I'm a fan of Orbital's music ever since I heard "Halcyon+On+On" from the Hackers soundtrack and the single I heard from the Wipeout XL game. One of their albums I don't have is In Sides and last night while poking around in Waterloo Records, I found the album in their used section for ten bucks. Happily surprised it was a double-disc album, I picked it up along with a few other CDs and drove home.

A side note: has anyone noticed piss-poor performance from freedb? I use it for my CD database lookup with Exact Audio Copy. Damn database hasn't been able to find squat in weeks.

Anyway, I started to rip the CD to MP3 when I ran into that freedb problem. I went to Orbital's website to check out it's discography. Upon finding the album, I discovered they didn't keep the same tracklist on the second CD for their various international releases. The US got two releases:

Times Fly (Slow)
Sad But New
Times Fly (Fast)
The Tranquilizer
The Box (EP)

and later on:

Satan (Industry Standard)
Satan (Live at New York)
The Saint
The Sinner
Halcyon (Live at New York)

France got:

The Saint
The Sinner
Satan (Live at New York)
Chime (Live at Chelmsford)
Impact (Live at Chelmsford)

Canada got:

Satan (Industry Standard edit)
Satan (Live at New York)
The Saint
The Sinner

Japan got:

The Saint
The Sinner
Satan (Recorded Live)
Chime (Recorded Live At The V96 Festival, Chelmsford)
Impact (Recorded Live At The V96 Festival, Chelmsford)

The second UK release had only The Saint on the second disc.

Obviously, most of these songs are repeated throughout the various distributions. But as a music collector, I want all those other songs and their variations...but I don't want to have to buy the album again and again and again. Some would argue this is or would be a valid reason to hop on over to the nearest peer-to-peer network and get those tracks. I don't agree with that, but I can certainly understand the frustration that drives the mindset.