Rumours Deluxe Edition

[sweetdudejim]

Hey everybody. So...

About the box set version, what is the track-by-track commentary like? Is it just little anecdotes? Or something more in depth? And does it cover just the regular album, or do they cover the extras, like "Doesn't Anything Last", "The Chain" demo, and "Keep Me There"?

And anyways, not that anybody cares, but I gotta say the "new" outtakes disc is soooo much better than the 2004 disc. For one, I think "Keep Me There" with the Christine vocal is great. So interesting. The demo of "The Chain" is just amazing. Both of these songs are so revelatory to the story of the classic version of "The Chain" that we all know.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but you got Stevie's chorus from her version of "The Chain", then you got the ending of Christine's "Keep Me There" along with the guitar part from Lindsey's "Lola".

Anyways, besides those I really like the "acoustic duet" versions of "Never Going Back Again" and "Doesn't Anything Last". I gotta say though, I'm kinda surprised there even is two versions of "Doesn't Anything Last", as it just kinda seems like a snippet Lindsey never quite worked out. Maybe something that he threw away quick. But it seems like something they actually kinda worked on.

Overall, I can't understand why something like "Butter Cookie" was released in 2004 when they could have released this proper version of "Keep Me There". It seems like "Butter Cookie" was a jam with Christine singing some of the lyrics from "Keep Me There". What would be the point of putting out "Butter Cookie" over "Keep Me There". Although at least now we understand why it was titled "Butter Cookie (Keep Me There)". I gotta wonder with some of the early versions of other songs. The versions on this disc are so much more interesting than the ones they put on the older one. It's almost as if they compiled the 2004 version with the intent of making sure they still had some good stuff to release later. Which isn't to say the 2004 version was bad though. I'm still glad we got "Think About It", "Planets Of The Universe", "Doesn't Anything Last", and "For Duster".