{Disney}} movies' soundtracks with bonus discs, containing such extra material as deleted songs and demo recordings, and digibook packaging, boasting production notes, lyrics, and pictures both archival and new. Sometimes, the soundtracks themselves also contain pieces of film score that Disney left off of earlier releases.
* Music/JeanMichelJarre:
** The golden Original Master Recording edition [=CDs=] of ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Equinoxe''.
** The limited box set ''The Laser Years'' exclusively contained ''Cities In Concert'', an ''In Concert Houston-Lyon'' special variant with all music in full length — that is, until ''In Concert Houston-Lyon'' was replaced by ''Cities In Concert'' as part of the regular back catalog during the 1997 remastering.
** The original eleven-track ''Jarremix'' with an additional Laurent Garnier remix has inofficially become that.
** ''The Complete Oxygène'' is ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Oxygène 7-13'', the latter with a bonus track called "Oxygen In Moscow", in a tall black cardboard case. Today, the case is the only reason to buy ''The Complete Oxygène'' because the bonus track is actually Claude Monnet's "Oxygène 12" remix also available on ''Odyssey Through O2'', and even then you'll have a hard time fitting that box anywhere into your collection as it's even taller than a DVD case.
** ''Aero'' came out as [[VanillaEdition a CD]], a CD with a video DVD of Anne Parillaud's eyes while listening to the album (as seen on the cover) ''and'' a CD with a 3-D video DVD of Anne Parillaud's eyes.
** ''Oxygène – New Master Recording'' also came along with a video disk containing the ''Oxygène – Live In Your Living-Room'' performance recording.
* The 2001 (though not the 2009) remaster of the Music/PetShopBoys' ''Introspective'' includes the bonus CD ''Further Listening'', which compiles B-sides, demos, and previously unreleased songs from the album sessions.
* Vicious Pink's self-titled album was rereleased on CD for the first time in 2012, with the addition of various remixes of "Cccan't You See?", the extended versions of "Fetish" and "Take Me Now", and the previously-unreleased "I Confess".
* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1991 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their entire catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disk (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
* As fitting for a band with a pirate image, a limited edition of Music/RunningWild's album ''Masquerade'' came in a wooden box which featured the album, the ''Death or Glory'' VHS, and a treasure map. There was also an even rarer edition which came with a bottle of rum.
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* Certain record labels (for example, Roadrunner Records) have become infamous for releasing an album... then releasing it six months later with bonus tracks... then two years later with a bonus DVD... and it's even got to the point where they are releasing albums 10 years later with very little in the way of bonuses. There are currently at least five separate versions of Music/MercyfulFate's "Melissa" album available, not taking separate mediums into account ([=LPs=], Cassettes) or the astonishing amount of compilations or especially live albums with songs from the album on them. This has become a running joke within the music community to the point where almost no one buys a Roadrunner album upon its release, because they can get it six months later with bonus tracks.
** Music/DreamTheater's newest album is a pretty good example. It hasn't been rereleased with extras (yet...), but on the initial release, three versions were available: The standard album in CD or LP form, a 3 CD version with a disk of cover songs and a disk of instrumental versions of the regular album's songs, and another edition with everything from before, a lithograph from the artist who designed the cover art, a mousepad, and a DVD with isolated tracks for all the audio on the regular album so people could do their own remixes of the songs.
** The "6 months later with bonus tracks" scheme is especially done with R&B and pop music. Several labels will release an album by an artist and then re-release it 6 months later as a "special edition" and release one of the new songs a few months before to radio, basically forcing fans of an artist to buy the album again with the artists' new big hit on it. Sometimes a record company will pull this a ''second time'' by releasing the album with the original tracklist, the 6 tracks from the "special edition" and 2-4 more new tracks just so fans have to buy an artists' album ''again''.
*** And don't try to round it by just buying the new tracks from iTunes or Amazon Music; the record companies will sometimes seal off the new track as being an 'album-only purchase'.
*** British rock bands have gotten in on the "re-release with the new single on it" game. Want "Flux" by Bloc Party, "Kiss of Life" by Friendly Fires or "Heavy in Your Arms" by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine and don't want to buy the single? Guess what albums you're going to have to buy again?
** There's also been a trend of record labels releasing both a "standard" and a "deluxe" edition for popular music acts at the same time. The deluxe editions usually have different artwork and anywhere from 2-10 extra tracks. Sometimes there'll also be bonus videos of the making of the album, music videos, track-by-track commentary, interviews etc.
* ''13 Tales from Urban Bohemia'' by The Dandy Warhols had a 4 song 2nd disc included in the first pressing.
* ''Renegades'' from Music/RageAgainstTheMachine also had a second disc included in the first pressing.
* As part of its 30th anniversary, the Def Jam label released several albums as "deluxe editions" in 2014, including among others a 2-disc rerelease of Music/LLCoolJ's ''Mama Said Knock You Out'', multidisc reprints of both Music/PublicEnemy albums ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' and ''Music/FearOfABlackPlanet'', and one massive 6-LP [[GreatestHitsAlbum "Greatest Hits"]] with a T-shirt, a collection of pre-Def Jam songs that contributed to the label founders' production styles, and a bound book with photographs and liner notes that could be ordered in either vinyl or CD format.
* Music/{{Nas}} has had his debut album ''Illmatic'' reprinted twice for its 10th ("Platinum Edition") and 20th ("Illmatic XX") anniversary with bonus tracks (usually remixes) and "rare" photography, and on top of the countless interviews he's done [[UpToEleven he made a full-scale documentary about the creative process behind it]]. It's an in-joke among rap fans to [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment list the three different album releases at their top three albums of all time.]]
* Music/FaithNoMore's ''Album of the Year'' had a weird variation. The original release of the album had the regular version and a 2CD version with a bonus remix disc. The Japanese version featured two non-album tracks added to the end. A German Limited edition called "Competition Edit" added the two Japanese bonus tracks plus four remixes to the end of the first disc. These remixes were different to those on the 2CD bonus disc. So, if you wanted to, you could round up all the tracks by combining the disc from that version with the second disc of the 2CD edition, and have no repetition, but you would have to buy both releases to do it.
* There's a super-limited expensive version of {{Paramore}}'s third album, ''Brand New Eyes''. Acoustic B-Sides, vinyl record, DVD, the works.
* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins (well, [[RevolvingDoorBand the newest version of the group]]) did the same with their seventh album, ''Zeitgeist'', to a ridiculous extent: there are six versions of the album, the bonuses of which are all exclusive. (Ironically, you can't get the song ''Zeitgeist'' unless you buy it at Target.)
** In a similar case of irony, you can't get the song "The Colour and the Shape" on the album ''The Colour and the Shape'' (both by Music/FooFighters, by the way) unless you get the 10th anniversary edition of the album. Like the Pumpkins' ''Zeitgeist'', it includes six bonus tracks; unlike ''Zeitgeist'', they're all on the same version of the album.
* A few Music/DefLeppard albums were like this. For instance, the greatest hits compilation Vault had different tracks on the US, European, and Japanese releases; granted, the lineups were altered to reflect which songs had been hits in which region, so it made a bit more sense that regional albums be tailored, given that some songs that had been top tens in one country barely scratched airplay in others. And the Japanese releases also get bonus tracks not available on the other editions in order to encourage Japanese fans to purchase the domestic edition rather than import other copies. But then the YEAH! album got even worse than all this, mirroring examples above by having bonus tracks that were different depending on if you purchased it via iTunes, Target, Best Buy, or Wal* Mart.
* Sony Records started re-releasing famous albums on major anniversaries of their original release (10th or 25th mostly) with the original album, a bonus CD (usually demos and/or outtakes) and a DVD with a documentary, music videos and some rare/live footage. Examples include ''Music/LondonCalling'' by Music/TheClash, ''The Holy Bible'' by the Music/ManicStreetPreachers and ''Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum'' [[SelfTitledAlbum by Weezer]].
* Independent label Inside Out (known in some territories as Inside Out Music) is rather fond of this, regularly releasing enhanced editions of albums simultaneously with the regular editions, as well as far more lavish special editions of older albums by their more notable bands.
* A great example of a collector's edition done well is John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers with Music/EricClapton. It contains both the 1966 Mono version and the 1969 stereo remix, it features early recordings of the band, done at the BBC and also early singles and promotional material. You also find alternate takes on songs and even earlier versions of them. Last but not least you get multiple live tracks with the band. You also get a great booklet, detailing the band and also a copy of the original CD booklet. Plus the [=CDs=] themselves are modeled to look like old [=LPs=].
* Music/SufjanStevens' ''Songs for Christmas'' collection got the deluxe box-set treatment: 5 discs, 40 pages of liner notes (including guitar tabs for most of the songs and short stories), an animated music video, a poster with a full-page comic strip on the back, and stickers. There was no VanillaEdition of ''Songs for Christmas''--most of the songs had leaked to the internet a year beforehand, and one suspects that this deluxe treatment was done to give fans some incentive to pay for songs they had already downloaded.
** Similarly, his soundtrack for ''The B.Q.E.'' can either be purchased as a CD / DVD combo pack (including the soundtrack album, the complete film... and a Viewmaster reel) or as a vinyl album (with an accompanying comic book).
* Concept-album Prog Rock band Music/CoheedAndCambria does this, sort of:
** ''The Second Stage Turbine Blade'' has three extra songs; the epic "Elf Tower New Mexico", an acoustic demo version of "Junesong Provision", the demo version of "Everything Evil" and the bonus song "IRO-Bot" moved to it, from the original final song "Godsend Conspirator".
** The band's latest album, ''Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow'', has two versions, both with the same artwork on the front and back: the cheap one, with a thin cardboard CD case; and the expensive one, with a large cardboard box featuring a wide, amazing piece of artwork depicting various portions of a Sci-Fi battle that takes place sometime during the album's storyline, as well as a DVD showing a "Making-Of" video, a collection of photographs, and a bunch of AMAZING acoustic demos, all but one of them featuring semi-animated artwork video (i.e. drawings by the ''The Amory Wars''/''Coheed and Cambria'' artist, with flame effects added in, and pulsing lights, and panning over images)
* Boris and Music/SunnO's collaboration album Altar was released six different times in less than a year, including a single CD release, a double CD release in the US and Japan where both versions include different extra tracks, US and Japan triple LP releases which included DIFFERENT VERSIONS of the same bonus tracks from the CD release, and another 3 LP picture disc release that was sold only at one show in London.
* Music/NineInchNails released the LP set "Ghosts" in 6 different editions, including a vinyl release and a deluxe edition containing 2 CD's, a data-DVD with audio streams broken down for mixing and sampling, a UsefulNotes/BluRay disc of the four albums and an accompanying slideshow, and a 48-page hardcover book. However, the '''Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition''' was the king, housing everything from the deluxe edition, plus a 4-LP 180 gram vinyl set in a fabric slipcase and two exclusive limited edition Giclée prints, numbered and signed by Trent Reznor.
* Darkwave project Music/SoporAeternusAndTheEnsembleOfShadows released three different versions of their ninth album, ''Les Fleur du Mal'': the CD of the album (~$20), a double-vinyl limited edition (900 copies, ~$60), and a limited edition CD boxset (2000 copies, ~$100) with the album, a 40-page book of lyrics and illustrations, and a 112-page manga about the album.
* The soundtrack for ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', "The Dethalbum", had a special edition that included a few extra songs and some audio skits. This edition was produced in such limited quantities that people were gouging the price at a minimum of $100.
* A few fans were really ticked at how Music/{{Starflyer 59}}'s ''Ghosts of the Future'' and ''Ghosts of the Past'' were handled. Basically, the super deluxe edition (a vinyl box set featuring cool artwork) was released first, and fans who shelled out $60 or more for it under the impression that these tracks were exclusive to this set were less than pleased when the entire shebang was released as a much less expensive vanilla edition CD a year later.
* The reissue of Music/PearlJam's ''Music/{{Ten}}'' came in a bunch of versions. A two-CD "Legacy Edition" which came with a remastered version of the original album, a new remixed version of the album and half a dozen bonus tracks. The "Deluxe Edition" added in a DVD of their MTV Unplugged show, and a final "Super Deluxe Edition" had all the other stuff, a vinyl LP copy of the album and remixes, also sold on its own, a recording of a live show on vinyl, a replica of the early PJ demo cassettes, and a replica of Eddie Vedder's lyrics notebook. Admittedly, there were a lot of complaints about the mixing/production of the original album, but ''still''. Keep in mind that they're planning to do something similar for all of their albums, leading up to their 20th anniversary as a band. Follow-ups ''Vs.'' and ''Vitalogy'' were packaged together, in [[http://pearljam.com/music/albums/997/studio/18656/vs_and_vitalogy_-_20th_anniversary_editions either]] a regular version with both albums and bonus tracks, an expanded one adding a live album, and "Limited Edition Collector's Boxed Set (5 [=LPs=], 3 [=CDs=], 1 Cassette, Digital Download, Composition Notebook, Memorabilia-filled Envelope)".
* Music/{{Weezer}} started doing this with new albums in 2008: their 2008 SelfTitledAlbum ("The Red Album") had a vanilla version, a deluxe edition with 4 bonus tracks, and a pair of additional bonus tracks for the itunes version, along with different bonus tracks for international versions, and a Japan-exclusive dvd. ''Raditude'' had a similar array of different versions, as well as an iTunes Pass version with remixes, alternate versions and outtakes. To be fair, the physical versions of the regular and deluxe versions for both came out simultaneously, with the deluxe version typically costing only slightly more, but getting absolutely everything including international bonus tracks could still be pricey.
** They also rereleased their debut album (commonly known as ''The Blue Album'') and ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' in deluxe editions with bonus tracks and an extra disc with b-sides and rarities. The ''Pinkerton'' reissue was even released with a smattering of bonus goodies, including a diorama of the album's artwork, a reprint of the original lyric booklet, and a copy of the compilation ''Death to False Metal''.
* On September 9, 2009, EMI re-issued every album by Music/TheBeatles; the stereo mixes being released standalone and as a box set. A monaural set (the mono mixes preferred by the band and producer, plus mono mixes of the albums which were originally in stereo... with the albums being "[[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wU1%2BXEVjL.jpg mini-LPs]]") was planned as a very limited edition with only 10,000 copies planned for release. Massive pre-orders forced EMI to reconsider. When it finally came out, it had sold 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week. In Japan, it sold 20,000. New copies can still be found at online retailers such as Amazon.
* The re-release of Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/ExileOnMainSt'' got put out in ''four'' different formats. The regular Single-CD version, a Double-Vinyl edition, A Double-CD version featuring 10 bonus tracks to go along with the regular album, or, if you [[CrackIsCheaper really wanted to splurge it]], an Limited-Edition Autographed Version of the album signed by all the band members, which would have set you back around $2000 had you got it when that version was available. A fifth version called ''"Exile On Main St. Rarities Edition"'' which contained just the 10 bonus tracks, is also available at Target.
** Their [[MilestoneCelebration 50th anniversary]] GreatestHitsAlbum ''GRRR!'' had a [[http://i26.fastpic.ru/big/2012/1201/f0/ff6c9266ecc20c2395f2d66d11c0d3f0.jpg super deluxe edition]] with 4 disks compiling 80 songs (the regular, fitting the years being celebrated, has 50 in 3 disks), plus a bonus CD, a 7" single, a hardbook cover, and many collectibles.
* Though trumped by the above in cost, the current title-holder for music may be American metal band Music/LambOfGod. Their 2010 anthology ''Hourglass'' comes in 5 versions: a 3-CD set, a US$100 set with all 6 studio albums on USB drives, a US$120 set with all 6 albums on vinyl, a US$260 set with the vinyl albums, USB drives, the 3-CD set, and an art book. And for the truly devoted, there's a US$1000 set with the vinyl albums, USB drives, 3-CD set, the art book, an autographed 8x10 picture, an "Hourglass" sticker, a 4-foot by 6-foot cloth flag...and a Jackson Signature Series Mark Morton guitar.
* The first soundtrack for ''Series/{{Glee}}'' came in three flavors - one basic 17-track CD, one with one additional song, and one with three different additional songs. They did it again for the ''Showstoppers'' album, this time having an additional ''six'' songs, as well as different packaging between the two.
* Rhino Records releases boxed-sets containing (usually) all or a selection of a group's studio albums with alternate versions, b-sides and the like. They've done it with Music/TheGratefulDead, Music/TalkingHeads, Music/TheDoors, and Music/BlackSabbath, among others. The fact that these sets usually cost upwards of $50 AND are sometimes only part of a band's output is a bit grating, although when some of them include extensive liner notes and surround-sound, it's worth it.
** Rhino also had a sub-imprint, Rhino Handmade, that focused on limited editions (of usually no more than 3000 copies) of rare works of certain artists, or compilations of long out-of-print material. Many of their releases have become collector's items and fetch high prices on eBay. Since 2013, it's been less of a label for rare work than more of a shingle for their collectible mainstream box sets.
* Bauhaus albums have been re-released as Collector's Editions with multiple discs of outtakes, alternate versions of songs and the like. They're all a few cents shy of $30.
* The Special Limited Edition of Music/LadyGaga's ''The Fame Monster'' included that and her previous album ''The Fame'', as well as an artbook, posters, 3-D glasses, a paper doll, and ''a lock of Gaga's hair''. A second limited edition was a Gaga-shaped USB drive that contained the album, artwork, music videos, and remixes.
* Music/{{U2}} has been a fan of this trope since 2004, and their dedication to it has been steadily increasing.
** 2004: The new album ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'' is released in three CD formats: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition featuring a bonus DVD with documentary and performance footage; and a Collector's Edition that had an exclusive version of the CD featuring a bonus track (ironically, the song from which the album title was derived) and the DVD from the Deluxe Edition, packaged with a hardcover book. (This does not include the vinyl edition.)
** 2007: The 20th anniversary remaster of their 1987 opus ''The Joshua Tree'' is released in three CD formats: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities, and a box set featuring both [=CDs=], a DVD with documentary and concert footage from the era, a hardcover book, and some photograph prints. There was also a double vinyl edition.
** 2008: The remasters of Music/{{U2}}'s first three albums, ''Boy'', ''October'', and ''War'', are released, each in two CD formats: a standard single-CD edition with newly expanded liner notes and full lyrics (which were previously not available), and a Deluxe Edition featuring a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities. Again, there were also vinyl editions. Notably, there were no bonus [=DVDs=] or hardcover books released this time.
** 2009, February: The new album ''No Line on the Horizon'' is released in ''four'' CD formats: a standard single-CD edition in a jewel case; a single-CD edition in a digipak with a download link for [[TheFilmOfTheSong The Film of the Album]], ''Linear''; a single CD packaged with a magazine that also included the movie download link; and a box set with the CD, movie download link, and a hardcover book. This is again in addition to a vinyl edition, bringing the total number of physical formats up to ''five''.
** 2009, October: ''The Unforgettable Fire'', their fourth album, is remastered as a 25th anniversary edition, and receives the grand treatment of ''The Joshua Tree'' before it: a standard single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a bonus CD of B-sides and rarities; and a Limited Edition Box Set featuring the two [=CDs=], a DVD with documentary and concert footage from the era, a hardcover book, and five photograph prints.
** 2011: ''Achtung Baby'', widely considered to be U2's best album, is rereleased as a 20th anniversary edition (with "slightly cleaned up" audio as opposed to a full remastering, which the band thought unnecessary). This set the bar higher than any album before it, with five physical formats, including a single-CD edition; a Deluxe Edition with a second CD of B-sides, rarities, and remixes; a quadruple-vinyl edition with the same track listing as the CD Deluxe Edition. The last two examples embody this trope to a T. The Super Deluxe Edition includes ''six'' [=CDs=] (''Achtung Baby'', the follow-up album ''Zooropa'', a CD of just B-sides and rarities, ''two'' [=CDs=] of remixes, and a "Kindergarten" version of the album featuring demo versions of each song in order) and ''four'' [=DVDs=] (the related feature documentary film ''From the Sky Down'', the concert film ''Zoo TV: Live from Sydney'', and two [=DVDs=] of music videos and other documentaries), all packaged in a very large hardcover book with ''16'' equally large prints (each one being one "panel" of the album art). The Über Deluxe Edition then outdid even ''that'', with all the content of the Super Deluxe Edition, plus the vinyl edition of the album, five vinyl singles corresponding with the singles from the album, a series of badges, a special edition of "Propaganda" magazine (modeled on U2's old fan magazine), and a ''replica of Bono's "Fly" sunglasses'', all packaged in a magnetic puzzle tile box.
* Music/DanielAmos:
** When their out-of-print albums from the 70s and 80s get reissued on CD, it's usually as a two-disc deluxe edition, with demos and outtakes and the works. And in these cases, there is no vanilla edition. Albums that have gotten this treatment so far: ''Daniel Amos'', ''Shotgun Angel'', ''Music/{{Alarma}}'', ''Music/{{Doppelganger}}'', and ''Music/DarnFloorBigBite''. Their album ''Music/SongsOfTheHeart'' also got a deluxe 10th-anniversary reissue, even though the original was still in print.
** And for Terry Scott Taylor's 2010 solo album ''Swine Before Pearl'', you could buy the vanilla edition, or you could pay an extra $30 to also get a personalized greeting from Dr Edward Daniel Taylor (Terry's crazy radio preacher alter ego). Or you could pay an extra $100 on top of that, to ''also'' get a personalized original song.
* Music/{{Autechre}}'s ''Quaristice'' had a special edition limited to 1000 copies, with a metal case and a bonus CD, ''Quaristice Versions'', which featured extended and alternate versions of the songs. The Japanese version had the bonus track "Nu-Nr6d".
* The 2006 rerelease of Klaus Schulze's ''Timewind'' had a second disc with the previously unreleased outtakes "Echoes of Time" and "Solar Wind", and the 2000 self-tribute piece "Windy Times". The CD's had a vinyl record-like texture.
* Music/{{Covenant}}'s ''Modern Ruin'' has a limited edition with a bonus EP titled ''Wir Sind die Nacht'' (We are the Night), which uses samples from the 2010 German horror film of the same name.
* Hoo boy, Music/DavidBowie reissues. Not only have there been quite a few reissues that count as these, some albums have had more than one, and gathering ''all'' the bonus material a particular album's had over the years may well neccessitate much searching and a deep wallet...
** It started in TheNineties. Most of the Rykodisc re-releases of his 1969–80 back catalog over 1990–92 had bonus tracks (alternate takes, demos, unreleased songs, B-sides, etc.), and [=EMI=]/Virgin followed that up by giving his 1983–89 output the same treatment in 1995.
** At the TurnOfTheMillennium his newest albums had special editions available alongside the standard versions, and most of his solo output from TheNineties had bonus track-heavy and/or 2-disc versions (''Black Tie White Noise'' made it to three discs, but the last was a [=DVD=]). 2-disc reissues of three of his GlamRock albums turned up as well. His first two live albums were given additional tracks and reordered to match the original setlists, and ''Music/YoungAmericans'' included a bonus [=DVD=] of a 1974 TV interview and performance.
** In TheNewTens, there's been two-disc versions of his first two albums from TheSixties and a ''Music/StationToStation'' reissue that, in Special Edition form, includes two extra discs for his much-bootlegged Nassau Coliseum concert from 1976...and in ''Deluxe'' Edition form includes an additional two [=CDs=] (one with the mix the 1985 CD version had, one with the single versions of the songs), a [=DVD=] with a new surround sound mix of the album, three [=LPs=] for the original album and the concert, and from there such items as replicas of the tour's press kit, the official fan club folder, etc. from this period. And there was a ''third'' special edition reissue of ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' in 2012 (previously, it had been reissued in 1990 and 2002).
** ''Five Years (1969–1973)'', ''Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)'' and ''A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)'', the three box sets released (so far) spanning a certain era of David's career certainly count as well.
* Music/{{Epica}} did this in 2007 with "The Divine Conspiracy" featuring a high-quality hardbound digibook, and again with their 2012 release, "Requiem for the Indifferent." There are a few editions but the super-high-end "Mailorder Edition" includes the album, an instrumental version of the album, postcards featuring album art, and a certificate of authenticity indicating which copy out of a limited run of 500 the customer has received, all wrapped up in a pine box with the Epica logo and album title woodburned into the cover. Interestingly, some early releases went out with an unfinished version of the album's closing track, "Serenade of Self-Destruction", that was missing most of its vocals, and so are considered highly collectable.
* The first ''Film/TheHungerGames'' film has ''two'' different versions of the ''Songs From District Twelve and Beyond'', which was a collection of pop, rock and indie tunes from (if only in the closing credits) or "inspired by" the film. The special edition of the album was little more than shameless marketing: the only new ''content'' you get is a download code (!) for a single bonus song, "Lullaby"; and the {{feelies}} consist only of "nine collector's cards" (basically a nine-piece double-sided puzzle of two of the movie poster designs), and a not-so-exclusive poster, which though nice, is a common promo poster design, not standard poster size, and ''printed on the back of the song guide'', which itself does not have lyrics included to boot. Luckily, said "special edition" is only a few bucks more.
* Music/KingCrimson's 1973 album ''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'' was rereleased in 2012 in several versions, the grandest of which came with ''14 [=CDs=]'' of bonus material, claiming to include "every known note" recorded by the relatively short-lived lineup at the time.
** Crimson one-upped themselves the following year with the set ''The Road To Red'', a box set of live shows from between 1972 to 1974, along with new stereo and 5.1 remixes of the 1974 album ''Red'', which spans 24 discs - 21 [=CDs=], 2 [=DVDs=], and 1 Blu-Ray disc.
* The Postal Service's [[OneBookAuthor only album]] ''Give Up'' was re-released as a two CD "10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" in 2013. Disc one is a remastered version of the original album, while disc two collects {{B Side}}s, remixes and other previously released non-album material, as well as featuring two previously unheard songs. Making a pre-order of this version or buying a physical copy at certain record stores also got you {{feelies}} in the form of a postcard set featuring photos of the band.
* Within the same year of its regular US release, Flume's SelfTitledAlbum was re-released in a "Deluxe Edition". It was a fairly generous four disc package, featuring the original album, two discs worth of bonus tracks (comprising a "mixtape" where rappers add vocals to previously instrumental songs from the album, remixes by and of Flume, and a LiveAlbum), and a copy of Ableton Live 9 Lite including tutorials and interactive sessions for three of the album's songs.
* Music/MyChemicalRomance's fourth album ''Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys'' was released with an elaborate package available for pre-order, which included a full-color photo book, replicas of the mask and gun used by one of the characters, a bead bracelet, and a bonus EP.
* Music/{{ACDC}} had their box set ''Backtracks'' with a deluxe edition housed in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW7srJ8qJU0 an operating guitar amplifier]]''. Their "soundtrack" to ''Music/IronMan2'' had also a collector's edition packaged as a hardcover book, featuring an Comicbook/IronMan comic reprint (along with other goodies).
* The Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection re-releases classic Creator/{{Disney}} movies' soundtracks with bonus discs, containing such extra material as deleted songs and demo recordings, and digibook packaging, boasting production notes, lyrics, and pictures both archival and new. Sometimes, the soundtracks themselves also contain pieces of film score that Disney left off of earlier releases.
* Music/JeanMichelJarre:
** The golden Original Master Recording edition [=CDs=] of ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Equinoxe''.
** The limited box set ''The Laser Years'' exclusively contained ''Cities In Concert'', an ''In Concert Houston-Lyon'' special variant with all music in full length — that is, until ''In Concert Houston-Lyon'' was replaced by ''Cities In Concert'' as part of the regular back catalog during the 1997 remastering.
** The original eleven-track ''Jarremix'' with an additional Laurent Garnier remix has inofficially become that.
** ''The Complete Oxygène'' is ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Oxygène 7-13'', the latter with a bonus track called "Oxygen In Moscow", in a tall black cardboard case. Today, the case is the only reason to buy ''The Complete Oxygène'' because the bonus track is actually Claude Monnet's "Oxygène 12" remix also available on ''Odyssey Through O2'', and even then you'll have a hard time fitting that box anywhere into your collection as it's even taller than a DVD case.
** ''Aero'' came out as [[VanillaEdition a CD]], a CD with a video DVD of Anne Parillaud's eyes while listening to the album (as seen on the cover) ''and'' a CD with a 3-D video DVD of Anne Parillaud's eyes.
** ''Oxygène – New Master Recording'' also came along with a video disk containing the ''Oxygène – Live In Your Living-Room'' performance recording.
* The 2001 (though not the 2009) remaster of the Music/PetShopBoys' ''Introspective'' includes the bonus CD ''Further Listening'', which compiles B-sides, demos, and previously unreleased songs from the album sessions.
* Vicious Pink's self-titled album was rereleased on CD for the first time in 2012, with the addition of various remixes of "Cccan't You See?", the extended versions of "Fetish" and "Take Me Now", and the previously-unreleased "I Confess".
* Music/PinkFloyd first had the 1991 box set ''Shine On'', with eight albums and a bonus CD called ''The Early Singles'', with the songs from the Syd Barrett era. Then in 2011, as their entire catalog was re-released, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/TheWall'' all got both "Experience" editions adding a bonus disk (concerts in the case of the former two, work-in-progress versions for the last) and "Immersion" sets with bonus [=CDs=], DVD-Audio versions, videos on a DVD (and in all but ''The Wall'', both [=DVDs=] combined in a Blu-Ray), and {{Feelies}} such as scarves and marbles.
* As fitting for a band with a pirate image, a limited edition of Music/RunningWild's album ''Masquerade'' came in a wooden box which featured the album, the ''Death or Glory'' VHS, and a treasure map. There was also an even rarer edition which came with a bottle of rum.
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