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Good question. I did a lot of work on Blue Öyster Cult LP's, to get the entries as complete as I could for all the band's 70's and 80's studio albums (still wondering about how to approach their most recent releases). I've noticed that the original vinyl LP releases, the ones I used to base the TV tropes entries on, have since been superceded by CD releases which will invariably carry a lot of bonus tracks and add-ins. I'm also wondering about how to approach incorporating this into updates on the Music pages for the records - we possibly need some sort of consensus approach to this?
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I don't think there's a consistent thing. Most pages only use the vanilla tracklist, with only a few notable exceptions. Stevie Wonder's album page Songs in the Key of Life includes the bonus EP A Something's Extra that came with the album. Several of Michael Jackson's albums include bonus tracks, with HIStory: Past, Present, and Future -- Book I including the entirety of the Blood of the Dancefloor remix album tracks as a de facto third disc. I feel like doing this all the time would bloat the page, but mentions of expanded versions, and some notable tracks would be fine.
Edited by AfroThunder New Jack Swing musician and Afro Thunder fan from Canada who makes decent edits once in a while.
Alright — I'll try adding the bonus track under a separate header.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
If an album has a bonus track or other song only included on certain editions of an album (e.g. a special/deluxe edition), how should that be included in the "Tracklist" section of the album's work page?
I'm working on a page for an album that has a track that's only included on certain versions, such as some later remasters and the Japanese release, but I'm not sure how to list that. At first, I thought of having a note by the last track of the album which says "Some versions of the album contain an additional track known as "Song Title" (Length)" when clicked on, but I'm not sure if that's the correct formatting.
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