bonus tracks on the album are

13. seal

14. no need

i guess 'seal' will be a b-side on the next single for us.

and if you visit the japanese web site there are some very nice we are the night wallpapers!

http://www.toshiba-e....jp/chems/tool/

They get TWO bonus tracks?? Damn the Japanese are so lucky. I wonder if there will be a DVD included this time too. HMV should stock it for sure :P

~bumpage~

Good find sneaks!

Awwwwww! I'm going to spend thirty bucks on this album?!!?!?

http://www.hickerpho..._seal_T3506.jpg

Jeanie... what's with the picture of the seal?

got to love translations...the Good Things section is called 'Other Goods' on the japsite.

Cute-ness +1 for Jeanie's Seal.

why do always the japanese get the bonus stuff?

I like the little star flash. neat.

http://www.toemi.jp/chems/

too bad they don't have their own forum. We could all go over there and talk nonsense, like they occasionaly do to us.

they get wallpapers and seal?! wonder if it'll sound like otter rock...

it puts the bonus tracks on the album......

it PUTS the bonus tracks ON THE ALBUM!!!

............PUT THE FUCKING BONUS TRACKS ON THE ALBUM!!!!!!

HAHAHA BIFF :D :lol:

well, i always buy every version of their albums anyway, but i'm still glad to see 2 bonus tracks!

Japan has always got extras for everything. From videogames to CD song to DVD extras and so on.

(Example: Chemical Brothers Singles- Music: Response

Example: Push the Button- Giant)

Or Japan has a EXTREMELY large fanbase. Just a guess.

^ The response the Chemical Brothers get when they gig in Japan has been noted in interviews, and I think you're on to something there, Chemicalfire.

Plus, the Japanese think Tom and Ed are kawaii. ;)

Oh, welcome aboard by the way!

Yeah, I picked up the Singles JP release just for the music:response version. I'm just glad they released Giant on another one as I'm not made of money. (that and we don't get Maxi-Singles in the US so everything's an import! bah...)

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   some stuff i found on the net
   
   The most frequently asked question I get is in regards to the Japanese bonus track issue.
   
   After all, just about every Japanese release includes a bonus track. Why is this so?
   
   Well, this situation goes back a long way and is a little more complicated.
   
   To start - Japanese record labels still hold a lot of power. Not as much as a few years ago, but still, they can still shift a lot of copies of albums and are an important enough factor in most deals. In some instances, the advance from a Japanese label is vital to the overall deal in recording an album.
   
   So, the labels have demands and they must be met. Why? The Japanese recording industry is a deregulated market. That means that anyone can sell anything from anywhere.
   
   Record shops and wholesalers do not have to buy locally manufactured product from the local record labels.
   
   As is well known, the Japanese CD price is very expensive - even for locals. Stores are free to source cheaper imports - from the USA and from Europe.
   
   In the USA, if stores did this, the labels would cut them off at the knees!
   
   With cheaper imports available on the market, the Japanese labels add extra's to the local releases to entice consumers to buy their product. It works so well, these same labels end up exporting units to overseas collectors.
   
   So, these labels add one, two, sometimes more bonus tracks, add special photo booklet's, stickers, guitar picks, expanded cases, special packaging and all of the above to ensure the local pressing is the one in demand.
   
   They also have one other major trick up their sleave. They can and do enforce and advance release over other territories.
   
   Generally, the label deals in Japan have a clause that stipulates that their release date (of any given album), must be at least four, sometimes 6 weeks in advance of any other territory.
   
   In the recent case of a very well know singer - his solo album was not permitted to be released outside Japan for at least 8 weeks after the local release. It was a clause in the contract!
   
   That gives the local labels time to saturate the market and in the few cases where no bonus tracks are available, at least no copies can be imported for a set time, until they are releases elsewhere.

   
   

   
   

nice piece there sneaker! always had my own theories around japan.

wow. that explains a lot. Nice to know, thanks Sneaks.