Talk:The Crackdown

Latest comment: 11 years ago by Ergative rlt in topic EP track sequence

EP track sequence edit

While many online guides give the order of the last two tracks as "Badge of Evil" then "Moscow", this seems to be the fault of a CD issue that had the names of those tracks switched, but not the tracks themselves (confusingly, some online discographies and MP3 sites do the opposite - keeping the titles in their original sequence, but swapping the audio tracks). The Doublevision Presents Cabaret Voltaire video release, which featured these tracks before the album, supports the "Moscow"/"Badge of Evil" order, and this was done in-house by the Cabs so can be assumed to be accurate. The recent DVD reissue of the video preserves that titling. Similarly, the original LP/EP release gives M/BoE, as does the cassette. The official discography at Brainwashed is M/BoE, and I believe the Cabaret Voltaire and the Art of the Sixth Sense discography stated that order as well. Now maybe all the earlier releases/references, including the Cabs' own, got the order mixed up and the later order is a correction (but not corrected for the new Doublevision), but that seems less likely than a mistake being made on a single release (which didn't use the original liner notes, but instead a simple typed list of the songs) that was then propagated through largely amateur channels. Given that the initial releases and solid sources use M/BoE, I feel that should be the order used until official clarification turns up; in the meantime, I'll make mention of the difference between some of the releases. Ergative rlt (talk) 02:55, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply