Aloha !
There's no promo discs out there with as many differences as the one for Crush. There's even some differences between the advance copies and the promo discs. If you've got one with "There's no Santa Clause" you've got a rare version I think. I can't remember the other differences, it's been awhile since I was into collecting Bon Jovi stuff.
Before Crush was released advance copies were issued on tape, not on CD. None of these have alternate mixes or slightly different lyrics. However;
Destination Anywhere's advanced cassette tape for the U.S. is without Naked meaning the US release was supposed to have 11 tracks, the international release 12 and the Japanese release 14. Later on, Naked was added to all releases. I've no idea why.
After Crush was released advance copies and promo's were released on CD. It's how the internet used to get its hands on mp3 releases of songs several months before an album was released. Some have different songtitles on them as in the advance copy for the One Wild Night lists the final track as a UK Mix instead of just 2001.
The sampler for the box set has a different edit of The Radio Saved My Life on it but this isn't mentioned on the artwork. The song starts without its guitar intro. The song was released as a radio single and Japan and although that single artwork mentions a radio edit some CD's have the original album cut on it if I remember correctly. Maybe someone else knows?
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Originally Posted by Thinny
That version of Undiscovered Soul is the Japanese mix. For some reason it was released in Japan months before the rest of the world and the mix was completely different to the final version that the rest of the world got...
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A version of Undiscovered Soul leaked in Japan and thus the record company decided to prevent everyone from buying the unofficial leak to release what they had at that moment, which is the unfinished mix of Undiscovered Soul. Several overdubs had not yet been done and Steven Tyler wasn't playing on the harmonica either.
Once Undiscovered Soul was released in 1998 Mercury Records Japan added a bonus disc in Japan to try to get people to buy the final mix as well. The final release of Undiscovered Soul has never been released without a bonus disc in Japan. Mind you this is all before the internet so not many people knew about this rare Japanese release back in 1997. All attention was on Jon anyway hence the record being delayed a bit.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan