Rapture of the Deep Special Edition - Deep Purple

An updated version of the album came out. It was a 2 CD version. Disc 1 is exactly the same as the original 2005 release. Disc 2 is "all new". This new version has 8 extra tracks. Most are live, but there's a few standouts. The standouts for the updated version are an alternate version of "Clearly Quite Absurd", and.. "The Well Dressed Guitar", which is a track I've been waiting on Deep Purple to release for some time now. Back before they released their last album (Bananas), I saw 'em live, and they played Well Dressed in concert, saying it was something they were working on for their next album. It was FABULOUS. I absolutely loved it. So I waited, and before Bananas came out, the space shuttle exploded. Because of that, Steve Morse wrote a song that appeared on Bananas called "Contact Lost". It bumped Well Dressed from the album. They said Well Dressed might turn up as a B Side or something, and it never did. So I hoped it would be on Rapture, and it wasn't. I had just a bootleg mp3 of the track, which wasn't the same. Then I heard of this 2 CD Special Edition of Rapture of the Deep, and Well Dressed WAS on there. As good as the main Rapture of the Deep album is, I think "The Well Dressed Guitar" is a track worth picking up the 2CD version of, even if you have the original - I feel it's that good. I will go so far as to say that "Well Dresses" is by far my favorite single track of the Steve Morse era, and Ian Gillan doesn't even sing on it. :)

If you don't have either version, get this one. As I write this in May of 2007, they're priced pretty much the same, so the 2CD version is a much better value anyway.