So what is it that Japan does to deserve bonus tracks on a lot of their music releases? As somewhat of a completist, it drives me crazy- I'll buy an album only to find out that another version released overseas has 2 or 3 more songs on it. And don't even get me started on the new trend of itunes-only bonus songs....
Along the same lines, one of the hardest things about following Speech and Arrested Development is that the majority of their music gets released in Japan first and is then often followed by an American release with different songs, remixes, track orders, and often even different mixes of the same songs. But this is also a good thing, because that means there is more music released, and if you have the extra cash to track them all down, it can give you access to a lot of quality music. But it's hard to remember what's different about each release and which one you should go to when you're looking for a certain song.
With Speech's first album it wasn't too hard to tell the differences between the two releases- the Japanese import release only had two extra songs tacked on to the track order: "Just Another Day" and "RU Just an Illusion." Both of these are listed as "Main Mix" on the cover, although I am not aware of any alternate mixes commercially available. "Just Another Day" is an instrumental piece- kind of a laid back song. Not bad. And then there is "RU Just An Illusion," which appears to be a demo and a work in progress- there are long stretches without any lyrics. It seems that it would've been a pretty good song as it was fleshed out, and is certainly worth a listen or two.
It actually took me some time to track this down reasonably priced, so to avoid you the hassle, here are the bonus songs:
Just Another Day
RU Just An Illusion
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