New on the Secret Area: The Version Everybody Knows: A small rant about how tough it can be find alternate mixes for songs in the streaming era.
Likes, shares, and comments appreciated, as always.
https://asecretarea.com/2024/09/20/the-version-everybody-knows-streaming-rant/
@TonicBH The way I ended up finding the single again was because for every other one the B-Side is All I Want, but on this single it was No Brakes and, as these were the first two Offspring tracks I was actually aware of I kinda made a memory of it.
@renbymon I'm gonna guess the single version was initially considered the final version, but then they went back and did some vocal overdubs/edits, put that version on the album, and then had later releases of the single be just use the album version
cause when you mentioned this, I was looking at Discogs for this and noticed there's versions that use the regular title that are likely that single version, while later releases say it's the "Album Version."
@TonicBH Yeah I was just looking at that too.
This is the single that has the different chorus: https://www.discogs.com/release/891119-The-Offspring-Pretty-Fly-For-A-White-Guy
@TonicBH SO because this was the INITIAL single here in the UK this is the version I had heard for months until Americana released and I was really fucking puzzled as to the lyrics change. I don't even know if there's ever been a published reason as to 1) why it ended up on that single or 2) why it was changed for the album