45 Singles You Just Had to Buy

@lowrider57 technically, yes, but it kinda depended on which version of the albums one purchased.
For UK releases, singles and LPs were very often mutually exclusive.
The US LPs would often include those UK singles at the expense of album tracks, or the US LPs would function as something of a hodgepodge of contemporaneous songs.

Viewing the “true” release chronology, the “true” catalog as being solely the UK one, then, yes, singles/EP releases and LP releases were often mutually  exclusive, song-wise.

@tylermunns  Thanks, great answer. I forgot how screwy song selection was between the UK and US releases. 

It makes me wonder if the band and UK label decided the format for the release. Then the US label and distributor decided what the Yanks should get.

@tylermunns For me at least, the US and UK LP releases always had enough differences in them to warrant buying both. I got to say, too, that the UK releases were almost always the ones I kept when, in a fit of madness, I'd decide it just wasn't "proppah" to have two copies of a single LP. . Much, much better pressings. A more interesting collection of songs. The mixes in the UK releases may not have had quite the punch of the U.S. ones, but in every other respect they were the editions I listened to.

@lowrider57 Yeah, I don’t know the degree to which those transcontinental track listings were decided by the artists, if at all.
“We’ll just decide for the US LP that track 3 is expendable and replace it with a single.”  
“This previously-released EP should be an album. We’ll just tag some other stuff onto it, call it a ‘new album.’” 

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