Is this a pet peeve for anyone else? I was reminded of this by listening to the first UK album, and the misplaced index between “Alaska” and “Time to Kill” (in the middle of John Wetton’s first line of singing!) drives me up a tree! The original Rhino release of Todd Rundgren’s A Wizard/A True Star is rife with sloppy indexing; someone was seriously asleep at the wheel (or at the mixing desk) with that one! Is the Edsel release any better?
As for flat out wrong indexing, the most egregious example has to be Il Balletto di Bronzo’s Ys. Correct me if I’m wrong, but every CD release of this gets it very, very wrong. “Introduzione” should be 11 minutes and change, not 15, for one; and then there’s the matter of all the other tracks! I mean, every version I’ve seen comes with a handy dandy lyric sheet that shows where the track breaks should be, so I don’t know how they could screw it up so badly! (EDIT: it looks like the Mellow CD displays the correct timings on the disc, can anyone confirm that it has the correct timings in actuality?)
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