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Haven't checked but wasn't there some comment from Bob about altering the order on the CD sleeve notes. Something about natural order or somesuch.
Can't believe there's any technical reason on a CD, unlike say cassettes where they presumably shuffled the tracks to get two roughly same duration sides.
I'll dig out the CDs and remind myself of the comments.
Why did they change the running order on the re-mastered CDs from the Vinyl ?
Apparently it was the order it was supposed to have been in but for the demands of vinyl. The outer grooves are less susceptible to distortion so the louder tracks are on the outside, and the softer tracks towards the centre of the disc. With CD there was no issue, so they just had them in the "correct" order.
Personally, I think that is a pile of cr@p. Neither The Fine Art of Surfacing nor Mondo Bongo make sense with the run off, and the first album did retain the same order on the white label demos but not on the released version. The only album that was improved was V Deep.
I even bought back the US release of Surfacing as it is better than the remaster.
To move Mood Mambo to near the end of Mondo Bongo is like admitting it was a poor song. Personally I don't mind it too much and it makes sense to have it first.
I have edited Itunes so that all the songs are in the original vinyl order on all the albums.
I was looking at the remaster of Mondo Bongo a few days ago in Tower Records Dublin and was surprised to see the running order. Totally different to the vinyl album- it seemed like some sort of odd compilation album!
Silverbantum- it's a good observation about moving Mood Mambo to the end of Mondo Bongo. In general the first few tracks and last few songs of any album tend to be the best. You create a favourable opening impression and end with a good 'signoff' or two, leaving the best till last etc.
Geldof apologises on In The Long Grass or Surfacing, I can't remember which, for the running order not being the same as on the original vinyl. Geldof would have grown up with vinyl so I take it his apologies were sincere.
