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Different Versions of Certain Songs

Liverpool FCLiverpool FC
edited November -1 in OK Go

So I've gotten possibly every OK Go song I can find except for a select few versions of certain songs. I've bought a couple different copies of the self-titled album and I've noticed that there are different versions of the songs "What to Do" and "Hello My Treacherous Friends" on the albums. 

In the first version of "What to Do" I ever heard, it had a more acoustic feel in the chorus than the versions I'm hearing today. And in "Hello, My Treacherous Friends" some of the basslines sound different to me than they did a couple years ago.

I seriously think I'm either going insane from not sleeping enough or listening to OK Go so damn much that it's messing my hearing up.

Has anyone else found this besides me? Because I'm gonna feel really stupid if this is just me.

I already do.

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  • Unknown
    I'm not sure about Hello, My Treacherous Friends, but there are definitely two different versions of What To Do. From what I've seen, one is from the music video and one is the actual album recording. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong? 
  • DJRoseDJRose
    This is kind of a hard question to answer succinctly, which is why I haven't tackled it yet.  The debut album is the official studio release of all these songs that the guys (by which I mean Damian) had been playing around with for years.  If you listen to Appendices (and yeah, I know it's really hard to find and there have been a billion requests for it but I'm unable to help in any kind of reasonable fashion, if someone else would like to step up on that front it would be awesome), you'll hear several early versions of the songs on OK Go.  Oh My Little Kitten later became Bye Bye Baby, A Christian, 2 Friends, and Some Spiders later became Hello My Treacherous Friends, etc.  Also the Pink and Brown EPs have early versions of What to Do, Hello My Treacherous Friends, and Bye Bye Baby.  So the answer is that there are many early versions of these songs.
  • AleatoryAleatory
    DJRose said: Oh My Little Kitten later became Bye Bye Baby.

    I did not know this. That's interesting. I should listen to it again. My YT rip is terrible and I can't hear anything but the guitar. 

    And BBB is about his cat, right? So does that imply that OMLK is about his cat also? I mean, aside from the "Kitten" part?

    Math= 4+3. Is it a sign of insanity that I typed 43 and kept clicking "post" and not realizing why it wasn't working? Maybe going back to school has burned me out already.

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