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A series of essays wherein I explore the numerous musical identities of my favorite musician: from child prodigy to teen idol to guitar hero to singer/songwriter to award-winning in-demand film composer.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The same...but not.

Yesterday, Gonzo Multimedia uploaded a new promotional video for Changes to their YouTube channel featuring a track from 90124, but for the second time now they've mislabeled the song.


As long-time fans are aware, when the 90124 compilation was originally released in 2003, the last track on the CD was labeled as "Cinema" when in fact it was "Don't Give In" which serves as the basis for the Cinema track "Make It Easy" -  recorded but not selected for 90125 - and the intro of which was then performed as a prelude to "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (and is generally credited thus on live releases such as ARW's Live at the Apollo).  And now "Don't Give In" is identified as "Make It Easy" but that is not correct.  They feature similar music but are not the same, just as "Moving In" and "Hold On" have much the same music but are not the same song.  The lyrics are completely different, and so the distinctly different titles make perfect sense in this context.  Thematically there is a similar thread of romantic strife, but a comparative listen will amply prove my point.

This is "Make It Easy."


As Trevor stated in the liner notes of 90124, it's "two bites of the same pie."

So it seems we might still not see a proper attribution of this particular song in the new boxset and one can react to that as they choose: either as an oversight not worth considering or yet another detail which may appear symptomatic of the quality of the release overall.