Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume I & II

I noticed in the details for Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Volume I & II, it lists single versions for My Life, Big Shot & Pressure. IIRC, later versions of this CD (and I don't mean the 24-bit version) were changed back to the album version (because Billy preferred this). If anyone can verify the later pressings of this CD had the longer album versions, I think this should be reflected in the database.

Glad to have you back! To quote Billy, "You May Be Right" about later pressings including the LP versions. Our database doesn't usually distinguish between different pressings unless they also have a different catalog number. If you know for certain that a later pressing has different song versions but retains the same catalog number as the original/first pressing, please let us know the exact release where this can be found. It will need to be added to the database.

Yes, the single edits are only on the pre-1998 original mastering. From Discogs:

"The remastered 1998 CD version of this album replaces the five single versions with their album versions and replaces the live version of "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" with the original 1976 album version."

Edited by Brian W. - Yesterday at 10:20am

Unless I'm mistaken, the original cassette and vinyl editions had fewer songs than the original 2-CD version but all three of them contained the edited versions for time restrictions (mostly inherent in vinyl sides). I'm guessing they made the CD master and then simply cut a few songs out to create the vinyl and cassette masters.

Then in 1998, with the acceptable playtime of CDs expanded and without the time constraints of vinyl to worry about, they substituted the full length album versions in for the edited ones in the new remaster.

Aaron, in a recent post where I asked about the new version of the website, one question got overlooked. If it's not hard (or impossible), can you create a link that would be at the top of any page that lets us connect to the paid database - and hopefully also make it so we can toggle back and forth between the database and chat board? I know they come from 2 different web systems, but it would be helpful. Also, with the old system, there would be problems if we were in the database, exited the page, then tried to get back in. Can't recall details but it thought I was trying to log in twice and wouldn't let me in at all.

In summary, if we could easily toggle back and forth between the chat and database, while staying logged into the database, that would be great.

For example, right now, I read your above post and want to check out what are the other 2 single versions (I hadn't mentioned) on the original CD of Vol. !&II, then come right back here.

Edited by EdisonLite - 2 hours 51 minutes ago at 1:31pm